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Chapter Ten

Esmerelda still had a while to go until her punishment was over and she was suffering so much, she still was waking up wet and having that horrible dream. She tried so hard to stop herself falling asleep, if she didn't fall asleep then her problem wouldn't happen.

It wasn't to difficult at first to keep herself at wake but as it started to near midnight the girl would just be exhausted and feel her eyes closing, she would try everything in her power to keep them open but it would ultimately fail and she would fall asleep, back into the depth of her darkest nightmares.

After the nightmare she would be to scared to get back to sleep so she only ended up sleeping two or three hours a night which meant the girl was exhausted, she knew it would start to show in the quality of her work and things but it wasn't her fault. She couldn't sleep anymore.

To top things off things were only getting worse for the young blonde. The threat from the group of bullies in her year had turned into a reality. They were getting more sly and cruel in their taunts of the girl, and things had gotten more physical. They would shove into her in corridors and pinch her in class.

Despite this things were getting better overall with the rest of the students because frankly the other girls had just lost interest in her. They weren't surprised anymore by her grades or the compliments she received and most people ignored her completely, except for Gladys, Amy, Millicent and Delilah.

Miss Drill had kept them for hours at the detention and lectured them about how they would be having a lot more if she ever found them bullying Esmerelda, or any other pupil again. They had played the guilty card and told her they had learned their lesson, only as soon as they were free they went back to tormenting the blonde girl, although they were smart bought to be more careful now they knew Miss Drill was on to them.

Esmerelda had to give them credit though. The girls were smarter than she thought, they saw that she was vulnerable because she was missing her sisters and were using that to their advantage to get to her. Esmerelda though was still not to bothered, she tried not to have much to do with them and keep her head down, she was just glad the rest of the school was not bothered about her anymore, she was left alone, which was just the way she liked it. Only she wasn't to know that she would once again be the talk of the school for the wrong reasons.

Esmerelda dressed into her pyjamas as soon as her lessons finished because she was not planning on leaving her room again and she wanted to be comfortable as she had some studying to do. As soon as she sat down at her desk she covered her mouth in a yawn, exhausted from her lack of sleep but she had to finish this homework tonight or she would fall behind.

It was hard to stay awake but she kept her eyes open long enough to finish her essay. She read through it twice to make sure it made sense and was a good quality piece, anywise Miss Hardbroom would just make her do it again. Once she was happy with it, she put it in the drawer on her desk so she knew where it was and looked at the time.

Midnight.

The girl had been working for hours and was utterly exhausted. She didn't want to go to sleep because she knew that horrible nightmare was waiting for her but she wasn't stupid either, she knew it would be utterly impossible to stay awake so admitting defeat she walked out her room to use the toilet before returning to go to sleep. She hopped into bed and as soon as her head touched the pillow she was out like a light.

She slept soundly for a while until the nightmare kicked in. It was not going to give the girl a break and it went the same way as always. Esmerelda miserable at home and then returning home after the summer holidays only to find the horrific sight of her sisters' bodies because of the neglect they received.

The girl tossed and turned as the nightmare played out trying to make the horrible images disappear from her head. She cried out for her sisters and tears streamed down her face as she flailed around.

As the end of the dream played out and she came across her sisters in the bedroom normally the girl would wake up screaming and struggling to catch for breath just after the bed had being soaked but today she felt herself coming out of her nightmare earlier than normal because she could feel someone prodding her and pulling her. She started to wake up just as her sister's faces came into view, feeling herself being pulled away from dreamland and back into reality.

She woke up screaming loudly at the dream, her ears ringing and unable to see. She could hear distant laughter but had no idea what it was. She couldn't see, her eyes were open but she couldn't see anything, it was as if she had all of a sudden gone blind because her eyes would not focus.

As she was still in a dream like state she felt herself start to urinate which was not surprising because it always happened when she had that nightmare, normally though she was sound asleep when it happened but she couldn't of stopped it this time even if she wanted too, she couldn't move she felt like she was in a zombie like state so she couldn't do anything as she soaked her sheets.

"HALLOW" she suddenly heard someone say as she came back to reality properly, her hearing was coming back slowly and so was her eyesight and suddenly she was back in her bedroom at Cackles, wide awake, drenched in sweat and soaked through. It was only as her eyes started to focus she realised she was not alone.

She looked around and at first saw her window was opened, she could have sworn she had closed it but she shifted her gaze and suddenly saw Gretel, Wendy, Delilah and Millicent all stood around her just watching her. She looked at them confused, wondering why on earth they were in her bedroom whilst she was sleeping.

"What is going on?" Esmerelda asked confused and shocked.

"We just thought we would pay you a late night visit" Gretel told her and Esmerelda looked at her amazed and then worried.

The last thing she wanted was to be surrounded by the girls who bullied her whilst she was soaked through, luckily she had the covers on so they couldn't see that but she was still worried and tried to act normal so they would not catch on that something was wrong.

"What were you dreaming about? You were screaming for your mummy!" Wendy said as she laughed in the blonde's face. Esmerelda though knew that was a lie, she would of being screaming for her sisters not her mother, so she knew they were just making things up.

"I was not screaming for my mum" Esmerelda replied annoyed.

"You didn't answer the question what were you dreaming about? Failing a test?"Millicent replied and her group of friends laughed with her.

"Why would I dream about that?" Esmerelda asked confused.

"Because it is the thing you dread the most isn't it teacher's pet?" Gretel said as she stepped forward to pinch the girl.

"OWW" Esmerelda said rubbing her arm from the injury.

"You are so pathetic Hallow" Delilah said as she laughed but the bully didn't laugh as she looked over at Gretel who looked confused.

"What is wrong with you?" the girl asked her friend who seemed to be looking around curiously.

"Why does it smell like pee?" the girl asked and Esmerelda pulled her covers up higher, hoping they didn't realise it was coming from her direction.

"I don't know" Wendy said as she twitched her nose as the smell suddenly hit her too. She looked over at Esmerelda who was fiddling with her covers and the rest of her friends followed her gaze, seeming to realise where she was looking.

Esmerelda was not paying attention and trying to avoid the girls gazes when she suddenly felt someone pull her covers off and saw the girls just staring at the wet spot that was on the sheets.

"Eww gross" Delilah said looking disgusted.

"That is super disgusting" Micellent said grossed out.

"Do you know know what a toilet is?" Wendy asked shaking her head but Gretel looked thrilled about it rather than disgusted.

"Well Hallow you will be the talk of the school once everyone finds out you still wet the bed" the girl said smirking evilly.

"No don't..." Esmerelda said knowing if that got around she would never live it down or be able to go outside of her bedroom again.

The four girls looked at each other and laughed before they walked towards the door.

"EVERYONE ESMERELDA HALLOW IS A BED WETTER" She heard Gretel shout out towards the direction of the other bedrooms.

Esmerelda lifted her covers on the floor and cast a quick spell towards her door locking it, before she threw the covers over her head, hiding from the world and crying softly to herself. She was never planning on never going outside again.