Taste Of Death

Chapter 3: Keeping up with the facade

It was such an awkward walk to his office she tried to break the silence with small talk with the professor "So Professor um any books you would recommend as a good read?" but he didn't respond. They had finally reached the headmasters office "Okay sir now that I am here can you please tell me what is going on?" He looks at her with such worried eyes. He doesn't quite answer her just yet but makes a gesture towards the chair sitting in front of him "What's going on? You're starting to worry me" "Isilvana I am sure you have your reasons for this but we know who you are and where you come from."

she gasped looking worried as how they knew.

"We received a very concerned letter from a Lord Aralómë asking if his daughter is attending our school and if so to return her immediately to their kingdom. So your name is not truly Isilvana Marie but the only daughter to Klaus & Esperanza Aralómë . I should have been able to recognize you but you took your mothers maiden name and changed your eye color so no one would know of your family, am i wrong?"

"Sir i am so sorry I lied about who I am to get here, but you have to believe me I needed to get out of there, the pressure was too much. 'Oh you're a Aralómë you are gonna be the next greatest wizardess inventor' and the truth is I won't be, my magic is nowhere near where it needs to be and I just felt like I was disappointing them. Sir, I beg of you please do not make me leave this place."

"I can not force you to leave nor expel you since you have done no wrong-"

"But sir" Professor Snape has interrupted "She lied about getting in here so much that she forged her paperwork to even get transfer and acc-"

"Okay but I didn't, I had my uncle Elias signed them, the paperwork clearly says an adult needed to sign it. Nowhere on there did it state that it had to be my parents blessing". Dumbledore just looks proudly at her "We won't take any actions but I must inform you that in the letter your father did let us know that if we did not return you to him, they will come before the Yule ball."

"No please sir I can't go back!" Isilvana tried to plea her case to him but he could not work anything out as these are her father's demands. He looked to her "It will be up to you to persuade your father on why you deserve to stay here, that gives you two months...you may go now" "Yes sir, thank you sir" "Actually one more thing before you go...It's best you don't tell anyone who you are...for your safety" She leaves as fast as she can.

A magic note gets to her and it's from Fred, it reads "Meet me in the library" "Crap there is still training ughh". Isilvana meets Fred towards the back of the library who had been waiting impatiently "Oh for Salazar's sake why did it take you so long?" but she stayed quiet.

Fred noticed how her demeanor had changed from this morning "Why do you look like you're about to ugly cry....are you okay?" "No Fred I'm not, you win okay. I'm leaving the school" she said it to tease him and see what his reaction would be. He gets up abruptly and walks towards her, carefully getting her back against a wall his face two inches away from her face...."Fuck off then" he then turns away.

...okay then, that was not at all how she expected him to react, he turns his back towards her "Wow Fred I'm only half joking" she said teasing him. His once angry face turned into confusion so she has him sit down and she explains it all to him, to an extent "So I actually left my school, I could no longer stand being there so my uncle helped me by signing all the paperwork. I didn't even say goodbye to my family, they definitely would not allow me to just leave like that." "So why did you?" "Well...ummm...my family has a reputation to keep and too much pressure to be this amazing witch was getting to me" she looked sad. "And now?" he asked "They'll be visiting me to make sure...I'm okay" and she just stared at the ground.

Isilvana looks back up at him "My parents arrive in two months" and he asked "Why so long tho?" "He's the headmaster of our school so the yule ball here matches perfect with the winter break there and the temporary headmaster is just there for the break." He turns to her "Oh okay yeah that's definitely a reputation there and I can understand what you meant by pressure. But you shouldn't let that make you weak, you should have used that to your advantage and let it inspire you."