Chapter 12: Plans and Games!
Rose's p.o.v.
"What did you do then?" Lily and Dominique asked breathless and with wide eyes.
"I started screaming at him, called him a hypocrite and stormed off!" I replied with a huff, while pacing around the common room.
"Wow!" Lily said looking at me with her jaw hanging. "I never though you had the guts to do something like that!!!"
"I know!!!" Dominique replied, her jaw hanging as well.
"What..... I mean ..... .should I stay mad at him or pretend like nothing happened, what should I do? I 'm not usually like that I don't even know what came over me and that point, but I was so.....so mad at him for criticizing me for my clothes, while I've never, ever done anything like that to him...... I just blew off you know...." I burst out, waving my hands while huffing and puffing all over the place.
I was still very angry and upset.
I just got here, ten minutes ago and I explained everything that happened to the girls.
" Definitely stay mad. After all, he's the one who's wrong, not you!" Lily said vehemently.
"I don't know, are you sure that's a good idea?" Dominique said, Lily glared at her while I looked at her questioningly. "I mean.... you've been friends for so long, isn't it a little too radical to not talk to him, because of his criticism on your clothes?" she explained.
"Are you kidding me?" Lily said loudly. " So what if they've been friends for years? Does that give him the right to criticize her clothing? No! Especially when his dates dress like hookers on parade. And not to mention the fact, that Rose here has never criticized him about anything. I say, let him suffer the consequences. " Lily finished passionately.
Wow, what's up with her, she's acting extremely vengeful. I mean she always tended to be a little cruel and revengeful to people who wronged her, but not like this.
"Okay, okay relax!" Dominique said " I just don't like when people are fighting that's all, but when you put it that way then she should stay mad at him. " she said hesitantly.
"I knew you'll see it from my point of view." Lily said.
"So staying mad, it is....But, what if he comes and talks to me like nothing happened.
"Tell him to eff off." Lily practically shrieked.
"LILY!" Dominique and I exclaimed surprised.
See, what was I saying? There is something wrong with her.
"What? You asked and I answered." she said.
"Did something happen while I was with Alex?" I asked looking between them. "You're acting rather cruel and angry..." I said looking at Lily.
"Nothing, happened." she replied fast, looking irritated.
"Are you sure? Are you on your period then?" I tried again. There is something going on with her, even if she denies it and I am going to get to the bottom of this.
"No, I said everything is fine!" she said through clenched teeth. I turned on Dominique.
"Really now, what happened?" I asked her.
"Oh, nothing happened. She's been like this ever since Marco, asked Morgan out at breakfast, after you left." Dominique said. Suddenly we looked at each other and our eyes widened, it was like something clicked in our minds.
"Lily, is there something you're not telling us?" I asked while settling down on the couch beside her.
"Of course not, you know everything that's going on in my life!" she said quite abruptly.
"Lily, do you fancy Marco?" Dominique asked with sneaky smile.
"Of course not!" Lily screamed immediately. "How dare you even insinuate that I fancy him?" she asked while sneering. "He is so....so revolting, disgusting, idiotic..... there are so many negative epithets I can use to describe him that I can't even start now cause it will take me years, years to finish." she finished with a huff.
"Than, why are you acting so upset over the fact that he asked Morgan out?" I asked her.
" I am not acting upset because of that.....and besides, Morgan is my friend and I don't feel like seeing her mop around the place when he dumps her." Lily said defensively.
"Yes, but you j....." Dominique started saying.
"I said, I don't fancy him and I am most definitely not upset that he asked Morgan out. Can we drop it now?" Lily said while glaring at Dominique sitting across from her.
"Jeesh, we just asked because we care and this is what we get...." Dominique said while shaking her head disappointedly. I just nodded, I didn't want to add any more fuel to the fire.
"At least, did you have a good time with Alex?" Lily said, obviously as an attempt to change the subject.
"Yeah....." I said, I decided not to tell them anything about my friendly feelings towards him yet. "I'll go, back to my dorm..." I said while getting up " I have a test tomorrow on DADA and I want to revise. I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" I asked. Lily nodded.
"Yeah and we fixed your clothes in your room, hope you don't mind!" Dominique said.
"It's okay. Goodnight then!" I said and walked out of the common room and toward my dorm.
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As always the following week past by really swift. What with classes, exams, homework and my Head duties, my free time was extremely limited.
I also hadn't talked to Scorpius at all for this week. Oh, he was trying to make amends. I can't say. But I decided maybe it was time for me to show him some backbone.
The guys kept giving me weird pleading looks, to make everything return to normal but I wouldn't budged. And on the other hand the girls were congratulating me and giving me silly speeches about woman empowerment. Funny ha?
I had also hang out for quite some time with Alex, but my feelings remained still the same.
Tomorrow morning there was a match between Slytherin and Ravenclaw. It was the first match of the year and the spirits had started soaring high, rather early. Everywhere you went you would see banners and people making wagers and bets about the outcome. The Hogwarts bookies; two fifth year Hufflepuffs were running aloft the school trying to keep up with all of them.
I found it extremely amusing.
"Hey Rose!" Nikos said walking up to her.
"Hullo!" I replied with a small smile. I was in the Gryffindor common room sitting by the fire and reading a book.
"What are you up to?" he asked looking around the room and then at her.
"Nothing much." I exclaimed and put the book on the side.
"So... Marco's birthday is coming up....." he said and looked at her pointedly.
"I know it's next Sunday." I said looking at him curiously. He was taking this somewhere but I don't know exactly where. "Why are you telling me that?"
"Well, we... that is the guys and I decided to go out the day before." he said looking seriously at me, and seeming a little alarmed.
"But....but there is no Hogsmead visit next week..." I said looking confused
"Exactly..." Nikos said slowly.
Oh no! He didn't mean they would sneak out, did he?
"Are you telling me that you are planning on sneaking out?" I whispered viciously. "You can't!" I added after a while. "What if you get caught! For Merlin's sake you could be expelled! EXPELLED!" I said urgently. And the another thought went through her mind. "Oh my god! You made me your accomplish. I could be expelled as well." I cried out. Okay maybe that was a little too over dramatic but she couldn't help it!
"Relax!" Nikos simply said . "We're just letting you know. You don't have to come if you don't want to. Although Marco would appreciate it." he said still in a hushed tone.
"You wanted me to come too?" she asked sounding astonished. Yes, they had tried to make her sneak out before, but it was usually out of the common room not out of the school. "And where are you planning on going if I might ask? And why did they send you and they didn't come to tell me by them selves?" I asked again looking at him with narrowed eyes. He cleared his throat.
"We're going at this new pub that opened in Hogsmead!" he whispered. "And the guys were a little scared to tell you of the plan, so they send me since I am not." he said grinning. I kept on looking at him with narrowed eyes.
"I don't think it's really wise of me to sneak out. The one time I did it I got caught." I said looking at him seriously. "It was not a pretty sight when my mother heard of it." I said and winced remembering the howler I had received the next day.
"But that was only one time!" he said in a pleading tone. "Come on have some fun." he tried again.
"Nope! I stand firm." I replied again.
"Okay but we're still going.." Nikos said in a warning tone. I just shrugged. They could go by themselves. I wouldn't have fun either way. The one and only time I had went them with them at a club I had ended up sitting by myself for most of the time and watching the guys, mostly Scorpius hooking up with other girls.....
"Are you coming at least tomorrow?" Nikos asked.
"You mean the game?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah, I have to or the boys are going to be mad."
"At least wish him good luck..." Nikos said before getting up and walking away.
Rose did not have to ask about whom he was talking about. Maybe he was right... Oh what the hell it was only a good luck, she was just gonna say those two words and then everything would go back to normal. Well not exactly normal, normal. She was going to be still mad at him and not quite exactly talk to him. At least until he apologized.
Yeah, that was exactly what she was going to do!
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"Truth or Dare?" Dominique asked Lilly as the three of them walked from their dorms to the Great Hall for breakfast.
The game was today and they woke up a little earlier than usual so they could eat their breakfast in a calm relaxed mood and not the craze that had been going on the last past days
"Truth." Lilly answered looking down at her feet. Dominique smiled gleefully and rubbed her hands like a naughty child.
"Do you think Marco is cute?" she asked waggling her eyebrows. Lilly's head shot up, her cheeks bright red. She thought for a couple of moments and the in a serious voice said "No, I don't."
"Now, Lilly remember you have to tell the truth.." I reminded her in scolding tone. She glared at me.
"I am telling the truth." she retorted I just shrugged.
"So you don't find him cute at all?" Dominique said curiously. Lilly shook her head. "Are you sure?" Lilly shook her head again "What do you think of him then?"
Lilly's cheeks got colored even more. She looked around and said nothing for a couple of moments. "I don't." she answered slowly.
"You don't what?" I asked.
"I don't think of him, okay?" Lily screamed. We heard coughs and snickers from behind us. All three of us turned around and saw that there were four Ravenclaw guys behind us and apparently they had all heard our conversation. And to make things worst they all four were on the Ravenclaw quidditch team. We just turned around and started walking without saying anything.
"Do you think they heard a lot?" Dominique said whispering.
"No, probably only Lilly's last sentence which she screamed." I answered in a whisper too.
"Like I care!" Lilly said in a normal voice. That is true one thing that Lilly was definitely not was shy. "So Rose, truth or dare?"she asked looking at me.
"Uhhh, dare ?" I said. Lilly got a sly expression stole a glance behind us and said in a clear loud voice. "I dare you to kiss the first guy you see."
"Come onnnnnn!" I moaned "You can't do that to me, Lily!" I said in a pleading voice. "My God, what if the first guy I see is Prof. Neville or worst Prof. Pinto" I said and shivered thinking of me kissing our 100-or-so year old potions master.
Suddenly, I felt someone tapping me on the shoulder. I whirled around and saw one of the Ravenclaw guys. I'd seen him before in some of my classes but didn't actually know him.
"Can I help you with something?" I asked in my professional Head Girl voice. Usually when someone tapped me in the shoulder it was for me to do something as the Head Girl.
"Nope." he said with a grin and looked back at his friends who were guffawing at the moment. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. The guy who was about 5'10 with black hair and hazel eyes; quite cute if I say so myself, turned and looked at me again with a .... flirty smile?
"You see my friends and I couldn't help but overhearing your conversation and also your..uh.. dare." he said with a half grin. "We also heard of your objections, so I valiantly decided to take one for the team and help you out." he said, grin still plastered in his face. I frowned. So what did he actually mean with that. That he was offering himself to me to kiss? The guy turned around and pointed at his cheek.
"I.. I don't even now you!" I blurted out and looked around the girls where winking and smiling and me the other three guys were still guffawing.
He turned to me with a smile and said "Tommy Denton, nice to meet you. I know already who you are."
"You do?" I asked with wide eyes.
"Of course. Who doesn't know our lovely Head Girl , who is also one of the prettiest girls in school." he said with a wink and turned his head again to show me his cheek.
"Oh, alright." I said and got up on my tiptoes to give him a kiss on the cheek, but a second before my lips touched his cheek he turned and I ended up kissing him on the mouth... I immediately drew back looking at him with wide eyes. He just smiled at me looked at his friends who were hi-fiving each other and started walking by us. Before he was gone from the hall he turned around looked at me and said.
" All my scores today will be for you!" then winked and moved out of sight.
"Wow, can't say I saw that coming." Dominique said, with her constant smiley face.
"Yeah." I said.
"Wellll, that was fun!" Lilly said "Can we go for breakfast now?" she said in a whiny voice. "You know I don't do early weekends." she said again and started walking fast towards the great hall.
When we got there I spotted the guys sitting at the Slytherin table surrounded by the rest of their teammates and the usual female crowd so we chose to sit at our table. When we finished our breakfast we decided to sit here and talk until the time the game would start. During that time the guys came to talk to us before they headed to the pitch. I wished Marco and Albus good luck with a kiss and then coolly said good luck to Scorpius who smiled back at me hopefully. I did not say or do anything else and he left with a sullen look on his face.
We reached the pitch and found some pretty good seats and waited for the game to start.
So sorry I haven't updated for soooooo long, things have not been going good for me lately, hopefully the New Year will change things a bit. Thanks to all my reviewers which I will not write down now, (i'm running a little short on time) and for all your support and good words. This one not one of my best chapters, wanted to make it much longer but did not have the time. I promise next one will be better....
Thanks for reading
Andio......
