Hidden Aria Chapter 3 – Hasty Choices
"Well
I'm going to leave you to sulk, Aria. Maybe you should think about
those people you love and do what you think is best." He said winking at
me as he let himself out.
Why does he have to be so god damn cryptic all the time? Stomping my foot like a little girl, I head off to my room to think.
It
only takes me about ten minutes till I know exactly what I want to do. I
want out of her, I want to see my brother, I want to be myself and not
be locked up here forever. I want to…
That was all it took for me
to make up my mind and at once I was in action. Gathering all my cloths
and a case to carry them, I made hasty choices and got it all secured
and ready to leave. With everything ready to go I take one more look
around my room and then the rest of the place I had been kept in all
these years, a place my father and mother had built just in case the
unspeakable happened.
I opened the metal door and stepped out into the bright sunlight.
"She's gone! What do you mean she's not in there?" How could she be gone? He has to know where she is. "Are you telling me you have no idea where Aria has gone off too? What did you say to her?"
I
stare at him dumbfounded trying to comprehend that she left. She wasn't
through the metal door in the library waiting for me to read to her,
she wasn't cooking or practicing her levitation spell she perfected. No
she was gone!
I listen to him as he tells me exactly what he has
told Aria, his words rattle in my head, twisting and turning the meaning
over and over like dead weight.
"How could you say something like
that to her? You know how she is, she doesn't think before she acts.
She loves her brother; of course she is going to go straight to him. "
"That isn't who I think she meant, Sirius. I don't think she was talking about Harry."
"Then who was she talking about? Who else does she think she loves?"
He just stands there smiling at me, as I'm grasping for straws, trying to think of all the places she would go.
"Dumbledore, we have to keep her safe. I promised James I would keep them both safe."
I have no idea where I'm even going, as I walk along the road, I just know I'm finally free!
I'm missing his company already. No Aria, stop thinking of him! It will
only make it worse. You have to show them that you can take care of
yourself. That you are a grownup and well god damn it, just don't think
about him.
But he's the one I love my subconscious says,
staring me down like she knows what's right for me. I just smirk at her
and hope she shuts up. I know what I'm doing!
I keep my
pace until I can't any longer. I know I will need shelter and some food
soon. So I'm very thankful that I raided my parent's old safe in the
library. I knew I would have to have some kind of money. I just hope
it's enough!
