Page 45 of The Fae Girl 1

I turned, my eyes widening as I saw them. As I saw them all.

I shook my head, pushing the door, shoving it as hard as I could but it wasn’t enough. I wasn’t enough.

They laughed shoving it back. I fell. Landing hard onto the floor.

“Aww look at her face.” Matt said as he leant down, flicking a strand of hair off my shoulder. How he’d got inside the girl’s dormitory I didn’t know, but he was fucking Bianca so I guess he had ways.

Bianca laughed. Katie cackled.

Sian shut the door. Shutting us all in.

“We’ve been waiting for you.” Tilly said grabbing my hair, yanking me around by it.

I cried out. I lashed out. Five against one was shit odds by anyone’s standing.

As the punches started, as the kicks started too, I stopped fighting. I curled up, protecting my head, protecting my ribs.

They didn’t care if they left bruises. They didn’t care if they broke bones. The school wouldn’t question it. Not really.

Besides I wasn’t going to admit who’d done it. The whole school hated me. Even the teachers hated me. No one gave a damn who’d beaten me up because in truth, most of them had hit me at some point or another.

I screamed as a boot collided with my ribs. As they cracked on impact.

Someone grabbed my hair again, wrenching me up. As I looked up in horror Matt stood in front. Only it wasn’t Matt anymore.

He was taller. His body far more muscular. But that look, he had the same awful look in his eyes as he stepped up to me.

I screamed. I screamed so loudly. Fighting. Ignoring the searing pain in my side but they others held me too tightly to do anything.

He stepped closer. Knife in his hand.

“All Fae are a freak of nature.” Fain spat before he lunged at me.

“Wake up. Wake up.”Mira said shaking me.

I lashed out, mercifully missing her as I woke up fully. As I realised it was just a dream. Just another awful nightmare.

My body was covered in sweat my clothes stuck to my skin and my hair felt like it was plastered across my forehead.

I threw the covers off. Got out of the bed. But almost crashed into the wall from the dizziness that hit me.

I’m going to puke.

I closed my eyes, trying to mentally calm myself but all I saw was Matt superimposed with Fain and it made it worse. So much worse.

“It’s just a dream. Just a bad dream.” Mira said soothingly as she went to hug me but I flinched away.

I didn’t want to be touched right now.

I didn’t want to be anywhere near another person.

“Come on sit down.” Mira said guiding me to the chair nearest the fire.

Indi and Nela watched on but kept quiet.

Mira poured a drink and put a blanket around my now shivering shoulders.

I stared into the glass, waiting, knowing that the horrible memories would fade but my heart was still pounding as though I was there, as though they were here, still attacking me.

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