Never Ever ~ Hort x Reader~

chapter 5

the next morning i was woken by lady lesso over the pa saying; "wake up despicables!" she yelled and i groaned as i got up, and for some reason, sophie was out of her bed, i thought she would've swapped with aggie, but she was being perky and was getting ready for the day. 

I rolled out and groaned "yayyyyy." in a sarcastic tone before taking off my nightgown and putting on a dress I had picked up from the dressing room on my way back from the welcome ceremony. 

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I made my way to my first class of uglifying and sat on the desk next to hort, when our teacher walked in.

"uglify! why do we need to be ugly?" he asked. hort let out a longing sigh, probably for my all perfect sister as always getting the guy i wanted. "hort!" he said, banging his stick on horts desk. "wake up."

"oh, because it makes little children cry." hort answered, very not in the mood. 

"wrong. thats merely a bonus." hester growled at sophie, sitting in front of me as she got a dump of liquid. "why be revolting and repugnant?" he asked sophie.

"my question exactly." sophie replied. god this girl needs to keep her mouth shut.

"not caring how you look," the teacher continued, asking to dot with a pillow tied to her head, "forces you to use intelligence." he knocked himself on the head with his spoon. "ugliness id freedom!" he laughed then coughed out a tooth that hit hort then went to sophie's bowl. "my tooth just fell out. its disgusting. and i dont care. and that is power!" the nevers cheered. all but sophie. "now drink up and see how ugly and powerful you can be. reader." he said. obviously referring to my sister. i was chill with it. "you're first."

"no. i dont wanna be ugly." poor souls gonna be dead by dawn. "its not who i am" dot and i laughed.

"not yet. hort!" he called.

"uh, yes, sir, professor manley. sorry about this." he said, shoving her face in the goop. and it gurgled. we all laughed at her and followed, doing the same.

next was lunch. i walked with hort to the cafeteria, got my food and sat, eating and talking to him. we watched as the others on our table threw food at the evers. "god i hate her." i said, not registering i said that out loud.

"who? hester?" hort asked

"what? oh no. sophie. she always had everyone's attention and was praised as a child, but all because when i was 5 i accidently pushed my mum down the stairs, killing her, means im an outcast. more than her."

"you mean she was an outcast at home, too?"

"yeah, she hung out with the 'witch' apparently and was a witch by association. literally. i got more hate than anyone, though. my mother was a beloved woman in our town, and 10 years later they still hate me more than i hate myself. and thats saying something." hort chucked and i smiled. the bell rang and we walked to our next class with lesso.

"every villain has a special talent they can hone into a powerful weapon used to defeat their nemesis." lesso explained

"whats a nemesis? hort asked

"your archenemy." hort bent over and wrote it down. "your story will not end until one of you is destroyed. now. i want you to dazzle me with whatever you believe you unique talent to be." i started to think of last night and how she made me angry, assuming i would be next, firing myself up. "hort." she banged her walking stick on horts desk. called it. "your first."

he started going on a rambled explanation on how hes a werewolf or something. the he concentrated and grew a little hair in his chest. lesso gave him a lecture and he sat down as lesso walked to me.

"huh." she said. "another reader. thats odd, meh. what is your talent y/n?"

'ok' i told myself. i breathed in and out deeply then created a red and black glow flow through my fingers, hands and up my arms, my eyes glowing red too. my hair flowed as if it were in water, but entirely dry. the energy started to grow so i turned it off and calmed down.

"huh. from a reader that isnt too bad, actually" lesso said and moved on, i was quite proud of myself so i started daydreaming of hort when i heard the name sophie. oh this will be gooooood.

"well, those who are truley good can summon the animals of the forest. i used to do it with my squirrel friends."

"oh god, give it up." hester said, also very done with her. "why dont you go summon a cliff and go jump off it." i giggled and watched the two bicker.

"why dont you find someone else to have mommy issues with."

"dont you dare talk about my mother." she was pissed now. "you know nothing about her."

"i know she did one hell of a good job turning you into a raving lunatic." hester got up and walked to sophie's desk

"i despise you, you freak. and everything you stand for"

"which just proves that i am at the wrong school."

"you wanna get out of here princess?" hester mocked and we all laughed. "this raving lunatic's unique talent would be more than happy to get rid of you permanently." please. "hester pulled back her hair, revealing her tattoo, which eye started to glow and anadil and i giggled. 

we all got up and out of they way for them to fight. suddenly, the tattoo came alive and it burst into flames. i watched as sophie's face dropped. the demon flew to sophie and she ducked and screamed. she hit it across the head with a chair and hester stepped back, obviously impacted. even more pissed, hester and the demon got up and headed to sophie.

"careful reader, its getting close. use your talents."

"i dont know what they are!" sophie screamed. "help me! help!" she screamed at her squirrel fiends.

"aww, the squirrels dont like you either." hester moved closer, mocking sophie. "poor little princess" sophie gasped. "let me put you out of your misery,"

"she's gonna kill her!" anadil squealed and the rest of us laughed, but hort.

sophie screamed when suddenly 10 hives worth of bees smashed through the window, attacking only the demon. hester tried to get the bees away, but she couldnt and started to collapse, breathing heavily, grunting and groaning in pain. 

"sophie, you're not allowed to kill anyone until after graduation. call them off."

"stop!" sophie yelled and the bees dropped the bat and became rafal.

"you're doing wonderfully... sophie."  the bees then left and the demon and hester became one again and she was still sobbing.

"get out of the way, move! hester!" anadil ploughed through people with dot close behind and i slapped sophie across the face.

"what have you done you absolute bitch?" i said and walked off to comfort my friend.

"you're fine, its ok, its gonnna be ok, its ok." anadil whisper-yelled

"its fine just clam down and breathe" i said and picked her up and out of class.

"we'll make sure you're fine, ok?" dot reassured.

sophie then got dragged to behind the classroom hopefully for a lecture when everyone left and i carried hester to sick bay and left her to recover. it took about an hour for the potion to fully set in so she was back for period 4. the rest of the day we spoke of nothing and flew by.