Page 27 of The Goddess is Awakened
Professor Jinx was always so engrossed with his writing he ignored what was going on with his students until he realized the class was supposed to start. He ignored Kaylee being a menace.
“I’ll bet Tempest isn’t evengoingto the moon orgy. Who would want to play with a defective witch? Watch this.”
Everyone was hanging on her every word. It finally escalated. Kaylee decided to use magic against me to flex in front of her friends. It was a fairly nasty hex that would have made me erupt in painful pustules. That particular hex took two months to cure, and you couldn’t go out during the day because sunlight made them worse. If I was a witch, that is.
That was an upper-level hex but easily found on the dark corners of the internet for idiot witches who were just stupid enough to be dangerous. I pretended to throw up a shield and flung a hex back at her that was more embarrassing than painful. Especially since she would be stuck with it until I chose to remove it.
Kaylee was pretty fucking arrogant. She assumed her hex would get me before I could do anything. She didn’t even have a basic shield up. Zion had literally been drilling that into us since day one in magical combat. Hermomshould have also taught her you never fling magic at another supernatural without a basic shield.
Kaylee’s hair erupted into snakes, and one of them bit her nose. She shrieked and tried to yank it off.
“Professor Jinx, sheattackedme. I want her expelled.”
Our professor was peering over his laptop.
“You started it, Miss Krauss. And you’re going to flunk magical combat if you think that’s how you start a magic fight. Fifty points to Sigmis for a perfect execution of the Medusa Hex. I’ll be taking fifty points from Avalan if you started a magical fight you can’t finish and have to go to the infirmary to have the hex removed.”
“We don’t take curse and hex breaking until junior year!” Kaylee whined.
The people in her dorm were going to be pissed if she lost them fifty points. Making that up would be hard, and everyone wanted those letters of recommendation.
“Miss Krauss, you’ve been bleating like a goat all semester about Minerva Krauss being your great-great aunt. She was a dear friend of mine and a wonderful teacher. If you were as close to her as you’d like everyone to think, you could break this hex in two seconds and let me get back to teaching my class. Go to the infirmary and put effort into your lessons for Lilith’s sake. Your mother might be headmaster, but the grades you need to stay in this university come straight from your professors. You aren’t going to graduate from the Academy of the Profane through nepotism.”
Kaylee shrieked, stamped her foot like a child, and flounced to the infirmary. That was beautiful. Giving Kaylee snakes for hair feltgreat,but Professor Jinx was just the cherry on top. He never played favorites, and this was the first time he ever awarded points this semester. Professor Jinx was big on class participation and called on us all the time. He never awarded points if you got it right, but he also never ripped on anyone if they didn’t know the answer.
Up until now, I thought he was the most neutral professor I had so far. Everyone seemed to have picked a favorite. Zion Skinner hadn’t learned a single one of our names, but he had already singled out Oscar, and I could tell there were other students he favored. Even Azren did it.
Professor Jinx had called on Kaylee a few times, and she thought a ditzy smile and a shrug were supposed to be adorable when she didn’t do the assigned reading and couldn’t pull off the basic spell we were supposed to do. He never said anything to her, but I guess he’d harbored some big opinions about it all semester.
West was at the front of the class signing to Oscar. He met my eye and gave me a double thumbs up. That was apparently, one of his things, and it was adorable. I noticed Oscar was staring at me this time. Oscar had this dark and deadly beauty about him and a totally cute ferret as his alebrije. They were spirit guides for Brujos. I only learned about them briefly in high school.
I’d never introduced myself to Oscar and Ren because they seemed a little standoffish. I was about to get filthy with the other half of their dorm at the moon orgy, and those two had never even made eye contact with me.
He just gave me this slight nod like I earned some respect there. It wasn’t really friendly. Not enough for me to think he wanted me to go talk to him. A few people were whispering that I finally made that show of power they’d been waiting on. Kaylee’s friends were mad I fought back when she was trying to send me an even worse hex.
I was pretty sure I gained the respect of a few witches in this class, but I also knew I made some enemies that were a lot smarter than Kaylee Krauss.
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How sexy was George? Kaylee Krauss was in most of the classes I signed in for Oscar. The girl was a menace and a piss-poor supernatural. She would have difficulty forming a powerful coven if men like Oscar and Ren bothered her. Plenty of supernaturals would love to have them, and didn’t give a shit they came as a pair. There were some who did and would want to split them up, but they weren’t overtly horrible to them.
She was all kinds of phobic and pretty loud about it. No one had done anything about it because if her mom would fuck with the dorm assignments and cancel the moon orgy, she would probably expel someone for doing what supernaturals were supposed to do when someone was being stupid.
I was pretty sure one of the pixies was fighting back in ways that couldn’t be traced back to him, but George was the first to give her a good hex in front of everyone.
“See? She’s cool,” I told Oscar.
“You and Church are obsessed. She did what every witch issupposedto do when another witch tries to hex them. No one should be off limits from ‘fuck around and find out’ in the supernatural world. George did what needed to be done, but if her dad is a god, I doubt the board will let Headmaster Krauss expel her for fighting back.”
“If you weren’t an idiot, you could talk to her.”
“No thanks. A bit too much drama. Enjoy the moon orgy, though.”
I’d been planning for this since she said yes. I altered my plans when Church was going to join us. I wrote a fucking playbook. I bid on several playbooks from famous dodgeball coaches, but I never won because I didn’t make a ton of money. Everyone knew you couldn’t get your team to the world championship without a decent playbook.
I really wanted to impress this girl, so I wrote one for the moon orgy. I liked Church, but he wasn’t a team playerat all.He didn’t want to use my orgy playbook. He thought it was a bad idea. There was some good shit in here guaranteed to make her eyes go back in her head.
Church wanted to be spontaneous, and George Bell wasn’t the kind of girl you wanted to give a lousy fuck to at a moon orgy. This one was a keeper. She had total lioness vibes. I’d join her coven, and she could be my pride. I hadplans,and Church needed to get with them. He especially needed to get out of the damned bathroom because I needed to manscape.
