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[Please note: We're still in Hora's POV - after the long Friday night filled with confusion and, well, VeRa ship kissing XD]

Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!

The lovely and pleasant sounds of birds chirping and flapping their wings woke me up the next day. It was Saturday. Today, I resolved myself to get to the bottom of the issue we came here for and nothing's stopping me. I'm prepared to annoy Aunt Vora if needed, should she try to delay me from getting my answers again.

Rubbing my eyes and yawning, I got up from bed and went straight to the bathroom to wash up and wake myself. Somehow, the water splashing onto my face always helped wake my senses.

On my way, I noticed Verrill was back to the couch, sleeping peacefully. He didn't have to come back there. Honestly, one of the reasons I asked him to cuddle me to sleep was so he could sleep comfortably in bed as well. I didn't mind. Sena, Ken, and I used to sleep together in one bed when we were children. It shouldn't be a big deal, right?

Once inside the bathroom, I brushed my teeth first while thinking of a hundred ways to refute Aunt Vora in case she came up with excuses. Multiple scenes played out in my mind as how I imagined my aunt would respond to me. I took pride in that ability of mine.

Few minutes passed and later on, I'm done bathing. I was also done with rehearsing for our conversation later. I should not leave any stones unturned. Then, I could go back to Sena with all the answers we needed.

By the time I finished bathing, Verrill woke up as well. Ahhh… his sleepy morning face, yawning, and blinking cutely was so fun to watch. He-he. I stole some nice pictures on my phone.

Click! Click! Click!

'Oh my goodness. Just look at that picture… It's screaming "woke up like this" but looked so good that it could be printed out in magazines. The three of them—Verrill, Kaiden, and Callan, were truly a feast to the eyes. But of course, Verrill is my bias. They could even pass as an idol group! I'm 100% sure they will be extremely popular. Problem is, Callan can't sing. I heard he's good at dancing though. He can do the rap instead and be the lead dancer if that's the case. Then, Verrill will be the princely musician, and main vocalist. Kaiden will be the second vocalist, he sings pretty well, too. Their voices harmonized so well when we tried jamming during our last barbecue party. Wait a minute—what in the world am I thinking? There's no way that's happening. Erase that thought.'

And so, after we're done preparing, we went to the dining area in Aunt Vora's house to get some breakfast. There were no maids who would fetch us or call us for breakfast so we had to go there ourselves.

When we reached the dining area, Aunt Vora, and Silky were already there, laying out the plates on the table… using magic.

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Yup. Some of the plates were floating in the air. Amazing. That was not weird at all. I mean, who in their right mind would believe what we're seeing right at that moment. Actually, this was the same as "that" incident where Verrill caught me. I didn't mean to—in fact, I didn't know I could until it just happened.

It was that day where I stopped by the library to check on some books I needed for studying. Welp, the bookshelf was too high so I took a ladder to get what I needed. But then, I took too many books than I could handle and suddenly, some of them slipped through my arms. To my surprise, I reached out to the books that almost fell to the ground and for some reason, they stopped mid air. And Verrill just had to witness that. I didn't know how to explain it at first. And my goodness, good thing he was the only one there at that moment or else, I'm doomed!

My mom informed me back when I was young the truth about our family—that we were a whole clan of pure blooded witches. But not like those nasty witches one would often imagine or see in books, portrayed as bad people of some sorts. We're more like those in Henry Potter's books, but still different. In fact, we're not really called witches, we're more like sorcerers of some sort. Though being here in our country, most people associated us with witches due to the lack of knowledge about us. Even if we're a whole clan, of course, we needed to keep everything a secret or else the "organization" would punish us according to the degree of the mess we did.

For people like us, being part of the pure blood line meant that we would "manifest" our powers in some point of our lives. It's random though—to some, it would happen during childhood, and to some in their adult years. I'm not so sure why and what made it different or what the catalyst for the manifestation to begin was, but as for me, it happened during that library scene. That's why I didn't expect for it to happen that way.

Another thing was that, after manifestation, another event would happen, though it very rarely happened—like, 0.0000001% out of all the witches' families in the whole wide world—was an "awakening", as my mom explained to me. The reason she told me about it even though it was very rare for it to happen to everyone else was because of the fact that we were pure blooded which meant we had a higher chance of having that rare "awakening" happen to one of us.

So what would happen in that awakening? She told me that anyone blessed to have an awakening would be gifted with special powers—like a specialty of some sort, though only one. This special power would be far above others kinda like… for example, making things float. Normal witches could do that BUT if someone was given specialty on it, then he or she would be able to lift anything easily no matter the weight or size. Normal witches had a certain capacity of things they could lift through magic but that's not the case with the rare one.

And with that, my mother was given a specialty of "growth" which she mainly used in making the plants in our garden to grow quicker, or the trees they used for making houses or renovations. Then, my dad who was also a pure blood from another family, inherited a special ability. It was top secret but I caught him one time "rewinding" events. Though he could only go back up to 10 seconds maximum which wasn't very helpful. Ha-ha-ha! I caught him and he told me never to tell anyone about it.

But as for me, I just manifested and I didn't get any of that awakening thingy. So I needed all the information I could get about this stuff that's happening.