Forbidden {Book 2}

Chapter 1

I held tightly to Matty's arm. He used the other to keep me in a tight hug. He stroked my bright orange hair and rested his chin on the top of my head. I felt some of his tears fall onto my hair and seep to my scallop. I cried softly into his black tux.

"Bella," Matty sniffed, "Bella, it's time to go. It's time for you to go back with the Weasley's."

I pulled my face from his chest and looked into his light green eyes. His black hair was gelled into a spike, and his cheeks where tear stained. "What about you?" I asked my cousin.

He gave me a weak smile and ran a and through my hair. "I got an apartment in Diagon Alley," he told me softly. "I already got a job at the Weasleys' shop. We got along pretty well. Well, more with George," he chuckled.

I cracked a small smiled.

"Hey, you'll still have Alex, Hermione, and Ginny," he told me.

I nodded. "But they don't know what it's like to cause the death of someone else."

His small smile dropped and his gaze hardened. "Don't you dare say that. You did not cause mum's and dad's deaths. Bellatrix did and you know that."

I sighed and looked down. But she wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for me, I thought.

Matty picked my head back up by my chin with his fingers. "It's nobody's fault but the killers. You remember that."

I nodded. He pulled me off his chest and placed an arm across my shoulders. We walked past the two identical caskets. Both mahogany wood with a cream plush inside. Nobody could really see the plush since Helen and Louis's lifeless bodies. They looked as if they would hop up any minute and act like nothing happened. The only thing that made the different was their unnatural paleness and stiff figures.

My heart pounded in my chest dying to get out and my head started to spin.

"Bella," Matt voice said, as I sat on a chair trying to catch my breath.

After a couple minutes I caught my breath, my heart stopped pounding and my head stayed still.

"Bella, are you having your anxiety attacks again?" Matty asked me.

I looked down at the ground and nodded.

"I should have seen this coming," Matty said.

We both stayed there in silence before he said, "Come on let's go outside."

We walked out of the room that was filled with chairs for the wake and into the old fashion-like lobby. There were three red head boys, one red haired girl, a red head woman, a red head man, a bushy brown haired girl, a dark brown haired girl, and a jet black haired boy.

"Oh, dear!" The woman said walking over to me. She pulled me into a general hug. "Isabella, I'm so sorry."

I looked up and nodded. I looked into the light that came from the bulb above my head. I let it burn my eyes till a black dot formed in my vision after I blinked.

Mrs. Weasley let go of me and walked back over to her husband.

I walked over the back haired boy, my brother.

I fell into him and he engulfed me in a hug.

I let out a dry sob on his shoulder while he rubbed my back soothingly. He kissed the top of my head and mumbled a, "I'm sorry."

I nodded and pulled away from him. I walked over to the red haired boy my age and he gave me a quick hug. Then I turned to his younger sister who gave me an identical hug. I got a comforting hug from th e bushy haired girl who told me evrything would be okay. Lie. Then I looked over at my best friend, the brown haired girl. She gave me a long tight hug.