forum Academy for the Cursed

Started August 05, 2019 by @MusicElle-is-here

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"I'm Ava!" She says smiling wide and turning to the new girl. She grabbed her lunchbox from her backpack.

Elizabeth nodded to her. "Lovely name," she commented. She was only basing her responses off of what she'd heard throughout the day, but she hoped it was what normal people were supposed to say. She didn't have any food, so she simply fell silent, staring down at the floor.

Romilly rested her chin on her hands, gazing at Lexath’s baggie, “Are those acorns?” She mumbled and smacked her lips “I like acorns.”

"Want some?" Lexath asked, reminding themselves of the magic saying. Always ask, never tell.

"Thank you!" she says taking out her sandwich. "Did you bring lunch?" she looked up at the girl.

“Ah! Yes please!” She lifted her head out of her hands to hold out her palms, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” She hummed happily and bounced her knee under the table, a particular habit she saw other students doing that she picked up on.

Elizabeth shook her head. "Er, no. Not that I need it, anyway," she responded quietly, tapping her fingers on her leg.

Lexath smilled. "No problem! I can't eat them all anyhow." They handed over the baggy.

"Even if you don't need to eat it still tastes good," she says, "Want a cookie?" She pulls out a baggie of 3 chocolate chip cookies.

Romilly gasped, having expected to only be handed a few. She took the baggy and stuffed her hand in to fish out a handful. Satisfied with half of a handful, she handed the baggy back and thanked Lexath again, “I’m happy!”

"Here! Have the whole bag." Lexath replied, accidentally commanding. Their curse was put into action and they immediately apologized. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

"Er, no, thanks. I'm fine," she responded, picking at a nail. No way she was going to accept anything from a near stranger.

Max ate his food, glad that everyone at his table seemed to be getting along for the most part. His appetite had rapidly increased as soon as he had bitten, and he was demolishing the large amount of food he had gotten, but was pretty self-conscious about it. “You guys are all so nice!”

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The second Gavriel walked into the mess hall, he knew how much of a first-year he looked like. Standing in the middle of all the tables, constantly looking around for some empty place to sit at. He brought his own lunch knowing that if h even attempted to pick up a lunch tray that it would fall straight through his hands causing a scene. It was like everyone had someone to sit next to and was already talking to them, except for this one kid. The kid was at the corner of the table not much far from the other kids but not talking to anyone. Perfect. Gavriel made his way over to the table and sat diagonally across from said boy and took out his lunch, not saying a word.

Max noticed another newcomer at their table, and smiled. “Hey! What’s your name?” Max exclaimed. “Mine is Max!”

Gavriel internally groaned at the second someone noticed him. Is everyone at this school going to be like this? "I'm Gavriel." He quickly said, not even sparing the Max a glance. Socializing was way too hard and what was the point of it if you were just going to end up awkward in some way after it. Or that's how it was for him.

Max beamed anyway, ignoring the fact that Gavriel wasn’t paying him any attention. “Nice to meet you!”

"Mmh." Gavriel responded, hoping this interaction would end soon. He closed his lunch bag and took out his phone, putting in his earbuds as he did so.

Ezra was about to point out how the new guy was being a bit rude to Max, but he stopped himself when he realized he couldn’t say much better about himself. Besides, Ezra didn’t even know what the guy’s curse was. He shook his head, glancing at Max before he interjected, “Uh, hey Max? Could you help me find my next class after lunch?” Ezra didn’t know where his class was after all, so maybe a little bit of help wouldn’t matter.

Max finally took the hint and went back to eating, still thinking of ways to make this boy like him. He was a likable person! He was nice! And his new personal mission was to get the two boys at the end of the table to be his friends! He just had to figure out how to do it first. Once Ezra spoke up, Max beamed.

“Of course I can! What’s your first class?”

Elizabeth took a deep breath before speaking quietly. "Sorry, I, er, I actually have no idea where any of my classes are. I have a bit of a memory problem," she explained shyly. "But I don't want you to be late to class, or anything, only if it isn't any trouble - " she stopped, realizing she was speaking far too quickly.

(For some reason this didn’t give me a notification, I’m so sorry I took forever to respond!)
“I have Potions next,” Ezra said softly, silently wishing Max wasn’t so nice. I just don’t want to hurt you. Maybe Ezra would tell him about his curse, if they got to know each other more, but for now he felt too uncomfortable talking about it with anyone.

“I can definitely take you to Potions class!” Max said pleasantly. “And Elizabeth, if you have a schedule then I can look at it and see if I can’t help you too!”

"I um…" she paused, looking through her pockets before pulling out a neatly folded piece of paper and handing it to Max, looking at the floor. Great. Now she had to ask for help with one of the easiest things in the world. You're such an idiot.