... “How do I look?” Sabrina asked. Yes my roommate... Is Sabrina Kaine. I flipped over onto my back and looked at her. She was in a white dress that came down to about mid thigh. She had a black leather jacket in her hand. Her hair was tied upright and straightened instead of her usual curly black hair and she had obviously done her makeup. I sat up and moved to the end of the bed. 

“Where are you going?” I asked. 

“I have a date.” She said happily. I laughed. 

“No really where are ya goin’” I said again. She rolled her eyes and put a hand on her hip. 

“A date!” She said sternly. The door to our room opened quickly and Sabrina’s dad entered the room. “Daddy!” Sabrina called giving him a hug. Theadore Kaine was one hell of a man. He stood at around six foot eight, and had short, slicked back light brown hair. His skin was light, like Sabrina’s, but the man could probably bench like three hundred pounds. He wore multiple rings and keepsakes from his family and medals he’d won for the school.  I would put him at around fifty years or so. Oh come on none of you Know your parents real age. 

“Hey there Teddy!” I called.

“It’s Theadore.” He said in a deep booming voice. 

“Whatever ya say buddy. Watcha doin’ here?” I asked. 

“Well it had come to my attention that my little girl had a date tonight. I just wanted see her off.” He said placing a hand on her shoulder. He glanced down. “Is this what you’re wearing??” He asked, stepping back.

“Relax dad, I’ll cover up with the jacket.” Sabrina said displaying the leather jacket. 

“HEY!” I yelled standing up, snatching the jacket. “This is my jacket!” I yelled. She shrugged reaching for it. I pulled it closer to me.

"really??" she whined "just let me use the jacket!" Sabrina argued. "It looks really good with this!" 

"noooope this is a three hundred dollar leather jacket, it is for mens fashion, not an accessory to a girly ass dress." I said, crossing my arms. Sabrina rolled her eyes. 

"fine it's not that cold, I don't need that to walk a few feet." she said shrugging.

"woah, woah, you're walking?" Teddy asked. Sabrina nodded

"its just at that italian place right across the street." she said smiling.

"you hate Italian." I muttered.

"but he doesn't." Sabrina snapped. "alright I don't wanna be late." Sabrina said kissing Teddy on the cheek. she turned to me as she exited. "don't wait up." she smirked. Sabrina closed the door behind her. Teddy waited a second then turned to me. I spread my arms out 

"Teddyyy" I said smiling. 

"Its Theadore, and i want you to keep yourself up and wait for your sister." Teddy said turning to the door.

"wh- hey! Te- Theadore, she's a big girl, I don't think she needs her brother keeping tabs on her." I said standing up and moving toward Teddy. 

"you're right, she needs her father keeping tabs on her, and you're the best way I can do that. I am super busy tonight, so I need you to make sure she's ok." Teddy explained.

"The Hell do you think is gonna happen?" I asked.

"This boy... he doesn't have the best... track record with commitment." Teddy muttered.

"well it's not like she's askin' him to marry her, it's just a date." I returned. Teddy nodded.

"But a date... with the headmasters daughter, I don't expect you to feel the gravity of that, but a normal boy would, since he goes to this school and I will ruin him if he hurts my little girl-"

"oook crazy, time to go, yes I will keep an eye out for her." I said reaching past Teddy, opening the door, and nudging him outside. "good niiiight." I said closing and locking the door behind him. I turned back around and clapped my hands together, "alright" I muttered to myself "time to train". I walked over to the nightstand and opened the drawer on it, removing a chessboard. I placed it down and set the board up. I was about to use a technique Magi used centuries ago called, Holding, it involved using a spell and performing a separate task, while keeping the spell going. This not only uses the small amounts of mana your body uses to preform tasks such as walking, and problem solving, but also the mana you're using to keep the spell active. By the end of the session your mana is practically depleted. its great. I smiled and rose my right hand. I took a deep breath and rotated my hand clockwise. A small portal appeared on the other side of the chess board.

"Ready Benny?" I asked, moving a pawn forward. The room was quiet then an arm extended from the portal. It was a skinny arm, colored dark brown with hints of red and dark orange scales. Benny was a demon. I could summon the use of his limbs using my Demons Hand ability. It was a fairly basic spell but it was pretty cool. we played a few rounds of chess until I started to feel the effects of holding. My eyelids grew a little heavy, my sight blurred slightly, and I had an insatiable hunger right now, but that was how holding worked. you exhaust yourself, to increase your base mana. "Alright Benny boy were all tied up, two to two... One more will settle it." I received a thumbs up from Benny. I took the first move. In about an hour and a half the game had finished. I fell backward, panting quickly. "dammit!" I roared, punching the floor. "how... how do you always win..." I grunted. Benny gave me another thumbs up. "yeah, yeah, shut up." I said twisting my hand counterclockwise, Benny retracted his arm and the portal closed. I calmed my breathing as sweat poured from my forehead. I was working the nerve to stand up as my phone chimed. I sat up quickly and grabbed it from the nightstand. i flipped it open. "christ... eight o' clock already?" I then glanced at the text i'd received. It was from Sabrina. It read can you come get me?. I took a deep breath and stood myself up. Guess the old man was right. Seems Sabrina's had date blown her off. I scoffed, that asshole. I grabbed my keys from the nightstand and headed out the door, down the steps, and out the thick wooden door, staggering the whole way to my car. This no mana thing was not gonna be ideal for driving. before i grabbed her I had to make a few stops. Teddy said he was busy tonight, odds are with some business pitch or meeting... out of his office. Stop number one. Stop two involved another much needed item. Food. I drove my car to the Headmasters building and walked to the door. I tried the door but the keypad beeped.

"son of a-" i laughed to myself and pressed the numbers 121299, Sabrina's birthday. The keypad beeped and turned green. "well. I always was the favorite child" I joked to myself under my breath. I opened the door and slid through the hallways quietly. I opened the door to the elevator and stepped in. I pressed the button for the top floor and the elevator jolted upward. It slowed, stopped, dinged, then opened. right into Teddy's office. I took a step forward and nearly collapsed. Good lord this was an awful time to be out of mana. I crept over to his desk and opened the bottom right drawer. I put my hand around the bottle of twenty three year old scotch he hides from everyone, I turned and moved over to the table across from his desk, grabbed an identical bottle and slid it into the drawer, shutting it. I turned and exited the room via elevator. when I made it to the ground floor I stepped carefully out of the doors. The last thing I wanted, was to drop this scotch. I returned to my car and made my way to the second stop. the Chinese place on campus was open til twelve in the morning and it was Sabrina's favorite place, for some reason. I took a deep breath, and exited my car. I opened the doors to the Chinese place and wobbled my way over to the counter. The woman examined me carefully. I put on a fake smile and put my left arm on the counter attempting to seem normal. 

"are you drunk?" she asked in a thick asian accent. I laughed almost too loudly, thankfully no customers were in here.

"n- uh- no of course not." I said happily. "I just... I just need All of the... Spicy chicken dinners you've got back there." i said reading the menu slowly. Sabrina went wild for this chicken it was good don't get me wrong, but she lost it for spicy foods. The woman nodded and started to type something on a screen. I reached my hand over and placed it on hers. "Sorry, I fear what you heard was give me a lot of spicy chicken dinners, But I said, and I truly mean this... ALL of the spicy chicken dinners you have." I said firmly. The woman nodded slowly and removed her hand from mine. She tapped a few more things then turned to me. 

"two hundred-seventy three dollars" she said slowly as a man brought five huge bags to the counter. I tossed a huge wad of cash on the counter, grabbed the bags and took off. I quickly tossed the food in the car and tore out of the parking lot. I drove for a little under five minutes before i reached the restaurant Sabrina was at. I hadn't realized it was raining so now i was probably gonna get hit. I pulled the car up to the curb where Sabrina stood, soaking wet. She narrowed her eyes at me.

"you look like shit." I said rolling the window down. 

"really?? thats how you're gonna great me?" she yelled. i rolled my eyes.

"youre right." I said. "wow sis you look beautiful with your running makeup, messy, wet hair, and soaking wet and torn up dress that I can totally see through." I said smiling "better?" Sabrina blushed and hurried into the car.

"asshole." she muttered. 

"well you're the idiot who wore a white dress on a rainy . night." I rolled my eyes. I gave her my leather jacket. she rose a brow at me. "you need it more than I do." I said. 

"do I smell-"

"an amazing big brother?" I said cutting her off. "that you do." I smiled driving the car forward.

"I hope not because you smell like a sweaty mess." Sabrina said narrowing her eyes. "I meant the food." she said smiling excitedly.

"your favorite." I said gesturing to the back. she rummaged around then pulled out the scotch. 

"Hey uh..." she said holding it up. I glanced over and gave her a smile. "where did you get this?" she asked. 

"Our good friend Teddy." I said happily. 

"you stole from dad??" Sabrina yelled, hitting me, nearly killing us.

"hey! hey! hey!" I yelled. "driving!" I pulled into our spot in the parking lot in front of our building. "now. were going inside, eating, drinking, and not telling your dad I stole his good scotch." I said opening the door. Sabrina followed me up to the room. we opened and closed the door. i put the food on the nightstand and the scotch next to it as i plopped onto my bed. 

"I need to change." Sabrina said tossing me my jacket, she moved into the bathroom. I inhaled deeply and yawned.

"so what happened?" I asked quietly.

"he stood me up, I guess." Sabrina called back.

"why?" i asked, reaching for the scotch. The door opened and Sabrina walked to her bed. she had dressed in a long, baggy t-shirt and dark green shorts. she put two paper cups down on the nightstand. I popped the scotch open and filled both cups.

"hell if I know." Sabrina said with a shrug. "not like he called or anything." she took a long drink from her cup. she I nodded slowly putting my empty cup on the nightstand.

"well... I'm sorry it went so shitty for you." I said slowly pouring a second cup, and grabbing a chinese container. Sabrina gabbed a container and started eating. 

"its fine." she laughed. "I don't like italian anyway." I smiled finishing my second cup. "I just... I just wonder why he didn't come, or even call." Sabrina muttered, pushing her chicken around the container. I took a deep breath. 

"Maybe... Maybe it's got something to do with your dad. I mean messing up with the headmasters daughter is academic suicide. Dude makes one false move, and then what? you're expelled or somethin'" I said between bites of chicken. I swallowed then pointed to her with my fork. "plus... Teddy's a scary guy. dudes built like a freight train and has like... an unhealthy obsession with keeping you safe." I laughed. Sabrina giggled at the joke and sighed. 

"I don't know if it's him though. I mean it could've very well been me. I'm not the coolest person in the world and I know I can be a bit of a goody goody bu-" 

"stop." I said raising my hand. "You’re fine how you are!” I argued. Sabrina laughed. 

“He didn’t think so.” Sabrina said laughing. I grabbed the bottle of scotch and drank straight from the bottle.

“Well, he’s an idiot.” I said coughing as I put the empty glass bottle on the nightstand. I flopped back onto my bed and yawned. “I’m... uh... a little tired.”

“And drunk?”

“And drunk.” I said closing my eyes slowly.

“Night.” Sabrina smiled, she flicked the lights off.