It never lasts long with them, though. She always leaves. (She always comes back, but she always leaves, first.)

She’s bad when she’s with him and he encourages it with dark smiles and bloody kisses. She loves the way it makes her feel and she feels like if she’s with him, she could be like this-like him-all the time and she would gladly sell her ( Read more... )

After the incident, she told her parents and the Headmaster that, yes, it was she who opened the chamber; that she wrote in the diary and that, yes, Tom wrote back. She even told them some of what he had said, but she couldn’t tell them what happened that last time beyond that she had seen him, if only just for a moment. Those memories were gone.

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