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Chapter 10
"What do you mean their on the loose?" I asked.
"they've escaped, on the run that sort of things" Cedric said.
"I know what it means genius, but how did they escape thought, that's what I'm wondering" I said.
"Well, you know and practically everyone in the wizard world know about you-know-who, however, with Bellatrix, she somehow escape Azkaban by creating a hole in her prison cell and escaped. We don't know where they are right now though, which frightens me to death" he explained.
"Why should that affect you?" I asked.
"Because, I'm afraid that she's going to go after you" he replied softly.
"Please, I could take her out any day, anytime." I said. Cedric chuckled at that lightly before grabbing both of my hands and looked me into my eyes.
"I don't want anything to happen to you and I will not let you fight her" he said.
"I'm not going to die" I protested.
"You're right and that's why when the time comes you're not going into battle" he said.
"Gees, since when did you get so overprotective" I mumbled to myself.
"Since I got you back in my life" he said softly.
"Cedric, I'll be fine don't get so overdramatic" I said with a small grin on my face. We were about to lean in for another kiss when my phone beeped.
"Sorry hold on" I said, getting up and grabbing my phone.
"Hello?" I answered with a little annoyance in my voice.
"Hi Nikki, was I interrupting anything?" it was Becky.
"No not really, I was just tidying up the place a bit" I lied. Cedric looked at me questioningly and I mouth him "Becky" he nodded.
"Aren't you a guest at their place I mean technically you are" she said.
"It's just a habit, you know that" I said.
"Yeah, yeah so what's new, how are the almost newlywed couple?"
"The same, working and this morning, they got a call from Mrs. Baker"
"Isn't she the crazy lady who lived across the street?"
"She's still alive, but anyways, she calls this morning as I was saying she called saying that she could've sworn that she saw someone during the night taping a piece of paper on the guest bedroom window." I explained.
"Really, did that actually happen or is she completely loosing it?"
"Not sure I have to check later, it could've fallen off by now, so I really don't know" I said.
"If that happened, let me know."
"Of course" I said. As I turned back towards the living room, I've noticed Cedric was gone. "Listen, I've got to go so I'll text you later or something, tell Krystle I say hi and I miss her."
"Will do"
With that said, I hung my phone up. I sat it down on the coffee table. I looked around before heading down the hallway towards my room. I knew he didn't leave the apartment, otherwise I would've heard the door.
I got into my room, noticing Cedric was there. He looked up at me, his face looked like the color was drained from his face.
"What's up you saw a ghost?" I asked. He silently handed me the paper and I took it. It didn't take a second for me to look at it, the paper flew from my hands and I walked out of the room and back to sitting on the windowsill with tears threaten to flow down my face.
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CPOV (prior to the note thing, while Nikki is on the phone)
She mouthed the words "Becky" at me. I'm assuming it was her other cousin. I sat on the couch waited but something threw me off. It wasn't until she mentioned about a neighbor of some sort.
"She's still alive, but anyways, she calls this morning as I was saying she called saying that she could've sworn that she saw someone during the night taping a piece of paper on the guest bedroom window." she was explaining.
I got up from the couch and made my way to the guest bedroom. Sure enough, there was her stuff in one suitcase, some in a drawer and on top of the dresser. I saw the paper on the window sure enough.
Something about it seemed suspicious. I walked over to it slowly and pulled it off. I opened it and I felt the color going off my face and I felt anger and fear running through my body.
The piece of paper had her name on it and it wasn't in my handwriting. However it said with cryptic writing:
Don't think you've gotten away from me that easily.
I've gotten my eye on you.
Signed from you-know-who
I stared at the paper for a long time. It couldn't be happening. I heard a phone snap, meaning that Nikki was done being on the phone. I heard her footsteps coming towards the room.
When she got in, she stood there for awhile before I looked up at him, my face filled with horror.
"What's up, you look like you just saw a ghost" she said. I handed her the paper in silent and she took it. Her eyes widened for a second and the paper fell from her hands and she silently walked away from me and out of the room.
I followed her into the living room where I saw her sitting by the windowsill, curled up in a ball, her head resting on her knees, just staring out the window.
"Why me?" she asked softly as I was walking over towards her and sat down next to her, pulling her close to me and holding her.
"Why me?" she kept saying over and over again as I tried to comfort her as best as I could. The note was still in my pocket. I do plan on taking it to my father. Hopefully, he'll know anything about it.
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NPOV
I sat in Cedric's arms mumbling over and over again. He just sat there and rubbed my back soothingly. It felt good to be in his arms, but in the unfortunate circumstances. I wiped some tears that was falling from my face before sitting up straight and I got out of Cedric's arms.
I walked into the kitchen and over to the dishpan and started to put some dishes away.
"Are you okay?" he asked as he walked into the kitchen.
"Fine, just trying to do some distracting that's all" I replied.
"Why?"
"Because, I want that to be the least of my worries while I'm here, plus I don't want you to worry over me too much emotionally, you know what I mean" I said as I was putting some utensils away.
"I suppose, but I'm staying with you here for awhile" he said.
"Cedric, it's not necessary.." I started to protest but he held up his hand.
"Nicole, I'm staying here until your cousin comes home. Until then, don't aruge with me about it. I wouldn't know what to do if I lost you again" he said.
"Look" I said walking towards him and grabbing his hands in mine. "You're not going to loose me, I'm not going anywhere until I leave here to go back home in August so don't worry about anything" I assured him.
"Good then you're mine until later on tonight" he said.
"Let's hope so" I said as we shared a kiss in the kitchen. He may know that I won't go after Bellatrix, but little does he know, I do plan on going after her. Question is where do I start though?
A/n: Oh snap Nikki's going to be very sneaky on this one. After all, she does tend to be stubborn now. Will her plan work once she figures out one and if she does figure it out, will Cedric be able to stop her? We'll wait and see.
Next few chapters will be a bit of humor in it aside from the drama until later in the story. Mara, Hannah and the gang will make their appearances soon. Don't worry I haven't forgotten about them.
I didn't think that the last chapter was a cliffy. I am good at that LOL.
You know what to do I don't need to remind you…or do I? *shifts eyes*
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Stay tuned for the next chapter soon! Maybe I'll post it this week again, we'll see what comes to mind right?