The Ravenclaw Girl (F.W.)

Chapter 17

a/n: Finally posting this chapter. I don't know how I feel about this chapter but it took a lot of work to get it right. A little warning for this chapter as it does talk about abuse. 

Diana's Pov

As classes continued I felt myself not fully paying attention. I didn't even think properly when walking from class to class. All that was on my mind was my brother, how could he let Sabrina get this caught up in his head to just leave like he did. I wasn't necessarily mad at her and the same goes for Dylan. They both have different feelings but they are their own feelings and love makes people do crazy things. As I sat in my next class I couldn't even tell you what class it was as I still couldn't fully focus on anything.

I felt a hand touch my shoulder a while into the class. I looked to see George with a worried look on his face. "Hey are you okay?"

I put on a fake smile, "Yeah I'm alright."

"Diana, tell me." He said.

We were seated in the back of the classroom and I looked to the front where the professor wasn't paying much attention to us. Everyone else is doing their own thing. I turned back to George. "Do you want to skip? I really don't feel like being here."

He smiled, "I thought you would never ask." He extended his hand out for me. I reached out and took it. It was quite easy to sneak out of the class. The door was opened and the professor wasn't even looking, it was like they wanted us to sneak out of class. We ran out of the castle and he took me to a tree by the Black Lake. It is fairly far from the castle but I didn't mind, I wanted to be as far away as possible right now. I let go of his hand as he went to sit down against the tree but I stayed standing looking at the Black Lake. This spot of his also happened to be close to where I broke down crying. I felt as if I was watching myself crying on the grass with Toby trying to comfort me as best as he could.

"So," George said, breaking me out of my trance, "what happened?"

"What makes you think something happened?" I said, still looking at the lake. But I turned to him and saw that he was giving me a 'come on' look. "Okay I'm just a little stressed is all." George still didn't buy it. The thing with George is that this is so new to me. He is someone I see as more than a friend and I want to tell him everything but I don't want to scare him off.

"Diana I know I may not know you as well as some other people do but I do know that I care about you and I want you to be okay." He said. I smiled and sat down next to him. I put my head on his shoulder and cuddle up with him. He wrapped his arm around me to pull me in and my smile grew wider. "Also you are a terrible liar so tell me the truth."

I laughed a little, "Okay but it's long and kind of complicated and everything I tell you can't tell anyone. Especially Fred."

"Okay I promise."

"Well I guess I should start with my parents. They were never the best I know that now but I was young and didn't know any better. But I was lucky because I had Dylan. Since we are twins you know what that's like. It's like a built-in best friend." He smiled and nodded knowing exactly how I felt. That's another thing I like about him. We both felt outshined by our twins. We related to each other in that way. "Anyways we grew up and our parents grew to be demanding and horrible. We started running away from home when we were ten but we never got very far. Always ending up back in that house. But something changed in the way they started treating us. And it became Dylan running away by himself. I never knew why until I found out my parents were hitting him every time he stepped out of line. And he never let me go with him in fear that my parents would do the same thing to me. He protected me for so long and I couldn't do the same." I felt tears come down my face. I wiped a few away but George took it upon himself to wipe them away.