Academy

I ended up sleeping for a couple of days to heal and then spent rest of the days getting better. By the time I was feeling better again it was already time for the academy entrance exams. Hopefully I had been able to guide Evan properly and he'd be able to handle the rest. I had recommended him a couple of books, and now it was time for me to leave for the exam.

If I passed I'd be living in the dorm which was with the campus. We traveled to the academy. It was an enormous building made out of this amazing silvery colour which made it look ethereal.

There were several kids around my age outside in the grounds, presumably also there to give the exams. I waited for the announcement and then all of us went inside to our designated stations. The exam itself was fairly easy. They just gave a bunch of tests to check my magic control and my magic capacity. Needless to say I passed without a hitch.

I went back home to the castle after that. Classes would begin in two days and alot of time was spent in packing my stuff and then going and setting it up in my dorm room. One of the perks of being royalty was that I got to have my own room, and it was large enough for four people. Atleast I wouldn't have to deal with any annoying room mates.

It was finally time to leave. I said goodbye to my family. Evan especially looked sad. I patted his head and told him I'd be back soon for the holidays and then I was gone. The carriage ride was event less.

When I reached the academy, I saw that the new students were gathered around a board and I went to see what was on it. It was a list of the new students designating them to their classrooms. I checked out my name and followed the magic arrows that were placed everywhere with different colors. The one leading to my classroom was red. I peeked inside my classroom to see that half of it was already full. I went inside and took the desk with my name written on it.

Once I was seated, I saw that there was still half an hour left to the beginning of classes so I put down my head on the table to rest. I was just about to drift off to sleep when a heavy weight landed right on top of my head.

"What the... Get the hell off of me", I managed to squeeze the words out of my throat. The weight of the boy on top of me was squeezing my face. So I grabbed his torso and threw him on the ground. What was he thinking? My neck could have broken. I looked at the boy on the ground. He looked seriously beat up.

"Don't think I did that?", I said rhetorically.

The boy just jumped up to his feet and tried to run away. I looked behind me to see two annoying looking brats. They grabbed the boys collar and pulled him back. Probably the same idiots he threw him over me. This was really annoying. I thought I was away from all this bullying when I entered university in my past life, but here we were again.

I hit the hand grabbing the collar of the boy. "Leave him alone. It's just the first day and if you want to do this. Go take it outside. Stop disturbing others", I glared at them.

"Who do you---?", I cut the bully off by an upper kick to his face making him fall. After that the students noticed that the teacher was coming so that was the end of the brat attack. I took my seat and everyone quiet. Finally peace I thought to myself.

The teacher was an old woman with graying hair who wore a bright magenta colored robe. The first class was of language of spells. Not all spells were in the same language so this class was about learning all the different languages in which spells are present. Personally I found this one boring. We had a combat training class and magic trajectory class before break, I enjoyed the both of them.

In break time I got up from my seat and left for outside before I could be bothered by someone. I ordered a burger from a cafeteria. It was magic based. We didn't have to stand in lines here. You could just tap your forefinger in thin air as long as you were in the premises of the cafeteria and a menu would pop up and all you had to do was press what you want and it would appear in front of you after you paid.

I grabbed my burger and found a bench on the ground. It was half hidden behind a tree and I sat under its shade enjoying my burger.

Someone sat next to me. 'Oh great', I though to myself, 'well this is bothersome. Well whatever it's fine as long as they don't talk to--'

My thoughts were cut off by the male sitting next to me.

"Hey um thanks about the morning."

I looked up to see a lean looking boy with pale blonde hair, they looked more white than blonde. His eyes were orange.

"Do I.....know you?", I asked.

"Um well no", he seemed flustered, "this morning, you helped me so um thanks."

Ohh, right I remembered him. This was the guy who almost broke my neck this morning. I didn't really have anything to say to him so I continued eating my burger.

He had a bag of mini pizzas in his hand and was chewing on them.

" um do you want any? "

" Free food? Sure", I grabbed a mini pizza and ate it. It was good. Really good.

"Is your neck okay?"

"As okay as it can be after a grown person crash lands on it."

"Sorry about that", he nervously laughed. "I'm Mica. I hope you can forgive me", he extended his hand.

I shake it. It wasn't his fault anyways but, the pizza was really good, so I said, "sure, if you give me another of that mini pizza."

I was returned with a smile. "So what's your name?"

"Ryan."

We mostly ate in silence after that and walked back to class together. On our way we ran into the bullies. Honestly they shouldn't bother others while being so weak. I taught them a lesson so that they wouldn't disturb me again and Mica too I suppose since he was with me.

We took the rest of our classes in peace and I went to the dorm room after that. For some reason Mica also followed along behind me. I just let him because he wasn't bothering anyone.

"So what room you in?"

"507"

"Wait. The fifth floor? Isn't that for super rich and prestigious people?"

"Hmm."

"I'm in 215. You can come over if you want."

"That's quite okay. Maybe some other time."

"Sure",Mica smiled as he went off in the direction of his room and I walked to my room.

I entered my room, turned on the light, freshened up and went to sleep. It was an okay day. Tomorrow would be more peaceful with the annoying brats out of the way. He stared at my ceiling before falling into a dream less slumber. I was woken up in the middle of the night by a tapping on my window.

I opened it to check outside and splash. Water fell on top of my head or maybe it wasn't water. It seemed alot more stickier. It was followed by the sound of annoying cackling. I looked up to see who it was but I couldn't see their face in the dark and they ran away.

"Stupid, childish brats", I said out loud as I relocked my window.

"Stupid pranks", I headed off to the shower to get the sticky stuff out of my hair. It was difficult to get rid off and I got annoyed. I had to wash my dark black hair three times before my hair felt normal again. I dropped down on the bed and fell back to sleep only to be woken up by my alarm an hour later. School here wasn't much different from school back in my past life. I sighed and got out of my bed.

A bit later, after I got dressed there was a knock on my door.

"Who is it?", I asked skeptically after last night's annoyance.

"Room service", a bright and cheery voice replied.

"But there's no room service in the dorms. Try better next time", I frowned and went back to my table.

Knock. Knock.

Okay. I'm teaching these idiots a lesson. I thought to myself as I opened the door ready to chase down whoever it was but I just found Mica standing outside my door with a tray filled with delicious looking pancakes.

"Can we do breakfast together?", he smiled.

"Uh, sure. Why not?", was this guy trying to win me over with food right now because he noticed that I'm really into food? Maybe he's not as innocent as I thought. Well whatever I appreciate this.

"Thanks", I said as I cleared up space on the table for the tray. We both sat on each side and ate the pancakes.

"Wow. Your room is really huge huh? And you get to stay in it alone. I'm jealous."

I just stuffed my face with the delicious pancakes.

"I'm sharing a room with like three other guys. Thankfully they aren't an entire pain but they aren't nice either", he frowned. "Ah I wish I could just stay in your room or something."

"Nope."

"So colllddd", he whined like a child.

"Come on. You know we can change rooms if everyone in the room agrees and there's space. There's enough space here. I'll get you food everyday", he looked at me pleadingly.

He looks desperate, I thought to myself. "There's no space though. Only one bed."

"We can share", he joked and I gave a disapproving look, to which he replied, "just kidding. We can move in a bed. Please please please."

"Did you get bullied again?"

His cheeks flushed and he didn't answer.

I sighed. I ended up getting associated with a troublesome guy. "Fine you can stay. Just don't make too much noise okay?"

"You won't even know I'm here", he smiled cheerfully like a load had been taken off his chest.