Suffering for Peace

You are my hope

In 2 hours, it became noon and Newt showed me where they usually eat. I didn't feel comfortable immediately eating amongst them so sat for a while outside till most of the students would be out of the hall. A little yellow girl meanwhile came to me and sat down next to me.

Girl: Are you feeling alright again?

Acacia: A bit better now I am out of that cage.

Girl: The story you told is still staying amongst the students, no one has told a teacher yet, Snape has already completely forgotten it.

Acacia: How quickly did it get around?

Girl: About that same day, across the houses.

Acacia: Houses?

Girl: Yes, houses. We get sorted into them at the beginning of our first year, that is why we wear different colored clothes that you always see. Red are Gryffindors, the are brave ones. Blue are Ravenclaws, they are the wise ones. Yellow are Hufflepuff, the loyal ones, like me. And then the green ones are Slytherins, they are ambitious but often the meanest ones and searching for fame.

Acacia: Which would I be in?

Girl: You would fit well in Slytherin but I hope you are not as mean as you were this morning.

Acacia: That was because she electrocuted me when I did nothing, and she held it pushed in. I am normally a sweet person but since I got locked in that cage, I completely changed. You don't want to know how many times that black-haired man shocked me the past 5 years, he made me change. He was the one that shot me down at the war, right after he killed my parents.

The girl hugged me immediately and I tried not to electrocute her.

Girl: I am so sorry to hear that.

Acacia: You are a really sweet girl. What is your name?

Girl: Lizzie Goodwin. And yours was...

Acacia: Acacia Bobusic, crown princess of Meodor.

Lizzie: I think it is best that I go inside again, the lessons can start soon. When can I see you again?

Acacia: I think I will be mostly here, I need to become comfortable first before I walked through the castle without threatening anyone.

A single high-pitched bell rang and students started to run through the halls of the castle. Lizzie gave me one more hug before she ran inside too. I looked her after and saw Newt standing in the doorway, he had obviously seen it all. I singly smiled at him before turning my head away from him again to look at the flowers in front of me. I could go eating now, but I am not hungry, I am used to one meal a day.

From all the happiness that I had gotten from that girl, I let a single tear fall on my hands that held a yellow flower. She looks like me back in the days, full of joy and nothing bothering her. Someone who can be friends with everyone and quickly lays contact with a person in pain to cure them with happiness. Someone a mother like mine loved and took good care for. Her hair and eyes were just slightly different. My hair is curly silver and my eyes gold colored. Her hair was short blonde and her eyes deep grey

I sat there the whole afternoon without getting spoken at by students running around or sitting on the grass. I kept looking up at the sky and imagining how it could be in Meodor. Maybe it could be as usual, maybe there is a bad person on the throne. No, that can not, we have a law for that.

Lizzie: You are still sitting on the same place. Haven't you gone eating this noon?

Acacia: I am used to one meal a day, I can stand it. How were your lessons?

Lizzie: Bored as always. Have you ever got school?

Acacia: I have, but that was long ago. My mother taught me things like writing and reading. Those were wonderful days. It has been almost 10 years without learning a thing or being used as a teaching subject. Horrible days.

Lizzie: Well I am new this year and I didn't though you would be here, I never believed the false story. But now that you told us the real side of it, I believe yours and I want to help you.

Acacia: Don't you have friend to be with?

Lizzie: Well ... I haven't got any ... that is a reason why I started to talk to you.

Acacia: It is really sweet that you want to help me but I think you can't.

Lizzie: How not?

Acacia: I don't know how far we need to go to let them set me free. They are thinking I would call the army of Meodor to attack again and take over your kingdom as revenge.

Lizzie: Would you do that?

Acacia: It depends. If you people can finally see the good again, I wouldn't. but if you keep attacking me or call me names, I wouldn't hesitate, but then I would first take you and Newt to the palaces to be sure you are safe.

Lizzie: Newt, like the man that always came to you every evening?

Acacia: I gave him a handshake, it is as a promise but much more stronger. And since he offered it first, he will be responsible for the consequences if one of us breaks it.

Lizzie: Like, he takes care of you?

Acacia: ... you would say that, yes.

I didn't think about that, he does indeed take care of me these past weeks. He acts like a father to me, because my other one got lost ...

Lizzie: And why would you save me then?

Acacia: You are exactly like me in my younger years and...

°I reached my hand out to her.°

Acacia: You know what it means now.

Without hesitating, she shook it and gave me a big hug right after. I enjoyed her giving me a hug, it felt comfortable. Again, a single tear fell out of my eyes and landed on my hands behind Lizzie her back. This girl could later make me change again.