Chapter 227 Different Heartbeats (2)
The Model Department's activity room in the South Tower is the highest place in Durmstrang, and the layout of this activity room is as conspicuous as the office of the department's instructor, Lydia Abate.
In Durmstrang during the long winter, only the outer walls of this activity room on the top floor are always covered with flowers and greenery, and the inside is filled with warm light and colorful flowers. Basically everyone who has been here will call it Durmstrang's paradise.
Sadolin also likes this place very much, because it is full of various warm colors that she had rarely seen before but now loves, and there are many people gathered around her. Even if she doesn't participate, she still likes this kind of liveliness.
Lytia was very dissatisfied with the fact that Sadolin was satisfied so easily. She was a proud child and she thought that Sadolin, who was outstanding in appearance, should also have that pride.
The beautiful Professor Abate is well-known for her appearance at Durmstrang. She is very keen on discovering children in the school and is obsessed with the process of cultivating their temperament. Currently, Sadolin is the child that she and the entire model department pay the most attention to.
"Why don't you get closer, Sadolin?" Lytia straightened her body, raised her chin slightly, and used her magic wand as a teaching stick to touch Sadolin and the boy next to her shoulders, who were deliberately keeping a distance. "We are going to take pictures today."
Sadolin blinked and did not refute. She was wearing a black one-shoulder dress with a flower-shaped hem. She just pursed her lips and moved closer to Cyriaco Bowie, but her body was visibly stiff.
"Don't be nervous, Sadolin," the tall and pretty Ciriaco also comforted her, "You know, everyone treats me as a sister, you don't need to be shy."
Cyriaco Bowie and Soslan Fadeev, who was also in the model department, were an openly gay couple in Durmstrang. When he spoke, the other members of the department also began to comfort Sadolin.
Sadolin shook her head. She was not shy, but she was afraid that people close to her might be hurt again. So no matter how people around her tried to comfort her, she felt uncomfortable.
"Hmm..." Lytia saw some clues from Sadolin's sad face without any shyness. Combined with the incident of the poisonous snake she heard about at school, she guessed Sadolin's concerns, "Are you afraid that the poisonous snake will find us, Sadolin?"
Sadolin opened her eyes wide and looked at Lytia. She swallowed and hesitated to speak, fearing that the people around her would leave out of fear. In the end, she just nodded vaguely.
"Heh—" Lytia laughed out loud, and she walked towards Sadolin as she was looked at with increasing panic. The tall men and women around her also walked towards Sadolin, and surrounded her completely.
"I can't control others," Lytia raised her wand to touch Sadolin's pointed chin, "but none of us take those snakes seriously."
"We all know about the venomous snake, Sadolin." A girl with brown curly hair and red lips spoke up.
"But what does it matter?" said another boy with hooked eyes and a high nose bridge. "As long as I can get the favor of a beauty like you, it doesn't matter how many times I go to the infirmary."
With them taking the lead, the rest of the people started talking as well, which made Sadolin confused. Everyone had a self-righteous and friendly look on their faces, which also made Sadolin confused.
Boom-boom-boom…
Boom-boom-boom…
Dong—dongdong…
While her brain was unable to react, the various heartbeats of the people around her rushed into her ears. Sadolin didn't know what these heartbeats meant, but her heart was hot, and for the first time she felt her own heart beating along with them.
"And, Sadolin," Lytia's clear and proud voice stood out among the noise of the students, "Why do you care so much about others?"
"Ha-Sa (Shouldn't it be like this)?" Sadolin asked subconsciously before she recovered from her violent heartbeat.
"Your last name is Slytherin, which is very famous," Lytia ignored the snake language she couldn't understand and just looked at Sadolin's eyes. "Almost everyone knows what this last name means, and they also know the risks of associating with you."
"Then I got hurt because I was close to you," Lydia said with a slight curl of her lips, looking charming and arrogant at the same time, "Shouldn't it be my own fault?"
thump—
There was a buzzing in her ears. Sadolin couldn't tell whether her heartbeat was too fast or it stopped. She bit her lip and her face was hot, but she stopped being shy. "Ha-Sa (I understand, Professor)."
Sadolin nodded and said, and after a while of adjustment, she smoothly got into the photo-taking schedule and ended today's club activities with Lytia's satisfied eyes.
"Hum-hum-" On the way back to the closed room alone, Sadolin hummed a little tune that she had heard in the activity room at some point. Her expression was relaxed, the corners of her lips were slightly raised, and her good mood was beyond words.
It was only three or four in the afternoon when the sun set in Durmstrang. Sadolin looked at the large patch of pink and yellow clouds above her head. She marveled at the beauty of the world and couldn't help but walk out of the castle, wanting to take a closer look at the beautiful sky today.
The setting sun added a layer of warmth to her fair skin, and made the emerald necklace and earrings she wore sparkle. Sadolin walked out into the light, and it seemed as if she was wearing an extra golden dress.
She walked on the frozen soil to a thick tree that required several people to hug. In front of her was endless green water. Holding on to the cold and hard tree trunk, Sadolin was surprised for the first time that the lake here was not like the one in the north where the water was always frozen.
She walked forward a few more steps, squatted down, and tentatively touched the seemingly gentle green water with her slender fingers. The coldness immediately returned, and Sadolin withdrew her hand. At this moment, she heard the sound of a book turning pages, and the sound of her heartbeat became clearer.
Dong-dong-dong-
It fluctuates slightly but is generally stable, which is the heartbeat that one would feel around Bellinda.
Sadolin looked at the thick tree trunk that completely blocked her view. Unable to suppress her curiosity, she bent over and held onto the trunk to slowly reach forward. However, what she saw was not the expected scene of a couple snuggling together, but a black-haired boy sitting on the ground leaning against the tree, concentrating on reading a book.
Did she hear it wrong?
Dong-dong-dong-
Sadolin was questioning in her heart, but the heartbeat that followed immediately refuted her doubts, telling her that this was the heartbeat she longed for, the one next to Belinda.
Just reading a book can make my heart beat so beautifully...isn't that love?
The boy who was reading the book felt Sadolin's presence at this time and subconsciously turned his head to look at her.
Sadolin was so frightened that she took a few steps back and lost her balance on the frozen, hard and slippery ground. She fell on her back and as she fell into the water with a splash, she remembered the name of the boy whom she had stuffed the necklace into.
Dmitry Isaev, someone that Maggie said should not be approached casually.
When she thought of Maggie, Sadolin, who was already surrounded by the cold lake water, felt a strange chill in her heart. She was so cold that her hands and feet lost strength and she fell straight into the bottomless green lake water. Before she felt suffocated, another "plop" sound exploded in her ears, blowing away Maggie in her mind. Through the rippling lake water, Sadolin saw Dmitri diving towards her.
As Sadolin was falling, the emerald necklace on her neck rose up with the waves around her, and came off her neck when Dmitriy pulled Sadolin up.
Dmitri, holding his breath, reached out to grab the necklace, which was more colorful underwater, but he failed to catch it and only touched the edge. He did not force it and just took Sadolin up and let the necklace float away.
"Ugh-" As soon as she was brought ashore, Sadolin first vomited the lake water she had just drunk, and then she grabbed her wet leather jacket, breathing heavily and shivering.
Dmitri was also soaked. His leather jacket, which was already very old, stuck to his sturdy body after getting wet, and became a thin layer. He looked even colder than Sadolin. He was also breathing heavily, but still picked up the magic wand to dry Sadolin's clothes first, "Flames blazing-".
White moisture came out from all over Sadolin's clothes, and soon all her clothes were dry. Sadolin pulled her leather jacket together. The coldness on her body had not yet faded, but she could already feel some warmth.
"Hai-hi (Thank you)." She said to Dmitri who was drying his clothes.
Demetri was startled by Sadolin's snake language, but he didn't ask any more questions, nor did he pursue why Sadolin came behind him. He just smiled and shook his head, "It's okay, Miss Slytherin."
Slytherin
Sadolin remembered Lytia's words, and had a vague understanding of the supposedly resounding suffix added to her name. The phrase "it's all your own fault" kept ringing in her mind.
It seems like she could care less about other people. After all, people who don't want to get hurt will keep their distance from her, right?
Thinking of this, Sadolin stopped being shy and pointed decisively at the book that Dmitri had hastily thrown on the ground, "Hai-Xi (What were you reading just now)?"
"What?" Demetri looked in the direction of Sadolin's finger, and when he realized that Sadolin was referring to his book, he immediately opened his eyes wide and looked back at Sadolin, "Are you interested in our books, Slytherin?" he asked with a gleam in his eyes and a cautious tone.
Sadolin nodded. She wanted to know what kind of book could make people have the heartbeat she longed for.