For a few agonizing moments, it is completely quiet. Then I hear Tyson groan. “Seriously?” I whispered. Karma clearly hated me. I silently close the cupboard and make a very charming jump for the couch. I pull my legs up and wrap my arms around them just as Tyson appears. He seems furious, but as soon as he sees me, he relaxes. I give him a smile, but inside, I am pretty furious. One more minute and I had been out of here. “What’s wrong?” “I couldn’t sleep.” So far stating the obvious. “Why are you dressed?” “I was cold and I figured that, if I couldn’t sleep anymore, I just as well could get dressed.” I tried to keep my voice light. Tyson sat next to me and wrapped his arm around me. I flinched. My shoulders hurt, just like nearly every part of my body. Seriously, I knew Tyson had issues, but this was insane. “You had nightmares about Harry again?” I flinched. Damn, I seriously need to stop talking in my sleep. “He won’t hurt you, I promise.” Of course he won’t. But you do, I thought. But I held my tongue. Tyson yawned. “You should go back to sleep,” I say. He nodded and got up. “Coming?” He had this compelling look in his eyes, so I nodded too and he took my hand. He left me in the bedroom alone for a moment and I heard the tinkling sound of the keys. Damn, he was probably hiding them. Then, he got back and he started undressing me again. Not again, I begged, but fortunately, when he is done, he just wrapped his arms around me. Well, it was still terrible, but as long as it was just this, I’d survive. I hoped.

I couldn’t sleep anymore, I was just silently cursing. When I was done with that, I allowed myself to cry. I hadn’t done that since… Well, since I left Doncaster. I guess I was too busy escaping, well first my life and then this place. But not until now I realised that I ran away from people that loved and protected me. Seriously, how stupid was that?

Notes

Seriously, the weirdest thing happened yesterday: my mom hummed along with SOML (I was listening it while cooking) and I was like wtf and she said: what, I like that song. And I was like: wtf is wrong with you, you're supposed to ask: where is the time you hated this music? (Yeah, she also likes 'roar'. I seriously don't know what's wrong with her). And when I was in school, working on our GPT project, I caught one of my friends watching BSE, while she claims she doesn't like 1D as well. (And she told me she likes SOML as well B)) Ow yeah, this is prove, they can win over EVERYBODY!!!

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