Chapter 1
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I woke up feeling a water running down on my face.
I sighed.
It's the dream again. How many more days, weeks, months or even years will it continue haunting me?
I hate crying. Crying is a sign of weakness and I'm not weak, I don't want to be weak again.
My dreams started when I was 7. They said when you turned that age, the memories of your past life will become yours.
Of course, I believe in that, and since then, I've been finding who am I in my last life. I've been searching for three years and found NOTHING.
Suddenly, I heared a knock on my door. "Sir, breakfast is now ready downstairs."
It was our maid.
"I'll go down after a minutes, yaya" I said and wiped my tears away.
I stood up and started preparing myself for the day.
Bukas na pala ang simula ng 4th year School ko. Just 6 more years and g-graduate na ako.
I still haven't bought books and things for School, so I planned to shop later after eating.
Bumaba na ako at naabutan kong wala ng tao sa dinning area, except sa mga maids na nag aayos.
Kumain na ako at pagkatapos ay pumunta na sa labas upang mag pahangin. The air is so amazing, I always wonder where that came from.
After wandering in our Garden for almost an hour. I saw a blue flower, it's different from the flowers my mom planted and what more confusing is, it's just one. I started to look around, maybe someone who can manipulate plants is playing tricks on me. But I saw nothing.
I left the Garden because of it's weirdness. Tumaas ako sa aking kwarto upang mag bihis, I'm going out. After that, I called one of the guards to drive for me.
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I'm on our carriage right now, listing what I should buy later. I know my maids can get me what I want, but I want to do it myself except for driving.
As expected, many people from different cities and villages are here today to shop too. This marketplace has more things to sell than the other places, plus it's the number one place to shop in the whole continent so it's expected to be crowded.
After a minutes of riding, I saw the arc signage of the market so I told the guard to stop and ibaba niya na ako rito.
"You can comeback to the house na po, magpapahatid na lang ako sa mga kaibigan ko pauwi, thank you po!"
He just bowed and wished me a safe journey.
After walking for a while, I saw a shop where it sells rare potions.
Candice will like it.
I immediately thought of my bestfriend, she likes using potion para mapadali ang mga ginagawa niya. Laziness is her power.
"Aciel!" I heared my name being called.
After the seller finished packing the potions, I turned to the person calling me. It was Candice. We had an agreement earlier, we will shop together this afternoon.
"You look pretty ugly, what happened?" That was my greeting.
She rolled her eyes and said,
"I bumped someone and we got into a fight."
With just those words, I understood.
I gave her the potion I bought, "Try that bottle over there." I said, pointing the potion I mean.
She tried it and after a second, she looks fresh again. "Thanks Ciel!" I just smiled.
I was taking out the list I brought when it suddenly flew, napunta 'yon sa flower pot sa gilid ng shop. And I was shocked, the blue flower is there, hiding the original flower that was planted there first. Someone is stalking me. I roamed my eyes around and saw nothing suspicious. Just a minute and I'll find whoever you are.
Of course, Candice noticed me. "What's wrong?"
"I have a stalker. Come, I'll tell you while we're walking." And I told her about it.
She smiled widely. "It must be Dylan, he told us that he discovered a new trick, planting a water and grows as a flowers, I just do not know what kind of flower."
Dylan is my suitor and my crush, hearing about it makes me blush. He do really loves me. I just can't answer him a yes yet, I dunno why. But most importantly, I know now who's planting and I just know how to get that man out from hiding.
"I have a plan to get him out." I told Candice.
"Nice!" Candice replied.
I found a man standing alone at the counter of a Café.
"Hello!" I greeted him.
"Uhm, hi?" He looks confused but he still greeted me back.
"Why is this handsome man alone?
Can I join you?"
"Sure."
"What's your name?"
"I'm Ken."
"Tell me, Ken. Do you have a girlfriend?"
I started wrapping my hands around his neck.
I looked at Candice and winked. She just chuckled.
"N-no, I'm single." I saw drops of sweat on his forehead.
I was going near Ken's face when suddenly someone bumped him causing his coffee to spill on his shirt. It was Dylan. "Hey! Watch where you're going."
Ken looks mad but it disappeared when he saw Dylan's face glaring at him.
"I-im sorry." Ken said and he left.
He looked back once and I mouthed
I'm sorry at him, he just thumbs up.
I looked at Candice and smirked.
"Dy, why are you here?" I pretended.
"I was just gonna buy some coffee." He said coldly. He lied.
"Good! Accompany us after."
He glared at me. I smiled.
"Tss. Let's go."
"I thought you're gonna buy some coffee?"
"Nevermind it, my head is already hot."
"Sorry, hehe." I gave him a peck of kiss on his neck because I can't reach his cheeks.
Inakbayan niya lang ako.
"Let's go, Candice." Anyaya ko sa isa.
We got out of the café and searched the marketplace for some Bookshop. A minute later and we found one and entered it.
"The books looks so old." I whispered.
"Don't judge the book by it's dusts." Said Candice. We two just laughed.
"Why do we need a Spell Book? We're not wizards." I rolled my eyes.
Dylan replied to me. "We will be practicing our powers with wands, to direct it properly, wands needs spells to cast so it'll work. Did you even read the card?" Pinitik niya ang tenga ko.
"Aw, why do you have to do that?" I glared at him and he glared back at me.
"We need to find spellbooks that corresponds with our powers." Candice.
"Yeah, Aciel will be coming with me. You can do it alone." And just like that Dylan pulled me to the eldritch magic section.
I heared Candice shouted and a keeper shut her up. I chuckled.
"Look babe."
I looked at him confused. He just ignored me. He picked up a pot from somewhere and summoned water drop on his palm and it went to the pot, after a second, a blue-colored flower with a purple lining started growing.
"I KNEW IT! YOU'RE THE ONE STALKING ME!" He just chuckled.
"BE QUIET!!" A fairy shouted at my ears.
I turned my head down, in our world we respect the fairy so much because they are the oldest living creatures among us.
I saw Dylan laughing at me.
"Let's just find your spellbook." Still laughing. Hinampas ko siya.
"Okay." I just let him pull me.
A minutes of searching and we got what we wanted. He paid it.
"Did you find yours?" I asked Candice.
"Yeah. It's heavy."
"Give that to Dylan." I looked at him while smiling widely. Candice gave it to him and he puts it to his bag.
"Let's get a wand." He said.
"Good afternoon, Madam Fairy, do you have an air, eldritch and water wands?" She didn't answer me at tinalikuran lang kami. I scoffed. How dare she.
Humarap ulit siya and gave us a three boxes "Here." Dylan paid for it again and puts it at his bag.
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We already got what we need for our School and now we're heading back home. Candice already left because dumating na ang sundo niya. Nakuha niya naman ang mga gamit niya before umalis. It's just me and Dylan now. We decided to eat at the near restaurant because I'M HUNGRY.
"Hey Dy, Can we just take out the foods and eat it while we're walking?"
"Okay."
After a minutes of walking, I got tired so Dylan suggestef that we eat the foods at the park.
I'm now sitting at the bench laying at his shoulders while eating, he smells so good. I was dancing my feet when suddenly, flowers started to grow under it. "Woah! Is this yours Dylan? It looks amazing" It was a white flowers with brown on the middle.
"What?" He confusingly asked.
I pointed the flowers. Then a man-shaped shadow appeared from it.
I was shocked so I started screaming.
I started hugging Dylan's arms and burying my face on it. He didn't even flinched.
"Hey! Stop it, Rayne. You're scaring him."
What? Rayne? Ugh, yeah, Rayne is a shadow manipulator.
From the dark area of the forest 10 people came out of it. It was our friends.
I looked deadly at Rayne and he just laughed. "You should've seen your face."
Candice was with them. I thought that girl already left. Liar.
Brent mocked me and sort of copied my reaction earlier he even copied how I cling to Dylan's arms. He did it on Kier who's now glaring at him with his fiery eyes. Deserved. He immediately got away from him because Kier is creating a fire ball on his hands.
Elle looked at the two of us teasingly.
"What?" I'm irritated.
"What are you two doing here alone?"
Gale asked while her eyebrows are raised.
"We're eating." They all looked at each other and started smiling.
"Eating what?" Elaine asked.
"Food, of course."
"or each other?" Misha said and they all laughed.
I blushed. "O-of course n-not."
Dylan kissed me on the cheek. "They're just teasing you." I blushed more.
"Have you all eaten a proper dinner?" Daisy asked all of a sudden and they stopped laughing.
We all said no.
"There's a steak restaurant near this park, we can eat dinner there together." Yuhan suggested so we left the park and went to that place.
We arrived at the restaurant and searched for a table where all of us can fit. Yuhan and Daisy volunteered to order and get the food so we could eat.
After a while they arrived along with the staffs holding foods. We prayed and started eating.
"A 5th year student told me that our second week will be a mission. It takes months to finish but for us, it'll be easy to finish it in a week." Kier started a conversation.
"What? Can't it wait for the next month?" Candice pouted.
"Yeah, I still have the bruise I got from that tiger last mission." Elle complained.
"Isn't next month the Seino month?" Rayne said at napatikom naman ng bibig ang dalawa.
"It cannot wait, it should be resolve quickly. The longer it remains unsolve, the more chaos it'll create." Why the heck is he so serious? I'm getting scared.
"You know our mission already?"
Dylan asked.
"Someone just told me."
Yeah, he knows a lot.
After the defeaning silence,
Elle asked. "Have you all bought the needs for the School?"
We all nodded and continued eating.
An hour passed and we were all done eating, we bid each other goodbyes and we all went home, their service was already outside the restaurant earlier, so we didn't have the time to go to the café kaya hinatid na lang ako ni Dylan sa bahay namin.
He kissed me on my forehead as his sign of goodbye and he just disappeared.
I went up to my room to wash out, wear pajamas and after that I wen
t to my bed.
Before I can fully close my eyes, I saw a flower blooming on the pot beside my bed. I smiled knowing it was Dylan and then I fell into a deep sleep.
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