The Tipple Twins and the Gift by Michelle Cordara

Author:Michelle Cordara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2020-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

JUDGE: Abigail Williams, who is causing you pain?

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS: Martha Carrier. She says she will pull my hair and burn my skin if I do not do what she tells me.

Mr Smith opened his mouth to speak but their lesson was interrupted when the children heard a deathly scream coming from outside in the corridor. Shocked, Mr Smith and the class ran out to see what was going on only to see a year six girl lying on the floor face down. She was grunting words that didn’t make sense and her body was convulsing. Jenna and Jessica walked over to her to try and help her up, and the minute Jenna’s hand touched the girl, she stopped fitting.

Mr Smith then tried turning the girl over, and when he was successful the girl came to her senses. She screamed, ‘It was them! It was those two!’ and pointed accusingly at the twins.

‘What was them? They’ve been in my class the whole time.’

‘It was! It was! It was!’ the girl screamed. ‘They blocked my way,’ she said, sobbing. ‘They made me fall.’

‘Oh yeah? And how did they make you fall if they weren’t here, eh?’ Tommy said when he shoved his way to the front of the crowd. ‘You can’t say they pushed you.’

‘No, no, they just stood there staring till I fell. They blocked my way and wouldn’t let me past. They spoke to me using their minds and not their mouths, and they told me to do things I didn’t want to do.’

‘This is an outrageous accusation!’ Mr Smith cried, and then he paused. ‘But come to think of it, where were you? You’ve been quiet all day.’

The twins pleaded with Mr Smith to try to get him to remember that he was in fact teaching them stories, with events just like this one, but for the life of him he couldn’t remember.

It was when Miss Snippings appeared from nowhere that the twins knew this was going somewhere they wouldn’t like.

‘Bring them to me!’ she screeched from the far end of the corridor, her orange hair glowing in the shadows. The crowd of children parted, making a large aisle for the Tipple twins to walk down, which they did shakily.

Miss Snippings looked at the twins and a cruel grin broke out on her face. ‘So you think you can pull a stunt like that without getting caught?’

The twins backed away, cowering from her.

‘There is only one punishment for girls like you, and that is THE HOLE OF BLACK!’ Miss Snippings cried.

There were gasps of shock from the other children. Jenna had decided to make a run for it but thought better of it when Miss Snippings seized them both by the scruffs of their necks and dragged them outside and to the rear of the playing fields.

‘Surely this is uncalled for,’ Mr Smith said to Miss Snippings, as he tried desperately to keep up.

Miss Snippings seemed not to hear anything anyone was saying. In fact, she seemed as if she was having quite a good day.

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