Abraxas was sitting at the dinner table and was staring intently at his leader-cum-friend sitting across him.
"Abraxy you are doing it again." Orion Black hissed.
"Whaaa. .." Abraxas Molfoy looked at him questionably.
Orion looked towards Tom, who was looking towards the door as if thinking something, then back at Abraxas and said in low voice, "Why are you staring at Tom like that?"
"Ori don't you think he looks different nowadays?" Abraxas said while gesturing towards Tom in hushed voice.
Orion again looked towards Tom, who was now twirling spoon between his fingers instead of eating food with it.
"He looks like he is in a deep thought. But he looks the same to me." Orion said after observing Tom.
Abraxas brought his head closer to Orion and said in low voice, "I think he is in love."
"Are you.." Orion spoke out loud then lowered his volume when their neighbours looked towards him "Are you sure?" His eyes were round in anticipation.
"Yes I am. But I think they had some disagreement and she is avoiding him." Abraxas narrowed his eyes towards Hufflepuff table, then continued, "Look at Hufflepuff table, that Evans girl has not attended any meal since last few days. And our Tom here always look towards the doors as if expecting her to come anytime. She is avoiding him in classes as well. And I don't like it Ori..not at all.."
Orion start imagining Tom as some tragic hero waiting for true love all his life and finding that. Then his lady love ditching him, leaving him all lonely and broken. "So you think that girl broke our friend's heart. And he being Tom didn't share this with us. We are his friends. How can I sleep soundly when my friend is all heartbroken and lonely? How Abraxy?...How?" He had tears in his eyes now.
Abraxas nodded, he too was in verge of crying, "He doesn't eat properly, doesn't sleep much and in classes that we share with Puffs, he keep on looking in her direction as if expecting her to look at him. I can't take it anymore Ori. We have to do something."
Both were holding each others hands now, then they nodded at each other making a silent pact about doing something for their friend.
"Are you two okay?" Tom frowned at his friends-cum-followers sitting across him They looked like as if they were on a verge of crying.
On his question instead of answering Orion stared crying out loud, "Oh he said if I am okay? So caring...how could she be so cruel?..why? ..Merlin why?" He then stood and ran out of Great hall shouting same thing all the way.
Tom saw him leave then looked towards Abraxas with an raised eyebrow. On his questionable glance Abraxas also stood up, "I also can't take it anymore. How could she do this? How?" He too ran out of the Great Hall.
There was a pin drop silence.
"I think both of them have lost their mind. I always knew something like this will happen one day. " Nott commented while adding food in his plate.
Then everybody started talking again.
Tom, however, could not eat anymore. He too stood up and left Great Hall.
He strolled through the castle with his hands in his pockets, thinking about that green eyed witch , who seemed to be avoiding him.
She was occupying so much of his thoughts these days that, he spare no time to think about Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets. He found its entrance and went down to look at it once. But there again instead of looking for Slytherin monster, he started thinking how much the green colour of that Chamber reminded him of her eyes.
Ever since that kiss he could not get her out of his mind. His thoughts always strayed towards her eyes, her hair, her anger, her lips, that kiss..everything kept on popping up in his mind all the time.
She didn't even spare his dreams. He started having steamy dreams about her. He wanted to touch her to feel her, argue with her to get that look in her eyes. She had left him all frustrated.
The biggest problem was that he did not feel the same way about any other witch. He didn't feel like kissing or looking at any other witch. She was the only witch he wanted.
He shook his head. He should to do something. That witch was distracting him from his goal. He need to find some solution to this. He did not want any weakness.