Selena stayed in the common room until 5:30 the next morning. She hadn't been able to sleep. Today she would head home just to be treated like the animal she was. Maybe since she stayed up so late last night she would sleep somewhat tonight instead of clawing herself to pieces like she normally did. She took off her robe and looked at her arms and legs. She had numerous scars up and down her body. As she traced them she remember specific things about each one. She lifted her shirt to reveal a long white mark that started right below her rib and ran sideways and downwards. It seemed to wrap around her body. It finally ended at the middle of her lower back. It was from her first transformation. Pulling her shirt back down. She looked at her legs. You had to look closely to notice the ones there, but they were existent. She closed her eyes tight. When she opened them she looked at her arms. There were many cuts on her arms, many cuts that weren't made by the wolf.

Flash Back

The pain in her head was excruciating. She heard him coming again, but before she could get up all the way he had punched her in the stomach. She fell, scolding herself for crying. He came at her again this time he kicked her in the head. She blacked out but not before she heard her dad saying proudly that he had taken care of the monster.

End Flash Back

She wiped the tears from her eyes and decided to go change and get to Dumbledore's office before anyone woke up. She took the stairs to the girl's dorm two by two. She quietly opened the door and stepped in. She grabbed a pair of black jeans and T-shirt. After changing she grabbed her book on werewolves, threw it in her satchel and headed out the door. She paused at the top of the stairs. Something came over her. She jumped lept down the stairs and crossed the common room in three strides. She threw open the portrait hole and jumped through stumbling a little. She raced down the stairs. She didn't know why, but she had to run. Suddenly she just had to run.

Stained, looking at my hands
I talk with these lines
It's not the answer
I'm crying and I now I know
Looking the sky
I search for an answer
So free, free to be
I'm not another liar
I just want to be myself...myself

And now the beat inside of me
Is a sort of a cold breeze and I've
Never any feeling inside
Around me...
I Bring my body
Carry it into another world
I know I live...but like a stone I'm falling down

Damned, looking into the sky
I can feel this rain
Right now it's falling on me
Fly, I just want to fly
Life is all mine
Some days I cry alone,
But I know I'm not the only one
I see that another day is gone
I don't want to die...
Please be here when I arrive, don't die...please

When she couldn't run any more she found herself at the lake. She knelt down and with all her might she threw her fists into the ground. The tears were streaming down her face by now and she was unable to stop them. She hated her mom and her dad and Hogwarts and everyone that attended it, but most of all she hated her self. She let out a scream. She sat there crying for what seemed like forever. Before a gentle voice broke her out of her daze.

"Ms. Alexander"

Selena turned around to find a concerned looking Dumbledore looking at her. She wiped the tears from her eyes, she was embarrassed for him to see her like this, although she didn't know why.

"Come, Ms. Alexander," he said, "it's best we get you home."

"Yes, sir"

Selena stood up with quite a bit of trouble and they headed off to Dumbledore's office, neither speaking a word.