Mirror
 

Behind the mirror is a secret passageway. Unfortunately it doesn't lead anywhere because of a cave in.

Arianna walked to the mirror and gazed at her own reflection. She frowned a little and her nose was all wrinkled from concentration. Was she supposed to see Rafe on the reflection maybe? He told her to meet him there, that it was a secret passageway, but she couldn't see anything unusual about it.

She sighed and looked around, no sign of him as well. He had been acting awfully odd these past days, he looked so troubled all the time. She sighed again and decided to wait there, by the mirror, to distract herself, she took a little book from her pocket, it was a elementary charms book that she had requested from the library.

Arianna heard her name being called very lowly, she looked around for the source and recognized Rafe's hiss at the same time his head popped from behind the mirror. She hurried inside with him, laughing as well. The passageway was quite big, but part of it seemed to have collapsed. She took a minute to look around before talking to him. " Well, hey you, you couldn't have thought of a less... I don't even know what to call it, this looks so much like trouble, a secret passageway... in fact, this looks just like you!" she exclaimed, poking him on the shoulder, and taking a proper look at him. Again, he had that sort of troubled look on his face, even with his mocking expression. " So... why did you need me with such a hurry? Are you planning to do something wrong..again?" she asked him sitting on the floor, hugging her knees.

Arianna was taken back by the serious look on Rafe's face. He was pacing, and talking and all she could do was blink, her huge lashes, behind her glasses, in sort of a trance. She was spoked by his sudden seriousness "Ok OK OK!" she said closing her eyes, trying to understand all he had just said " Unbreakable vow?! What did you do? Break your mum's favourite jar or something?" she said, half smiling a pathetic attempt of a joke. It fell from her face as she saw his worried face.

"I have to guess then?..." she scratched her chin. What could be so bad that his mother had him swear not to tell anyone... "Let's play a game... Is it about you or someone or something??" she asked, trying to concentrate. Rafe's look was so intense, she felt her cheeks heating, he was really trying to make her understand.

"Ok, good, it's about you, directly" she said nodding thinking hard " Did you do something? Did someone did something to you, or doesn't it have anything to do with doing something?" she asked. This was hard. She had no idea what she was supposed to guess, it could be anything.. but to have his own mother make an unbreakable vow... she shook her head a little.

"Did you kill someone?!" she exclaimed. If he did, it would make total sense for her to be so shocked that she would not want to speak to him ever though that didn't really scare her, she knew Rafe, is must have been an accident, maybe defending someone or defending himself... she chuckled a little, she always had her big sisters for that, to take care of her business, her mother usually was torn between being amused and serious on those situations, maybe that was because she had to play the father as well, and boys always loved a good old fight.. father? " Does it have anything to do with your father?" she asked, leaning to his direction. That must be it, his father must be a convicted criminal, rooting in Azkaban, that's why he never speaks of him..

Genetically ? "Does he have some sort of contagious disease, that you now have? Are you telling me I'm going to get sick?!" she said covering her mouth with her hands in panic. This is so stupid! " Rafe tell me already, for Merlin's sake, is it that bad?! What what is it!? Are you some kind of monster?!?!?" she said punching the ground with her fists, and getting up, not realising her own words. She was really beginning to get scared with whatever it was he was trying to tell her.

Arianna froze on her spot. Monster? That made no sense "that was a joke, I didn't mean it.. I..." she said looking at him "I know you're not a monster, you can't be right?" she said half laughing, waiting for him to burst into laughter with her. But there was nothing but silence " monster?" she whispered, her book-worm-knowledge kicking in " are you a.." she wondered if it could be true " a vampire?"

ooc: :shifty::lmao:

Arianna laughed. Well, that had been a pretty stupid guess, but whatever, she had to try right? " You give me no choice but to be absurd.." she said shrugging. She could feel his heartbeat under her hand. She smiled at him, trying to be reassuring " You're so nervous, Rafe, no matter what you're trying to tell me, you're my friend, I can deal with it" she said with a wink.

"What I called you at Diagon Alley?" she said frowning, that had been quite a while ago " what? Dogboy ?" she said with a smirk that instantaneously fell from her face. Dogboy? " werewolf?!" she exclaimed taking her hand from his chest.

"Ding! Ding! Ding! You win a prize," he said a bit like a show host. He felt like finally this huge weight had been lifted off of me. "And to top it off I think this Theodore Newington guy knows, but Professor Lupa thinks he's just speculation, but then I was up at the Owlery the other day and there's this Prince guy who's goal is to round up werewolves in hiding and send them off to this rehabilitation whatnot!" Rafe was sounding more and more like himself, like he was talking to a friend, a friend that he still didn't know she would fully except him. "You're the only one that knows, except for Professors Lupa and Kazimeriz. I had to tell someone, it was killing me inside. It was killing me keeping this from my best friend." His eyes were a little glossy, but no tears fell. "And if it makes you feel better, I'm just half!"

ooc: this is familiar :shifty:

Arianna's brain was still digesting the truth when Rafe started babbling all that he had been keeping inside, obviously. " wait wait wait wait, wait up!" she said raising her palms at him " someone is trying to round you up?" she felt anger rising up inside of her. How dare someone treat my best friend like a beast?!! " Who is that boy? I'll smack him around for good!" she said with a fist in the air, her hair waving electrically around her. All the shock and rational reactions were forgot in her brain. She should be afraid of him, right? She should feel something, but she couldn't all she could see was Rafe, her best friend, and the werewolf part, even if it was just half, sort of made sense, he had something other boys didn't have, maybe that was it.

Arianna's arms were stretched on her sides as Rafe squeezed her "My head, might pop out like this" she breathed out, feeling relief when blood rushed to her heart. " So you get a bit moody every month, I hear most woman do too " she added stucking her tongue out at him " I wonder if you're not part woman instead.." she teased. She was laughing happily. Now a lot of things made sense, one of them being that insane beard he had at only 11!
"An Astronomy Club?" she asked excitedly " That sounds fun! Is is completely against rules, like Harry Potter did on his time, that Dumbledore's Army thing?" she asked viewing in her head the pages of Harry Potter, the life of a hero biography " I read he made one as well, to fight against Voldemort when no one believed them and they had the lousiest teacher ever, Dolores whatsherface .." she said babbling comfortably. She thought about it for a second. Who would she invite, she didn't really know anyone that well...

Arianna nodded "you're right he is kinda of a freak.. count me in!" she agreed. She nudged him back " Enough with you and ladies, what's your deal anyway ?" she mumbled, looking away.

She thought about his question for a second. Did she have questions? A lot.
" Now that I know, are you free to speak freely with me? Doesn't the vow apply anymore? How is it, to be half werewolf? Why did you never met your father? Is that why your mother looks like someone stuck a fork on her -" and she covered her mouth, scared that she might have offended Rafe.

"I knew I had heard your name somewhere before!" she said, remembering one of her old history books " I knew that story, but I never considered it like being true... " she frowned a bit, she had to know better than that, after all she was a witch " I mean, Zeus and all, I didn't really think it had happened, but now it makes sense..." she sat next to Rafe, shoulder to shoulder " if you like, I could help you with some research, I have resources.." she said with a wink, her family's little secret, an entire magic attic full of wizarding world books, from all generations of Trazzi woman, left to the older daughter, her mother. " You see, it's not only you who descends from a neat family" she said playfully elbowing him " my family was very important in Italy, and because of that we have a little private library" she sighed and shot a few more questions " I really hope I didn't offend you, but your mum always seems so... cautious! So you don't really know anything about your father's side of the family then...Tell me more about that boy, is he trying to black mail you or something?" she was very curious to know all about this new side of Rafe.

Arianna laughed with Rafe, so much, she was getting out of breath. " That was a good punishment" she agreed, taking her glasses of and cleaning a few tears from her eyes " but oh well, I'll help you in your research and I'll go to those Astronomy thingies, and glue myself to you so you can never get awayyyyyyy" she sang hugging Rafe back. It had been a long time since she had been with him, and she hadn't made really good friends.

" And Theodore... wait for me" she threatened rubbing her hands and chuckling sarcastically under her breath. She peeked from the corner of her eye and smiled broadly.