Chapter 17

Clovers POV

I storm down the hall after exiting my dorm. "I can't believe Tiffany would do something like this." I angrily think to myself. A few people crowd around in the corridor, watching me as I go by. Even though I didn't know where I was going, I was too frustrated to think about it.

I feel like my head is about to blow because I am so angry but the other half of me is worried that their not going to understand that I  didn't do it.

After ages of walking, a door comes into sight at the end of the corridor. On the label, it says 'Teachers Office, Please knock.' I stand outside the door and wait for a moment to listen for voices.

"Did you find the person?" A hear a person ask. I recognise the person as the Head Teacher. Her voice still booms when she talks to other teachers. Is that usually what her voice sounds like?

"Yes, though she didn't look like the kind of person who would do something like that. And she looked so surprised to see it under her pillow as well." That person is the teacher who came into our dorm.

"Whoever it is, they must be punished!" The head teacher shouts. I wince, hoping they will understand that I didn't do it.

"I'm sure they didn't mean to do it. If they say they didn't do it, we must look into it before punishing them." A soothing voice says. I identify that as my mum. I decide I have to go in. I breathe in for courage and knock my knuckles on the door.

All I can hear is silence in the room now. "Come in." I harsh voice says and I press down on the handle, to open the door. 3 pair of eyes stare at me. My mum, Head Teacher and the teacher that walked into my dorm.

My mum looks almost shocked that I walked in through the door. Her mouth drops open slightly and her eyes widen. "This is the girl..." The teacher says.

I feel the Head Teacher looking me up and down, judging me. "Whats your name and why did you do it?" The Head Teacher demands.

"U..um my name is Clover Waterstone." Everyone looks towards my mum as I say that. "And I didn't do it. I swear I didn't!" I shout. They look a bit taken back.

"Clover, do you have any proof that you didn't do it? Were you with anyone yesterday?" The headteacher asks me. I nod my head.

"I was with my brother," I say nervously. If they ask what I was doing then I'll have to tell them that he was helping me with my burns.

"And what were you doing with your brother, Clover?" I silently face palmed.

"I....I.. went outside and um I got burnt so he helped me......" I stutter and I could see my mums eyes slightly widen.

"Ok....we will look into this situation. For now, you will help Mrs. Waterstone with her marking. Waterstone, she's over to you." The head says and walks out of the teacher's office. I'm quite surprised that she called Mrs.Waterstone only Waterstone.

The other teacher looks at both me and my mum for a moment before hurrying out of the room. Now it's just me and my mum who looks like she's about to blow.

"Clover......you got burnt!?" She yells. I wince at her tone of voice.

"I can explain! But I didn't do it!!" I shout. My mum sighs and walks out of the teacher's office and I follow her. She heads towards her classroom.

"Well, obviously I know that. Why would you want to steal my ring anyway? But the reason why I'm angry is that you didn't come to tell me that you got burnt." My mum says and gets to the entrance of her classroom. She unlocks the door and I follow her in.

"Dominic said that we shouldn't interrupt you on your day off. Anyway, he did a really good job of helping me! Look the burns don't even look that bad anyway. " I say and pull up my trouser leg. She turns around and gasps at the sight of it. Maybe she thinks differently to me.

"Clover! This is a serious  burn! Like an oven burn! How did you even get burnt anyway when you know not to go out in the sun!?" She asks, sitting down at her desk. I sit in the chair facing her and she passes me a stamp and pad.

"Wait, you're actually going to make me do this?" I ask and she looks at me seriously. I sigh and tap the stamp onto the pad and press it into the first book she gave me.

"You may finish once your brother gets here and gives me a good example why he didn't come to me first." She says and I hear a slight disappointment in her voice.

"You messaged him?"  I groan and hit my head on the table. She chuckles slightly. I carry on stamping and we finish talking.

Thankfully she still hasn't asked me why I would go 'out' in the first place. Then I'll have to come up with a really good excuse. But right now all she cares about is seeing me and my brother together and probably yelling at us for not telling her.

After a while, the silence gets too intimidating but then there's a knock on the door. I realise it can only be one person.

"Come in Dominic." My mum says and he walks in calmly. Then he stops me and suddenly looks worried. He probably already knows what's coming. "Dominic, why didn't you tell me Clover got burnt?" She asks, not looking up from her work.

" We didn't want you to worry. How did you find out?" Dominic sighs, pulling up a chair and looking questionably at the stamp and the pad I'm holding.

"Well, Clover has got accused of stealing my ring. And I believe she didn't do it. We just don't know who would set her up. And because the Head Teacher still thinks Clover did it, they're making her help me with my work." My mum says.

"The girls in your dorm?" Dominic looks at me and I look up from the pad that I was focusing on.

"Probably. Tiffany was the one who said that I hid it under my pillow."

"Girls in your dorm? Why haven't you told me about this?" My mum asks and I get up from my seat.

"I didn't want to worry you! Can I go now? Olive will be worrying about me." I say and my mum nods and I walk towards the door. I hear my mum and Dominic murmuring to each other when I close the door.

I've now worried all of my family. I don't want them to be worried about me but I always seem to get myself into this kind of things. Even when I was little I bit someone and had to transfer schools.

I get back to my dorm and open the door. Olive looks up from her phone and smiles. "Are you ok Clover? What did they say?" She asks getting down from her bunk.

"They said that they're going to look into it but I still had to help out a teacher with her markings." I sigh and then I notice a girl sitting on the bunk next to ours.

She has black tight curly hair and brown eyes. Her hair is shoulder length but it would be much longer if she straightened it. She smiled at me, her braces sparkling in the light.

"Oh, this is Robyn. She moved to our school and because we've got space she going to be in our dorm." Olive says.

"I've always wondered why we had fewer people in our dorm. Maybe Tiffany and her friends spent more money to have fewer people." I say and smile at Robyn.

And if on cue, the 3 girls walk in and glare at me. Robyn gets up from her bed. "I'm going to go and find my brothers. See you later." She walks out the room and now it's just Me, Olive, Tiffany and her friends in the room.

I go and sit on my bed and stretch my legs out. Olive smiles and sits on the edge of the bed. Then I realise she looking at something.

"Clover? What's that on your leg? Are those blisters?" She asks and I sit up.

"Uh, yeah...." I say slowly. Olives eyes look worried.

"How did you get blisters?" Olive asks another question and I sigh.

"Yea, Clover. How did you get those blisters?" Tiffany butts in and now all eyes are on me.

"I.....I got burnt." I say and sighs.

"But you didn't go outside?" Olive questions and I look down, avoiding her eyes.

"Well maybe her skin is pale enough to get burnt just by the glimpse of the sun. And maybe she will hiss at the sun and hide in the shadows." Tiffany says and I understand what she is doing.

"I don't get it." Olive whispers.

"Have you ever seen Clover smile? Have you looked closely at her teeth? Have you noticed anything?" Tiffany smirks.

"Shut up."

"Do you not get it?" Tiffany half shouts at Olive.

"Stop it. Stop talking." I yell at Tiffany now.

"Don't you see?! Clovers a Vampire! A deadly, killing Vampire!" Tiffany shouts.

"C...Clover?"

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Yay, another chapter! Quite a big one actually. But you'll have to find out what happens next soon!

Did you like the new girl Robyn? She is based on one of my friends @robyn_titus so if you want to see what she looks like just go see her account. And follow her because she's really nice (obviously )

It's halllllffffff terrrrrmmmmmm! And then soon it's Halloween! I'm not sure if I'll be able to write next week because I'm going to be so busy as I've got Comic Con London! Let's hope my cosplay comes in time, though!

But I'll see you soon!

Bye!

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