You hold in your hands Magical Wands - A Cornucopia of Wand Lore, one of the most popular and widely used textbooks on wand lore, even if I do say so myself. Although I specifically wrote this book for the wand lore class I teach at The Isle of Skye School of Magick, I am more than a little proud to note that it has been used in several other schools, both here in the British Isles and across the pond in America. My publisher even tells me that it is often used when young witches and wizards do not attend a proper school of magic but are home schooled instead.
When teaching wand lore, I cover the first four chapters during the fall semester and remaining four chapters during the spring semester. Although this book was specifically written for fourth year students, I sometimes allow the more advanced third year students to enroll, and they usually do not find the material too challenging even though the book is considerably longer than the typical third year textbook.
As the word cornucopia in the title implies, this textbook covers almost all of the important topics of wand lore. It begins with a quick review of the foundations of magic including the metaphysical elementals, phases, genders, and their associated spells and spell sets. It then dives into the many important principles of wand making. This is followed by chapters on the materials used in the crafting of wands including magical creatures for the wand's core, magical woods for the wand's shaft and handle, and finally the mystical crystals and metals often found on the wand's tip and end cap. The remainder of the book largely deals with the wands of famous and infamous mages throughout history including many examples of how the selection of wand components frequently enabled their wands to excel at strengthening and focusing the spells they cast most often.
In spite of its rather large size, this book does not cover every aspect of wand lore. For instance, it does not detail the proper ways to obtain wand-making materials and many of the practical aspects of crafting a wand from them. These are advanced topics more appropriate for a fifth year hands-on course in wand making. Neither does it teach the casting of spells, which is rightly the subject of a series of courses on spell casting.
And now it is time to dive into - dare I say it - the magical world of wand lore. I wish you all success in mastering the theory of wand lore, and. I hope you consider following this course with one covering the actual crafting of magic wands. Finally, I hope one or two of you consider a career of wand making once you graduate. After five years as an apprentice, you will become a master wand maker and enjoy a life of crafting fine wands, a mage's most important instrument.
Wolfrick Ignatius Feuerschmied, M.W.M.
The Isle of Skye School of Magick
14 June 1967



Author:
Donald Firesmith is the prize-winning author of speculative fiction including The Secrets of Hawthorne House (teen paranormal urban fantasy), the Hell Holes series (alien invasion science fiction), and Magical Wands: A Cornucopia of Wand Lore (fantasy). Named a Distinguished Engineer by the Association of Computing Machinery, he is also the author of 7 technical books in system and software engineering. In his spare time, he crafts one-of-a-kind jeweled magic wands.

It was only an old book that the professor found while traveling by train through Scotland. A scholar of medieval history, Professor George Smith was on sabbatical studying Scottish legends and myths when he chanced to meet an aged Scotsman and his granddaughter on their way to her new boarding school in the Isles of Skye. The young girl had accidentally left her book behind, and the professor picked it up meaning to send it on to her. But then he looked inside and discovered it was no ordinary book. It was a school textbook on magic.

Could it be real? Could it have actually been left by accident and found by chance? Or was it all an elaborate hoax played on the unsuspecting professor? Did he ever find the secret Isles of Skye School of Magick? Did he ever discover the hidden world of wizards and witches implied by the book's very existence? Or did they find him? The professor vanished soon afterwards, and the answers are unknown. Read the book and decide for yourself.

Magical Wands: A Cornucopia of Wand Lore is that textbook from The Isles of Skye School of Magick. The first chapter begins with a basic overview of magic wands followed by an introduction to magical theory including the four planes of existence (Astral, Spectral, Physical, and Daemonic), the five metaphysical elementals (Quintessence, Air, Fire, Earth, and Water), and the three preternatural phases of Light, Twilight, and Darkness. It also contains sets of the commonly used spells associated with each of these elementals and phases. The first chapter then describes the different types of wands, their components, how they are crafted, and how they are used to cast spells. Chapter two teaches the 17 principles of wand making. Chapters three through six comprehensively cover the materials used to make magic wands including magical creatures (both beings and beasts), magical woods, mystical crystals, and mystical metals. Chapter seven documents 26 famous and infamous witches and wizards, their wands, and how well their wands suited their needs. Chapter eight concludes the textbook by nicely summarizing the contents of the entire textbook. Each of the chapters ends with student exercises, the answers of which are included in the back of the textbook which also includes a glossary, references, and afterword by the editor.

If you have ever wondered what young witches and wizards actually study in their hidden magic schools, then this book is for you.

"Teacher, someone is looking for it." A certain girl called Director Xu and pointed out the window.
　　The hand pressed on Sheng Wang's shoulder was finally released. Director Xu nodded to the person who was looking for him outside the window, and said, "Are you going to have a meeting? Just come."
　　
　　He straightened up, pointed at Sheng Wang's unremoved headset and said: " By the way, today's report counts as an exception. Starting from tomorrow, things like mobile phone headsets PSP will not appear in the classroom. Once I catch them, eh—"
　　He pointed his index finger twice, and then concealed it with lightning. The momentum of the ear digs into the belly of the boy in front of the table.
　　"My day!" The boy immediately bounced up, covering his schoolbag so fast that he felt like touching an electric gate.
　　"Cover there with friends the second time ah high the heaven?." Director Xu held high his hand, shook fresh seized mobile phones, Wang Sheng said: "see no, this is another negative example Disciplinary Board it.?"
　　The first A row of girls poked their heads out: "Yes."
　　"Playing with mobile phones will deduct 3 points for civilization, and deduct 1 point for swearing."
　　"Oh."
　　Director Xu made a big vote and left with the trophies contentedly.
　　
　　Sheng Wang witnessed the capture scene up close, his expression a little confused. The boy named Gao Tianyang looked at him, his eyes gradually resentful. After a few seconds, Sheng Wang finally realized that he silently took off the earphones and stuffed them into his schoolbag together with his mobile phone, so as not to irritate people.
　　Gao Tianyang still looked at him.
　　Sheng Wang thought for a while, and politely comforted him and said: "Sorry and change."
　　"Fuck." Gao Tianyang didn't stretch, wiped his face dumbfounded and said: "It's okay, it's not the first time. Anyway, every other paragraph. I have to check my mobile phone every time. No one in the room has ever been tricked."
　　"Oh." Sheng Wang nodded, and wondered: "Then what do you want me to do?"
　　Gao Tianyang: " I'm very curious."
　　Sheng Wang: " ?"
　　"We were talking before you entered the classroom, I also Baidu your original school. What can't you think of at a young age, transfer to Jiangsu in the second year of high school?"
　　Sheng Wanggan laughed and said, "Ask my dad to go."
　　
　　Gao Tianyang Touching his round head, and wanting to gossip a few more words, the ringtone suddenly came. The classmates who writhed and chattered and fart all sat upright, and several people who had slept for a large break also looked up, stretched their arms and necks, and took out a stack of papers from the belly of the table.
　　When everyone returned to their seats and no longer crowded together, Sheng Wang's sense of abruptness became very heavy-because everyone in this class is single, person, single, and seated! Only him, the table is side by side with another, and there is a same table sleeping like a corpse.
　　My fucking...
　　Sheng Wang just took out the new textbooks, and neither did he put them in his schoolbag, nor did he keep them. In extreme embarrassment, he could only turn his head and stare at Jiang Tian.
　　
　　The deskmate of this suspected Bking may have been a thief all night and didn't even hear the ringtone. His supporting arm covers most of his face, and only the line of the mandible can be seen from the gap. The white round-neck T-shirt wraps up the silhouette of the shoulders and undulates gently with the breath.
　　Is this posture to sleep until school? Sheng Wangxin said.
　　
　　Gao Tianyang in the front seat suddenly remembered something and turned his head, stretched out his hand and quickly pushed Jiang Tian, ​​and whispered: "Wake up, Brother Tim,
　　I'm studying by myself ." He pointed to Jiang Tian Chong Shengwang and explained, "Just let me go to class. He, lest he have fallen asleep."
　　Sheng Wang raised his eyebrows, a little surprised. He thought that the same tablemate was here to perform the perfect score for Sleeping Everyday.
　　
　　Gao Tianyang called twice, and Jiang Tian finally woke up.
　　He replied with a low "um", the fingers covering the back of his head curled up a few times, and the short black hair came out of the ribs between the fingers. The thumb was pinched on the knuckle of the index finger, and he raised his head with a soft "click". After sitting upright, he rubbed his face again.
　　The naked eye can see how hard it is to wake up.
　　
　　"My God, why were you so sleepy last night?" Gao Tianyang couldn't help asking.
　　"A little bit of trouble." Jiang Tian obviously didn't want to mention more, except for the sleepiness between his eyebrows, he was unhappy. He took out a bottle of mineral water from the belly of the table, and the icy mist on the bottle dissolved between his fingers. He unscrewed it and took a sip, and finally caught a glimpse of Sheng Wang.
　　He frowned and turned his head. Maybe it's because I just drank ice water, my voice is very cold: "Who are you, why are you sitting here?"
　　
　　Listen to this nonsense.
　　Sheng Wang had originally been sitting on him because of his surname Jiang Lian, and he was so excited by this tone that he didn't have a good impression. His young master had a temper, and pointed his chin to the new textbook on the table and said, "I'm new here, just sit here." The
　　
　　handsome guys may be attractive to each other, and the classmates in the first few tables turned their heads.
　　Gao Tianyang saw that the atmosphere was not right, and was the first to rush out to make a round: "No, you didn't know that just now, the teacher pressed him here."
　　"Which teacher?" Jiang Tian asked.
　　"Who else can talk with big mouth." Gao Tianyang said, "Didn't he always like to sit in blind rows. Last time he took my desk next to the podium with a sentence, but the next day he forgot it again and asked me why I had a good classroom. If I don't sit down, I have to go to the podium and squeeze with the teacher. I'm going to have a dog."
　　Sheng Wangzheng confronts Jiang Tian with a cold face. He turned his head and stared at Gao Tianyang. Why didn't you say when you were there?
　　
　　Suddenly there was a dragging sound of "squawk" nearby. Sheng Wang heard the sound and looked over, and saw that Jiang Tian had stood up, carrying a chair, and pulling his single table back a certain distance.
　　"What are you doing?" Gao Tianyang asked wonderingly.
　　"Adjust the seat." Jiang Tian didn't even look at it. Chong Shengwang tilted his head and said, "He sits a little bit shorter here. I'll sit back."
　　Sheng Wang: "Who is short?"
　　Jiang Tian is already sitting in the new position. After he got off, he pulled out a thick stack of papers from the belly of the table and threw them on the table. Then he leaned on the back of the chair and raised his eyes to Sheng Wang: "Otherwise you are taller than me?"
　　"..." So
　　far, Sheng Wang The impression of this person is that he will never come back.
　　
　　He moved the single table in front of him a bit to the left, aligned with the entire row, and stuffed his schoolbag into the belly of the table. As soon as he sat down, Gao Tianyang tapped on his desk with a pen, turned his head and whispered in a low voice,
　　"Huh , buddy." "Huh?" When Young Master Sheng was upset, he was very targeted and would not target unrelated people. Pull your face indiscriminately.
　　The sky Young hand over her mouth, with a lower voice: ".. You do it personally, so he usually does not matter what these days might be met, the mood is not very good,"
　　Sheng Wang out of courtesy, "Oh, "With a cry, what I thought in my heart was my shit.
　　
　　He cared more about the other people in the classroom than the ice sculpture plague god behind.
　　Because when you look around, he is the only person in the classroom with textbooks on the desk, and everyone else is a stack of papers. Moreover, the class bell has been ringing for so long, and I haven't seen any teacher come.
　　What's wrong with this school?
　　
　　He glanced around, before he had time to ask his doubts, Gao Tianyang, the intimate little quilted jacket, took the initiative to speak: "Today is Saturday, during the make-up course, and the whole day is self-study. You... didn't bring some papers?"
　　Sheng Wang reminded him angrily: "I just came today."
　　"Oh, what do you review?" Gao Tianyang poked the brand-new textbook and said: "Textbook?"
　　
　　"Review?" Sheng Wang repeated. "You said review?"
　　"Yeah."
　　Sheng Wang suddenly had an ominous premonition. He dryly asked, "Why review?"
　　Gao Tianyang said, "Because of tomorrow's exam."
　　Sheng Wang: "??"
　　
　　"What are you doing tomorrow?"
　　"Exams."
　　Sheng Wang looked at him with what you are talking about in dreams: "What is the test? The content
　　of the first year ?" "That was the last final exam. What is the first year of the test? "The content of this." Gao Tianyang pointed to the textbook that Sheng Wang had just received today and said: "Take this test."
　　Sheng Wang: "..."
　　Can you say that again?
　　
　　Maybe his solidified appearance is a bit cute, Gao Tianyang smiled.
　　Sheng Wang pointed to the textbook and said in a non-ups and downs voice: "Director Xu told me that this is your new textbook this semester."
　　"Theoretically yes." Gao Tianyang said: "But we have finished learning. Today, August. On the 8th, right? We had 10 days of summer vacation on July 10, and then we came to class. We finished studying the first two days."
　　"Which one?"
　　"Anyway, I have finished studying mathematics, physics and chemistry, and the progress of Chinese is a little slow. A little bit, English doesn't follow the textbook."
　　Sheng Wang choked for a while: "So I'm going to take five tests tomorrow that I've never learned?"
　　"Yes."
　　"Can I ask for leave?"
　　"Should not." Gao Tianyang Pretending to be vicissitudes of life, he said: "Friends, I have a long way to go, so I can do it for myself. When I graduate, I can find someone to hit Xu Dazui."
　　
　　This matter was too exciting, so that after the end of the day, Sheng Wang's classmates were still mentally drunk. The state, referred to as very drunk.


Sheng Wang moved into the ancestral courtyard of the Baima Lane, along with the woman his father was dating.
His dad pointed to the woman's son Jiang Tian and said : Call him Ge
.............
Sheng Wang is straight. Jiang Tian is homophobic.
"and they fell for each other"

Diana's P. O. V

I spent the whole night thinking about what that guy would want with those pictures. We were already an official couple, what would he stand to gain?
I curl up in a ball and start sneezing, I had on my Mickey mouse knee socks and my huge sweater mom got me on Valentine's day.

Just as I was about to sleep I got a text, I took my phone out from my pocket and opened it.

Unknown: Open page 14 on your history textbook.
Me: Who TF is this?
Unknown: The monster under your bed...
I looked under my bed in perplexity, my phone vibrated, another text.
Unknown: You fucking looked didn't you?
Me: Michael Tyler...I should have known.
Michael: Took you long enough Dollie.
Me: How did you get my number
Michael: It's not hard you know, I just hacked into the school's system and stole all your data.
I face palmed at his childishness, did he really think am that stupid?
Me: Am not seven...
Michael: Go check your history textbook, I left something in there.
Me: Did you leave...a CONDOM?
Michael: 🤦🏼‍♂️
Michael: Infact I did, is your mom at home?😈
I raised my brows in shock, was that a joke or an insult? I was totally confused! Or is that just stuff guys say to each other?

I grab my textbook from my bag and pull out my history textbook, I have my fingers crossed. I open the page and find a paper inside, I hold it up and read it.
He made me a schedule... to study.
I grab my phone, to see two texts from him. 
Michael: Sorry about the mom joke. 
Michael: I left a study worksheet, I just thought that since I'll be busy cos of the game, you should study at home. I'll go through what you studied in school and you get to ask me whatever the fuck you don't understand. The last thing I want is Josie screaming at me.

I reread the text over and over again, then I looked at the paper. 
Me: Um...Thanks so much, sure, we can do it your way.
Michael: Let me warn you am a very demanding teacher.
Me: Am a very demanding student myself.
Michael: Oh really?
Me: 🤧🤧🤧. I've caught a cold.
Michael : You want me to come over and warm you up?😏
I slapped my forehead and giggled.
He seemed so different when he texts me, it's like he's actually a human being with a real personality and not just the jerk he is at school.
Me: Just go get some sleep, the last thing I'd want is to get in the way of your beauty sleep.
Michael: No one can ever ruin this pretty face, that's why all the girls love me.
Me: All but one.
Michael: Said the girlfriend.
Me: Pretend girlfriend to you Mister!
Me: How long are we going to keep this up?
No response from him, he's really not going to make this easy for me. I checked my phone ten minutes later, still nothing from him, I dropped my phone and went downstairs.
Mom was around!

"Did I wake you sorry"Mom said once she turned around to see me. I could see the eyebags forming under her eyes. She was tired, she barely slept early anymore and she came home late. The only time this happens is when we're about to move.

"Mom...are we moving?"I asked, she opened the fridge and brought out some eggs.
"No, why would you think that?"She asked, cracking the eggs.
"You're just working yourself out, and that only happens when..."she cut me off.
"We're not moving okay, how was school?"she asked changing the topic.
"A load of drama" I muttered to myself, she didn't seem to have heard that though. "It's okay, I think am making friends..."
"What about that cute boy?"she suddenly asked and my heart skipped a beat. I tensed up immediately.
"What cute boy?"I asked, did she perhaps see me and Michael? Does she know were dating?... pretend dating?
"Lola's son....Pablo! That's the name"she said and I heaved a sigh of relief.
"He's okay Mom"I said, "why don't you invite him over sometime? Let me get to know him"she said. I knew that she had a hidden agenda underneath all this chit chat!
"Thanks but no thanks Mom, besides I know what you're trying to do"I said plainly. She immediately put on her fake surprised face. 
"Me? Hidden motive?"
"There is nothing between us okay?"I said trying to make it clear to her.
"Now who ever said that?"she asked and dropped the scrambled egg and bacon in front of me.
"Ah-choo!"
"Oh dear!"mom said and walked up to me, she placed the back of her palm on my forehead.
"You've caught a cold! Do you want to go to school tomorrow?"she asked.
"Am okay"I said and sneezed, "I'll call your doctor and ask what to give you"she said and left to make a call.
I ate the food In a hurry before she could return with some herbal concoction. After which I ran up the stairs back to my room and slammed my door.

I whipped out my phone and still no text from him, did I say something wrong? I didn't, he's just a fucking jerk! 
I get under the covers and drift off to sleep, tomorrow is a new day of my miserable miserable life.

Michael's P. O. V

Kryptonite: Just go get some sleep, the last thing I'd want is to get in the way of your beauty sleep.
Me: No one can ever ruin this pretty face, that's why all the girls love me.
I waited for her reply feeling agitated and nervous, all I saw was typing. 
*Ding*
Kryptonite: All but one.

I read that text and felt like I just got stabbed with a knife, I bit my lip. What did it matter anyways? I got the whole school at my mercy, did it matter if I couldn't get just one girl in particular?
One very irresistible....the fuck?

Me: Said the girlfriend.
Kryptonite: Pretend girlfriend to you Mister!
Another stab to the chest! She really did deserve the name kryptonite. 
Kryptonite:How long are we going to keep this up?.
I want to type...
"Till tomorrow."
"Next week after our big game"
"Till Sam's as jealous asf"
But in reality I want to type...
"Forever"
"Till I make you mine for good"
"Let's just forget we're pretending and carry on"
But my subconscious slaps me across the face and slaps some sense into me. Makela comes into my room looking like she's about to rip my head off, literally.
"What is this?"she asked holding up her phone, she pushes play to the recording from that shit Becca does.

"It isn't what it looks like I swear"I said, she then pushes play on my public declaration.
"Who the fuck videos this shit?"I asked.
"I thought we were on the same page here"she said.
"And we are, it isn't what you think it is"I tried to explain, but if she meant me making Diana my girlfriend publicly, then it is what it seemed like.
"You can't fool me, you fucking traitor"she said, and a tear fell from her eye.
"Just tell me what's so great about her? That she's got both you and Pablo? What is it about her?"Makela asked, practically yelling.
I wanted to say, her smile, her innocence, her sauciness, her bravery... Her eyes...Her Hair 
Then it all came to me...I think I fucking have a crush on Diana!

A/N: Sorry if the chapter is short and crappy, am just tired out and feeling a little sick myself. Please make do with it, I might update later on if I feel better. Thanks for all the love so far guys!

A sweet high school love story about two teens who crash and get entangled in ways they can't seem to escape. 

Join their journey of love and hate. After all love and hate are the same.
What else could be stronger than love at first sight?.

Diana is the new student at Hall of Fame Academy desperately trying to fit into her new life at her new school with a single parent. She's expected to face anything life would throw at her, she just didn't expect it to be hot and want her to be his pretend girlfriend.

Michael is the school's playboy who would date anything that wears a skirt and has hair. Diana not excluding, but as time progresses he seems more attracted to Diana than other girls. 

A/N: This book is for a competition, so please I need your votes and support for this one. Thanks!

Lance. 
"Who is this Patrick guy I keep hearing about?" jack asks with an eye roll. We are in school in the library. We are supposed to be studying but all he wants to do is talk about my new friend. 
After our ride together, he got us back home safely and strangely I felt a lot better. I haven't seen Ford since he decided that he wasn't going to fight for us. I haven't given up. The distance between us is the only thing that is keeping my strength. I don't know how I will react to see him again. 
''Nobody.'' 
''He's not nobody, suddenly there is some strange guy following you around. Don't you think it is weird?'' 
''He is not following me around,'' I dismiss his weird thoughts. 
''He is, he came from nowhere and what are the odds that he lives in our building. How come I have never seen him before?'' 
I shrug and turn the pages of my biology textbook. Jack doesn't understand what I am going through. He will never understand the immense pain I am in. My heart feels like it has been shattered into a million pieces. I might sound dramatic but I am broken. I loved and lost at the same time. 
That shit hurts and Patrick is somehow helping me but the pieces of my heart back together. I am not suspicious of him because he hasn't given me any reason to be suspicious. He is a nice guy; he is funny and he makes me feel better. 
''I need to meet him.'' 
I look away from him and Eren chooses this moment to sit down next to jack ''Meet who?'' he asks. 
''No one,'' I answer immediately. 
Jack is being his overprotective self, the fact that he didn't even pester to meet Ford surprises me. He thinks I am too gullible to tell when someone is shady. There is nothing shady about Patrick. I am not saying he is perfect but he has helped me twice and I am eternally grateful to him. 
''Oh, I see you guys are keeping things from me,'' Eren says as he brings out his textbook from his bag. We have a free period and we usually use our free periods to study. A week has passed since I last saw Ford and I miss him so much. There is an empty feeling within me, something is not right and my body knows it too. I haven't been eating well, sleep is unstable. I am just exhausted and I can't talk to anyone about how I am feeling. Jack seems to think the best thing I can do is try to move on from Ford but he doesn't understand how hard that would be. It is not as easy as he thinks. I tried for a week, a week without him and I feel this bad. How do I stand a month, two years? When I close my eyes, I see his face, his smile. 
When they get married, I will have to see him every day. I will look at him and get a reminder of what we lost. How am I supposed to handle that? No one understands that; not even jack. 
''No one is keeping anything from you. Jack is just being stupid.'' 
He chuckles and jack hits my shoulder playfully. 
The rest of the day is spent studying and in classes. After school me and Jack head on home, in his car. The drive is quick and we don't talk about anything in particular. Once home and inside my house, I see mom in the living room. The Tv is off, and she using her laptop on the couch. She looks up with a smile when she notices me. 
''Hey, how was school?'' she asks. 
I shrug and place my backpack on the floor near the front door. I walk over to the fridge and grab a can of soda from it. 
''So Brad is coming over in about an hour?'' 
I freeze at her words. Shocked that she would even say that. I don't want to see him yet. I am not ready to face him. I don't know how I will act. How am I supposed to act in that situation? I haven't seen him in a week. 
''Why?'' 
''There's a fitting for this evening with John's personal tailor. I asked him to tag you along.'' 
''I am not going. I don't need fittings. Since when do we have fittings?'' I shake my head as I walk in the direction of my room. She didn't ask me, she just made that decision on her own. This is the one thing about my mom that I hate. The fact that she doesn't even carry me along, she thinks I will just do whatever she says without my own voice. 
That is bullshit. 
''Lance,'' she calls my name and I stop in front of the dor. Her tone is firm. This happens a lot. She thinks she can just change the tone of her voice and I will cower weakly. 
No way. 
''I am not going,'' I walk into my room and close the door loudly. I know she is going to come into my room. I don't have a lock because of this one reason. I always hide in my room when I don't want to do things, so she ended up removing my lock. Now, the only thing I can do is close the fucking door. 
Like a child. 
I jump on my bed and cover the duvet over my head. I hear the door open, I hear her footsteps as she walks into my room ''Get up and talk to me,'' she pleads. 
''I don't want to,'' I say over the covers. 
Her sigh is loud ''Please.'' 
I pull the covers slowly and she is watching me sadly ''Can we talk?'' 
I nod and sit up on the bed. Already feeling like shit for treating her so badly. She hasn't done anything. She doesn't even know about me and Ford—or Brad. She is getting married. This is an exciting time for her and here I am being the grinch. Okay, maybe not the grinch but a spoilsport. 
''I'm sorry,'' I apologise. 
She runs her fingers through her hair ''Is something wrong. You have been acting really weird these past few days. I need you to talk to me.'' 
''I'm fine.'' 
She sighs again ''Is this about John...do you think he doesn't like you?'' she asks. Frankly, I haven't cared about his opinion of me. Ford has been scared to come out of the closet to him, does that mean he is a homophobe, will he accept me? 
''Have you told him that I am gay?'' 
''Yes, The next day after you told me. I needed to make sure he didn't have a problem with it. I wasn't going to marry someone that didn't accept my son.'' 
''And?'' I ask her. 
She smiles ''He wants to get closer to you. He wants to be a good father to you.'' I don't think John said things in those words but how do I hate him now? He seems like the perfect person for her. ''Give him a chance please.''  
I have no choice but to do this for her. I have no choice but to agree to this fitting date. I am not ready to see Ford, I hate that I have to meet up with him for this circumstance. I want to see him but not for something that will remind us of the big elephant in the room. The fact that we are going to get suits for this wedding is the biggest blocker. 
He wouldn't even give me a chance after this. He will withdraw further from me, he will use this as a reason why we can't be anything. This will be the breaking point for us. 
I have to do this because I have no choice. 
My mother needs my support but that doesn't mean I don't want to fight even harder. 
I want him so badly and I have to try my best. 
There is no letting go of him. 
No way in hell. 


Lance Wellbon is a stick in the mud. He hates everyone and everything. When his mother tells him that she is getting married to her Boss, he freaks out. He has no choice but to accept his fate and he has no choice but to move in with his new family. Lance didn't know about the brother. He didn't know that Brad Hilly would be the subject of his dreams.
Coming out of the closet because of your stepbrother was never part of his plans but somehow he ends up falling and the pit is deeper than he ever expected. 
Brad Hilly is the most popular boy in Chesterfield highschool. His father's money makes him the subject of everyone's jealousy. Brad is surrounded by friends and the head cheerleader Lisa. He likes pets and volunteers and the homeless shelter on weekends.
His life is mapped out and he is following the trail---that is until LANCE.

This is a journey.
A journey between two people that are so different but end up wanting the same things in life....each other.

Smara and Cole  make their way together  past a dark cloak hiding a room behind it , .
"oh my.." smara staresas she admires at the room . the room is a bright pink with different color text books and cute dragon egg pens and school outfits all colors . smara and Cole stare at the room infront of them in disbelief. "here is where the girls shop " says the clerk . "and since there is only one girl your welcome to come here anyday everything is free" the clerk says as he looks at smara . "I'll do anything for you " he says bowing his head and leaving the room to them both to look around . smara smiles and explores the room, she finds a pink and red textbook and she grabs some multicolor dragon egg pens . along with some outfits she wants . Cole picks out a bright green skirt and hands it to smara . "I think this will look good on you " he says nervously looking into smara's eyes , "thank you " she says kindly smiling . 
Cole and her walk out of the room together and goes and gets in line to get their student ID . 
as Cole gives their information to the desk clerk . smara notices a white haired boy I the back reading a book . "how to fall in love.?" she mutters to herself reading the title of the book . The boy looks over at her and their eyes meet , his face gets red and he covers the book with his arm and runs out the building and takes off in the air . 
Smara turns back to Cole thinking about the boy . She giggles at the title of the book , Cole hands her ID to her . "come on , mom and dad are waiting on us ". they walk out of the building and meets Cole's and her parents out in the front . "mom dad " smara mutters and hugs them . "smara you can't come home " her mother says softly trying to stay strong . "why ...mom why can't I come home" smara says trying to understand . "school starts next week , we gotta get settled in our dorms " Cole says .  "smara honey , every holiday you can come home" her father reassures her . 
"yes papa " she says stuttering , Cole takes his and her school stuff and puts it in the trunk of his parents car . 
"smara it's time " Cole's father says . 
Him and his parents get in the car and gives smara alittle time with her parents . 
"smara honey stay safe" her dad says , smara nods and hugs her father one last time , "we love you our sweet sweet daughter" both of smara's parents say while kissing their daughters head one last time . 

Smara gets in the car with Cole and his family and they start the long drive .

She's a girl thrown into a world of male dragon boys , she's the only female dragon around . She must find love to save her family and the world , a new nieghbor boy moved in he knows something she doesn't but what?.

No one can see or know what Zhou did to make Andou fall to the ground; the difference with Andou and Zhou are not that big.
Zhou is around 178 cm with his physique not thin nor fat, but the movement between them can't be seen since Andou grabs Zhou's shoulder.
Because of that, it completely covers up their small space around them to others.
Zhou left hand still on his back, holding the textbook. Only his right hand was available.
Is it possible to hit Andou with one hand? Zhou even didn't get moved from his original spot when he got grabbed on the shoulder. Because of this kind of concept, they didn't move their eyes from him.
The accident happens exactly after the moment Andou grabs Zhou's shoulder. So no one can expect something will happen except that Zhou might get thrown by Andou.
In that short of time, Zhou knocks back Andou and makes him fall to the ground. Shocked and disbelieving come rushing to their emotion right now. But no one can tell them what happens to Andou.
Even Zhou himself didn't expect this outcome at all. He instantly responds to Andou to grab his shoulder with just a small punch.
Zhou knows that no Qi is flowing in his body. Only some martial arts moves he remembers from the old worlds can be used.
But even a mere knock is still too weak for Zhou's expectation. He realizes that this body is not ready for learning or using any martial arts move.
But for others, this moves enough to make them in awe and fear. Andou has a better physique than Zhou; it's a fact. In front of their eyes, Andou easily got knocked back by Zhou, who was just a little smaller than him.
Just a glance, you can know which one is stronger between Andou and Zhou.
Zhou punch is from moving the shoulder and hand to the front a little bit for releasing the power. At the same time, the other hand, shoulder, and leg became the pivot for holding the focusing power.
It's an essential martial art with less movement and great strength release.
It can be counted with Andou being careless and underestimated Zhou. If Andou prepared, he might only get pushed back but wouldn't make him fall to the ground.
But this is also happening because it does not match what was predicted by Zhou. He did not carefully calculate that his body needs synchronization with the soul to execute the move flawlessly. It required a foundation that was already trained to learn or use martial arts.
"Uhuk... uhuk..." Andou is coughing while holding his chest and trying to get up from the floor.
"What... What... Happen?"
"Did we see wrongly?"
"Errr... this... Zhou is still there, isn't?" while pointing to Zhou and looking at Andou on the other side.
Some people in the room were going crazy with the impossible feat. Ying Yue's side can't utter a single word while back and forth, looking between Zhou and Andou.
Ahfei and Lao Zeng dumbfounded, seeing what happened in front of them from the ground. In comparison, Mei Fan and Cao Yu can't close their mouth because of the shock from the incident.
Ying Yue dispels her surprising emotion and tries hard to deny what already happens before her eyes.
"You! Zhou... You! What have you done!"
Ying Yue shouted the loudest from her previous shout. She is furious now.
Everyone in the entire classroom gets flinched by Ying Yue's loud voice. They didn't dare to discuss what happened just now because of it.
Zhou hides his disappointment from the move that he just executes. The martial arts that he uses do not reach his minimum of how it should be happening.
"I've done nothing. You can ask him why he fell to the ground." Zhou shrugged and answered with no bothering attitude to Ying Yue.
Ying Yue and her friends at the back can't believe hearing such nonsense right now.
Tep... Tep... Tep...
They were hearing someone was running outside the room and opened the classroom door. The door was already closed before by others to avoid the hustle happening when Ying Yue came to the class.
Screech!
"Hey! The security guard is coming! Everyone needs to disperse as soon as possible! Quick!"
"What?!"
"Oh my lord!"
"How come that old man running here?'
"What the heck! Whose reporting it to the security, admit it! I will spare you, I promise!"
All of them at the class began panicking and started to move around. Some of them manage the table and chair that became shambles since Ying Yue came.
The other hurried back to their seat. At the same time, Ying Yue and her friends were surprised by the notice.
Mei Fan and Cao Yu go to Ahfei and Lao Zeng's side. Help them bring the table to the original position, and Zhou itself back to his chair and sit with the textbook in his hand.
On the side of Ying Yue, some of their friends hurried to the Andou side and helped him to stand up. They came close to Ying Yue.
Bak... Bak...
the security hit the wall lightly to warn them about his entrance. "Alright what happened in this class? I can hear some noise from the post. Can someone explain to me?"
The security guard scanning the entire room wants to find the trouble maker, but his gaze landed at Ying Yue's back.
Ying Yue, as the school beauty, always has a different aura from any other student in the entire school. So it's easy to recognize her.
"Oh? This is Young Miss Ying, isn't it?"
Ying Yue and her friends already calm while they know that. In this school, Ying Yue itself can handle many problematic cases.
Ying Yue turns around and walks to the security guard that just recognizes her.
"Yes uncle, it's me Ying Yue. We just came here to have friendly chat with the student from this class, and didn't expect it would cause the disturbance to the school. Ying Yue Sorry for the inconvenience."
"Hehe, it's okay. It's alright, since Young miss said so. Uncle with not raising the problems furthermore."
"Alright other student, don't make a fuss while the teachers are in a meeting. Please be quiet!"
The security guard then smiles at Ying Yue and leaves after giving the student in the class warning about teacher arrangement.
The students in the class feel relief, lucky they have Ying Yue now. If not, that security uncle might make a fuss and report it to the teacher.
"I am sorry for getting knocked Young Miss." Andou apologies to Ying Yue while lowering his head.
"No worry. Let's go back first. It's not good if we make a commotion here after getting noticed by the security guard."
"Alright"
"Okay"
"Let's go back for now."
While Ying Yue friends walk out from the class one by one, Ying Yue is the last one to go out. She turns around and looks at where Zhou sits.
"This is not the end! I will come again to give you the payback from this incident! Remember that Jerk!"
Ying Yue angrily threatened Zhou. She was frustrated by the outcome. What is happening is different from what she expects when she comes.
...
After a few seconds, Ying Yue and her friends were gone. The entire room erupts to the discussion. Among them is talking about what just happened in the class.
"Wow, God Zhou!"
"Yo, the goddess kneels in front of Retard Zhou. Haha."
"Did you forget Andou got knocked by Zhou before?"
"Right did you want to get hit too by Zhou?"
"No... No.... Zhou is not retard anymore. Hehe."
Some of the classmates are in awe of Zhou, which is a feat to knock Andou that is bigger than him. At the same time, others admire Zhou in silence.
{Since when Zhou became so brave?}
{Wow, Zhou is so cool now}
{Where is the usual retard Zhou that we always see before?}
Ahfei, Lao Zeng, Mei Fan, and Cao Yu didn't dare speak anything. They are still quiet around Zhou. They were looking at him, still calmly reading his textbook back after that fantastic occasion.
Ahfei gulped. "Zhou... Zhou...? What happened before to you?"
Zhou closed his textbook with one hand and looked at Ahfei and others. He put the book in the open drawer below the table.
Lao Zeng and Ahfei scared shitless seeing this. The way Zhou acts is too calm and not usual for them. Which makes every move Zhou do is something alarming in their eyes.
"Both of you, Okay? If you can't handle it, next time just let me take care of it."
Zhou stands up and walks to the door. Ahfei and Lao Zeng startled and confused. In comparison, Mei Fan and Cao Yu at the side can't speak anything at all.
"Eh... Zhou where are you going?"
"No need to worry. I will be back before the school ends."
"but, Zhou..."
Zhou turns back and looks at Ahfei. Ahfei himself understands why Zhou looks back at him without speaking. He is already familiar with this gaze.
"Ah... Alright. Be careful"
Zhou waved his hand to his friends at the back and opened the door. He was walking to the corridor and went down the stairs. The senior high school class is on the 3rd floor.
{This is fun, even though the one-hit move that I did, just a reflex motion. but the result is still better than I thought.}
Zhou didn't expect he could knock back someone bigger than him. He knows this world entirely is different from the old world. What he did before is an impossible feat.
Zhou is walking outside of the building, goes to the hidden exit from before when Ahfei tells him while he wants to go to the library for the first time.
"Haha... Who expects that my physique will have something different now. My five senses are enhancing!"

His second chance is coming. Wake up on a different world where he doesn't know anything about it, and where the world is going toward the Catastrophe!

How the Demon Lord Yanzhu use this second chance of life in the civilization of Earth?

The Apocalyptic is coming. Can the Demon Lord survive from it?!

Demon Lord against Zombie?

"Yo... Zombie, this demon lord is not a pushover. I will kick your ass!"

"Zombie can't talk, idiot!"

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The story will be at a slow pace since MC didn't inherit the owner memory at all. A little bit of information about the background world of this novel/story. The World still has the same size as Earth, but with different topography map. For essential thing, everything is the same as we usually encounter in our real life. I'm just trying to change a few things so that it will be slightly different.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Dara – "No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence." – unknown
This is not good. The sky is dark with night and my eyes are heavy with tiredness, yet my whole body feels restless. And now, we're part of some experiment? I no longer feel smart. I feel pretty stupid. 
"Now what?" asks Bee.
"We get some sleep. We'll decide tomorrow." Orders Max. Harlow offers her house as refuge. The huge mansion is bigger than any of us has seen. They have a huge library filled with so many books!
"We can have our own rooms. Sorry the house is a little small." They say as we're led up the huge stairs. A little small? They must be joking. No one says anything.
"Or we can stay in the living room?" they say. We all nod, none of us fancy a night alone after the experiment news. 
"Our… most logical move is to have shifts, to keep guard." I say as everyone finds a spot in the massive living room. 
"Agreed. Dara and Nakia, take the first watch." Says Raven and I heave myself up and walk outside to the front steps. A few moments later, Nakia joins me. 
"This is… weird, right?" I say. They nod and sigh. Their blonde hair covers the front of their face. 
"What's your… thoughts on the group, so far?" Nakia asks unexpectedly. 
"Um… I don't know." I say, unsure. My square glasses steam up as the cold air makes my breath turn to smoke.
"Max, she feels like she needs to be a leader to feel in control. Bee, she's overly happy to hide her fear. Harlow isn't as snobby as they think they are, obviously they are forced to dress like that. Raven failed at something, now he feels like he needs to prove to us and himself he's not a criminal." They say as if reading a textbook. 
"Oh. And what about me?" I ask.
"You want to impress someone. That's why you never stop studying." They state. It's definitely… strange being with someone who doesn't have a filter. 
"Nakia?" I say without evening knowing why.
"Mhmm?" 
"Why us?" I say quietly. They sit there for a minute not speaking. 
"I don't know."
The next day, Max had decided that we'd try the pod and fly out of here. We race towards the land where we left the pod, only to find it was gone. 
"Ok. Dara was there any more pods when you went?" says Max, trying to stay calm. 
I shake my head. She kicks a rock and shouts something I can't write. 
"Now what?" asks Raven quietly, but I can tell he's panicking. 
"Please make your way to your first test. Follow the yellow lines." Says and automated voice. Sure enough I look down and spot yellow lines leading some place on the left.

A group of teens, who couldn't be more different, gets trapped together. Can they survive? Will they have what it takes to defeat the enemy?

Rasika groaned at the book in front of her. She has been trying to solve this problem since past fifteen minutes and still didn't know what to do as it kept on getting on a dead end without much to do. She sighed and decided to note it down on a notebook so that she can ask the teacher. After noting it down she went to take out her history textbook to revise today's lesson. But before anything else her eyes fell on the diary. ' I hope they have a lab period or something soon' she thought before taking her book and sitting back down trying to concentrate on the lesson.

Almost half an hour later she found herself fiddling with the same diary and contemplating whether to open it or not. "A little peak won't harm anyone right? and I have already opened it when I first saw it at the garden." she muttered to herself. On the very first page itself it was written in beautiful handwriting 'A dreamer...' She chuckled at that 'come to think of it' she thought 'it's  pretty unusual for a boy to keep such diary.' She flipped the pages smiling. 

To say I am a constant dreamer...
I always think of you
My life is nothing more than you
I hope we can meet soon
I will love more than anything.

As soon as she read the verse on the first page she slammed the book closed. oh god, what was she doing? had she completely lost her mind? Here she lectured her best friend to not read someone's diary without their permission and she just read someone's writing about their love. The most hidden feeling of his heart. 'but he won't get angry at you because he likes you.' Saloni's words echoed in her head "no you stupid he doesn't!" Rasika shouted and threw the nearest cushion into the wall. Vihan's smile flashed across her mind, his charming boisterous smile. She ducked her head on the table. 'what the hell is happening?' She thought.She was exhausted, she concluded. yeah, she needed to sleep. So she went to sleep under the covers. 

'I will love you more than anything.' 

"ahhh!" she shouted again getting up. "he is taken! stop!" she said loudly to herself. Just then a knock was heard on her door. Her heart stopped. She thought her parents were both at their respective works. "ummm Yes?" she said and her mom walked in. Her face heated up and it became really awkward for her thinking if her mom had heard her. She sat down beside her daughter smiling. "you are home early?" She asked and her mother nodded. "yes darling, how was your day?" It took a while for her to answer "so and so...how was yours?" her mother caressed her head "fine...how are your studies?" she asked again. "yeah... pretty much good."
 
"your unit test must be around next month. I hope you are prepared?" ofcourse what else she can ask. "yeah.. the syllabus isn't even over yet." she replied. Her mother sighed at that "My dear, you know how important studies are right? everything else can wait. please focus on nothing but that. okay?" She asked. Rasika nodded. "yeah... what's there to focus on other than that anyways. yeah..I was just about to study." she said getting out of her covers and sitting on her study table. Her mother muttered a 'good' before exiting. 

'oh god..she heard, she heard and now she has got the wrong idea. That damn Vihan.' she sighed. she took her red sketch pen and started marking the important points. Halfway through the big lesson she got up to drink some water. "French revolution is such a boring chapter." she said dreading to go back to study it. Her eyes once again fell on the small diary. "but anyways he writes pretty good. Must be getting straight A at English." she fiddled with the hard cover. It was tempting to not read more of that. 'like he would not know if I read. and even if he mentions her name it's not like I willl know her. pfft I don't even know all of my classmates name.' she thought as she opened a random page.

I hope I won't have to get away
After I finally meet you
under the moonlight and the sunshine
I want to love the things you love
I want to hate the things you hate
I want that kind of love
where I would be destroyed after parting from you.

'wow...it was touching but.. sad.' Rasika thought mindlessly scribbling her own thoughts. 

The thing I would love the most
would probably be you.
so how can you destroy you,
the person I love the most
when you promised
to love the things I love
to hate the things I hate?

It was only after she had scribbled with the red pen did she realised. She stared at her writing wide eyed. 'oh no...what now? How will I return this?' she kept on thinking of a way rubbing over her writing but ofcourse it won't be erased. After sometime of panicking she finally relented. 'okay..he won't know it was me.' She packed the diary in her bag not wanting to cause any further accidents and so that she can completely forget about it.

There were two paths to school, the normal one from where everyone went and the one through the gardens, from where Rasika used to go. she liked that she was the only one who used that path although her mom was worried, or so she thought until she found a diary.

This morning I once again had some refridgerated banana cake for breakfast. Honest it tastes pretty good and I don't have to go through the hassle of cooking anything so it works out quite well.

A friend of mine picked me up as opposed to me riding the bus today. This is always nice because I get to sit in an air conditioned car as opposed to a claustrophobic bus with no air conditioning piled with freshmen.

In physics, we had a test today. Overall it was relatively easy and assuming I made no stupid mistakes, I do believe I got a 100%. The most infuriating thing was the bonus. Essentially, there was a typo on one of the values in the bonus. My teacher had told us and he had written the a different value on the board to use instead of the one given.

However, when I actually got to the bonus, I forgot to use the new value as opposed to the one in the problem. So, unfortunately, I am certain I got the bonus wrong. However, I am nearly certain I had the process right. Bonuses, however, are all or nothing.

In digital design I continued working on the same flyer project I have been working on for the last few days. I was able to finish putting in most of the required information into the flyer and my design overall is rather solid. All I need to do tomorrow is add in one more piece of information and adjust some colors.

I walked into AP stat class and we received an open notes quiz today. Luckily, it was a rather simple quiz and we were also allowed to collaberate with others in class. Overall these teo factors made it insanely simple, and I easily completed the quiz in class with what I would assume to be a perfect score.

I continued to lunch and today I got a chicken sandwhich. In all honesty, what I ate was very similar to a McChicken and it was good. I also had a side of grapes, apples, and carrots, and a chocolate milk for a beverage. Overall it was a very balanced lunch.

I also asked a friend of mine what they had thought about the APUSH quiz I was going to have later that day. They told me it wasn't hard but they had to guess on one (which for a 6 question quiz, getting a singular one is pretty bad).

During IT class today we had a small assignment to do going through the different securities a user must get through in order to access part of a database. The best thing about all these specific server roles we have been learning is that all the of the words are basically inside the definitions. For example, a processadmin's (yes, that's all one word) definition would be someone who can kill SQL processes. Memorizing these mey words make it super simple.

i then continued on to pre-calculous where I had yet another test. I once again felt as if the test was easy and I actually had time to do the entire test twice. I knew every concept for the most part so if I don't manage a perfect score it'll be rather dissapointed.

I then went to APUSH where I had a quiz. It was rather difficult, but I believe after thinking things through I got them all correct. Normally I am able to hear some things before these small quizzes, however, they can still be very tricky and certainly make you think. Needless to say, I bubbled in my six answers and checked with my classmates afterwords. Luckily, we had all gotten the same six answers. We are either rising or falling together.

Finally, my most interesting and most likely frustrating class of the day was english. We had an exam on the crucible today and it went rather terribly. I got the highest in my class and still only received an 82%. This means the class average was certainly lower than on most assessments.

My teacher claimed that the average on tests should be a C. Dont get me wrong, I'm not for classes being easy. However, I certainly do not believe a class average should be below 80%

After seventh period, I scurried off to my locker and then to tech club. I am the president of my school's tech club.

Today I gave my last lesson on building computers for a while. I showed The Verge's pc build guide tutorial (which was awful) and pointed out everything The Verge did wrong amd why it could have been detrimental to the PC. This was certainly very interesting.

However, it only took around one third of tech club and afterwords the club needed to discuss what other projects we are interested in. We all know we would like to build a computer, but until we receive a budget for that, we need to find something else to work on. Recording videos and messing with rasberry pis seem to be top contenders.

We also got together as a club and discussed ways to try to get more freshman to join. At the moment, all the members are juniors or seniors, and nobody lower.

We decided that at some point we are going to do a huge minecraft tournament and hope that this attracts more people (especially some underclassmen). One current member of tech club also offered to sponsor pizza for the occasion.

I then sat in the school's courtyard for around an hour. I do this every week as I have to wait for my friend to get out of lacrosse practice in order to go home.

After arriving home, one of my friend's with me, I ate a quick snack and sat down telling him I had some homework to get done.

Spoiler, I was too distracted and got no homework done. It wasn't until after he left that I wad able to get in some studying for my APUSH test tomorrow.

I then spent around an hour re-reading a unit in my textbook. Tomorrow's test is on unit 4, which covers chapters seven, eight, and nine within Brinkley's APUSH textbook.

After I finished studying, it had been around an hour and the click was hitting 10PM. 

I went downstairs, poured a glass of orange juice, and began writing this chapter. I'll be going to sleep right after this is uploaded as I am very tired.

This is my life. I am writing this story to always remember where I came from in the years to come.

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