All The Lies You Tell - MATTHEO RIDDLE

Chapter 32

        "No! Try again!"

Marco juts out a another spell towards a pretend attacker and once again fails to do any damage. He sighs as Enid throws his hands up, annoyed.

"Marco it is not that hard!", Enid shouts.

"Do not yell at me! I am trying my best!"

"Why don't we take a break for now, yeah?", Liv suggests, a bit exasperated herself.

"Oh okay, yes sure. Let's take a break. Let's just stop for the whole day! And when it's finally time to fight lets just take a break on that day too. And none of us will be tired anymore because we'll all be dead!"

I slouch myself against the wall behind me and close my eyes. Things haven't been easy thus far. I was discharged from the hospital almost a week ago and we've been nonstop training ever since. No one is prepared for the fight. Hence the training. Enid may not be the strongest or most agile, but he knows the most about spells. Therefore why he is the one shouting about at everyone like our teacher. Technically he is our teacher, I suppose. My muscles are still a bit weak, so I haven't been involved much, but Enid says he trusts my abilities. I've tried to stay focused and participate as much as possible.

We're currently located in one of the forgotten areas of the school. The rooms that vanished with the ending of the war. No one has been her for a while, that evident due to the smell of mold and dust constantly invading my senses. We've been hiding out here and training ourselves for the last few days. A lot of people have made great progress. I just hope it's enough.

We have no idea what yet is to come of this battle. After many days of research and analysis, we finally came up with a conclusion. Or at least, the most probable thing we could. Enid believes Bellatrix is somehow linked by the necklace. He said that the spell was probably done incorrectly which is what caused this to happen. Of course the first solution was to just simply destroy the necklace and end the bond, but Enid was quick to shut it down. He thinks that will only give her more free rein. That it will sever the link and allow her to move around as she pleases. She's still connected to the other world, but her necklace keeps her able to come to ours periodically. After knowing the facts, the plan soon fell into place.

We will take the necklace out to a remote location and use it to summon her to us. Then we will fight. And if all goes well, we'll banish her from our world for good this time. Sounds easy, right?

Liv has actually done surprisingly well. Not that I don't think she's a good asset, I just didn't really expect her to be a good asset. I've learned my lesson about judging others. This gives me hope that she's going to be okay.

Loui's not struggling and neither are Draco and the guys, but that was expected. Marco on the other hand, well he's still learning. Speaking of Draco, I've noticed something strange between him and Liv recently. They aren't speaking, but they're not not speaking either. There's no more eye rolling when Draco opens his mouth or weird stares from him when she's in the room. They don't do anything. They act like one other are strangers. Not even that, invisible is the word I'd use. It's as if neither one exists. Something odd is going on. I only wish I had the time to focus on something so trivial as my friends relationships.

No proper date for when our plan is supposed to take place has been set yet, but we plan to do it soon. Once everyone is prepared and ready is when we will attack. Bellatrix has made no moves to contact me since everything happened and I'm grateful for it. It feels nice not having dreams about her for once. Instead my dreams are filled with other people.

I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of people who so quickly agreed to help me. As I look around the room now I feel so much love for everyone here. Everything has changed for me. I think back on who I used to be and I don't even recognize that girl. The one who would eat lunch alone and scream at random people who only wanted to thank her. She was erratic and unstable, hell I still am, but now I've got people to be by my side for it. Everyone that I ever needed is here. Well, all except one.