“I don’t know what you're talking about” I say, denying the accusation from Aria.

  “Yes you do. And you know that I know when you broke your phone. And it's obvious it's b you now” she said.

  “I don’t know what you're talking about” I said, once again, and put my hood up to hide my face.

  “Well, then I am going to talk about it without you.” Aria said. “You are struggling with the truth about Mana. That is obvious. But when Nyx called you, something about that brought you back to that again. I don’t know what it was, but I do know that it was Nyx”.

  “I’m not sure” I say, under my breath.

  She was right, but I couldn’t help her out. I have no clue why seeing her call would lead me to break my phone.

  Aria leaned forward and pced her hand on my cheek.

  “Do you really not know?” she asked.

  “Yeah”

  “Hmm, well, maybe you should try to talk to her” Aria suggested.

  “Maybe”

  “Well, we should try to enjoy the rest of our day. Is there anything else you want to do?” she asked me.

  “ we just go home?” I said.

  “Absolutely not. If anything, we are just going to walk around until ter” she said, very seriously. “You said you wao push yourself, and you already left the store early.”

  “Fine, how about a book store then” I say. It had been a while since I had goo oh the time I spent hunting. There were definitely books I could buy.

  “Great, the's go”

  ?

  After the book store, Aria took me to a few other stores. And buy the end of the day, ent several hours out of the house.

  Whe bae, we weren’t doher.

  “You wao set up your phone?” I asked Aria.

  “Yeah. Since you are better with puter stuff” she said.

  “You could have asked me to do this when we were at the food court” I said.

  “Oh, opps” she said.

  But with that, we sat together in the living room while we set up her phone. While I was w on it, mom and dad got home from work and mom started w on dinner.

  And before I was finished, everything was ready. Not wanting to be weird, I stayed with them for dinner.

  It was actually really o have mom’s food again, while it was still warm. She had been cooking for me while I wasn’t leaving my room, but since I didn’t want to see any of them, I would wait for them to leave before taking it.

  It wasn’t the best thing I had ever done, but I was not in a good pce when I was doing it.

  I didn’t talk during di all, but everyone else talked a lot. Aria told the others about our day out, and mom and dad talked about work.

  For the foreseeable future, they are going to be staying in town. I felt bad about that, because it was definitely because of me they had to stay. They had often talked about how much they liked there trips together.

  After dinner was all done, and I had set up Aria’s phone, I was really tried. I ended up going bay room around 7, 12 hours after I left it this m.

  But as I was lying in my bed, I felt very strange. I had a good day today, and for some reason, that felt wrong.

  It felt like I shouldn’t be happy for some reason.

  As I was in my room, I went back to training my magic again. I was on dark magic this time again, so I created another dark magistruct, draining all 50 mp at one point.

  Mp:0/50

  Dark magic lv.1 - 211/500

  Intelligence boost lv.1 - 645/1000

  I was close with light magid with intelligence boost. And with the amount I was gaining from each round of this was getting higher and higher.

  I was going to get close to the hidde really soon.

  ?

  After the sed round of the night, I decided to figure out some things for my personal life.

  Opening up her tact, I press the call button.

  It rings for a few seds, before she ahe call.

  “Hello” she said pretty urgently. “Zenith”

  “Um… Hi Nyz” I said.

  “What's going on?” she asked me.

  “Nothing. I just wao call you. Since you had been calling me and I missed all of those calls”

  “Oh, well thanks for calling me back. I was just w if you were in a pce to start hunting with me yet?” she asked.

  “Oh, um not yet. I just have a few more things I o do before then” I said.

  “... Zenith, is everything alright?” she asked.

  “Um, I don’t know how to ahat. But I'm gettier” I said.

  “What's going on?” she asked.

  “It's pretty plicated” I said.

  “Do you want to talk about it?” she asked me.

  “Not really”

  We were quite for a few seds after that.

  “What’s going on in your life?” I asked her.

  “Oh, well my family is doing good. My aunt and uncle are doing well right now. But my work wants me to do more” she said.

  “The rec house? They want you to make more music?”

  “Yeah, and possible go on tour, or just do some certs”

  “That's cool” I said. “But I’m guessing you don’t want to?”

  “Yeah, Im finally a hunter, and I have wao do that for a long time now”

  “So you don’t want to give it up so you do more music stuff?”

  “I don’t want to give up on music. I enjoy doing music, but…”

  “So make more music, but tell them you ’t go on tour” I suggest.

  “That was the pn”

  “Oh, well, I agree with your pn then” I tell her. “And none of that has to do with wanting more music of yours”

  “Oh, yeah, you are a fa you?” Nyx said. “Well, if you want, I have you sit in on a rec session”

  “Really?” I ask.

  “Yeah. My aunt and uncle have sat in on them, and other performers have had their friends and family sit in on there’s” she expined. “In fact, it would be the first time I would bring a friend”

  “Oh, well, I think about it?” I asked.

  “Oh course. It will be a while no matter what. I still o write the song if I am going to record it.” she told me.

  We tialking for a little, but eventually, we both had to get off to get some sleep.

  And right before I went to sleep, I activated my light magice, burning all 55mp I had.