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Chapter Eight
Fighting and Punishment
Mr Hallow stormed up the stairs and went into his daughter's bedroom with Mrs Hallow not far behind. Like he had done with Cory he clutched hold of the girl's arm and dragged her out of the room.
"OWW GET OFF YOU ARE HURTING ME" Esmerelda shouted out in her drunken state.
"Be quiet!" Mr Hallow told her dragging her down the stairs and into the sitting room. He uttered a quick spell under his breath making the girl become more sober, it wasn't the best spell in the world as it could not get rid of the drunkenness in it's entirety but it took the edge of it.
"Triton what is going on?" Ursula asked again as she was still clueless as he had stormed past her without answering before.
"I will tell you what is going on, if I hadn't of walked in our daughter's bedroom when I did, she would have had sex with some strange guy!" Mr Hallow told her
"I beg you pardon?" Ursula said shocked at what he said to her.
"You heard me" Mr Hallow said as he pushed Esmerelda onto the sofa in the sitting room, the girl tried to move so he used a binding spell.
"No you are not going anywhere, you will listen to us!" Mrs Hallow told her as she went to sit down to join her husband.
"You are fifteen years old, this behaviour is disgusting and unacceptable!" Mr Hallow told her as he glared at her, his eyes blazing with anger.
"It is what teenagers do! Younger people than me have done it, you are making way to big a deal out of this!" Esmerelda told them
"No we are not, how could you be so stupid, it is disgusting and dangerous, do you want to be another statistic that manages to get herself pregnant as a teenager?" Mrs Hallow asked her on the same side as her husband.
"I am not that stupid" Esmerelda told them with a sigh
"Oh well with how drunk you were I am surprised if you knew your name let alone to use protection!" Mr Hallow told her and Esmerelda turned bright red as this was super embarrassing.
"Okay I am sorry, I didn't end up doing anything so can we forget this now?" Esmerelda asked fed up of them going on about it. She knew she had been reckless and would be more careful next time but they were going way to overboard like they always do.
"Why would you even consider it? You are supposed to be smart and think these things through!" Mrs Hallow told her daughter shocked and disgusted.
"I don't know! Maybe for once it felt nice to have someone there other than myself! I don't get to see my sisters because of you two!" Esmerelda told them, blaming them.
In all honestly she was glad it had been stopped. She had a feeling she would have regretted it but she was being truthful in the fact it wasn't about having sex it was being wanted by someone and not pushed aside until it was time to show them off to their friends.
"Oh grow up Esmerelda, we have work to do we can't be doing things with you all the time!" Mr Hallow told her thinking it was not fair to blame them.
"But that is the thing isn't it! You don't do anything with any of us, you treat Ethel like dirt for no reason, and then you wonder why she acts up!" Esmerelda shouted at them, feeling the anger inside her boil over.
"That is not true! We give all three of you everything! You are just ungrateful!" Ursula told her daughter wondering where this behaviour was coming from.
"A child does not need a diamond necklace, they need love and affection, someone that cares if they are injured or how they are feeling, you only care about that stuff when bragging about us!" Esmerelda replied angrily, the drink giving her the confidence to say this when normally she wouldn't dare.
"We do care!" Mr Hallow told her
"Oh that is why when you found out Ethel was in the most dangerous wood in the history of the magical world and still hadn't returned you just left without bothering to go check if she was okay! Normal parents don't do that!" Esmerelda told them
"Ethel was not by herself, she was with classmates and adults" Mr Hallow replied raising his voice as he fought with his eldest.
"Oh and what about the fact that when mum went to visit after she found out that Sybil had being trapped in a fire she didn't even ask how she was or if she okay after her ordeal she was more concerned with finding that stupid founding stone!" Esmerelda shouted back, thinking of an another example.
"I knew she was fine as I could see her! Why are you trying to make things more than they are?" Ursula asked her.
"Because you two don't care about anyone but yourselves, I have no magic and you don't care enough to help me, there is solutions but you are putting them off and I am fed up of keeping quiet!" Esmerelda replied close to tears and she didn't even know why.
"Enough! You know we are working hard to try find a way to get you your powers back, but if you carry on with this ungrateful teenage attitude maybe we won't bother!" Mr Hallow told her.
"Oh whatever, I don't care anymore" Esmerelda told them fed up of them playing games with her. If she wanted her powers back she would have to do it herself. She knew that now.
"Well if you are so upset about it maybe you should have thought about that before deciding to give your powers away for no reason" Ursula told her still annoyed at her daughter's stupidity in what she had done. She had being so angry at both Esmerelda and Ethel at the time she found out but her anger towards her eldest had died down a little now.
"I didn't give them away fro no reason! I did it for Ethel because Agatha was going to take one of ours either way!" Esmerelda told them knowing they old not understand as they never did anything for anyone. "I couldn't let Ethel give up her magic!"
"Well maybe if you weren't so gullible you would see the little brat knew it was Agatha!" Mr Hallow told them unable to believe Esmerelda could actually be so gullible. When the story had been replayed he thought it was fishy that a headmistress was asking students for their magic, he didn't understand how his eldest had been so blind to that.
"Ethel is NOT a brat, don't call her that!" Esmerelda shouted instantly going into defensive mode over Ethie.
"She acts like one!" Ursula replied and Esmerelda sighed.
"She is a good person, she is just trying to get your attention but you are too blind to see it!" Esmerelda told them logically. She knew Ethel was good she had seen it before and would always see it, she could be good she just craved attention so much she misbehaved. Ethel was not bad her parents just never bothered to look at the bigger picture.
"QUIET! Mr Hallow shouted "I don't want to hear another word, you will not be leaving this house again, in fact you will not be leaving your room again!" he told Esmerelda.
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Esmerelda shouted, thinking that was abuse to keep her locked up like an animal.
"I can and I will, food will be brought up to you, you will be allowed out three times a day to use the bathroom and the rest of the time you will be locked in!" he told Esmerelda who glared at him.
"I will not stay locked up, you can't make me!" Esmerelda shouted. Ursula slapped her daughter hard and glared.
"I have had just about enough of you, you will do what you are told, now get upstairs before we drag you up!" she told Esmerelda who stormed up the stairs as she felt her cheek burn, but it wasn't to shocking, she had been hit a few times before. Not that she went around telling people that.
She went in her room and cried, not knowing what she was going to do to stay sane anymore. Without magic the only way out with her door locked was through the window, but her room was on the third floor and she didn't want to die, not whilst she still had sisters to think off. For their sake, and her own, all she could do was play along until she could find a safe way out.