Chapter
5
Smashed
Melancholy
Hermione wanted
to throttle him. Her anger rattled inside her like a dancing fire inside
a cage.
She wanted
to smack that mocking cheshire-cat grin off his face, wanted to scream
insults at
him until
her throat was raw. She hated the way he toyed with her emotions, and made
her feel
like the prey
of some sleek wild jungle cat. She hated him. And now she could hear him
in the
room above
the kitchens.
“When my baby
smiles at me I go to Rio....De Janiero...” His voice seemed to further
mock
her, dare
her to feel hate and pain and love and anything of nothing. She wanted
to burn the
whole place
down, make him feel her pain, taste the bitter truth of life. The rose
that he had
hurt her with
lay on the floor, looking deceivingly innocent. The charm he had used on
it had
worn off,
and it was no longer black, but had pure white petals, tainted by tiny
droplets of
blood.
“Shades of
grey, blur my reality...” His voice rang clearly, and it seemed like he
was
interpretting
her very thoughts into song. The whole thing had Hermione more than confused.
She felt helpless,
isolated, scared, furious...insane with a mad urge to claw her way back
to a
safe place,
where everything was sugar-coated like candy almonds. He continued to cut
through the
silence with random muggle songs, often pausing to laugh and smash a few
things.
It wasn’t what
he’d done to her that scared Hermione. It was his wild and strange behaviour.
It was the
tinkles of glass on glass or the clangs of metal on everything else. Shades
of grey
began to swim
in front of Hermione’s eyes. The air in the kitchens, which very noticeably
stunk
of onions
and meat, began to smell like that of a tomb, a crypt. Hermione wanted
out of this
grey-on-grey
chaos, and she wanted it now.
a/n: sorry
this chapter was this short. i wanted to make it snappy and powerful, instead
of long and drifty if you
get what i’m
saying. i used someone else's song for that whole Rio thing, but the lyrics
of the other one(shades
of grey) come
from my imagination(as far as i am aware of there is no song with those
lyrics)
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