Autumn. Always a fresh start. Leaves turning orange and red, the temperature cooling, and best of all, the promise of something new. Whether you started at a new school, or met a cute boy, there was always something different each fall. Sometimes you needed change. Especially in my family.

My family moved to a nice house in California in the summer, and I had just started school at Sun Hill High. Julia, my sister, and I shared many of our classes. Cousin Lena was only a freshman, and unfortunately didn't take the same classes as Julia and I.

But the one thing that the three of us had in common was that we weren't human. Well, mortal anyway. We were called casters, and we could do magic. But there was more to it. Casters have powers that come sometime in their teenage years, and in our family, we were claimed for either the light or dark on our sixteenth birthday. Two months until our birthday, and neither Julia or I had any sign of our powers.

That's where it all began.

Moreso, that's when we all got along.