• Dangerous to dream •

• Part 24 - Summer nights •

"Wake up brat!"

I laid there in my bed.

Every night I dreamed of Hogwarts.

And it's magic.

Wandering if it was even still real.

If it was all some dream.

I wanted someone to just take me away again.

Every day still felt so long...minutes felt like hours and hours felt like days.

"HURRY UP!"

Somebody save me from this hellhole.

I groggily stood up.

Over the summer my hair had grown longer and I was starting to get a little more curvy.

I was very skinny though due to my lack of eating.

I was always hungry and at Hogwarts you could eat until you dropped.

I was wearing a shirt that Delilah got from her ex, she didn't see the point in giving his clothes back no matter how much he asked for them...

She just given all his stuff to me.

The shirt drowned me and I wore knee high socks.

I made my way to the kitchen.

I took my wand everywhere I went even if I couldn't use it...it still made me feel safe.

"Okay...I'm going to the town with the girls...what are you going to be doing?"

"I-I'll be doing my chores"

"And those are?"

"Mop the floors, hoover the carpets, wash the windows, dust the cabinets, wash the dishes, iron the clothes and make dinner for when you get back"

"Perfect, if someone answers the door tell them that I'm busy and that your my daughter..."

"Okay"

As she left she given me a harsh slap over the head.

Her rings catching my skin and bruising me.

Then she left.

I began cleaning...it would have been so much easier if I could use my wand but I was too young.

I had thought a lot about the day on the train with Draco.

It was so weird...what he'd said.

Did he really say that I was worth the whole world?

Or was i just imagining it.

And his eyes...they looked...sad?

Glassy almost, like he was crying.

I had to talk to him when I got back.

But what would I even say?

———

Delilah had been out for a very long time...usually she came back at nineish but it was ten...

I made pesto pasta, usually I was only allowed a small bowl but I made a massive amount so I could sneak a huge bowl.

But as I continued to eat my own body weight of pesto I realised that Delilah was extremely late.

It was now eleven, she'd never been out this late.

I wasn't worried obviously, I couldn't care less if she got in trouble.

Delilah thought Hogwarts was just some posh boarding school...she loved the idea of me staying away for an extremely long time except she'd have to cook and clean herself, but she probably just ordered stuff.

I finished up and cleaned the dishes once more.

I wrapped up the rest of the pasta and put it in the fridge.

I stayed up watching some tv in the living room.

My eyes were getting heavy but it was a strict rule that I went to bed when Delilah said so...

But she wasn't back and it was now midnight.

So I just snuck into my bed anyways.

———

Bang bang bang.

Bang bang bang!

BANG BANG BANG!

I jumped out my bed.

What the fuck is going on?

Shit. DELILAH!

I ran to the door to see a wasted Delilah.

Her clothes were hanging off her and her makeup was smudged.

She given me a murderous stare.

"De-Delilah!"

"YOU. LEFT. ME. OUT. THERE!"

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! I didn't think you were coming home! You were late!"

"SO YOUR SAYING THIS IS MY FAULT!"

She slammed the door shut behind her.

She was angry.

"D-d-Delilah! I didn't mean it!"

"YES YOU DID!"

She swung her bag over my head.

I fell onto the floor beneath me.

"GET UP!"

I stood up, my head aching.

"Now...tell me what you did last night?"

"I-I cleaned a-and I made di-dinner and then I waited f-for you, but you never came b-back"

"DON'T LIE TO ME BRAT!"

"IM NOT LYING"

"DON'T YOU DARE RAISE YOUR VOICE AT ME!"

Then she punched me straight in the eye and knocked me out.

Why was I so weak around her?

I could have taken a punch but...My body was just so...tired.

———

It was the day I was going home.

Delilah was still mad at me and made me find my way to kings cross alone.

I had to walk to the nearest train station and get a train close to kings cross then get a bus to kings cross. I had my heavy trolley the whole way.

I was wearing a small black floaty dress and my leather jacket and matching boots that Blaise got me for Christmas I also wore my green friendship beret.

I made sure Delilah hadn't seen them otherwise she'd of binned Them or sold them.

So I had gotten changed in a bush outside the house.

V promised to have gotten all my necessary books and stationery and I promised to pay him back when we met.

I made my way through the platform ticket in hand.

And reached platform nine and ten.

And rattled my trolley through them.

As I got to the other side I could smell the fresh magical air.

And I immediately felt happy again.

Home again.

That's when i spotted a very similar dark green beret.

The same one that was on my head.

I sprinted up to him.

And pushed him a little, he turned round furious until he saw me standing there with a smirk on my face.

"LYDIAAAAAAA"

"VAICEYYYYYYY"

We jumped into each others arms.

"I missed you so so much Lyd!"

"I missed you more V!"

We continued to stay in each others arms.

We placed our trunks away and made our way to a compartment.