Be mine

Chapter 4| In the clutches of the lioness

After the big speech that Miss Hardbroom gave us, I hurried with my friends into the great hall to have breakfast there.

Mildret and Maud took a seat across from Edith and me. Together we waited for Miss Tapioca to slap our food on her plate as she did every morning.

When I saw this tough, almost solid, pulpy mass standing in front of me, my stomach began to twist.
I couldn't see this pulp anymore.

It had already cost me a lot of effort in the last few years not to spit him out again.

"Well then, bon appetit!", Mildret said with a slight smile and began to shovel the stuff into his mouth.

The others did the same.
Only I held back.
I stared at my food in silence.
It was high time we got another cook.
Otherwise I wouldn't survive the school year long.

Edith inconspicuously pinched my arm.
,, Hey! What are you doing? "I hissed to her angrily.

,, Eat something. Otherwise you will never survive the first two hours at HB. "

Everything in me contracted.
"We have Hardbroom in the morning? I thought we were going to do magic first and then broom sports? "I said hesitantly and looked at my tanned friend in confusion.

Edith piled her spoon full of the porridge and looked at him.
,, I thought so too. But Mister. Rowan Webb still has a few things to do in town and Miss Drill doesn't want to have to teach five classes on the first day.
So we only have Miss Hardbroom left. ", She sighed and pushed the spoon into her mouth.

She hadn't mentioned anything during the address.
Except that we should work hard for the coming year and that we were not allowed to leave the school building unaccompanied before or after school.

She didn't want to tell us why.
Oh dear. Hopefully there was no danger lurking around us.

Again I looked down at my porridge and had to swallow.
I took the spoon and choked down the first serving.
I grimaced in disgust before gobbling down the next one.

,, Eli? I don't know what you did this time, but HB seems to have you in its sights. ", Edith whispered softly.

What? Miss Hardbroom was watching me?

I looked up and, like the others, let my gaze slide inconspicuously over the tables until he stopped at our potions teacher.

Indeed.
Her dark eyes fixed me.
I saw something strange flicker in them.
I growled.
Clearly schadenfreude.

When a small smile stole on her lips, my stomach started to rage unintentionally.

I had to brew a potion in front of the whole class today.
She knew how bad I was with the ingredients and that I was a total screwdriver at brewing.
I pinched my eyelids to slit.
You wanted war?
Then she should get it too.

,, Eli? Everything OK? ", Mildret brought me back to reality.

,,Yes everything allright."
I waved one hand and went back to my meal.

Immediately after breakfast we fetched our backpacks from the rooms and immediately made our way to the potions laboratory.

Once there, my hands suddenly started to sweat.
I couldn't go in there.
Not today.
Especially not when I knew what to expect.

My friends entered the dark room without me and sat in the back row in the back row.

I swallowed as I carefully stepped through the door.

Just as I was about to go to the others, two hands placed an iron grip on my shoulders and delegated me to the teacher's desk.

"Well, not so hastily. You didn't mean to seriously dodge your upcoming assignment, did you? "The icy voice of my teacher penetrated me.

My whole body is shaking.
Not out of fear, but because I was quite confused about their proximity.
The urge in me to turn around to press my lips against yours grew with every second.

Shit. Shit. Shit.
I was not allowed to give in to my desires and certainly not to beat the potion!

Completely unprepared, my teacher turned me around and looked deep into my eyes for the blink of an eye.

"The ingredients are on the blackboard and the recipe in the book on page 111. Start brewing!" She snarled at me and took a seat in her chair.

With trembling fingers I opened the desired page and froze.

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