I KNOW IT HAS BEEN SO SO VERY LONG SINCE I HAVE UPDATED BUT AT LONG LAST HERE IS ANOTHER CHAPTER AND I SWEAR TO ALL THE GODS THAT I WILL UPDATE SOONISH AGAIN.
Chapter 28
Looking at Cedric as his arm held me in such a tight inmate embrace under the weeping willow which told of total heartbreak with its drooping branches. I felt as if I was cheating on the man I swore I loved. For a second I thought he would kiss me, part of me wanted him to but I backed away and walked back to the school. As I looked back at Cedric, he looked so lost his head bowed his shoulders hunched but until I knew why I was being hunted I could only think of Dumas.
Walking through the door I spotted the paintings whispering. I paid no heed as I headed to my dorm room. I ignored everyone as I lay on my bed thinking about everything had happened since I had visited the shop in Diagon Alley. I had fallen in love with Oliver, I had learnt that even the great Dumbeldore was fallible. Other than that I knew nothing, I didn't know why I was hunted by this 'woman', I didn't know why I was so torn between Oliver and Cedric. I didn't want to sleep I dreaded going to sleep now for fear she would come again and I would once more stand on the cliff and watch while one of the men I loved fell to his death. I walked from the dorm and did what felt like twenty laps of the school just thinking.
I walked the halls slowly wondering what was happening to me. Why was I so torn between two men, I know I loved Oliver but now as I looked at Cedric I couldn't tell if my love was miss placed. Olive had never sent such shivers through me but then Oliver and I had never been in such a tested place before and now that I knew Dumas was truly making me try to pick the man that was my soul mate if that was what Dumbledore really couldn't explain. Why couldn't this all powerful wizard tell me what was going on? I am so torn between these two boys nah they are men. I might have made Oliver a man and he made me a woman but Cedric seemed to rely on me so much more. When Cedric looked at me I saw so much more. I saw the fear that lay within him. He really doesn't want to be the champion. I don't want him to be in such danger. The next task is close and I know that they will grow worse. Yet Oliver has grown so distant since I have left his flat. I love him but god knows I really want to know if he really did come here and start a fight with Cedric.
Dumas was the last thing on my mind when again my head felt light. I was just about to enter the dorm when I felt my knees buckle beneath me. I heard her voice the soft haunting whisper. 'One will loose you forever'
I woke and Cedric was by my side. When I saw him I smiled softly.
"Hey" I sighed in a sleepy voice that I didn't even recognise as mine. His dark eye sparkled and smiled.
"You know that this is getting so passé, you really have to stay awake." His smile was so broken that I couldn't tell if he was just happy to see me awake or if he really thought that I was just trying it on.
"How long?" I asked, how long was I out this time, a week, a month, more?
"You missed the challenge again! Don't worry I survived. But Jesus woman stop passing out into comas." He said his voice trying to be cheerful.