The Secrets of Ellewood (Harry Potter)

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

I woke up in the hospital wing to Liza, Melia, and Luna sitting struggling to fit on the foot of the bed. Sammy was pacing the room, head in her hands. The three former girls froze to stare at me.

"Sammy!" Liza yelled, gaining her attention. Her eyes widen as she takes in my conscious state. She immediately started firing questions at me.

"What happened to you?"

"Where'd you go?"

"Why did Draco say you were kidnapped?"

"Why was Draco acting so weird?"

"You had us all worried out of our minds! Do you have any idea what you've done, missy?!"

She came up around to the side of the bed and flicked my shoulder.

"Oh, and stop staring at me like I've grown another head."

"Yeah, I've got a massive headache and my shoulder hurts from where you flicked me, but other than that, I'm fine, thanks for asking" I replied sarcastically. She cringed.

"Sorry."

"We just want to know everything that happened." Melia cut in. Even Luna looked different from her usual self, nervous and even paler than usual. I took a deep breath in and exhaled slowly. Just as I opened my mouth to start explaining, Draco and Jacob walked in, trying to shove each other out of the way. When they saw me, they each froze. Jacob was the first to break it as he ran up to the side of my bed.

"Are you alright? Does anything hurt? Madam Pomf-" I placed my hand over his mouth, my eyes wide. We didn't need her running over and shooing everyone out.

"I'll explain everything later. This isn't a good time or place to discuss it. Everyone meet me in the Astronomy Tower after dinner." Just as I gave the instructions, Madam Pomfrey walked over with a tray covered in a variety of potions and forced the group to leave.

"Draco" I called out as he walked away. He stopped, turned, and started walking back to the foot of my bed. "What's wrong?"

"What? Nothing's wrong." His eyebrows furrowed and I scoffed.

"You've been uncharacteristically quiet this whole time and...well, you're just not acting like yourself"

He glared at me. "I'm fine. I'm normal. Now would you just get off my back?"

I blinked, surprised. "Okay, I'm sorry" I murmured and turned on my side. I assume he bought my 'sleeping' act because a minute later, he stalked out of the Hospital Wing.

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"Hey, girls, can you go find Jacob and tell him to meet us in front of the Ravenclaw Tower after dinner, instead?"

"Yeah, sure" Liza chirped.

"Why? I thought we were meeting in the Astronomy Tower?" Sammy raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, well, things between Draco and I are kind of rough and I don't want to accidentally run into him. If he really wants to know what happened to me that night, he can get over his big ego and apologise to me."

He had made me feel like the bad guy, made me feel the need to apologise to him, but he's the one who yelled at me for no reason.  And he knows how much I hate it when people yell at me. He sounded just like Sean.

"Liv? Oliviaaaa" Sammy snapped her fingers in front of my face, successfully bringing me out of my daze.

"What?"

"We're going, now. And you're telling us what happened with Draco later tonight in the dorm room, 'kay?" I nodded in response and headed up the stairs to our room to take a (much needed) nap.

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"Okay, now can you tell us everything that happened?" Jacob finally arrived at the bottom of the stairs and I pulled them all into the same classroom I was pulled into a few weeks ago by Professor Quirrell.

"Okay so, someone -who turned out to be Professor Quirrell-"

"I know that git was up to no good." Jacob muttered.

"You don't even know what he did. Now let her finish." Liza interjected impatiently.

"-was stalking me" I caught Jacob stick his tongue out at Liza who slapped him upside the head.
"And that night, he kidnapped me, took me into the room Fluffy -the Three-headed dog- was hiding, and told me to look into this mirror. I don't know what he was looking for, but he didn't find it with me. Then he knocked me out and I woke up in the Hospital Wing."

"That's all?" Everyone asked in unison.

"Yeah, basically."

There's no need to go further into the story. They don't need to know what happened at the Quidditch Match, it's probably not that important.

We all filed out of the empty classroom and Jacob left for the Hufflepuff common room while the rest of us went up the stairs. I answered the riddle and we all headed off to out beds.

"Now, spill."

"Huh?" I answered groggily. It was dark and I was tired. So tired, that I had trouble determining who it was that spoke.

"With Draco?"

"Oh, right." I sighed and sat up in bed.
"So, when you guys left the Hospital Wing, I asked him to stay behind so I could ask if anything was wrong. He said nothing was and that he was fine, even though he was acting weird and not like his usual self. Anyways, when I told him this he kind of snapped and yelled at me. But when we were younger, like 5, this kid, Sean, lived down the street from us. Sean used to like to pick on other kids and stuff and so whenever he saw me, he would throw whatever he could find at me, yelling at the top of his lungs. I don't remember what he was saying, exactly, I just knew that I didn't like the raised voices. As a 5-year-old, it wasn't exactly my favourite experience. Yeah, so I would come crying to Draco and he would do his best to cheer me up. Look- my point is, he should know how much I hate it when people yell at me yet that's exactly what he did."

"I'm sorry" Somone whispered into the dark.

"It's fine, let's just go to bed" I said curtly, feeling slightly bitter from the subject.

"Okay" came a feeble reply.

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I guess I'm sort of back from "hiatus". I just won't be updating very often. Like, there'll be new chapters whenever I feel like writing or get the chance to write, but I'm not going on schedule. Sorry.

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-Sierra