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Chapter 20: Creeping In

"Everyone seemed nice." Lola said while I reheated Chinese food for us.

"Yeah, they are; I went to school with a lot of them." I told her while I poured out one of the take out boxes onto a plate before taking the food over to her.

"Is eccentricism a gene is Dumbledore's family?" She asked after a first bite of food.

I almost chocked on my food, "It might be."

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I still don't know when it all changed or how it happened. She's everywhere now and some how creeps into my thoughts at times; like now. I never thought that when I promised Dumbledore that I would help her and watch out for her that we would be living together. I am seventeen years old, so any girl standing in front of me in only a towel with her boobs practically falling out of it would make the blood rush to certain parts of me plus I can't even remember the last girl I was with; which brings up another question, why haven't I been with anyone? What did I do with all my time?

"Spent it with her" I admitted to myself while I towel dried my hair

I didn't get a chance to dwell on it any longer, an owl urgently tapped on my window. I let it in. The owl dropped the letter at my feet and flew back out the window. A red Phoenix glowed on the outside of the letter. I quickly opened the letter. Inside the letter was an address and the order to apparate there a.s.a.p with Lola. I pulled on pair of jeans, grabbed my shirt and my wand, pulling on my shoes as I left my room and headed to the Lola's. I knocked but didn't wait for an answer. She was just pulling her pants over hips as I opened the door.

"We have to go." I said slipping on my shirt while she buttoned her pants.

"I know." She said and I noticed the parchment on her bed, "Okay lets go." She said walking over to me.

I apparated us to the address and we arrived in the middle of a muggle park.

"Watch it." Lola cried seconds after we apparated in.

I turned around coming face to face with a red jet of light; she blew it up.

"Sorry, mate." James appeared out of nowhere from under his invisibility cloak, "I didn't know more people are coming."

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Death Eaters were seen hanging around here for the last few days." James explained.

"Are you alone?" Lola asked.

"No, Lily is down the street, Remus is across the ark and peter is that way." He said nodding in the direction behind us, "We're suppose to keep an eye out for anything."

Lola and I nodded our understanding and wondered off in our own direction. I didn't want to split up but I didn't say anything. A cool wind, rustled around me. I glanced over my shoulder but there was nothing behind me. I shoved my hands in my jacket pockets, a firm grip on my wand. I wandered away from the park and down some muggle street, going wherever my feet were taking me. The houses were all dark, the occupants blissfully asleep. Another wind danced around me, it seemed to be getting colder, icy cold. I looked to the sky but there wasn't a cloud to be seen and no chance of rain.

I thought I heard footsteps behind me again but once again there were no one there.

"James?" I asked the darkness, hoping he would jump out from under the invisibility cloak.

The wind answered me. I sat on the curb looking up and down the empty street. The grass around me suddenly froze over and the air turned numbing cold. I could feel the despair taking me over. I was about to jump to my feet and signal for the others but everything went black.