Top Students

It had been weeks after the exams, and the teachers anounced that the Leviation Exam results will be shown at the noticeboard at the cafeteria.

After Nessia finished her lunch meal, she decided to look at her results. Since she was a B grade, she woudn't be the top student of the whole academy.

On the paper, she was ranked below all the junior A grade students. She knew why.

The A grade students, just like Nessia, did not get their feather touched by the flames. However, the only difference was that the grade A students could levitate a heavier weight and also guided the feather to the end of the obstacles in within 10 seconds. Nessia could complete the fire obstacle course in 25 seconds, because she needed to avoid the flames carefully.

''I did a great job,'' Nessia sighed, praising herself so that she won't feel down. She headed to her classroom as the lunch bell rang to indicate that lunch time was over.

''I would like to congratulate 2 of my students for scoring high grades for the last examination!'' Professor Lora announced proudly. The other students in the class clapped.

Dia was posing for the students who were looking at her. As eyes went from Nessia to Dia's arrogant posing, the clapping from the students died down. ''Since Dia and Nessia are my top students, they will become my class presidents!'' Professor Lora said.

The whole class appluaded again. ''And since all of you did well in the exams, you'll have the rest of the day off! But in class, because it's not allowed to have students taking breaks during class time,'' Professor Lora smiled. The whole class cheered as some played games while others did what they liked, like drawing, and even practise spells.

Nessia was alone, looking out at the window. Besides Ledia, she did not make any friends in this class.

Nessia sighed, thinking what Dia would do to her later in the year. She was expecting something bad to happen as Dia held the dark element, and she's certain Dia would always try to be better than her.

Professor Lora went to Nessia's table and said, ''Nessia, I trust you don't need to run extra laps anymore. Give it a rest.'' Nessia nodded.

The sky became darker and instead of dueling, the class went to eat dinner early. While eating, Dia approached Nessia sneakily.

Nessia swallowed down her meal and felt a sharp pain at her back. She looked behind and saw nobody. ''Better not be Dia,'' Nessia frowned and stood up to return the tray and went to her dorm room.

Having a lot of spare time, Nessia decided to do some dorm cleaning. However, she didn't learn any cleaning spells. She took out her spellbook, and flipped to a section where there's a set of cleaning spells that include every household work.

From tidying up stacks of books, washing clothes, drying clothes instantly to removing any dust... Nessia was amazed.

She knocked on Ledia's dorm room and Ledia opened the door.

''Hey... do you mind if i try to tidy up your room...?'' Nessia shyly asked. Ledia glared at Nessia, ''No, get out.'' Nessia was discouraged and went to her dorm room.

''Why does Ledia have to be so mean to me whenever I talk to her?'' Nessia sighed and lied on her bed. She felt comfortable and tired on the bed, like the bed is singing a lulluby to her as Nessia slowly closed her eyes to nap.

It was midnight and the sky was a beautiful dark colour with stars dotted all over it. Nessia woke up at that time and felt a little dizzy. ''Did I sleep?'' Nessia thought as she saw the spellbook she read.

She picked up that book and saw the household spells. ''Oh, I was going to try these,'' Nessia yawned. ''But I still feel tired...''

She went to her washroom. She showered and brushed her teeth. She changed into her pajamas and sat on her bed. ''Wow, I suddenly don't feel sleepy anymore. I'll tidy my room!'' Nessia jumped and happily picked a spell to cast first.

''This spell looks easy. I just need to get the pronounciation right,'' Nessia looked at the symbols needed to pronounce to cast the 'paper tidying' spell.

When Nessia chanted the spell and showed her crystal necklace the stack of papers she needed to tidy, there was light emitted by the crystal and the paper stack automatically became a neat stack of paper.

''Wow...'' Nessia admired. The crystal stopped emitting light and looked like an ordinary yellow crystal.

Nessia felt drowsy after casting that spell, so she went to bed.

* * * * *

The warm air surrounded the room as Nessia opened her eyes. She felt refreshed as she did her morning routine and got into her uniform. She went to the hall, then classes, and lunch.

Somehow, Nessia had her energy drained and she tripped on a piece of crumbled paper ball while walking. ''Urgh... What happened to me?'' she thought, embarrassed as other students passing by were looking at Nessia and whispering among themselves.

She saw Dia walking towards her with a sly smile. Nessia quickly stood up and leaned against a wall. ''Well, well, well... What's wrong with you today? Sleepy?'' Dia teased.

Nessia became enraged and said, ''No, you might have done something to me!'' Dia's whole expression changed, acting as if she did not do anything, ''Oh? Did I?'' Then she smiled again, ''Well, I'll leave you alone.'' Dia walked away like a model.

Nessia sighed and made her way to the cafeteria to get her meal. ''Way to go, Dia. Trying to ruin my reputation...'' Nessia thought. While carrying her meal on the tray, she overheard someone gossiping about her with a group of girls.

''Seriously? I thought she was the top student in the B class... Look at her, she looks so tired, like she slept during class.'' Nessia ignored them and went on to find a seat and eat her meal.

''This is the Worst day I had.''