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Cassiopeia sighed in contentment as she lay down, her back flat on the soft mattress of her bed. Today had been tiring for her. The way to the clinic is much farther than the way to the library. She wished to have Scorpius'long legs so she can walk from a place to another without even getting so tired.

When Scorpius gave her wrist watch back, her archenemy suddenly had a breakdown. Scorpius and Cassiopeia had to go back inside the infirmary. They both saw how broken Corvus looks – his hair dishevelled, his eyes bloodshot red from crying, his hands clenching on his shirt, near his neck and he was twisting and turning, writhing in pain on the bed. Cassiopeia's eyes got wet from the sight – it is too much. He looks like he is being tortured. It hurts her to see him like that. His cries were painted in her mind, haunting her. He was feeling very desperate – very desperate for all those pain to stop. He shouted Make it stop! like it is a ritual, like a mantra. Together with the words she did not understand. "Just please let me break our bond and I will set you free," that was the last words Cassiopeia heard from him as Scorpius and her were being ushered outside the infirmary by the school staffs.

Closing her eyes while relaxing her back in the bed, she thought about Corvus. He was her bully, her enemy. He made her life miserable. He made her feel ashamed of herself. He made her felt worthless and useless. He stooped low on her kind, even using her friends to destroy her being. He made her catch trouble – now, she is getting blamed and being punished for the crime she did not even commit. He made her cover herself up – to turn a blind eye against the world, to turn a blind eye against her own self.

But even he did all of that to her, it is not an excuse to receive all these punishments he has been getting right now, right? His acts to her were often childish and mere immature. Him pushing her against the open door; him locking her inside the classroom after the classes – it was all one of his childish plays. It was nothing serious.

Actually, Cassiopeia had to thank Corvus for bullying her. She now knew how much of a snake her former friend Daphne is. Instead of siding with her, she actually revealed all of her secrets and flaws, making her the laughing stock of the whole school body.

If it was not for him, she would be friends with a snake – who would be slithering into her holes, absorbing all the information she could get from her. And when she cannot get anything from her anymore, the snake would eventually bite her with its venomous fangs and kill her softly.

Cassiopeia knows that it would be weird if she will tell Scorpius that she does not hate Corvus at all; that, she just finds him very annoying. She felt the pity for him surging up to her heart. She remembers her soulmate whom she have not met yet. She shares her feelings and her emotions to her soulmate. And, if she is not that careful and cautious enough, he would feel what is Corvus is feeling right now. And, she does not want that. At all.

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