When I woke up, I saw the round pink face of Dorcas looming over me.
"What are you doing in here?" I grumbled, sitting up and rubbing my head. The thoughts of what had happened earlier recollected themselves in my brain.
Why had that spider boy attacked me? I did nothing to him except turn him human.
"I just wanted to give you this," Dorcas said with a smile, handing me a bracelet.
"Oh, this looks lovely!" I exclaimed as I turned it over and over in my hands. It was leather wound with green and silver beads.
"Thanks, I made it myself," Dorcas said, patting my shoulder before getting up and moving to the door.
"I'll leave you to it then."
I nodded.
"Thanks again for the bracelet," I told her with a smile, before slipping it on to my arm.
"Ahh!" I screeched out, flailing off of the bed. The pain in my wrist was horrible! It felt like my arm was being crushed between two of the biggest sumo wrestlers.
I writhed in pain on the floor, and saw nothing but red.
I tried tugging off the bracelet, but it wouldn't come off. It was like the more I tried to get it off, the tighter it became.
I even tried biting it off, even though salivia is disgusting, but that didn't work either!
It seemed like nothing would work! I slammed my arm down on the floor, and that's when an idea hit me.
I recalled a movie I had seen a few years ago with my sister, a horror movie called Saw.
Yes! There was a scene where the main guy cut off his foot to escape. Maybe I could cut off my hand to escape the horrible pain of this bracelet.
That's what I would have to do, I decided. I didn't want to cut off my hand, but I could see no other way out of this.
I crawled on all fours, too much in pain to stand up, as I walked over to the cabinet in the room. Maybe there would be some sort of device that could chop off a hand in there. I didn't want to have to go all the way to the kitchen!
I was just about to pull the cabinet door open, when the door to the room swung open, and a cold breeze filled the room.
My heart skipped a beat with excitement, thinking that it was Tancred. However, when I turned my head, I just saw The Branko twins standing there.
Aw man.
"I hope you liked the present that dear Dorcas made," the twin who was still a girl said, I think her name is Idith or something.
"Yea, it's from all of us," said the boy twin with a sneer.
"But why?" I groaned. My arm was feeling less pain now, and more numb. In fact, I could barely feel it.
"Because, if you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us," said Idith.
"Exactly, one for all, and all for one!" Joshua Tilpin said as he too entered the room.
I groaned and slammed my head on the floor.
"Couldn't you guys have made something that killed me? Your Mickey Mouse Club speech is more unbearable than this stupid bracelet," I groaned.
"You know, you could join our side," said Joshua.
"Yea...no," I said. I didn't want to join any side, and I especially did not want to join the side of the people who tried to take off my arm!
"Fine then, I guess that means you want to spend the night in the ruins with the beast!" exclaimed Dorcas who suddenly appeared in the room again.
"Whateverrr," I said, rolling my eyes. I didn't see how a bunch of second/first years could take me on.
I'd have to eat my whatever though, because as soon as the words left my mouth, I felt myself being raised a few inches off of the ground.
"Hey, what the heckadoodle is going on here?" I demanded.
"The twins are telekinetic," Joshua answered simply.
"Ugh!"
I kicked and screamed as they carried me outside, but no matter how much I tried to fight, their telekinetic pull was too strong.
"The sun's going to go down soon," chuckled Dorcas as she looked up at the sky.
"Good! I hope you get eaten by a bear!" I yelled out, even though I wasn't even sure if there were bears anywhere near here.
"You're going to pay for that," threatened Dorcas. I then found myself being thrown into the deep dark depths of the ruin!
It was so dark, that I could barely see my hand in front of my face.
"This is so lame," I groaned, flopping down on the floor. All I wanted was to see drama and excitement, but to be locked up in some deep dark dungeon.
"One is the lonliest numberr," I sang out, tapping my feet to the beat, as I waited for something exciting to happen.
Where isi this so-called beast that they were talking about? I wondered.
Was it just made up? I stood up, and turned my head, that's when I saw it.
It was a grey beast with a hunched back, it had the snout of a boar, and the gleaming yellow eyes of a wolf.
My heart started to race in my chest, and my mouth went dry as I backed up against the wall. They weren't lying about the beast, and it looked scary as hell!
As the beast got closer, I saw that it was female, and I always heard that girl animals are usually more aggressive than the males, so I snapped my fingers in hopes to lessen the agression.
I sat and watched the beast for a few hours, but when he didn't attack me, I decided that it was safe to come out.
I emerged from the ruins, finding that I could have left all along if I had just bothered to walk to find an exit.
Oh well, too late to ponder on it now.
"Where have you been?" the matron screeched when I walked into the academy.
"Um, sleep walking," I lied.
"Well, you have a detention!" she said firmly, smacking her lips together, before walking away in a huff.
I already have like seven. I thought to myself, I didn't say it out loud though. Instead, I climbed into bed, and fell into a restless sleep.