Two weeks have passed and Xavier isn't as bad as I thought. He is annoying, sure but I don't know. I just feel really comfortable around him, like I could tell him anything really. He reminds of Brandon, like to the 'T'. But I don't know if he is different. I mean one thing for sure is that he is more of a prankster than I thought. "Hey- hey MAC!" He says while poking my arm with his wand."WHAT DO YOU WANT YOU,YOU STUPID PERSON, HUMAN, THING?!" He chuckles, "Stupid person, human, thing?" he says through his chuckles. I groan and shove him gently. I feel heat rise up to my cheeks. God he may be annoying but he is so cute. Is this bad? I shouldn't be feeling like this, should I? If Brandon was here would he be upset with me? I mean I know he'd probably want to be happy and stop moping around like a house elf. I feel a hand gently place itself on top of mine, which snaps me out of my thoughts. "Yo Bell's you alright?" Xavier says, looking at me with a worried expression. He reminds me of Brandon so much. That may be why I already feel so comfortable and safe around him and that may be why I'm feeling these feelings towards him. Wait, his hair it's blue and his name. Oh god could he be, no, it can't be him, it can't be Brandon, not my Brandon. Later that night I snuck over to the boys' rooms and snuck by Lee's bed. "Pst Lee, wake up." He tossed around and all of the sudden I heard a faint drum sound and my nose was filled with a horrid onion smell and I started coughing. I shocked Lee with my wand waking him up. "Ouch! What do you want- ohhhhh" He burst out laughing which made me even more mad. "Listen hear you disgusting little teen boy you, put on some bloody clothes and meet me in the lounge in five minutes!" I push my hair back to calm down. I feel a cold breeze down my neck making me gasp and turn around. It's Xavier? "What are you doing out of bed?" I say. "I could ask the same to you shortie, anyways what are you two up too?" I was about to tell him but then again I don't want him knowing about what me and Lee are about to do. "That's none of your concern Xaveir-'' He outstretched his hand to place it on my cheek. Usually I wouldn't look away from him but this time, I did. I grabbed Lee's hand and whispered under my breath,"Apparition.." We ended up in the cemetery, perfectly I let go of his hand and ran around trying to find Brandons coffin or grave. "Mac what the bloody hell is wrong with you?!.....What are you even looking for?" I ignored his questions and suddenly I saw the gray rectangle that contained his cold 'sleeping' body. I hesitantly walk up to it and I see scratch marks on the upper right corner. Human nail scratches. "L-Lee help me lift this." I say as I grasp onto the lid of the coffin. Lee, without a word, comes and helps me. We lift the lid and I fall back. He is gone. Without a trace, Brandon is gone. His clothes were still there but folded on the pillow where his head should be, the only flowers that are alive were the flowers I had left a few days before Xavier came. Wait, Xavier what if Brandon is not xavier. The hair, his smile and his laugh. Oh god, It's Brandon!
I broke down in tears. I knew something was up, why didn't he tell me? Lee helps me up and gives me a dirty piece of paper, there was some type of spell on it and a drawing at the bottom it looked exactly like Xavier. Lee tilts up my head,"Mac, you don't think someone killed him but before he was fully gone he had..a plan B?" I look back down at the note then back at him and nod. "Lee we have to go see Hagrid, maybe He knows something about this." He nods in response and we walk to Hagrid's little house and knock. No response? Maybe he is in school or possibly asleep? I go over to his window and climb up a brick or two considering I couldn't really see. As I looked around his 'house' there was no sign of him, not even his muddy boots, I jumped down. "He isn't here, maybe we could go see him in the morning before classes or maybe even lunch." I say. He nods in response,"Wait what about-" I interrupt him. "I'll talk to him and don't say anything to him okay?" My voice was shaky. If I'm being perfectly honest I'm terrified, and all of it his death and then this it just doesn't make sense. He doesn't say anything and helps me get back to our rooms. After about an hour or so I fell asleep. I was in a pitch black room. There was a figure in front of me. As I looked close I realized who it was. It's Brandon, I walk to him. "B-brandon?" I say. "God I missed the sound of your voice, and your smile- actually I missed all of you. You in general." He turns around. There were so many thoughts running through my head, he pulled my close and hugged me gently stroking my hair. Tears rolled down my face like a waterfall. "S-so what happened to you..why did you want to meet me at the bench and why-" He simply kisses my forehead. " I'm sorry, I can't remember what happened and I thought if I came back as Xavier then you'd notice right away but of course you had to investigate also on another note currently i'm in the infirmary after getting into a fight with Ethan." I pull away, "W-what?! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" He interrupts me again. "Sweetheart if I wasn't okay then I wouldn't be here y'know." I nod in response. The next morning I went down to the infirmary and so I could talk to Xavier. I saw him sitting up looking over at the group of rather pretty hufflepuffs and a gryffindor, one of the hufflepuffs are our friend her name is Makayla but she prefers Max because according to her, "Makayla is just to simple I want a more badass name like Maxine or max oo or maybe- " The gryffindor is Starr if you ask me she belongs more with the slytherins rather than gryffindor. But hey, what do I know? I make my way to his bed. He looks up at me and smiles with a bruised lip. I scrunch my nose and sit next to him on the bed. "So, it's really you in there huh?" He nods in response. I shakily sigh. "Can you try not to get in any more fights" I say as I glance up at him. He nods and weakly strokes my hair. I lean into his embrace loving every moment of it. "Bra- I mean Xavier? Were you going to confess to me the night it happened?" He stops what he was doing. I look up at him and his face is a deep red. So he was, but the real question is why? Why does he like me and why did he have to confess to me by that bench and why on earth did it have to be so late into the night. I very gently rubbed his cheek with my right thumb trying not to touch any of the little bruises on his face. "Hey no need to look like a tomato" I smile softly at him.
He smiles back and pulls me close to his chest. Surprisingly he is very warm, I nuzzle closer into his embrace. His heart beat is so calming. I wish we could stay like this forever. A few hours later I left and went to potions, I sat next to Makayla. Usually she is in an extremely happy mood, but today is different. She is really quiet. Something has to be wrong. Maybe I should talk to her, I gently tap on her hand. She flinches away and looks to the side. She's never done that to me before, Did I do something wrong? I take out a piece of paper and dip my feather into the black ink.
"Hey Makayla are you alright? Was it something I did?"
I slide the piece of paper and she looks at it. And she takes out her ink and feather, her ink was colored a light blue and her feather has a few specks of yellow and red wax dots, there is also a tiny yellow ribbon on it. I don't know why she decided to decorate her quill but it's not my business.
"I'm just really stressed out I guess, nothing to worry about really. I'm alright. :)"
How on earth is her cursive so clean? But that's besides the point, I can see that she is stressed but I know that isn't it there has to be something else that she is so upset about. It could either be about her family or maybe her friends? Or it could be drama issues again. I grab my feather and write back.
"Are you sure? You know I'm here if you need someone to talk to. So what's been bothering you."
The corners of her mouth tilt up. As much as she helps other people nobody really returns the favor or when they do she doesn't accept it. I think her main problem is that she needs to take breaks and realize her own self worth sometimes really. And you know she needs to learn how to say no once and a while without feeling bad about it immediately after. She writes back. We used the whole period to talk since Snape was worried more about Harry and yelling at him for the thousandth time this week. During lunch I decided to go and sit by Lee and the other group of slytherins. Of course they hate me but who cares anymore anyway. I barely ate anything really. Lee on the other hand ate almost every dish near him. He rests a hand on my shoulder. "Hey Mac, you alright? You seem a little tense?" Tense? I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding in. Instead of speaking I simply just nod my head in response. He gives me a look. You know that look your mom gives you when you're having a bad day and you say, 'oh it's nothing' it's like she knows something is up. Yeah that look. I mean I wish I could tell him. But ever since last night I've just been all over the place. He nods and goes back to scarfing down a chicken leg. I take my bag and walk out under the tree by the lake and take out my sketch pad and my book. I begin sketching out a type of body shape it looks like. This is very calming for me, not drawing but just sitting in a quiet area and just letting my mind take me away from reality for a while. As I draw I begin to hum a familiar tune. I don't know where the melody is from but it gives off a sad mello type vibe. Just as I was about to grab a different colored chalk, an apple was dropped on my book causing some of its juices to land onto my book. I look up and see a boy who looks like he is around my age, maybe a year older. He has jet black hair with glowing yellow eyes with the tiniest bit of orange. He then jumps down from the tree making me back up. His uniform was wrinkled and messed up, his sleeves were lazily rolled up. "Hiya! Sorry about the apple, usually nobody really comes out here so when I threw the apple I didn't really expect it to fall on such a beautiful girl like yourself." He says as he takes the apple from off my book and throws it on the other side of the tree not caring where it lands. I clear my throat, "First off just because you think nobody comes out here doesn't mean it gives you the right to throw your half eaten lunch around. Second of all, cut the flirting buddy I'm not interested." I go back to my drawing trying to figure out a way I can turn the spots on my page into some type of art. He chuckles softly. "Calm it love it's just a compliment besides I know you already have that new kid." Just as I was about to say something he lifted my chin up to look him into the eye. "He isn't as innocent and loving as he seems. At the moment, him coming back into your life may be the best thing that has happened to you but trust me when I say this. It's going to be the worst thing that has ever happened to you." He lets go of my chin and walks off back to school tossing an apple into the air, catching it everytime it falls. What does he mean,'not what he seems'. I mean sure yeah Brandon isn't Brandon anymore but I already knew that. I shouldn't really think too much about it. He is just some creepy kid anyways, what does he know? I go back to my drawing with an uneasy feeling in my chest. As the day goes on I find myself staying in hagrids. I sigh softly looking at my muddy shoes. "Ya think he might be tellin' ya the truth? Aye?" He says as he brushes food out of the tangles in his beard. " I don't know Hagrid but for now I'm just going to listen to my gut on this one, but he seemed like he knew something but what? I just can't put my finger on it." I say as my leg begins to shake. I look up to see him staring out at the window. "What is it?" I stood up jumping on a chest that was placed below the window and went on my tippy toes to see what he was staring at. It was Xavier and that boy that I met earlier. "Shoot, Hagrid, I've got to go before they get themselves killed." I hugged him and quickly put up my hair and ran out of his little house running toward the two boys. "WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING?!" I say breathless, with a flick of someone's wand they were in the air frozen but still able to talk. "Well you see here miss, he started to swap spit with that little miss over there" He looks over at a girl, I think her name was Autumn. God I hate her, she is such a two faced lying slug! I took out my wand and walked toward the boy. "First earlier and now this, what even is your name?" He smirks, showing his sharp pearly whites. "The names' Jax, Jaxson Branch." I roll my eyes. "Well Mr.Branch I don't see why seeing him kissing another girl would give you the right to swing at him.-" Xavier interrupts me. ''I WASN'T KISSING HER I SWEAR! Mac, sweetheart listen I'd never do that. Plus I don't want any diseases." Anger fills my inside and I tighten my grip on my wand. I face Xavier with an angry expression on my face and everyone backs away from us. "Listen closely so this can get through that tiny brain of yours. I don't care who you kiss and I don't care when you do. But don't you dare try calling my sweetheart again or so help me god-" I place the tip of my wand to his jawline and step as close as humanly possible. "-don't test me Xavier." I step back. "Set them down." And all of the sudden they fall to the ground, I dust off my coat and walk back to the school. A hand was placed on my shoulder, Lee. "Mac listen I'm sorry-" I stop in my tracks and my hair changes to a dark red. "Listen Lee like I've said before I don't care now please do me a great deal of kindness and please PISS OFF" I say while gritting my teeth, He goes to say something but stops himself. He shakes his head and huffs while going back to his friends. I gently rub my face groaning into my cold pale hands.
