Conjuring Dragons by Chante Francis (surface ebook reader TXT) 📕

"Silence Ms. Janan! I wasn't asking you." He huffs, "Macintosh! Flint! Darling! My office. Now!"

"Yes sir." Octavia says straightening up. Covered in burns and charred clothing she sneers at me until she’s pushed back up against a wall. Again. I watch as the wind abruptly dies down and she falls to her knees with a thud.

"Darling!"

“Yes?” I ask startled.

"Sorry, I was only trying to blow out the flaming embers on her clothing sir." Veronica says snickering. A look of pure innocence masking her face that only an idiot would believe. We go down together. There’s a reason we’ve always been kicked out of a school at the same time.

"My office!" He bellows again and everything begins to go back to normal. Everybody’s jaws snap shut and they start moving, trying to gather their things while not getting caught staring at us. Fueled by my own still simmering anger, I walk over to Jason with everyone’s eyes on me. I look at Octavia to make sure she’s watching; when I see that she is I lean on my tip toes and bring Jason's head down to meet my lips. It's a soft slow kiss that ends before I get any response from him, but it works perfectly as I see Octavia plummet to the ground completely.

"That was more than unnecessary and you took things too far." Jason says to me angrily as he pulls me out of the cafeteria towards the principal’s office. He lets go of my arm, expecting me to follow, and we continue with the silence slowly eating me alive. Coming down from an adrenaline rush is a bitch.

"Jason?" No answer, "Jason??" He just keeps walking away from me to the main office. When we finally get there he knocks on the door before walking in and sitting in one of the chairs in front of the principal’s desk. It’s only a few minutes before everyone else joins us and we sit there awkwardly as the principle uses his magic to survey what happened.

"Macintosh, you are suspended for the rest of the week."

"Yes sir."

"Flint, you will have in school suspension for a day. It would seem that you caused this fight to happen."

"Yes sir."

"Darling."

"Which one sir?"

"Both of you.” he says pinching the bridge of his nose and closing his eyes. "You are suspended for 11 school days.” He opens his eyes, “Now all of you out of my sight!"

"Why do we have the longest punishment?" Veronica and I ask at the same time.

"I don’t know how things worked at your previous schools, but behavior like what I just watched you and Ms. Macintosh display is absolutely unacceptable. You have a longer punishment because as new students you need to fully learn and understand the severity of your actions today. I prefer to nip a problem in the bud before it can fully bloom. I don’t want this happening again. Your punishment is the longest because I said it is." Octavia and Jason walked to the door to wait in the lobby for the parental units.

"What if we fix everything?" He raises an eyebrow at us. "You know? Heal the whore and repair the cafeteria?"

"We do not use that kind of language in this school ladies." He chastises us, "Your punishment stays the same."

"But--" I start. Veronica quickly cuts me off before I can make things worse, "Yes sir."

We walk out of the room back into the main office where we sit on the opposite side of the room from Jason and Octavia, neither of them meeting our eyes. Veronica closes her eyes and gets to work on her growing headache, while I start healing the pain from the fight. Now that the adrenaline has completely worn off I was seriously starting to feel it all. Damn, the bitch really can fight.

“Can you really heal her?” Jason asks without looking at me.

As an answer, I eventually swallow my pride and walk over to them. I raise my hand so that the palm is facing her, shut my eyes and begin the slow healing process. It’s hard to keep my focus and I can feel my powers starting to overwhelm me but I don’t stop. Jason is watching me and I don’t want Octavia thinking I’m weak.

"Hello, I got a call from the school principle, Mr. Wylde, about my daughter Octavia Macintosh?" My whole body stiffens.

"Ah. Mr. Macintosh, please come into my office." I hear shuffling as Mr. Macintosh walks into the principal’s office, but before the door can close the principal calls out, "Mrs. Blaize, Mrs. Flint, this way please."

Aw shit. I finish up with Octavia quickly and run back over to Veronica. We both sink back trying to blend in with our chairs.

"Kids." My mother calls as the adults exit Mr. Wylde's Office. We obediently stand and follow our respective chaperones out of the office and through the front hall past curious students to our doom. The car ride home is silent and when we get there, we only receive frowns and a promise that the subject will be discussed when Gregory and Matthew get home. Thankfully they let us escape to our rooms until then.

After a few hours of just sitting around the bedroom I was still sharing, I finally build up the courage to go seek out Jason. I find the room he’s been occupying in an attempt to avoid me with little difficulty and knock. "Who is it?" He says in monotone.

"Me." When I get no answer I knock again but he doesn’t say anything so I just walk in to find him sprawled on the bed staring at the ceiling. "Jason?"

"I know she can be difficult, hard to deal with sometimes, but she didn’t deserve that. You completely humiliated her in front of the entire school.” He looks at me, “Why didn’t you tell us you had your powers? Or that you guys were that strong?"

"Jason I--"

"Get out. I want to be by myself so can you please," deep breath, "Please just leave me alone? For now." Without another word I quietly walk out of the guest room and head back to ours where I find my sister sitting on the bed.

"Carter's mad at me. He won’t even look at me."

"I know how you feel."

"They sure now how to make you feel guilty right? This is the first time a man has ever made me second guess myself... I don’t like it."

"Want to go--"

"Jypsie! Door!" Rebecca yells from downstairs. My sister pats my hand as I get up from where I was sitting next to her to see who’s here. When I get to the top of the stairs I blanch at the sight in front of me, completely sure that I’m about to hurl.

Chapter Twelve

Octavia was lying on the couch with her hands above her head, her chest angled upwards and her legs wide open with her tiny little skirt showing off her thong. Classic slut right? But that’s not what made me freeze. Not what shattered my heart, and made me feel like the world, my world, collapsed and I was the only thing left standing there clutching at the black hole where my heart once was.

Jason was laying on Octavia, pinning her body down with his, her legs wrapped around his thighs. He had one hand on her hip and the other holding her hands above her head. With every hard ragged breath they took, my black hole grew until it consumed me. All I could do was stand at the top of the stairs and watch as they embraced each other.

"Jypsie." I turned my head and noticed for the first time, all the adults sitting on another couch watching them. Everyone except my new adoptive mother Gianna of course, who not only called to me, but brought me to their attention as well.

"Baby..." Jason trailed off struggling to get up, only to fail time and time again because of the way he and Octavia were tangled together.

"Come here please. Mr. Macintosh wants to speak to you for a few minutes." Rebecca says as she tries to read my blank face. I sigh and walk downstairs towards them, my body on autopilot while my brain tries to function. I stood behind the end table separating both couches waiting for them to tell me what they needed so I could leave before I killed someone.

"Hello Miss Darling, my name is Jack Macintosh. I'm Octavia's father." Jason and Octavia finally disentangle and sit up straight smoothing out their clothes. "I have been fully informed on what has happened earlier today, and I just wanted to come over and apologize to you personally for my daughter’s behavior. She was out of line to attack you over something she knew from the beginning wasn’t hers to begin with and I'm very sorry that she did. I hope that you please accept my sincerest apology. I also hope that you and my daughter will be able to work through your differences, so that this doesn’t happen again."

"I'm sorry for hitting you; none of this was your fault." Octavia says actually managing to sound like she’s sorry.

"If that’s all, I would like to return to my room." I say speaking for the first time with a voice that portrays how empty I feel.

"Are you alright dear?" My mom says, possibly hearing the void in my voice. The vacantly hollow dull ringing of my words as they fell barren from my lips.

"I'm fine."

"Well I probably should be leaving now..." Jack trails off, "Martha will be dropping Olivia and Priscilla here after their karate class." He walks towards the door but stops and turns around to the rest of the adults. "I thank you again for allowing Priscilla to play with her, as she has trouble making friends with the other girls in her school." Gregory and Rebecca nod to him understandingly and Octavia looks down as he finally leaves.

The other adults leave the room, heading in different directions as I just stand there thinking maybe, just maybe it wasn’t what it looked like. Jason wouldn’t hurt me like that right? And our parents wouldn’t really just sit back and watch him cheat on me right? They were the ones who brought me here and had been trying to push us together after all.

"Well I’m just going to head to the kitchen. Do you guys want anything?" Octavia asks standing up, attempting to play nice. Jason shakes his head. I just watch her as the black hole recedes and the shattered pieces of my heart come together again. I had to have overreacted; I mean they probably just fell on the couch like that.

Octavia leaned down and kissed Jason on the lips, his eyes went wide and my tattered heart just turned to dust scattered in the wind. She pulled back abruptly and looked down at him seemingly surprised at what she just did. “I’m sorry. I know we’re not together anymore, old habits just die hard you know? I mean we only split today, I’m going to need some time to adjust.”

A breeze flew through the house and we all turned to see Phaedron standing in the door way looking like I felt. He