Thorns and Roses

Mystically null in a school for the magical? Not a problem when you've got a pair of charmed rings, your lifelong best friend, and three surprising new allies to help you fake it until you can find the truth you came for.
 
On my eighteenth birthday, I was meant to get my magical powers.
 
Instead, I got a shameful secret, and a new obstacle in my plan to uncover the dark truth hiding at Blackthorn Academy. 
 
The truth he died trying to uncover last year.
 
The day I turned eighteen came and went without so much as a sleeping levitation or small objects flying across the room. My attempts to cast so much as a basic water heating spell, left me with room temperature tea.
 
After two weeks of nothing, I finally accept the reality of the situation; I'm as mystically null as a person can come. But I won't let that stop me from attending a school that only accepts the magical.
 
Because nothing will stop me from finding out what really happened to him, not even being powerless...