Adalyn Black - A Harry Potter Love Story

Chapter 24

Addie woke up and turned to look at the clock sitting next to her. It read 2:04. Groaning, she turned over and closed her eyes, but no matter how hard she tried, she just kept tossing and turning, trying to fall asleep. 

At 2:43, she gave up and walked to her cousin's bed. "Hey Rora," she said, pushing her cousin's shoulder to wake her up. Once she opened her eyes, Addie continued to talk. "I can't sleep. It's gotten worse. I haven't told you because I didn't want to wake you up."

"How many times do I have to tell you," Aurora said, yawning and rubbing her eyes, "It doesn't matter. I don't care." She sighed.

"You seem to care. You're tired. Go back to sleep, and I'll try to as well." Addie walked back to her four poster bed and sat in it and ran her hand through her hair. Aurora walked over to her and sat on the bed beside her.

"Come on. You need to sleep more than I do. How about you lay down and I'll sit here and you can talk to me. Okay?"

"Okay." Addie laid her head down on the pillow and lifted the bed blankets on the other side up. She stuck her legs in and pulled the blankets back. Aurora tucked her cousin in and smiled down at her. 

"So. Talk. What's going on?"

"I don't know, but I want to know. I really don't even know. I thought that it was all over. I could sleep, but about a week ago it got bad."

"How bad?"

"What are you? My shrink?" Addie laughed. "I'm sorry. That was mean."

"It's all good."

"I'm sorry. I wanted to talk and you let me talk to you. Um. I would wake up at around 2, and after that, I wouldn't be able to fall asleep."

"Okay. Why don't you try to go to sleep now? I'll stay right here."

"Okay. Thanks. I love you."

"I love you, too."

Addie tried to fall asleep, but when she couldn't, she just closed her eyes and pretended. Aurora bent down, and kissed her forehead, and walked back to her bed. Once Addie was sure that Aurora was asleep, she stood up, slipped on a pair of shoes and a jacket and walked outside. She didn't know what to do, so she just wandered, roaming the castle. Once on the seventh floor, she passed by a door that she had never seen before.

She was curious, so she went inside. It wasn't what she thought she would find. There was one mirror. She read the words on the top, Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi. She looked at the words, still confused, but then into the mirror. She saw three people. Herself, and two others. 

She looked at the woman and recognized her from some of the photos inside Dumbledore's office. Addie smiled at the woman and looked into her eyes. They were the same blue that Addie had when she wasn't changing her appearance. She then looked at the man. He had calm hair, about shoulder length, and it was brown, very much like her own.

She didn't know who the people were until she looked back to the woman and noticed that she was now wearing a crown. The exact crown that Dumbledore had given to Addie for when she went into public and her hair was flashing different colors. 

She finally understood. "Mum?" she said, looking at the woman. That means that he was her, "Dad?"

The two people nodded and smiled. All of a sudden, there was a scene playing out in the mirror. Addie was standing to the right of a patch of ice, and a little girl was being swung by a woman. There was a man standing with their back to Addie. Once the woman looked up, her eyes flashed with realization. That woman was her mother, and the little girl must've been her, which means that the man has to be her father.