Life Goes On

Chapter 12: Follow the Butterflies

Neither Sebastian or Ominis brought up any ancient magic stuff for a few weeks. I'm sure that they felt guilty about what had happened in the hills. Professor Weasley had been keeping Ominis and I busy and Sebastian seemed to be getting more assignments from his professors than usual. I'm sure the faculty had discussed the incident amongst themselves and figured that if we were busy we wouldn't have time to get into trouble.

No one knew the true cause for our little excursion, we told professor Weasley we'd heard rumors of the place and having been as adventurous as we were during 5th year, our curiosity pushed us to go out there.

But the nightmares continued. Most nights I woke up sweating and barely able to breathe, fending off panic attacks thanks to Ominis and Sebastian. Horrible scenes from my dreams kept replaying in my head throughout the day. I knew that Ominis and Sebastian were concerned, I would catch them whispering in the common room sometimes, Sebastian staring at me with worry in his eyes when he thought I wouldn't notice, and I could hear Ominis standing outside my door in the night sometimes, when he thought I was asleep.

***

"So... I thought it may be nice to take a trip out to the coast." Sebastian brought up casually while we were having dinner.

"Yeah, that could be fun, before the whether gets colder and we lose all this sunlight." Ominis added. I could almost feel the scheme.

"Hmm." I did not want to even give them the satisfaction of a response.

"You don't think it'd be nice to take a little break darling?" Ominis asked while he reached for my hand.

From the corner of my eye I saw heads turning. While the three of us were always together, we hadn't been particularly public with our affection, even less so about our... Arrangement.

"Uh.. I don't know. Maybe." I responded as I pulled my hand away and scarfed my food down.

"I'll see you guys later." I quickly gathered my things and left.

"What.. what happened? Did we say something wrong?" Ominis said as I ran off.

"Maybe we should go and work on our homework Ominis." Sebastian said, while looking around at all the curious eyes.

***

"Ophelia? Are you in here?" I heard Ominis and Sebastian calling for me from the entrance to the room of requirement.

"Yes, I'm with Mr. Lily Petals."

Sebastian and Ominis entered the ocean vivarium. They came and sat next to Mr. Lily Petals and I.

"Hey, are you ok? You kinda ran away from us." Sebastian said as he carved figures into the sand with a stick.

Mr. Lily Petals nudged my shoulder with his forehead.

Ominis scooted closer to me. "Was it because I called you darling and held your hand in front of everyone? I'm sorry, I... I wasn't thinking."

"I... I guess I hadn't really thought about what our relationship might look like to others. That's not to say that I'm not happy or want to change anything really. I just... I don't know how to act in public I guess." I stumbled on my words not really sure about how I felt in regards to all of this.

"Well," Sebastian put the stick down on the sand, "to be frank, I don't really care about what other might think or say. I love you, and I love Ominis, and I am happy and so lucky to have you both. The rest of the world could disappear and I'd be fine as long as I'm with the two of you."

I looked up at Sebastian, a full smile on my face.

"What do you want my love?" Ominis asked turning to me, his face was serious. I bit my lip.