My Name is Samantha... Sam for Short

After class we were stopped in the hall by Diamond and Sara.

“Yuck!  Get out of our way, losers!” Sara said in disgust.

I rolled my eyes.  “You’re the one that stopped us genius!” I exclaimed.

Diamond gave me a look of loathing, “What did you just say?” she asked, tersely.

I groaned, “I said, ‘you’re the one that stopped us’.  Are you deaf or something?”

Diamond looked at me with daggers in her eyes.  “Don’t you ever speak to me like that again!” she yelled, as used her magic to slam me against the balcony.

All of the students around us let out a gasp.

I started to pull out my wand, but Diamond was ready.  She cast a spell that created a tiger out of thin air.  I tried to move backwards, but couldn’t because I was on a balcony.  The tiger scratched my face and I started to bleed.  But I didn’t notice, I was more concerned with the fact that the tiger was about to lunge at me.  All of the kids started to freak out.  Even Diamond was trying to figure out a counter-spell.

“Sam!” Bella yelled, as the tiger reared up on his haunches.

I was expecting to be attacked by an orange and black ball of fury, but it didn’t come.  I looked up to see that the Headmistress, Mrs. Celeste, had used a spell to make the tiger disappear.

She pulled me up to take me to the nurse.  As we walked away, I could see Mrs. Moon talking to Diamond.

“I’ll deal with you later,“ Mrs. Moon said.

Lila and Bella ran over to me.

“Oh my gosh, Sam!  Are you alright?” Lila asked.

“Yeah.  I’m fine.  At least I think so.”

Mrs. Celeste turned to face the three of us.  “I will take Sam to the infirmary to see what Madame Cross says.  I can not guarantee that she will be better by tomorrow though,” she explained, “But I am sure she will not die.  Now run along.  Sam will be fine.”

After they were out of sight, I turned to Mrs. Celeste. “Are you sure I’ll be alright?” I asked her.

The Headmistress looked at me with great sorrow in her eyes.  “I do not know. That was an Everfar Forest tiger.”

I gulped.

“Everfar Forest animals are.... poisonous!” I said tearing up.