JV Part 2

They said goodbye at the bottom of two apartment buildings and entered them. Vade went to his apartment on the 8^th floor. Jay went to her apartment on the 7th. Her mother asked her if she’d had fun with her friends at the mall. Jay nodded. She felt bad lying but she knew it was necessary. The world of magic was not for everyone and her mother was still weak from when her father left. Jay hated him for being such a bad husband but was grateful that he had been such a bad father. After all, if he’d been responsible she never would have found out about the world of magic that she lived in. Jay’s mom had gone out one night with her friends when Jay was nine. Her father, who was supposed to be babysitting her, took her to his regular place: the bar. She had stood in a corner, trying not to be noticed and a boy her age had caught her eye. He had black hair and blue eyes. He had been watching a man play with fire. Jay, feeling alone, had walked up to him and asked him how the man did that and he answered, “Magic.” Jay had laughed. At nine she knew that magic didn’t exist. “No, it’s true. Most mortals don’t know about it. I do though. My dad was magic, before he died. It’s true.” After a night of watching the man with fire, Jay started to believe. When Jay’s mom’s book club meetings became a regular thing, Jay’s visits to the bar became more and more frequent until she started going to the bar without her father to learn about the magic. A young man, Jim, took her under his wing and started to teach her to fight. She learned quickly and soon she became a regular at the bar. Every magical person there knew her by the time she was twelve. When she was thirteen, a detective invited her to fight a magical murderer. She had broken three bones and gotten pretty badly bruised, but they caught him in the end. A magical scientist fixed her up in less than an hour and she returned home with only a few bruises. It was the most fun she’d ever had. The detective was killed when she was fourteen, but Jay didn’t stop solving murders and after a while Vade joined her. Together they’d been solving crimes for a little over a year. There was a bad side of course. Her attention at school was lacking and she had no friends except Vade. When she was solving a case she had very little time for anything else and she found herself lying time and time again to her mother. Despite that, she wouldn’t have traded it for the world.