Chapter 11 · Dropped Into Witch Academy at Midnight - Chapter 11: You Brought Something Back

Memory-Alex's hand is ice around my wrist.

You weren't summoned.

The words loop in my head. I try to pull back but the ER dissolves and I'm on Vivienne's floor again, gasping like I just ran a code for forty minutes straight. My scrubs are gone. I'm in the academy uniform. The defibrillator I was holding is gone too.

Vivienne's hands are on my shoulders. "Alex. Alex, look at me."

I can't. Because if I wasn't summoned, then what the hell am I?

The room tilts. My stomach goes with it. I taste copper and cold and something else, something that doesn't have a name in English or whatever language I'm speaking now. It's the same taste from every midnight when the energy rips through me. When I lose time. When I wake up and don't know what I did.

"What came through with me?" I don't mean to say it out loud.

Vivienne goes still. Her fingers tighten. "What?"

"The memory. She said I wasn't summoned." My voice cracks. "So what the fuck am I?"

She doesn't answer right away. That's how I know it's bad.

I shove her hands off and try to stand. My legs don't cooperate.