Chapter one: Currency
Main Characters: Daphne Greengrass x Theodore Nott
Location: Slytherin Common Room
In the dark light of the Slytherin common room Daphne Greengrass looks over her perfectly manicured nails and frowns. There's a chip in the dark polish and her blue eyes darken in annoyance. She knows it's silly to fret over something so trivial as chipped nail paint but in Slytherin the trivial is critical.
Image is like currency in Slytherin and after all isn't everything about popularity, power and politics in this house? She clicks her tongue before grabbing the bottle of nail polish from her bag and reapplying the smooth liquid on her left hand's pointer fingernail.
Her glossy lips pucker and she looks somewhat like a fish as she dries her nail with her breath. Her ears perk up as a snicker from the corner of the room draws her attention. She's not alone like she originally thought. Theodore Nott blending into the dark and sitting in a common room chair with his eyes on her is the only other person other than Daphne in the room.
Daphne gives him a hard stare for only a few seconds before she turns her attention elsewhere. His attention is flattering and if she were a delicate flower she might have blushed at his leering eyes roaming over her body. But Daphne is not a delicate flower because after all, delicate flowers wouldn't last in Slytherin.
Another snicker and Daphne finally huffs in false annoyance. "Something you want Theodore?" She says ever so coolly, her eyebrows are raised in a questioning yet bored expression. She is definitely intrigued at his sudden attention in her and a sly smile spreads across her pink glossed lips.
As Theodore Nott opens his mouth to say something his eyes never leaving her glossy lips, Pansy Parkinson's loud voice fills the common room. She is quickly followed by the whole lot of them Draco, Blaise, Goyle and Crabbe, Tracey and Millicent.
Theo sits back in his seat quietly sinking back into the dark corner as if he never made the move to talk to her and Daphne goes back to investigating her nails ignoring the parade coming through the common room. She makes a mental note to corner Theo next time they are alone.
Daphne's interest is piqued in him and she wants to know what he was about to say to her. She knows he'll tell her because there are very few things in this world that Daphne Greengrass doesn't get. Theodore Nott has just made it on to her list.