.5.

Becoming one with the darkness was the easy part. The hard part was getting out of the floor once I was through.

Blindly, I had entered the floor and thankfully popped up in an empty room. The girls' section was surprisingly different from ours.

There were bunk beds on the two ends of the room and enough space in the middle to put a pool table or two or three. My room only has the two single beds, our study desks, our closets and walking space for one person. The shower and toilet aren't homey either. From the spot I'm at, I was sure eight people could fit in theirs.

The spot I was at was seeming to be the only spot I'd be at. The second my dark form hits the light, I solidify.

I've mostly solidified already and don't know how to get my legs up, from the ground. Even worst, someone is walking towards the room.

Before I could become stuck or caught, I shoved myself back down and returned to the underground tunnel. One with the darkness again, I casually made my way back to Geo and Rowan.

I could try again but I was just as likely to end up in an occupied room as I was to end up in their closet.

"Through?" Geo asks when he sees me and I shake my head.

"Too bright." I take a seat besides him on the ground as we watch Row. He's still on the wall, listening.

"That's okay, though. 'Cause I got it." He pressed onto the wall and a door swings open.

We entered the door expecting to be sucked into the teacher's lounge but find ourselves in our room.

"Well, now we know what he can do." Rowan smiled, taking a seat on his bed.

The room we had really was so small compared to the girls' dorm I'd just been in.

Rowan took out his journal and scribbled in his findings. While most everyone else at the school could do magic or had some within them, Rowan can source magic and use the essence.

"Makes portals that take you to your imagined destination." He spoke as he wrote on a scrap paper.

His book was thick but half empty even though he'd made notes on almost everyone at the school.

"I think the girls have a better bargain." I said, standing in the space between our desks.

Geo took my bed. "They have chandeliers?" Geo looked ready to head down to the office to argue his point.

"No. Not that I saw." I left Row to his writing. He would be doing that for a few minutes as he tried to get each word legible and neat enough to have been typed. "Their room, the one I got into, it was huge." I went on describing the space and beds and both of their eyes were on me.

"What?" I asked them and the shook their heads.

Row flipped a few of his pages and stopped, holding the page up for us to see. "Only one girl has that kind of magic. That's Tasha." I saw her face, lifelike on the page, and knew immediately that I'd screwed up. Innocently...enough.

"What do we do?" I asked Row.

"What do you mean?" Geo asked. "Do you guys want a bigger room? Or a chandelier?"

Row opened his mouth to answer but then looked up at the clock. "Oh no!" He quickly placed his journal back into its hiding spot and stood, readjusting his uniform. "We missed a class."

I looked up too and surely it was already two o' clock. Classes were already on afternoon break.

Fast feet appeared out of nowhere and stopped outside our door. The person pounded before standing back. "Boys! Out of your room at once!"