The next morning, I met Alec in the square. It appeared as if Tyler and Celine had gathered a crowd of their closest friends and apparently those friends had gathered their friends, because there were a lot of people encircling the perimeter of the square.
"Alec!" I called as I saw him be pushed from the crowd into the square. "Over here!" He jogged over to where I was standing, blushing slightly from the cold.
"Is Tyler on his way?" I asked.
"He's already here." Alec nodded his head to the far left coner of the courtyard and Tyler emerged from the crowd, followed by Celine. The two joined hands and pranced over towards us smiling.
"Ready to learn your final lesson Jane?" Celine grinned and laughed in a high pitched bell tone.
"Back out while you still can Alec." Tyler said solemnly. "Me mates and I will understand."
"We wouldn't dream of backing out Tyler." I sneered. "Although, I would think, that you would like to reconsider what you're about to do."
"Me?! Why is that?"
"Celine, you as well. We wouldn't want you to burn yourself again, like yesterday."
Celine glared at me while subconciously stroking her burned hand.
"Tyler, I really don't want to be blind like an old man." Alec grinned and winked at me.
"Pah, witchcraft, that's what that is." Tyler scoffed. "Me Mum says there's no such things as witches."
"Yes, you're lying, and you're not going to scare us out of a fight." Celine agreed.
"Well, then let's get on with it." I said and the four of us moved into the center of the courtyard. When the other children realized we were beginning, they began to cheer wildly, chanting Celine and Tyler's names.
"Say when, mate." Tyler yelled over to Gregor Neddy.
"And… GO!" Gregor screamed.
Tyler ran out at Alec the second Gregor uttered go and slammed into him knocking him to the ground. A split second later, the fire inside of me was lit and burning more vigourously than yesterday. It was spreading even faster now through my body, making it's way down my arms and through my elbows. It halfway through my forearms when Celine ran into me throwing me to the ground. The shock sent the fire flying back into me chest although almost instantly it was back at my wrists. I struggled against Celine as she held me against the surface of the square. I glanced over at Alec and notcied he was squinting hard at Tyler from underneath him. Finally, the fire reached my fingertips and I grasped Celine cheeks between my palms. A bloodcurdling scream escaped her lips and she pulled her face from my grasp and leapt up off of me. Ten feet to my right, Tyler was rubbing his eyes and yelling for Gregor to call the fight.
"I can't see!" Tyler yelled. "Ya bloody son of a-"
"Alec!" I screamed. I ran over to him and reached out at Ian Mcquery who had ran out and was running at Alec. I grabbed his wrists and let the fire erupt from inside of me. Ian screamed and tried to rip his wrists away from me. All of a sudden something hard hit me from behind and I crumbled to the ground. My eyes closed and I didn't wake up for a long time.