*Esmerelda*
I stopped breathing. I was sure that my heart had stopped beating. I was just like the immortals I attended class with.
I felt my head begin to hurt, and suddenly the room was spinning. I reached a hand to the doorframe, trying to steady myself. My lungs felt like they were on fire.
‘Breathe,’ I commanded myself. I finally took a long, deep breath in.
It took a moment for the world to come back to focus. I kept my hand on the doorframe just in case. The last thing I wanted was to collapse in front of Dave or my headmaster, but that wasn’t really relevant right now.
I took in Dave standing calmly in the headmaster’s office, looking for all the world like he belonged exactly where he was standing. He looked so smug and pleased with himself that he had found me.