Paupered Omega At An All-Alpha Academy

Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5

EMERYS’ POV

“What?” I couldn’t believe my ears.

Confusion seared into my countenance as I squinted my gaze at her. “What did I do?” I questioned as gently as I could let my voice carry.

Something is not right, and it’s not just the pit feeling flaming beneath my chest; something is just not seriously right.

“How dare you ask me that?” She glared even harder. “You dared to break into the academy’s royal archives and stole a valuable piece of ancestral jewelry. Isn’t that enough for expulsion?”

My mouth slid apart as her words filtered deeply into my senses.

I dared to go steal from a place I don’t even know how to reach?!

“I didn’t do that.”

For the first time in a decade, I separated from the tough shell I’ve had as a cage to protect myself; I let myself be vulnerable.

“I’ve only been here for a day, and I’ve gotten lost twice. I didn’t do it!” My head shook to the sides feebly.

I took a long sniff to push back the tears threatening to make a stream. Is she joking? Could she possibly be joking?

Why would this be happening to me?!

“You’re not going to lie to me, Emerys. I was actually expecting you to take accountability and grovel, not to stand there and lie to me whilst pretending you’re the victim.” She scoffed and rolled her eyes.

“I’m not lying,” I told her, shaking my head more firmly to support my answer.

“You were caught, Emerys! You haven’t been around that long for a shapeshifter to copy your identity perfectly enough to commit this atrocity with your face.”

Did I just hear her say I was caught?

“That’s not possible,” I spoke back challengingly. “Who caught me? If a shapeshifter couldn’t do it, then who caught me? Because I’m sure I wasn’t the one who got caught, and that person needs to come say to my face that they saw me.”

“Your sister caught you, Emerys. She saw you sneak into the room and come out with the pendant; she came directly to me to report what she saw, and told us to go search your room for proof; there we indeed found the pendant. Will you get out now?”

“No.”

“No?”

“Yes, no! You’re the one lying and trying to frame my sister and me. I don’t believe you, and I refuse to accept this!”

Gone was the sadness plaguing my heart when I first got here, replaced with the fiery passion to defend myself.

“Yvonne!” She must be yelling out to the lady outside her house. “Get me the two students who saw her commit the theft and bring in some guards while at it!”

She looked back at me. “Since you’ve refused to go about this the easy way, then you should know that you’ve lost that chance and you’re about to regret that choice.

“Your sister is going to come in here, confirm everything I’ve said, and then I’m going to charge you with the actual consequences of your crime. You see, expulsion was your father’s grace, helping you out without anything major. I’m going to help you destroy your life.”

I didn’t say anything back to her. I just stared and waited for Cara’s arrival.

I don’t think she’d actually do this to me. Cara might be evil and sadistic, but she wouldn’t go as far as to take this away from me.

Cara is all about bullying me and teasing me with her words; she knows I have to be at her side at all times. Amelia is lying about the things she said about Cara’s plans, and so is the Counsellor framing my sister and me.

The door opened behind me. Cara, another girl of her age, came in next to her, followed by the lady who came to get two muscular men in uniforms and me.

Cara saw me and hissed. “Why is she still here? Is she denying what she did?” She directed it at the Counsellor, and my jaw dropped.

They weren’t lying. My sister is doing this to me.

“Cara, what did you mean by am I still denying '? " Don’t tell me you did this to me?” My voice had gone weak, and the sharp ache of sadness I thought was replaced came back refined.

“I did nothing you didn’t do to yourself. I only saw you and reported you; I didn’t follow you to go steal or tell you to do it. Say your byes, Emerys, your days here are over!”

“But you didn’t see me!” I snapped, and the tears I was desperately trying to contain broke me.

I started with the Counsellor. “All she said was that she saw me, and you believed her. I told you it wasn’t me, and you couldn’t do the same. We both don’t have any proof!”

“Guards!” She signalled at the men in uniform.

“No, no, no, Cara, tell them the truth.” I fell to my knees and pleaded with her.

“You know you’re lying. Please, don’t do this to me. I’ve always loved you and treated you like a sister; I never minded the things you did to me and was always ready to protect you. Don’t take this away from me, please!” I begged and wept like a baby.

“Omegas don’t belong here!” came her cold response as she watched the men attempt to grab me by each arm.

I hurried away from them to meet Cara. “Cara, please, tell them the truth!” I looked her in the eyes to beg. To see me in all my vulnerability and have mercy. Tears were streaming down my cheeks.

Her eyes were cold and held no remorse. She had never seen me in tears.

“Tell them!” I screamed in her face, furious with her silence. “Say it!”

“I already said it; now is time for you to accept it.” She shrugged at me.

“Somebody throws her out of this room already!” The Counsellor urged from where she stood.

“Cara, say the truth!”

Cara suddenly gasped as she fell to her knees with her hands holding up her throat, her pupils dilated into pure white, and she began coughing violently.

Then she stopped, eyes still as white as the snow, as she got up to her feet.

“Emerys is innocent; it was a plan to frame her and get her out of the academy. She didn’t steal the pendant.” She was bleeding through her nose by the time she finished her statement.

She lost her balance and fell unconscious to the floor afterwards.

What just happened?!