Anastasia Nott

chapter 8

*TOM'S POV*

I watched her leave with a frown on my face, what was wrong with her? She was acting odd. Very odd. It wasn't new to me when a student zoned out or just wasn't paying attention during tutoring sessions with me but for her to act like that... was weird.

Sure, I've only had a couple interaction with her- sod that I've only had a proper interaction with her when i was toturing ber last week but based on the way she acted on our first session compared to now, any sane person would agree with me on the fact she was acting odd. I've seen her studying in the library multiple times so I know she wasn't the type of student that didn't care if their grades.

When she was no longer visible to me in my sight, I turned and started packing the books which were laid out on the table. Not more than 3 minutes later I was walking out of the library. A part of me couldn't help but felt annoyed at Anastasia for wasting my time. But then, the memory of her flinching when I merely grab her arm kept coming back to me.

The past month after she had transferred here, I've seen her been touchy with Mattheo's friend group, physical touch was obviously her love language as I always saw her resting her head on someone's shoulder or looking completely unbothered when someone in her friend group had their arm on or around her.

Then why did she react like when all I did was grab her arm?

I kept walking towards the slytherin common room when I heard a couple voices talking, I could tell ome if those voice belonged to Cormac so it meant the rest must have belonged to his friends. I was just about to turn the corner so I could face them and give them detention when something that came out of Cormac's mouth made me froze in place.

"Yea and she just kept crying, pathetic really."

A she? But who?

"Really? She didn't do anything? Didn't you say she was trying to fight you off?" A voice that must have belonged to one of his friends answered.

"Really. After we reached her bed she just laid there crying. She wasn't even trying to stop me. She probably wanted it as much as I did. A whore really." His words made me scrunched my face up in disgust. Who was he talking about- wait.

He had been following Anastasia outside of the library and seemed to be tormenting her about something... No. It had to have been a coincidence... don't tell me he was talking about her...

"Who would have thought baby Nott was into that shit"

As much as I had tried to deny it to myself, my earlier thoughts were right. He had raped her.

It explained why she was acting so weird and flinched when I grab her.

As I finished that thought, all I could see was red. He had hurt her. I don't why I was this mad about a girl I didn't know until a month ago but I was.

However, I composed myself and walked out of the corner I was standing by and faced Cormac and his friends.

"Get back to your dormitories, it's almost curfews." I said with a stern voice. The voice I alwayed used with students.

Cormac and his friend weren't stupid enough to argue with me and walked towards the direction of their common room as soon as I commanded them to.

When Cormac passed me, I had to resist the urge to crucio him right then and there.

When they left, I continued my way towards the slytherin common room. When I entered, I noticed Mattheo and his friend sitting on the sofas, one of them being Theo. I looked around, no Anastasia. Good.