Love at First Sight
Chapter 2
Standing in the doorway was the lady that had shown Evie to Tom's room.
"You know the rules Tom. The door must be open when you have visitor's." She said in an upbeat, patronising voice. She walked away leaving the door wide open.
"Does that apply to everyone?" Evie asked in curiosity, she could tell they treated him differently just by the sound of her voice.
"No, just me. They think I'm unstable because of all the things I did when I didn't know about you-know-what." Tom answered trailing into a whisper by the end.
"What did you do? You've never told me about your childhood." Evie was dying to know more about him so she asked with curiosity wreaking over her.
"I'd rather not talk about it. If you don't mind." Tom replied looking down at his knees.
"Oh, ok. Sorry I brought it up." Evie said understandingly. "Do you wanna go then? We need to buy new supplies for school." She added.
"Yeah." Tom replied with a smile. He took Evie's and they walked down the stairs hand in hand.
"Hey, Sarah. I'm going out." Tom informed the lady behind the desk who Evie now knew was named Sarah.
"Where are you going?" Sarah asked without looking up from her paperwork, not even to see who was going out.
"I don't know. I'm just gonna go out, I'll end up wherever my legs take me." Tom said faintly annoyed. Evie squeezed his hand to keep him calm. She knew he had anger issues.
"Tom… You know the rules, I can't let you leave this building unless I know where you're going." Sarah explained as she looked at Tom and Evie apologetically. Tom and Evie glanced at each other.
"We're just gonna walk around the high street." Tom explained trying to sound convincing.
"Ok, I'll see you later, we're going up to that beach again. The one about an hour away from here." Sarah expressed. "Don't be long." She added and returned to her paperwork. They left the orphanage and headed for the Leaky Cauldron. As they entered Diagon Alley they saw Barty and Maxine. They approached them.
"Hey Barty." Evie asked as they pushed through the crowd and made it to them. "Can I borrow some money? Dad didn't give me enough in all the fuss about Benny getting his wand."
"Yeah sure, here." Barty replied, handing her some money. "Tom." Barty said slightly nodding and walking away with Maxine.
"He doesn't like me either, does he?" Tom announced knowingly as he watched after Barty and Maxine.
"That's not true." Evie said as they started searching for their school supplies whilst dodging Evie's parents as well. It was coming to 4 O'clock and it was nearly time for Evie to go home so they said goodbye and went their separate ways, Tom went back to the orphanage and Evie went to find her family. She found them in Flourish and Blotts.
"Where have you been, I haven't seen you all day." Mr Crouch demanded as soon as Evie came into sight.
"I've been shopping." Evie replied as she shot a look at her older brother – not to say anything about her being with Tom.
"You've got all your supplies then?" Mr Crouch asked looking suspiciously from Evie to Barty.
"Well, yes. Can we go home?" Evie disclosed with the question. She really disliked her dad, she loved him but hated him.
"Ok, who have you been with all day?" Mr Crouch questioned as they made their way through Flourish and Blotts to the outside and to the fireplace in the Leaky Cauldron.
"I was with Riley, you know Riley Avery." Evie said using her best friend as a cover up for meeting with Tom when she was specifically told not to. She entered the fireplace and arrived home with her whole family following. Evie was about to leave the dining room.
"I don't believe you. I didn't see you all day and Diagon Alley isn't exactly very big." Mr Crouch announced loudly, slamming his fist on the table making everybody but Evie flinch. She just turned around to face her angry father.
"Fine! I was with Tom. Happy? He is my boyfriend if you haven't noticed." Evie stated and watched her father's face flush red with anger.
"I thought I made it perfectly clear! I do not want you seeing that boy. He is far too… abnormal, nobody knows the kid properly, nobody knows what he is capable of." Mr Crouch yelled at the top of his lungs.
"What have you got against him? He's had a bad life, never knew his family and I really like him. I thought you wanted me to go out with a pure-blood, no matter who it is. As long as I don't disgrace the family name." Evie shouted with great elegance. She walked straight to her bedroom.
"Nice one dad! I don't like him either but I'm not willing to lose her to him. Forbidding her to see him won't make a difference to her. I mean if it works out between them, great but if it doesn't then he's just like any other boy she could've ended up with." Barty sighed and followed her to her room to comfort her. Mrs Crouch shot her husband a murderous glare. Barty walked into his sister's room to find her packing.
"Why are you packing your trunk?" Barty asked confused.
"I'm going to stay with Heidi and Evan Rosier." Evie disclosed, packing the last of her things. "They said I could stay over whenever I wanted."
"What? How are you gonna get there? They live in London." Barty asked completely stunned.
"Well. There's a fireplace in Dad's room. Can you keep him downstairs for like 10 minutes, I'll see you at school. When I'm gone tell dad I'm fine so he doesn't worry." Evie replied, picking up her trunk. She left her room and went straight to her father's room. She picked up some floo powder and pronounced 'Rosier residence' very clearly. She disappeared behind the beautiful emerald green flames. Mr Crouch ran into his room just to see the flames disappear.
"Barty! Get up here right now!" Mr Crouch bellowed, turning away from the fireplace. Barty came running, thinking he'd caught Evie.
"What?" Barty asked kind of nervous, especially when he saw that he hadn't caught Evie.
