And then there she was, standing right behind him, a small smile on her face. She looked paler than before, though not translucent. Her fragile body looked lighter, a little more feeble, but she was there.
"You know, it's not best to dwell on things like this," she whispered in his ear, wrapping her arms around him from behind.
The boy gasped as he felt tears sting his eyes he turned around and hugged her while still on his knees. He rubbed his cheek against her stomach and closed his eyes.
The girl giggled, and it echoed in the chill air of the outdoors. "I've told you at least a billion and one times, don't call me that." However, she looked down at him and smiled. Padma reached her hand to his head, ruffling his hair playfully. "I'm here," she whispered consolingly.
"Don't leave please...no thing's worth doing any more." He whispered as he continue to hold onto her like a kid would a teddy bear during a terrible nightmare.
She shook her head. "I can't be here forever, but I can at least stay a little while." Padma raised his chin up with her fingertips. Though frail, Padma was powerful. "Come on, cheer up. You're making me sad," she told him. "I worry about you."
Aldrick looked up at her his blue eyes filling up with tears and his face red. "But...what can I do without you? Nothing's worth it any more...no one believe in me...I don't believe in me."
"I believe in you," she whispered to him. Padma gently ran her thumb over the skin just below his eye, brushing a stray tear away. "You need to learn to let go."
"I don't want to..." He said and held onto her even tighter than before. HE shook his head from side to side hard. "It's not worth it, you gave me reason to do things...now...what future do I have? I'll probably become a stripper and lie for a living."
Padma suddenly wretched his arms off her and plopped down next to him. Staring at him, the girl sat, kneeling. "You can still do it. If you would just learn to believe in yourself, you can do it. That's what I've been telling you all along."
"To what point and purpose Padma!? You're gone!" He shouted and then slammed his fists on the floor once more. In front of others he never expressed his anger towards the situation, he was calm and quiet, which contrasted with his usual extravagant ways of dealing with things. "What's the point? I don't care enough for myself..."
"You were the only one that ever thought that..." He said as he laid back on the grass and saw as Hogwarts exploted, from this angle it looked like fireworks were going off. All of the sudden he sat up. "Can you tell me who...."
Padma stood up, staring up at the sky with a sadness on her face that no one else could manage but her. She wordlessly shook her head. After a few seconds of silence, she told him, "Someone stunned me from behind, and I remember waking up on pavement. And then everything went green."
"You know, it's not best to dwell on things like this," she whispered in his ear, wrapping her arms around him from behind.
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