Consuming Darkness: Sebastian Sallow

Chapter 27

-Ronnie-

    Sebastian had avoided me as much as he could for almost three days now. I had decided to give him a little space to sort his thoughts out and for me to sort through my own.

    I walked into the dinning hall for breakfast and my eyes immediately found the handsome brown haired Slytherin sitting by himself. He was reading a book as he ate his breakfast, completely in his own world. I watched him for a moment. My heart ached for him and I wanted so badly for him to hold me again. The feelings I had for Sebastian were so intense that I felt I might drown in them if I had to be apart from him for much longer.

   As I approached he looked up from his book. His eyes were filled with so much sadness and the dark circles under his eyes had gotten worse. He must have realized that he was showing me how he truly felt and his face twisted in anger. He grabbed his book and stood up.

   "Sebastian..." I begged. I watched the pain in his eyes in response to hearing me say his name. "We need to talk. Tell me when and where and I'll be there," I pleaded.

   "I don't want to talk," he grumbled and walked out of the dinning hall.

   I slumped down at the table. I felt defeated. That was that then... Sebastian and I were done before there ever even was a Sebastian and I.

   I looked around the great hall and saw Poppy sitting at the Hufflepuff table. Maybe it would be good for me to talk about all of this with someone. She caught me staring and motioned for me to come over.

   When began walking over, Imelda stood in my path. I raised a questioning eyebrow at her interruption.

   "What's going on with you and Sallow?" She asked, slightly aggressively.

   I just rolled my eyes and side stepped her. I wasn't in the mood. She continued to follow me until I reached Poppy.

   "It doesn't matter Imelda," I shot back. "Why do you even care?!"

   Imelda seemed taken back by my words. "Because..." she lowered her voice. "You guys seemed happy and then I saw you come back looking haggard and you both are so mopey." She whispered, looking around to see if anyone had over heard. She was normally very gossipy and I was confused by why she hadn't proclaimed loudly what she had observed.

   "Again..." I paused. "Why do you care?" I whispered back with a bite to my words.

   She shuffled her feet. "You are my friend... you both are... I just wanted to see if you were okay," she said sheepishly.

   He kind words caught me off guard and I just stared blankly back at her. I looked to Poppy who seemed just as shocked.

   "You guys good?" I heard Natty call as she walked up.

   We all turned to her. All of them waiting for me to respond. I simply just slumped down next to Poppy at the Hufflepuff table. Natty and Imelda went to the other side of the table and sat. What a funny group I had gathered. I chuckled slightly, just being around all of them made me feel better. The darkness didn't seem to be all consuming.

   "What happened?" Natty asked breaking the increasingly awkward silence.

   "Ominis kissed me..." I admitted, not wanting to meet any of their eyes.

   "I'm confused... I thought you were into Sebastian?" Poppy asked.

   "She is! They were practically dating over break," Natty explained. "But Ominis was also getting a little handsy even though he knew that they were both into each other."

   "What?!" Poppy exclaimed. "Why didn't you tell me?!"

   "Keep your voice down!" I cautioned, too many people already knew. I didn't need the whole school talking about it.