A couple of days later, School began again.Katie was looking forward to being just an ordinary girl, because nobody wouldremember that she was a witch. The first person she saw was her best friendIsis. She hurried over to catch up with her as she walked into school. Ifanyone knew for certain about Katie’s magic powers, it was her - so she wasinterested to see if Isis had forgotten all about extraordinary things thatKatie had done in the past.
“Hello Isis, Happy New Year!”, Katie called out.
“Oh Hi Katie,” said Isis, before carrying on talking to Ellie andAlex. She was explaining how she had the worst christmas ever. Her parents hadgiven her a new mobile phone, and then on Boxing Day she went ice skating withher mum, and some thieves stole her bag with her new phone inside.
Now normally, it wouldn’t be so hard forKatie to help in a situation like this. She had a strong connection with Isisand therefore with her possessions too. If she used her mother’s crystal ballwhen she got home, there was a very good chance she could discover thewhereabouts of the phone.
But this time she couldn’t help Isisbecause she wasn’t using magic. And Isis didn’t even ask Katie for help. Infact, Isis didn’t seem that interested in talking to Katie at all.
Isobelle was one of those people whonormally didn’t like Katie at all. She was either jealous of Katie’s powers, orperhaps afraid of them. Either way, she and her friends kept away from Katie asmuch as possible. Katie wondered how Isobelle would treat her, now thateveryone had forgotten that she was a witch.
“Hi Isobelle, Happy New Year,” said Katie.
“Same to you,” replied Isobelle, which seemed friendly enough.
Isobelle and her friends were talking quiteintently about something. Normally Katie would have hurried on past, but thistime she stopped and listened.
“Have you ever noticed,” said Samantha, “that when you feel hungry,you really want to eat?”
“Yea, that’s so true,” said Isobelle, “Like this morning, I woke up,and my stomach felt like it was empty, and I went downstairs and started eatingcereal straight from the packet.”
“Yeah, I did that once too,” said a boy called Milan. “But onlybecause I was really hungry.”
“But when I don’t feel hungry in the morning,” said Samantha, “Idon’t eat so much breakfast , and then around about 11 O’Clock I’m like, “Ohcome on, when is it going to be lunch time?”
“Yes, I get that feeling too sometimes,” said Isobelle.
“Why do people eat at lunchtime?” asked Milan, “When you come tothink about it, there’s no reason why lunchtime shouldn’t be at 11.00 O’Clock.I mean, I think a lot of people would like to eat lunch at 11.00, but theschool has it at 1.pm because they’ve always it done that, like for allhistory, but there’s no reason for it, they just do it because nobody everthought of having lunch in the morning.”
“Yeah, that’s so true,” said Samantha. “You’re onto something Milan.Hey Katie, what do you eat for breakfast?”
“Mmm, I eat toast,” said Katie.
And the conversation went on like this, andsoon they were discussing what kind of breakfast cereal they would like to eatfor lunch. Katie thought, “Well it’s nice that they include me in theirconversation now, but is this what they talk about all day? I don’t really havemuch to say on this subject.”
The first day back at school passed quiteslowly and uneventfully. At lunchtime, Samantha and Isobelle were talking aboutwhether you can ever look good wearing the colour gray. Again, Katie didn’thave a lot to say on the subject, but she did suggest that gray was a goodcolour for school uniform because nobody looks absolutely terrible in gray.
“Yes that’s so true,” said Samantha. “Gray is not a great colour, butit’s not absolutely like yuck that makes me want to puke, either.”
“Katie’s right. That’s why they chose it for the colour for schooluniform,” agreed Isobelle.
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