the girl who lived

PART I - 10

Minutes later, after finally stop crying, I fell asleep. I was siting on a bed, in an unknown room. It kinda looked like a baby's room. I looked around and saw two babies in a crib. I looked at them. They looked the same, the only difference was that one was a boy and the other was a girl. I looked behind me and saw a woman. Weirdly, she was looking so familiar. It was like I knew her. She was standing beside the bedroom's door. I could hear downstairs was happening  something. Something, in fact, terrible. Someone was screaming. It sounded more like a warning. 

"Lily! It's him!", that was the last thing I heard after I felt someone's hand on my forehead.

I was back into my dorm. The pain on my shoulder grew with every second. I looked up and saw, the one and only, Raven Lestrange.

I looked at her confused and kinda embarrassed. i saw she was looking at me... worried? I sat up on bed and panted. The weird pain on my shoulder never left me. My head started to pond harder then before. I bet I was looking like I had a fever or something like that. Out of no where I felt a hand touching my left shoulder.

"You don't have to tell me anything. I think I know how you feel.", she said. It was so suspicious that she was talking so nicely to me. I looked around and saw that all of the curtains around my bed were closed, but one. Thankfully the open curtain was the one which was facing the corner of the room, meaning no one (besides Raven) could see me.

"What happened?", I asked her. 

"Well the game ended. Gryffindor won. I haven't saw you coming back so I thought you would come back here. I can tell something happened to you, that's my explanation to why you haven't came back.", she said. I nodded and looked down, remembering the argument I had with Hermione. I sighed and looked at Raven. She was looking down as well.

"I'm sorry.", I whispered. raven looked up, confused.

"Why are you apologizing?"

"I was unfair with you all this time. I should've given you a chance."

"No, I am the one who has to apologize. I shouldn't have said what I said. It was so immature of me. I'm sorry. And I think Hermione is the one I should apologize to.", she said looking down.

"You're right. Too bad I'm not talking with her anymore.", I whispered the last phrase but she heard it.

"Why not?"

"I- ummm- I prefer not to say", I looked down once again.

"Yeah alright. I understand.", she said softly. "By the way, I woke you because you were tossing so I thought you were having a nightmare?", she said more like asking, I shrugged.

"I don't even know what that was.", I said truthfully. I trembled when she rested her hand on my hand.

"Do you want to talk about it?", I didn't even noticed how much I need to talk to someone about this. I looked at her and nodded. She gave me a small smile keeping holding my hand. 

I told her everything I saw in the dream. I was surprised she was listening carefully to every word I was saying. After I finished she gave me a quick hug then looked down. An awkward silence fell in between us. When I was about to break the silence Raven cut me off.

"It was my mother.", she whispered still looking down.

"What do you mean?", she raised her head to looked at me. She had tears in her eyes.

"The reason why I was crying last week, on Halloween. When you came in.", I looked at her confused. Wasn't her mother in Azkaban? "It was actually my uncle. He sent me a letter. Without aunt Cissy's  permission, of course she would never agree with this. He just thought I was ready.", she began rambling.

"You were ready for what?"

"To know the truth", the tears were now falling from her face onto her robes. I took her hand in mine like she did before. "He reminded me the reason why mother is in-in... there."

"You don't have to tell me.", she shook her head and took a deep breath.

"She gave some people a worse faith than death.", she told me, then continued, "She tortured them until they lost their minds. From as long as I know those people are hospitalized in St. Mungo. And what's even worse, their kid is in here. He's a student here.", she looked down. I could see her eyes were not only filled with tears, but guilt too. She looked back up at me. "It's his parents, Evelyn. I can't even face him."

"Who are you talking about Raven?"

"Neville Longbottom", I looked down thinking. Everything finally made sense. That's why she never interacted with anyone besides...Draco.

"Raven. How do you know Draco?", I asked trying to put the pieces together.

"He's my cousin. Why did you ask?"

"I saw you fighting with him on the train, and I thought you knew him for more than anyone else her does.", she finally smiled for the first time.

"Well let me tell you he knows those other two gorillas for longer than he knows me", I laughed. She was right. Crabbe and Goyle are two brainless gorillas who follows Draco everywhere. She continued to smile, which made me happy as well. She even made me forget about the argument I had with Hermione.

"Wanna go to dinner?"

"What time is it?"

"Half past five"

"Wow. I took a really long nap.", I said remembering I got in the dorm around twelve in the afternoon.

"Yeah, and you missed lunch so let's go eat.", I nodded and got up. I arranged the robes on me so it wouldn't look like I slept in it.

We were walking to the Great Hall together, laughing. She was telling me the details at the Quidditch match. She was messing so many terms, which made me laugh even harder. Truth to be told she would be terrible as a commentator. When we arrived, we sat at the Slytherin table and started to eat, while talking. She was really fun to talk with. I glanced to the teachers' table and saw dad looking at me with satisfactory. He knew I fulfilled the task he has given to me. I smiled and turned my attention to the other side of the Hall. The Gryffindor table. I saw the familiar hazel bushy haired girl sitting beside a raven haired boy and a red haired boy. I looked down sad knowing Hermione doesn't even need me as her friend anymore. She's got Ron and Harry to keep her company.

I looked back up and this time I turned my attention to Raven, who started to tell me a funny story about one time when she was in Ireland with the Malfoys. Draco, who was sitting beside us, rolled his eyes and his cheeks turned pink, which made us laugh even harder. After supper, we made our way back into our dorm.

We started talking about random things. About school, professors we like and dislike, books, basically about everything we have to know about each other. And for the first time I felt like someone finally got me. Someone who I had so many things in common. Someone who is as weird as me. Someone who's hurt, broke and lonely. Someone like me.

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Title: 'new friends new beginnings'
Words count: 1236