Chapter 24 - Trust

The sound of the door opening and me stumbling into Lily and Marlene's room while panting heavily, immediately caught the girls attention.

"Are you alright Daisy? You like you just ran a marathon." Marlene tells me with her usual grin while Lily had a raised eyebrow and a frown on her face.

"Yea, I'm fine, I was just having problems with my roommates, again and running isn't my strong suit as I tire out easily," I tell them as I walk over to Lily's bed and sit down beside her.

Lily turns to watch me as I sat down. "Is that a picture frame in your hands? Is that what you needed to get?" Lily asked as she pointed at the frame that was in my lap while Marlene came to join us on the bed.

"Hmm," I hum as I nodded while passing the picture frame to Lily, to give her a closer. "Yes, and if you break it, or ruin it, your dead," I tell her which caused her to grimace as she took the picture frame carefully into her hands while Marlene let out a giggle.

I roll my eyes at Marlene before looking down at my empty hands. Clutching and unclutching them as part of me wanted to snatch that picture frame out of her hands.

"That is a picture of me and my twin brother, William Snow." I started off softly. "He passed away this year on September 1 at nine in the morning," I tell them before going silent. Trying to figure out what to say next. "It hit me really hard, his death. He was the only friend I ever had while growing up. The first person I would always go to when I needed something.

But, when we were eleven years old. A few days after we got our letters. He got sick. Really sick. It was so sudden. At least at the time it seemed really sudden to me. A part of me wanted to believe that it happened suddenly. I don't want to believe William got sick and passed way because he was born with a weak heart. There were signs that point to William heart becoming even weaker before we got our letters but I didn't think much of the signs I did see and William never brought them up because he didn't want to worry us. At least, that was what he said, but a part me thinks it's because he just wasn't ready to face the fact that his heart was becoming weaker."

It was silent as I talked about my brother. Part of me was glad that no one was interrupting me when it came to unloading the emotions that I held in for far too long. But talking about this out loud though, made me feel like I was pathetic, as there were people out there that had gone through far worse things than I have and they've done more with their lives then I have. There was also the part of me, that feared that their silence was their way of telling me that they thought I was pathetic.

You are pathetic.I don't want to be pathetic.

"Daisy? Are you still there?" I blinked as look up, realizing that I had, once again, zone out into my thoughts again.

When I looked up, I saw that Marlene had a small smile on her face instead of her usual grin while Lily's eyes seemed to sparkle with worry.

"Yes, sorry, I got distracted by my thoughts," I tell them.

"Well, that explains why you were so cold this year. But why didn't you tried to make friends during your first year or the years before this year." Lily asked.

"That's because, before and during Hogwarts. I got bullied a lot, it was to the point where I thought William and my family were the only people I would ever need." I tell them.

"Why haven't you tried talking to your family about how you felt?" Marlene asked me.

"Mum and grandmother were sad. I didn't want to burden them. Father...he changed. He shut himself out the second he found out that William had passed away. Even back when we found out that he was sick, to the point where he had to be hospitalized. Father started changing then too." I tell them as I narrow my eyes onto my hands, that had turned into tight fists.

"He's not the man he uses to be. Mum doesn't know it, at least, not to my knowledge, she doesn't. But he calls her the forbidden M-word behind her back when she's not around. He's been doing it, ever since William got stuck in the hospital. Father has also looked at me differently since then too. Since then, I have done whatever I could to make him happy, but the smallest mistake made all the progress I made just disappear and you know what." I tell them as my lips curl into a scowl as my fists tighten. "I am tiredof it. If he wants to be a terrible father, then that is his choice," I tell them.

"That's probably the best thing you can do." I hear Lily's voice, which causes me to look up at her in surprise as all the anger I felt vanished, as I wasn't excepting a response, much less, an encouraging one. "Since it can end up leading in an unhealthy relationship, so the best thing you can do is to start avoiding him," Lily tells me.

I was silent as I stared at the two girls that sat around me before looking down at my hands.

Waiting.

Waiting.

Waiting for a sign.

A sign that can tell me.

That I made the biggest mistake.

In telling them about my problems.

But as I look back up at them. All I could see was kindness and sincerity on them, except with Marlene, who had a hint of mischief on her face, as usual.

Telling them this.

Didn't change anything.

Our friendship is still the same.

A smile made its way on to my face.

I guesstrustingthem, wasn't the biggest mistake I ever made.