𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐋𝐄; 𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆

EIGHTEEN: FORGIVENESS

PART ONE, EIGHTEEN: FORGIVENESS

It didn't recall to me back then how much my friends worried about me and cared. Back then they were just watching out for me. Back then I hated them for it. Maybe I should have questioned them, why? Maybe it would have opened up things for me and would have left Tom immediately, but then I wouldn't have been able have you.

She was home. It had been a little bit more than a week that she stayed away from Hogwarts, but she desperately missed it. But with her friends hearing the news about her cheating on Tom they haven't spoken to her. She didn't blame them if they never did.

She hasn't spoken to Tom Riddle either, he had ruined everything for her. She didn't want to be in the Head Common Room and she could tell she wasn't wanted in the Ravenclaw Dorm's.

The only person that she felt wanted by was her cat, Moon. Emma sat in the window sill in the corridor of Hogwarts School. Her familiar was on her lap as she brushed his fur gently as she read a History for Magic.

Suddenly she stopped as she lifted her eyes from the words and closed her book shut softly and setting it beside her. Moon looked up at her wondering why she stopped.

"I'm the most hated person in this school aren't I?" Emma asked aloud

Moon meowed but Emma was able to decipher it, "Maybe I should talk to Dippet about stripping me from my Head Girl post. I don't deserve it, I'm not like mum, Moon. I'm nothing like her. I'm just a evil person" Emma said

"Perhaps we all have evil in us" She heard, Emma turned her head to see Tom his hands behind his back as his shoes clicked against the floor creating an echo "I don't want to speak to you" she said aloud taking her eyes away from him.

"There's a lot of thing we don't want to do. You cannot just stop speaking to me. We are bound to somehow" Tom said

"You do realize that everyone hates me because of you and what I did right?" Emma told him

"Then they are all haters of true love?" he spoke softly.

Emma scoffed as Moon jumped from her lap as she stood up gather her bag "True love?, you don't even know me, I don't even know you. You say all these things but do they actually mean something. I love...loved Aaron that was true love. But I ruined it all. I decided I don't deserve happiness. Well we are all going to hell anyway" Emma said as she began walking back to her dorm, Tom quickly followed her

"What if those words I said actually did mean something. Maybe I-I do-love you" Tom struggled to say as the words felt like poison in his mouth

"I don't regret what happened Tom and I know what I said to you that night and I know what you said to me, I just need time" Emma said

Tom walked closer placing a hand under chin, softly he kissed her. In a matter of seconds he stepped away from her "I'll be waiting" he only said as he walked away from her leaving her to her thoughts.

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Emma stood scribbling into her journal in the dim light of the library as it got darker and darker by the minute.

She was so focused at the task at hand that she hadn't noticed her friends sit across from her.

Emma dipped her quill in ink, scribbling harshly again. "Merlin what are you writing in there a whole textbook we don't need?" Sophia asked

Emma gasped as she had almost dropped her pot of ink, Aaron hand lifted the air as he managed to stop it from falling without a wand, The ink slowly seeping back into the pot.

"I see your getting better as wandless magic" she said to him

"Yea Caroline has been helping me" Aaron stated as he nodded

Nancy sighed softly as she sat down, "What are you doing here? I thought you all were shunning me?" Emma asked

"We know we shouldn't have judged you so harshly before without getting the full story, but we couldn't handle your depressed looks anymore. And now you need friends more than ever. We are angry at what you did but we don't hate you. Your still our best friend" Nancy said

Emma gave them a half smile in gratitude "I just don't know what to do, I'm having mixed feeling about all of this"

"Well we can't tell you what to do, just play it by ear and see how it goes. That's all you can pretty much do" Aaron stated

Emma nodded taking his words into consideration. She was going to take it slow and not rush into anything drastic. Tom will just have to wait.

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It was time for another study lesson with Abraxas on Transfiguration. Emma had to admit that the boy was getting stringer with his spells, she was sure by the end of the term and it was time to take N.E.W.T.s he will be ready.

She stayed in the library waiting for him as she took out a few textbooks and her very own wand, She heard the clicking of shoes and knew he was approaching.

"Hello Brax" greeted Emma politely

"Emma, how are you?" he asked as he sat down on the other side of the table, placing his bag full of his school stuff on his chair behind him

"I could be better I suppose but that doesn't matter right now, today we are going to reviewing the Bluebell flames"

They instantly got to work as Emma took out two separate jars to place them in safely, as they are known to burning material. It was about and hour or so that Emma began telling him the incantation and making sure he was doing the correct wand movements.

Emma watched as he practiced "Abraxas?" she asked suddenly

The boy stopped his whispering and looked up at the girl, "Should I be worried? about Tom?" she asked

Abraxas put his wand down with a gentle tap on the desk, he wanted to tell her that she should be terrified. But he couldn't because he was too loyal, so he lied through his teeth "Not at all"

Emma nodded in understanding, taking his words into consideration which will lead her to choose wrongly.

A week went past and Emma finally made a desicion with Tom. She had agreed for him to court her and Tom couldn't be more pleased with her answer. It was time to put his plan in motion, but little did he known that follower would be doing his very best to warn her.

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