After setting up a couple of pranks in our room, Gareth and I decided to head downstairs to dinner.

It was odd how his behavior took a 180 earlier. It was almost like he was also masking his true feelings... which I already knew. Yet perhaps there was more than I thought there was to him.

"There you are!" A familiar slytherin calls out. "I was looking everywhere for you... two." Sebastian hesitated, saying the last word.

"Where is Ominis?" I ask.

Sebastian shrugs, "I don't know. I'm not required to be by his side the whole trip. Just because he is blind doesn't mean he can't find his own way around." He replies.

I glance over at Gareth, "Didn't you say -"

"Oh, look! They are serving muggle food!" Gareth interrupts, grabbing my arm and dragging me to the buffet.

"Oi, Weasley! Don't just go running off with her when I finally found her!" He calls out,  following us to the line.

I knew Gareth only dragged me over here because he was hiding something. He could have easily fooled me if I didn't know any better... Weasley's do love their food. Yet why did he lie to me, and why is he trying to cover it up?

"Oh hey! It's (y/n)!" I hear Colleen call out. "Would you like to sit with us? Some of the illvormony students wanna meet you." She says, giving me a small smile.

I let a genuine smile go, not that it made a difference to how it normally looks, in my opinion. Yet I was happy to be able to sit with my old friends once more.

Unbeknownst to me, my genuine smile was a lot different than my normal one; and both Sebastian and Gareth caught sight of it. "She will be sitting with us, thank you." Sebastian growls, grabbing my arm.

"Come on, Sebastian, we have all weekend. I can have a meal with the illvormony students - " I start but quickly get interjected.

"I agree with Sebastian. We still need to go over the room arrangement rules." Garreth makes up on the fly.

I glare at the two before spotting Ominis and pointing at him. "Look, there is Ominis. You three can discuss it together! I'm sure you boys can figure something out."

Ominis makes his way over to us, with his wand in hand. "Figure what out?"

"Gareth says we should discuss the bedroom arrangements more. I already put in my preferences when we got here, so you three should be fine." I tell the blonde, hoping he won't let me down for the second time this trip.

Ominis blinks. "I am fine with it just being the three -"

"Yet you don't even know the Illvormony students (y/n) why in Merlins beard would you wanna have dinner with them alone!" Sebastian exclaims.

Ominis's expression changes, "That is rather odd."

I sigh, showing the three boys that I'm clearly getting annoyed. "I have only been around you guys for 3 months! You can say I barely know you guys as well! What's so different about making friends with the Americans and being friends with you?" I exclaim. Letting out a bit of anger and feeling myself be on the verge of tears. I hated it.. after every emotion I feel, real or fake... if it's too much of it.. I always feel the need to cry.

It was silent for a moment, up until Colleen coughed. "How about all four of you come join us? It's just going to be me, Carter, Jay, and Emma. So a table of 8.. plus Emma would be thrilled to see a bunch of atractive hogwarts males sitting with us." Colleen suggests.

It was clear she was trying to make the situation less awkward. Thanks to that suggestion, though, the boys seemed to shut up about me going over there alone. It was either that or an explanation on why they didn't want me to go over there alone. Either way, we grab some food and quietly make our way over to the table.

We all sat down, and the first person to speak was Emma. Now Emma was not one of my good friends when I stayed at illvormony. She talked way too much and flirted way too much. In fact, sitting here at this table with her was not particularly a good idea, knowing she may let some stuff slip.

"Oh my gosh (Y/n)!! I can't believe it's you!" Emma squeals, running over to me and hugging me.

Great, immediate fail. I glance over at Collen, who quickly whispered something in Emma's ear. Which makes Emma's eyes widen and her letting out a giggle.

"I met you when I was overseas, remember?" Emma quickly makes up on the fly.

I hesitantly nod. "I do remember that, Emma! It's nice seeing you again!" I say, looking over at the boys. Making sure they don't seem suspicious... which they totally do.

"I'm surprised I don't see Livio with -"

"WELL, that's enough of that." Carter interrupts. "Emma. Look, there are pretty boys sitting at the table!"

Emma widens her eyes and immediately starts flirting with Ominis, leaving the rest of us to mingle.

"Who is Livio?" Sebastian asks.

I freeze in my seat, out of the whole conversation. That's what he is curious about?

"Oh, he is a boy who was transferred to Azkaban. Emma was curious cause he is also a wizard born in America. The only difference is that he murdered kids at our school." Colleen explains, taking a sip of her drink.

"Why would that girl think (y/n) would be associated with the likes of him?" Garreth asks.

"Cause he was madly in love with her!" Emma chips in, after talking Ominis's ear off.

The entire table felt silent. I did my best to keep an innocent, confused expression while internally screaming at this brunette.
Meanwhile, Colleen and Carter were glaring at the girl, while Jay couldn't care less and was just eating his food.

What terrified me the most, though, was the boys's reactions. There was nothing. Not a single expression change. Just them staring at the airhead of a brunette.

"Kidding!" The girl laughed, clearly intimidated by the twins. "Levio is crazy, so if he was ever in the same town (y/n) is in, that's probably what would happen." Emma says.

Now, this did make the boys have some sort of reaction. Sebastian narrowed his eyes while Gareth widened them and looked over at me. What I was most shocked to see was Ominis, though his face was blank.. his fist was clenched. Why did it matter if some stranger liked me? Perhaps they heard the word crazy and didn't like the fact that someone crazy would like me... I must be full of myself. These are just kids... even if I'm a 20 year old stuck in a 15 year old body.

Wait... can I even consider myself 20 anymore... it's been 15.. I can't go assuming. I shouldn't even assume in the first place. It is wrong. Even if these three are technically older than me here, I can't allow those feelings.

Collen sighs, "Sorry (y/n). I may have to invite you to eat another time. A time when EMMA is awake enough to understand what she is saying." She then shoots a glare ate the brunette who raises her hands in defense.

Quickly, the 4 illvormony students left the table, once again leaving me, with the 3 teenage boys. I don't mind Ominis that much. He seems kind of quite around us, but the other two.. I just don't quite understand what is up with them.

"That was weird." I laugh, trying to make it seem like I didn't understand what was going on.

"Weird is an understatement. That brunette said you knew a crazy wizard who is currently in Azkaban!" Garreth exclaims.

I actually know two, I glance over at Sebastian, but I'll keep that comment to myself. "That girl is clearly not all there. I've met a lot of crazy people in my life. She is included in that list." I reply, taking a bite of a chicken tender.

"Well, for some reason, I feel like she wasn't kidding about that guy being crazy in love with you." Ominis speaks up finally. "So perhaps both her and this 'Levio' fella were in the country when you were."

All of this talk about Levio is getting me really anxious. If they knew what happened. Knew the truth, they wouldn't be using his name so lightly. Or would they? I can't tell if they are genuinely considering or faking it to get more information out of me.. I swore I wouldn't trust no one again.

"Perhaps. I don't remember though." I quickly reply, taking one last bite of my food before standing up.

"Where are you off to now?" Sebastian asks, also standing up.

"I need to talk with Poppy. Please leave me alone to do so." I snap, quickly walking away from the table.

I need a break, I need a break from everything and everyone. I thought a year would have been fine. Searching on my own, until the opertunity of finding answers in Hogwarts arrived. It did, but how was I supposed to know... how was I supposed to know this was the same year as the game. The same characters.. everything. I was hoping to be alone... alone for a long time. Yet now it seems like that won't happen.

I see Poppy and begin to approach her. Now that I am around people it is inevitable. Now that on getting closer to the truth, the more I feel like I'm getting under his control again. I need a way out, and the only way I can do that is to start with a person who knows the very border line of these events. The person who has noticed my sleeping patterns begin to go off of the radar.

I slowly walk towards the brunette, who was conversation with Natty. As I am about to say her name, a wave of darkness engulfed me. I then feel myself pass out.