The next morning I was dragging myself to class. Guess staying up last night wasn't the best idea in the world seeing as now I couldn't even go two minutes without yawning. I was brought out of my own groggy world when I hear a voice smoothly ask "Tired Darlin'?" It was Blaise
"Stayed up with Addie last night" I said simply fighting another yawn.
"Oh yeah?" He asked with a grin and a wicked glint in his eye.
"You're a perv" I shot at him trying not to smile
"Would you want me any other way?" he asked cockily
"Well you've have me there" I chuckled shaking my head
"It's not the only way I'll have you" he said whispered getting closer to me despite the fact we were in a busy hallway
"Is that a promise?" I asked looking up at him with a smirk
"If you're not too tired that is" he chuckled sounding very sexy
"I don't think it's possible for me to ever be that tired" I laughed
"Good because I have big plans" he told me
"How big?" I asked quietly wondering what his reply would be. Only I never found out as Draco Bloody Malfoy came over, oh joy.
"I thought you were doing something important but instead I find you talking to this Ravenclaw tramp" Draco said snidely
"Aww honey I love you two" I said trying to sound as sincere as possible
"What the fuck!" he yelled
"Marry me" I proposed excitedly
"You're a crazy bitch, you know that?" He spat
"Crazy for you babe" I sighed
"I'm leaving" he growled before stomping off
"Missing you already" I called after him
"Your cruel" Blaise laughed "I like it"
"I know" I replied smugly
"So tonight?"
"See you then"
"Ron be serious" I tried to scold but couldn't keep the smile from my lips or the laughter in. We were in defence against the dark arts, waiting for class to begin and unusually Ron wasn't sitting with Potter or Granger so I got that honour instead. I'm not complaining, considering he supposed to be one of my best friends I don't see him much
"I am" he protested also laughing "I swear it's true, I thought mum was going to explode."
"Why's she looking at me like that?" I snapped suddenly altering the tone on the conversation
"Who?" Ron asked confused
"Hermione" I said simply trying not to make it seem like saying her name made me feel like gagging, just in case you haven't clocked on yet I can't stand the girl
"How's she looking at you?" He asked sounding slightly more confuddled than before
"Like I just tortured and killed a house elf after I had ordered it to kill her skanky cat" I said darkly. He smiled just slightly knowing he shouldn't
"She's not and that look was probably for me anyway" he sighed
"Have you two fallen out again?" I asked shaking my head "I swear one of these day's I oughta bang your heads together"
"Well-" he began only for me to cut him off almost instantly
"No she's definitely looking at me. Fine! If that's how she wants it." I hissed
"Keira I know the look you have right now, it's the 'I'm going to have fun pissing someone off look'." He told me sounding worried
"Well..." I chuckled with a smirk and trailed off
"Don't do something I'm going to get in trouble for" he groaned
"That narrows it down" I complained with a slight pout
"Why? What were you thinking?" He asked suspiciously
"Well my first instinct was to snog you and watch her face fall" I told him honestly
"What?!" He spluttered out "W-why would that piss her off?"
"If you don't know I'm not telling." I said once again shaking my head, that boy just can't see what's going on right in front of his eyes a lot of the time "Anyway I have a new plan"
"Which is?" he asked cautiously
"You'll see" I chirped merrily
"You're lucky that I've known you long enough to know that under that dark and cynical part of you that's hidden by the innocent goody goody exterior, your just playfully mischievous and don't actually mean to cause any harm because you really are a good person" He told me with a frown
"Your mum tell you that?" I chuckled
"Pretty much word for word" He admitted with a grin
"When?" I asked curiously
"When we were five and you conspired with the garden gnomes to throw me over the wall" He said frowning again and I cracked up
"Ah good times" I sighed
"Of course she thinks you've grown out of it and are perfect inside and out" He informed me
"But you know better right?" I asked raising an eyebrow. I really was wondering what he was going to say
"I know you're a good person" He said seriously "but I know the look too"
"Well that gives me something to work on." I muttered and I think Ron chose to ignore me
"So your plan?" he inquired
"Like I said, you'll see soon enough." I told him with a grin and then Snape walked in "Here we go" Now I could give an in depth description of what happened next but that might require effort and isn't actually that interesting, I don't think anyway. So here's the condensed notes; as usual the class became very quiet with the entrance of everyone's favourite DADA teacher, and he immediately got things going, asking his annoying questions that usually no one but Granger tries to answer. Only today wasn't usually, today I decided to participate and to Snape's great amusement I actually beat Hermione in the race to correctly answer the first two questions. It was actually great fun especially watching Grangers face turn unbelievable shades of red just out of sheer frustration. Then for the final question I didn't bother and let her answer the question only to elaborate on her answer which actually had a few holes in it which I assume occurred because she tried to rush it out in one breath before anyone else could beat her to it. Basically I made it a competition and I won. Go me. I even earned points for my house and what made it even better was Professor Snape actually took points of Gryffindor for Hermione's incomplete answer because if she couldn't answer a question properly she shouldn't waste the class's time with stupid ramblings. I think today is going to be a good day
"So that was the plan?" Ron asked cautiously after class had finished
"Yep" I chirped merrily as I put everything back in my bag "I think it went well"
"I think you're crazy" he told me giving me a look that backed up his words
"Apparently that's the general opinion around here" I chuckled
"I'd avoid Hermione if I were you" He warned me seriously
"What's she going to do really?" I scoffed brushing it off
"I don't know and that's what scares me" he admitted and I couldn't help but laugh
"If you're that afraid for me you can escort me to dinner and protect me from your dear friend Hermerwhatever." I chuckled
"Keira" he said in a tone that usually accompanied my name, the one that means 'behave yourself'
"Ronald?" I replied simply
"You could try getting on with my friends" he sighed
"I tried, I failed, I got over it, so dinner now? Or do I have to risk it alone, I could always stick to the shadows and-"
"Fine" he said interrupting my ramble "I'll walk you"
"Good" I said smugly and linked my arm round his as we left the classroom, he just sighed and shook his head but all with a smile and I grinned. "I think we don't spend enough time together," I complained, "you're always with them it's not fair you were my friend first, and when I do get to spend time with you your grumpy because you've had one of those oh so frequent fights with them. Where do they think you go by the w-"
"Ron!" a shrill voice shouted from behind causing us to stop, of course it was Granger.
"Yeah?" Ron asked simply
"Hi Hermione" I said with a smile and a wave, probably over friendly but at least it shows I'm trying ... well sorta, I'm also trying to piss her off, ah well.
"Where are you going?" she asked Ron "I thought you, Harry and I were going to go the library."
"Ooh the silent treatment ... fun!" I said sarcastically just loud enough that even though it was clearly meant for Ron, Hermione would hear anyway.
"I'll meet you in a few minutes. Just walking Keira somewhere." He explained
"He's so sweet and considerate that way don't you think?" I asked grinning up at Ron and giving his arm a bit of a squeeze
"Keira?" Ron said in that tone again
"What?" I asked defensively "I'm being friendly"
"You have the look" he told me sternly
"What about her look?" I protested "That's nothing less than openly hostile"
"Could both of you just get on? For me?" He pleaded
"Anything for you honey, you know that," I said softly still trying to piss of Granger, it wasn't fair that I'm the one who always gets told off "too much history to throw away"
"Sure" Hermione agreed stiffly
"Well Granger" I sighed like I was making a sacrifice "You can have him for now if you want, just get him back to me safely. He promised me we'd finish catching up over a good ol' game of chess" I finished with a giggle
"Sure" she repeated seeming just as stiff as before and I released my hold of Ron's arm
"See you later Keira ... for chess" he said sounding slightly confused, I had to try very hard not to smirk cos the way he said it made it sound like a code for something a lot more fun than chess
"Ciao hun," I said friendlily and added not so friendlily as I walked away "Later Granger, good effort in class today by the way" That's when everything goes black and fuzzy, actually I think there might have been a flash of red before the black. I do also remember being hit with some force and fleetingly thinking 'At least the stairs will break my fall'