Busted

I faced the window, the large orb of water hovering in front of my palm, I should shoot it forward, I don't want to get in trouble for making a mess of the floor.

I pushed another gush of mana out of my palm.

The orb sped forward at an alarming speed, I haven't seen an incantation go this fast before, maybe because this is an elementary level incantation. 

Shit. The windows might be too small to let the orb go through.

The orb of water launched forward with impressive force, it's like a cannon ball. The orb explodes, shattering the glass windows and blowing a large hole into the wall, with metal structural pillars poking out bent outwards along the side of the gaping hole. 

My secret training has officially come to an end—

I stood there dumbstruck by what I just did, I spaced out—

I stared blankly at the hole in the wall, dripping with water…

A hole that big— It doesn't take a genius to see that it's blown out by magic.

My secret has officially been blown…

Right now, father isn't home.

I hear footsteps scurry up the stairs—

Click. Click. Click. Click.

The footsteps quickly approached…

I still wasn't sure what to do.

The door opens with a slight creak— Bang.

The door slammed hard against the wall, an elven woman, beautiful with long silky golden hair barged into my room, as she panted furiously trying to catch her breath, she looked around, scanning the room for me.

"Gryne! Are you alright?" The lady rushed towards me, still huffing and puffing her warm breath bellows onto my face, she was clearly pretty damn worried.

The last time she had this expression was when I fell head first onto the floor, that was almost a whole year ago come to think of it.

"Was there a monster somewhere?" Mother's expression quickly went from worrisome to alarmed, her cheek muscles turned hard as a rock, then she relaxed, her panic seemingly gone as she muttered under her breath, "Not in these rural areas of Feris…"

Her attention quickly came back to me after the brief thought of a monster attack.

She looked around the room again, her eyes bolting from the hole in the wall dripping with water to the wet floor where a singular textbook laid amidst the rubble.

Her eyes were fixated onto the textbook and the page it was opened to.

Mother looked back and forth between me, the opened textbook and the gaping hole in the wall, she squatted down in front of me, spread apart in a very unlady-like manner, her breath was now calmed no longer huffing with every breath.

Did she break character because of shock? I hear her always scolding Claire of being to manly.

She looked me dead in the eyes.

Silence.

*Cricket noise sound effect*

I probably just imagined that...

I couldn't tell from her expression nor from her aura if she was happy, sad, or mad at what I did, it was all over the place, her aura jumped around, throbbing left and right like a little kid at a newly discovered playground.

There was silence for a few seconds, I didn't know how to react, I mean I did something wrong, I should probably apologise, that would be the best way to stay out of trouble.

Mother's mouth curled up into a warm smile, it wasn't like the normal calm little smile she does, it couldn't be counted as a grin either, her teeth weren't showing that much.

It was really scary, I didn't know what the facial expression meant, was she hiding her anger from a forced smile or was it genuine, I can't tell…

I wanted to look away, but I tried my hardest to keep my gaze locked with Mother's.

Right now I need to break the silence quickly, and apologise sincerely. This was the simplest way to stay out of bigger troubles.

I opened my mouth to try and apologise, I follow the trace of Mother's eyes to show extra sincerity, "I'm—" 

My voice was cut off quickly by a soft push on her part, I fell down flat on my back. "Honey. Did you read the words of the book out loud and follow the postures shown?" She said slowly, Mother's large boobs pressed against my chest as she leaned in, her eyes glowing with subtle excitement, even now she was clearly holding a lot in.

"Yes…" I hesitantly answered, one thing I knew for sure right now, lying won't do me any favor when I'm in this position. "I'm so—"

I was cut off again, Mother's eyes gleamed, it wasn't just glowing, it was like a ray of sunlight.

Mother sat up, her hands clasped together, "I knew it! My boy is a genius! I'll go find you a magic tutor as soon as possible." She curled her hands into small fists, punch the air she hopped around like a mad woman. 

Well, mother sure was having the time of her life, does that mean my apology is accepted? I thought as a hand grabbed onto my shoulder, I turned around. 

Looking at me, mother said, "Wait, I didn't even teach you how to read yet— Did you teach him, Lily?" 

I look at the door, there stands Lily, "No I haven't, Mistress." She answered confidently without a single stutter in her sentence. 

If I was put in a pressured situation like that I would certainly have been stuttering and hitting 'um's here and there.

"My son's a genius! Lily. We are going into the city to tell Julian about this. We have to hire the best tutor in town right away! Oh my, he's going to be the best mage out there in the future, I know it!"

"Yes Mistress." Lily calmly stated.

Mother was clearly thrilled about this development of mine.

All the sudden I feel her eyes glance back at me, "Hmm, how about you join Claire in the back to learn swordplay. Maybe you would have talent in that also."

Hmm, swordplay huh?

It was something I had little to no experience with. Even before when I studied martial arts, I focused more towards hand to hand combat instead of weapons play.

It would be an interesting turn of events if I focused on swordplay from now onwards.

If I had the choice I would choose magic a hundred percent of the time, but who knows this might be fun.