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LINKED
BY: Book Beliefs

CHAPER 1
“CALLA FOSTER!

Go to my office right now!”

I turn around to find a red Magnate Leto looking at me with anger. I can’t help but chuckle at his face which earned me a hard glare.

I told you to hold off on that plan until next week!

I scan the prodigies standing around me, then I spot my Kenric, my brother, I look at him as I transmit.

I couldn’t, the gulons were getting restless.

He looks at me and says,

You could have told me, we were supposed to put a purple hair elixir in Volta’s lushberry juice and you were supposed to be the distraction!

I internally rolled my eyes, I love my brother but sometimes he is so pushy. But before I could reply Magnate Leto yells,

“Miss Foster, I told you to go to my office not stand there on the spot!”

I make my way to his office trying to avoid eye contact with prodigies who gave me questioning glances. Even though I pull pranks, I don’t like attention, just like my mother.

I turned the handle on the door and I found the magnate sitting in his chair behind the desk. The back of the room was all glass which looked over the fields of purple grass and trees in every colour and shape you could imagine. On the sides there were rows of book shelves from the floor which is made of crystal, to the roof which is at least 10 feet tall. The ceiling a crystal that seemed to be brighter where ever I stepped, mocking me for getting in trouble, too bad I’ve been here so many times it stopped bothering me. “Sit down please.” I listen and sit down, he sighs and says, "Calla, how many times have I told you the consequences of your pranks, you and Kenric are so much like you father. Keefe and Sophie were quite the trouble making duo.”

I get that a lot, even with appearances we are similar to them. I have my mom’s shoulder length blonde hair and brown eyes with ice blue flecks my nose is exactly like hers but my skin tone leans more towards my father, they say I smirk like dad but smile like mom. Kenric has has dad’s hair and spend just as much styling it him, they say, “When you are born with such a gift you take full advantage of it.” But Kenric’s eyes are ice blue with brown in the centre. Magnate Leto smiles as he thoughtfully tells me, “Keefe was always pulling pranks and Sophie was always almost dying. They somehow managed to have Elwin visits every other day.” My eyes widen before I ask, “Why was mom almost dying?”

He looks at me and his face goes pale, “You mean they haven’t told you?”

My eyebrows scrunch up in confusion, “What did they not tell me?”

He gulps and says, “It’s not my place to tell and I’ve already said enough, you have detention for three days, now go to your next class.”

I frown, there are a million questions running through me head, but I know that now was not the time to ask. I will have to consult Kenric on this.

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I get home to see mom waiting for me, she wrinkles her nose as she asks, “Why do you smell like a gulon?”

I smirk as I tell her, “I may have put a couple of gulons in Magnate Leto’s office.”

Dad, who walks in from behind with a twinkle in his eyes says and a proud grin says, “Really I’m so pr-“

But he gets cut off when he see’s mom glaring at him, he turns back to me trying to suppress the smile on his face as he says, “I’m so disappointed in you Calla, how could you?”

But then he winks and I could tell that mom saw when she huffed and rolled her eyes, “Calla, how many times have I told you to be carful, I know you’re not going to stop with the pranks but at least don’t let people catch you.”

She smiles, the smile that made all of the boys fall for her when she was younger. I turn to see dad with a look of pure love and awe directed to mom, he raps an arm around her waist and mom grabs his hand.

They love each other, anyone could see it, you could see how mom’s smile always brightens when he was around, how dad always perks up when people talked about her. How even on the toughest days they always have each other by their side. How dad’s hand always seemed to find mom’s. How mom always is happier when dad was with her. It was as if they are one soul in two bodies, they are soulmates. I want the relationship that they have, I want to have someone that has so much love and care in there eyes directed towards me, someone that would instantly brighten up because of my voice, someone that I could protect and they would protect me until the sun stopped rising. I want a soulmate.

“I’m home!”

Hollers Kenric from the leaps crystal. “He runs into the living room and starts telling dad about the purple hair elixir he put in Volta’s lushberry juice and dad enthusiastically reply’s. I tune out and get lost in my thoughts until I hear, “and we were supposed to put the gulon in Magnate Leto’s office next week but Calla did it today and got caught!” Mom interrupts and questions, “Where did Calla even get the gulons?”

He smirks and replies, “Gramma gave them to us from the batch at Havenfield.”

Mom mutters about how she would have to talk to Edaline about helping with pranks. I transmit to Kenric,

Can I talk to you later?

His eyebrows furrow,

Sure, I’ll come to your room after mom and dad fall asleep.