Blood Dripping Fingertips, Meghan Escott [chrome ebook reader .txt] 📗

done the spell but just couldn’t see a difference.
The next page was where the levitation spell was. “Do I have to do the pages in order?” I asked Sam and he smiled and shook his head. I skipped that page and went on the next page where I found exactly what I wanted. It was a melting spell. I directed it at the glue on the person’s feet. He gasped at the heat of the spell but other than that, remained silent. I then flipped back to the levitation spell and lifted the person to next to Sam. He clapped again as I continued working.
I used the levitation spell for as long as I could; lifting all the books off the upturned tables and placing them in a neat pile on the floor next to the person. I then did the chairs and made neat stacks next to the books. By this time I was feeling the toll of magic hitting. I was tired and irritable and had to smack myself hard in the face to keep myself from collapsing. I stopped the levitation spell and flipped on two pages.
I did the rest of the pages in order up until page 249. I noticed a spell that would blast everything out of the way of your path that was able to move. I remembered that page number and then carried on doing pointless spells that wouldn’t make a difference for good or bad of the test.
Every now and again, I glanced over to Sam, Josh and the person I had levitated. They were all smiling at me and I had no idea why. I wanted to ask but then I would lose concentration.
When I got to page 500, I was absolutely exhausted. I did the second last spell and then sat on the floor. Josh started to walk over to me but I stopped him.
“No... Josh stop. Just...one more...spells yes?” I asked Sam who had been making notes on a piece of paper every time I had done a spell. I was breathing heavily but Sam seemed to understand what I said because he nodded. I got a bit of my breath back then stood up. I flipped back to page 249 and looked for the spell I had been saving until last.
I found it about halfway down the page. I held out my empty hand out, palm forward pointing it at one of tables in my way. I muttered the spell and the table blasted away from me at extreme speed. I sighed with relief and pointed my hand at all the tables apart from my own. I was careful to lower my hand slightly whenever I had to pass it.
When all the tables were out the way, Sam and Josh started clapping and I made my way over to my seat. My vision was blurring and I couldn’t see properly but I urged myself over to my chair.
I staggered over to it, sat down and passed out.


Chapter Sixteen

“Lucy. Lucy, you need to wake up now.” Josh was saying over and over again. He was gently shaking me. I was in my bed in my room. I tried to sit up but Sam and Josh pushed me back down. “You need blood. You did amazing in there without any blood. Do you want me to leave while you, you know?” Josh said to me holding my hand. I nodded to the question. He kissed my hand and then let go and walked into my living room.
Sam came to my side and held out his wrist. I bit into it and saw Josh wince at the sound I made. I tried not to moan as Sam’s cool goodness filled me and restored me to health. I tried to pull away multiple times put Sam forced his wrist into my mouth until he was satisfied and trying to suppress his moans as well.
He pulled his wrist away from my mouth and rubbed his fingers over the huge bite mark I had made. As soon as Sam left my bed side, Josh came over and sat next to me on my bed. I sat up and no one tried to stop me this time. “You did amazing in there. Sam said you have great will power to go that far in the condition you where in. I was so worried for you.” He said to me gripping my hand.
Sam came back in and sat on the other side of my bad. “I called Professor Heyla and she wants to see you. Is that okay with you? She wants to explain what were going to do with you next.” He said to me when he sat down. I looked at Josh. He looked at me and shrugged. I looked back at Sam and nodded. He nodded at the door and Professor Heyla came in. Sam left and I heard my door shut softly.
Professor Heyla sat on a chair that had been pulled up next to my bed. She turned to Josh first. “Josh. Question, what magical abilities does Lucy have?” I looked at Josh who held out his hand. I gripped it and began talking.
“She’s a telepath who can read, control and change minds. She is a top level magic user. She has the ability to drink a vamp dry. She loves human blood. She can re-draw people’s marks...“Professor Heyla was counting them off on her fingers. Josh quickly let go of my hand and looked away from me. That hurt me more than anything that had happened today.
Josh looked at Professor Heyla and she nodded. She was smiling and was looking at me. “Josh can ability read. If you have ability’s, Josh knows about it. You need to be put in some new classes. They will alter your timetable a bit and you will have less time to yourself and less thoughts and feelings to yourself but that is the substitute you must make. You will find it here tomorrow and you will have to start the new classes on Monday.” Professor got up and left.
When I heard the door close I looked up at Josh who wasn’t looking at me. I tried to grip his hand but he pulled away from me. What had I done to upset him? I had to know so I probed into his mind.
How am I meant to know that she isn’t going to control my mind or mess around with it? She needs to prove it to me somehow but how? Do I love her enough to risk it?
I got out of my bed and sat next to him. I pulled him into an embrace and whispered into his ear. “I will never read your mind again. I will never control your mind and I will never change your mind. Even if you are asking me to do it I won’t.” He pulled away from me and held my hands in his. I smiled and he grinned back.
“You still able to meet my parents tomorrow?” He asked me and I nodded. He leaned over and kissed me long and hard, driving me back to a lying position on my bed. He was laying next me propped up on his elbow so he could see me. I was smiling so he put one of his hands on my waist. When I didn’t object to that, he leaned over and started kissing my neck, putting his other hand on my shoulder. I leaned into him and we just stayed there for the rest of the night.
When day was emerging, Josh sat up and pulled me up with him. He walked over to the door and opened it. There were still some students out but Josh didn’t care. He gave me a long goodnight kiss and said he would come and get me when his parents were here. He kissed me on the check then left, waving to Angela who was watching us intently.
When Josh had turned the corner Angela came over to me with a smile on her face.
“When did you two start making out in corridors?” she asked me sarcastically with a wide smile.
“Yesterday when he kissed me.” I said with a smile on my face. Angela clapped her hands and jumped up and down saying she knew we would work out. I made an excuse to leave her, turned away from her and entered my room. I went straight to me bed and collapsed on it. I thought about Josh’s parents and what they would think of me with my weird mark and special abilities.
I got changed into my night clothes and set out some clothes for the next day, collapsed on my bed again and slept.
I woke up to the sound of a knocking on my door. I call out to see who it is and Josh replied. I shout for him to come in while I get dressed in the bathroom. I put my make up on and let my hair down into long waves.
When I emerge from the bathroom Josh is sat on my bed wearing his normal casual clothes. I’m also wearing smart casual clothing so I let out a sigh of relief that I won’t feel out of place. When Josh sees me, he stands up and kisses me on the cheek. I grip his hand and he leads me out of the room.
We walk hand in hand to Josh’s room. I’ve never been in Josh’s room so I was pleasantly surprised when I entered. I saw his purple haired sister sat next to his mother and saw a black haired, blue eyed boy about Josh’s age sat next to Josh’s dad. That must be Mat because I recognised him from Spells and Witchcraft class.
You could tell by the tense silence when I walked in that they all knew about my magic and they didn’t know what I could do to them. Josh’s parents broke the silence and introduced themselves to me. Their names were Silvia and John. After they had introduced themselves I introduced myself with a squeeze of the hand by Josh.
They studied me carefully especially Silvia. She started asking embarrassing questions like how we meet, how long I had been a vampire, who had turned me. I answered all of them honestly until the end of the questioning. They asked me what abilities I had. I looked at Josh and he pressed into my hand with four fingers. Therefore, I told them the first four abilities I had and reassured them that I would never dream of using any of them to harm Josh.
After I had reassured them they were happy and cheerier with me. They had a laugh about how I and Josh met and many other things. When the evening was nearly over, Josh made his excuses and took me out of the room. He led me back to my room hand in hand and when we got to my corridor he paused then