All Our Broken Pieces

Chapter 8

I waited until the sounds of peoples footsteps had stopped until I left the cupboard.

It took me a while to get my head around what the fuck just happened and even longer to gather myself.

I couldn't decide how I felt about Mattheo, one minute he was comforting me, the next he doesn't want to have anything to do with me.

I made my way down to the dungeons, ready for potions...

it dragged on...

and on...

and on...

Until it was finally time for lunch. Theo and I made our way to the Great Hall and, due to the placement of our last lesson, we're the last to be seated.

I ignored Riddle as best I could, which wasn't very well. He wasn't staring at me today.

Guess I should be happy.

All I could think about was everything that happened in the cupboard, and how I kind of didn't 'hate' being pinned to the wall by Mattheo.

NO you hate him okay?

Do you though?

I mean you can't ignore his beauty.

Doesn't mean I find him attractive, just that I can appreciate when a person has beautiful features.

The rest of the day went by, very boring. Unfortunately I wasn't able to bag myself anymore detentions off Flitwick.

I went straight to bed, I'm not sure why, I was just tired and bored I guess, it was a long day.

crucio

crucio

crucio

"stop it please, you're hurting me"

CRUCIO

I gasp for air and get out of bed,
"Pansy, Pansy please wake up."

I was drenched from head to toe in sweat.

"What oh my god Nor's, I'm so sorry I didn't wake up."

"I remember the dream."

I searched her face for any kind of emotion.

"We have to go to Dumbledore, wait here let me go and get the boys and I'll wake Snape and let him know somethings happened."

Seconds later Enzo and Mattheo burst into my room, shortly followed by Draco and then Blaise with Theo.

"Nora what happened?"

"Was it the nightmares?" Mattheo looked at me and Enzo's head whipped round to face Riddle.

"What nightmares?"

"She's in here" I hear Pansy say and Snape pushes his way through the boys to get me up.

"Out of my way."

"Where are you taking her?" Mattheo stood face to face with him.

"Where do you think?" he stopped and looked that the boys, "and if I were you, Riddle, I'd keep your distance from this situation."

Snape threw a judging glare towards Mattheo as he sat down and sunk into my bed.

Snape and Pansy had a hold of each of my arms, Enzo closely followed, there was not a sound in the castle apart from the tapping of our urgent footsteps.

"Remind me again Nora, what did you see?" Dumbledore sat in his chair, contemplating his thoughts.

"I couldn't see anything, it was just pitch black, but I could hear someone using the Cruciato curse to torture someone."

"Okay and did you hear anything else?" he was probably one of the slowest, talkers, ever.

"Yes, whoever was being tortured was begging them to stop, telling them that it was hurting."

"Did you recognise this voice?"

"No it was almost," I stopped, thinking how to word this, "it was almost distort, like someone had purposefully made it unrecognisable."

Pansy stepped forward, "She's being having bad dreams for a few weeks now, every night almost, they're making her vomit and everything."

She grabbed my hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze.

"It's just sleep deprivation." Said Dumbledore and with a wave of his hand, we were back in our room.

The fucking audacity.

The next day everyone was being very careful about what they said near me, I hated it, Mattheo didn't even look at me.

Pansy barely left my side and Enzo was close behind us at all times.

I had herbology that afternoon, and being the only one who took it, I was on my own.

I was walking down to the greenhouses when I saw Neville not far ahead of me.

"Hey Neville." I called him and he stopped to wait for me.

"Hey Nora, what's up?" he fiddled with his hands, looking down.

"Oh nothing, I just wanted to apologise for Mattheo's behaviour the other day, I hope you weren't hurt."

He looked up at me, his cheeks slightly pink, "I'm fine, thank you for checking up on me."

"It's not a problem." I smiled and we continued our conversation about last weeks homework.

I had already zoned out around halfway through the lesson when I heard someone calling my name very quietly.

"Nora"

I looked around, everyone seemed to be listening.

"Nora please help me!"

I recognised that voice.

I looked behind me, out into the open and saw nothing, just empty space.

"Nor's please help me, it's Alex, they're hurting me."

Alex?...

My whole body went numb, I felt as though i was levitating and had no control over myself.

Then everywhere went dark.

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