CHAPTER TWELVE
STONE COLD DARKNESS

Kal walked barefoot on the stone floor of the castle, feeling the cold familiar roughness. The spirits and the miserable feelings swirling in a tornado around her. Her stomach an empty seemingly endless pit. She was empty, she felt as if the only way she could be happy again was if she just went to sleep and never woke up again. The spirits swirling, hurling, battering her. They were closing in on her, she could feel it, she felt as if any moment they could attack. It seemed as if only one person could help her, but he was out of reach. She wandered aimlessly as she had so long ago. She sat down on a stone bench in front of a hanging of the Ravenclaw coat of arms. She hugged her legs close to her and put her head against her knees and silently sobbed.

She looked up alarmed at the sound of a creak from someone stepping on the aging concrete. It was Theo.

"Hey sup?"

"Theo right now I'm not in the best of moods."

"Are you um like er upset or anything? I mean you usually aren't in the best of moods. So.."

"Well right now is worse so then usual."

"How so, I mean u don't have lil ole me as a boyfriend anymore, you have good ole Andy or as you call him "Reeper". You should be happy." He sat down beside her, a safe distance.

"That's the point. I don't think its working out with me an Andy."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

He stood up and stretched his long legs out. Kal looked up at him, nearer to tears then ever before.

She sat there for 5 minutes, staring as he rounded the corner. She stood up about to scream his name, she could feel the words on her lips, "come back Theo!!" But it was too late. She screamed in horror. They were circling, again and again, high pitched laughter everywhere echoing, bouncing off the stone walls. Blackness everywhere all she could see, all she could feel. She fell to her knees and felt her head hit the floor with a bang. She pulled her hands to her face and the tears fell willingly. All she had hoped for was coming. It would soon end. But she couldn't help thinking "it's just a phase, I can move on, it'll be ok it'll be ok, I just have to survive. I have potential, I just have to survive and make it through this!!" Kal gasped and the air was swooshed out from inside her. She started panicking, choking, and then she could silently feel all her pain and suffering ending, physically and emotionally. Her limp body fell to the floor with a thud, the laughing growing louder and luder and louder..