"The Common Room's here, you know." Riddle said when he saw Lucretia continued to walk. She stopped when she heard him and turned to him.
"I don't want to go there." she said "I don't want to answer the questions about my eyes being bleary."
"Fair enough." he muttered "I can show you a secret room, if you promise not to bring there anyone."
"Who can I bring? I don't have any friends, if you did forget."
"Oh."
He nodded and walked past the entrance. He stopped in front of a knight portrait. Lucretia heard him hissing "Open," and the little, silver snake which was an ornament on the sword's grasp started to move. A few moments later, the portrait opened like a door. She got in after Riddle.
The room was silver and emerald green. There was a sofa and two armchairs in front of the fireplace, the fire was silver. And there were shelves full of books and strange looking things. There was a grand piano in the middle of the room and a guitar was on the table which was in front of the sofa.
Lucretia walked to the table, took the guitar and sat on the sofa. She smiled when she realised that its chords were good. She started to play a Japanese song, she knew the lyrics but she was in no mood to sing a song. Riddle was watching her with impressed eyes and that was not something you could see every day.
"I didn't know that you could play the guitar." he said.
"'Cus no one knows, that's why." she responded him as her fingers moved on the strings swiftly. Her straight, long, brown hair was shading her eyes. But she was not expecting Riddle to tuck it behind her ear.
That was something you could not see every day, too.
When she finished the song, he moved to the piano and started to play a melody. It was so... relaxing. Lucretia walked through him slowly "Which one is that?" she asked.
"Silencio," he responded "Beethoven's."
"Ah, I was wondering why it sounded that familiar." she muttered but she froze with the thing she had remembered "Wait... I remember that you didn't seem to smell anything, too, at the beginning of the class."
Riddle looked her, smirking, as he played the notes perfectly "You manage to amuse me more and more each day, Lucretia."
It was the first time he had bespoken her with her first name "So, you're like me then?" she asked. Riddle nodded slowly "Now I see why you have no interest in girls even though you have the whole school behind you."
He raised an eyebrow "Whole school? Including you?"
She rolled her eyes "I thought I made it clear that I was incapable of feeling that kind of things."
"Then, you should choose the words more carefully."
"Thanks for the advice." she said, sarcastically. After a few moments, he finished the song. Lucretia was listening to it, leaning the piano. But she wasn't expecting him to stand up, she thought that he would play one or two more songs. More interesting thing was, he was heading towards her. He stood up in front of her, his hand on the piano. He leaned to her ear, his breath licked her neck and made her shiver.
"Now, I owe you only one favour, Himura." he whispered.
She frowned "What?" she said "That doesn't count, we both discovered our secrets about Amortentia."
"I wasn't talking about those," he said as he pulled back a little bit, looking at her eyes "Remember who took you there when you were crying like a baby?"
"I knew that there was something under your friendly behaviour." Lucretia said "Self-seeker douchebag."
"Language, please."
She rolled her eyes as she pushed him. When she was free from his arms, she got out of the room. She closed her eyes and massaged her temples. Something was bothering her. Really, really bothering her.
Why did my heart beat faster when I was stuck between him and the piano?
The dinner went surprisingly quiet. Even Martha wasn't asking her disturbing questions about Lucretia being paler than normal- she had very pale skin- and her empty eyes. She ate some chicken and with no words, she stood up. She was heading to the seventh floor, where she had a secret room. She discovered it in her third year, she was searching for a place that she could be alone and cry. Because she had a fight with her parents, it was the day she had returned from the Christmas holiday.
When she reached the wall, she closed her eyes and walked before it three times. I need a place to practice. I need a place to practice. I need a place to practice.
Slowly, the wall turned into a door. She looked behind and quickly opened the door, got in. She smiled when she saw that it was designed as always. The room was large. One part was left for practicing, the other was left for relaxing and reading. She took a book which was about Dark Arts. She was practicing Dark Arts since last year and she was quite good at it.
She took out her wand as she muttered a spell to make the book hang in the air and started to practice.
She took a deep breath as she put the book back its place, it was the third one she did use today, and sat on the sofa. But with a new idea, she jumped to her feet and moved away from the sofa. She bit her lip. It was the only spell that she couldn't manage to do. She took a deep breath again and closed her eyes.
Think of a happy memory...
She opened her eyes, thinking of the day she ran away from home and moved her hand "Expecto Patronum!"
Her face dropped when she saw there was nothing but some silver dust. She focused on the memory harder this time "Expecto Patronum!"
Again, there was nothing. She moaned in frustration and casted a non-verbal spell, causing a wooden man to explode. She crouched, burying her head to her knees. She clenched her fist. I don't even have any happy memories! I'm like a damn machine!
She flung her head back, trying to calm herself. She buried everything inside her, wondering what would happen the day they all come out.
Five minutes later, she got out of the room and watched as the door turned into the wall again. She was heading to the common room. When she entered, she saw that it was only ten. She grumbled. There were two hours for the Astronomy class. She climbed the stairs which led to the dormitories and got in the sixth years'. Three girls were asleep whereas two were awake. They smiled at Lucretia as she entered. She shot them a fake smile and fell down to her bed.
Cassandra Melerine giggled "Someone's exhausted today."
"Not exhausted," Lucretia said as she turned, now she was lying back "I actually feel nothing."
"It's the same Lucretia," Kate Quaranta muttered "Showing less emotion than a brick."
"Thank you for the compliment, Kate." Lucretia said sarcastically.
Quaranta shot her a fake smile "You're welcome, dear." she said and turned back to Melerine.
Melerine was a blonde girl with green eyes. She was tall and thin, of course not as tall as Lucretia. After all she was the tallest girl in Slytherin. But she could not deny Melerine's beauty even if she didn't like blondes. Nearly whole boys were after her and rumours said that she had a new boyfriend every week but Lucretia knew that this was not true. She had a new boyfriend every month. She was so flirtatious but most of the Slytherins in sixth year knew that she had her eyes on Tom since last year. Of course, he didn't show any concern.
Quaranta was blonde, too. But she had brown eyes. She was shorter than Melerine and slimmer, too. She was flirtatious, too, but not as much as Melerine. No wonder they got on well. But even though Melerine's saucy behaviour, Lucretia would prefer Melerine to Quaranta.
"You have Astronomy, too?" Melerine asked to Lucretia. She nodded "Then you'll come with us, we have too."
"It is not necessary." Lucretia muttered.
"Yes, Cassy, it is not." Quaranta said. Martha told her that Quaranta was jealous of her because she was Japanese. Quaranta had some Japanese ancestors, too, but they lived in 1800's and they were very few. And she was a Black, this was the second thing made Quaranta jealous.
It was quarter to twelve when she reached the Astronomy Tower. There were only the Hufflepuffs. She started to prepare her telescope, taking the best place to observe the sky. Five minutes later, the Gryffindors and the Ravenclaws came. After them, Riddle's gang came with Melerine and Quaranta behind them. A few minutes later, Professor Lin came and started the lesson.
As always, they were casting a horoscope. It was their first lesson of the year routine. She was looking from her telescope while her hand moved swiftly on the paper but she wasn't expecting to drop the quill, accidently, from the tower.
"Kuso," she muttered and put the paper down, headed to the box full of quills and took one. But, again, she wasn't expecting to stumble. Lucky for her, Riddle was around her held her tight from her wasp waist and helped her to straighten.
"Are you planning to throw yourself after your quill?" he asked as he pulled his hands back.
Lucretia tidied herself "I have no idea." she said and added "Thanks."
She went back to her telescope and realised that Riddle's was next to her. She shrugged as she continued to cast the horoscope. But she turned left as she heard him talking "There is a missing star." he said and showed another horoscope when he saw that she had raised an eyebrow "That's the one I casted last year, 1st of September. The only difference is that it was Monday last year."
"Maybe it exploded?" she said "I mean years ago but we have found out newer."
"Quite sensible." he muttered.
"I think you should tell this to Professor Lin." Lucretia said as she smirked "No harm in gaining extra points, you know."
He nodded and went. He came back a few minutes later, a smirk on his face "Thirty points."
Lucretia's eyes widened "Thirty? I wasn't expecting that much."
He shrugged "She must have thought that I cared for her class so much, since I still hold last year's horoscope."
"Is it weird? I mean we're talking much more than past years after finding out... you know."
"I don't think it is." Riddle said "Actually it is some kind of nice. Being able to talk to a girl who's not like the rest of them."
"You mean having a crush on you?" she said. He nodded "Well, to be honest I have no idea how this feels like since I have no fans. But it is nice knowing that there's someone like me who takes my coldness normal."
"No fans?" he said, raising an eyebrow "I thought you had."
"It's Melerine, not me." she said "I'm happy like that, thanks."
"It's senseless. All the girls here are English except you. I don't think they can find another Japanese in London." he said and shrugged "Anyway, it's the very best thing I don't understand so I prefer not to confuse myself."
"I do exactly the same when I'm talking with Martha." Lucretia said and yawned. A few minutes later, she finished the horoscope and handed it to Professor Lin. Then, she leaned the railings, her back touching them. She was watching the students but looked away when she saw that Nathaniel Chang was eyeing her up. She quickly put her staff into her bag and left the tower. It took ten minutes to reach the common room. Five minutes later, she was lying on her bed. She really wished Chang would not ask her out. It was something that she didn't want to deal with, she was no fan of boys who stared her all the time.
This one was boring, I know, but these are all preparing you to the big things :)
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