smile↪ tom riddle

-chapter 30

Silence invaded the space between the four students, sitting inside of the compartment. Victoria, who was sitting next to the window, silently watch the scenery outside.

The atmosphere was far more different from their first fime at the Hogwarts Express.

Meanwhile, Gideon was eyeing his girlfriend nervously and when Rhea noticed this, confusion painted her face. Ofcourse, Gideon saw this so he took this as a sign of breaking the silence in them so after a heavily sigh and cleared throat Gideon spoke up.

"Now, that we are heading back," Gideon started causing Victoria and Henry, who was looking through the air , to looked at him. "I think it's better if we uhm..." Gideon, once again cleared his throat. "If we keep the secret about the Cloak,".

The three looked at each other and nodded.

Gideon showed a smile that never reach his ear and clasped his hand together.

Victoria, meanwhile, was about to speak a word when a sudden funny feeling stop her.

The three looked at her worriedly.

"Vicky, are you okay?" Henry asked in a worried tone

Victoria didn't replied. Instead, she quickly ran away from the compartment to find the restroom. She was panicking so she has bumped into several students who was outside of their compartment. After several minutes, she finally found the restroom. She quickly entered it, without bothering checking if there is a person inside of it (thankfully, there is no one).

There, she vomits. A black slimy liquid was coming out from her mouth! She doesn't know why this is happening! She didn't ate something rotten nor drink a potion that might have cause this scenario!

It took probably half an hour after she finally stopped vomiting. After that, she washed all the black slimy liquid mixed with her drool from her mouth. She quickly composed herself up but she was still feeling sick.

She opened the door and there surprised her a rather impatient dark haired boy, Tom Riddle, still with his robes and he has a small black pouch bag in his hand.

When Tom saw who is inside in the restroom, his eyes widen in surprise when a sick looking Victoria came out from the room.

Victoria glared at him then for a second moment, Tom saw the eyes of a monster hidden within her.

Victoria's eyes turned all black.

Then after a brief moment, it turned back to normal. Tom was about to say something when Victoria bumped her shoulder into his so hard that he nearly got out of balance!

There she left the confused Tom.

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Victoria went back from her compartment, still feeling sick, there she saw the three, talking and laughing.

They look fine without me, Victoria thought.

There she sat down back to her place withouth saying a word, just observing the three of them. For the first time in a long time, she felt invisible.

Well, this is gonna be a long ride, Victoria said to herself quitely.

Meanwhile in Tom's compartment, he sat in silence, not bothering to join the conversation Malfoy and the others are talking. It's still the same old topic; "What are we gonna do this summer". It must be exciting for them but Tom, it's a nightmare. He's gonna stuck with the old boring orphanage but atleast it will be less boring since he was figuring Victoria out and he became even more facinated because of the events happened earlier. Really curious...