Chapter 103

After Cedric, I gave it my all and went after him. I opened up to him for the first time and let him see everything about me. However, he flees. It is quite consistent with him to flee, yet I couldn't shake the feeling that I should go after him. I should disregard his behavior as a form of dismissal. There was more to this, and after everything that we've gone through together, I'm not willing to give up so lightly. There was something else at play here.

As I watched him go off into the forest, I picked up the speed of my own walking. As he hopped from tree to tree, I was getting closer and closer to catching up to him. I waited until I was close enough, and then I pounced on him. We both took a hard landing on the ground in the woodland after I wrapped my arms around his middle. I turned him around swiftly so that I was straddling his hips and holding his hands over my head.

"Why are you running away, Cedric?" I yelled at him quite loudly.

As he turned us over, hi