So much for not being discovered.
EXPLANATION
"Alright, so let me get this straight. Jinn's mother accidentally enrolled him... I mean her, into Brighten because she has Alzheimer's and assumed Jinn was his... I mean her, older brother. Everyone went along with it because they felt bad, so now Jinn has to disguise his... herself as a boy and take classes here," Maximus summarized.
I let out a yawn, cradling the pillow in my arms as I fought to stay awake.
Alice was already asleep on my shoulder, totally unbothered by our current dilemma.
To be fair, at this point I'd given up caring seeing as we hadn’t even lasted twenty-four hours before getting caught.
We were in the living room; Zane and Kage were sitting on the two-seater sofa on my right, I was sitting in the middle seat of the three-seater suede couch, and Logan was standing to my left while watching Maximus, who was pacing back and forth like a crazy person.
"Pretty much," Logan replied, still looking like he wanted to kill someone after the guys got a glimpse at me.
It wasn't like I was naked, but again, it was extremely embarrassing and made me want to go back home and call it a day. I looked over to Nixon who came back into the room with two mugs.
I took a whiff and smiled at the scent of coffee. Hazelnut coffee to be exact.
He walked over and passed me a mug. I looked up to see his usual calm expression.
"This will help stabilize your mana,” he announced.
I looked at the cup, reaching out to take the mug from him and took another sniff.
I sighed before smiling at Nixon.
"Thank you," I whispered.
He nodded, taking a seat next to me. Alice woke up, fluttering her wings before hopping off my shoulder and moving over to Nixon’s. She relaxed and closed her eyes once more.
Guess she likes him too?
"Are we gonna address more pressing matters like the fact Nixon knew Jinn was a girl?" Zane asked.
"I don't think it’s a big deal. I'm more interested what he put in the coffee and if I can have some," Kage asked.
Nixon grinned and offered the second cup to Kage who happily got up and accepted the other mug.
Nixon pointed to his eyes and they began to shift to red, the tiny black magic circles making their appearance.
"I can see certain things with my eyes,” he announced casually.
We were all silent, as we stared at him.
Kage leaned over to Zane and whispered, "Is that like x-ray vision?"
Zane turned his head, but his eyes remained on Nixon.
"I think so. Maybe he can see your most embarrassing stories, like how you wet the bed until you were eight years old."
Kage elbowed him.
"You just said it out loud idiot!"
"Oops. See, it’s the power of his eyes. They distracted me." Zane pointed at Nixon accusingly .
Maximus groaned.