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Chapter Forty-One
Miss Drill and Esmerelda landed in the hospital bay, where a very concerned young nurse ran over to Esmerelda when she caught sight of the pupil, Esmerelda though was in a panic, she was further away from Ethel and Sybil and they could be injured.
"NO, MY SISTERS ARE HURT, LET ME SEE THEM" Esmerelda screamed, making to run off but the nurse put her arm in front of her stopping her, that was the moment Esmie wished she could transfer herself, she then could leave without being stopped.
"LET ME GO, MY SISTERS NEED ME, LET ME GO!" Esmerelda screamed crying hysterically as she was refused to be allowed to leave, Miss Drill, and the nurse looked concerned, a lot had clearly gone on to send the girl into such a state.
"You can't go anywhere looking like that, come on let me have a look at your injuries" the woman told her and Esmie cried and shook her head, she knew she needed medical treatment but she needed her sisters more in that moment.
"I will mirror your sisters Esmerelda and check up on them, just let the nurse have a look at your injuries alright?" Miss Drill said and Esmerelda cried more but fell silent, knowing it was pointless to argue.
"I will get Miss Cackle, she needs to know about this" Miss Drill said to the nurse in a whisper before she transferred away, leaving Esmerelda with the nurse.
"Right, let's get you cleaned up" the nurse told her and Esmerelda sat down, worried about her sisters and feeling a sense of dread inside of her.
The woman was just about to start to work on the young girls injuries when there was another popping noise and Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom appeared out of nowhere.
"Oh my goodness, what on earth happened?" Miss Cackle asked as she caught sight of the young teenager.
"Are my sisters okay?" Esmerelda asked, ignoring the question and instead asking after Ethel and Sybil.
"What do you mean?" Miss Hardbroom asked, not understanding where she had come out with that.
"Miss Drill said she was going to check on them, I need to know if they are okay!" Esmerelda replied, feeling tears fall out of her eyes again.
"We have not heard yet dear, can you tell me what happened? How did you end up in this state?" Miss Cackle asked and Esmerelda gulped wondering if she should risk telling the truth or not, obviously if she was going to lie she had to think of a good lie as she was obviously very battered up, so because she didn't want to say the wrong thing, she stayed quiet.
"Whoever did this will be servely punished Esmerelda, you can bet on that" Miss Hardbroom replied, knowing maybe the girl was fearful about what would happen to who had done this.
Esmerelda still said nothing because the nurse in that moment started to clean the blood of her face and she flinched as she touched her.
"Sorry sorry, it will sting, I have to disinfect these injuries" the woman told her as she gently started to dab at the blood.
"Can you not just do magic?" Esmerelda asked, wondering why the woman was going through the effort.
"Not for this, it is hard to make sure I disinfect everywhere with magic" the nurse replied before she turned to the teachers, whispering again.
"Do you recognise the writing?" the woman asked, looking at the writing on the girl's forehead which read 'Freak' in eyeliner. Miss Hardbroom looked at the writing and nodded.
"I recognise it but I can't think who it is, let me go do some research, excuse me" the woman said lifting her hand and disappearing into thin air again. Miss Cackle also whispered something to the woman and then disappeared, leaving the nurse to tend to the injuries.
"What happened to your eye?" the woman asked concerned as it was red and bloodshot, Esmie blinked, only now remembering the pain she was feeling by it.
"Make-up got in it..." Esmerelda told the woman and the woman sighed, the girl could have an infection, she would be able to treat it but it would be sore for a while.
"Don't worry…I can help you...it will be painful but I can help" the woman told her and Esmie sighed, knowing getting the injuries was only the first part of the pain she would receive.
"You know Esmerelda...whoever did this would be in serious trouble...they would be up before the Great Wizard,...we can't let them stay here to do this to someone else...do you know who did this...can you tell me?" the nurse said but Esmerelda shook her head, scared what would happen if she told it was Lily.
"Esmerelda?" the woman said but the girl shook her head and the nurse nodded and carried on cleaning up her face, knowing she would tell when she was ready and she couldn't force her to tell right now.
"Why is Miss Drill taking so long? Are my sisters hurt?" Esmerelda asked starting to panic about why the teacher was taking so long to mirror her sisters and worried it was because she was putting of telling her what she found.
"I am sure she is just making sure they are okay, try not to worry" the woman told the young blonde but she didn't know Esmerelda well, she would always worry, that was in her nature.
Esmerelda sat there for a good twenty minutes being prodded and cleaned up, by the time the woman had finished and Miss Drill was still not back Esmerelda was about to run of when there was another popping noise and Miss Hardbroom reappeared, looking beyond annoyed.
"Is everything okay Miss Hardbroom?" the nurse asked, looking concerned by the look she was wearing.
"I think I have discovered the person with that handwriting" she told the woman and Esmerelda looked at her biting her lip.
"Esmerelda's friend….Lily" the woman said and Esmerelda sighed, she should have known she would be discovered.
"Am I right?" Miss Hardbroom asked because the girl had not said anything in response and she only nodded.
"She wanted revenge because I am head of year, she was using me….." Esmerelda told the woman, knowing there was no point lying about it.
"The only thing is, the girl has disappeared" Miss Hardbroom replied and Esmerelda looked at her surprised, she knew when she had left her she had being on the floor after she pushed her so she didn't know she was missing now, she must have ran off once Esmerelda left the room.
"I don't know where she is Miss" Esmerelda replied, looking at her hands awkwardly.
The woman looked at her and then started to speak in the same slow voice she normally used.
"We will need you to come to Miss Cackle's office so we can discuss this, we need to know what happened" the woman told her and Esmie nodded, having expected that.
"I need to see Miss Drill first" Esmerelda said as she stood up, to go find Miss Drill. She opened the door of the hospital bay and left, only then hearing footsteps coming towards her, she backed into the door scared of who it was until she saw whoever it was round the corner.
"ESMIE" the girl heard, as her heart started to beat faster and faster as she realised her sisters were running towards her, had Lily hit her on the head and she had blacked out and was dreaming? She wasn't sure but in that moment she didn't care.
"ETHIE, SYBIE!" Esmerelda screamed, grabbing them into a hug as they got closer to her but then she heard other voices and her happiness evaporated.
"Come on Esmerelda, we have work soon so we need to discuss this now" Ursula Hallow said as she stood there with her husband Triton.