THE TROUBLED ONE
“Hello there, my love” he smiled at Harry, who silently approaches him and he notices that he was rather sad.
“What’s wrong, my love? Are you alright?” He intimately rubs his cheeks.
“I think they’re fighting” and he immediately knew who he was talking about ‘damn, my stupid parents can’t even do a simple job’ he was mad at his parents for making his love sad.
“How do you know they’re fighting?”
“I just feel it and I think it’s my fault Tom, but I didn’t mean to.” He shouldn’t ask for more from his Papa, and now both of them are fighting. He wants to cry, but he knew crying wouldn’t solve anything, he should have shut his mouth but he saw how happy his Papa was during their time being together.
“Hush love,” Tom kissed Harry on the forehead, “it’s not your fault, and don’t worry everything will be alright, it makes me miserable seeing you sad.” He dramatically places his right hand in his chest where his heart.
“Tom, I’m so sorry” Harry hurriedly comforts his friend, and he doesn’t want him to be sad.
“It’s alright, love.” he grinned at him, “come now, I know how to make you feel better.” He began to guide Harry towards his room.
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Shit! Shit! He shouldn’t have done, but it was just a game. Everyone cheats, and he didn’t do anything illegal. There is no harm in what he did, that kid deserves it and it was a normal thing to do. It didn’t harm him physically, but still, the man he called ‘Papa’ was frightening. And what’s even worst was he was ‘Thomas Riddle’ damn! Shit!
Who would have thought that the Riddle man would step on that place? He was a filthy rich person, and he’s the type of person who won’t take any interest in the park. When he first came, everyone told him not to mess with Riddles because they would take you to the abyss of hell. His boss told him that, even the police had warned him.
After the incident happened earlier, his boss came to him and kicked him out because he doesn’t want to get involved. He quickly packed all his things and put them on his truck. He needs to stay as far away from this town as possible. He started the truck nervously and drove away in a hurry, feeling that someone would come to him at any time.
When he left the town, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, only to hear a loud noise, he lost control. His truck drove deep into the forest. No matter how hard he tried to step on the brake, it wouldn’t work and all he can do is to avoid any trees and not get crashed.
“FUCK!” he went left to right and right to left, avoiding all the trees ahead of him until he hit hard some of the trees. He groans in agony and notices his surroundings, and everything seems dark except his headlight, he tries to move, but his whole body was aching.
“HELP! Please help me!” He is in a remote area however, he is still calling for help, maybe someone will hear his voice.
Then he thought of his cell phone, picked up the cell phone, but there was no signal and threw it out angrily. He can’t do anything but scream for help and keep pressing his car horn. After a while, he heard the sound of someone's engine, and he hurriedly presses the car horn to notice him.
“Please help me! I’m stuck!” he desperately screams.
“What the-” He heard a voice of a man, and he was finally relieved to be saved. “I’ll pay you! Please help me!”
“You’re still awake? Dammit, such a hassle” he has no idea what this stranger man was talking about. “Never mind, I’ll just have to knock you out.”
“W-wait! I’ll give you anything!” He felt something was wrong “Please!” it was dark, and he can’t see the stranger, but he knew the man was big.
“Shuddup! You make my job difficult!” He was hurriedly grabbed out of the truck by the stranger and fell to the ground.
“What did I do?” His legs were useless, and all he could do was to crawl away from him.
“You make little Harry sad, and my master was furious and told me to get you.” Before he had time to deal with what the stranger was saying, everything went dark.
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Later that night, when Vernon went home after he went to his office.
“Pet!” Vernon excitedly went home after his work in his office.
“What is it? And where’s the freak?” She was not in the mood to talk with her husband.
“Get rid of your foul mood because I have good news for us!”
“And what’s that?” She put her hands on her hips.
“This morning when I went to get the freak,” he leans towards his wife, “and then Mr. Riddle offered me a sum of money for that boy.” Petunia was surprised.
“Are you sure? That freak?” That was highly impossible if Mr. Riddle did that. There’s nothing special about that boy, only his property was left by his parents.
“Yes, I am sure,” he convinced his wife, “I even confirm it to make sure.”
“What about his fortune?” She doesn’t mind throwing away the freak but, his fortune is the most important. She knew that Potter was wealthy in her Hogwarts days, after all, she had listed the rich, and those were just poor dirt.
“Never mind his fortune, and I bet he doesn’t have much.” He claimed.
“I see,” she responds nervously “so how much did he offer?”
“He said that I can name my price,” his eyes were shining, “imagine that if we ask him how much we wanted, then it would be great!”
“Oh, dear!” She can’t believe what she heard from him, and are they willing to pay them just for that freak? “But why would they do that? What do they want from him?”
“I don’t give a shit on what will they do to him,” he shrugged “as long as they pay us, I don’t mind.”
“Well then,” she was excited about the mention of money as long as they pay them, she doesn’t mind what will happen to that freak. Even if they sold him to slaves or sold some of his organs. Even if they kill him, she won’t mind.
“We should start processing his guardianship papers so that we can get our money.”
“Tomorrow, I’ll go to the court to get the papers.”
“We should hurry it up” Vernon smiled at her and nods “he only gave me this week, and we should hurry, or else he might change his mind, and we don’t want to miss that opportunity.”
“Vernon, I’m so excited! I wonder what I should buy?” she delightfully shrieked “an expensive bag or shoes or dress?”
“We buy everything we want!” He should use the money to grow his company.
“But how much do you think we will ask them?” She hoped that the boy would cost much so she can have luxurious things like Merope had.
“He said ‘name my price’ well, then I’ll ask him a hundred million!” He yelled proudly, and his wife stared at him.
“That’s too much! What if the boy isn’t worth that much?” Vernon just laughed at her.
“It’s alright! They are wealthy people, and money isn’t an issue to them.” He explained to her. Thinking of this, she smiled viciously at her husband.
“Then, there’s no problem!” She clapped her hands “and shows our neighbors that we are not poor dirt like them and we are something more.”
They laughed at their goals in life. They will be as rich as the Riddle family. No one will look down on them, and everyone will respect them and treat them better. Immediately afterward, they suddenly felt a chill in their backs and held their breath for a while. Both of them don’t know why they felt that way, and it feels like there’s a bad omen that will happen soon.