The lecture hall was half filled. Julia took a seat in the rightmost column, in the first seat. The desks had scribbles on them. The distance between seats differed according to their height on the steps. Julia looked all around. There were students of all sorts. Julia didn’t expect the white haired guy to be sitting behind her, but he was indeed sitting there. He was tapping his nails on the desk, with his eyes looking down and the other hand on his chin. Julia was tired of being in her comfort zone.

“N-Nice to meet you,” said Julia

He looked a bit upwards to see her face. His expression changed from blank to a slight smile.

“It’s nice to meet you too,” He said

“I’m Julia… You?” she said

“I’m Silvio,” He said

The instructor entered and so Julia turned to face her. She was plump, had black hair, a beautiful light green floor length dress with puffed sleeves, a flower-adorned wooden wand, and small round purple wings.

“Hello everyone, I’m Jill Kacey, Associate Professor here at CA, and I’m sure you’ve guessed that I’m a fairy,” She said

“Can you fly?” asked a girl in next column

She had golden hair tied into twin tails, wearing overalls, had a blue stain on her face, and was carrying paintbrushes in the front pocket of her denim overalls.

“Indeed but I wouldn’t want to crash into anything right now,” Said Prof. Kacey

Julia watched as the girl quickly sketched a flying cockroach on her lined notebook page. Julia somehow contained her excitement after seeing the sketch of mocking the professor. She wanted to laugh and point it out. Prof. Kacey went on and on about her introduction. It started off with her talking about how much fun this course would be, but her voice was flat and soothing, and made a good sleep-inducing lullaby.

“Now, who wants to go first? I’ll need one magic major and one non-magic major to demonstrate,” Said Professor Kacey

“Me! I’m a non-magic student, Light-type,” said the blonde girl next to her

“Okay, and one magic student please?” said

There was no response.

“Julia, you’re a witch right?” said Silvio

“Yes, but…” said Julia

The blonde girl got up, and stood in front of Julia’s desk.

“Come on!” she said, raising her fists

The class giggled.

“I’m coming,” Said Julia

She was rising at a slow pace until the blonde girl dragged her by the arm towards Professor Kacey. Julia thought she was going to trip and fall any moment. The class was behaving as though it was some sort of circus act with laughter all across. Julia didn’t understand what the big deal was.

“Tell me your names,” Said Professor Kacey

“I’m Julia and I’m a witch,” she said

Julia had her hands clasped together and was avoiding eye contact.

“I’m Sunshine but you can call me Sunny. I’m an artist, I can paint you for a cheap cost,” She said

“We’re not here to advertise,” said Julia

Even Prof. Kacey started to giggle. She then wiped her tears with a handkerchief because she was laughing too much.

“Anyway, I’ll show you how you can transform one of you into your true self. The person who will transform via the magic source is chosen at random by the spell. Do you have your wand yet?” said Prof. Kacey

“No, not yet,” said Julia

“No problem. Sunny, you can use your paintbrush as a wand while Julia chants an incantation. Let’s see if I can find the witch spell handout,” said Professor Kacey

Prof. Kacey began shuffling her papers about and kept a page aside. Then she organized the rest of the papers and kept them back on the table.

For a long time, Julia was reading. Sunny stomped her foot on the ground while looking into the distance.

“Are you done yet?” said Sunny

“I’m reading the instructions,” said Julia

“Let me see,” said Sunny, snatching the paper

Sunny scanned her eyes on the page.

“Dear, it’s only two paragraphs. Let’s do this already.” Said Sunny

Julia swallowed her saliva and took the paper back as she was trembling. She wished that Sunny would be the one to transform, so that no one would judge her for being a light type witch like they did back in the first class.

“Show us the true power, not for one hour but for ever and ever,” said Julia

Sunny waved around her wide and flat paintbrush and then bonked Julia on the head with it.

“Ouch,” said Julia

Needless to say, the class was being entertained. Julia swirled around, and her dress transformed into a pink, brown and wine red slightly cropped, cold-shoulder top with a strawberry motif, and matching skirt which had a belt and a buckle. Her shoes were turned into wine red tea party shoes, and fishnet gloves appeared. Strawberry earrings appeared on her lobes, and a wine red witch hat with a ribbon and strawberry pin came out of nowhere, floated and landed on her head. Sunny’s mouth was open as she observed all of this.

“Ooh, a strawberry witch,” Said Sunny, smiling

“Thank you dears, we’ll take one more pair and end the class,” Said Professor Kacey

Julia ran over to her desk and yelled, “Silvio is next.”

“Wait, what?” said Silvio

“Revenge,” whispered Julia

Silvio face palmed and said, “Fine.”

He stood up and dragged his feet towards the front.

“Non-magic, my major is defense. I’m Silvio,” said Silvio

“Any magic major up for it?” said the Professor

“Me,” said a boy with ash hair which had purple undertones

He was an inch taller than Julia and looked more like a middle school student or younger. He had a cheerful expression.

“I’m a fairy boy, and my name is Arthur,” he said

The two of them casted the fairy spell together.

Silvio’s clothes quickly changed to a black half-sleeved, zippered jacket, with white cargo pants, a chain at the belt loops with leaf motifs, a sky blue orb pendant, black shoes, and most important of all, a strange sword.

At this moment, everyone began to clap, especially the girls, as Julia noted.

The fairy boy sighed.

“I’m sorry it wasn’t you,” Said Silvio

“No problem,” said Arthur, smiling

Silvio looked around before asking, “Umm, how do I change back?”

“There is a button somewhere on your costume,” said Professor Kacey

“Ah,” Said Silvio, pressed the button on his pendant

He changed back at once.

“The transformation does not always work, but if it does, you can summon it anytime by a spell which we will learn in the next class,” said Professor Kacey

The Professor left. Julia, Silvio and Sunny packed up and walked out of the class.

“Oh my goodness! Art class!” yelled Sunny

Sunny raced across while her backpack looked like it would fall off any moment.

“Aren’t you going to change back?” said Silvio

“No,” said Julia

“Okay,” said Silvio

The two of them walked towards the cafeteria since both of them didn’t have classes till a few hours. It was almost twelve p.m. The sunshine was bright and the hat shielded Julia well. It was, however, hot and suffocating.

“That book of yours looks heavy,” said Silvio

“It is,” said Julia

“Julia, there you are,” said Cole

Cole was resting against the wall with his arms crossed.

The three of them were in front of the cafeteria, which was within a white building.

“I’ve been looking for you everywhere,” said Cole

“But why?” said Julia

Julia noticed he was carrying a dark blue messenger bag, and had a brown one in his hands.

“You see, Lindsey made a remark this morning about you not having a bag. At that moment, I remembered I had a spare satchel. If you don’t have a bag, please accept it. I know it’s probably not your style. But in my opinion, it’ll suit you well,” said Cole

“Thank you so much,” said Julia

“You’ll accept it?” said Cole

“Of course,” said Julia

Cole smiled. Julia put her belongings in the bag.

“I gotta go. Nice hat by the way,” said Cole, leaving

A fresh breeze blew as the two of them entered the cafeteria.

“Is he a friend?” asked Silvio

“Yes,” said Julia

“Oh good, I thought it might be a stalker,” Said Silvio

“Why would you think that?” said Julia

Silvio sighed and frowned.

“I’ve got a bit of history with a stalker myself,” said Silvio

“Sounds scary,” said Julia

“I’ll tell you someday, if you don’t tell anyone,” said Silvio

“I’m good at keeping secrets, don’t worry,” said Julia

The two of them bought food, and Julia was grateful that the food was cheap to be bought with a few coins. The two of them spent their meal in silence.