A Letter 2 Years Late

Chapter 11 - Hidden Secrets Should Stay Hidden

It was a beautiful spring day in April. The grass was dry, the birds were chirping, flowers were blooming. On top of that, Easter break was right around the corner. I closed my eyes laying back on the soft grass trying to relax. I say trying because the second my eyes closed, someone came barreling towards me screaming:

"PLEAAASEEE!" Karen pouted. I opened my eye to see her pulling the puppy eyes on me. Beside her, Kaitlin and Rose were wearing similar expressions.

"Why do I have the feeling of deja vue?..." I grumble. I had come out hoping they would give up and stop begging already. It wasn't like I didn't like them enough to want to visit, it's just, we've barely known each other a full year and they want me coming over for break... I didn't want to seem like I was intruding or anything but they just keep insisting and it is tempting...

"Just say yes so they will shut up." Penelope groaned repositioning herself on the grass next to me.

"Rose won't give up until she gets her way. Have you not learned that by now?" Stellar asked chuckling. She sat down to my right with Lilith beside her laughing aswell.

"Mhmm!" Rose agreed with a pointed look.

"Don't make me send your boyfriend on you too!" Kaitlin threatened.

"For what? What has Tressa done this time?"

I sat up and snapped my head back to find Fred taking a seat beside me and wrapping his arms around my waist, pulling me onto his lap.

"She won't come over for spring break!" Rose exclaimed angrily, crossing her arms across her chest. Stellar and Lilith laughed at my side.

"Aw why not? Mum's gonna want to meet you and Aunt Hermione already said there was space for you to stay at Rose's!" Fred gasped, he too pulling his puppy face on me.

"But-" I started clearly not going to win this battle. And though I didn't want to admit it cause that would mean admitting defeat, I did want to spend more time with them and my boyfriend, "Fine..."

"YAY!" Karen, Kaitlin and Rose bounced around happily. I shook my head at my friends silliness just before Fred planted a light kiss on my cheek. Penelope grumbling about something I could not hear. That girl needs to loosen up...

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Sitting in a corner in the library, Rose sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose for the tenth time that night. It wasn't my fault history was so boring and Professor Binns is easy to tune out! I hate history regardless to whether it's Canadian or wizarding. I wish spring break would just start already. I was counting down the days and there were still four left.

"You know what? Let's take a break. I was looking at some newspapers the other day and I spotted one or two that mentioned the name Bae again. But it was in the restricted section so..." Rose trailed off.

"What were you even doing in the restricted section?" I asked giving her a weird look.

"Just some research." Rose replied shrugging.

"Right... So how do we get in there to see it now?"

"I can ask? The librarian knows me and also knows I'm always researching..."

I raise an eyebrow at her and ask: "Are you sure she'll let us?"

"Yeah I'll go ask."

While I followed Rose to the librarian, I didn't pay attention to what they were saying and waited for Rose to drag me to the restricted section. The librarian unlocked the gate and let us in.

Rose led me through the maze of shelves and shelves of books. We turned right and left passing through eerily quiet library until we reached the very back, where there was a table with several old newspapers scattered all over it. Rose picked up the first one from the top of the pile and handed it to me. I accepted it gingerly and read:

Last night, several suspected Aurors were taken in for questioning. One of the Aurors was none other than Mrs Bae herself. When all denied their involvement, Mrs Bae's wise words backfired on herself: "How do we sort the liars from the rest?"

Right when I was about to continue, Rose pulled the newspaper out of my hand and handed me another one.

"This one is even worse." She whispered.

After a long week of interrogating, the ministry has finally come to a conclusion. Mrs Hall had finally confessed of being involved with voldemort.

While some mourn over Mrs Hall's death sentence, others are enraged and believe that someone else was involved. One individual was even bold enough to give his opinion on who it really was: "I think it's that liar Mrs Bae! She and her husband have already been suspected of other crimes, why rule them out?"

I looked up at Rose after reading that paragraph. There was no way they were still talking about my mother.

"Is she really my mom?" I asked scared.

"It most likely is. I mean she was the only one with the name Bae and we already know she was an Auror..."

Rose shuffled through a couple more articles before stopping at a particular one. She picked it up and handed it to me. It looked really old and like someone had tried to burn it but only succeeded in burning half before pulling it back out.

"I haven't had a chance to read this one yet but judging by the burns, someone didn't like what it said..."

I took the fragile looking paper from her hands and began to read it. Within seconds of reading, all the blood had drained from my face and I had wished I never even touched it.

"You okay? You look like you've seen a ghost... well actually you see them everyday but... like... well... ugh you know what I mean..."

I could not utter a word. My parents were arrested and set to be sent to Azkaban. For what and for how many years I could not make out the words since the words became too blurry to read due to the burns.

"Nothing makes sense anymore..." I groaned.

"What? Lemme read!"

After about five minutes - Rose had to read the article three times since she was in disbelief - Rose finally looked up with wide eyes and her jaw dropped down to the floor.

"Tressa... why were your parents arrested..."

"You think I know?"

"Well if Professor McGonagall didn't want to tell you... it must have been bad. On top of that, we're in the restricted section." Rose reminded me.

"Well if the last article was right then maybe they were arrested for being a Voldemort follower without being caught..."

"Something tells me there is more to it..." Rose whispered looking back down at the article, "A lot more..."

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short chappie I know but hey, we're learning more about Tressa's past :) i have writers block so im trying kay? dont kill me pleaseeeeeeeee. BUT BUT BUT the next chapter will def be longer! PROMISEE :)

ALSO

school is starting back on the 4th so I apologize in advance if I do not upload too often (not that I upload that often anyway Dx SORYYYY). I will try but we'll see what happens. I'll upload one right before school starts (im going to be MIA for 2 weeks :P maybe on my ipod reading some storied but thats it...)

next time: Spring break is coming up and it looks like Tressa is gonna be dragged to the Weasley's house. It seems like a fun vacation and she won't have to stay at school alone again. But will she get more than she hoped for?