The Secret Twin: Chapter 19

For a while, everything seemed to go back to the way it was before, settling in to a picture of somewhat normality. I would tease Ivan and Selena about their not-so secret crush on each other as their faces would turn the colour of Sirius’s scarlet sludge bombs back at home. Our lessons became more harrowing and lengthy, but we barely noticed. Christmas preperations had the whole school on the edge of their seats, counting the days until the big day. In our little spare time, the three of us would play in the snow, watching and laughing as the specks of white twirled and hovered in the cool air before gently floating down and settling into the blanket of snow beneath our feet. On a few sparse occasions, we would visit Hogsmeade and sit by the warmth of the crackling fire as we sipped our frothing mugs of butterbear. Yet every night I lay, swaddled in my thick blanket, a million thoughts rushing through my head. I knew that this couldn’t last. Something had to happen. Little did I know that that ‘something’ would come much sooner than I ever anticapate…