Won't Let Go. ((Crystal))

[Adrina De Luca]

Gia was pretty much the only thing on Adrina’s mind as turned in her bottled work for potions. Adrina didn’t have the heart to think of anything else. Gia was the only thing she wanted on her mind. It seemed that Danny’s little ‘visit’ was old news, but it wasn’t. It had only been a couple weeks since Adrina was face to face with Danny Lowell. The whole thing was still unclear. It was almost like a dream, but Adrina wasn’t a dreamer. She knew it was reality and she couldn’t change it. She still wondered if Danny would show his face again. It was possible. He seemed pretty determined at the shop that day, but Adrina didn’t care. Danny was never getting anywhere near her daughter. It wasn’t even a possibility. Adrina eyed the dungeons for any sign of Kael, but he didn’t seem to be around. Adrina wouldn’t be surprised if he felt a bit awkward around her after everything but she hoped he didn’t. Kael understood Adrina for some weird reason. Adrina didn’t know why nor did she understand it, but they had some kind of connection. He couldn’t leave her now. She wouldn’t let him. Adrina would never admit it, but she needed him. As a friend, as something. She needed him.

Adrina left the cold dungeons minutes later. Why did it have to be so freezing down there anyways? Thanks heavens she wasn’t in Slytherin. She wouldn’t have been able to handle the cold if she was. It wasn’t exactly a secret that the Slytherin Common Room was in the dungeons. Adrina just didn’t know where. Adrina clutched her shoulders with her arms as she entered the warmth. Finally. She didn’t even look back for a second. The dungeons were her least favorite place in the castle. Adrina had a look of concentration on her face as she moved through the halls. She had never felt more trapped by the castle. Adrina really just wanted to see her daughter. She sighed. She couldn’t. She had permission to go to Hogsmeade on certain days and this wasn’t one of them. Besides, she did have a great deal of Potions homework to do, but it wasn’t important. At least not to Adrina for the time being. She needed something to get her mind of Gia. Anything. Adrina knew that she should have been studying and doing her homework, but that seemed less and less important to her every day. She finally rushed towards the courtyard. She needed a break.

A gust of October wind hit Adrina as she walked out to the courtyard. She didn’t really like the grounds in the fall. Mainly, this was because all of the couples that linger about in the cool air. It really sort of depressed her, but Adrina wouldn’t say that. Nope, she would only say irritate. Adrina preferred the courtyard to the grounds anyways. They were less crowded or so Adrina though. She walked over to a bench and eyed a brick wall. About this point, a normal sixth year girl would put her head in her hands and sob, but not Adrina. She wasn’t that way. She wouldn’t let herself be that way. She couldn’t recall a time that she cried and it wasn’t from an injury. Adrina didn’t feel the need to cry. She never had. Was she supposed to? She didn’t want to be that kind of girl even though she needed to be like that every now and then. But, Adrina was too stubborn to let go. She was too stubborn to let herself fall and she would always be that way or at least she would always make herself be that way.

Adrina felt like sneering at the giggles that could be heard from the Hufflepuff girls that entered the courtyard. Usually, she would ignore their annoying spark, but now she was just focusing on this. It was easier to focus on them than admit that she missed her baby and admit that she wanted to punch Danny. Adrina eyed them for a second, and then looked back to that brick wall. She heard their giggles as she looked a way. She even heard one of them mutter the word ‘baby’. Were they stupid? Adrina knew that she had a baby. What was the point in pointing it out? Usually, this would be the point where Adrina would stand up and yell at them, but she didn’t. She didn’t feel like it. She didn’t even look at them. What was the point? After a minute, Adrina noticed that someone sat down on the bench beside her. Thank goodness this person wasn’t a Hufflepuff. Slytherin, it seemed. “Do those girls annoy you nearly as much as they annoy me?” She asked was a shot of venom in her voice.

[crystal]

Black dress shoes clicked down the stone clad corridors of Hogwarts. The loose black, Slytherin embroidered robes swept out in the back as long thin legs walked briskly down the empty pathway. Hazel orbs stared hard at the ground, refusing to look up or around. Small, milky white, delicate hands held tight to the sides of the robs, a small sliver ring wrapped around the right ring finger. The small green emerald glistened softly, encasing the tiny splinter of wood, a piece of the first wand the Harper family name had ever had. Each and every member of the Harper family received their piece of the wand when they were accepted into Hogwarts. When Crystal had received hers she had been thrilled, the first object that meant anything to her from her family. Her thumb moved slowly over the ring absentmindedly as she thought about what the ring meant to her and her family. The heirloom that proved her blood lineage. It was the only thing that meant anything to her other than her own magic.

The sounds of crashing metal startled Crystal out of her thoughts, her small body jumping greatly as her head shot to the left, hazel orbs changed steadily to brown, as her dark hair whipped around her face. Heart beat wildly inside her flesh as she fought to keep her breathing regulated and calm. As her brown orbs fell across the scene of scattered metal and screaming girls she spotted the red jumpsuit fitted poltergeist swoop down on a few first year girls making them cry and scream harder than they were in the few minutes before that. Crystal cocked her eyebrow up at the ghost and his constant antics to torment students. She shook her head thinking that someone needed to teach that poltergeist a lesson or ban the damn thing from Hogwarts. Of course Crystal didn't really think that could be done, but that wasn't the point. The point of the matter was that he did more harm around the place than good and he should be taken care of.

Crystal's hardened expression seemed to catch the eye of the malevolent spirit and he quickly shrieked in laughter and headed her way. Crystal turned on her heel, tired of the ghosts simple minded games, that still didn't stop him from following after her.
"Cryssy Syssy...On your own and all alone..." Peeves chanted at her back. Crystal rolled her eyes in annoyance. She'd been hearing the same chant ever since she was a first year and Peeves had overheard her talking to her older sister. It had been a conversation she wouldn't have minded forgetting, especially since it put stress on an already strained relationship with her sibling. Ever since that day, ever since she had told her sister how alone she felt, Peeves had taken it upon himself to sing it loud and clear every time he saw her. After the last five years she'd given up on trying to threaten him or scare him, knowing that it wouldn't do any good. As his chant picked up Crystal continued to ignore him and at that point in time a couple second years seemed to have grabbed his attention for he bolted off, down the rest of the corridor starting a loud cackle that reverberated back down to Crystal and past.

Crystal let the soft sigh escape her lips before she ducked out of the corridor and into the small courtyard that stood before her. Brown orbs reverted back to hazel and then continued past till her irises held a soft green color. Her eyes bolted to the ground quickly at the realization that she wasn't the only one in the courtyard that day. Feet carried her to a bench and she found herself sitting on the cold stone, unbeknownst to her that the bench was already occupied a little to her left. The sound of laughing girls and muttered words floated on the soft wind to Crystal's ears and she tried to ignore them, not quite sure who they were talking about or if they were even talking about anything important. It was at this point in time that another voice reached her ears, this one to her left and much closer than the laughing girls. She kept herself from jumping, only barely as darkening orbs turned to look at the girl sitting on the same bench.

Crystal turned her irises back over to the girls and they darkened back to the brown they had been in the hallway as she sized them up. It seemed everyone nowadays were rude. They're simple comments were poison to the ears and as such to the soul. Dark orbs turned back upon the girl beside her. "I would not worry about what they have to say, most do not seem to realize what they say," Crystal said softly. She closed her eyes for a few seconds, opening them to reveal cobalt eyes as she ran her digits slowly through her hair, combing through the few tangles that had appeared in the last few minutes from the soft breeze.

[Adrina De Luca]

Adrina could still hear the girls and their giggles. She was extremely close to pouncing on them and telling them to shut-up, but she bit her tongue just in time. That’s usually exactly what it took to keep her from saying something that she would never regret. Would saying those things hurt her? No. But, those little girls were bound to snitch to someone and Adrina really didn’t feel like explaining her actions to a teacher. Most of them already knew of her quick tongue and sometimes bitter ways. Adrina eyed the girls. If her eyes could shoot fire, the girls would have already been obliterated to ashes. Usually, the things they said didn’t bother her. But, since Danny’s reappearance, Adrina had more time to think about the silly things since she didn’t want to ponder the serious ones. She could have been asking herself if Danny would return and what she would do about it then, but she didn’t. It was much easier to focus on the petty little girls. If she could do this for only a while longer, she would feel better. It was easier to focus on this.

Adrina eyed the girl as it seemed that she had frightened. “Didn’t think that I would startle you.” She said calmly. It was like her to apologize, so she didn’t. The girl was probably thinking about other things, but Adrina had been too preoccupied to notice. Adrina nearly rolled her eyes as she looked at the girls. “They realize what they’re saying. They know it’s true and so do I. I’m just tired of hearing something that I already know.” They were giggling again. Man was Adrina glad that her wand was safely in her bag and out of her reach. She didn’t need a detention. She hadn’t had one since her third year and she didn’t want to break her streak. She just eyed them with that same venom in her eyes that she always had. It was something that she had learned all her own, her vicious look. Aria blamed it on Adrina’s lack of parents, but Adrina didn’t feel like she lacked them at all. She had always had parent figures. They just weren’t her real parents. She didn’t see the problem in that.

“They’re not as stupid as they let on.” Adrina told the girl. “They’re just ignorant.” She said letting her gaze drop from them. For now, she was tired of obsessing over it. Adrina looked to the girl. “I’m Adrina by the way.” She said, slightly informally. “You’re a sixth year, I recognize you from classes and a Slytherin it seems, but there I go stating the obvious.” She stated plainly. Adrina was just pleased that the girl wasn’t jumping down her throat all ready as some of the other Slytherin girls would be doing if they were there. Adrina sighed as the Hufflepuff girls finally walked away. “I should get over that I’m an easy gossip target, I’ve just been easily stirred recently I guess. It’s not fun to say the least.” Adrina looked to the girl. Adrina never had a problem with talking to people she didn’t know. True, she wasn’t the friendliest person around, but she could keep a conversation going. Adrina looked at the girl as she waited for her to respond.