𝑆. 𝑆. 𝑥 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 | 𝑆𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 | 𝑆𝑚𝑢𝑡 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘

Grades and Whine - Ch. 11

The next day...

(4:30 pm)

I find myself back in the library. My head is tempted to burst with so many things bouncing around inside of it.

My list of headaches is as follows:

1.- Tonight there will be a full moon and I still don't know where the hell the effing key is.

2.- I keep thinking about the dream I had.

3.- Severus still hasn't arrived from wherever he is.

4.- We resume classes in about a week and I haven't studied at all.

5.- I must find the damn key because my life practically depends on it.

6.- Velkany.

I don't like this thing of having the same thoughts over and over again.

"Soon I'm going to go crazy." I said in a defeated tone.

"Lulla, can you come please." I said and waited patiently.

*Pop!*

"Yes, my dear, what is offered to you?" Lulla asked sweetly.

"I need your help, please, I can't take it anymore, my head is going to burst!"

"Calm down and tell me what is going on?"

I told her about my mother's voice calling me and that she guided me to the wall behind the bookshelf, that the steel box was inside the wall and that I couldn't open it. That I needed the key and that I didn't know where it was.

She was silent for a few minutes, analyzing every word I just said to her.

Lulla just looked at me and then started walking. She walked slowly towards one of the bookshelves, turning her back on me and passed her hand delicately over the books.

She kept doing it in silence until she stopped, her hand came to rest on a book and then she slowly pulled it out. Lulla looked at it for a moment and replied,

"I really don't know what to say, darling. The message isn't very clear".

"Please don't tell me that, I don't understand anything either!!"

She turned and walked to the desk, stopped in front of it and said to me,

"It's the truth. You say that voice said "Search through your memories", well there you have it honey, only you know where that key is."

"That's the problem. I don't remember where it is."

She sighed as she placed the book on the desk in front of her.

"If so, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you." She said while looking at the book.

"Lulla please, tonight there will be a full moon. Tonight I have to get that key at any cost."

"I'm sorry, little one, I can't help you." She replied. "I must go. Good luck." She said before snapping her fingers and vanishing into thin air.

"No, Lulla, wait-" Lulla was gone before I could finish my sentence.

"Uuugggghhhhhhh!!!!" I exclaimed.

I put my head on the desk and closed my eyes for a while. I thought for 10 minutes.

Nothing.

I opened my eyes and raised my head slowly, my eyes suddenly falling on the book Lulla left on the desk. I looked at it for a few seconds and yelled,

"You forgot your book!" I took it lazily and looked at it with disinterest as I waited for Lulla to come back for it.

Suddenly, something in the cover of the book caught my attention.