First Kiss Chapter one. Trying to work up the nerve!

Chapter 132

Chapter 132

Snape skipped breakfast as he stayed in his room, wondering if he should just stay there for the day since it was Sunday and there were no classes today. Snape felt a bit frustrated he didn’t mean to lose his cool last night but he was so angry with Wormtail he couldn’t help but lose his cool this once, especially having him think that Lily had never cared for him. Snape dressed and walked to the front door, he said nothing to anyone who walked by students were chatting in corners, others were sitting in the Great Hall lingering over their breakfast while some were heading back to their common room or library to do work and research. Snape knew that no one would ask him what he was doing as he walked to the front gates. Snape had walked just past the boarder of the schools protective spells and dissaperated to Godric Hollow. Snape looked around the small village; it was as it had been for the last several years. Snape walked toward the small church, it was filled with people of the village. He could hear them singing from his place in the small town square. Snape sat down on a small bench looking at the statue that was placed in the middle to tell of the loss of a family by the Dark Lord. Snape had seen the statue many times over the years, when he had come here to visit Lily’s grave.

As Snape sat there a little boy came running through the square, he stopped short as he noticed Snape sitting on the bench looking at the statue. The little boy promptly walked over and sat beside him his dark hazel eyes looking at him intently. Snape looked out of the corner of his eyes as the little boy watched him very intently.

“Can you see it too?” The small boy finally asked as he looked over at the statue. “My sisters can see it and I think my little brother will be able to see it too, when he’s a little older. He’s only four, right now, I’m seven.”

Snape gave a small nod of his head, the boy looking between the two.

“I think they lived in the house that no one else can see, the one with the roof blasted off.”

“Really,” Snape said in a soft tone.

“Yeah it’s down the street a little ways. Oh yeah I’m Toby, why aren’t you at church with the others?”

“Why are you not in church?” Snape replied giving one eyebrow a rise looking at him inquiringly. The boy gave him a sheepish grin.

“I wanns play so I said I was going to Timmy’s house before church, and I’ve been running round since,”

“Won’t your parents be worried about you?”

“Nah, they hardly go themselves. My sister Candance went with her friend, but my other sister Riley, she is around here somewhere. We were playing when I saw you sitting here.”

Snape smiled at the boy he was very friendly and outgoing. “As to answer your question from before, yes I can see what the statue really is.”

“I knew it, are they buried in the graveyard?” The boy asked excitably.

“Yes they are, I came to place flowers on the grave…. s….”

“Can you show me, then I can show my sisters,”

“Sure come on kid,” Snape stood up in his soft flowing motion and started to walk toward the cemetery, the boy eagerly following after him.

The boy watched fascinated by Snape cloak billowing out behind him.

“Cool coat mister, where ja get it?”

“A store near where I work and it’s called a cloak.”

“I’m gonna have to ask my parents to get me one,”

Snape smiled he liked this boy, he reminded him, of himself when he was little. The two walked on, with the small boy telling him about life in Godric Hallow and what an odd name it was. Snape told him that it was named for a man who was born here many, many years ago and yes it was before Snape’s time he was not quite that old.