It was morning, blinding light coming through the gaps of the curtains, you could hear all kinds of birds chirping and roaming around happily outside the house, and amidst all of this, Sephora was nowhere to be found. So she was serious about going, I thought as I peeked out the window, the curtain slightly ajar. That's when I heard it.

There were loud clangs, and bangs coming straight out from the kitchen. With a worried expression on my face, I sped walked towards it to see what was happening.

"What are you doing?" I said aggressively speed walking towards Devante, taking the pot from his hands and putting it in the sink, immediately turning on the tap, and filling it with water.

"Are you trying to burn the house down!"

His mouth was agape looking as dumbstruck as ever. Finally, he looked at me with rage in his eyes.

"Do you know how long it took me to get it to look like that!"

"What, you mean black, oil-filled, and white stuff sticking to the sides of the pan!" I exclaimed with an eyebrow raised in question.

"That was breakfast you just threw away, Mazi said she was hungry, didn't want to cook, so I thought I could cook for all of us!" He side passed me and walked towards the sink to look at what he thought was a successful meal.

"That could hardly be classified as a known substance," I rolled my eyes. "Now clean up this place so that I can show you what a real breakfast is like." I walked out into the garden sighing knowing that if Sephora was here, she would have just snapped her fingers, sweet delicious food would appear.

I sighed sitting on a chair in the gazebo, taking a deep breath filling my nostrils with fresh air, and then I exhaled, feeling relaxed, trying to get back to my calm and relaxed state before I go back inside to deal with the preparation of breakfast.

"You can come back inside now, I'm done cleaning." Devante looked at me, his body halfway through the door.

He was about to go back inside when I stopped him by saying, "Devante, did you try to flirt with me in the park because you were trying to protect me?"

"Why?" this time he completely stepped outside smirking.

"No particular reason, just a thought...but you don't have to answer it if you don't want to." I got up from the chair walking back inside, he gave me an answer when I walked passed him and into the kitchen,

"I didn't even know who you were," he turned around to completely look at me, "it was actually my first time on Earth, and then I saw you walk out of that coffee shop, and I just had to talk to you." 

He stared at me with this dazed look in his eyes that I couldn't quite understand so instead I said, "Okay, that nice," then I smiled at him and went into the kitchen to start on breakfast, thinking to myself why he was staring at me like that.

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An hour later when I had prepared breakfast and we all ate, Devante came up to me, practically invading my personal space saying, "Get up, it's time for your training session with me," with that he proceeded to pull me up from my bed, causing my shoulder bones to create this sort of popping sound, like they were being put back in place, "go get dressed, and meet me outside in five  minutes."

He seemed angry, and I didn't want to get caught up in all of that, so I wore linen black knee-length trousers with linen white short-sleeved top, and I did as he said and teleported outside because I was too lazy to walk all the way there. I mean who would take the stairs if they could just do that.

"So what are going to be doing?" I walked towards Devante who was wearing something similar to what I was wearing except his trousers were long and his top was long-sleeved at the other side of the garden, then stopped in front of him with my hands rested on my waist.

"Remove your shoes," he said while sidestepping to get passed me.

I turned around heading towards the deck to go drop my shoes there, "you know, you seem like someone pissed you off...did Mazi piss you off?" I asked out of curiosity, sitting on the bench at the deck taking off my shoes, and then proceeding to put them under it.

"No one pissed me off. Now come on, we don't have all day."

"Okay then..." it seemed like I had added fuel to the fire because his face looks even more hardened than it was when I came to the garden, "so what are we doing? I asked before but you didn't give an answer." 

He made a rubbing motion with his feet on the grass then sighed lifting his head to look at me, "Basic magic."

I raised my eyebrow at him in question making it obvious that I didn't understand, he sighed again before standing even straighter, "I'm going to teach you how to channel magic from within, and how to use it to your advantage."

"And how exactly am i going to learn that?"

"First," he sat on the floor crossed-legged, "learn how to meditate, which helps you in a way that you can learn to access the power, and over time it would just come to you naturally, but it takes a lot of practice."

I sat crossed-legged too in front of him making my back straight like his so that I wasn't slouching, "Okay, so teach me then."

"If you just stop talking so that I could tell you what to do then maybe you would have already started learning by now." he snapped.

This time my eyebrows went up in surprise but I didn't say anything back to avoid fighting with him. Instead, I put my hands on my knees with my eyes closed trying and successfully making myself relaxed.

He sighed again, "Just concentrate on doing that, you need to be as relaxed as possible. using magic requires imagination, and as a beginner, if you aren't relaxed while using it, everything goes wrong. Now imagine yourself in a container and try to create a barrier around yourself."

I exhaled relaxing my muscles and nerves, that's when I heard him say "Good start, well done. Now we move on."

I opened my eyes to see what he was talking about, only to see that I was surrounded by a purple see-through, glass-like sphere. 

"Huh..." I stared at it amazed by what I was seeing, then I looked at Devante, and everything went wrong from there.

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Hello everyone, sorry that I updated late, I just didn't have the motivation to do anything this week but then I promised someone that I would update it this night Melod04 and Ananya_312005  and I have to keep that promise so I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, thank you.