Chapter 31

I stayed on the bed for as long as I could, not moving. I was embarrassed. He just …. Left me hanging.

“Ughhh!!!!” I screamed I to the pillow. There was no way I was going to live passed this. Things were definitely going to be awkward tomorrow.

“,Ughhhhh!!!” I screamed again I to the pillow. Why couldn’t I just go things right? I should have stopped him. He clearly was not the one In control. I knew this and u still went ahead to let him.

“But you enjoyed it” a little voice whispered at the back of my mind. I pushed the voice to the furthest part of my mind. This was clearly not the time to think about it.

I scolded myself. But I knew I was lying to myself. I could still feel his hands on me. The way he pulled me up to straddle him while standing.

I was pulled out quite violently from my daydream with a slap.

“Are you go to get up? Or do you need another slap” Melissa said, standing hands on her hips and looking like she was ready to slaughter me.

“The fuck is wrong with you” I said looking at her with anger. I never knew how, but I knew each of them by face even though they never showed their face to me while introducing themselves. It was like my mind drew an accurate picture of all their faces and then boom.

“if you think for one second that the witches won’t be back hen you have another thing coming. And then little dog boy won’t be able to save you.” I wanted to object to the way she called Eric a dog boy.

“save that anger for later. You’re going to need it” before I could even ask what she meant, she pulled me to the mirror. “I’ll advise you to close your eyes” suddenly, the floor beneath my legs disappeared, the air smelt funky and then weird loud noises greeted my ears. Blurry images filled my mind till I found one. It looked very much like the field in my last vision. But this time, there was no blood and there was nobody on it. It was plain.

Soon, the floor started to form beneath my feet again and the images became more and more stable.

“Here we are” Melissa said, spreading her hands around. I looked around, or at least tried to before I had to empty my guts.

“I told you to close your eyes.” She rolled her eyes, but still have me a bottled water and a towel. I took it from her, not even bothering to ask where it was from.

“Now,” she said when she saw that I was settled. “I am sure you know what powers I possess.” She smirked, wiggling her brows at me. I shook my head slowly to the sides. I never really asked.

“What? You know what, never mind. I am a fire being. I was literally carved out of fire.” She said with this air of pride. “Don’t tell my sisters this, but I think j am the best.” She jokes. “Anyway, let’s get to it” she pulled me up from my sitting position on the floor.

“today, what you did. It was horrible. The power of fire you possess is dangerous. The more you use it without control, the more it consumes you. You were lucky Maya was in the mood. She had to wipe Eric’s mind if you using fire more than once. He might love you, but you don’t know what he is capable of. For now, till you have your power under control, don’t go flashing it In his face, or anyone’s for that matter.” She said giving me a sarcastic smile. And then patted my head like you would a child.

“now, I’m going teach you how to control your power and your emotions.” She had this crazy lady look in her eyes, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to know what she meant by that.

She brought out two band from her pocket and then placed them on my wrists. They were heavier than they looked cause immediately she put it in my hand, the hands dropped. They were getting heavier to keep raised up.

“What ..what is this?” they didn’t feel like bands, they felt like chains

“They channel your energy. You distribute them well and they became lighter.,” I looked at her.

“How the hell am I going to do that?” it wasn’t like she was trying to help me out, and it was becoming unbearably painful having them on.

“every one is different. For my mum, the way she channeled her energy was through calming her nerves, doing things that brought joy. For my grandma, it was her nirge, her mate” she explained when she saw how confused I was.

*And you?” I said in a low voice. She smirked “I thrive in chaos. I control it, never letting it get the best of me. I enjoy the thrill of letting it almost mess with your head, just to overcome it” as suspected she wasn’t normal as her mum and grandmother.

“Look for what works for you. I would hurry though, your hands don’t seem to be as strong as I thought”

I tried everything, from my mum, to my dad, to everyone I knew. Nothing seemed to be working out. There was no channeling my energy like she had said. The stupid thing seemed to be getting heavier and heavier.

“Come get this stupid thing of, it’s not working” I said suddenly getting angry. She wasn’t not listening to me, or pretended like I did not say anything. I tried to touch the bands to remove them but it didn’t work out. Instead, I ended up hurting myself trying to remove it.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you, don’t remove it. You’ll get hurt.” She said without a care in the world and then brought a book out from god knows where and started reading.

I sat on the floor. Thinking hard on how to get this thing of off me. It felt like my hands were going to drop at any point because of how heavy it was.

Loneliness, that was the first thing I felt. I felt alone and for once, that was the it didn’t bother me at first.

A spark.

It was so little, I wouldn’t have noticed it if it weren’t for he smoke.

My hands felt lighter, just a little bit, but I noticed it.

“Embrace what you just found.” Melissa called out, and I listened.

Hold it tighter” and I listened. I welcomed the dark Intrusive thoughts that followed. I felt the sparks increase and my hands become lighter. “thats enough.” But I couldn’t understand what she meant.

I went into panic mode.

“Eloise! You need to calm down” I liked around. The sparks had turned to a fire. A full on fire.

“I don’t know how to” I said with tear filled eyes..

“you are not enough. No one loves you. You are ugly…” the dark thoughts began to come louder

“Eloise, don’t let whatever it is you are hearing control you…” Melissa said shaking my hands. But at this point, I feared it was too late.