Chapter Twenty-One

Constance landed on the hard floor of her bedroom and instantly fell forward onto the floor. This would be the first and the last time she ever stumbled when transporting. Constance grabbed hold of the bed rail and forced herself into an standing position hissing in pain.

She looked down at her clothes and she realized she looked an mess. Her dress was ripped and had blood and mud from the ground she had been lying on on it. Constance walked to the bathroom and started to run the taps in the bath before undressing and slipping into the hot bath water.

Constance picked up the sponge and bottle of shower gel and squeezed an large amount of the liquid on the sponge before she started to clean her arm.

It was strange. The men were nowhere near her now but she still could feel her skin tingling and she saw the bruises up on her arm. She wiped her arm but she still felt dirty as if no amount of cleaning would get rid of the men's scent on her skin.

"Come on please" Constance said as she aggressively rubbed at her arm leaving it red and sore looking. She threw the sponge down and started to cry finally letting the tears spill out because of her ordeal as she got over her shock and realised what had happened.

The next morning Amelia was walking down the corridor humming to herself as she enjoyed her free period from teaching. She had not seen Constance since she had left for the training course but she was not worried as she knew Constance normally transported straight to her room after she had walked past the pub. It was also not unusual for Constance to skip breakfast, something Amelia didn't like, in order to mark work. Basically there was nothing unusual about the circumstances.

The first sign that something was off was the noise Amelia heard. Both Celeste and Constance had lessons that morning and of course as Celeste teaches chanting noise comes out of her classroom in the form of the pupils singing and Lantana's classes were always noisy as the woman let them talk as they worked but Constance's classes were always quiet, no-one would be able to hear her class in the corridor but today was different. There was an racket coming from the classroom, Amelia could hear shouting and talking.

Curious, Amelia set of walking in the direction of Constance's classroom wondering what the noise could possibly be about. Arriving at the potions lab Amelia was shocked at what she found as she looked through the window.

The third years girls were running wild. They were stood on chairs, some even stood on the desks and were dancing and messing around. The girls were yelling across the room at each other and they were throwing paper at each other. Girls had phones out they had sneaked into the school and were tapping away on them quickly. Amelia felt the fury rising and opened the door just as an paper aeroplane flew over her head. Amelia was not one to shout but this was ridiculous.

"WHAT ON EARTH?" she shouted as the students turned realising she was there. "SIT DOWN NOW ALL OF YOU" Amelia shouted.

The students rushed to their seats knowing Amelia was annoyed as they were not used to hearing her shout at them. She walked to the front and stood in front of them only then realising Constance was not there.

"WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON HERE?" Amelia asked before looking around "Where is Miss Hardbroom?" she asked.

"I don't know she didn't turn up this morning" an red haired girl told her headteacher.

Amelia was furious, the woman was still on probation did she not value her job at all? But she couldn't worry about that right now first she had to sort out the pupils.

"And none of you thought to come and tell me you didn't have an teacher?" Amelia asked. No-one responded to this she was met with silence. Amelia folded her arms and looked at the pupils.

"Right all of you stand up and follow me" Amelia told them.

"Er, you just told us to sit down I have just got comfortable" an blonde student complained.

"Enough of your cheek Bellatrix Candlelight, do as you are told" Amelia said as Bellatrix along with the other pupils stood up.

"I want you all to wait outside for me as I have an word with Miss Blackwell, Midnight and Cauldronnite" Amelia said as the rest of the girls left and the other three went up to Amelia.

"Give me your phones" Amelia said as these were the three girls she had seen texting. The girls all looked at each other before handing over their mobiles.

"You can have them back at the end of the year" Amelia said as she left and the girls followed her and joined their class.

Amelia led the third years down the corridor and into Celeste's classroom where she was teaching the forth years.

"Miss Moon, I am very sorry to disturb your class but Miss Hardbroom has been delayed would you be able to watch the third years?" Amelia asked. Amelia could of course watch them herself but she had something she had to do.

"Yes of course, we are practising our duets today girls, can you please each join an group?" Celeste told them as the girls went to find an group that was free, Celeste turned to Amelia to whisper.

"It is not like Constance to be late where is she?" Celeste asked

"No idea, but I am going to find out" Amelia replied as she left the room just as the girls started to sing.