I just wanted to let you know that the first chapter of what might be my second story: 'Puberty and her Seven Dorks' has just been posted! It'd really mean the world to me if you guys could go check it out and help me figure if it's any good or not...
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11. Detention
The one when they almost.
I stayed the rest of the weekend inside my dorm, leaving only for meals. All girls asked me what was going on, but I simply invented a headache to be left alone. Lily was the only hard one to convince, she asked me about my confrontation with her brother and there was no way I could lie to her, she was the only one that knew what I did.
I gave her the cloak and the map back, and I gave her a panorama on what had happen, but I didn't go into details, I was better off alone with my head for a while, at least until I managed to figure out what was going on.
"This is a beautiful picture." She said to me taking the picture of my family from my hands. "I remember them from last new year's eve party, your dad looks like a very sweet guy." She said smiling.
"Yeah.. he is, he's the most important person for me, I see a lot of myself in him." I said allowing a small smile on my face.
"That's nice." She said smiling sweetly.
Lily was a good company, after I told her a little bit of what happened she didn't interrogate me further, and I was glad she was keeping me a little bit of company without going into delicate topics or trying to convince me to go to the hospital wing - Rose had almost driven me insane trying to make me go there to 'cure my headache'.
"Should I put it somewhere?" Lily said, still holding my picture.
"Yeah, sure, there is a little golden box inside my trunk where I keep this things, can you put it inside it please?" I said lazily.
"Sure." she said opening my trunk. "Oh, It's beautiful!" She continued as she took my little box off.
It was my favorite object in the world, it belonged to my grandmother - my mum's mother - it was a golden box, all covered in Asian red drawings.
"It was my grandmother's. It took her a while to accept my mum's choice, you know, with my father being a muggle and all... but she gave this to me after my fist day at Hogwarts, she said it was the only peace she had in the colors of my house, and that even though it was all 'Gryffindorish', it was one of her favorite pieces, alongside with me. That's when she came around and accepted us." I said smiling to myself, completely lost in my memories.
Lily was still smiling when she opened the box. Then she looked at me, eyes widened.
"What?" I asked frowning.
"This box, it's very important to you, right?" She said slowly.
"Yes, of course, I just told you that." I replied rolling my eyes.
"And for what I can tell you keep your treasures here, right?" She continued.
"Yea, so?" I didn't know were Lily was going with all this. Every female was allowed their own little special box, right?
Then she turned the golden box towards me so I could see its contents, and there it was, a green and golden clasp inside.
I had completely forgotten I've put Potter's clasp in there! I'm still not sure why I did it, I came back last night pretty miserable, and I couldn't walk around with that in my chest! So I just putted it in the place where I put all the things I have to keep, I didn't pay a lot of attention to it back then.
"Oh, yeah, well, I didn't know where else to put it, and it's temporary, of course." I said, oh Merlin, I could feel my skin burning.
"You know what? It's ok, I don't need to know about it." she said with a bright smile on her face. I could see she was holding back a good laugh.
That made me blush even more.
"You know what Lils? I think I'm really tired, I'm going to sleep now, talk to you later, ok?" And I rolled in my bed turning the lights off with a swing of my wand. Merlin, I'm going to be up for a while...
"Hey, are you ok?" Antony said approaching me after our potion class on Monday morning.
"Yeah, sure, why?" I asked a little confused.
"I didn't see you yesterday, I asked Kat on the library and she told me you had a headache, that's all." He said taking my hand.
"Oh yeah, that's right! It was nothing..." I said taking my hand away, I couldn't lie to the guy and still hold his hand - that's just weird.
"Ok, I get it." Antony said a little hurt, but before I could reply he was already a few feet behind me with his Hufflepuff's mates.
Great, now the only thing close to an relationship I've had in years is flunking. Way to go Diane.
"What's wrong with him?" Scorp said approaching me.
"Why would anything be wrong with him?" I said rolling my eyes. It was quite obvious that I was the problem, and Scorp knew me well enough to know that.
"Ok miss PMSing, so what's wrong with you?!" Scorp said laughing.
"Right now, you!" I hissed, but as soon as I looked at his face I couldn't contain my smile. Scorp gave me a sideway hug and we walked together laughing.
I found out on Wednesday that my detention was going to be hold on Thursday, with Mr. Garrison - he had substituted Mr. Filch after he passed away about ten years ago, or so I heard.
The news had been given to both me and Potter this afternoon, after our DADA class. He was no longer avoiding me, we were still not speaking with each other, naturally, we never really spoke with each other if not for shouting and name calling, but I knew he wasn't hiding anymore and that was progress.
I still hadn't figured why the whole situation bothered me so much, but at least it feels better now that the situation seems to be normalized.
On Thursday, a quarter to eight, I started to make my way to Mr. Garrison's office. Whatever he had in storage for us, I hope it's something that we can do in silence, I'm still not ready to talk to Potter.
"Hello." Potter said as I approached Garrison's office.
"Hey. Is it time yet?" I said eyeing the door.
"Pretty much, yeah." He said.
We both made to open the door and our hands touched on the way, I quickly took my hand away and he sort of just kept his there. I felt a shiver down my spine - great, all I needed right now.
"Oh, please, you go." He said, gesturing the door.
"Right... we should knock first." I said. He was still gesturing me to do it, and so I did.
"Come on in. Oh, Mr. Potter, Mss. Greengrass, how nice of you to keep yourselves up till late, I really needed someone to clean the great hall for me." Mr. Garrison said smiling.
Cleaning the great hall? Ok... well, it's not so bad anyway, a few spells and we should be ready to go.
"No magic, of course." He continued.
Oh crap.
"Follow me please." He said finally gesturing the door.
We followed Mr. Garrison to the great hall, I was shock to discover two buckets of water and sponges waiting of us. Great...
"The buckets will refill themselves, and naturally, the whole place has been enchanted to announce me if any of you try to use magic, shall we give it a little try?" He said eyeing Potter.
"Tergeo" Potter said simply waving his wand.
At first, nothing happened, then a siren began to echo from a bracelet in Mr. Garrison's arm.
"Perfect." He said smiling and touching the side of his bracelet so that the noise would stop. "Off you go. I should be back in about three hours to see your progress."
We took one bucket each and went to opposite sides of the hall, at least we wouldn't have to talk and the hall has large enough for us to keep a distance from each other.
My mind took advantage of the time to start putting things together, not that I was getting near anywhere, but still, it was nice to have some quiet time to at least try to put things in order.
I didn't know if it was fair to Antony to keep seeing him, I mean, he's a great guy, and we have a nice time together - mostly - it's still awkward because I keep seeing Potter's eyes whenever I close my eyes to kiss him - I know, shame on me-, but in my defense he really disturbed me following us around on our first date, I can't help it! And I know he still thinks there's more to the entire situation, so we can't quite be natural with each other. But besides that, we have a nice time together.
Oh, who am I kidding?
But before I could think of anything else, I slipped on the water and fell, face down to the ground. I was in such a state of pain that I don't even remember screaming, but I probably did, because Potter was rushing in my direction, I turned, facing up, in order to try to stand up so that he would go back to his side of the room, but only turning was more than I could handle right now.
"Hey, what happened?! are you ok?" Potter said already standing in front of me, hand in my direction to help me stand.
"Yeah, fine, I just think I need a minute to get up." I said closing my eyes in pain.
"Oh, come on, don't be stupid, let me help you." he said catching both my hands.
Once his hands touched mine again I felt the now familiar shiver down my spine, with an additional jolt of heat starting in my hands, but going right though my face, that I'm sure was becoming red again. Before I thought of anything else I pushed him down, if he is going to make me feel weird things, well, I'm not going to be in a compromising position alone!
I know, that makes no sense, and I realized that as soon as I did it, only too late. He fell exactly on top of me, of course, Merlin! You must be laughing right now! If I get a hold of you, I'll kill you all over again!
"So, is this your answer?" He whispered on my ear.
"I... What?" I said as I realized how close his face was from mine.
"Is it?" He said looking right into my eyes.
Dark green eyes meet bright green eyes again, I could feel his hot breath on my face, he has a nice smell, broomstick, grass, parchment, and mint, like a summer day outside and- wait, WHAT?! SNAP OUT OF IT DIANE! Say something, say something rude RIGHT NOW!
Too late, his nose has just touched mine, he's is not even blinking, how can he not blink? Is he trying to torture me for good? Is this some kind of payback?
"ALBUS GET OFF ME!" I finally managed to shout.
He did, so immediately that I even needed a moment or two to figure things out. I got up, my chest was still hurting from the crash but I didn't pay much attention to it, Potter was looking at me with his eyes widen.
"WHAT?!" I hissed.
"You called me by my first name." He said in a low voice.
"I... What?! No I didn't!" I said quickly. I could feel my face burning.
"Yes! Yes you did, you said 'Albus get off me'." he repeated mimicking my voice.
From the heat I was feeling I could only suppose my face was close to purple now, is this national day of embarrassment? Is it Merlin? Is this your idea of fun?! Why do you hate me so much?!
"And now you're embarrassed!" Potter said excitedly.
"No I'm not! I said turning away. "Stop bugging me! You were on top of me, I said get off me, I don't care what I called you, it served you right!"
"I liked it!" I turned back to him with a face of disbelief, and he had his stupid grin on his stupid mouth again. Stupid boy, I hate you!
"Don't you have more work to do? Move along! I want to get some sleep tonight and I'm not going to if you don't do your stupid work!" I said angrily deciding it was best if I ignored what he just said.
"Ok, fine, I'll go back to my work, but I think I'm going to be working over there for now on." He said pointing to a spot in front of where I was working, grinning madly.
"Do whatever you want, just go, will you?" I was really irritated, who does he think he is?!
It has a better view of your shirt! I'm so glad you thought of coming in white, nice red bra by the way! It's just a shame your pants aren't white as well." And he grinned again before he turned away.
As I looked down I saw what he meant, sure enough my shirt was all wet from my fall in the wet ground, and off course, completely see trough. FUCK! I immediately took my wand only to hear him shouting again:
"And no magic, remember? Not only it's not going to work, but you'll also have Mr. Garrison looking at your beautiful breasts." Potter said looking back at me and winking.
I immediately try to cover myself with both my hands, this was ridiculous!
"Potter! Come back here!" I ordered.
"Oh now you want me?" He said laughing.
"Give me your shirt!" I order again.
"Give you my shirt?" He said as he made his way back.
"Yes your shirt, what are you? Deaf?" I was still covering myself.
"No." He simply said.
"No? No like in: no you're not deaf? I don't see you taking off your shirt to give it to me just yet." I was REALLY irritated by now.
"Ok." He said slowly but he did nothing that indicates he would actually take it off.
"Get moving then!" I said gesturing impatiently.
"Not yet, first my conditions!" He said smiling again. Stupid perfect smile, I'm going to punch him!
"WHAT?!" I hissed.
"First you must beg me." He said as his smile turned to a grin.
I took a deep breath.
"Potter, will you please give me your shirt?" I said irritated.
"No, that won't work. I want you to use my first name, I like the way you said it before, and I want sympathy eyes, not that angry face you're given me. First name, and sweet face, let's see it again!" He said grinning madly.
I tried to concentrate, he was torturing me, stupid git!
"Albus, will you please be kind and lend me your shirt?" I said doing my best to sound sweet and blinking my eyes as if I was madly in love with him.
"Oh uau." He said seriously and then closed his eyes. "Perfect! Of course." And he opened them again, but still did nothing that indicated taking his shirt off.
"Now would be a good time, you know." I said still trying to manage my anger, I was not going to repeat that again in a billion years!
"Still something else I want." He said, a smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.
"What?" I hissed, he was clearly ending my patience stock for the year!
"You have to take yours first, and in front of me." He said grinning madly.
"What?! I'm not doing that you pervert!" I said my face turning to what I assumed was close to Red Rose.
"Then you'll spend the rest of the evening in a cold, completely wet, white shirt. Besides, I've already seen it, so well, is this and a dry comfortable shirt, or you get to keep yours."
"FINE, PERVERT! HERE!" I shouted before I took my shirt off right in front of him and threw it into the ground. I hate him, I was feeling really exposed.
The bastard took his time to examine me shirtless, still smiling like Christmas came early, until he finally took his shirt off and handled it to me.
Merlin's bear! His body was absurd! Are you kidding me? Is this some king of twisted game you're playing in my head?! Perfect abs, WHO HAS A FREAKING SIX PACK?! Now I even feel fat, even though I'm not, stupid bastard messing up with my head.
"Not going to put it on? Enjoying a little too much what you see?" I heard him say. That snapped me right back to earth.
I decided not to answer him, I put his shirt on and went back to work silently. I tried to go back to my Antony dilemma, but that was impossible now, not with this stupid comfortable shirt smelling so dam good.
Another hour passed without neither of us saying a word - although he did seem to be enjoying a little too much the fact that I was wearing his shirt and I was having a hard time concentrating knowing that Potter was shitless right in front of me - Jees, I'm with Antony! What wrong with me?!
When Mr. Garrison finally came I didn't even bother answering his questions about why was Potter 'nearly naked' and why was I wearing his shirt, I made a drying spell on my shirt and went straight to Gryffindor's common room, not bothering to change, he was not going to see me shirtless against, not even in his dreams!
It was past midnight when I entered Gryffindor's common room, so I was surprise when I found out that Lily was still awake - well, I should be glad it's just Lily...
"What happened?!" She said with a confuse look but hiding a smile and pointing to what I'm sure she knew to be her brother's shirt.
"Don't even bother asking." I mumbled before I went straight to my bedroom, I want this day to end soon.
A/N: Yey! We've passed chapter ten! What do you guys think so far? Did you like all the craziness of detention?!
Spoiler alert: Next chapter is going to be really revealing to the story, so keep up! And pleeease take the time to leave me a review!
On another note, just like I said before this chapter, I've published the first chapter of what could possibly be my next story: 'Puberty and her Seven Dorks' - no, I won't take effort and hard work away from being us - but anyway, it'd mean the world to me if you guys could check it and tell me if it's any good, you know that I could never write a story without my carrying readers and reviewers...