Lunch Time

It was lunch time and Cecilia was craving the wonderful taste of watermelon. She wondered into the great hall rubbing her baby bump with one hand and holding a piece of licorice up to her mouth as she chewed on it. looking over the tables as she walked up to the second one from the left and taking a seat as close to the door as possible. with a small pout she sighed, the one thing she wanted they did not have. Sadly watermelon was very out of season. "Now what?" She asked looking down at her tummy sadly. She had read in one of the many books that the mothers voice was soothing to the baby and often found herself talking to her stomach.

Nick woke up in the common room around 1o'clock. Nick stood up put on a pair of sweatpants and a purple t-shirt from the floor. He figured that he would start his day off right with pizza and fried chicken. Nick opened the door to the great hall and scared the room for his desired food. He found the pizza but not the chicken. He then looked around the room for any friends and found Cecilia Krum, a friend of his that was pregnant. Nick sat down across from her and said "hey Cecilia how's it goin".

"I don't know," the seventeen year old girl sighed as she sat up a little bit straighter before leaning forward to rest her elbow on the table then propping her chin up in th palm of her hand. "What about you?" Cecilia asked pouting over the lack of watermelon on the table, "find what you were looking for?" She tilted her head to the side making her hair fall from behind her ear and into her face. With a sigh she picked up a grape and poped it into get mouth and looking down the table once again heatedly disappointed in the house elves that worked in the kitchen at this moment.

"I'm good, for the most part" he told her. Nick started on his pizza but looked dissatisfied. "It's bloody cold" Nick told her. Out of anger Nick took the fine glass plate and threw it across the room like a frisbee. The plate smashed against the far wall, nobody would've guessed it was him by how far it went. "I found it, it wasn't good though" he said. "I hate these house elves" Nick exclaimed. "So how's the pregnancy, and the luckey man" he asked her. Nick looked down and noticed he was wearing socks. "Where are my shoes" he asked himself. Nick had been drinking from his stash that he brought to Hogwarts before the year began.

"The pregnancy could be better," Cecilia spoke quietly, "The father will never be around." She said Sorrow clear on her face. "He doesn't even know who I am let alone that I am carrying his children." A few tears formed in her eyes as she spoke, the topic still raw and fresh in her memory. "I don't even know what the man looks like I was floating in and out of consciousness so much that night." She reached up and wiped the tears from her eyes and looked past Nick as the memories replayed for the millionth time in her mind.

"Hey, hey, hey everything will be ok" Nick told her. Nick felt bad for Cecilia, she didn't deserve to be mistreated, a baby with no dad was just horrible. Nick watched as Cecilia started to cry. "Well I'm uh here for you if you need me" he offered. Nick couldn't just sleep with a girl and get her pregnant and leave, Nick would make sure that his child was taken care of. "Well you and your child are better with out him" he said. Nick wanted to cheer her up, "is there one thing I can do to cheer you up, what did you come in here for" he asked. Nick knew that he would end up going down to the kitchens if she asked for food.

"I wanted watermelon but that is way out of season." Cecilia said and thought about how no one knew what had really happened to her over the summer. "But if you wanted to help it might be easier to live with my burdens of my memories if one person knew. If I told you everything would you mind? Would you tell anyone?" She asked him. "No one knows everything just the one who did it all and myself." She hoped telling someone would help her sleep at night and if she could sleep at night it could help the babies.

"Watermelon eh, I'll be right back, then you can tell me, I promise I won't tell anyone" he told her with a smile. Nick never smiled, it was something he rarely did. Nick went upstairs to the boys dorms, put on his soft leather boots that pinched him in the toes when he walked, something that his sister bought him for his birthday, and went out in the blizzard.

Hogwarts always kept out of season fruit in the greenhouse. Nick walked the snowridden path and found himself at the greenhouse door. He turned the doorknob but it didn't open. Nick kicked the door inwards and the wooden door popped open. He looked around for the watermelons and found them. Nick grabbed a sharp metal knife cut the melon in half the cut it again in about 17 pieces. Nick brought out his wand and conjured a platter and put the fruit on it.

Nick walked back into the castle and walked up to the great hall doors. Nick kicked off his boots by the great hall door, he would grab them later, and walked in. Nick sat down the fruit in front of Cecilia. "So now you eat and tell me" Nick said with another smile, he had to stop smiling this is the most he smiled in 3 months.

"Where did you get watermelon?" She asked her face lighting up as she picked up a peice daintily and placeing it on the plate infront of her. "Before I start I'd like to say thanks." Cecilia said and took a deep breath. "It started the day I stumbled into knocturn alley and got lost. Then he found me. He seemed nice at first but then he took my wand and took me to this hidden place deep in a cave. He destroyed me, and as he held me hastge he would only let me out side if I was in a cage and chained to a tree. I tried to escape but I fell off the top of the fence I had to climb to get out of my cage I broke my arm and leg. He took me back into that place and when he was done he dumped me." More forearms formed and she tried to blink them back to keep them from falling. "Then I don't remember much, but there was a dirty old man. He did stuff to my almost lifeless body before leaving me to die. An old friend found me at some point and took me to St. Mungos and soon after I found out that I was pregnant." She spoke quietly and moved machanicly as she told her story slowly and ate the watermelon

"I got it from the greenhouse" he told her. Nick listened closely to Cecilia's story, he didn't want to believe it but he believed every word. Nick was sad that Cecilia lost her honor to a strange man that she didn't know. First came the disbelief then the shock then the sadness. "You say the word and I'll go to knockturn alley and find the bastard" he told her with anger in his voice. Nick didn't like to see when bad things happened into his friends. Nick wanted to leave the castle and find that man and make him suffer, but he had control. Nick wouldn't do anything unless she told him to.