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Tamara's POV
I can already guess who it is, Elliot. I can see Michelle's expression turning into one of the one's she usually has when she's mentally ranting about something in her head. I can tell it goes on for a while and may involve a lot of swearing to Merlin. I wonder if I should feel sorry for him.
Joey is the first one to glance behind us to spot who the voice belongs to. He hasn't yet met Elliot which probably explains the sudden surge of curiosity towards such an unfamiliar voice. I for one didn't particularly like Elliot...I mean who knows...maybe it's due to the fact that everytime he makes an appearance it involuntarily sends me back to the time in that jail cell, getting tortured everyday.
Not exactly a pleasant memory to look back upon.
Michelle grits her teeth together and replies calmly, "Disappearing from mankind and never returning would be nice, but then again what are the chances of that? It's sad really, but I won't mind turning the probability ratio of that more than a couple percents higher." Elliot just smirks.
Elliot just like the rest of us has decently morphed in the appearance department over the past couple of months. His change was even more contrasting than the others' in my eyes but I suppose it was because he didn't come to Hogwarts and I don't see him around and about. Thank god for Michelle on that department.
His red hair is not as shaggy and ruffled as it had been the last time I've seen him, which felt like an entire century ago. It looks neater and shorter, as if he has just paid a visit to the barber's a couple days ago. His jaw line, and muscles even, looks more defined, not to mention the sudden burst in height. I am almost positive he had at least sprouted an extra two inches in height judging from the fact that I suddenly felt towered over by him.
Joey flickers his gaze between the four of us and Elliot in utter confusion. I sigh and quickly introduce them. "Elliot, Joey. Joey, this is Elliot...something. Not sure what his last name is."
Elliot sticks his hand out and Joey awkwardly shakes it, not accustomed to the sudden formality of the greeting. "Nice to meet you, Elliot...something." The redhead laughs at him.
"I'm Elliot Drake Prince Adonis Kiselev." he clarifies, pronouncing a full name even longer than Michelle's. Unlike her however, he sounds rather proud of it.
"Yeah...I think I'm just going to stick with Elliot, if you don't mind."
He smiles at him. "Not at all." He then scoots over to Michelle and wraps an arm around her. "So how do you know my girl, if you don't mind me asking? I must warn you though, if you mention that you are her boyfriend, ex-boyfriend, crush or romantic interest of any sort you will no longer have a face to charm girls with." Joey raises his eyebrows at him, his green eyes widening expectedly. "Well?" Elliot coaxes
"Er..." Joey starts hesitantly. "I-"
Michelle harshly shoves his arm away from her. "Get lost, would ya? Besides, even if he is my boyfriend it is none of your bloody business."
"Is he though?"
"Like I said before, none of your business."
"Seriously though, is he?"
Michelle rolls her eyes at him. She turns her attention back to us. "Come on, let's get out of here. A certain guy is getting on my last nerve."
"Well, I certainly hope it's Green Eyes over here."
"Why does everyone call me that?" Joey wonders out loud, turning his attention towards me and crossing his arms across his chest. "I blame you for this." He mutters half-jokingly at Natalie.
"Hey, not my thought that's the first thing people notice about you. Would you rather people call you black-haired or something?" She laughs in reply. That would probably be weird.
"Okay!" Joey laughs. "You've made your point."
"So is he!?" Elliot interrupts rather annoyed. "If he is, something's really going to happen to his face."
"If I tell you will you leave?" Michelle says equally annoyed.
"Depends if his face need disfiguring."
"It doesn't! You better not punch him though. If you remember, he's already been through a lot of injuries already." Michelle yells angrily. She's really going to lose her voice soon. Another thing to think about in her already thought-filled head.
"So he isn't?"
"Yes!" She practically screams causing many people to look over at us. "Now get out of my sight! Let's go guys." She says as we continue to walk. Of course Elliot continues to follow us; we wouldn't expect anything less from him, especially since Michelle is within clear teasing range, making our quad an easy target for bullseye. Michelle however, simply cannot get over the fact that he was among a twenty feet ratio of her.
"What are you doing here anyway? Shouldn't you be back at your school in Bulgaria?"
He smirks at her knowingly. "I came to see your beautiful face of course."
"Who in the name of Merlin are you trying to kid here?" Michelle scowls back at him, looking at him as if he is no more worthy than a piece of gum at the bottom of her shoe.
"Babe, this face is never a joke." Elliot leans in close to Michelle's face and winks. I'm guessing he doesn't know something called personal space. She smacks him upside the head. Michelle glares at him with annoyance and frustration. She puts her hands on her hips.
"Don't get into my personal space." Michelle exclaims, not making an effort to hide the annoyance in her words.
"I know all about personal space, angel." He smirks again. "It just slips my mind whenever you're in my sight." Michelle grimaces. Elliot puts his arm around her shoulders and leans in. "Say, why don't we get something to eat? Just you and I."
"You don't just give up do you?" Michelle grumbles, not even bothering to get the arm off her. We all know it's useless. "I don't stop until I get what I want. And what I want is you, princess." He replies with a smile. Michelle just sighs and starts walking off but not before shrugging his arm off.
"Don't call me that." She deadpans with a flat look. "Besides you haven't answered the question. Why in the world are you here?"
Elliot sighs dreamily. "I like them feisty and stubborn." She punches him on the arm. He winces. "You pack quite a punch. You play Quidditch or something?"
"She's a beater." Jennifer answers for Michelle.
Elliot whistles."My baby is also a beater! She'll always be a keeper in my eyes though." He smiles charmingly. What's with him and pick-up lines anyway? They don't work at all and they basically do the opposite rather than helping. Michelle just continues to walk away from the guy. We just follow behind her, not really knowing what else there is to do in such a situation.
"Come on, don't tell me you don't miss me at all?" Elliot asks with what is sarcasm to him.
"No. Not at all now just go back to Durmstrang and never come back!" Michelle finally snaps.
"I don't plan on going back anytime soon. I'll be here till the end of the school year. Isn't that great? We'll get to see each other every single day." Elliot smiles trying to throw his arm around Michelle's shoulders again.
"That's not great at all! Why would you even stay here? You have your own classes."
"You know, I was just in the neighbourhood and thought of visiting. Haven't seen you in a while."
"No one wants to see you, and if you have a brain in that little nut that you call a head then you would understand that it will remain that way." Michelle mutters under her breath, distastefully, widening her strides.
"Can someone please explain to me what's going on..." Joey murmurs between Natalie and I, still not completely understanding the happenings that had occurred with Michelle and a certain Bulgarian guy seeing he was unconscious the whole time.
I bet Michelle would like a rake right now so she can crawl his eyeballs out of his face. The thought alone is plausible simply from the look of utter murder painted permanently on her face whenever he's within a hundred foot radius from her.
"Elliot fancies Michelle," Natalie starts, voice hushed down to a minimum, "and let's just say, Michelle would much rather spend an afternoon with her hands glued to Lewis then go out with him."
Joey eyebrows hitch upwards at such a statement. "Why does he think I'm her boyfriend then?"
"Maybe because you're male and you're within touching distance from her?" Jennifer offers unhelpfully, with a duh expression on her face.
Joey rolls his eyes secretly. "Yeah, thanks for that. It helped. A lot." his voice dripping with sarcasm.
Jennifer grins and dramatically patting his back with force filled swings. "Anytime. Anytime. That's what I'm here for." Now it is my turn to roll my eyes.
The six of us take an unexpected detour and end up arriving at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. The outside of the shop was painted in many different colours. Ignoring Elliot, we walk inside of the huge building full of practical jokes and all sorts of weird and wacky things. Jennifer looks as if she has just fallen in love though maybe she has considering the fact that they sold love potions. She immediately runs in, disappearing within the large crowds of people. I guess we'll have to find her later.
I take the time to look around the building. Basically anything not allowed at Hogwarts could be found here. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the confiscated items came from this shop. Around us we can see bins and bins of little tricks: candy that makes you sick, pets, trick wands, self-correcting quills and even Muggle magic tricks. I suspect it has a lot more to do with actual magic though.
"Hey, I'll be right back." Michelle says as she heads towards a display of pranks. By the looks of it they somehow explode. Hope she's not planning anything of Lewis. Elliot follows her to probably annoy her some more. Joey, Natalie and I head towards some of the self-defense stuff since we don't have any plans to blow someone up or get in detention. We begin to play around with some of the things. They have things from shield hats to decoy detonators. We should really consider buying some of this stuff seeing how many times we've been attacked. I don't want to jinx it but I hope this year is better. I've had quite enough for a lifetime.
Michelle eventually comes back with a bunch of things in her arms. I take one of the packages to see that it causes your head to turn purple and swell.
"You're not using this stuff on Lewis right?" I question. There's no way they're going to even become civil with each other if she uses all this stuff.
"Only if he annoys me too much..." She replies as I put the box back in her arms. "I have plans for some other people too." I wonder if Keith should be worried.
"Who's Lewis?" Elliot suddenly blurts out. I almost forgot he was here with us.
"None of your business." She replies holding in her annoyance.
"Wait, was he that guy with us at the warehouse?"
"Yes, so can you leave now?"
"You don't have anything going on with him do you?" Elliot narrows his eyes in jealousy.
"Eww, gross. Merlin no! Now get out of here!" Michelle cries out in disgust.
"You did have a date with him remember?" Jennifer 'helpfully' pitches in. I sigh in exasperation. Michelle sends a death glare at Jennifer. Joey blinks. Elliot goes slack-jawed. "What?!" He squawks. Michelle ignores him in favour of yelling at Jennifer. "Why did you have to remind me!? That was a one time thing." She hisses at Jennifer.
"I just thought it could get him off your back..." Jennifer mumbles, looking like a scolded child. Michelle does a facepalm. Sure Jennifer, think it did the exact opposite.
"You actually have a thing for that dude?" Elliot asks incredulous. "You both were yelling at each other when you landed on top of us."
"It was a one time thing and don't remind me!" Michelle repeats.
"You even danced with him at your family's company gathering." Jennifer exclaims. Then she slaps her hands over her mouth. Michelle's eye twitches. Uh-oh...
Elliot put his hands on Michelle's shoulders and turn her around. "Babe, is there something you're not telling me here?" He asks with a serious look on his face. This is probably the most serious I have seen him to be. Michelle scowls in response and smacks his hands off of her.
"Hey, what seems to be the problem here kiddies?" A man asks curiously behind us. I turn to see a grown man with fiery red hair and mischievous, playful crystal blue eyes. Where did he come from? I didn't hear anything that gave him away, not even a snap that comes with Disapparition. He tilts his head slightly at us, looking quite curious.
"Well?"
"Oh sorry, Mr. Weasley." Michelle smiles at him and nods at him. I wanted to facepalm myself. This guy has all the distinguishable features of a member of the Weasley family. How could I not remember that?
"There's nothing wrong. We were just having a little squabble that's all." Michelle continues. Mr. Weasley snorts and waves his hand. "Oh dear Merlin, don't call me that. Call me George. Calling me Mr. Weasley makes me feel old. Like my old man." I smile slightly at that.
"I couldn't help but hear that someone is having a little trouble with love." He wiggles his eyebrows at Michelle and Elliot in particular. Elliot brightens and steps forward.
"What do you do if a girl is playing hard to get and is deep in denial and seems to have a thing for someone else?" He asks bluntly.
Michelle splutters. "I do not have a thing for that jerk!" I can't say I'm surprised that she only picked that up. Elliot smirks.
"You didn't deny the others." Michelle's face drops. George snickers.
"I don't see why you wouldn't give this poor lad a chance." He starts. "Ahh this reminds me so much of how I chased after my wife. She was so in denial that it makes me laugh now when I think back about it." George shakes his head in amusement."Little Ronniekins, my baby brother, had quite a rough time just asking Granger out on a proper date." He snickers. Ah, it must be Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger he's talking about. The two thirds of the Golden Trio.
"Hey! I told you to lay off with that story!" A voice cries out in annoyance. We turn to see another guy with similar features with George but younger. It's obvious that he's the 'Little Ronniekins' George is talking about. George turns to his little brother.
"Aww why not, Ronniekins?" He whines. "Our customers simply adore the story so much." Ron's ears and cheeks begin to burn red in embarrassment. "For Merlin's sake, George they don't need to know!"
"But this good fellow here wants to know how to charm this little lady right here." He gestures to Elliot and Michelle. "Might as well give him some advice on what not to do. You failed epicly, baby brother. You were quite lucky Granger already loves you oh so much." George pats Elliot's shoulders with an amused grin. Ron gives his brother a heated glare.
"Sorry to interrupt but umm...What about my question?" Elliot cuts in. George's grin widens. "Oh don't worry. We're getting to that."
Jennifer inches towards me and leans in. "We're surrounded by gingers." She whispers. I nod in amusement at all of this. We just came in here to look at stuff and now Elliot is going to get some love advice on how to win Michelle's heart.
"Anyway," Ron tries to change the topic. He must really not want George to tell the story doesn't he? "I heard that the Triwizard tournament is being held at Hogwarts this year." Ron says, trying to sound nonchalant.
Elliot nods. "Yeah, I remember my brother mentioning that he wanted to enter it this year."
Michelle's face morphs into a look of pure horror struck. "Oh Merlin, there's another one of you?" I wince at the thought of that. Poor Michelle. I fear to see what he's like...
"So that's why you're here? To support your brother?" Joey asks.
Elliot smirks mischievously and shrugs slightly. "Partly why, but I had a couple of other things I had on my to-do list as well that needed to be ticked off." Michelle just scoots a couple extra secure steps away from him, instead positioning herself behind Natalie. The leer on his face just stretches wider across his face, in a rather creepish way. The look he gave made him look like some psychotic pedophile above anything.
"Please don't ever make that face again." Jennifer mutters in a neutral tone, in-deciding whether it would be most effective to sound scared or annoyed.
Michelle just rolls her eyes. "Please, that's basically asking him to get plastic surgery-which I'm all for might I add."
George chuckles and turns back to us. "Have Durmstrang and Beauxbatons arrived yet?" We all shake our head in response. He opens his mouth to say something but gets cut off by a curious customer. He instead smiles at us. "That's my cue. I'll see you kids around."
Ron looks more than just relieved to have his brother out of earshot. "So, could I interest you all with a pygmy puff?"
"Thanks but I already have an owl." I reply. Wouldn't exactly want Luna to think I bought her something to eat. Not sure if the colour's would throw her off. Haven't ever heard of a pink mouse before.
The rest of them say no as well. I could tell Jennifer wanted one but it'd probably wouldn't be the best idea. I'd be scared for the little thing.
"So you were there during Harry Potter's tournament right?" Jennifer asks Ron curiously.
"Yeah, he was way under the age limit. I was mad at him for a while because I thought he put himself in it. Though I did realize he didn't as even he didn't think he could do it. There were moments when I thought he would die but of course he managed of course seeing he's the chosen one." He pauses for a moment as if thinking back to it. "As much as I didn't like the whole war, I had some pretty fun year's at Hogwarts. Did they change the age limit this year?"
"No, it's still seventh-years only." Natalie replies.
"Well I'm not surprised. You'd be crazy to try at any younger though I do admit I wanted to. After seeing what Harry went through I'm glad I didn't even get to enter.
"I still wish I could enter..." Jennifer says sighing.
"I think you'll change your mind once you see it for yourselves." He says as he shakes his head.
"RON!" We hear from behind us.
"What?" Ron yells in response.
"I need help over here!" I hear George's voice reply.
"No need to shout...Well anyway, maybe we'll talk again sometime. I got to go. Have fun."
Michelle and Jennifer run off again as Elliot, Natalie, Joey and I follow.
When Lewis had his mind set on something, it takes wonders to shift it's standing from his beliefs; which is what I am stupidly attempting to succeed. It is going absolutely nowhere.
"Come on Lewis, Michelle isn't that bad! You don't even have to be friends, just civil!" I practically shout. Convincing Lewis isn't as easy as it seems. He can be real stubborn sometimes I guess. Some of the other students in the room turn to look at us but quickly dismiss us seeing nothing big happening, well I hope nothing does. Everyone's just tired of listening to them fight. It was quite amusing at first but now it's just annoying. Sadly, I'm the one who's going to have to do the most convincing.
"No way!" Lewis yells. His eyebrows scrunch up in annoyance as I try to convince him for probably the tenth time now. "I'd rather jump into The Black Lake and become friends with the giant squid."
"You're not being reasonable." I sigh. Lewis has always been pretty reasonable but now I'm starting to think otherwise.
"Of course I'm being reasonable. She's a Slytherin; end of story."
"Not all Slytherin's are like that. Just give her a chance. You'll never get to know her if you keep yelling at eachother."
"Well what if I don't want to get to know her? Why would I do that anyway?" He then challenges.
"Because it'll stop you from bickering. Aren't you tired of all that?"
Lewis lowers his voice back down. "No one says I want to..."
"Then don't. If you learn to be civil this can all end." I plead. Please Lewis...
"I still don't see the reason. Why should I be civil with someone like her?" Lewis then questions.
"Because she's not bad. If she wasn't in Slytherin I'd think you'd be friends. Wait..." I ponder for a second. "I wonder, would you approach Michelle the same way if she was in another house?"
Lewis stays silent for a while and blanks out in thought. I finally found something that leaves him a bit speechless. His prejudice for the house is just really strong. After a while I decide to speak again."Is there a reason you dislike the house?" I ask gently as he continues to think.
"My sister." He says with a sad look on his face. His sister isn't a repeatedly brought up topic, but whenever it did I could tell it really tore him up. From the expression depicted on his features, I could tell that he and his sister were really close and tight knit, and it always make my heart ache for him in equal pain.
"But that doesn't mean all Slytherin's are like that. Some might not have even been in Slytherin." I say hoping he would listen to me.
"It's not only that." Lewis says as his expression turns into slight anger. "My parents, my aunts and uncles, anyone else related to me were treated badly by Slytherin's. They all hate us."
"Why...?" I ask a bit surprised. I never thought there would really be a big reason to his prejudice.
"My great great great uncle went undercover on their side. He pretended to be a follower of Voldemort but he was working for our side. He caused one of their major plans to fail and now all Slytherin's hate us. They're all followers of Voldemort."
"But things have changed Lewis," I say in my most convincing voice possible. "Michelle would rather die than work on the dark side. Michelle doesn't treat you badly for no reason. I doubt she even knows about the whole thing with your uncle."
"But she does treat me badly! Do you know how many times she's pushed me into the lake?"
"That's because you keep yelling at each other and don't even try getting along. Please try..." I plead. He shakes his head. I pout and raise my voice two octaves higher. "Please?"
He just shakes his head again, refusing to look at me.
"We'll buy you Ferrero Rocher!" I start to bribe, hoping it works like it does with everyone else's obsessions. "Just try! Michelle's trying, why can't you?"
After a long-lived ribbon of silence, he finally sighs. "Fine...I'll think about it. Now can we stop talking about this? We've been talking for more than half an hour! Now I'm starving."
"Didn't you just eat a while ago?" I question, effectively containing my sudden surge of joy. He made no promises, but it is definitely a start.
"Well I'm hungry anyway. Let's go to lunch." he says as he begins walking towards the door. I quickly glance at the clock on the wall; seeing that it was time I follow out behind him.
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