"Is Bellatrix a good student?" Tom asked casually

"Yes she is, she's very talented - just like her cousin" Dumbledore replied, not quite proudly. My lip curled slightly - my cousin, my stupid, Gryffindor, careless, show-off cousin Sirius.

"Good" The boy replied and I spotted a second of hunger on his face.

"Well, soon as your here, Bella, please may you lead Tom to the exit." And he swiftly retired into his office.

"So," Tom sighed.

So, he first took me out to Hogsmeade, buying me a butterbeer as we chatted about blood purity and Hogwarts. I liked him, a lot and I think he liked me too . He showed me this abandoned bungalow where, well, we just kissed - he must like me back, right?

"So , well," I soon learned that he started the majority of his sentences with the word 'so'. "I've been thinking about the future," I thought he was going talk about our future, "and I've decided, maybe, in a few more years I was going to start this gang, or, army where we help exterminate all muggles and muggle-borns and torture them and-" right, that was all my hopes and dreams of us becoming a couple crushed.

"I'm sorry, but, I would like to be with you and I really like you, but, no." His face screwed up in disappointment and anger.

"Have you ever experienced the cruciatus curse?"

"No, but there have been times where, well I kind of wanted to inflict it upon someone one time..." I imagined Narcissa writhing in pain and begging for my forgiveness.

"Well I will show it to you." I thought that he was going to teach me how to do it and let me inflict it upon an old villager, "Crucio!" he yelled, pointing his wand at me - another disappointment.

The pain was unreal, I just wanted to find somewhere to escape, to be free from this torture, and, yet, I didn't scream. If I screamed, someone would find us, take him away, leaving me helpless and desperate for his embrace. But, he doesn't really love me back, I thought sadly, or, he wouldn't be torturing me. That was my next task. I was going to let him know that I loved him, and, maybe he would love me. That's why I didn't scream.

"Help." I said in a tiny voice. "Stop, now, please. I understand everything now."

"Good" And my new love lowered his wand.