Blood Dripping Fingertips - Meghan Escott (acx book reading .txt) 📗

like this. My teachers did this to me. It’s part of this school. If you have a problem with it, you take it up with Professor Alcove and Sam and see what they do to you.” By this time I was crying because of the pain in my back and legs and because of the anger running through me.
Tom was really scared of me and so was mum and dad and so was Josh. I turned to face each of them in turn, all of them looking astonished at what I had done. I turned to my mum and started to walk towards her. “Why did you bring him mum? You knew he would upset me but you did it anyway. Why mum, why?” I began muttering a spell under my breath so Josh couldn’t see what I was doing. I was just finishing the spell when Sam burst into the room. I turned to meet his gaze and remembered he could feel my emotions. He must have felt my rage and come straight here.
He came towards me with a fast run and gripped my wrist and dug his nails in. My wrist began bleeding but he didn’t care. He dragged me into my bedroom and then into the bathroom and locked the door. “What do you think you are doing? Magic Control isn’t working for you at all. Calm down.” He said letting go of my wrist. He had made huge indents into my skin. He tried to heal them but they wouldn’t go completely.
That’s going to leave a scar behind.
Like the one you gave Tom?
You saw that?
I made him give blood to you in the first place. I healed it as much as I could after you had ago. You have a serious temper on you, you know.
Always have, always will.
He gripped my hand and unlocked the bathroom door. Josh was sitting on my bed waiting for me. He got up and walked over to me tentatively. I looked up at him and looked down again. He threw his arms around me and held me tight. “I’m so sorry Josh. I’m so sorry.” He muttered comforting words while Sam went into to speak to my parents and Tom. Josh started turning me to face him but I couldn’t look into his eyes after what I just did. He put his fingers under my chin and made me. He lowered his mouth to mine and got into a good rhythm with his tongue.
It seemed to take ages for one of us to pull away and when we did; my mum was standing in the doorway looking at us, smiling. I probed into her thoughts and was surprised with what /I heard.
She seems to have really settled in here with Josh. Why do I have to spoil her fun? Callum’s the one who is responsible. He should tell him about Tom being his son, being Lucy’s brother. Why me?
I ripped free of the grip Josh had on me. “What? You can’t be serious.” I said to mum following her into my living room where everyone was staring. “You have got to be joking with me. Please say you’re joking.” Now everyone knew what I was talking about but they didn’t know how I knew. “Lucy’s telepathic.” Josh explained. “That is why she knows what you were going to saying to her.”
“Honey.” My mum said. “We had to tell you sooner or later and after recent events, we thought the sooner the better. Tom is your half brother. Callum is his ‘long lost’ father.


Chapter Twenty One

“Are you telling me that my own brother tried to rape me last week?” I said in astonishment. I collapsed on the floor next to the T.V. with Josh sitting down next to me and putting his arm around me. Sam came and sat next to me and held my hands. He was doing this so I couldn’t do any magic on them or harm to them.
My mum nodded and looked disapprovingly at Tom. Did they expect me to love him? Did they expect me to even like him after what he put me through? I just wanted to forget the whole evening and I knew just the spell to do that. I would have to put up with it until Sam, my parents and Tom had gone and then I could do the spell. I could make myself forget Tom and forget what he did and what we did together. I can just forget about him. I sighed and mentally shook myself. I got up and sat next to my mother who looked surprised to see me so calm.
I held her hand and pulled her up and into my bed room. I showed her my drawings and she looked at them in awe. She obviously loved them and wanted to see me do one right there. I got out my art things from under my bed and sat on the bed, my mother next to me.
I drew the scene that had just happened between me, Josh and Sam. I changed the faces so people wouldn’t be suspicious and finished it within ten minutes. I handed it to my mother and she studied it intently. When she finished looking at it, she put it on the bed and clapped. I got a pin and pinned it up next to the fictional drawings.
“You must be getting tired mum and dad. How about you go back to your room and then I will show you around the school tomorrow with Josh.” I said walking back into the living room. Josh and Sam still sat where I left them and they were talking to each other quickly and quietly.
Mum, dad and Tom left and then I was alone with Josh and Sam. I didn’t know how to get rid of Sam so I sat on the sofa and inspected my legs. They were bleeding into the insides of my trousers and my trousers were sticking. I ripped them off and then wound the bandage back around them. Halfway up my right leg, a familiar pair of hands took them from me and continued for me. They were Sam’s hands and just as I was wondering where Josh was, he appeared with a bottle of blood from the fridge and handed it to me.
With in five minutes all my bandages were back on and all my blood had gone and so had Sam. I walked slowly over to my bed with assistance from Josh and then collapsed onto it. Josh sat next to me while I remembered the words to the spell I was going to use. I started muttering the spell and thinking about Tom and what I wanted to forget. I wanted to forget his existence so to me, he wasn’t there. Josh gripped my hand and squeezed so hard I had to abandon the spell. “You can’t forget about him Lucy. You won’t be able to. He was your first love, it’s not possible.” Josh said then kissed me.
I was already on my back so all Josh had to do was roll on top of me which he did with ease. He got into a fast rhythm with his tongue and was exploring my body with his hands going up and down. I got shivers with the way he was touching me He was touching me like I was glass that could break any second.
I kissed him back but only for a minute before I pulled away from him. “I have to try and forget. He can’t have been my first love. You are.” I kissed him on his cheek and then started to mutter my spells again. He moved off of me and got out his phone. I was concentrating on the spell so much I missed him text Sam.
Quick as a shot Sam was up in my room again and trying everything he could to shut me up. He cut me more times than I could imagine, he told Josh to kiss me again but I murmured the words whatever pain I was in. He was lucky it was a long spell because otherwise he wouldn’t have thought of getting Professor Slakovitch up into my room to perform a complex spell to stop me from speaking and thinking.
I was going into the final stages of the spell when my mind blanked. A sea of nothingness filled me. I couldn’t speak and I could think of anything. There was nothing. I couldn’t move either. I would be stuck there until Professor Slakovitch reversed the spell but I knew it would have lasting effects when he did. The sooner the better but my parents and Tom needed to leave before I had a chance of coming back to life.
Josh had stayed with me the whole night and the next day explaining what was going on. He held my hand but I couldn’t hold his hand back. “Your parents are being told that because of the anger and rage you had for them, you tried to kill yourself and got paralysed in the process. They will be told to leave and never come back and that includes Tom. You’ll never have to see him again unless you chose to. I know you can’t hear me but I thought I’d explain anyway.” He didn’t know I was listening to him. That’s the only thing I could do; listen. Every two hours, I had to be given an injection to get the nutrients I get from the blood into my body. I couldn’t feel the pain so that was okay I guess.
I had to spend a whole day like this while Sam and other teachers got rid of my parents and Tom and I was getting rather bored with Josh’s commentary. Finally, Professor Slakovitch came back and started muttering words and gradually, I came round but before I came round, Josh leaned into my ear, which he thought was disabled, and whispered. “I love you.” He whispered and then I started to move and flex my fingers and toes.
When I came round, I sat up and leaned against my head board. I looked around at all the smiling faces around me. I didn’t recognise any of them. There were three complete strangers in my bedroom. Where was I? Who am I? I didn’t like being alone with three complete strangers and I felt real shy and timid to say anything or do anything. Instead of saying anything I pulled the sheets of my bed up to cover my whole body apart from my face. Everybody looked at me with confusion on their faces.
“Who am I?” I said in a squeaky high pitched voice. “Where am I? Who are you?” I said looking around me at the people.
“She has amnesia. I don’t know how long it will last but her characteristics aren’t going to be the same again.” The tall one said. He had no tattoo on his cheek and he had a wand tucked into his belt of his