We arrive in the entrance hall of the castle after descending the stone stairs, Will and Jo having been out of our sight for some time, we join our group of friends in the dining room. Our friends saved us two places at the long table where we usually sit, between Skylar and his twin, Bryan.

Skylar and Zach stand up for their element once again and as usual Zach is unconditionally supported by Hailee who is also Earth element like Zach, and Aria insists that the elements are all equal.

Skylar and Bryan are very different, both physically and in character. Although they don't look much alike physically, both of them are handsome, have amazing gray eyes and the same brown hair, Skylar with his dazzling smile and Bryan his few freckles. While I consider the first rather beautiful, Bryan has this cute side with his freckles on his nose and an almost childish face.

I've always loved Bryan, much more shy than his sister, but just as happy.

So, what does your power do for now? he asks, snapping me out of my thoughts.

I don't have any power yet, I haven't had any weird dreams so far, and in terms of symptoms, I haven't noticed anything weird so far.

And level element she controls less and less, adds Luke.

It was not necessary to specify that.

As if karma had fallen on him, that's when some of the mud, originally intended for Skylar, landed in his hair.

Zach, I told you to warn me before the attack of the mud, that I move away a little.

It wasn't even me for once, go complain to Hailee.

"I don't care who, just let me know," he sighs, wetting his hair with his element, cleaning it and making the water and mud disappear at the same time.

It's quite normal that there is nothing the first day, in my opinion. We don't know why, we don't know how, we don't know exactly the trigger, but it will come, Bryan answers me as if nothing had happened, and I admit it, this kind of thing is our daily life.

Thank you Will, I adore you, you're the best, I hear a high pitched little girl's voice say.

I turn my head and look at Will, in front of me. Brittany Ries' little hand grabs her big brother's strawberry tartlet.

Hey, what are you doing here, Britt? Will asks, grabbing his sister's little wrist.

Come on, you know I love strawberry tarts, said Brittany with her puppy dog face.

Brittany is the cutest girl in school, we all agree on that, but when she makes that expression, I don't know how Will can resist her. She didn't look that much like her brother, actually. Lighter and curlier hair than his brother, green eyes while he has brown ones, their skin color was the biggest resemblance between the two.

Me too, and you know that this face has no effect on me, so give me back this tartlet.

Come on Britt, give me the tartlet.

Only for you, then, Nina, don't give it to the other fool, she replies, also handing me the tartlet, Will having let go of his arm.

Don't worry, you want to pick her up?

Truly ? eyes shining with joy, she rushes to go around the table, Thank you Nina, you're the best! she exclaims before giving me a hug and whispering in my ear. I can't wait for you to be my brother's girlfriend, you're too pretty and too nice and I'm sure he loves you.

That was something, Bryan smiled at me when she was gone, having probably heard what she said to me.

Not a word about it. I don't even know where she got that from.

I promise.

She's serious..., sighs Will, Oh yes, and also, my Nina tartlet!

It hurts ! I said after feeling his kick in the shin.

So what ? You broke my heart ! I loved this little pie.

Me, I helped someone for a good cause. That is to say the passion for desserts!

What did the little demon tell you anyway?

Secret girl, I say with a big smile, which earns me an incomprehensible mumble from her.

So your power? Zach asks trying to change the subject and having totally not listened to what Bryan and I were discussing at the start of the meal.

No. Nothing at all. No. Not a symptom, not a single weird thing, I repeat for those who hadn't listened to me. Except for the fact that I burned Will by accident, but you know that happens to me a lot, especially when you're under a fire sign. And he deserves it.

It's weird though, that you can't control your element and that you don't have any symptoms, Skylar said.

That's what I tell him for the element too, Luke clarifies.

And I remember, adds Lisa, that my brothers had either a symptom if they didn't have their power on their birthday, or that they had had a dream.

Lisa was the only girl in a family of six children, with three older brothers and two younger brothers. Although shy at first, she knows how to assert herself, which is probably due to the fact that she grew up with five brothers. Of all of us, she is surely the one who most dares to speak her mind and assert herself when she wants to.

You should talk to Mrs. North, I think, Zach insists.

My aunt got married about ten years ago, but her husband had been suffering from cancer for many years and died of it two years after the wedding, which is why she doesn't have the same last name than me.

Give me two weeks, and I'll go see my aunt if I have nothing and my element is still messing up, I finally concede.

Once the meal is over, as we have all finished our homework, we all go to my new room. In general, we went outside on the lawn which surrounds the castle, but it is a bit chilly at the end of March, especially since we are in skirts.

With our uniform, when the ten of us walk, from a distance, we look like a color palette: we all wear a white shirt, but the Fire students wear a blazer, a burgundy skirt for the girls and pants of the same color for the boys, those of Water are in navy blue, those of Earth in emerald green and those of Air in aluminum grey.

We've been friends for a long time, most of us since freshman year, and they're the best friends a girl could ever dream of.