Sinclair, Daughter of Chaos by Advena_van_Boekel: Chapter IV, School’s Out
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Maybe 'Christmas' wasn't the best analogy. It was more like my birthday and I was finally getting something I've always wanted. Only, I couldn't touch it until after school, so all I could do was sit there and wait for the final bell to ring; wait until I could run home and rip into all that wrapping paper.
Witchcraft was my first lead. My first real lead. It was the only book I had found that seemed to promise tangible results and it was just sitting in my bag. I could read it if I wanted to. I could just take it out and read it. I had time. Maybe twenty or so minutes? Probably less, actually. It was enough, though. I read a few pages, satiate my curiosity, maybe learn some actual magic, and, well — it'd be paramount to social suicide.
