The Rock's of Beauty by Meghan Escott (books for new readers TXT) 📕

or stereotypes of this world. Now that I am of water everyone is starting to hate me and challenge me. My teachers are challenging me to duels which they think they can win. It will be better for everyone if we just left.” I said gently whipping the tears off of my face.
“We? Sam's going to.” Josh looked disappointed with me as I nodded. “It won't be better for me. You really think I can survive if your gone. I never got over you Lucy and I will never forget out time together.” He got off of the table and knelt down next to me. “You are the best thing that has ever happened to me and I will never ever forget you or the beautiful time we had together. Just give us another chance Lucy.” I realised that Josh was begging me for another chance. He was down on his knees begging for me.
“Josh,” He looked up into my eyes. I couldn't say it out loud so I whispered in his ear. “Kiss me.” He looked up surprised at my request and took me hands, pulling me up to let me stand.
“Really?” Josh asked and I almost shook my head but the temptation to kiss him overpowered me and I nodded. Josh moved his hands to my waist – slowly as not to surprise me and to give me time to back out. I put my hands on his shoulders and then slid them to his neck, the position so familiar to us from when we were together.
“Lucy,” Josh said as he was pulling me to him to close the gap between us. “I don't care what you are or what other people think of you. I just want you. Right now.” What he said echoed around my head and as he was closing the gap between us, I pulled on his neck and I kissed him.
He was surprised as I had kissed him but after a moment of hesitation, he kissed me back. He pulled at my waist and pulled me to him so we were pressed against each other. He then slid his hands from my waist up my back so I was as close to him as he could get me. I slid my hands through his hair and I scratched at the back of his neck making it bleed slightly.
We both smelt the blood but Josh more so. He moved his lips from mine and kissed across my mark and down my neck to the space where he had bit the last time he fed from my neck. He kissed it over and over again until I was sure I could not take any more and then he bit. I dug my nails into his back making him gasp for breath before his mouth latched onto the bite that he had made and he started to suck my blood.
“Careful honey. Control your hunger.” I whispered in his ear and he immediately started to suck slower and with less impatience making it more pleasurable for me and him it seamed.
After a minute or two, I gently eased his mouth away from my neck and picked up his fingers to heal the bite on my neck.
“Do you want me to feed on you?” I asked him gently and he shook his head, pulling me to him again and kissing my lips once more. The kiss was nicer and gentler. Less urgent and instigated by him this time. He smiled at me when he pulled away and I just wiped the blood away from my neck. I lifted the back of his shirt up and I slowly healed the places where I had made him bleed. I spent time touching his back and his neck making him shiver and moan softly.
I looked at the time on the clock and then lowered his shirt and he turned to face me.
“We have to go Josh. I can't be late to Survival. Prof Buttercup may actually kill me. Will you come with me?” I asked him holding out my hand which he immediately grasped. However, he did not follow me out of the room, he pulled on my arm and pinned me against the wall. I immediately got scared but I covered it up quickly.
“I love you.” He said softly before kissing my cheek and leading me out of the classroom back to Spells and Witchcraft. We picked up our stuff with the rest of the class and then went down to Survival together. On the way I got out my mobile and text Angela.
I kissed Josh and he fed on me. Was good. Don't know what to do :L
She replied almost immediately.
Meet me in my room after Survival. We need to talk.
I put my phone back in my pocket and looked at Josh who was smiling and waving to people that he knew. They looked strangely at me but I just ignored them and focused on walking straight.
When I got into the changing room, I took a bottle of blood out of my bag and gulped it down while every other girl was staring at me. I got changed in the silence that was surrounding me and then walked out quickly to meet Josh at my locker. Before I could get to my locker Professor Buttercup signalled to me and I walked over to him.
“Sam tells me your leaving tonight.” He said quickly. “I wish you luck at your new school and I hope that would come back and visit us and maybe even teach for a while.”
“Thank you Professor. I think you're the first Professor that has actually been luck giving to me for leaving.” I said thankfully and then walked back to Josh and my locker. He pulled me into a hug and whispered that he loved me in my ear again. I smiled back at him and then kissed his cheek. I then took his hand and we went running around the track for the remainder of the lesson.
After Survival, Josh took me back to my room and then left for his room. I went down the next corridor and went to Sam's sections and down to Angela's room and knocked. To my surprise, Sam opened the door and let me into Angela's room. She was sat on her sofa with two glasses of blood for her and for Sam.
“Angela, you didn't.” I said to her neutrally. She nodded sorrily and I worked out that Sam had had Angela's phone when 'she' text me to meet her here. “Angela, how could you?” I said sadly.
“He was here when I got your message and I couldn't stop him. But I was right to let him get you here.” She said looking between me and Sam. He was looking at me sadly and I didn't know what to think or do.
A knock on Angela's door interrupted the awkward silence that had spread to every part of her room. Sam went to the door again and opened it to Eric.
“Sam. The Head wants to see you now.” Eric said looking on to the scene that was happening in Angela's room. His eyes lingered on me and then his smiled slightly as he turned back to Sam.
“I'm going too.” I said into the silence.
“No.” Sam turned to face me staring at me straight in the eyes. “You will explain to Angela why you decided to kiss Josh in an empty classroom and why you allowed him to feed on you.”
“I'm coming with you Samuel Jahd. I don't care whether you want me there or not. I am coming.” I said back to him staring back at him. He turned to Eric and said something to him and then walked out into the corridor and slammed the door shut with Eric now inside the room. I turned to Angela and then to Eric and they both ganged up on me.
A magical force was pushing me down to the floor, not allowing me to move in any direction. At once I surrendered to the spell, surprising Eric who transported me to my room in my section. He magically punched my stomach, making me fly through the air and bang into the wall of the bedroom and land on my back on my bed. Eric immediately made some magic roped and tied my hands to the head rest of my bed. Eric then sat on my thighs and pinned my shoulders down.
“What are you doing Eric?”
“I'm going to figure out why you made the great decision of cheating on Sam and by doing this, you can't get away from me.”
“I didn't decide to do it. It just happened okay.”
“What exactly happened Lucy?” Eric's voice softened, surprising me. “You can tell me what happened.”
“We told Josh at break that we would be leaving. We had the next lesson together and he was actually crying. Prof Heyla sent both of us to an empty classroom and she told me to cheer him up. I was just trying to explain why we were going to be leaving and he started begging me – actually begging me down on his knees – to give him and me a second chance of being together. He said some lovely things and I just kissed him. Then he bit me.” I was crying and I could feel the tears dripping down my cheeks. “I didn't feed off of him. I'm so sorry.”
“I'll tell Sam what happened but first you must transport with The Head. Take my hand.”
Chapter Twenty

We landed on the beach and I could smell the ocean in the air. I automatically started running towards the water and then stopped. I turned to see The Head muttering a spell or two and then stepping onto the surface if the sand.
“You will not be allowed to disappear whenever you would like,” The Head said with a harsh tone. “That school will not allow it. No more water. No more Murray.”
“How do you know my kings name?” I asked him quickly not recognising the huge error I had made.
“Your king?” The Head asked in wonder. I nodded my head forcefully. “It all makes sense. The obsession with being in the water and the cut on your arm.” He grabbed my arm and turned it up to the sunlight. It had started scarring and the new flesh shone in the sunlight. I ripped my arm away from him and turned my back on him. “Damita?”
I turned to face him. I momentarily dragged him into my brain and showed him me and Murray sitting on the throne's in the middle of the sea, the others celebrating around us.
“You are remarkable.” The Head said as he dropped to his knees. He kissed both of my hands and then looked up admiringly.
“I'm not royalty,” I shouted at him. Echo's drifted around the open space. “I am a normal person. That's all I want to be.