🥀 Roses and Novels - Sebastian Sallow - Ominis Gaunt (Hogwarts Legacy Fanfic)

🥀 - Chapter 67 - 🌹

(Helena Perspective)
I went up the stairs to the higher tower with the vial, and my wand was still in my hands.

My feet stumbled to the first bin I came across to throw the vial away. Every inch, every vein in my body wanted to do it. But my head and heart stopped me from doing it. I was fighting my tears as I held it above the bin. My hands started to shake. This urge to find out was so strong.

I sat on the bottom stairs that led to the detention room as I stared at some pink and orange flowers on the wall. My mind wandered back to a memory from summer before Sebastian got back.

-memory-

Ominis and I sat on a bench in a flower garden that was overwhelmed with buzzing bees and fluttering butterflies. We were laughing as he held out a flower one by one. My eyes were closed, and I had to guess which flower he was holding. By smelling its scent and the colour it had.

"Alright, so this is a pinkish orange one. Not like mandarin orange or orange juice. But a more sunset kind of orange, a beautiful shade of warm orange with a light hue."

I smelled on the flower in his hand, "is it a tulip?"

"No, I might have slipped a phrase of the name just now..."

"Pinkish!?" He chuckled, "no, something else think about the sea"

"Sunset!?" He cheered "Yes, that's the one darling. Alright, think about it for a second" and he stuffed the flower into my nose, I giggled as I pushed him away and opened my eyes.

"Hey, that's cheating!?" He laughed.

I pushed him back. "You pushed the flower into my nose, OMI! I startled, " and I laughed. I looked at the beautiful flower he was holding, "I Don't recognize this one... what is it called?" He smelled the flower, "this is a sunset, Lillie! I think they are gorgeous, a warm shade with a beautiful colored green stem"

I smiled, "Why do you like them so much?" He handed me the Lillie, "my aunt used to gave me fresh picked sunset lilies if I got hurt by my father. She always said, with every flower she gave me, I needed to have hope. And that I had to believe better days will come, like gorgeous sunsets after a rainy day." And then we kissed.

-the present-
I needed to figure this out for once and always... Who did I desire the most...?

Ominis, Sebastian, or Evander.

My hand slowly brought the bottle to my nose as I stood on the stairs again. I was standing halfway in the stairs as I looked outside while the bottle came closer and nearer.

I heard footsteps running down the stairs as my name was yelled,

"HELENA!? HELENA!?"
shit, Ominis is looking for me...

I quickly run down the stairs into the broom closet to hide from him. If there was one thing I didn't want at the moment, it was facing him.

I held the vial close to my body as I leaned back to the wall to remain silent. He yelled my name again, and I stood there quiet and silently to not reveal my hiding spot. After a few minutes, it was silent in the hall.

I stepped out of the closet and looked around, he was gone. I sighed as I let my body slide to the floor on my knees.

And before I knew it, he was standing in front of me, his tall body hovering over mine as he looked down at me.