𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔 (𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒐 𝑹𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒙 𝒐𝒄)

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐕𝐈𝐈 - 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛

𝑨𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆; 𝑬𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂'𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒗:

Yesterday I went home, and now I'm sitting in class like nothing happened.

But something did happen.

Snape wasn't saying anything interesting for me so I wasn't listening to him. Instead I started to remember the events of yesterday.

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛. 𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟." ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.

𝐴 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚.

"𝐵𝑒𝑑. 𝑁𝑜𝑤." ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑.

⚠️ 𝑻𝑾: 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆 ⚠️
𝐼 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚.

"𝐷𝑎𝑑... 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒-" 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑦, 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠.

"𝐷𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡'𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢." ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑠.

𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒.

𝐻𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡.

𝐻𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑗𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠.

𝐼 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡.

"𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡'𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟." ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠, 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒.

𝐼 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ, 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦.

"𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑝! 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒! 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠𝑘! 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑝!" 𝐼 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑.

𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡.

⚠️ 𝒆𝒏𝒅 ⚠️

"Daydreaming? Snape is talking to you." Mattheo says from my side, pulling me back to reality.