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I bang open the bathroom door and stumbled in clumsily, trying to get to the tap. Assuming that if I splashed some water on my face a couple of times I would be fine. It did not work. I was hyperventilating as if struggling to get enough air into my lungs. It was a struggle keeping myself awake and trying not to faint. My pendant had decided it was a good time to flicker in school this morning. And I had a test to write in a couple of hours so how was I going to do this? The bathroom door was pushed open behind me and three girls walked in. Bree and her minions. Perfect timing! “Oh, my. If it isn’t the slut that is keeping my Ken away from me.” She said with a dry chuckle and I rolled my eyes. “You may have skipped the fun stuff we had in store for you on the weekend, but you are definitely not going to skip this.” She said. “Girls!” Her two hideous shadows grabbed an arm each and slammed me against one of the cubical doors. The door burst open sending me flying inside and I hit my
The paramedics arrived thirty minutes later. By then aunt Courtney’s pulse was almost undetectable. We were all taken by them and rushed to the hospital while the police were still scrutinizing the scene. The following events were a blur. The doctors were poking me with needles, asking me questions and saying things that I couldn’t comprehend because of my mind being too flooded with thoughts. They removed my clothes and that was when I finally saw the deep cut on my side. It was probably caused by a piece of glass when the car was summersaulting. “Miss, we need you to lay on your side so we could…” I just nodded and did as I was told. Everything she said next, I was not paying attention. I was worried about aunt Courtney and Ken. I wanted to ask if they were fine, but that would mean asking the nurses for the sixth time since I got to the hospital. All I could think about was how that black car accelerated right into our car. Sending us flying off the road. Screeching, crashing, scr
“Take it!” I yelled. “If you want it so bad, then just take it.” “Don’t you think I would’ve done that a long time ago.” Eugene scoffed and I chuckled. This man is unbelievable. How on Earth did my mother land herself someone like this? “You know. I never knew why mother wanted nothing to do with you.” I chuckled bitterly. “But now it’s obvious. I thought that the first thing a father would do for his daughter, after not setting his eyes on for a very long time, would be to apologize for not being in her life, explain why he was absent and make an effort not to do the same shit again. But it is clear you are not a father.” “I never wanted you.” Eugene stood up quickly, tossing the chair in the process. “I told your mother a long time ago that if she wanted to have you she could go ahead, but she should not expect me to be in your life.” “Bastard!” I screamed and earned a resounding slap across my face. If this was how a father and daughter conversation went down in broken families,
Ken, uncle Michael and I had a huge argument about whether it was a good idea for me to go to school or not. I eventually won and Ken was forced to take me to school. That sense of guilt, regret and shame was still eating me up and I couldn’t brush off the feeling. I did something wrong, I knew it. I was not too sure if it was the kiss, or the sad look Derrick went home with that was bothering me, but I knew it had something to do with what happened in my bedroom yesterday. I hopped out of the car and rushed into the school’s building. I was heading for the library because apart from the corridor, the library was the only place I knew Hector was going to be at. I hadn’t even reached halfway to my destination when a hand grabbed my upper arm from behind and pulled me to a different direction. I was tossing into an empty classroom and the door closed shut. It was Hector. “What was that for?” I complained while nursing my sore arm. “I should be asking you that.” I couldn’t get over tha
After school, Ken and I drove to the hospital to see his mother. She was awake when we got there and looked disappointed that we went to school after everything that had happened. She didn’t even have to ask whose idea it was. “Where were you taking us the day of the accident?” I asked her the first question in my mind. She was silent, contemplating her next words.“To a wiccan I knew.” Aunt Courtney confessed.“What!? Why?” Ken scolded.“I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get rid of that pendant so I decided it would be best if a witch did it.” Aunt Courtney explained. “That thing is dangerous, Hermione.”“How is it dangerous?”Aunt Courtney moved up, to sit more comfortably. “Mabel.” She began and I took a seat and paid close attention. “She was obsessed with it. She would hide it away from everyone and used it to hurt people. She was able to harness the power so it could do her bidding. The more she played around with it the younger her skin would look and the more powerful she w
“Wait, so… you accept me?” I asked him just to be sure. “Hermione.” That was the second time he called me by my name. He was staring at me and I thought I was going to drown in those hazel eyes. “There is no other way to solve this.” He looked away and sipped from his straw. “Besides, it would be like taking a candy from a baby. At least for Derrick.” He snorted and I frowned. “So you are only doing this to get to Derrick?” I was crushed. Hector is an ass. Why would he think doing these things is fun? “You the one who thinks I’m hot.” My cheeks burned with undiluted embarrassment. My hair was up in a half ponytail so it wasn’t able to help. “I don’t, and how would you know?” I snapped. He gave me an amused look with one eyebrow arched. Was it a werewolf thing? Hell no! if it was then my thoughts were absolutely not private anymore. I drank my vanilla milkshake and cleared my throat to change the topic. “Mabel is planning something.” “I know.” He said in a monotone. “Oh really?”
“I want my name off the list.” I told the girl with the kinky afro. Her eyes sized me up before she blew her gum and loudly popped it. “You are supposed to come at lunch break not morning, mornings are for the organizers’ meetings.” The hall only had about four people in it if I was excluded. Two were doing splits at the far end and the other two were sitting before me looking uninterested. “Well I’m here now. Might as well just do it.” She gave me a dirty look before she switched on the Tab on her desk and did some annoying clicking with her long fingernails. Her partner beside her was painting hers a neon sky blue. I glanced at the name tags on the desk and the black girl’s name was Britney. Her partner’s name was Joy. “Your name is not on the list.” The gum girl said. I could see her pink gum move in all directions in her open mouth. “I signed up yesterday, check again.” I told her. “Your name is not under any of the main character’s, Hermione.” Britney said before rolling her
“Hermione.” Aunt Courtney had a calm look on her face. “Do you have something to tell us?” I shifted on my seat as Annalise brought mashed potatoes to the dinner table. “I don’t understand.” My heart was skipping important beats and I was afraid I might get struck with a panic attack. Couldn’t she have waited until after dinner? “The school called and informed me that you got a one-month detention.” Aunt Courtney sounded like my mother right there. But mother would have been furious and wouldn’t talk to me until the next day when she would be calm enough to address me. “I can’t say I’m surprised. I saw it coming, I just did not think it would come this soon.” “Courtney, that’s not fair. We did not even get to hear her side of the story.” Uncle Michael tried to reason. “Ok then. Let us hear it.” My mother’s sister encouraged. I cleared my throat then looked at Ken for assistance. “Mom, those girls have been bullying Maya since she entered into that school. She was just defending