Hogwarts Legacy: The Dark Veins In Time

Summertime Sadness, Part III

Y/N POV

I watched every single minute of the wooden clock hung in my dorm room tick by since curfew was announced. After I left Ominis outside of Ravenclaw I immediately crawled into bed and buried myself under every blanket, pillow, and stuffed toy that I could pile over me. My other roommates, including Samantha, had come in late and tried to wake me but I feigned sleep, never wanting to show my face to another human being ever again.

The event replayed over and over in my mind keeping my body temperature well above normal. Ominis' strong grasp on me left a burning impression on my hips and I could still feel his tongue melting into my mouth. I acted on my raw emotion of finally being so fed up with Sebastian Sallow still toying with me, and I saw salvation in Ominis. It was a moment of euphoric release that I didn't feel truly deserving of.

The Ominis Gaunt that looked down on me, criticized me for no reason, and at times I believed tried to keep Sebastian and I apart out of malice was not the true Ominis at all. The true Ominis was patient and kind, caring and protective - a beautiful, steadfast soul that valued the people whom valued him; And through the events with Sebastian over the Winter proved that his love was unconditional for those he cared for. A love he had started to show to me, but I wasn't daft enough to think of it beyond any sense other than friendship.

It was the doubt that someone so marvelous as Ominis would ever feel the same that kept me from admitting my overflowing feelings for him.

As the blue dawn peeked into my windows I desperately thought of ways to apologize to him. I had finally overstepped, shown him a glimpse of my true instability that would scare him away, and I would be alone again. Surely I humiliated him in front of the other students who saw us - they would more than likely now spread the news that Ominis was snogging that know-it-all from Ravenclaw shamelessly in the halls, and affront to his standards as a gentleman.

The whistle from the Hogwarts Express arriving at the station across the lake stirred the castle awake. I reluctantly left the safety of my bed, not bothering to wash up or change as I prepared to begin my three months of summer holiday that I had already ruined.
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Some few hours later I was at the train station bidding farewell to my friends, my face an absolute soggy mess with tears as everyone disappeared one by one onto the Hogwarts Express. Professor Onai had to pry Natty away from Poppy and I as we wailed into each other's shoulders in a sloppy group hug. Natsai and her mother were on their way back to Uganda while Poppy was heading for her Gran's.

"Are you sure you don't want to come with me, Y/N? Gran said she would love to have you. I'm worried about you being in that huge castle practically alone for so long." Poppy said in between sobs. "Ominis Gaunt can't be that good of company.."

"I'll be fine, Poppy, I promise. I have loads of work to do with Mr. Moon and a healthy pile of books to catch up on, I won't have a moment to spare to be lonely!" I lied to her a little, sending her off with one last hug.

We made our promises to write a thousand times a week and with a loud billowing whistle from the train, my best friends made their final boarding.

"Miss Y/N," Professor Sharp's voice sprang up from behind, causing me to jump a little as I turned to face him. Oddly enough, tears returned  to my eyes as I realized my favorite man at Hogwarts was also going to be leaving, unavailable for all the times I would sneak into his office to talk about Fig and other stressful things I was feeling. We had slowly touched the surface on the details of my connection to the Ancient Magic, a secret Fig had given him only the slightest details of before he passed. I was grateful to Professor Sharp for talking over the things that Ominis or my girlfriends wouldn't understand.