Will

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by TheBookworm2010

by TheBookworm2010

Will couldn't stop thinking about the deaths.

Not really. There was always something that reminded him.

It didn't matter now. The younger students needed help. Help to survive. Help to understand. And he helped. He tried to help in any way possible. He was there. He listened, made the right comments as they poured out their thoughts and feelings to him.

He didn't understand how Cassie did it. How she closed up and pretended that nothing was wrong. She'd always been that way. Closed up and pretended that she was ignorant of what others said. Prideful too.

Sarah M was with him. He knew that she was trying in her own way to help them. Even if she couldn't understand people. Not always. It was hard for her to communicate. She'd much rather read a book and be in its world. Anything she figured out would be written in that notebook she carried, especially now.

Mary was somewhere. They'd tried searching for her but she was hiding. Will was worried about her. He knew her thoughts were going in circles. She blamed herself for a lot of things. She'd been out there, trying to find their friends.

And now Michael was gone. And so were Annabelle and Sarah B. They'd buried them somewhere. He hadn't been invited. Anne's parents wanted nothing to do with mudbloods as himself. Sarah's had died during the war. He didn't even know Michael's parents.

He wanted to help them. The others. Really truly help. But he didn't know how. Not now when three of them were gone. Nearly half of them. It wouldn't be the same now, with only four people instead of the usual seven. Their usual table felt empty. The spots where they hanged out a bit grey.

The other students felt it too. Everyone had lost someone. Everywhere there was a friend, or brother, or parent that wouldn't return. Not in this life at least.

It was quiet now. No one laughed and if they did, they looked guiltily around them, as if it were a crime to smile and be happy. It was a school. They were allowed to. It was expected of them to. Yet no one did.

At least, he could help.