The first week pasted quickly, and it was finally Saturday. The weather was really nice so all students were in the garden. Martha pushed Lucretia forward, who was doing her best not to go out "C'mon, no one's gonna eat you! Besides, you look so cute!" Martha said.
"I look like a Japanese doll." Lucretia muttered as she walked out of the castle "If you hadn't said that you wouldn't talk with me ever again, I would not have been in this silly situation."
"You should wear something other than pants, Lucretia. You're beautiful and your physique is really nice. If you are not going to show it to anyone, I'll make you."
She looked at Martha "So you suggest me to go out naked?" she asked, sarcastically.
"No, that's something that Melerine and Quaranta would do." Martha responded seriously. Lucretia pulled her skirt a little bit down but Martha hit her hand, pulling it up "Don't touch that skirt."
"But it's too short!" Lucretia whined "My briefs can be seen."
"No, it can't." Martha said as she sat next to the Black Lake. Lucretia sat near her.
She was wearing a short and white shirt which left her belly bare, and her red bra seemed obvious. She was trying her best to hide it but it was no use and every time a boy was all over her, Martha was starting to laugh and Lucretia was kicking her. It was all her fault. Her skirt was an extremely short, black, pleated skirt. She had knee-high, white socks and black sneakers.
"I feel uncomfortable." Lucretia said as she wrapped her arms around her chest.
"You better get used to this." Martha said.
Lucretia frowned "Excuse me? I'm not wearing clothes like these. Ever again."
Martha smirked, raising an eyebrow "You say so?"
Lucretia rolled her eyes and took off her shoes and socks, let her legs hang down, her toes touching the lake. She could fell the wand inside the pocket of her skirt. A few moments later, she turned to Martha but she was looking at someone else. She smirked "Malfoy is around, eh?"
Martha pointed Lucretia with her index finger in a threatening way "Be quiet."
"Or he'll hear me?"
"Exactly."
Lucretia heaved a sigh "Loving someone is very unnecessary." she muttered.
Martha raised an eyebrow "How can you know? Have you ever loved someone?" she asked.
"Nope. But it seems like that. What do you get by opening up your heart?" Lucretia asked.
"What do you get by closing it?" Martha replied her with another question.
I can't open it up even if I want to "I protect myself from the damage that person can do." she said.
"I don't think Abraxas will damage me."
"Does he love you back?"
Martha looked away "I have no idea..."
"You'll find out soon." Lucretia said "I mean both."
Martha looked at someone for a second, then turned back to Lucretia, grinning "Nathaniel is eyeing you up!"
Lucretia rolled her eyes "Argh, again? What does he want from me?"
Martha's eyes widened "How dare you ask this? I know you know it!"
"What? He really wants to date with me?" Lucretia said "Why would he want that? Is he mental or something?"
"Um, I don't know, maybe it's because you're really beautiful?" Martha said, acting like she didn't know the answer "Lucretia, you must accept if he asks you to date with him."
"No way." she said "I'm not going out with anyone. My time is too precious to waste with boys."
She had worn her socks and shoes back, she was trying to stand up without flashing her underwear. And she did, Martha applauded her as she shot her an annoyed glance but froze when she heard his voice.
"Lucretia... Um... can I ask you something?"
How dare he call me with my first name?
She turned to Chang, with a fake smile on her face "Yes?" she asked, trying to ignore Martha.
"Um... I just wanted to ask that..." he said "Will you go out with me?"
Her eyes widened when she heard him. She was about to say no but Martha spoke before her "She'd love to!"
Her eyes widened more.
Chang smiled "Good. I thought that you would refuse. Good." he said "See you in the classes, save the chair next to you for me."
Her fake smile dropped as he left and she turned to Martha "Get up," she said, trying to be calm.
"What?" Martha asked.
"Martha Chastain, get your fucking ass up!" she said, her voice louder this time. It must have scared Martha so she quickly stood up. Lucretia held her arm, dragging Martha behind her.
"Lucretia, for Merlin's sake, what are you doing?!" Martha shouted but it was too late. Lucretia threw her to Malfoy as they reached the gang. Martha couldn't find the balance and ended up falling on him. She quickly tried to stand up but Malfoy didn't let her. Lucretia laughed inside her. She knew that Malfoy had a crush on Martha, too. Martha was as red as a beetroot, sitting on Malfoy's lap.
"Keep her away from me." Lucretia said; Lestrange, Riddle, Malfoy, Nott, Avery and Mulciber were all looking at her with questioning eyes "I mean you, Malfoy. You know, kiss her or something."
Malfoy frowned as Martha blushed more "Why would I kiss her?"
"Oh, c'mon, I know you have a crush on her."
"Who told y-" Malfoy was about to say but realised that Martha was still on his lap and coughed "I mean, no, I don't."
"You know, blondes can't lie." Lucretia said "Gee, I wonder who loves Martha since you're the one who didn't let her stand up."
She saw that Riddle was smirking.
Malfoy knew that he had no chance to deny, so instead he kissed Martha. Lucretia laughed "That's how it is done, Martha. Learn it from a master."
Martha showed Lucretia her middle finger as they pulled back "You're a heartless bitch, you know that?"
"Shut up, red-head." Lucretia said "You're not allowed to talk to me today. Go snog with your boyfriend."
Malfoy frowned again "What happened between you?"
"Thanks to that idiot," Lucretia said, pointing Martha "I'm dating with Chang."
"You need someone to show you that loving someone doesn't ruin you!" Martha said, her voice loud as she stood up. There were plenty of things that Lucretia wanted to say and Riddle knew what exactly they were. But she kept them inside.
"It's my life Martha! My choices! And I simply don't want anyone to show me that love is a good thing!" Lucretia shouted "I don't want anyone to love me, and I don't want to love anyone. There is no need for silly, little, useless emotions."
"Go on then! Live like a heartless bitch like you have been living since the day you were born!"
"Oh, don't worry, I will." Lucretia said, her voice was as cold as her glances "Oh, and you wanted the boys to see my physique since it was good, didn't you? Well, why annoying them with a shirt?" she said and with a harsh movement, she ripped it, snatching the buttons away from the shirt. Without paying regard to the boys, she walked to the castle at a rot.
She hasn't felt that angry before. Her blood was boiling with rage and hatred. How dare she mess her life? She didn't regret the things that she had done, she was not giving a damn about the comments about her. But she wasn't expecting to find herself in Myrtle's bathroom. But soon, she remembered why she was here.
She was here to discover where the Chamber of Secrets was. It was the best place to start her search, since the mudblood, Myrtle, was killed here. Lucky her, she was not there. She started to examine the sinks, every inch of them. When she was about to lose her hope, she saw it: Scratched on the side of one of the copper taps was a tiny snake. She smirked and rubbed her hands in glee.
"Open up," she said. Except that the words didn't come out in English, nor Japanese; a strange hissing had escaped her, and at once the tap glowed with a brilliant white light and began to spin. Next second, the sink began to move; the sink, in fact, sank, right out of sight, leaving a large pipe exposed, a pipe wide enough for a man to slide into.
She looked at it, thinking about what could be down there. But she did find the entrance of the chamber, it was not the time to be a coward. So she took a deep breath and lowered herself slowly into the pipe, then let go.
It was like rushing down an endless, slimy, dark slide. She could see more pipes branching off in all directions, but none as large as hers, which twisted and turned, sloping steeply downward, and she knew that she was falling deeper below the school than even the dungeons.
And then, just as she had begun to worry about what would happen when she hit the ground, the pipe levelled out, and she shot out of the end with a wet thud, landing on the damp floor of a dark stone tunnel large enough to stand in.
"I must be miles under the school," said Lucretia, her voice echoing in the black tunnel "Under the lake, probably," she muttered and took out her wand "Lumos," she thought as her wand lit. And she began to walk, her footsteps slapping loudly on the wet floor.
The tunnel was so dark that she could only see a little distance ahead. Her shadows on the wet walls looked monstrous in the wandlight. But the tunnel was quiet as the grave, and the first unexpected sound her heard was a loud crunch as she stepped on what turned out to be a rat's skull. She lowered her wand to look at the floor and saw that it was littered with small animal bones.
"Normal, actually, since there is a gigantic snake in there," she muttered to herself.
The tunnel turned and turned again. Every nerve in Lucretia's body was tingling unpleasantly. She wanted the tunnel to end, yet dreaded what she'd find when it did. And then, at last, as she crept around yet another bend, she saw a solid wall ahead on which two entwined serpents were carved, their eyes set with great, glinting emeralds. She licked her lower lip. She loved emeralds as much as she loved snakes.
Lucretia approached, her throat very dry. She could guess what she had to do. She cleared her throat, and the emerald eyes seemed to flicker "Open," said Lucretia, in a low, faint hiss. The serpents parted as the wall cracked open, the halves slid smoothly out of sight, and Lucretia walked inside.
She was standing at the end of a very long, dimly lit chamber. Towering stone pillars entwined with more carved serpents rose to support a ceiling lost in darkness, casting long, black shadows through the odd, greenish gloom that filled the place.
She muttered "Nox," and held her wand like she was ready to defend herself if something attacked her. She moved forward between the serpentine columns. Every careful footstep echoed loudly off the shadowy walls. She kept her eyes narrowed, ready to clamp them shut at the smallest sign of movement. The hollow eye sockets of the stone snakes seemed to be following him. Lucretia had to crane her neck to look up into the giant face above: It was ancient and monkeyish, with a long, thin beard that fell almost to the bottom of the wizard's sweeping stone robes, where two enormous grey feet stood on the smooth chamber floor.
She smirked. She was in Chamber of Secrets now. Tom Marvolo Riddle's little party place where he told that gigantic snake to petrify or kill muggle-borns. She licked her lower lip and spoke in Parseltounge "Is there anyone here?"
She smirked when she heard a voice, answering her "Master, is that you?"
"No, I'm not your Master. But it will be a great shock when he finds out that I've found his secret place and his pet."
But, of course, she wasn't expecting that thing to come out and attack her. When she saw its body, she turned back and began to run away but the creature was faster than her. And before she could do anything, it bit her leg. She screamed in pain and fell down, hitting her head to the wet ground. And everything went black...
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