Do You See Me

Chapter Eight: To Be Or Not To Be.

Jessica's POV

It's been a week now since I've been at this weird school for witches. Robert has been a great friend and everything but I know he is hiding something from me. Mr. Porter finally has allowed me to go to regular classes since my teachers have tried to kill me. All and all its been crazy.

Lunch comes around and Robert is no where to be found so I take me food to my room. "Have you heard there's vampires trying to get in the school?" Two girls are in the hall and I stop. "Vampires?" They look at me, "Yes. Heard they are looking for a student." The other shrieks, "Jill please stop you know that scares me." Jill laughs and they walk past me.

So Adrian is looking for me. I head into my room when my head feels like it's going to explode. I fall to the floor throwing my food as I scream.

"Jessica!?" Roberts voice tries to reach me put a snarl stops him from coming to me. I feel a hand reach for me but a flash of light causes everything to stop.

I wake up laying in my bed. Voices cause me to sit up as I look to the door Robert walks in. "Are you feeling alright?" He sits down next to me and I look at my hands confused and meekly nod my head. "Yeah I'm fine. Are you?" He looks confused by my question but quickly nods and smiles at me. "I got you some food since you dropped your when you tripped." Tripped? I didn't trip I... Smiles up at him. "Thanks. That was really thoughtful of you."

He stands and walks to the door. "Mr. Porter has given you permission to stay in bed the rest of the day." "Oh no I'm okay." He frowns and looks sternly at me. "No you need to rest you fell pretty hard." I look down. What the hell happened to me. I didn't fall or trip, I was... "Hey it's alright Jess. It happens." Looks up at him confused. "Huh?" He laughs. "Everyone trips when in a hurry." "I didn't..." He walks out shutting the door."Jessica?"

"Who's there?!" Looking around I feel cold air. "Jessica?" "Adrian? Is that you?" I try to get up but my legs fail me and I fall back on the bed and the cold air disappears just as quickly as it had came.

I look down to my hands I notice a faint symbol on the top of my hand. The more I stared at it the more it showed. What is this? I softly trace my fingers over it and I feel something stir inside of me. 

I slowly stand and grab my textbook and look up symbols. Flipping through the pages I find the one on my hand. "Used by the oldest coven the triskelion in circles by the pentacle was the symbol that showed who belonged to the Triple Moon coven." Reading further, "The Triple Moon Coven was hunted by other witches in order to obtain their powers and to gain their life essence..."

I drop the book and step back. "They weren't just trying to kill me! They wanted to gain my life." Did Mr. Porter know who I was? Adrian where are you. I shake my head and sits back on the bed. "No I can't think that way and I need to clear my head of this." Someone might invade my mind and learn this knowledge. Looks at my hand and sighs. Hope makeup will cover this pretty well. Lays down and takes a deep breath. "I'll just go to bed early to clear my head."

Robert bangs on my door the next morning. "Jessica you are going to be late!" I jerk out of bed and look out the window confused. What happened? I get up and start getting dressed as the memories of yesterday come back to me and I look down at my hand. There's nothing there!? "Jessica?" Sighs and opens the door. "I'm coming."

School goes by in a daze as I think of what the book had said. "Jessica? Are you listening to me or sleeping in class?" The teacher glares at me as I look up at him. I look around and all the kids are holding back laughs. "I'm sorry sir I'm just not feeling very well today." He shakes his head and hoes back to teaching.

Great. How embarrassing was that. Now everyone is going to joke about this. The bell rings and I hurry down the hall. "Jessica?!" I stop and look around, "hello?" Looking around, "Jessica? Baby please com......" The voice softly fades as I realize it's Adrian. "Adrian?! Where are you?" I start shouting as people start to pass me. "Wow psychotic too." The laugh and I sigh and grab my things before running to my dorm.

Half way there a loud ringing noise rings and I fall to my knees clenching my ears in pain. "Jessica?" My sight blurs as I see a mans hand reach for me. "Jessica! Please no!" Robert? Is that you? Black fills my vision as the ringing disappears.

BEEP! BEEP! The monitor hums my heart rate as I slowly wake up. I feel a warm sensation in my left hand and I look down and see Robert bent over the bed I'm in holding my hand. "Robert?" My voice croaks out an unnatural sound. He slowly roses his head and smiles softly. "Hey sleeping beauty." His smiles is true but when I look in his eyes all I see is despair and pain.

"I guess I was sicker then I thought." I try to joke but he pulls his hand away. "Mr. Porter will see you now." His voice is cold that for some reason the heart monitor slows. He walks out and soon after Mr. Porter walks in. "Hello Jessica." He smiles warmly as he sits next to me. "I heard that you passed out and that you were talking to your self. Is this true?" I just look at him. Knowing I can't lie he chuckles, "So you are trying to communicate with the vampires."

I look at him confused. "What vampires?" He slams his fist down. "Don't play stupid with me! I know they are after you!" His eyes flash a red color and his voice gets rough. I cringe at the loudness of his voice. "I don't know what you mean sir." As he goes to speak my hand burns and I look down to see new designs adding to the other ones.

He grabs my hand and pulls it to him. "Well, well, well. What is this your hiding?" He looks it over carefully. "Well looks like you are very important and I won't let you slip through." He chuckles and let's my hand drop to the bed. I look confused but everything in my body tells me to get away from him. "Don't think about trying to contact those vampires again or you will regret it." With that finale note he walks out leaving my confused more then ever.