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Chapter Thirty-Seven
Esmerelda rushed out of her bedroom and over to Lily's bedroom before she knocked on the door, hoping her friend was in her bedroom. At first Lily didn't say anything at all and Esmie thought she wasn't there until she heard her say 'come in' in a small timid voice, clearly wondering if her blackmailer was at the door. Esmie opened the door and walked in seeing Lily's shoulders relax as she saw who it was at the door.
"Oh it's just you, I thought it was going to be another note" Lily told her friend, relieved.
"Lily...I know" Esmerelda said to her friend, knowing it was time to find out the truth and she didn't want to put it off. She wanted to get this conversation over with.
"Know what?" Lily asked looking confused at her friend.
"About the spell, I know what spell it is, I found it in one of my books in my room" Esmerelda told her friend who didn't say anything, clearly in shock.
"Why are they blackmailing you with this spell? Was someone you know cursed? Or did you use it on someone?" Esmerelda asked her friend who gulped, clearly hoping Esmerelda would not find out the truth.
"Well….I can't..." Lily said looking down at the floor like it was suddenly interesting.
"Lily….you can't expect me to just forget about this….you know that spell was used on me last year and we weren't friends at the time" Esmerelda told her friend and Lily looked at Esmerelda biting her lip, knowing she had to tell her something.
"I should have known you would find out the truth, after all you are the smartest person in our year" Lily stated and Esmerelda did not know, and could not tell by her tone if she was saying it in a spiteful way or not.
"Don't underestimate a Hallow, we will find out the truth if we really want to, now spill, tell me everything" Esmerelda said, her tone growing more impatient with the girl.
"Okay fine I will tell you everything, you are right, that spell is the whole reason I am being blackmailed, it does mean something to me" Lily said in response to Esmerelda.
Esmerelda looked at the girl and folded her arms, waiting impatiently for an explanation.
"I was the one who cursed you with it" Lily went on and finally Esmerelda knew the truth. She had being cursed last year by Lily. She felt her anger rise but tried to remain calm, wanting to hear the whole story before jumping into a fight.
"I suspected that you had something to do with that, why did you do it?" Esmerelda asked, knowing it probably had something to do with the girls who had bullied her last term.
"The gang of girls threatened me, they told me they would start on me if I didn't obey, I know that sounds bad but I didn't want to be bullied so I went along with it" Lily said knowing how bad it sounded even as she said it.
Esmerelda was angry. She had gone through months of embarrassement and worry last year over that stupid curse and Lily's excuse was something selfish. Esmerelda knew they had not being friends at the time but it was a low thing to do to anyone.
"Do you know what I went through? Being laughed and mocked, I thought there was something wrong with me, and all the time it was a horrible prank" Esmerelda said shaking her head and pausing before she kept on talking.
"Why did you not say anything, once we became friends?" Esmerelda asked her, wondering why she had not come clean to begin with. If she had Esmerelda would of being angry but she could of realised Lily had made a stupid mistake, it was the fact she had hid it from her for so long that she was angry.
"I didn't realise they would keep the spell going so long, they said it would be a one time thing and then they would lift it, I only found out once everything came out last year" Lily said as if that somehow made it better.
Esmerelda looked at Lily and in that moment she knew the girl was lying. She had two younger sisters, one of which was masterful at lying when she wanted to and Lily was lying in that moment, her lips were moving, and she looked edgy as if trying to think of the story on the spot.
"You are lying….you knew they weren't going to drop the curse didn't you?" Esmerelda commented, coming to that conclusion because she didn't know what else she would be lying about.
Lily suddenly stared at Esmerelda with a blank expression and Esmie had to admit she was confused as to why she was looking at her like that. She looked quite scary in that moment, a look she never would of guessed she saw of Lily.
"What?" Esmerelda asked, feeling odd by the way Lily was staring at her.
"You still don't get it do you?" Lily asked confusing Esmerelda even more.
"Get what?" Esmerelda asked, more confused than she had ever being, she had no idea what Lily was talking about. She knew Lily was lying but how was she supposed to know why she was lying?
"I did use the curse on you, because it was my idea to do it" Lily said looking at the girl and smirking as if it was a joke.
"And may I ask why?" Esmerelda asked before she finally had a brainstorm. Memories and stuff rushed through her head in that moment.
How she thought someone was watching her, knowing someone had being in her bedroom, the blackmailer giving the note to her, how the blackmailer had known she had that book in her bedroom, something didn't add up and Esmie came to a horrifying conclusion.
"Wait….who are you…..the blackmailer it…." Esmerelda said not understanding what was going on.
"Well done, yes I am the blackmailer, all the notes and everything I did myself" Lily told Esmerelda as she smiled.
"But why would you blackmail yourself?" Esmerelda asked her, not understanding that part.
"Because I had to pretend to be blackmailed to get your attention, I had to make you feel sorry for poor little timid Lily" the girl said putting on a sweet expression and small voice, her voice hard turned hard and mean "and then you would solve the riddle yourself, I couldn't tell you outright the truth now, it would spoil my plans" Lily said and hearing the word plans scared Esmerelda.
"What plans?" Esmerelda asked even if she kind of did not want to know the answer.
"It was easy when they were still here to hide, I was on the sidelines, pretending not to pay you any attention when really I was the mastermind behind it all, the curse, pushing you off the broomstick, all the things the girls did to you, I thought of them" Lily told her revealing she was not who Esmie thought she was.
"Wait...you worked with Delilah and that lot….and you allowed them to be expelled?" Esmerelda asked equally shocked the girl had not stuck up for her friends. Lily suddenly laughed, a cackling evil laugh.
"Then girls were a bunch of idiots, of course I wouldn't take the fall for them" Lily replied. "I don't need them anymore" Lily said and Esmerelda realised then that the girl cared about no-one but herself, she had betrayed her friends and with that Esmerelda knew she had to do something, she had to leave, now she knew who Lily was she did not want to see what she was capable of. Lily had being playing games with Esmie the last year, the true mastermind behind everything last year and throughout this year. Esmerelda rushed to the door to escape, but it was locked tightly.