Chapter 3- Relief
(I like this chapter)
"Lad, what's wrong, you look like you've seen a Ghosts"!
I was so relieved to see him. Maybe that's why I blurted out all my troubles to the Spook, looking like an idiot.
"No, I didn't see any Ghosts! I, Where were you! What were you doing? I've worried out of my mind! You never been gone that long before! And the Boggart how are we going to deal with that thing! Were lucky it didn't full out blast us with all of its strength!
The Spook looked confused.
Then I regretted what I said to my master.
"No, I, I'm sorry , it's just the cold, boggart n-nothing I didn't remember. . . ughhh".
I covered my face in my hands.
"Here, you seem a little. . .well. . . you know what, we'll just go upstairs and you can tell me what's going on. Right now, I haven't a clue of what your talking about".
I nodded
"And as for you girl, I want you upstairs and out of this library this instant"!
Alice hung her head and walked upstairs, me and the Spook to follow.
My master sent Alice to bed so him and me could talk.
"Alright, Lad", he started, pulling up a chair, "Tell me what's what".
So I did.
"Well, this morning, right after breakfast, Alice told me that she sensed something coming but she didn't know what. She led me down to the library and that's when I got the usual cold feeling I always get, she told me it was a Stone Chucker. And I didn't think you would be back anytime soon, so I tried to remember how you dealt with the one back at Anglezarke, but", I sighed, "I just couldn't remember. So I got up to find a book on dealing with Stone Chucker's as my cold feeling was starting to cause pain".
The Spook looked engaged.
"I walked back over to Alice and passed out. Soon after I woke up, dusk, you came".
"You're cold feelings gave you pain"? He asked, maybe even a little amazed.
"Well, yes. I think that might have been why I passed out too".
"What did it feel like"?
"It felt like a sharp pain traveling slowly up my spine".
The Spook leaned back in his chair. Thinking for a while.
"I can't put these pieces together, lad. I've never felt actual pain during cold warnings, let alone, knew it was possible".
We sat there for a while, both minds thinking through different thoughts.
"We'll look more into it later, but I do need to know if it was really a Stone Chucker, if it was, from the look's of it, didn't do any damage first time round".
"Alice is the only one who can tell you, I'm not so sure".
"So be it, i'll talk with the girl in the morning, you best be off to bed, lad".
So I nodded, stood up, and started walking up the stairs until I heard my master speak again.
"Lad," I turned around and walked to the bottom of the stair's while he met me there.
We were face to face.
"My brother, Andrew, died last week. I'm sorry I wasn't here with you to deal with the problem. I should have been more considering of the amount of time I had been wasting. I should have been here, training you".
I felt really bad. Like a selfish little brat.
"Please, theirs nothing to be sorry for. I was being a selfish brat to you. Something you don't deserve. And i'm sorry, sorry for everything".
"Bad thing's happen, lad, all the time. It's something we have little control over. Now get yourself off to bed, we have much to discuss tomorrow".
