Bonnie couldn't help but feel strange, it seemed she had magically gained the ability to cheat on tests. Not that she hadn't managed before. Well, it wasn't like she was a saint or anything. After an arguably boring Quidditch club meeting, Bonnie had been forced to return to class. However, since she had taken most of the finals the day before her new found cheating skills were put to no use. She had just finished the second to last lacrosse practice of the year and had been left to figure out how to take off cleats. Slowly, she realized Robert Clyde was sneaking up on her. Spinning on her heel with the loud gravelly sound of cleats on concrete, she faced him. Robert gave a small half smile.
" Am I really that bad?" he chortled.
"Uh… no it's just …ah I don't know… I have sixth sense."
"Are you always like this?"
"Like what? Incoherent?"
"No, hot!" There was a long pause as Bonnie wondered what that was supposed to mean."Okay, I'm really sorry Jim told me to say that and it was weird but it wasn't my fault at all," Robert suddenly burst out, so fast Bonnie couldn't really catch it.
"Jim? As in Jim Carter?"
"Well yeah." Bonnie could barely contain her laugh, it cackled out like something worthy of the Joker.
"Don't ever listen to anything Jim says. I've known him since we were tiny. I've really got to know him and I learned he is a freak." Robert rubbed the back of his neck.
"Is that so?" Bonnie was about to list off all the reasons why Jim was an oddball, when she realized it was actually a rhetorical question.
"Well, Bonnie, I wanted to ask you something and I wanted to ask you for a really long time, but I was too scared and now I still am but I'm trying to push through it and…"
" Robert what are you trying to say?" Robert swallowed deeply and he knew Bonnie could see, which she supposed made it even worse.
"I wanted to ask if you wanted to go out with me, on a… date?'' Robert nodded his head as if to encourage a positive response.
"Well yeah, that sounds great!" Robert stood there looking shocked.
"Uh… was that it?"
"What else would there be?"
"I don't know, it just seemed like there should be more."
"Well you have to tell me where you want to go and if I should wear something nice." Robert seemed horrified by how much this "dating" involved.
"Well it's a secret. Don't wear anything nice because then people would think I was your mentally challenged brother, instead of your date and it will take the whole day. So can I pick you up at ten in the morning on Saturday?"
"Yes," and then without a thought she kissed him on the cheek.
"Well, bye. See you…uh…tomorrow!" He jogged off as fast as he could to keep from jumping. When he left Bonnie knew something she couldn't have possibly known. They were going to New York and it was going to start something that couldn't be stopped.
