||Francancisco -> Charmed School of Magic|| OUTFIT ||
Victoria bought herself sunglasses. They were round and dark and stylish and wet well with the smile that spread across her face as she practically hopped down the street with grocery bags in her hands. She had bought herself something, with her hard earned money.
Something simple might have seemed trivial to anybody else but to her, it was a big deal. It truly was. Her aunt and uncle practically slaved her away in their crappy dry cleaners shop without pay then slaved her around at the house too. It wasn't as if they gave her anything good either, she shared a crowded room with her cousins who were obviously given better treatment.
Though, she could understand why. Her cousins were their actual children while she was just some kid that her aunt's sister shoved onto them. Still, the way the treated her and sometimes even their own children was wrong.
Victoria had been given the task of buying groceries. She did. There was leftover money, money she knew they wouldn't miss. So she bought the sunglasses, the accessory she had wanted since she had seen through the shop window a week ago.
When she entered the house through the back door, she quickly hid the sunglasses in her jean pocket and put the groceries away quietly. She liked to be unheard and unseen, it was better for her to blend into the background and be a ghost. That way she wouldn't have to deal with her guardians or cousins.
It was a good day. The house was quiet, her aunt was probably out, her uncle working. He worked seven days a week, which was probably why he was so cranky all the time. Her mean cousins nowhere to be seen.
The smile on her face grew as she headed up the stairs, though, stopped mid-step. standing at the top was her second eldest cousin, Peter. He was one of the biggest bullies she had ever met. No doubt, when he saw the smile that was on her face, though fell quickly, he knew something was up.
"What did you do?" He raised an eyebrow, slowly descending the steps to approach her.
Victoria swallowed,
"n - n - nothing." She stuttered, but she always had that problem so it shouldn't have been suspicious in the least.
He glared lasers at her as he looked her up and down. Of course, his eyes stopped o her pocket.He was faster than she was and pulled her sunglasses from her pocket. "Where'd you get these?"
"I - I - I -I -" there was no excuse great enough that would stop him from snitching. He wasn't hearing it.
"MAMA!" He called, overjoyed to get her into trouble. She was doomed. Her aunt would make her work until her hands bled if she found out or worse, tell her uncle. He would slap the shit out of her or most likely worse. Because how dare she spend their money on her own wants?
Victoria snatched the glasses and shoved passed him as she ran up the stairs as fast as her legs could carry her. She ran straight into her room and locked the door behind. Huffing, she started looking for a place to hide the evidence.
There was no hiding her glasses or even herself. She sat at her cousin Cecilia's study desk and buried her face in her arms. Why had she bought the stupid things in the first place? Why did she think no one would find out? Why?
The brunette only lifted her head when she heard the sound of her aunt calling her name angrily. She was doomed. She wished that she could be somewhere else. Somewhere her family could never find her. Not even her mother who was taking too long to come back for her.
Just when she thought to get up and open the door which her aunt was now banging her fist against, she lifted her head and saw the letter. It looked to fancy to be Cecilia's. Despite her aunt's violent voice yelling outside the room, she picked it up and flipped it over before opening it.
"Magic?" she coughed, surprised at herself for not stuttering a single line. Blinking her eyes, she closed her eyes. She could have laughed or cried or both.
Her breath was shay, but she would try it, imagine it. It wasn't real, Victoria knew that but she would rather be anywhere but here. If even for a moment of make-believe.
"I will allow myself to come to you, this is my destiny. I am one and true..." When she tried she could stop stuttering.
"I will allow myself to come to you, this is my destiny. I am one and true..."
One more time.
"I will allow myself to come to you, this is my destiny. I am one and true..." After opening her eyes, she froze when seeing the blue smoke surround her. "W - what -" It wasn't possible for her to finish that sentence.
Then, she was in a room with others who she had never met before.
"Gǎo shénme guǐ," (what the hell). In that moment she forgot English, but she didn't stutter.
