Chapter 23
"You'll try to reveal what should remain hidden, you'll try to incite people to learn from the past and rebel, but they will refuse to believe you. They will not listen to you...You'll possess the truth, you already do; but it's the truth of a madman."
- Elie Wiesel
"Harry, don't be foolish." Hermione said, "I have been busy that's all."
"Busy seeing another guy?" Harry asked.
THUNDER!
It started to rain all of sudden while Hermione eyes widen. How can Harry say something like that?
"You think I'm cheating on you?" Hermione stammered still shock that Harry would flutter something like that out. "I'm not cheating on you, Harry! You have to believe me!" Hermione yelled.
"Then what have you been doing for a month!" Harry yelled back.
"I can't tell you." Hermione whispered putting her head down. "But trust me; I'm not cheating on you, Harry. I love you!" Hermione cried again looking up at him.
"If you love me, then you will tell what you have been doing." Harry said.
Hermione stepped back from Harry, tears beginning to burst any minute.
"You don't believe me?" Hermione asked, "Harry, I fell in love with you for such a long time. Please, Harry…..please you have to believe me." Hermione pleaded.
"I'm sorry." Harry said, and then he turned his back around, "I don't know you anymore."
Hermione started to burst into tears covering her mouth, trying not to make any noise. But she couldn't stop crying, her heart was torn into pieces.
"I thought of you of all people, would understand not to hurt me. I actually thought we were going to get married after school like my parents." Harry said, "I guess I was wrong. I was so wrong."
"Harry…..stop, you're breaking my heart." Hermione pleaded as she was backing away.
"It's over." Harry said.
That was when Hermione exited out of the Gryffindor common room and started running forgetting that it was dinner. Hermione's heart was broken and nothing could fix that. Hermione stopped running when she started to hear two familiar voices near by; the broken witch hid behind a statue and saw Rafael and Sammy talking.
"I can't take this anymore!" Sammy yelled, "I can't take this job anymore!"
"Will please stop yelling. Someone is going to hear you." Rafael said. "Harry and Hermione is a couple and you have to deal with it."
"I can deal with it. I can't even deal pretending to be sixteen anymore Moony." Sammy said, "I have to….I have to take this stupid ring off."
Sammy and Rafael took off their rings and transform back into their adult self.
"It's not about Harry and Hermione, Remus." Sirius said, "My crush for Hermione is over. I just can't deal lying with Hermione."
"You and me both." Remus said, "But we promised Harry and Ron that we can't tell them Hermione or anyone else for that matter."
Hermione's heart was beater faster by the minute. Rafael and Sammy? Remus and Sirius? They're the same people. Hermione couldn't believe it; Sammy was just like Sirius, the flirt of the school and Rafael was the kind and sweet bookwork who would disappear when the full moon comes.
"I kissed Sirius Black!" Hermione thought, "I told Remus what I thought about him and Sirius!" Everyone knew about them, everyone but her. Everyone lied to her, Remus and Sirius lied to her.
Hermione couldn't breathe. She felt like she was trapped inside a little box and nobody could save her. Hermione turned to look at Sirius and Remus and saw that they transform back to Rafael and Sammy. The two "teenagers" left to go back to the Great Hall, not knowing that Hermione was watching them.
Hermione wasn't thinking at all what she was doing. All she could hear was Harry's voice telling her that he didn't believe her and Remus and Sirius's voice turning into Sammy and Rafael's voice. Hermione ran outside of the school grounds, not caring about the rules, the professors, nor the fact that it's raining.
(Song playing- "Lithium" by Evanescence)
As Hermione was running, she could hear the sounds of creatures living in the dark forest as she ran along its edge. She circled around Hagrid's hut, and darted in between the tress, not once falling on tree roots or bushes that blocked her way, and soared gracefully over a fallen tree stump and skidded to a half, fallen leaves spraying up around her. She raised her head, looking about in the dim light that filtered in through the foliage above her head and the rain drops falling down.
Hermione closed her eyes, her head still raised up. She didn't care if she was in the middle of the Forbidden Forest or that she was somewhere else, but wanted to feel the earth's tear on her body. Hermione untied the ponytail, her long curly hair was released, the rain making her hair, and clothes soak.
"Hermione….." a voice whispered.
Hermione turned around, her hair splashed over her face.
"Hermione…." The voice said again but in a colder and darker tone.
"Who's there?" Hermione yelled.
"Hermione….."
"Show yourself, you coward!" Hermione yelled again but this time searching for the voice in the rain.
"You have been thinking about me." The voice said, "I know you have. I have been watching your every move….every day…every night."
"Now you're starting to creep me out." Hermione muttered under her breath, "What do you want with me?"
The voice didn't reply but two Death Eaters appear. Hermione took her wand out and was about to yell out a spell, but a Death Eater beat her to it.
"Experlliarmus!" yelled the Death Eater and Hermione's wand flicked away from her hand.
Hermione backed away slowly and was about to run but a Death Eater's hand covered Hermione's mouth making her the inability to talk.
(Songs continues on the next chapter)
