Hey everyone. This story was brought to you by the Ongoing - Gift Tag, and Herbology Hangout on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For the Ongoing - Gift Tag I wrote for Amber's prompts of Dean/Piers smoke. For Herbology Hangout I wrote for restrictions no purebloods. I hope you all enjoy Smoke Break.
Piers Polkiss had been ecstatic when Dean had walked over and started to talking to him. He'd seen the dark skinned boy around town and had always wanted to get to know the other boy. But he never dreamed that Dean would want to talk to him.
"I've seen you around town," Piers says as they stand in awkward silence neither boy knowing quite what to say to the other one. "But I've never seen you at any of the schools around here. Where do you go to school?" Piers not knowing what else to do with his hand reached into his pocket for his pack of cigarettes he carried around. He didn't really like to smoke but it was something to do to look cool and it always seemed to keep him in good favor with his friends.
Plucking a cigarette from the pack he held the pack out to Dean. "Want one?"
Dean shook his head. "I don't smoke," he says pointedly. "It's supposed to be really bad for you."
Piers laughed. "I know," he says lighting the cigarette. "I've been trying to stop for a couple months now but it's kind of hard when your a social smoker. Especially when all your friends are smokers too."
Dean cocked his head to the side studying shorter boy. He'd heard about this boy from a friend of his at Hogwarts. Harry Potter. But upon actually speaking to Piers Dean found that Harry didn't know the whole story. "In answer to your first question though," Dean said bringing the subject back around to school, "you wouldn't really know the place. It's a boarding school type place."
"And you don't smoke?" The shock was clear in Piers's voice. "Boarding schools are supposed to notorious for underage smoking. Aren't they?" He took a puff on the cigarette in between his teeth. Blowing out a perfect smoke circle hoping this earn him some praise.
Dean coughed as the smoke came near him. "It's not really like that at all boarding school," he told the dark haired boy shuffling his dark red trainers in the grass.
Seeing how uncomfortable his smoking was making Dean Piers decided he' make a grand gesture to his new friend. "I can put it out if it makes you uncomfortable," Piers says taking another puff knowing the other boy will probably say yes to his offer. "So what kind of classes do they have at this school of yours?"
Not knowing what else to say Dean replied with, "The usual sort of classes."
"The usual sort of classes?" laughed Piers.
"Yeah. Like maths and that sort of things. Nothing really special." One of these days Dean would tell Piers that he was wizard but he knew that Piers wasn't really ready to accept that at the moment yet.
As he talked to Dean about classes, school, and friends Piers felt like he'd found someone who finally cared to talk about the things he wanted to talk about. Not just what they wanted to talk about. As he snubbed out the last of his cigarette he vowed internally to stop smoking for Dean. Maybe one of these days they'd be good friends or even more than that.
I hope you all enjoyed Smoke Break.