Daughter (Book 3, the Feel the fire Series)

Chapter 12.

Linsey was sitting in her room on her bed and was listening to her parents' argument. She was still upset about Nick, but now she made her parents fight too, which made her even sadder. She thought this was all her fault. Her fault that Nick is leaving, her fault that her parents now are angry at each other, her fault that her entire school hates her. She shouldn't be here... She shouldn't be alive at all... She is a witch and witches were always known as the most evil beings ever.

She didn't know how to handle her feelings at this moment. She lost her parents, she lost her friend, now she is losing her boyfriend. The only human, who understood her... who trusted her... who loved her for herself.

She cried herself into sleep and the next morning she woke up as nothing happened. For a moment she forgot everything, but she realized that what happened yesterday wasn't just a simple dream. Nick is not gonna be in school today... Nobody will be there to protect her from those assholes... who could comfort her...

She sleepily went to the bathroom to wash her face, then went back to her room to get dressed. After that, she went to the kitchen where Jack was already making breakfast for the whole family.

"Good morning princess," he said and Linsey went over to him.

Jack kissed her on her head then let her sit down at the table. He saw on her that she was sad about Nick and he didn't know how to make her at least smile a little bit. He finished her food and went over to the table to place her plate in front of her.

"Are you okay?" he asked, but he knew the answer.

Linsey didn't say anything, so Jack went back to the kitchen. He grabbed his mug of coffee and went back to sit beside Linsey, who was still just staring at her food.

"Everything will be alright, I promise you," he said, patting her back to comfort her.

"Why am I here?" she asked Jack, who stopped what he was doing to look at Linsey.

"What do you mean?" he asked back.

"Why do I have to be here?" she muttered and kept looking at her plate. "I'm just a threat to everyone. I don't belong here."

"Just because you are different..." started Jack, but Linsey shouted back.

"It's not that easy that I'm different." she stood up and grabbed her bag from beside the table to quickly leave the house.

She shut the door from the anger and with tearful eyes, she walked down on the street. She wanted to run, but she didn't want to get to school that fast either. She knew it will be hell without Nick. She just wanted to run away from all of her problems, school, family, her entire life, just to be alone for a moment.

From the distance, she saw the building and all the kids, running around and entering the building. She stopped in front of the steps, watching the others. She didn't want to go... but she had to. She went up on the steps and then straight to her classroom. She silently sat down at her desk and just looked at her hands on the desk.

"Morning bitches." said a familiar voice and Linsey just flinched.

She didn't want to meet with Travis today. But of course, he spotted her. He walked up to her desk and grabbed the chair from the other desk, pulled it in front of Linsey, and sat on it.

"What's up witch bitch?" he asked and Linsey could hear in his voice that he was smiling.

"Can you please leave me alone today?" she asked politely because she didn't want conflict.

"Why?" he laughed.

"Because her so-called boyfriend left her." chuckled another person and without looking Linsey already knew that it was Katherine.

"I didn't know she had a boyfriend." chuckled Travis sarcastically. "Who was it?"

He asked like he didn't already know the answer. He tried to look into Linsey's eyes to tease her, then looked as he was shocked.

"No. It's Nick, isn't it," he said, but he was clearly joking. "Oh my God."

"No wonder he left you," commented Kathrine from behind Travis.

For Linsey's luck the bell rang signaling the start of the first class, so she was free from Travis and Katherine. Travis sat down at his desk while Katherin and her best friend left the classroom.

During class Linsey wasn't paying attention. She was thinking about Nick. He said he will leave on Sunday, so she could see him before he leaves. She needed him. She was scared about his moving because she had a feeling that his mother won't let him leave San Francisco.

Later on that day Travis and Katherine found her again during lunchtime, but Linsey couldn't handle this anymore. She was sitting at a table in the corner, silently eating her lunch and not really paying attention to her surroundings. Until a hand landed on the table in front of her with a loud thud. Linsey didn't look up, she was fed up with everything.

"Travis, leave me alone," she said and Travis sat across the table in front of her on the chair. "If you want to live, you walk away now."

"Don't threaten me you bitch, I can mess up your whole life with a single phone call," said Travis with gritting teeth and Linsey slowly looked up.

"Leave!" said Linsey and her eyes turned to vibrate red and started to glow.

"Or what?" smiled Travis and it was enough to Linsey.

She was angry and her eyes glowed more as she stood up from the table. She slightly rose from the ground and the purple smoke surrounded her. She started levitating Travis and threw him to the far end of the dining area. The more she thought about him and all her pain, the more she became angry. She caused chaos as she started levitating all the tables and chairs around along with students. Some of them tried to leave, but Linsey closed the exit doors, so they were locked inside. Everyone was frightened, they were shouting and screaming while some of the students tried to force open the door or call for help. At this point Linsey was unstoppable.