The Accidental Witch by Gemma Perfect

Author:Gemma Perfect [Perfect, Gemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gemma Perfect
Published: 2019-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Ellis

I’M SCARED. AND SAD. And scared.

I want to go home – I miss my mum and my dad, and my brother, and the dead people.

I’m sitting here listening to them talk about crones, and different species and how much danger I’m going to be in if anyone finds out about me, and I’m actually shaking.

I don’t let them see – they’re all ignoring me anyway – but I hold up my hand and I’m actually shaking. Like jelly.

How come I’ve got all the power, but I feel like I’m nothing.

Fletcher keeps glancing at me, smiling in what I assume he thinks is a reassuring way, but is actually just a bit creepy.

And I want to cry.

I won’t. Not in front of Ember. She’s so scary. She’s beautiful and haughty and I know that she wants to kill me.

Fun!

And so does this one: Griff. He’s odd looking – dressed like he’s from Dickensian times, a beard so straggly I bet there’s food caught in it from last week, and there’s a twinkle in his eye – but not a nice one. I wonder how many people he’s killed – I just know it’s more than one, I just –

Oh!

This is weird. He has killed someone, more than one, more than a few, and I am watching him doing it – like a daydream, or a flashback to something I haven’t seen in real life.

I feel sick, in fact, yup!

I rush over to the sink, it’s the only place I can think of, and I throw up, loudly, more than once.

Fletcher is at my side in an instant and Elodie is the other side. He’s patting my back and she’s passing me tissues, so I can wipe my mouth.

I turn around and Ember is looking at me like I’m the vilest thing she has ever seen, and Griff is – well, he’s a murderer who wants to kill me – and he’s imaginative in how he does it.

Oh, I can see it again – it’s a vision, or a memory? His memory. Fletcher is looking at me with concern, but I can’t see him: I can see a man drowning in ice cream – Griff is just holding his head in the bowl until, oh he’s dead. Why would you use ice cream? It’s so mean.

And this woman now, he’s impaled her with an umbrella. Nice chap.

“Ellis!” Fletcher’s voice is loud and, thankfully, pulls me out of a disgustingly murderous reverie.

“Yes?” I try to look normal and I know I’ve failed because he looks really worried now.

Griff comes to stand by Fletcher, and I shrink back – I can’t help it. This man is awful.

He reaches out a hand and I scream. “Don’t touch me – don’t you dare!” Sparks are shooting out of my fingertips again and Ember laughs.

“Elodie – you need to control the accident.”

I whip around and point at her and a flame actually shoots out of my hand and I can smell the singe of burnt hair.

Furious she stomps over to me, hand up, but Elodie stands between us.

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