Esme Roberts is a young girl from a rich family, she never got problems in getting out of problems but, one day, her apartment burned down and she was no longer a woman, instead she was a little girl who lived in a farmhouse and that was getting ready to go to an academy.
The thing was that she didn't know anything about that place and that made her stress for the first time, it was a new feeling and she didn't like that at all. All days she would wake up at five am to help her mother at the house, she had to eat soup without flavor and couldn't have anything she wanted, it was a hell life.
After some days of getting things ready for her to go, her mother said that she had to talk to her about that academy, the girl was listening is that place could take out of that farm she would do anything to getaway.
"You are going to dress up as a boy!" said her mother, making the girl's bulging her eyes surprised, what do they mean? Was she going to dress a boy? No, she didn't want.
"What do you mean by that?" asked the girl with a trembling voice, she wasn't going to dress up as a boy even if they paid her. "Why do I have to do that? I can't do it, I'll do anything else, but not that, I'm not a boy."
"You have to!" order the man getting up "I don't want to lose you too! Your sister had that mark and she loses her life because she went to the village and if you don't want to have the same destiny, do what I say!"
"Lose me!? Which mark are you talking about?" asked the girl still confused, she never got so confused in all her life, she needed a way of learning about that place "Is my life threaten?"
"Is the king!" answered the man sitting back down before he takes a handbook out of his pants pocket and gave it to her. When she saw the book, her face brightens and started to read until she looked up, scared written all over her face.
What was the meaning of that? Was she dreaming or her life could be in danger only because she was a girl?
"The magic doesn't exist! And how a twenty … ten years old girl is going to destroy the world?"
They didn't answer, what made the girl get up and go outside for a walk, she was trying to understand why would she be in that place, could that dream mean something?
"Am I dreaming? It feels so real!" asked herself, opening her arms and looking around, it was the first time she smelled the nature and she liked it, all her life she only felt the smell of roses of perfume or some shampoo, she never had felt the nature like that moment.
After some time, she stops before sitting on the floor, she had to think of a way to wake up or to get out of there if it was even possible.
While she was thinking about the possibilities of why she would be in that place, someone touched her shoulder, making her stop talking and look behind.
"Hi, nice to meet you!"
"Are we friends?" asked the girl smiling and taking a good look at his clothes, he didn't look poor. "You aren't from here, right?"
"No, I'm not, I just met you." Said him laughing while he took her hand with both of his hands. "Do you want to be friends with me?" he asked while looking at her eyes, hopeful.
She didn't know exactly what to say, she looked down embarrassed, if he asked the same thing weeks ago, her answer would be immediately no, but that moment she needed help and he looked capable of answer her questions, but first, she would have to become his friend.
"I can't say no to that kind face!" lied her getting up and started to run in the direction of the forest next to the farm, but stopped when she remembered that she didn't know where she was and a monster could come out of the forest all of a sudden until now she was save in the farm, so it was better to be there until the to go to the academy.
"You're not you!" said the boy already next to her, looking to the forest and with a serious face, he wasn't lying at all, but how he could know that? Did he hear what she said when she was alone?
Confused, she looked at him trying to act calm, but her body was trembling a little and he noticed that.
"Why you say that?" asked her, trying to ignore now the smirk on his face. "Do I look different from the people around here?"
"You should have been dead by now." Declared the boy, making her uncomfortable, what did he mean by that?
Esme couldn't talk, she was scared of what to do, would she be able to go back home without him catching her or was she going to get killed right on the spot?
"Was I supposed to be dead?" asked the girl swallowing and trying to not look into his eyes, she was truly scared.
"Yeah, unless you are Helen Robert." Said him making her unable to talk, how was that possible?
He realized she was nervous, and his smirk only grown on his face, that reaction was what he was looking for, it was true that the chosen one was killed, so his kingdom could start a war without problems.
"Did I get right!" asked him while laughing. "Amazing! Do you know how lucky you are? Because she died you are out of danger."
"Really!" asked the girl scared "You are not lying, right?"
"No, because you got me interested, but the king of your kingdom doesn't know so he is probably looking for you right now."
She got scared, was he telling the truth or playing with her? She couldn't understand his expressions at all, and she was used to knowing when someone was lying or telling the truth, but that moment she couldn't, he wasn't showing anything.
"Helen, come back home, is getting late." Called her mother, making her run away from him, no matter what was happening, she felt that the boy wasn't doing that because he wanted, he could have killed her but he didn't if he was a bad guy she would be dead by now. So, she regretted and look behind but when she opens her mouth to say goodbye, the boy wasn't already there.
"Did you think about the boy's school?" asked her father with a sad smile and the clothes for her in his arms. "I know is hard to believe, but we don't want the king to find out."
"And when I reach the teenage, what will I do?"
They didn't know what to say, that part wasn't planned, yet.
"It is a magic academy, I am going to learn to defend myself if I am correct." Said the girl, making her parents confused, what was she talking about? How did she know?
The girl saw the confusion in her parents' face, so she sighed and took the clothes from her father's arms and said before entering her bedroom.
"If I learn magic, I can protect myself and no one is going to find out about my identity, am I making myself clear?"
"Yeah! You are right my child. You're so smart."
The girl smiled, she loved getting praised about something she made and to be the center of attention.
"I'll make sure that everyone will acknowledge me at the academy and that way, if I am found out, they will protect me," she said after she was under the blanket. "I hate poor people, how can they sleep here?"
After some time of struggling to get comfortable, she felt asleep and was waked up with her father knocking at the door.
"The carriage is here, don't forget what we told you."
"I know! I know!" exclaimed the girl bored "I am going to dress, so tell them to wait."
She dresses up quickly and runs out of the door stopping in front of a carriage, where a man was bored in front of its door.
"Hurry up. We are already late."
The girl didn't answer, instead of that she entered the carriage without a word and when was inside she realizes that there was another person in that carriage.
"Nice to meet you!" said the boy smiling "My name is Dylon Wilson what is yours?"
Esme didn't answer at first, she wasn't expecting to see him, but if he was introducing himself that means that he didn't know that it was her. After taking a deep breath, the girl sits down in front of him and when she looked at the boy a smirk was sawed in his lips and that made her confused.
"Does he know that is me?" Esme asked herself, it wasn't possible, she didn't even recognize herself, how he might have done?"
"My name is Tom Curtis!" said her looking out "Is my first time meeting new people, I hope we can get along."
"Oh! We will get along pretty well," he said with a huge smile on his face and the only thing that the girl could think was. "He knows who I am! I'm not going to have an easy life with him there."