As the World Caves In

empty crowded rooms

Skye

When I open my eyes I see the ocean running high and I can feel the mackerel breeze trying to blow me away. We go into the house and after I've settled into my room I look out of my window and just watch the angry scenery. The landscape describes how I feel: deep blue sea, strong wind, nothing close only the forest and sea for miles. That sums up how I am: confused, sad but keeping it together. I hear a knock on my door, I look over and my brother is leaning against my doorpost holding a cup of tea. He hands me the cup and sits next to me. "How are you?" he asks while looking at me. "Is that an actual question?" I respond with a question and I take a sip of tea. "Thank you though... For looking out for me" I smile at him. "Did your wounds heal?" he asks concerned. As an answer I pull my sleeves up to show him my arms. He takes my arms and touches the faint little white scars. "Those look healed" he says happily " They add to your old one" he says meaning the failed attempt at making me a death eater. "Yeah well..." I pull my turtleneck down so that he can take a look at my neck. He sees two pink-white lines: one on my neck and one above my collarbone. "Yeah... Those are worse. I'm sorry I still feel guilty about what happened to you" he breaks down and buries his face in his hands. "You didn't do this to me." I comfort him and pat his arm. "I'm not mad at you. You're always looking out for me" I smile at him. He lifts his head and looks at me as he softly says "Thank you." "Anyway what are you gonna do now that you graduated?" I ask him trying to change the subject. "You know I might try myself as a curse-breaker" he responds after thinking for a moment. "That's a great idea" I smile at him. "We should get some things for your room" Alik says after being quiet for a while.

The summer goes by, rather uneventful. Alik and I went to Diagon Alley got some new furnitures, books and stuff for my room. I also got letters from my friends, mostly from Draco, sometimes Ginny. I wrote to George but he didn't answer so I even used the enchanted coin that him and I have. I asked if he's okay he answered with: fine. So I know he is not. I should go to The Burrow but I don't know if that's safe or if Alik would let me go there. I tried asking Ginny about what's going on with George but she always changes the subject. The letters that I got from Draco always say that his parents won't let him visit me. Although he and George are the only persons that ever could because they brought me here the first time, so they know the location therefore it's safe. I try inviting George by using the coin: Wanna visit me? I waited for days for him to answer but it looked like he wasn't going to and he didn't. I went down to the living room where my brother's watching a show while writing his CV. "Lunch is in the fridge" he says while still looking at the piece of parchment and the moving quill. "Thanks. By the way could one of my friends come over? They've already been here, he brought me here that night." I ask quickly while getting some food. He sighs "You know the rules... I'm sorry but it has to be this way." the moving quill stops and Alik looks at me. "I know..." Good to know that no one can ever visit me.

      First day of school comes which means I can finally see my friends again. "Got everything?" Alik asks me while doing some last minute protection spells both on the house and my bracelet. "Yeah, should be fine" I put Asmo and the snake necklace I got from Draco on my neck and grab Alik's hand so we can apparate. In the next moment we're standing before the 9 3/4 platform. We go through the wall I say my goodbyes to Alik, he quickly adds: "No letters, just the signal" I nod then get on the train. I try looking for Ron, Fred, George and Ginny. I look into the compartments, I see some familiar faces, when I come across Luna I wave at her, she waves back at me while holding a newspaper. I continue looking for George and about a minute later I see the Weasleys arriving to the platform. I feel relieved they're here. I make my way through the crowd on the corridor to get down the train. I run up to the red headed family and quickly hug George which makes all the chatter stop. He doesn't hug me back so I break the hug and back out while trying to look away. Fortunately Ginny takes my hand and hugs me making the whole situation less akward. "Get on the train with me?" she asks me as I'm holding back my tears and nod. She grabs my hand and we get on the train "What was that?" I ask Ginny confused. "You'll have to talk to him" she simply says. "Oh.. Okay" I say sadly. "Hey Skye is she bothering you?" I hear Draco's voice coming from behind me and just as I'd turn to face him, he puts his hands on my waist. I grab his hands and move them off of me "Dray!" I tell him off quietly. "What? Aren't we official?" he asks cocky. "No we're not! Let's just go back to our compartment... Bye Ginny" I say to her and start going faster. When we get to the slytherins part of the train I sit down sulking. "Are you mental?" I ask Draco as he sits next to me. "Oh come on, don't be so childish" he tries taking my hand but I pull it away before he could touch me. He huffs. I turn to the window and wait for the train to depart. Dray and I sit next to each other for the whole train ride but we don't talk.

     When the train stops I hastily make my way off the train, leaving Dray behind and going alone. I don't know who to turn to so I just get on the carriage alone, people start getting on and it starts moving. We get to Hogwarts, everyone immediately goes to the Great Hall. I sit down to the slytherins table feeling miserable but Blaise sits down next to me "Hey!" he says with a small smile. "Hi Blaise"  I say looking down at the table with my hands supporting my face. "Zabini stop bothering her" I hear Draco as he comes to sit next to me but I stop him. "Can you not be an asshole to everyone I talk to? What's your problem, huh?!" I raise my voice while looking at him. "Come now Skye, you don't wanna make a scene, do you?" he looks at me with presumptuousness in his eyes as he grabs my chin making me look at him but I turn my head away making him lose his grip and letting go of me. "How can you be such a bitch all the time you-" he starts saying furiously but Dumledore interrupts him "Can I get some attention?" the headmaster says and Draco sits down next to me but we don't look at each other. "...Professor Umbridge is gonna be the new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher..." Dumledore says as the lady in a full pink outfit stands up. And so my 5th year at Hogwarts begins. Great beginning, right?