Thread: Juggling Act [Jinx and Seraph]

The minute Alex's alarm clock went off that morning, he felt a sense of foreboding settle in the pit of his stomach. At first, he thought it was the normal feeling of having to get up early for the first day of school after winter break but when it didn't subside after getting breakfast from his mom and helping get his little brother dressed for preschool, he knew it was going to be a bad day. He got out of his mother's van and waved to her, before leaning back to wave goodbye to his little brother, and reminded him quietly, Don't show off in school, okay? His mother snorted slightly before she looked at her oldest child, The same to you. I saw you teaching him last night--he isn't old enough to understand. Alex gave a sheepish grin before he slammed the door shut and jogged up the steps of the school building, careful to dodge the snow and ice that was still piled up high around the walkway and on the steps. As he stepped in side, he took off his beanie and ruffled his red hair to get rid of his bad case of hat hair as the headed towards his usual spot to sit while he waited for everyone else to make it to school. He dropped his backpack on the ground next to his bench and closed his eyes for a moment before reaching back down and pulling out a notebook from his backpack it looked as if it had seen better days, and had many sticky-notes and extra papers sticking out of it that it looked shabby. He hummed under his breath as he flipped through it, looking for a particular spell he had been working on for the last couple of days. It was nothing important, just a spell to make his shoes water resistant because he was tired to having to put them on the heater everyday after he walked home from school. He glanced at everything he had written so far and wondered if he had made any mistakes on any of his research, and calculations. Magic, unlike what most people believed, was as much about math as nature and innate talent. He had been born blessed with the innate talent but struggled with the mathematics part of it, and ended up having to rely on his parents spell books rather than more personalized spells that would be easier to him. His green eyes were focused on his texts that he didn't notice when someone dropped down beside him, until an arm was wrapped around his shoulders and someone giggled, Alex, you can't be doing homework all ready! The red-headed teen looked at his friend frantically before he put away his notebook, stuffing it back into his backpack and hoped that she hadn't read any of it. Ha...nah, just having some fun, Mel. His best friend, Melanee Swezer, rolled her eyes behind her glasses before she fixed her hair, pulling it back into a messy pony-tail and started to fill Alex in on the newest gossip and her winter break. It made him smile, especially since they had spent most of winter break in different states. Melanee continued brightly for several minutes and the halls started to fill with more people before she finally gasped, I forgot to tell you! Mom said there was a new boy coming. ...so? Alex asked hesitantly, it wasn't as if he particularly cared. Well, she started before she leaned forward and whispered he might be like you! He felt himself pale, and his heart come to a painful stop in his chest at her words, L-like me? Melanee frowned before she continued, You know...he might like...boys. Mel, he said slowly, his breathing coming back to normal slowly, I'm not gay. Of course you are! Why else would you still just be my best friend? Or better yet, why haven't you had a girlfriend--it's not like you are ugly. Alex sighed and leaned against the wall he had been right, today was going to be a bad day.