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Chapter Thirty-Eight
"Come on Lily let me out of here" Esmerelda said pulling on the door handle as hard as she could. When that failed she lifted her hand to perform a spell but Lily ran in front of her and smirked.
"I wouldn't do that Hallow, you don't want to anger me" Lily told the blonde, glaring at her as she smirked evilly.
"What do you want from me? Why are you doing this?" Esmerelda asked failing to understand why this girl hated her, they had never even spoken until they became 'friends', Esmerelda did not know why she would hate her.
"You took what was rightfully mine Hallow, so now I am going to take something from you" Lily replied, confusing Esmerelda as she had not taken anything from Lily, or anyone else.
"I don't have anything of yours….I have the mirror but you gave that to me" Esmerelda replied wondering what on earth Lily meant about what she had said.
"I am not talking about that stupid mirror, I am talking about that!" Lily said glaring at the belt wrapped around Esmerelda's waist and Esmie looked down still confused.
"You want a purple belt?" Esmerelda asked as her friend has a green one. She wouldn't of done all this over a stupid house colour would she.
"Oh you idiot, you don't get it do you, I don't give a stuff about the colour, I was supposed to be head of year" Lily shouted, growing impatient with the girl.
Esmerelda looked at the girl like she was mad. She knew most girls, apart from the ones who hated responsibility, would off loved to be head of year bur the fact of the matter was they based it on who scored highest at the selection day exams, the fact Lily had scored lower than her was not her fault.
"It isn't my fault I scored higher than you at the entrance exams though, what do you mean it is rightfully yours? I won it!" Esmerelda replied angrily. She could feel her anger rising because the girl was making it sound like she snuck into her bedroom and took the belt of her the first day of term.
"My family is quite like yours Hallow, an old witching family, not quite as old as yours but still a well known family" Lily replied as if that answered what Esmerelda had just asked.
"What is your point?" Esmerelda asked wondering what that has to do with anything.
"Whereas your family is famous for the Hallow name and morals and your wealth my family is famous for another reason, every year since witches in my family started attending this school, the witches from my family would always be the girl chosen to be head of year, there has never being a year without a witch from my family that did not have one as the head of year" Lily replied bitterly towards Esmerelda.
"Look I am sorry, that is awful I broke your tradition, but you can't blame me for beating you, I wasn't trying to beat anyone, I was just trying to make sure I passed my entrance exam and I happened to win the top grade" Esmerelda told the girl truthfully. She had at the time just wanted to make sure she got into Cackles, she hadn't done it on purpose, she had just happened to make her potion correctly and be graded the highest mark, anything could of gone wrong but luck was in her favour that day.
"That day, I made my potion perfectly, it was the best potion, you didn't seem to be seeing it as a competition, you were calm but I wasn't, I wanted to win, I needed to win for my family, whenever I saw one of the girls make a potion wrong I couldn't help but feel happy, I knew that most of the girls were hopeless at potions and I knew that title was mine" Lily said and Esmerelda looked at her, listening to the story.
"HB and Cackle hated most of the girls potions, most of them didn't work right and the ones which did were unimpressive to say the least, but then they got to my potion and they were beyond impressed, it was a level 8 spell and I had made it flawlessly, I shouldn't of got excited to soon because I was wrong to think I had already won, there was only you left to show your potion" Lily told Esmerelda, glaring at her the whole time.
Esmerelda tried to remember Lily from selection day but she couldn't everyone had being to focused on task to talk to to many people. It was hard to remember that day when everyone was just worried about landing a place in the school.
"And then they went over to your potion and if they liked mine well they loved yours didn't they, they said it was the best potion they had ever seen a first year produce and gave you 98% for it, you had gone a bit wild on the gillyweed apparently and the affect was slightly to strong, but your score was almost perfect, I got 97% you had beat me by one tiny mark" Lily told the girl, looking at her with a deep hatred in her expression.
"I didn't tell my family, hoping over the summer they will add up the scores wrong and I will still be head of year but then on our first day they gave it to you, and for the first time, my family had failed at meeting up to their tradition" Lily told Esmerelda.
Esmerelda listened and did in a way feel guilty, she could sense as Lily spoke to her how much being head of year had meant to her but something just didn't add up to Esmie, would she really do all this over a stupid bit of gold trim on a belt?
"So all this is because you didn't get to be head of year? Nearly killing me, cursing me, making my life sheer hell….over a belt?" Esmerelda asked, wondering if that was only the tip of the iceberg and there was more to the story.
"It is not just a belt, my family were ashamed of me once they found out, they have never have looked at me quite the same way since I told them I was not head of year and some Hallow girl was, thinking I am the failure of the family because of it, and then you just had to go and be little miss perfect didn't you, the teachers fussed over you from the first day you were here" Lily told Esmerelda, blaming her for all the pain and shame she had being through these last two years.
"I hate people treating me like that, it is not my fault, I don't try to be a know it all you know" Esmerelda told Lily, frustrated with her for putting her through all this hell for such a stupid reason.
"I don't care whether you like it or not, you have destroyed my families reputation and made me a laughing stock, though I will admit that was not when my hatred for you really started" Lily told her friend and Esmie looked at her confused.
"When did it start then?" Esmerelda asked, wondering what she meant.
"It was when you started the flying club, flying was one thing I was flawless at in this school, the best in the flying club, and then you came along and made me a nobody again" Lily shouted, so angry at Esmerelda.
"I didn't want to join, Miss Cackle forced me because she wanted me to make friends, it is not my fault" Esmerelda told Lily, wondering why she couldn't see that.
"I don't care what you wanted, that was the moment I started to hate you, you have to be better at me at everything don't you? That was when I decided I needed to seek revenge!" Lily glared at the girl.
"Look I am sorry I..." Esmerelda said, trying to explain.
"I don't want your stupid excuses, I am making the rules now" Lily told the blonde who looked at her, growing concerned.
"What does that mean?" Esmerelda asked, worried.
"I already told you, I am going to take something from you like you took something from me" Lily told the girl and before Esmie could so much as blink robes were binding her wrists together and she was being tied up in a corner.
"AHH Lily get these off me" Esmerelda fussed but she knew it was not good. Lily was staring at her wearing a deadly look, and she knew she had big plans for her and Esmerelda was worried about what she was going to do to her.