AN: This was the original Chapter 6. I had planned to cut it out because it and the next 2 or 3 chapters are on the childish side but I can't think of anything else so enjoy!
Two weeks of school went by fairly quickly for Alice. But if you asked her, she would flat out tell you that she hated doing the work and homework. Well as long as she didn't have to write anything down. She loved practical work.
Alice was sitting down by the lake with Lily and Kiara. Normally, she would be in the castle, reading in a hidden corner or an unused classroom but her friends had threatened to drag her out of there if she didn't get some fresh air.
"Hey Alice" Lily asked.
"What?" Alice replies without looking up.
"Who do you have a crush on in school?"
Alice said nothing but merely looked at them with a calm expression, raised her hand and flipped them off. She then returned to her reading, intent on finishing that chapter. "Oh, come on! There must be someone!" Kiara exclaims.
Alice merely shook her head. She was not going to reveal anything as easily as she did with Bellatrix. "You know I think there is someone, she's just too stubborn to admit it."
"I'm stubborn in general half the time. But if this is going, where I think it's going, then no."
"Whatever do you mean? We just to wish to see who you like. It's not as if we were going to ask professor Slughorn if we can make veritaserum for 'educational purposes'"
"I swear, I will murder in your sleep if you come anywhere near me with that." Alice threatened, head snapping up. She placed her bookmark in her spot in case she had to run. "And besides, it takes nearly a month to brew doesn't it?"
"We can wait. We do have a bit more patience than you." Kiara said.
"You're not finding out. Knowing you, you'll try and set us up."
"We would never!"
"Liars. You would so, and then you'd try and set me up."
"Just, please tell us who it is?" Lily asked.
"Absolutely not. I didn't tell Bella, I'm not telling you."
Both Lily and Kiara gave Alice a calculating look, like they could figure it out if they stared at her long enough. "It's not going to work." She said, not looking up from the book she had gone back to. "And if you keep starring, I'm leaving."
"Why? We'll just drag you back out." Lily countered
"Not unless I go into the common room, because good luck getting one of the other Slytherins to drag me out."
"You're no fun."
"Don't care. I'll see you guys later." Alice said as she stood up.
"Where ya going?" Kiara asked.
"Somewhere, where I won't be interrogated when the conversation is going in circles."
Just as Alice was starting to walk away, she remembered who she had been talking to. Gryffindors. Those two would probably try something incredibly stupid to get the info. Maybe she should go to Bella for some useful hexes.
Alice walked into the castle, her mind switched over to a story she was working on. She must've been absorbed in her thoughts because she didn't see when someone turned the corner and walked right into her. They crashed, and books went flying. Alice and whoever she had run into landed on their butts.
When Alice looked up again, she wasn't exactly expecting to see Severus sitting right across from her. She froze almost instantly, much as she loved hanging with him, he was the last person she wanted to see right now.
"Damn, Alice. I'm sorry, I was not paying attention to where I was going." Severus apologized, starting to get up.
Alice got up as well, picking up his book that had gone flying. "N-no it's fine" she said, getting up, "I wasn't paying attention myself."
They both faced each other for a moment, in comfortable silence. "Here" Alice said as she handed Severus his book back. They traded books with each other. "Thank you" Severus replied. Alice nodded in response "Well, I'd better go. Can't keep you from wherever you're headed going to" Alice said. Severus nodded in response and after a few more seconds of silence, they left each others company, both reluctant to do so, but would never admit it.
