A Peaceful Moment

Hullo everyone,

If you've noticed (or are reading the pieces of horse dung that I call my stories) I haven't been updating recently.

I'd like to say that it was just school, but that's only part of it.

I'm also one of those people that if I lose interest in something, then it will no longer flow properly in my head and it becomes almost impossible for me to figure out what happens next so, you might be waiting awhile.

Here's a quick 2 or 3 shot that I'll be doing to erm….put something out there I guess.

So here's, A Peaceful Moment

This had to be a dream.

Even if it was so obviously real, it wasn't very often that Ari got a quiet moment by herself.

She sat underneath a hill by the black lake, just relaxing, she had done her homework and she strangely didn't get to an argument with James Sirius Potter, which her best friend (and coincidentally James' brother, Al Potter) would've probably ended up dragging her away from.

Funnily enough, he seemed to be avoiding her lately.

The last time she'd even seen him was weeks ago…..

She decided not to dwell on that; this was her first peaceful moment that week, especially since Fred Weasley the second had pulled two pranks on her fellow Slytherins and as prefects Al and her had to sort it out.

Then, James had somehow made Rose and Lily extremely upset with him and they'd needed someone to rant to…..for hours and apparently she was the only one available.

The sun was washing lazily over the fields and a lazy breeze washed over her making her feel at peace with the nature around her.

Unfortunately this peace and quiet didn't last very long.

"Hey Ari?" a voice right next to her ear said

She turned sighing heavily "Yeah? What do you-" she was cut off by James quickly pressing his lips to hers.

His lips were strangely warm and soft and tasted like something that could only be described as James

She was extremely surprised and pushed him off, slapping him, hard.

"What was that?" she demanded, blushing slightly

If he noticed he didn't say anything.

"Sorry," he said smirking "My, friend dared me to do that,"

"Then why did you?" she said looking slightly hurt

"Well, hey at least you got to kiss a professional like me," he said smirked "I bet that was your first kiss too,"

Her eyes flared, and seemed to glow

"I'll have you know that I have kissed boys before, you jerk, and if you're a professional, then I'm not a girl," she said

"At least I'm not a know-it-all, and I still have a sister and parents! Now I know why your parents don't want you, who would ever want to be related to you!?" he shouted at her

He realized too late, what he had just said.

Rule 1 when talking to Ari: do not mention, imply, casually comment, or say anything really, that has to do with her real family.

Crud

Bullocks

Oh, Merlin

She didn't flinch at that, no she did something worse.

She stared at him.

Nothing showing, it had taken years to get her to even remotely open up to him.

He had wanted her to hit him, to cuss him out, to do something, anything.

Anything, to show some sign of caring, because whether or not he wanted to admit it, he cared about her, more than he cared about anything.

She stood there for a few seconds, turned, walked into the castle calmly and didn't look back.

He was so mad at himself for giving that low blow that he didn't even try to follow her.

He stood there for a little while longer, and realized he had probably just lost his last chance to show that he cared about her.

Over the years she had given him many, many, many chances to apologize and be her friend at the very least.

But he had ruined that, and now all he had left was nothing.

Well, wasn't that last bit just depressing?

For some reason I've always been good at writing depressing things.

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Part 2 coming soon!