"Percival Ignatius, are you deaf?" There was the candle now, running to catch up with Percy.

"Penelope, hey! I, erm, I didn't see you." Percy nearly toppled over when she embraced him.

"I haven't seen you all day, Percy!" The Ravenclaw kissed his cheek. "Why weren't you at breakfast this morning? Or lunch?"

"I was there, Penny, dear. I couldn't find you."

"How could you not find me? I was where we always sit."

"I was sitting with Oliver." Percy pried out of her arms, clearly annoyed by the suffocation. "I have other friends, Penny."

Penny stopped, her face fell. Her blue eyes met his own, as if trying to look inside him for something. "I never said you didn't, Percy. By all means, hang out with your friends."

Percy felt as if there was a monster inside of him, longing to just walk away from her. However, he couldn't do that.

"Penny, dearest. I didn't mean it like that. You know I didn't. Hey," He placed a hand on his cheek, while the monster inside him was screaming to slap her. "How about The Three Broomsticks tonight, just you and I?"

'You are weak. Ditch that broad, stop wasting your time on her.' The monster chanted in his ear, but he managed to tone it out.

Penny smiled once more. Oh, Percy was so sick of that smile.

"Yeah, alright. Six o'clock, then?"

"Wouldn't miss it for the world." Percy seemed to dismiss her as he pushed past her to go to his class.

'You're forgetting something' The monster taunted him, all throughout class. It continued to jeer at him, extracting Penny from his mind and replacing her with a much sweeter thought.

By the time class had ended, Percy had long since zoned out from Lupin's lecture. What could he possibly be forgetting? He never forgot things. Percy walked past the library, and stopped. Almost as if the monster had led him there, to remind him of his prior engagement.

"Damn, Audrey…" Percy cursed at himself. He completely forgot, he was to meet Audrey by the library at six.

Speaking of Audrey, there she was now.

"Hiya, Percy." Her voice was as soft as velvet as it flowed through his ears like music.

"I was just thinking about you." Percy smiled as pulled her into a spare room and stole a kiss on her lips.

"Charming, as usual." Audrey smirked, wrapping both of her arms around his neck as he lifted her off her feet and onto a desk.

"Audrey, I've been meaning to tell you something. But, well.. I haven't got the right words to say it."

"Don't think about it." Audrey encouraged him. "Just say it."

Before Audrey was even done speaking, Percy found himself undoing her tie. Then her blouse. Next thing he knew, he didn't even remember who Penelope Clearwater was.

Percy didn't need to look to the monster for his answer, but it chimed in anyways. 'Audrey. It's Audrey you want..'

But little did he know, they weren't alone.