Andreas arrives at the council just a few minutes late but enough to annoy the members.
Carl Smith, the most irritating member of the council, stands up as soon as Andreas walks in, "late as always" he frowns.
Andreas ignores him, he sits in his usual place, at the bottom, near Miss Margaret
"So let's start talking about the new Enchantress? Did she make any progress?" Helen stares at him, the woman who had to write down every matter in the council, carrying her usual black pen, ready to write down Andreas's reply.
"She's already very good at controlling her powers and somehow very promising, I believe she can go a long way." Andreas says.
"Really? I remember the first day she's arrived here, she barely could believe that magic existed."
Simon giggles, scribbling with his orange pen which matched his ginger hair.
"Simon, I've seen it myself. She has great capabilities." Miss Margaret intervenes.
Simon raises his hands, with a grin on his face, "I'm curious to see it. Tomorrow?"
He raises an eyebrow playing around with his pen.
"She surely has great capabilities. Her mother is one of the greatest enchantresses ever existed. But I have doubts about her nature, however, was she.." Helen hesitates for a few instants while reading her dossier then she continues "was she picked by any dragons?" She asks gazing at Andreas.
He looks at Miss Margaret who slowly nods no with her head, probably suggesting not to tell him the truth.
"I haven't finished examining her yet." Andreas says with a convincing look.
Carl starts to massages his chin, he intervenes leaning in.
"We must be careful, Angelina could look for her. We need to keep an eye on Roselyn. I also have strong doubts about her."
"We will." Miss Margaret says smiling.
"Next matter?" Simon asks. Folding his arms behind his head stretching.
Gabriel was looking at Andreas since the beginning of the council, despite this, he's never spoken a word about Roselyn, probably since if he revealed he showed her pictures of Angelina he would have been scolded by the whole council.
Andreas, who knew his secret, was glancing him off and on.
After one hour of talking the meeting finally ends.
Simon walks near Andreas and whispers "you haven't finished examining her?" He scoffs "that means you haven't slept with her yet?" He then giggles, seeing Andreas's annoyed expression.
"Come on, I meant that of course, you finished examining her. You always do all the practice and exams in the first days." He continues.
"And so?" Andreas asks rolling his eyes.
"So you're hiding something." Simon says raising his eyebrow.
"I'm not hiding anything. I just have been busy with all the drama with Emily and everything." Andreas says trying to walk accelerated to reach his car faster.
"Alright, Emily. That sucks but at least now that you got rid of her we can do our shit at peace." He states smirking.
Andreas finally reaches his car and smiles lightly at Simon. "See you." He says getting in the car.
"Tomorrow. Don't forget." Simon says aloud before he can start the car.
Andreas weaves lightly as he leaves.
When he returns home he finds Roselyn in the kitchen making some pancakes and wearing a hoodie which was barely covering her thighs.
She was dancing at the rhythm of the 'can't be tamed' song by Miley Cyrus. The high volume prevents her to hear Andreas walk in.
As the song finishes, she turns around to skip to the next song when she sees Andreas staring lightly smiling.
She quickly turns off the volume. "I'm sorry," she says looking embarrassed.
"It's fine." He says, removing his jacket.
Roselyn serves pancakes to him and he smiles "so you're cooking now?" He asks pouring some chocolate.
"Yes. Mister Andreas, the specialty of the house."
She says taking a bow, making him giggle.
He cuts a tringle and bites it. He makes a face surprised as if he expected it to be bad. "It's good" he says.
Roselyn nods eating "Did you aspect me to poison you?" They both laugh.
Even if they were trying to act normal, the tension was palpable, indeed they were barely looking at each other in the eyes.
Andreas becomes more serious as he begins to talk "I have to talk to you about something."
'He probably regretted what we did earlier' is the first thought Roselyn came up with. Not that she didn't expect him to have second thoughts, moreover she had a boyfriend and she shouldn't have done that in the first place. Still, she couldn't regret any of that, on the contrary, she enjoyed it so much that her hidden feelings for him were raising even more.
"As I told you, your mother was one of the good magicians but she fell in love with an evil wizard and they gave birth to you. We talked about you during the council because your nature is unknown and you could be either evil or good. That's also the reason why you've been under examination the whole time."
Roselyn listened to his talk carefully, she takes some instants to figure everything out, then she talks: "What did the results show so far?"
Andreas doesn't reply right away which makes her even more concerned.
"You haven't been identified yet. The results are in the middle between each side. It could be anything.." He becomes more nervous as he speaks as if it was implausible for him.
"What does the council say?" Roselyn asks trying to remain calm, despite Andreas' behavior wasn't helping.
"I covered it for you, miss Margaret is the only one who knows. We can trust her." He says calming down and staring at her.
"Why did you feel the need to hide that..." Roselyn starts to mumble, barely able to keep eye contact with him.
"Because I don't want anything bad to happen to you." He admits, with a quiet tone of voice.
"The problem is that I said that you have great capabilities and now Simon wants to attend one of your examinations."
Roselyn scoffs as she gave him a worried glance, waiting for him to suggest a solution.