Chapter 12- No one...
I don't know why I ever agreed to help Lily. Except for trying to hurt Lily to begin with this was the dumbest thing I've ever done. I wasn't sure I couldn't help Lily, but I wasn't sure I wanted to help her either. Even if she does have major issues with her life that's no reason for her to hurt all those guys and treat me badly. I mean I could probably get over her hooking up with Sean Wood; it wasn't like she was my girlfriend or anything of the sort, but the way she acted when I saw them was nearly unforgivable. It doesn't matter now, I'd promised Chastity and if there's one thing I try never to do is break a promise. How Lily was so lucky to have a friend like her is something I don't think I can understand.
I threw my invisibility cloak over me and snuck across to the girls dorms. This wasn't exactly in my promise to Chastity but I had to know if Lily was really like this before I really tried my hardest to help her. Thankfully she was alone in the dorm. It would be much easier to stay out of the way of one girl than 6. She looked like she had been crying and was holding a diary in her hands. I wondered what happened to make her cry.
I walked over to where I could see what she was looking at. It was a picture taped to a page, and she looked about 11 or 12. Her red hair was cut short and curled around her face, and her green eyes were shining next to the purple flowers on the tree she was swinging on. She looked so happy and carefree; it was hard to believe that was only three years ago. Now she looked much older, and hardly carefree. There was always something in her face that said she wasn't completely relaxed. Just then a tear fell onto the picture; she was crying again. Immediately the quill started to scratch across the pages and she was writing as tears rolled down her cheeks. Automatically I reached my arm out to hold her, but I remembered and pulled it away, just barely brushing her neck. She bristled and turned around, her eyes darting back and forth. Then after she saw nothing was there she rolled her eyes.
"God, Lily, get a grip, no one cares enough to watch you cry." She said aloud to herself. "No one." She whispered again and buried her tear stained face in her hands to suppress the sobs she was emitting. Then there were footsteps on the stairs and she yanked her hangings closed. I heard her mutter a spell that probably made the tears on her face disappear and Chastity was right.
I knew I had to get that diary. I had to know everything to be able to help Lily, because that's what I'd fully decided on doing. No one should cry like that, not even her, no matter what she's done.
