Anne Marie's POV
1:00 finally came and I began to walk down to the Great Hall and side chamber where Cedric and I were to meet.
When I entered, there was a roaring fire in the fireplace, and I was almost too warm in Cedric's hoody. He sat on the hearth in front of me, smiling happily. On the floor before me sat a large piece of parchment, a glass sphere with golden mist floating inside it, and a gold chain.
He jogged over to me and hugged me tightly. "Hi."
"Hey. Is this the stuff for the spell?"
He nodded.
"What on earth did you ask for?"
"I already told you."
"Vaguely…" I muttered.
"Don't worry, by the time we're finished, you won't have any questions."
He led me to the glass sphere and sat me down in front of it, he sat facing me, so the sphere was between us.
I kept staring at the misty smoke, or was it fluid, I couldn't tell, inside the glass. It was beautiful, and I was mystified.
"Do you like the mist?"
"Yes…it's so beautiful."
"Good."
"What do you-"
"Shhh. You'll find out. We're starting now, and from this point on, you can't say anything out of place. Understand?"
I nodded obediently.
"Now. Part of this will probably scare you a little, but you have to trust me that I'm not going to let anything happen to you, all right?"
I nodded again.
"Do you trust me?"
I paused for a moment. "With my life."
"Ok…ready?"
"Yes."
I was a little afraid, but I knew that Cedric would never do anything to put me in danger.
Cedric slid the parchment aside and wrapped the thin gold thread chain around the glass, then sat back and stared intently at the mist inside.
"My biggest fear…" He said aloud, "is to not have Anne Marie when I need her and to not be able to get to her when she needs me."
He was not speaking to me, but to the mist. Which had begun to glow and swirl faster.
Suddenly, Cedric began to speak in Latin, words I didn't recognize from the parchment he was holding again, and the sphere rose into the air, still glowing brighter and swirling faster. He continued until the sphere was so bright I had to shield my eyes.
He took my other hand. "Get ready."
Then, without warning, the sphere dropped back to the floor, shattering with a deafening crash and the mist was released.
Two striped of the mist floated toward me, and before I knew it, they were going directly into my eyes, a strange feeling. And when it stopped, I caught the ends of two stripes going into Cedric's.
I was about to ask him what all this was doing to us when I noticed something on the ground in front of me, the spell still wasn't finished.
There was still a small amount of mist floating close to the ground in front of me along with shards of glass from the sphere.
A couple of pieces of glass floated up to the mist and I watched in amazement as they molded themselves right before my eyes into a tiny glass heart, about the size of a sickle, right around the left over mist, which condensed into a small ball right in the middle of the heart.
The gold thread chain levitated itself up and threaded through the glass, creating a necklace which slowly floated down into Cedric's open palm.
I realized my mouth was hanging open, and closed it quickly.
"I asked for that special." He said, standing up and helping me to my feet. "Threw in the extra money and half to pay for the spell."
"What exactly did it do?" I asked, still a bit stunned by all that had happened.
"Now…" He said, approaching me with the necklace, "whenever you need me, I'll be able to see where you are. And if I need you…" He clasped the necklace and it hung perfectly around my neck and down my chest. "You'll be able to see me, and your necklace will glow."
He stayed behind me and wrapped his arms around me, kissing my cheek.
"Thank you, Cedric." I whispered.
He didn't answer, just turned me around and kissed me again.