a/n: since I have no time and life is fast-paced now, I want to make this a little faster than usual. Thanks for my reviewers and I dedicate this chapter to those people, the future reviewers, and to me…

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CHAPTER 12: EMPTY LETTERS

The next night, Danicia sneaked inside Melissa's room, after her sister told her the password for emergencies.

"Are you sure this is okay?" Lily asked her friend.

"Don't worry," Danicia said, disillusioning herself. After the egg experience, she gave thumbs up and she gave the password to a nymph carrying an eagle. The eagle flew and became a doorknob and Danicia freely entered the hall.

Danicia climbed up her sister's dormitories and saw her sleeping soundly. "Well, then. I have to find your magic box, my dear sister," she whispered to herself. She went under Melissa's bed to find the box but it was not there. "Now, where the hell did she keep that box?" she asked, scratching her head. She stood up and her head hit something. Touching the wood, she held something cold. "It's the box!" she muttered. She placed it down and opened it, seeing an almost hundreds of letters. She took out a small sack and placed all the letters inside the sack. She replaced the box on the top of her sister's bed and sniggered.

"What happened?" Lily asked, looking at Danicia with hope.

Danicia frowned and looked at the ground, giving Lily an impression that she failed. Then, she took the sack and showed it.

Lily smiled in triumph. "Are we really doing this?" he friend asked.

"We need to, Dani. That is, if you want your sister to be happy for the rest of her life," Lily said sincerely.

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Lily started her plan early next morning. She was giving glances at the Ravenclaw table, waiting for the arrival of owls. After ten minutes, the blur of brown, black and white started to pour in the hall. Danicia placed a hearing material on her sister's head so that they could hear everything (much like Fred and George's ears).

A black owl landed on top of Matthew's porridge. Matthew has almost shoulder-length over-black hair that it gave a bluish shine and magnificent green eyes. "No wonder my sister likes him," Danicia whispered. "She's got good taste."

Lily smiled and smiled. "He is really good-looking," she remarked.

"And he's an outstanding student too," Danicia added. "Anyway, here goes nothing."

They watched Matthew open the letter. He frowned while reading it, looked around, and tried to keep it inside his robe pocket. However, a girl with chestnut hair highlighted with red streaks arrived, followed by Melissa.

"That girl is Helena," Danicia whispered. Lily nodded before taking a spoonful of stew.

There was a beep. Danicia tapped her wand and pointed it to Lily's ear and her ear. The scene has started.

"Matt, what is this?" Helena asked.

Matthew narrowed his eyes. "Helena, I thought you sent it," he said calmly, different from the almost scandalous state of Helena.

"I'm not a poetic geek to write this stuff, you just know that," the girl replied.

Melissa sat down, eyeing the couple. "Can I see that, Helena?" she asked. She took the letter and read it with concentration. Lily saw her hands shake momentarily before closing her eyes and calming herself down. She passed the letter back to Matthew. "She's a hell admirer," she remarked, trying to smile.

"Look at your sister's composure," Lily remarked.

"She's trained to hide her feelings. That display of shock can get her caught by me but her friends are really thick to realize that," Danicia explained.

"Well, I don't like her," Helena replied to her so-called friend. "Nobody's going to get Matt."

"Helena," Matthew said, looking around them. "Won't you sit down? Everybody's looking at us. Please."

Helena sat down beside Melissa, who started eating, her eyes unfocused. "So, what's eating you?"

"I think I have to check something out," she said slowly, her head turning to her friend. She stood up and ran out of the Great Hall.

"What happened to her?" Matthew asked with concern, looking at the running figure.

"Well, she's deadly crazy," Helena said with no apprehension at all.

Lily saw Matthew give a last glance to Melissa before drinking his coffee.

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Melissa ran to her bed and took the box out of its place and stared at it. No movements, no anything, not even a single bump. She studied the position and look of her box for about five minutes that she heard the bell ring. Hurriedly, she placed the box on the top of her bed posts and ran. Little did she know that the way she slammed the door shut made the box stand out of place, ready to spill its contents to the floor.

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"So, how's life with Raven?" Danicia asked Lily. There was no use starting a conversation with Kristanna because she never knew what may happen. Their astronomy class last night was a disaster. The moment Professor Sinistra mentioned the star Sirius, Kristanna started to wave her wand crazily, causing four telescopes to fall down the tower, eventually destroying it. Even though they were able to fix it, Kristanna was called by the angry professor to take detention.

Lily sighed. "I hope he writes soon. Maybe we're really unlucky because everytime we tried to meet each other, something bad happens," she said, shaking her head.

"Hey, I have an idea!" Danicia said. "Why don't you try to consult Eros?" she asked. "You have great contact with him."

"Well, maybe I could," Lily said. "But we won't meet until he wants to meet me. And that is the day when our matchmaking plans would work."

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The next day, Lily went to Danicia's bed to sort the letters. "There must be a hundred letters," Danicia said, emptying the sack on top of her bed. "The school year could end with us sorting these ones."

"Danicia, listen," Lily said, starting to open the littered paper on the bed. "We need to find the letter which carried Melissa's confession. Something with an impact. Something that would tear Matthew's heart and make him realize everything."

"Yeah, nice speech, Miss Evans," Danicia said. "Raven is a huge influence."

"Not to mention muggle pocketbooks," Lily added with a laugh. "Anyway, let's start."

They spent the next few hours reading the letters with the tip of their wands. They have already sorted the letters that they would send for the next two weeks, the ones that they will return, but still, they haven't found the letter that they were looking for. However, Lily opened a letter with no writing on it.

"What is this?" Lily asked Danicia.

"Certainly, my sister would not put an empty paper inside that box," Danicia replied.

"Well, it means, she used invisible ink," Lily said. She took her bag and took out a small ink bottle and a brush. "This can be helpful." She brushed the ink to the piece of parchment and tapped it with her wand three times. Letters started to appear from her wand tip. She read it and said, "I have found the letter we are looking for."

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The next few days became a huge turning point for the pair of matchmakers. They always witness Helena stomping her feet everytime she sees a letter for Matthew. Matthew, however, knew better. The next letters were safely tucked inside his robes and Lily suspiciously believed that he was hiding it from Helena so that he could read it privately. The two also witnessed Melissa's frustration, looking at the letters each day.

"I wonder why Melissa is still like that," Lily said one day. "She doesn't get it that someone took her letters and started to send it to her longtime crush."

"She doesn't know how to look. I only placed some folded parchment inside the box and maybe she got fooled with that," Danicia said.

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Helena stomped her feet as she found her way to the girls' dormitories. She started throwing things this and that way. "I will never allow anyone get Matthew!" she shouted, going through a tantrum worse than Kristanna. Just then, as she happened to throw a vase that hit Melissa's bed, she saw a small box, its contents spilling to the floor. Curiously, she went near it and started to read it.

Melissa ran after Helena because she heard bangings from the room upstairs. "What did that girl do again?" she asked herself. She opened the door of the dormitory and saw the mess. Worse, she saw Helena reading the contents of her private box.

"Helena?" Melissa asked slowly, going near her. That was the end, there will be a blow.

"Melissa," Helena started, looking at her. "Why are you keeping blank parchment?" she asked.

Melissa narrowed her eyes and looked at the other pieces of parchment on the floor. Helena moved over, still crying. Melissa gathered all the contents of her box and looked distressed since the letters were not there. She replaced the box to the top of her bed and pitied Helena more than her letters. She embraced her and said, "Don't worry, Helena, everything will be fine. Even though that means I will never be," her mind added.

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"Do you think this is the right time to send the ace?" Danicia asked Lily.

"Yes. I have contacted Eros about this and he gave me a right time to do it," Lily said, pocketing the piece of parchment which is the letter.

"When?" Danicia asked.

"The Valentine's Ball," Lily said simply. "Speaking of the Valentine's Ball, maybe I have to tell Raven about this. The earlier, the better."

"I don't really know what you're planning, Lily," Danicia said, shaking her head.

"At least Eros can gather as much as a hundred crystals," Lily replied.

"That is, if they are really in love with each other. I even doubt it if Malfoy," she looked across the hall, seeing Malfoy carrying all of Narcissa's books, "really liked Sirius' cousin."

"I don't know and I don't care," Lily replied. "Besides, there are many things that you don't know about my mission. Don't you know that Sirius and Kristanna are already bonded?"

"Bonded? But why is Auriga butting in?"

"Part of the contract or whatever you call it. Now, with Erida trying to destroy everything, we would certainly have the time of our lives," Lily sighed.

"We're battling with a goddess?" Danicia exclaimed with fear.

Lily shook her head. "At least we have two behind us. Actually, we have everyone behind us."

"I don't get it," Danicia replied as they went behind a suit of armor for a detour. "We have everyone behind us?"
"Yes, we have Aphrodite, Apollo, Hermes, and even Zeus, I think," Lily said, counting with her fingers. "They just think that matchmaking is not Erida's forte. Just leave love with the mother and son and she should just go with her stampedes."

"Oh, nasty," Danicia said, smirking. "So, does that mean we also have to get rid of Auriga and Helena?"

"Maybe," Lily said, shrugging.

Lily wrote a letter for Raven that night.

Dear Raven,

Hello. Of course, it's still me, Green Apple. I think it's too rude to ask but can we meet at the Valentine's Ball next week? You know, I'm really excited to meet you. Maybe the Shrieking Shack scares Lady Luck away, that's why we don't meet everytime we try to meet at the place. So, agree?

Green Apple

After she rolled the piece of parchment and sending her owl out the window, another owl came zooming, landing on the windowsill headfirst. "Oh, poor dear," she said, carrying the owl. She saw the letter and read it.

Dear Green Apple,

Well, it's about the Valentine's Ball. If it's okay with you, I mean, if you don't have any partner for the ball, can we meet each other there? Please reply if you agree.

Raven

Lily smiled as she pocketed her letter. "What will I wear for the ball?" she asked herself.

"I won't care if I were you," Danicia said. "I don't have a partner. Are you sure that there are no matches for me?"

"I don't know, Dani," Lily replied. "Eros is so secretive."

a/n: yes, he is. I agree. Anyway, I was thinking of updating next Valentine's Day but I think that would be too long for a hiatus. And please don't expect me to update that fast because there is a possibility that I'll have this depression after seeing my grade this period.

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