Thoughts of a Wolf

Chapter 12
New friends

The sun shown through the widows covered still with the frost of the night, I awoke from the blissful arms of sleep. Slowly opening my sleepy blurry eyes and speaking of arms? There was a pair still around me. Turning over I couldn’t help but smile to see my friend Jacob was still holding me in his arms, I gently started to poke at Jacob until he gave a great yawn telling me I had woken him up.

Slipping out of his hold I headed into the bathroom to bathe and get ready for breakfast, once back in our room, Jacob and I grabbed our school bags and headed down to the dinning hall.

I tore through breakfast and caught up with Jacob as he was entering our first class for the day, looking down at my class schedule I read: 9am Transmigration; Teacher Mrs. Spellbinder 11am: Spells and Counter Spells; Teacher Mr. Hardbroom, 2pm: Potions, Teacher Mrs. Olander, and 4pm: Institanious Materialization; Teacher Mr. Matthews.

I could tell we were going to be busy this year, so I headed into Transmigration with Jacob. Class was a lot of fun that day, the teacher taught us how to lift out of our chairs and fly around the room.

I was doing a midair turn when I collided with another student, “I am really sorry about that, didn’t see you” I said while rubbing the sore spot on my head “ no problem” he spoke. I looked up and was surprised when it was the same blond-haired boy; Jacob and I shared a room with.

Smiling I said, “my name is Nathan, what’s yours?” “My name is Patrick, it’s nice to meet you Nathan” once down on the ground I introduced Patrick to Jacob and the three of us finish our class work together, then headed off to the next class of the day.

The next stop for the day was Spells and Counter Spells with Mr. Hardbroom, I had heard some of the other students talking. They were saying he is the meanest teacher in the whole school, I knew not to listen to what others say; so I talked with Jacob and Patrick as we headed to class.

Spell and Counter Spells was quite interesting, the teacher was talking about how to cast a reflect spell. He was explaining how this type of spell was used for defense and that it could reflect normal spells and most curses. Mr. Hardbroom turned out to be a nice person after all, so I decided never to listen to rumors again. After class we received our homework assignments then headed to lunch.

I sat at one of our dorm’s tables and did my homework while eating lunch, Jacob and Patrick were talking and I decided to let them get to know each other, I would get to know Patrick later. By 1:45 lunch was dismissed and I had only about 25% of my homework left; so I gathered my things, put them in my bag, then headed to potions with Patrick and Jacob.

We had to go to the lower part of the school to get to potions, I guess the class must be where the dragon’s dorm was. We stopped by a large oak door and lined up with the rest of the class, I could see there were many students from different dorms; there were magi from the dragon, unicorn, and griffin dorms in line with us.

We waited for about 5 minutes then the door opened and all of the students went in to find a seat, Jacob, I and Patrick found a seat in the back right corner of the room. We talked amongst our selves until the teacher walked in. Mrs. Olander was a tall skinny mage who wore long flowing dark blue robes; she had long braided red hair and deep brown eyes.

Mrs. Olander began to tell us the potion we would be preparing today; was an antidote. It was used incase anyone got poisoned, Jacob started setting up the work area, I got the ingredients, and Patrick got out his notebook. We added all of the different ingredients according to the instructions Patrick had copied off of the board, once everything was mixed right the potion turned white. Mrs. Olander came over to have a look at the potion, once she had confirmed we made the potion right we were excused from class.

Jacob put the potion into a bottle and put it in our locker, our other work supplies joined it and once our area was clean; the three of us headed out of class. We went up into the upper school; because that was where our last class was being held, the last class for the day was Institanious Materialization with Mr. Matthews.

Our last and final class was kind of fun, the teacher had each of us materialize a white dove for our first lesson. Jacob produced a white dove, so did Patrick, and I managed it as well. A girl with long silver hair produced one, and a girl with blond hair accidentally produced a crow; which flew around the room chasing all of the doves. Needless to say the class was fun besides the few minute of chaos with the crow, oh well; at least classes are done for the day.

I headed back to the dorm with Jacob and Patrick, flopping down on my bed I heaved a great sigh of exhaustion. Classes today had been very exhausting on me and I could tell the Patrick and Jacob felt the same way, Misty jumped up on the bed and started attacking me in the face with her head. I could tell she wanted fed and NOW! So I opened my locker and gave her some food, while Misty tore through her meal I went to do some homework before dinner.

Dinner was not as grand as the Welcoming dinner had been; but it was good none the less, I as usual tore through dinner like a starving wolf, well with what I had been through who could blame me.

Once dinner had ended I headed up to bed, Jacob and Patrick were still chatting away; my mind wondered back to that small house in the woods, I missed my grandfather but knew I would get to see him again for the holidays.

Jacob, Patrick and I settled into our room for the night, I changed into my nightshirt then bid them goodnight. I drifted again into the open arms of sleep, this time something strange happened; I did not have a nightmare.

It was still bothering me the next morning when I headed down for breakfast, I could tell that it was bothering Patrick and Jacob by the looks they kept giving me. “ You alright Nathan?” Jacob asked “yeah I’m fine, just that I didn’t have a nightmare last night”.

No more was said on the matter, but I could tell that they were relieved to know I was ok. As we were heading to Transmigration something or rather, someone collided with me, “sorry about that, just running a little late that’s all” someone put a hand out and helped me up.

I looked up at the person that collided with me, it was a girl and a beautiful one at that blushing I replied “it is ok really, nothing broken see”. She smiled at me and said “my name is Lenleia what’s your” “my name is Nathan it is a pleasure to meet you Lenleia”.

Since she and I had the same class I took her hand and we ran to catch up with Patrick and Jacob, “Patrick, Jacob this is Lenleia” “Lenleia, this is Patrick and Jacob”. Lenleia smiled and got to know my two best friends.

We all had the same classes that day so we all went to them together. Transmigration was fun and so were Spells and Counter Spells. Potions were ok; but the class I found out Lenleia liked the most was Institanious Materialization.

It was somewhat funny though; Institanious Materialization was my favorite class too. My new friends, and I like Lenleia, maybe life here would not be so bad. The days passed and class was actually fun with my friends around but I knew that some thing was going to happen really soon, it was only two days until the full moon.