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Chapter 1: A past Never Forgotten
Streets bustled with life in the great city of London. Smoke spud from the chimneys of comfortable homes. They sky had darkened with maddening clouds that threaten to erupt their fury.
Not much had changed since that last day over a century and a half ago.
I opened my umbrella to protect my dry clothes from the saddening weather. Waiting for the light to change I pondered of how long memories seemed to recent. The touch of Draco's hand upon my skin always sending a shiver of happiness up my spine. After so long, I still missed him but I didn't dwell on the loss.
The light changing, I stepped off of the curb, the clicking of my low heels puncturing the asphalt below. I scurried to the other side of the sidewalk and continued on my way home. Glancing around my surrounding I felt eyes upon my form watching me in the hidden darkness, cloaked with an invisible shield. On instinct, I quickened my pace, getting closer to the steps that belonged to the apartment complex that I now lived in.
Racing up the stairs I practically ran into my apartment immediately locking the door and peaked through the little hidden hole to observe no sufficient evidence that anybody was in fact stalking me, I guess years of having my guard up have made me a little paranoid. I shrugged my coat off, hanging it on the coat rack that was next to the front door and threw my umbrella on the floor before the stand.
I glanced at the answering machine as the little red light indicated a missed message. Pressing the button I allowed the message to repeat while I changed into more comfortable clothes that I much preferred when in my work uniform.
"hey, mom it's me, Drusella, I was just calling to see how things were going. We haven't spent much together in a while and I was just wondering if you wanted to go to lunch some time this week, whenever you're free is fine. Just call me back and let me know. I love you, bye." The message ended.
I slouched on to the couch that sat in front of the small television set that I rarely used, grabbing a book that I had started only a few days ago and popped to the page that I left off.
Taking great care with each word I read, the imagery immediately churned my own creativity, the setting and the theme melting away the current world that I lived in at the moment.
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Thunder blasted through the darkened sky, echoing around the environment, making its presence known to everyone. The sudden sound startled me awake, giving me a near heart attack as a simple gift of its affection for humanity.
Blackness surrounded me, I had fallen asleep while reading obviously more exhausted than I calculated. I placed the book on the coffee table before me and pressed my hands to the closest wall as I searched for a light switch with blind eyes, relying on my other senses in my state of panic and irritation. I was never fond of cloudbursts in all the years I had been living as a shadow in an empty shell.
My fingers finally felt a resemblance bump that could belong to the object that I was desperately probing for. I switched the switch, trying to turn on the lights but the plan had failed miserable.
Suddenly a burst of lightening lit up the room, a dark figure covered by shadow stood in front of a huge window that revealed the hard outer world. I spun around to see that figure. I tried to conjure a scream but the noise hitched in my suddenly dry throat coming out as a squeak.
"You never took too kindly to thunderstorms, Anastasia." A low husky voice revealed a name that had not stabbed my ears for numerous years.
"Who are you?" I screeched with a fear that consumed my whole being, freezing me in the spot of the darkened area.
"You know me better then I do myself." The masculine form exposed with hidden meanings that seemed forbidden to me.
A/n: I just had to make a sequel to my old story with The Mystery that is Anastasia Scarlet Harris; I think that it deserved it. I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. Please review and thank you for reading it.