Love and Black Magic

Chapter three: Secrets

It had been a week since he had found his friends with that letter. During those days it was impossible to forget about it, the curiosity to find the true meaning did not leave her alone. However, there was another matter that didn't make her very happy either.

A couple of days ago she suspected that Lily was avoiding her since they talked less with each other or simply Lily didn't have enough time to live with her. She knew that she spent most of his time with Severus, but she wondered what was the reason for them not to invite her.

Calynn was alone at home, which she appreciated as she could leave the house without her mother seeing her, she was tired of her insults every time she returned. He took a jacket as he felt quite cold outside and went out to the tree where she knew she could find one of his friends. Although it was the last days of winter, the cold did not fade in its entirety. When she turned the corner, she could see in the distance her red-haired friend who was standing, enjoying the shadow. She reached her and hurried to speak.

"Lily, how are you?" Asked the girl sympathetically. Lily just gave her a smile of discomfort.

"Well, thanks," she replied decently.

"What have you done these days?" Calynn commented, desperately looking for a topic of conversation to break the silence between them.

"Nothing," Lily said, looking down, it was obvious that something had happened between them and Lily didn't want to mention it.

"What's up, Lilianne?" She questioned seriously, not avoiding moving away from Lily.

"Why would something have to happen?" The redhead's obvious reproach tone only angered little Black.

"You don't speak to me for almost a week and you're avoiding me whenever you can." If something bothers you better, tell me," Calynn replied, ending in a huskier voice, the least she wanted was to bother with Lily, she didn't want to have problems with her best friend.

"Nothing bothers me ..." Lily said softly, she wasn't sure what she wanted to mention.

"So?" Calynn replied again, she was losing patience.

"I can't say it, just leave me alone, or so Severus told me." The redhead moved away from that tree at a rapid pace, without turning back, toward her home. Calynn just stayed there without knowing exactly what to do, why would Severus tell Lily to avoid her? After analyzing it for a few minutes, she decided that it was best to return home and get distracted by something, even if she didn't like the idea very much.

She crossed the door reluctantly as she left the house keys next to a portrait of her parents, but what she saw left her stunned. Her parents who appeared in the photo began to move, smiling and hugging, the little girl did not believe it.

"Perfect, what I was missing, losing my mind," the girl sighed as she turned the picture to forget about that illusion, that image seemed entirely out of the ordinary. "I think that even the nonsense of Severus I have begun to believe," she commented to herself as she climbed the steps to her room.

Something he had always disliked were the dark colors with which her house had been decorated, she hated them since she was little, or at least something she remembered. She had always dreamed of having a room with more vivid colors, that was what she remembered that she had asked her mother a couple of days ago, where she had explained that her room would stay that way since it was the visiting room before. The girl opened the door of her dark room and lay on the bed, had turned to the side where there was an empty space, knew that some toy had been around, but on her eleventh birthday her mother had forced her to get rid of all those "nonsense" that decorated her room; or so his father had told her what had happened when she asked if she could buy him a doll. So she was totally alone, she had nothing better to do than sleep until she gave the other day, she knew that without Lily and without Severus she had no one, her parents would take time to return and Thana had gone to visit her family as sometimes she did it, she was alone.