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So this new Blali is, again, not very fluffy but we do learn a bit more about Su and her and Blaise... well, you'll have to read and see. :)


"How about Morag?" Su suggested. The Asian girl was seated cross-legged against a tree outside the castle, looking at the sun through its leaves. Her Arithmacy homework sat, untouched, across her lap, as she tapped to a beat on her parchment.

Blaise was seated next to her, his attention on trying to aim a couple of rocks at a rather disgruntled Giant Squid.

Blaise wrinkled his nose in response. "The redhead? Nah, she's almost my height. Girls aren't meant to be that tall. It's sort of unnatural."

Su lifted her head from the tree trunk to give the back of Blaise's head a childish facial expression. "How about Pavarti? She's nice and of average female height."

"The Gryffindor twin? No. Have I ever even had an intellectual conversation with that girl? No, thank you." Blaise aimed another stone at the Squid which it fiercely knocked away; it appeared to be getting annoyed.

The two Hogwarts students had begun the breezy autumn day studying Arithmancy, yet had somehow gotten onto the topic of Blaise's love life or, at the moment, lack thereof. For the millionth time, he and Daphne Greengrass had broken up though this was no surprise to anyone. That topic had led to this particular conversation.

"Susan Bones, then?" was Su's next contribution. Blaise replied with nothing more than with a derisive snort. "There really is no pleasing you." In their aimlessness, the two decided to entertain themselves by picking out likely candidates to take on the coveted position of being Blaise's next girlfriend. However, Blaise's attitude was taking all the fun out of it. "You know, no matter how rude, selfish and narrow-minded Daphne is, I think she's the only one that can hold up to your 'high' standards."

Blaise seemed to have gotten rather bored with the discussion as well, but enjoyed annoying Su with his blunt comments on all the girls she suggested. "Well then clearly if you can't think of anyone, you have worst taste in girls than I do." He decided not to mention that he'd briefly dated Susan Bones the summer before 3rd year.

Su took a moment to think about the next option before one brought a smile to her lips. "Oh, I know who you can't refuse! Padma! You two would make an excellent couple actually."

The Slytherin boy turned around to raise an eyebrow at her. "The Ravenclaw one, you're best mate?" Su nodded. "Doesn't she despise my very existence?"

Su burst into giggles, finally enjoying the game again. "I know! She'd snap your wand and a few of your appendages before she'd let you so much as touch her."

Blaise frowned at her, clearly not amused.

"The thought gave me a good laugh," she replied, wiping a fake tear from her eye. "Come on, let's be serious and get this work done."

The Italian pureblood groaned in displeasure but turned towards his books anyway. "I should have copied someone in class when I had the chance," he said.

"Now that you mentioned it, that would have been a good idea," murmured Su as she ruffled through some papers. "Padma never lets me copy. Isn't Tracy really good though? She'd let us copy, right?"

The Slytherin boy's brows knitted together. "Who's Tracey?"

The Ravenclaw girl rolled her almond eyes in exasperation. "Tracey Davis, you pretty-faced twit. You know, honey-blonde hair up to here, really nice, been in your house and year since you've been at Hogwarts? Remember?"

After a few seconds of confused concentration realization finally dawned upon his pretty-faced features. "Ahh, you mean the mudblood? Nah, when I'm desperate I just copied from Daphne. She doesn't act it, but she's pretty smart and I usually get decent marks." He turned back to his work but could feel an intense burden. He looked up to see Su giving him a peculiar look. "What?"

"What do you mean by that?" she asked with a raised brow.

He gave a nonchalant shrug. "Well I'm not saying Daphne 's a genius, but there is a working brain in that blond head of her's-"

"No, no. I'm not talking about your girlfriend," she said with a dismissive wave, "I'm talking about Tracey. You act as if you've never spoken to her before in your whole life."

"Besides, maybe asking her for a quill, no, I haven't," he said, already bored with the subject.

"How is that even possible?" Su said incredulously. "You've been sharing most of the same classes for the past five years!"

Blaise gave an exasperated sigh with an eye roll that rivaled Trelawney during one of her more impressive 'visions'. "You choose the most tedious topics to dwell upon. No wonder you're so unfocused. I simply don't associate with their kind, alright? Now do your homework so I don't have to."

"Their kind?" said Su, clearly not letting it go. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"You know, mudbloods, squibs. Halfbloods too, but they're everywhere so it's not like you can avoid them. That whole lot."

Su gave him a look of stone. "Blaise, I'm a half- blood."

Blaise's mind had slowed to a complete halt. Her words made no sense. Just plainly and simply didn't make sense. It was as if she had said the Chudley Cannons had won the Cup or he was meant to be sorted into Gryffindor. It didn't make sense.

"Wh- what do you mean? You can't possibly be," he frowned," Your mother is pure-blood and your father must have been-"

"My father was muggle-born," she interrupted, "And even though my father loved her unconditionally, he was still considered unworthy. My mother was disowned the day they married. She hated it and hated being poor. When he died she quickly married up and restored herself to the high-class world. My mother is so ashamed of her life with my dad we don't even speak of him... we never have."

Blaise had never seen her like this before. Her expression was pained and her voice far off. He shook his head slowly, still not comprehending. "No. If- If my mother knew... If she'd known your mother had- and that you were-"

Su sighed in a tone so defeated it confused Blaise even more. "As I said, my father ceased to exist. When my mother remarried, she acted like she never had a first husband, and was barely a year old at the time. You didn't think she'd mention it to your mum, did you? She forgot him, and as did everyone else."

There was a moment of silence as Blaise stared pointedly at a patch of sky. He had a feeling it was his turn to speak, but all he could do was will for the right words to float down from the sky. "If... If I had known…" he began quietly.

She turned to him with a fierce look in her eyes that made him flinch slightly. "Blaise, if you had known, you never would have given me the time of day. You never would have spoken to me, even if our mothers knew each other. You never would have greeted me in the hallway or learnt my name or acknowledged my existence. You would have treated- No, dismissed me, just as you have Tracy Davis." With that, Su rose from her spot on the grass and began gathering her things in a hurried manner.

Blaise did not move from his spot. He stared at her with a blazing glare that somehow matched the cold expression that had be fallen his features. "Where are you going? Let me guess: Something just came up? You just remembered you had somewhere to be, right? " he sneered. If Su was going to run away she deserved an appropriate send- off.

"None of the above actually," she replied. "I just can't be around you right now. At this moment, you sort of disgust me."

Su turned her back to him and began walking away. After a second, she turned around and looked at him with a look he couldn't recall ever seeing on her. "By the way, I was wrong. You know, about you and Daphne? You do belong with her."

Blaise allowed a slight crease in his brow to mar his cold look. "I thought you didn't like her? You said she was rude, selfish and narrow-minded."

"I know," she said as a sad expression cracked her stony look. "I just realized how utterly perfect you two were for each other."


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