Lorelei was released from the hospital wing later the next day, but not before witnessing a tearful reunion between Angelique and her parents. Dumbledore was there of course, reassuring the man and woman who came to collect the girl. He told them she could stay on, but they insisted they wanted her home, so they could help her through this time themselves. They would bring in tutors to help her finish her schooling.
Lorelei had watched the scene unfold from the other side of the room. Her heart aching as mother and daughter hugged tightly. It was too much to witness, and she found she had to turn away. It was a little while later Madam Pomfrey had told her she could go back to her common room. Dumbledore had met her outside the hospital wing door. Inquired about her health, and the choices he had set forth the last time they spoke.
Back in the dorm room, Lorelei drug her trunk out. Popping the lid on it, she stared down into the empty recesses of the box. With a frown, and heavy heart, Lorelei began the tedious task of folding up the clothes she had brought with her to Hogwarts. Tears glistened in her eyes, but she didn't want to cry, she had to be strong. Gathering her books together, she placed them in the trunk with her clothes. "What's going on here?" Narcissa asked coming apon the scene.
"I-I'm leaving Hogwarts." Lorelei replied.
"It's not because of that horried wolf girl is it?" Narcissa asked, her words cutting Lorelei deeper than the other girl would ever know. "Because her poor parents came and collected her this morning."
Lorelei shook her head, "No." she croaked out, still attempting to keep her tears at bay, even with the new pain caused by Narcissa's words. "I..." A sigh escaped the girl 'I can't tell her the truth, not all of it anyway.' "I'm going because...I'm sick."
"Sick? Is that what all this faiting and not eating has been about?" Narcissa asked.
'I can just feel the compassion Narcissa.' Lorelei thought sarcasticly. "Yes, Narcissa dear, it's about the fainting and being nausous all the time."
"Well you will have to keep in touch." Narcissa said with that false smile of hers in place. "Send me some owls, let me know how things are. And I can invite you to mine and Lucius's wedding."
"Yes Narcissa." Lorelei answered absently as she closed the lid on her trunk. Her eyes took in the dorm room once more. "Locomotor Trunk", she waved her wand and the trunk floated in the air beside her, following her from the room and down the stairs into the common room. Lorelei glanced around the room, it's rich decor. Her blue eyes caught Severus's ebony ones for a moment, shaking his head slightly he sneered at her, then turned away. 'Good-bye Severus. I know you think I made the wrong choice. I also know, you knew it was the one I'd make all along.'
She made her way out of the common room, through the halls, up the stairs, stopping outside the Great Hall. Setting her trunk down just outside the door, she sat on her trunk, and waited.