HP Bella's Lie

20 - the future of two people

As soon as Riddle returned home, he secretly inspected Bella's room in detail.On a dark and windy night, the pearl earrings were ingeniously embedded in the chandelier in her bedroom without anyone noticing.If you don't look closely, the pearl earrings and crystal chandelier are almost perfectly integrated into one.

The next night, after the impenetrable silence, Riddle waited another twenty or ten minutes of his customary caution before entering Bella's room.

She has left.

Taking off the earrings from the chandelier, he couldn't wait to go back to the room to check.

Pearl Earrings dutifully started replaying what happened an hour ago.

There was no one in the room.They were probably still eating at that time, and the whole image was a still scene of Bella's bedroom.Although it was terribly boring, Riddle persisted for more than half an hour for some reason.

Finally, Bella walked into the bedroom.Riddell cheered up.

In the video, Bella was processing documents in the bedroom as usual, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.However, after a while, she took out something like a pocket watch out of nowhere, and the pearl earrings couldn't record its complete appearance due to the viewing angle.But Riddle saw sharply that it was strung on a silver chain that hung around Bella's neck.

--No wonder.No wonder he couldn't find it all the time, it turned out that she kept it close to her body.

As he expected, Bella gripped it tightly and disappeared in place.

Everything is clear now.

The thing in the storage ball is the pocket watch. After Bella discovered its abnormality one day, she broke the storage ball emotionally, and the pocket watch fell out. She didn't put it back, but made it into a portkey Carry.Then start to use it to go to a fixed place every day and do something that has to be done.

The next thing he needs to do is to find that place, find out exactly what she did, and why he can't let him know.

Bella lingered in front of Riddle's door for a long time.

Whenever she tried to imagine the scene after she left, she couldn't help but fell into a self-struggle.

Want to find someone who can accompany him.But when she really considered the candidate, she felt that no one was worthy to stand by his side. He was so unique and incomparable. Imagining anyone with him made her feel unacceptable...

Maybe... yes, she admits, maybe what she really can't accept is the possibility that he will really walk through every fateful node that is crucial to him in the future or the ordinary years of ordinary life with another person.

Once he thought of such a scene, his chest felt like someone had punched him hard, causing bursts of pain.Barely reminded her of her secret selfishness.

her selfishness.

The selfish desire to be with him.

From the first lie, it became more and more arrogant, like a runaway wild horse, a river breaking its embankment, and it was out of control.

The person who wants to accompany him is himself, and he is no longer alone.

How logical it was originally two wishes that complemented each other.But when she was about to disappear, it became an incompatible extravagant wish.

She had silently begged for his forgiveness countless times, forgiving her own selfish lies; countless times...until she had regarded her selfishness as a dream and insisted on it.

But now, she can no longer continue to be selfish for granted.

Can't let his life be entangled by loneliness and loneliness.

She couldn't be more selfish.Because...she loves him.

His pain, more than any difficulty could break her, more bone-eating than any curse.

Bella forced herself to knock on the door.

"Please come in."

Pushing the door open, Riddle was reading a book under the lamp.

Bella sat on the edge of the bed and said, "What are you looking at?"

Riddle: "The properties of halogens. Have you ever understood them?"

Bella: "Well...about a year ago. It's been a while, but you know, I'm not very interested in chemistry."

Riddle smiled slightly: "Yes, you prefer the principles of electrical machinery. That's not bad, we just complement each other, don't we?"

Bella couldn't help rubbing his hair: "You're right."

After the chat, she cleared her throat and suppressed the strange mood.

"Do you...do you have any better friends?"

Riddle was a little strange when she asked her.

"Better, to what extent? You know, although I don't like Muggles, there are a lot of people at school who want to meet me, and I have quite a few friends."

"No...not that level of friends. I mean, be special, different from your other friends." Bella knew his definition of "friend". They are his loyal "friends", but she knows that these "friends" will never enter his heart.

Riddle looked a little confused.

Bella continued to guide him: "Maybe the difference is not that big... Let's put it this way, if you had to choose someone to spend your birthday with, who would you be more accepting of?"

Riddle was a little dissatisfied. Although he didn't understand the situation very well, he insisted firmly: "Only you! Bella, I can't bear to have a birthday with anyone, except you!"

"Oh..." Bella's eyes were a little hot, and she suffered as much as her heart was shaken.Riddle's strong and sharp eyes radiated a light that she could no longer look at directly. Bella couldn't help but hugged him, muttering to herself: "Thank you...thank you...I'm very happy..."

Riddle slowly hugged her back, the fog in his heart getting thicker and thicker.

——Is what she said today related to that truth?

It seemed he had to speed up his progress.His intuition told him that something upheaval was about to happen, and the result would definitely not be to his liking.

Bella suppressed the surging emotions and continued to ask: "Then lower the requirements... If you could turn a Muggle into a wizard, who would you choose?"

This assumption became much clearer, and a candidate immediately popped up in Riddle's mind: "If you have to choose, my front desk."

"The front table...if I remember correctly, it's called...Front?" Seeing him nodding, Bella couldn't tell whether she was disappointed or relieved, "It's him..."

Riddle had mentioned his name to her, and he was said to have sparked his interest in thermal weapons.

"Well. Although he is a Muggle, Fronter is different from those kids who don't do their jobs all day long. He was influenced by his parents who were scientists since he was a child, and he likes to study some interesting science by himself. His knowledge and ability are not as good as those of the group of final-term students. The idiot Muggles who can't even get outstanding are not on the same level." Riddle said with a look of a little adult, "If anyone has a talent for being a wizard, it is him."

Although no one said that a wizard must be a genius with a superior IQ...but Riddle obviously felt that this was necessary.

Bella said: "In this case, let's invite him to our house as a guest? I also want to meet friends who are recognized by you."

Riddle was a little taken aback: "I agree? I don't agree with him. That guy just knows a little more than other Muggle kids, but he's still very naive." Enough of the childish behavior of the school's "little kids".

"Okay, I'm wrong." Bella comforted, "It's a special kind of Muggle, and I want to meet Muggle kids who have a different perspective. Okay?"

"...Well, if that's what you expect." Riddle agreed after a while with a stinky face, muttering, "That childish brat... really got shit luck..."

Bella was amused by his rare willful appearance, and patted him on the shoulder comfortingly: "Okay. Continue reading, don't be too tired."

"Ah."

She left the room.

Riddle looked at the closed door.

When he hugged her just now, he saw it.

The silver chain of the pocket watch hung around her neck.

Covered by clothes, it is usually difficult to notice.He didn't even appear on the jewelry rack next to the laundry basket when he was taking a bath, and they hadn't bathed together since he entered the Muggle primary school and life became normal.

If the Portkey is so close to him, how can he get it... He must know where it points...

And today's business.

Did Bella really want to meet his friends as she said?Or does it have to do with the truth about the Portkey?

If possible, the last thing Riddle would want to question was Bella.But as the truth approached, he increasingly had an uncomfortable premonition.

There are indications that what Bella is hiding is not a trivial matter.

That is most likely related to his and her... future.

Maybe it's a future where even Bella, who is powerful in magic and has returned from the other side of time, can't do anything.

This was what he had thought for a long time, the best possible possibility that Bella had gone to great lengths to hide from him.

Perhaps he should be deterred in the face of such a possibility, but the surging emotions in his heart that cannot be ignored are full of anxiety, worry, and even madness.

How is it possible... If this is the truth, how can it be impossible to stop!

He must find out the truth!If it's too late, then go straight to a showdown with Bella and ask her to tell him everything!

He wants to prevent that possible ominous future!He wanted to prove his hunch foolish!