Chapter 4
"I'm going to slap you." Rose was getting seriously annoyed at her cousin. "Lily concentrate!"
Lily shook her head trying to clear it. "Why? We already know this."
Rose and Lily were sitting in Muggle studies, a class that they both want to drop soon, as in the next few seconds.
"Ya well seriously your head has been in the clouds all day! What is wrong?"
"Nothing," She lied.
"Ya okay well when you want to talk to me you know where I am." Rose knew that pushing anything with her cousin was a bad idea. She tends not to talk a lot about her feelings.
"He missed Potions." Lily muttered.
"What?" Rose exclaimed a bit too loudly.
"Nothing." Lily decided to concentrate on her work. It seemed like the most harmless thing she could do.
Oh my god. Tom slid into the seat right next to Lily leaving Rose just standing there like an idiot. Oh my God.
"Hey." His low voice pierced her thoughts.
"Hi, you missed Potions." She did not ask it like a question but he still gave her an answer.
"Things to do." He brushed it off and gave her a sidelong glance. With her pale complexion and red hair, she did not look remarkable. It was only when he saw her bright green eyes that he noticed her-but probably not for the reasons that he should have.
"Ya well you missed a good lesson."
"Really? What was it about?" Use your horrible social skills! He commanded himself, seriously Tom you have wait how long for this?
"Ummm." Tom furrowed his brow-why is she not answering? What's wrong did she skip herself? He asked her that and she just shook her head trying to not meet his eyes. He turned away flabbergasted. Is she stupid? Why can't she string two words together.
What are you thinking! Grrrrr. Lily was about to knock her head on the table. What is wrong with her? Why can't she talk? She glanced at Tom in her proverbial vision. He is not looking at her.
They spent the rest of the class in awkward silence and when it was time to leave; they stood their awkwardly trying to get past each other, Lily eventually pushed past him and nearly ran down the hall.
"Okay I get it you like him." Rose declared in the middle of dinner after Lily was silent for nearly half and hour.
"Like who?" Hugo asked sitting up suddenly interested in the conversation.
"Tom, That's his name right?" Lily nodded.
"Tom? He's weird." Hugo said.
"Ya well she likes him."
"Do not,"
"Whatever.
"Are you guys ganging up on my little sister?" Albus came up from behind Lily and sat down next to her eating her barely touched food.
"She likes Tom." Rose says trying to figure out why Tom would be sitting with them he is very popular and almost never sits with them, Let alone talks to anyone not in seventh year like him-besides Lily-regularly.
"I do not." Lily could feel her cheeks heating up.
"Tom? Who's tom?" Albus took another bite of Lily's salad.
"Exactly." Hugo exclaimed, "no one knows him."
Lily was about to protest until Albus touched her arm, she glanced at him falling silent.
"What?" She mouths, the look in his eyes tells her that it is something serious so she says good-bye to Rose and Hugo before following Al out the great hall towards the dormitories.
"Al, what?"
"Dad sent us a letter."
"Really?" Lily smiled expectantly. Al still looked sullen.
"What?" She asks. He doesn't say anything just hands her the letter out of his bag.
Albus, Lily.
James and your mother are fine they send their Love. I need to talk to you so I have asked headmistress McGonagall if you can leave, the train will pick you up at seven thirty and I will be at the station to pick you up. Talk to no one and tell no one of where you are going, not even Hugo or Rose.
Love Dad
"Al,"
"I know." They were both worried. More than worried scared. It was usually mom that was the paranoid one Dad was always laid back and really easygoing. So what had changed?