Again? (6)

"You actually hit her?" Alex shouted at Henry.

Nobody in his family had hit me before, choosing to use words instead. Although, grabbing my wrist and dragging me to another place wasn't painless. Luke trembled in anger as he blamed every one of my wounds on Henry. I started to pity Henry as he continued to walk to the infirmary, ignoring everyone around him.

"I didn't hit her!" Henry yelled once he placed me on a bed.

"This isn't water, it's her sweat from starting to burn from another fever," he tried to point out.

"Do you think we'll believe that?" Shelly narrowed her eyes.

"When I woke up, she was already this injured," Henry attempted to explain.

"Yea, right!" Sienna glared at him.

"This is too much," Cillian shuddered.

"She can't even talk from the pain!" Delia added.

"How could you hit Rika? There's no way she'll recover from this soon," Luke was close to breaking down.

"Do you think I'd actually hit her?" He was shocked by how all his friends acted.

"I already see everything with my own eyes!" Sienna coldly watched him.

"Don't even come closer to her," Luke warned Henry when he attempted to use heal on me.

"Do you know how hard Rika studied during the last few days to make it up to you?" Sienna continued to blame him.

"Our family won't leave you alone for this," Alex had a better impression of me ever since I started listening to him.

Although I wanted to defend Henry, more of the pain was starting to come in from the spell. It was hard keeping my eyes open from my black eye. I was glad that once I left the tent, the spell couldn't add to my current set of injuries anymore. While listening to everyone blaming him, Henry started to get angry at them since none of it has been his fault. But he never turned to me for help, knowing how I was too busy from suffering from the pain.

Instead of wasting his energy with Henry, Luke chose to use heal on me as much as he could. Alex made sure to say everything in his place, being ruthless with all the threats he yelled at Henry. Starting from my face, I was soon able to properly blink, all my scars and bruises gone in that area. When Luke switched places with Alex, unable to push himself to use heal on me any longer, he began yelling, "you know that Rika has a frail body. She could've died today if we decided not to check the infirmary. You're never coming near Rika again. I'm making sure that you won't even breathe the same air as her."

"Don't you think that's too much?" I spoke after Cillian healed my arms.

"Luke is right. He doesn't deserve to be in the same place as us," Sienna didn't hide her disgust.

"But Henry really didn't hit me," I revealed to all of them.

"You don't need to cover for him," Delia didn't believe me.

"I'm taking you to our room Rika. I can't have you in the same room as him anymore," Luke took one last glance at Henry as if he was less than a bug.

Since I still couldn't move my body except for my face, neck and arms, I was helpless when Luke started to take me to my old dorm room. Meanwhile, it appeared like none of Henry's friends would leave him alone. At least I tried to convince them when I could. I would likely become a goner if I kept on defending him. Luke hated the slightest sign that my health was beginning to falter. The injuries made him go crazy, making him merciless at the person who was most likely to have caused them.

"I'll be informing the teachers you may miss some classes next week," he softened his voice towards me.

Moving everything from the infirmary into his bedroom, I felt bored from sleeping all the time. I wanted to go outside more than ever since he was keeping an eye on me so I wouldn't leave his bed. From everyone using heal on me, I could move again like nothing had happened. I didn't mind if I had to attend those horrible classes again, I needed a breath of fresh air. Why did I have to spend my precious Saturday like this?

"I want to go to the café," I faced the ceiling.

"Wait until I make the arrangements again," Luke brought his documents into his bedroom.

"How about the living room?" I asked again.

"I don't want you leaving this room Rika. What if you run into something again?" He didn't like how the living room had a door leading to outside his dorm.

"Nothing really happened!" I couldn't help but shout.

"Henry really didn't hit me. We took a brief nap inside the camping supplies we used when the circus came to school. I forgot they were spelled with malicious intentions that somehow remained. Since Henry wasn't a target like us, all its effects went to me," I confessed, not caring what happened anymore.

"Would I ever allow you to sleep in those tents?" Luke continued to blame Henry.

"You wouldn't," I mumbled.

"Even if we slept in those tents together again, would I let the spell get to you?" He placed the documents down.

I shook my head. Although Luke didn't believe my confession from watching Henry rampaging after me for the past few days, it was unfortunate how he blamed him for everything either way. There was no way I would've gotten injured under Luke's care. He would have made sure we would never get minus points in the first place, erasing the possibility of sleeping outside. Even if we had to sleep in the tents, he would never go to sleep without making sure the area was safe, checking the tents thoroughly if there was anything odd. This was why he still blamed Henry, seeing that he did none of this.