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Chapter Thirteen

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit." I chanted as I slipped on my shoes. "I'm going to be late." I glanced at the bed next mine, and it was empty.

The hell, why didn't Anita wake me up?

I grabbed my bag and quickly rushed out the door, and only when I was right in front of the classroom door, I realized something.

I ran my tongue against my teeth. It felt funny.

"Oh, fuck." I placed my hand directly in front of my mouth and let out a breath. And smelled.

"GOOD GOD!" I exclaimed, catching the attention of a group of people that were not far from me.

And one of them was Cedric.

"Hey, Zia. What's wrong?" He smiled.

"Aaaah, nothing, nothing. Nothing's wrong." I waved.

He told his friends to carry on, and he started to walk towards me.

No, no, don't come here. My breath smells like I swallowed a dead cat's intestines! And apparently the dead cat was eating something off the garbage before it died and it still was in its digestive system before getting run over by a car!

"Hey." He grinned.

"H-hey!" I started to panic. I think this smell will travel far away and linger like a whole line of garbage trucks. "Uh um, I uh need to go to the loo! See you in a bit!"

"What? Wait!" He looked at me as I started to inch backwards. "What's the matter? Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, everything's perfect!" I said. "Naturally!" I started walking away.

Yes, as natural as the smell of my breath right now.

AFTER FORGETTING TO BRUSH MY TEETH.

Cedric started to follow me, looking confused and concerned at the same time.

God, no. I've always wanted you to follow me every time I walk away, but not this time!

I kept looking back as I walked, in hopes of him finally giving up this quest of finding out what was wrong with me and why I was so fidgety. He was still there, dogging me.

Dang it, he's so persistent!

"Hey." I felt my elbow being tugged and I was stopped in my tracks. I turned around, keeping my mouth tightly shut.

"Mmhmm?" I asked him.

"What's wrong?" He inched closer, looking more concerned than ever. "Zia?"

I pushed his chest away (gently, of course) and I took a few steps backwards.

"Don't come near me, my breath stinks!" I felt my ears grow hot.

He stared at me for a while, and then grinned. He procured something from his pocket, and handed it to me.

"But here's a mint." He smiled.

Damn. I won't be surprised if he actually carried a toothbrush and toothbrush around with him, just in case.

"Ah, yeah, thanks." I quickly grabbed it, tore the wrapper open and shoved it into my mouth.

I let out a small breath, and smelled again.

Ah, heaven.

"Hmmm." I closed my eyes in relief.

And when I opened my eyes, Cedric's face was directly in front of mine, and our noses were almost touching.

"Hmmm?" I said, struggling to swallow the mint.

He let out a small laugh and suddenly I felt both his hands on either sides of my face.

"Good, so now I can kiss you."

My eyes widened, and my heart started beating faster, but I didn't budge.

He titled his head and leaned in slowly. I felt his breath against my cheek and against my own lips and then –

"OYE, ZIA!" I felt someone shaking me hard, and everything that was right in front of my eyes disappeared, and it was replaced with me staring at a blurred empty bed. I turned to the source of what or who tugged me earlier to see Anita looking irritated, hands on her hips. "Get up! I'm ready, and you're still in bed. Get up and get ready, or we're going to be late."

Then it hit me.

"GODDAMIT ANITA!" I yelled, punching the sides of my mattress. "HE WAS ABOUT TO KISS ME!"

Anita raised her eyebrows and stared at me blankly for a second.

"Sheesh!" I got up from my bed reluctantly, feeling aggravated.
"Ah! Now I see. Oh, I'm sorry; I didn't know you were dreaming about him." Anita laughed.

I rolled my eyes and proceeded to get myself ready.

First thing I did was brush my teeth. Thoroughly.

"To see into the future … is to …" Trelawney said dreamily, hands pointing in haphazard directions. "Is to … is to be wise and to see what will happen before it happens …"

"Huh." I frowned. "Obviously?"

"Err well; now hmmm … continue with your future readings." Trelawney instructed, seeing that she's also lost in her own class.

I stared at the crystal ball in front of me.

"So tell me of this dream you had this morning." Anita interjected my 'concentration'.

"You mean before you jolted me awake so aggressively that it had to end?" I smiled at her.

"Yes, Miss Bitterness. Tell us."

"Ooooh." This seemed to have caught Draco's attention, eyes tearing off from the guide book to look at me. "Was it a naughty one?"

"What's with you, these days?" I questioned him, taken aback.

"It's the hormones. Hey, I never said I was an advocate of purity anyway." He threw his hands back.

"No, it wasn't a naughty one. It was just about me, forgetting to brush my teeth before class and bumping into Cedric." I said.

"Uh, okay?" Draco raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah, he offered me a mint."
"What an interesting dream." Draco drawled.

"And he almost kissed me."

"Almost? What d'you mean almost?"

"Anita woke me up before it happened."

Draco feigned a bewildered look and slapped Anita's arm.

"How dare you stop her from getting her kiss?"

"How was I supposed to know? Had I known anyway, I'd hate to stop it because we were already running late."

"You should have not stopped it. It'd have done you both a good favour of never having to attend this joyful class." Draco said solemnly, returning to his guide book.

All of us rolled our eyes simultaneously as Trelawney walked around class, observing her students.

Hmmm.

Let's try seeing Cedric's near future, shall we?

I gazed into the crystal ball, thinking hard of Cedric (without any effort, really.).

After a while, shapes and colours were forming in the crystal ball. It started to look like Cedric, as it became clearer and clearer.

I smiled to myself when I saw him - but my smile faded when the image of Cedric started cracking and black smoke engulfed him. And Cedric's image disappeared completely.

I sat there for a while, stunned. And all of a sudden, from the back, Professor Trelawney spoke.

"I could not make out the face of the person you were seeing, but I must tell you, this person is going to face death soon."

Then I had that weird feeling you get in your chest when you hear something you don't want to hear, and my ears grew hot.

"You're joking –" But when I turned around, she had already left, looking forlorn.

I turned back to Draco and Anita, cold as ice.

"Who did you see?" Anita asked, her eyebrows knitted.

"Cedric." It came out a half whisper; I could barely hear myself.

They both just stared at me.

"Ah, she's probably just talking rubbish." Anita said. "Check your guide book, Draco. It must mean something else."

Draco immediately searched for the page and read out loud.

"If the person you see in the crystal ball appears to be cracked or if black smoke appears, completely omitting the image of the person, this means that he or she is about to face Death in the offing."

"Oh my gosh." I whispered. "Cedric."

"Do you think I should tell Cedric?" I asked Draco and Anita worriedly.

"No, of course not. Are you mental?" Draco retorted. "A man does not want to hear that he's going to die soon."

Anita shot him a murderous look.

"- Not that it's going to really happen anyway." Draco quickly added.

I glanced at Cedric, who appeared to be laughing heartily at something his friend said. I think I stared at him too much, enough to give him a strange feeling that he immediately turned and caught my eyes.

And smiled.

I smiled back, all broken inside.

It's not true, it's not true, it's not true.

It's not going to happen, it's not going to happen, it's not going to happen.

I went to bed that night a depressed woman.

But never forgetting to send him the last letter.

I mean the last one for the night. Not forever.

God I'm starting to scare myself.

I'm just being paranoid.

With every blink you make, know that I think of you.

With every breath you take, know that I long to be next to you.

And with every heart beat, know that mine beats for you.

A reply came.

That's beautiful.

I grinned at his reply and whispered to myself in the dead of the night.

"No, you are beautiful."

I scribbled my reply down and shut my eyes as tight as possible, refusing to believe what I saw in the crystal ball today and what it meant.

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