"Here, let me help you," Gaby bent on her knees to pick up a book, and
tried organizing the layers of parchment and scrap. As they tried to sort
his belongings in a hurry, Gaby's hand fell unintentionally across a small
card; the cover was decorated with an elaborate beating heart with the
woods flashing in colours: Camry Smith, Will You Be My Valentine? From
Kara"
"What's this?" But before she could get an answer the card disappeared from her fingers as Smith shoved it into his bag with the last of his books. "Just a card," he mumbled, swinging the bag over his shoulder.
They both got up at the same time and were looking pointlessly at one another when Gaby remembered, "Aren't you," she said pointing vaguely to the door," supposed to go to class now?"
"Oh- yeah...well, see you." He turned and left Gaby in the middle of the empty classroom, wondering who in the world Kara was?
After Potions, Gaby went straight upstairs to take a cold shower from head to foot which she thought would help cool off the effects of Snape's seething remarks on her best effort of the month. She came bounding down the steps to the Entrance Hall, hair flailing, Potions homework in hand when she looked up and saw something that made her skip the last step and end up staring silently from the bottom.
Smith was standing by the solid oak doors talking to a girl in the same year, who Gaby did not know. He looked up, spotted Gaby and beckoned her over without needing to mouth words or move his hands the slightest. Gaby found her feet and went quickly over to them. The girl turned, curly blond hair falling over her shoulders and when she caught sight of Gaby her misty blue eyes swelled and her glossy lips formed into a loud Oh! of surprise. "You must be Gabrielle, Camry has been telling me so mush about you...most he ever talks about actually," she giggled and spared a quick glance at him.
'Funny, he never mentioned a thing about you...' Gaby tried to say but instead she removed her right hand away from the books to shake the girl's hand.
"Gaby this is-"
"Kara, I know," Gaby completed with a smile.
"Oh, wow, it's interesting how two best friends could know so much about each other to finish the other's sentences."
"Happens all the time," Gaby and Smith said together.
"Well, Camry and I were heading of to the grounds together." And to both Gaby and Smith's surprise, she reared up and kissed him lightly on the cheek.
"He is such a sweetheart..."
Gaby found her mouth opened and said quickly, "Well- have fun together..."
Kara placed her arm around his and they went down the stairs and Gaby, disbelieving, walked toward the Great Hall instead.
"Hey Snape just moved the due date on our last essay to Wednesday," Vanessa told her the moment she sat down at her side.
"Ugh...the Remedial Ranks for balding white rats?"
"More like...Poisoning Fumes for the Potions Prat." muttered Jade, spreading a generous helping of marmalade on her biscuit, Vanessa chuckled. Gaby didn't even bother to tell them off; she simply rolled her eyes and sighed.
"What's wrong with you?" Vanessa asked beside her.
"Nothing's wrong with m-"
"Yeh- because there's food in front of you and you're not eating it- now cough it up!"
"Is nothin' really..." Gaby piled food onto her empty plate just to stare at it in the end but before she could be asked again, she answered- "Camry's got a girlfriend."
Vanessa choked and her pumpkin juice went slopping down her front, and the mashed potatoes on jade's fork, halfway to her mouth, fell with a splat onto her lap.
"Camry Smith? Our Smith- the Smith we know?"
"No- Camry Smith the house-elf!" Gaby retorted sarcastically.
They didn't say anything for a while until Vanessa took another swig at her goblet.
"Ah well...good for him isn't it?"
"Yeah...I mean yes!" It cool," said Gaby airily, shoving peas into her mouth and swallowing them whole. She had just seen the way his eyes flickered when Kara kissed him, the way she looked like an angel bathed in golden afternoon sunlight, the way she walked arm in arm with him across the grounds and how he walked stiffly beside her that Gaby hardly realized that she was punching a hole in the pear in front of her with a fork.
"This is stupid," she placed tha fork down on the table (several crystal goblets nearly chinked).
"What? I think they're good," said Jade, taking a spoonful of her own pear.
"No-no, I mean about Camry...I should be happy for him- I am!" He's gone and found someone that can make him happy and I'm glad for that..."
"If you want to be," said Jade cautiously. But Gaby felt better once she said that.
"She called him Camry... nobody else calls him Camry besides well, me..."
Vanessa, tut-tutting, placed a hand on Gaby's shoulder and swung her leg over the bench. "Nobody calls his name the way you do- Well I'm off to do Prat's homework."
Jade was rising on Gaby's other side. "Yeah...me too, bye..."
"Yeah..." said Gaby, chewing a bit harder on her peas than she meant to, "Bye..."
"What's this?" But before she could get an answer the card disappeared from her fingers as Smith shoved it into his bag with the last of his books. "Just a card," he mumbled, swinging the bag over his shoulder.
They both got up at the same time and were looking pointlessly at one another when Gaby remembered, "Aren't you," she said pointing vaguely to the door," supposed to go to class now?"
"Oh- yeah...well, see you." He turned and left Gaby in the middle of the empty classroom, wondering who in the world Kara was?
After Potions, Gaby went straight upstairs to take a cold shower from head to foot which she thought would help cool off the effects of Snape's seething remarks on her best effort of the month. She came bounding down the steps to the Entrance Hall, hair flailing, Potions homework in hand when she looked up and saw something that made her skip the last step and end up staring silently from the bottom.
Smith was standing by the solid oak doors talking to a girl in the same year, who Gaby did not know. He looked up, spotted Gaby and beckoned her over without needing to mouth words or move his hands the slightest. Gaby found her feet and went quickly over to them. The girl turned, curly blond hair falling over her shoulders and when she caught sight of Gaby her misty blue eyes swelled and her glossy lips formed into a loud Oh! of surprise. "You must be Gabrielle, Camry has been telling me so mush about you...most he ever talks about actually," she giggled and spared a quick glance at him.
'Funny, he never mentioned a thing about you...' Gaby tried to say but instead she removed her right hand away from the books to shake the girl's hand.
"Gaby this is-"
"Kara, I know," Gaby completed with a smile.
"Oh, wow, it's interesting how two best friends could know so much about each other to finish the other's sentences."
"Happens all the time," Gaby and Smith said together.
"Well, Camry and I were heading of to the grounds together." And to both Gaby and Smith's surprise, she reared up and kissed him lightly on the cheek.
"He is such a sweetheart..."
Gaby found her mouth opened and said quickly, "Well- have fun together..."
Kara placed her arm around his and they went down the stairs and Gaby, disbelieving, walked toward the Great Hall instead.
"Hey Snape just moved the due date on our last essay to Wednesday," Vanessa told her the moment she sat down at her side.
"Ugh...the Remedial Ranks for balding white rats?"
"More like...Poisoning Fumes for the Potions Prat." muttered Jade, spreading a generous helping of marmalade on her biscuit, Vanessa chuckled. Gaby didn't even bother to tell them off; she simply rolled her eyes and sighed.
"What's wrong with you?" Vanessa asked beside her.
"Nothing's wrong with m-"
"Yeh- because there's food in front of you and you're not eating it- now cough it up!"
"Is nothin' really..." Gaby piled food onto her empty plate just to stare at it in the end but before she could be asked again, she answered- "Camry's got a girlfriend."
Vanessa choked and her pumpkin juice went slopping down her front, and the mashed potatoes on jade's fork, halfway to her mouth, fell with a splat onto her lap.
"Camry Smith? Our Smith- the Smith we know?"
"No- Camry Smith the house-elf!" Gaby retorted sarcastically.
They didn't say anything for a while until Vanessa took another swig at her goblet.
"Ah well...good for him isn't it?"
"Yeah...I mean yes!" It cool," said Gaby airily, shoving peas into her mouth and swallowing them whole. She had just seen the way his eyes flickered when Kara kissed him, the way she looked like an angel bathed in golden afternoon sunlight, the way she walked arm in arm with him across the grounds and how he walked stiffly beside her that Gaby hardly realized that she was punching a hole in the pear in front of her with a fork.
"This is stupid," she placed tha fork down on the table (several crystal goblets nearly chinked).
"What? I think they're good," said Jade, taking a spoonful of her own pear.
"No-no, I mean about Camry...I should be happy for him- I am!" He's gone and found someone that can make him happy and I'm glad for that..."
"If you want to be," said Jade cautiously. But Gaby felt better once she said that.
"She called him Camry... nobody else calls him Camry besides well, me..."
Vanessa, tut-tutting, placed a hand on Gaby's shoulder and swung her leg over the bench. "Nobody calls his name the way you do- Well I'm off to do Prat's homework."
Jade was rising on Gaby's other side. "Yeah...me too, bye..."
"Yeah..." said Gaby, chewing a bit harder on her peas than she meant to, "Bye..."