Hidden In The Shadows

Chapter 9

I didn't know where else to go so I went to the quidditch pitch, I wasn't really aware of where I was going I just got so angry my head just zoned out about where I was going.

I go and sit in the student stands thankfully there is no one here it's just me right now.

"What was that about with Potter, Dani?" I hear a voice say coming from the entrance to the stands. I look over to see Blaise standing there with a concerned expression on his face.

"I don't know what your talking about" I lie to him in hopes he will drop the subject.

"Stop lying to me okay Dani you know I don't appreciate it" He tells me softly. He makes his way over to me and sits down next to me. He interlocks his hands together infront of him and rests his elbows on his legs which is making him lean forward a bit.

I'm just sitting here with my head down and my hands holding together in my lap.

"I can't talk about Blaise I'm.. I'm...I'm sorry if I could talk about it I would....I just can't" I tell him making myself a bit sad as I do so. I so desperately want to tell someone anyone but I've kept this secret for too long my friends won't understand why I've kept the fact that Harry is my brother a secret for this long.

"Dani something is wrong I can tell but you have to tell me something so that I can help" He says to me gently to know that I'm not alone.

"That's the problem.....no one can help me" I say to him. I get up off the bench and walk away from him. Out of the quidditch stands and straight for the astronomy tower again.

The astronomy tower is my safe place but I only go up there for the knife.

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I get up to the astronomy tower and I get out the box in the pillar. I lie on the floor I lay my legs on the floor and cross one leg over the other. I hold the knife in my hands.

I contemplate what to do with it. Just holding it makes me feel safe but at the same time it makes me feel like there is no one in the world who wants to be around it makes me feel alone.

A tear rolls down my face. I look down at the knife and the splashed onto the stainless steel making a water mark. I slowly wipe my thumb over the tear on the knife.

I bring the knife up infron of my eyes. I look in the stainless steel and I see my pale green eyes looking back at me and the only thought that goes through my head is 'so alone in the world'. I place the knife back in its box and hide it away so that I won't have to see the reflection.

I sit there on the astronomy tower watching the day go by until it gets to the stars. I stand up and walk over to the banister and look up at the night sky and all the stars. It just makes me feel like I'm apart if something amazing.

"DANI!" I hear my name being shouted. It snaps me out of my trance and I snap my neck at the stairs behind me. I slowly walk over to the stairs to see who shouted.