One more day. ; Mattheo Riddle

Her distraction

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3rd person POV

The other day, Maria was summoned to the headmaster's office after class. She knew she would get the result of the tests they made on her, she immediately felt nervous about it. She knew she didn't really want to know the results because she had an instinct that it was not gonna be for the best. She was trying so hard to stop herself from shaking in fear and anxiousness.

When she arrived in the headmaster's office, she immediately spotted her aunt sat on a chair with tears running down her face. Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were looking sad but tried to smile a little to ease the tension. They were trying to make her comfortable but miserably failed. It's like everything was in slow motion. Her walking in the office, seeing her aunt crying, McGonagall telling her to sit down on a chair and finally, Dumbledore telling her Avery thing she needed to know.

The entire time, she stood silent with a blank face but her eyes were showing all her emotion. They were filled with pain, sadness and anger. Tears were freely escaping them. She was trying to process what she just had been told. She only had a couple of weeks, maybe a month how was she suppose to react? As the teachers were talking, neither of them were able to look at her in the eyes. They couldn't support to see how broken the little girl looked.

After every details were explained, a painful silence was all that was heard. Only the the sound of the heavy breathing of Maria could be heard. Her eyes were wide and she couldn't move. It's like someone at cursed her with the stupefy spell. All she wanted to do was screaming and crying at the top of her lungs but all she could do was close her eyes. Her body wouldn't let her move. It's like the world was on pause, the time had stopped.

Without realizing, she took up from the chair and took about three steps backwards and a second later, her aunt had her in her arms but she didn't hug back. She wasn't able to. She wanted to but it was just impossible. All her life was flashing I front of her eyes. She was surrounded by old memories of her childhood and the moments she had with her friends and her aunt that was the only parent figure she had. All of the would be all gone in less then a month. She knew that they were on a track of a cure but she had to be prepared for the worst. How could a cure be available in weeks?

The answer is none...

She had to prepare herself to tell the ones that the loved so much that their friend would not be by their side in less than a month ans they had to say goodbye. She couldn't even talk, so how could she repeat the worst thing she had been told? She had to find a way. She knew it would break them all.

She couldn't hear anything around her. She couldn't hear her aunt's cries and the professors asking her if she was okay. Too much things were running through her mind to listen to them.

« I have to go... » she finally said in a raspy voice trying not to break. She needed to be alone for a minute or a distraction. Yes that was it, she need a distraction.

Without another word, she quickly ran out of the office and letting her legs leading her where her distraction was. Mattheo's dorm.

Tears were trying to escape her eyes once more but she didn't let them. She knew that it she would let just one tear leave her eyes, she wouldn't be able to stop and she was tired of crying all the time. She need to feel something. Something real.
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There she was, outside Mattheo's dorm, about to knock on the large door of woods. Her shaky hand only had time to knock twice before the door opened widely revealing a tall boy that was making her heart beat. He looked tired. The first three buttons of his  white shirt were unbuttoned, his hair was messy and little purple circle were showing under his eyes. He looked so beautiful anyways in her eyes. At the moment when she saw him, she smashed her lips onto his.