The promise is going to be the death of me

The carriage stopped in front of the academy's entrance and the three got out.

Aria stood there in a daze, she remembered how many peaceful days she had spent at the academy back home, and the forest behind it.

Aria was pulled back from her memories by Harper's voice. She was saying, "Hey, Jacob. Please come and help me with these. I can't possibly carry them all to my room."

Aria looked around. She saw the carriage driving off, Jacob waving goodbye to Aria and hurrying off, and Harper standing beside her, all of her bags dumped on the ground.

Harper mumbled as tears began to fall from her eyes, "Oh Jacob, how could you leave me like that. I-I....."

"What a great actor. Or maybe she isn't acting, in that case, what a crybaby." Aria thought.

She glared at the leaving Jacob who, afraid of Aria, ran away.

Aria sighed and waved her fingers. To Harper's immense surprise, her luggage lifted up and was flying three feet in the air.

She looked at Aria and said, "You're trying to run away with my stuff, right? You thief!"

"Oh, that's it!!! Now she's done it." Aria thought.

She wanted to yell at Harper but checked herself. She said, "I was thinking of helping you carry it. But now I think I'd rather not."

Saying this Aria began walking inside.

She stopped when she heard more sobs and turned around to see, not in the least bit surprised, Harper crying. Again.

Aria sighed and thought, "Oh mom. The promise I made is going to be the death of me."

She again waved her fingers and began to walk inside, Harper's luggage flying behind her. Soon, Harper caught up with Aria, looking very embarrassed and surprised.

She said in a small voice, "Why are you helping me?"

Aria responded without looking back, "Because I made a promise to someone."

Soon, the two girls put away Harper's luggage in a big hall and went to get themselves enrolled.

They were both given numbers and temporary rooms. Aria and Harper both had water bending as compulsory, which was not surprising, as the academy trained water bendors. Aria also put in earth and wind as subsidiary subjects. She thought that it would be best if she could get as much training as possible. She had anyway received formal training for fire, and she could never let anyone know that she could bend all the elements.

The man at the registration table looked at Aria with a weird expression on his face as she left with Harper. Another person came from behind and peeked in the book. He said, "Someone put in three elements? Now that's rare. Who is it?"

Person 1: "I have no idea."

Person 2: "What do you mean you have no idea? It was you who wrote the name, was it not?"

Person 1: "Well of course it was me. What i meant was that I don't 'know' the girl who put her name in."

Person 2: "So that means she's not from the capital? Huh. Interesting." Saying this he walked away.

Person 1 looked at the book and read the name. "Aria. It's weird she didn't even give a surname. Too weird." He then went about doing his work.