Inside Ashton`s car, I tried not to hyperventilate. My hands were burning up and my magic felt really amped up.
"What happened in there?" Ashton questioned me.
"I-I don`t know, I just got so angry then everything hit the ceiling," I turned to him," What`s happening to me?!"
Ashton lanced down at my hands before shaking his head, "I don`t know."
I wanted to pinch myself as I asked, "This never happened with the others who turned?"
"Those who turned knew what to expect and," Ashton sighted and turned to lean back in his seat," They were human. You`re not."
"Yeah, I got that after I made everything go Armageddon inside the bathroom!" I reminded him as I pointed back at the school building. No one was outside in the car park and so I was thankful for it. No one else needed to see me have another melt down.
This cannot be happening. The day wasn`t even over and yet here I was, responsible for the destruction of a school bathroom.
"Why were you angry?" Ashton asked as I tried to think about how I was going to explain the level of destruction to Marcus, Emily and now Peter. My life was not looking up.
"Is that really what we should be thinking of?! We should just look at the big issue of me breaking a sink!" "I exclaimed," That was a ceramic sink! I`m not that strong!"
"You are now, "Ashton retorted making double back," The werewolf side of you makes that possible."
"This is a mess!" I groaned miserably and buried my face in my hands. A burst of glitter startled me and I removed my hands to see Oracle on my lap. Her furry still looking like the softest thing ever to exist and her eyes widened slightly as she took me in.
"Oracle!" I exclaimed and picked her up. Ashton scrambled back in his seat and muttered a curse. I didn't pay too much attention to him. My cat was here and talking to me!
"I missed you, Thalia!" My familiar purred back. Her ears were soft and she was purring against my chest to calm me down. I thought I was never going to see her again.
"I missed you too, more than you know," I leaned back to stroke her head," I thought you were gone forever."
"I`m sorry it took me so long to get to you," She apologized and I shook my head with a sad smile, "It`s okay. We can talk about that later. Right now, I need help, I did something big at school and now I might get into major trouble for it."
"I`ll take care of it," Oracle said as she turned to Ashton," I`m counting on you to take her home, she`ll come back tomorrow."
"Umm, okay, sure, Magical Cat," Ashton muttered with thumbs up. His face looked kind of his brain was still trying to catch up with her talking. For real? He turns into a wolf and a talking cat is hard to process?
Oracle meowed and vanished as Ashton blinked. I sighed in relief and leaned back against the seat. At least that was taken care of. Ashton turned on the ignition while muttering something about needing to revisit what he knew on witches.
He pulled out of the parking lot and drove us back to the cave. I didn`t say anything the entire time. My thoughts kept drifting to those girls and then back to what I had just done. Grams had a lot of explaining to do. I didn`t know witches could blow up things. When were they going to tell me that we could do that? Come to think of it, I`ve never done that before when I got angry.
This was turning into a majorly weird day.
When we got pack to the Cave, I headed straight for my room. I ran past Richard and Marcus who didn`t look surprised to see me. When I got to my room, I crawled under my door after I locked my door and waited for Oracle to come back. I just wanted to talk to someone who wasn`t going to scold me or anything.
I waited and waited.
And she didn`t come.
So I got back on my bed and slept.
I only woke up when I heard a knock on my door. It was Amber letting me know that she had my lunch outside if I wanted to eat something. I waited until she left the door and then took my meal. It was three steaks, a cheese burger and two lunchboxes of tuna and mayo salad.
I ate it some and left some for later. Taking out my diary, I wrote down everything that happened today because if Peter or Marcus wanted to question me, I would have my thoughts straight.
Night time came and I didn`t go to dinner. However, I did unlock my door and was writing my tenth account of what happened today in a notebook from my desk for Emily to read if she needed to. Oracle still didn`t come and I was starting to think that her appearance thing this morning was a one-time thing. A knock on my door made me pause in my writing. Turning to the door, I called out that the door was unlocked. The door opened and standing in the doorway was Olive who had brown paper bag in hand, "Hey, may I come in?"
I nodded and turned in my chair to give her full attention. She pulled a chair beside me and put the package on my table before sitting down, "I heard you didn`t take to school well."
I groaned, "I hate it! It`s the vilest place in the entire world."
"Hey, no argument there, girl," Olive agreed while raising her hands in surrender," I`ve been there for three years already and I still haven`t completely gotten used to it."
"How did you make it work?" I mumbled as I folded my legs on my chair. It took some maneuvering but I did it.
"Well, I took it a day at a time and I looked for the good," Olive replied.
I arched a brow at her, "What good?"
Honestly, what good was there in school?
"Well, I had some friends who made the experience and days bearable and I tried to find a class that I enjoyed and I had fun in my volleyball team."
I bit my lower lip and looked down, "That...That doesn`t sound so bad."
Olive reached out and took my hands to squeeze them like my mother use to do, "It isn't," She then pursed her lips and sighed, "Look, I`m sorry how today went, I was supposed to be keeping an eye on you and I got distracted so this is on me."
I shook my head, "No, you deserved some break away from babysitting me."
"I don`t mind, from now on, I`m stuck on you like glue," Olive joked and I chuckled with a nod. She squeezed my hands again before letting go and standing from her chair, "Alright, I`m going to go and shower. I`ll be back at my usual time. The package is a cupcake from a bake sale at school."
I nodded as she smiled and reached across to squeeze my shoulder before leaving. I sighed and stood from my chair before shuffling over to my bed. I sat with a sigh and leaned back against my headboard clutching my pillow.
I missed Oracle and really wished she was here so I could talk to her about my feelings on school. Everything was just so overwhelming. Suddenly, I heard a knock and looked up to see Peter standing at my door in a suit.
"Thali, may I speak with you?" Peter asked.
'Was he here to scold me? 'I wondered. Nevertheless, I nodded and he entered.
"I heard that school didn`t go so well," Peter said as he stopped at the foot of my bed.
I sighed," If you`re here to scold me, please don`t. I`ve already got that I messed up."
Peter tilted his head to the side, "Whatever mess you made. It was already fixed, the only thing that wasn`t don right today was that you missed your classes and your appointment with the principal."
I blinked, "What? However, Ashton reported that you destroyed the girl's bathroom but the school reported nothing."
"That`s…That`s impossible, I…" I stopped myself as I remembered that Oracle said she was going to take care of my situation," That amazing cat. She fixed everything."
"So, care to tell me what happened today?" Peter questioned me.
I stared at him for a second before looking away, "It…wasn`t the best experience of my life. I got irritated and broke a few things and my magic might have gone haywire."
I heard him make a humming sound and hugged my pillow tighter, "And how are you feeling right now?"
I shrugged, "Aright, I guess."
"Would you perhaps like to do something to chase away the bad day?"
My snapped back to him and I blinked to make sure I heard him right, "What?"
"I heard that you like to play games," Peter went on as if him being trying to be nice to me wasn`t a new thing. Can he not see it?
I didn`t know why but I just said," I love games."
"A game, then?" Peter asked as he turned and held his arm out as if gesturing to my open door.
"Umm, okay."