Aspen woke up on the couch in her living room, opening her eyes she saw John holding a hot cup of tea in front of her face.

“Here you go buddy. You cried so hard you fell asleep on me.” He told her with a sympathetic smile.

“I’m sorry John” aspen said in an embarrassed tone. Grabbing the tea.

*Knock knock knock*

“Hold on, don’t worry I got it” John assured.

John came back looking at aspen in a worried manner. “Aspen someone from your Academy is here”

She dashed to her feet and too the door. A tall slender women in a skirt and blazer was there. she had extremely white skin and wore lipstick as red and orange as a sunset. Her eyes were a deep purple with speckles of white. “Excuse me Miss Aspen Hibiscus my name is Winter and I’m one of your administrators. I have been informed by a fellow student that you aren’t taking the law very seriously and I would just hate for your pretty little head to be cut off on live tv and frankly dear, you are a very good student so we’ll give you another chance. Your poetry class has been switched to Law and Ethics. You will be expected to start this change Monday.” Then Winter snapped her fingers and disappeared in thin air. Aspen screamed and looked around. She never saw a transportation spell ever executed successfully before.

*Joseph you fucking twat* aspen thought to her self.

“Bye John love ya!” Aspen said. She grabbed her broom and did a small run, jumped on her broom then headed off in to the air. She arrived where townhouses were lined up for miles. She finally stopped at 1233. It was an old English looking one, quite beautiful. with huge stained glass windows.

Bang bang bang aspen furiously punched with the side of her fist on the front door of this home.

She stood there panting, her eyebrows furrowed. Sweat glistening on her chest. The armpits of her tank top started to get damp

After a few moments Joseph open the door with a smile that quickly faded upon seeing aspen expression.

“What in the fuck Joseph? You really snitched on me? I thought I could trust you!” Aspen yelled

“Aspen I am trying to help, you’ve only been here six months and you are trying to get beheaded?” He said sternly

“Well you’re not helpful. I didn’t ask for this! I didn’t ask to be a witch! I just wanted to see my family.” Aspen replied in the same tone he spoke to her in.

“please calm down. I care about you!” Joseph said starting to get frustrated.

“Well I don’t care bout you.” Aspen said calmly. She didn’t really mean this but she was craving him to feel some kind of hurt. With one tear rolling down her face as she flew off to the sky.

Aspen felt betrayed, hurt and was growing to hate Joseph. Ever since she got to this world he was always there for her, now all of sudden what changed. She thought about this for the rest of the day. She wondered if Eden was on this to.

I’ll just have to do this alone John won’t even help me with this one

Aspen thought to herself while the cold wind raced on her face making her cheeks red.

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Monday rolls around and it’s two p.m.

aspen floats in her law and ethics and takes a seat in the back. Usually she’d find her self front and center ready to be the teachers pet. But she hated the thought of being in here due to being unapologetically ignoring the reason that the laws were put in place.

“Hello, for our new student here my name Mr. Crumble” he said loudly towards aspen

She gave a quick nod and smile.

The chalk board looked like this

President

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Faction 1.Faction 2.

“So you might be thinking to yourself if I were to do like a time spell how would anyone know, some cause everyone to be frozen. We’ll faction one is a group of 5 witches that are immune to others magic, they also monitor what they call high risk witches.” Crumble paused and looked at aspen.

She rolled her eyes and started picking at her finger nails. “Now the question you might be asking is how to they find these so called high risk witches? Well, that’s where fraction two comes in. I’m sure you’ve seen all the cameras around all the shops the side walks and maybe Even around your favorite ingredient shops. They watch these cameras all day and night. They also take Anonymous calls 24/7. Faction two is way larger and holds about 30 witches in its faction. They also deal Directly with laws that aren’t punishable by death, such a thieves for example. They look over these crimes and decide what is, in their eyes far. Usually they do something called forgiveness. That’s where they take your powers away for a week.” Crumble said and then stopped to observe the class. He was a tall man in 60’s and his long grey bread fell to his bell button, he kept a stern face. Rumors floated around the academy that he was kicked out of one the factions and was forced to teach this class for the rest of his days. When asked about it though he would just reply “Kids sure do have wild imaginations”.

It took thirty minutes before aspen saw Joseph sitting in the front of the class, her skin boiled with rage.

Was this just a way to get more time with her? or did he do because he really cared about her? This was a mystery to her. Which ever the outcome she didn’t care.

Mr. Crumble went on and on about why faction two was so important. Aspen disagreed with this. It seemed to her that faction one held the most importantance but if you asked her she couldn't explain why. Maybe if she could learn the law in great detail she could work her way around it.