Readers: Okay guys, I know that in the last chapter I had said that I was going to skip through the innocent stuff and start righting the more grown-up stuff but there was one reviewer who has begged and pleaded with me to continue on with this (might be slightly exaggerated but that's what I got from the PM she sent me). Yes, Sweet Katie Girl(who from here on with be referred to as SKG), this is your lucky day. I'm not going to skip through the years. I appreciate that you think I can write good innocent stories and I had a feeling that if I did skip through the years pretty fast that it was going to ruin the story. Besides you needed to know what happens with the characters, its important to the development of the plot. And just to answer your question SKG, yes Teddy does like her but he doesn't think that he deserves to be loved. He thinks that because of what he is he isn't worthy of someone like her. She is still special to him and she gave him her first kiss (which no one has said anything about oddly) but he doesn't think that she really loves him, he doesn't think anyone can really love him. I hope that answers your question. If not, I can't think of any other way to describe it to you. So here is the next chapter of "The Grand Adventures Of Tiffany & Teddy: Year 1". Hope that you enjoy it.

Chapter 6: I Only Do It To Hurt You!

"The saddest thing in the word is loving someone who used to love you."

-Anonymous

The winter holiday quickly came and went and Tiffany was thrust back into the Hogwarts society. The snow was still heavy on the ground and the corridors of the old castle seemed so much more chilly than they had before. Tiffany and Teddy didn't speak, look, touch, or otherwise engage each other for any reason. It did not go unnoticed by many of their classmates and there began to be speculation as to the reason for their apparent "break-up".

To be honest, Tiffany had found herself seating across the common room from him several times this past week just watching him. Just like she was now. He seemed to be having the time of his life as he laughed with Huge and Drew about anything and everything. She had caught wind of the rumors about the three troublesome teenagers but had forced herself to pretend she didn't care. Teddy and her were through, they were no longer best-mates, friends or anything else. They never would be again. And that was her own decision. One that she would stick by until the day she died.

"Hey, do you mind if I seat here?" Tiffany jumped as she looked up at the boy standing beside her. He was tall, about six feet. Compared to her short five two, he looked like a giant especially when she was seating down. He had his hand held out toward the vacant chair across from her.

"Um, n-no...go ahead." She watched as he sank down in the comfortable chair with a sigh. He smiled at her before reaching into his bag and pulling out a load of books. He placed them on the table and picking up the top book opened it and began to read. Tiffany couldn't help but study him as he read. The boy had white blond hair, pale skin, and the most gorgeous green eyes that she had ever seen. He had his robes on but they were open, as was his tie and the top three buttons of his shirt. She caught herself staring at him and looked away blushing. Oh, lord but he was handsome.

She shot a look over at Teddy who was talking to Hannah Crawford and felt a wave of jealousy rise up and smack her in the face. She hated Hannah! Teddy knew that.

"Teddy is not yours." A tiny little voice in the back of her head reminded her as she turned away from him and back to the homework she had been attempting to finish for three hours. She really hated that she was so distracted by him. Couldn't he just disappear off the face of the earth. Her heart squeezed at the thought. Her feathers ruffled out and she felt the color on her face rise in anger at the sadness she felt from the thought. She didn't really want Teddy to disappear but at the same time she did. It would be so much easier for her to stick to this decision if he did. She wouldn't be staring at him all the time or wishing she could talk to him or wanting him to talk to her...

"Are you okay?" The handsome boy across from her asked. Her head shot up and she stared at him as if only realizing he was there. She shook herself mentally and cleared her throat.

"Yeah, I-I'm fine. Thanks for asking." She mumbled and turned her eyes down the the parchment paper in front of her. She felt the boys eyes stay on her for a few more moments and the color began to rise a bit higher, this time for a whole different reason than before. She tried to concentrate on the essay that she was supposed to be writing. Professor Shakleblot had insisted they do a four roll essay over Big Ben and that they should and would have it on her desk in three days. Tiffany had waited till the last possible minute to start hers and now she was paying for it.

"Are you sure? You seem a little...frizzled." She looked back up at him and offered one of her best smiles. He smiled back and Tiffany was almost knocked backwards. The boy had one killer smile. It reached up and touched his eyes, there was the slightest shadows of dimples on his cheeks, and his teeth were perfectly straight and white. Oh boy, this was not good. She wanted to reach up and fan herself with her hand but she forced herself to sit still and stare at him. She felt like someone was looking at them and turned slightly to see who it was. Her gaze connected with Teddy's across the room and she felt her heart squeeze. Hannah had moved closer to him on one of the sofa's that were scattered about and she was gazing up at him as if he were the only thing in the room, probably the world. Teddy's eyes swirled with a mixture of emotions but the one that reached out to her and made her feel even more fizzled, as the handsome boy had so eloquently phrased it, was jealousy. She frowned at him and turned away. Nope, she was not going to care the slightest little bit that he was jealous. No!

"Yeah, I'm sure." She smiled at him again before turning back to her essay. She could still feel Teddy's eyes on them but she straightened her shoulders in defense and kept her back to him. If she didn't see him she didn't have to deal with him. Even if she wanted nothing more than to go over there and shove Hannah off the sofa and seat beside him. To have back what she had let go. To be able to go back to one and start over again. The words "what might have been" floated around inside of her mind again and she found herself feeling incredibly sad. Damn it all to hell a million times over!

"So, the word on the street is that you and Teddy called it quites?" The question came out of nowhere and Tiffany was mildly surprised that the boy across from her had asked. She looked up at him and frowned. He was still reading his book but he quickly looked up at her before looking back down at the page. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing would come out. She closed it and opened it several more times before she finally forced herself to say something.

"There never really was a me and Teddy." The boy looked up at her and smiled again. She felt her heart sink. For some reason she didn't feel that rush anymore, she had a feeling it had something to do with the werewolf who had moved away from the crowd at her back to another crowd gathered around a window behind the boy. He was watching them intently and she felt her heart race. What if he came over here and demanded that the boy stop talking to her? What would she do? What would she say? What could she do or say? She could see the jealousy still swirling around in his eyes and fought to keep the tiny little part of herself that was thrilled by the idea at bay. He was jealous, so what?

"Oh, then I guess I don't have to worry about him having a problem with me asking you to accompany me to Hogsmade this weekend?" Tiffany jerked her gaze back to the boy at the table in front of her. Had he just asked her to go to Hogsmade with him.

"I don't even know your name." She said but it didn't stop the thrill from running up her spine and back down again. She watched as the blond boy smiled and reached his hand out across the table.

"Brad Bilbro, Gryffindor Seeker." He introduced himself. She stared at his hand for a moment before reaching out and taking it. But instead of shaking her hand he bent forward and raised it to his lips. She felt her skin tingle at the contact but it was short lived. It wasn't like when she'd kissed Teddy goodbye. Her lips had burned for days afterward and no matter how much she tried she couldn't forget the taste of him. It was incredibly stupid but it was the truth.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I don't really follow Quidditch. I'm Tiffany Snape, Potions Master and Mistress Snape's daughter." Brad gave her another killer smile and nodded.

"Yeah, I know who you are." He let go of her hand and sank back against the chair again. He crossed one leg over the other and studied her. She nervously dropped her gaze to her parchment and grinned sheepishly. She didn't know why she felt so shy. It wasn't like he was that cute.

"So know that we know each other a bit," he said watching as she picked up her quill and marked something out on her paper. "What'd ya say to going to Hogsmade with me?" She chanced a look up at him then at Teddy. He was clinching the sides of his armchair tightly as he watched her and Brad. She felt the slightest little twitch in her heart but pushed it away. If he wanted to be jealous about something, she'd give him something to be jealous about.

"Sure, I'd love to." She said and watched as Teddy turned his head away from her. Hannah had approached him and she watched as he asked her to go to Hogsmade with him. Of course Hannah agreed and had sank down on the arm of his chair. He looked back over at her and raised an eyebrow.

So this is how its going to be? This is what its going to come to? He seemed to be asking her silently. She gave a slight nod and turned back to Brad who was reading again. This time she didn't have any trouble concentrating on her essay and when she was done an hour later she told Brad goodnight and asked if he wanted to have breakfast with her in the morning. He agreed and she went off to bed. As she walked by Teddy she could feel the jealousy coming off of him in waves. She shot him a look as she went up the stairs.

He turned away from her and looked at Hannah who had moved from the arm of his chair to the floor in front of him and was now leaning on his leg. He had his hand wrapped around a piece of her long red hair without even realizing it. It was something he used to do with Tiffany. He quickly let go.

He watched as Brad watched Tiffany walk up the stairs and saw the smile that passed over his lips. Teddy knew what that smile meant. He had seen it on Huge and Drew too many times to not recognize it instantly. He rose and started toward the other boy. His shadow feel over him and he felt a slight thrill as the boys face turned blank with fear.

"Don't mess with her." He growled as the boy stared up at him. He reached down and put a hand on the back of the armchair and the other on the table. He lend close to the boy until his face was level with Brad's. The blond boy swallowed and Teddy felt a surge of power at the sight of the unguarded fear on his face.

"I mean it. You stay the hell away from my Tiffany." Brad jumped up and darted toward the male dormitories as fast as his legs would carry him. The boy could run he would give him that. He watched as he disappeared behind the safety of the his dorm door or the relative safety.

Without another word he left the common room and started for his dorm. He started to pass the girls door but stopped. He turned toward it and stared at the dark wood. She was behind it. She was behind that door probably in the bed with the covers pulled over and in that cute little pink night shirt she wore when she was sleeping over. He couldn't count the number of times that she had fallen asleep beside him. At first, when they'd been younger, he hadn't seen it as anything more than a friend sleeping over but then it had became so obvious that he would have had to be a fool not to notice her attachment to him. Of course he hadn't realized when the attachment had gone from that to love and honestly he didn't care.

All during Christmas Break he had tried to get her to talk to him. When he and his parents had came to the annual Christmas Bash that Uncle Albus and Aunt Minerva through every year he had begged and pleaded with her to say something to him. But she had just turned her head and pretended like he wasn't there. Teddy could handle a lot of things but her cold shoulder wasn't one of them. He knew that she had said her goodbye but he couldn't let go. She loved him, she had given him his first kiss and he knew that it had been hers too. How could she just step back and walk away from that? It didn't even begin to process in his cluttered mind. His mother and father had noticed the change in the two of them as well and they had asked questions but he had been able to turn their attention to other things.

He had been glad when school had started back. He had thought with all the chances he would have to talk to Tiffany that he could make her see reason but she wasn't giving him any chance for anything.

"I miss you." He said softly before turning and heading up the stairs toward his own bed.

TBC

R&R my loves, this is as good as it gets.

KC