Hey everyone! It's Thursday, so time for another chapter! Enjoy!
Warning! OCs
DISCLAIMER: WE DO NOT OWN ANYTHING THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ORIGINAL STORY OF HARRY POTTER! IT ALL BELONGS TO J.K ROWLING. WE ALSO DO NOT OWN RICE KRISPIES.
Jennifer's POV
"What!? Michelle was carrying Lewis out!?" I ask out loud. Tamara nods. Does Michelle actually like him? She clearly has a thing for Keith though. But then since the fight...it could have changed without us knowing.
"What do you think happened in there though?" Natalie asks. "Lewis wouldn't faint for a trivial thing. He's not that type of guy."
"I have no idea. I couldn't hear what was going on in the stores. I did see him going into the stores but didn't come out for a while. Then Michelle went in and also didn't come out until there was 10 minutes left of class. Lewis was looking very pale." Tamara finishes explaining. She looks a bit worried.
"Well let's go visit them and find out." I urge them to come with me. Soon after we arrive at the Hospital Wing. The sight that greeted us, shocked us quite a bit. It was Lewis sleeping peacefully, ok that's normal, but Michelle is sleeping on Lewis's bed. Okay not really. More like putting her head there to sleep.
We walk towards them and when we got there, Lewis stirs awake. Of course Keith the bad timer, chooses to walk in at this time. He has a blank face while staring back and forth at Michelle and Lewis.
"Are we interrupting something?" He whispers to me.
"Whaz going on?" Lewis slurs out his words. He rubs his eyes to stay awake.
"I'm just going to leave now...I'll ask her what happened in the Slytherin common room..." Keith says before slipping out of the Hospital Wing. Wow...he left just like that. What is up with that?
Lewis's eyes snap open as he sees Michelle sleeping peacefully on his bed. Then he snaps his head towards us.
"What the heck is going on here?! Why is she sleeping here right next to me!?" He whispered harshly. All of us shrugs our shoulders in response.
"She must be really tired though to sleep on your bed like that." Tamara comments. Lewis eyes Michelle with distaste. Oh yeah...
"Have you thought about it yet?" I ask him impatiently.
"Yeah." He answers.
"Then what's your answer?" I inquire. Lewis is about to answer until we hear a door slam open.
"LEWIS! Are you-" Lilly runs in but stops when she spots Michelle. Jealousy clouds her eyes and bites her lower lip. Then she gives Lewis a forced smile.
"Lewis, are you alright? You worried me when you were carried out of the room." Lilly asks softly with concern as she walks up to him. Oh dang, does she have feelings for him? I feel bad for Lilly. But we must find out where Milly is though. Everyone has to make sacrifices sometimes... Besides it's only a one time thing anyway.
"Uh...can someone get her off me? She's on my arm and it hurts..." Lewis says, pointing to his left arm. I walk over to Michelle's side and start trying to nudge her awake. Since that didn't work, I'll try the spaghetti thing.
"Would you like some spaghetti and meatballs?" I manage to say without laughing. Lewis and Lilly looks at me weirdly. Tamara and Natalie just laugh a bit as usual. But I frown as I see it not working. Strange. It usually works. I keep on nudging her and eventually I give up.
Then Helda storms in.
"Is everything alright?" She asks, out of breath.
"Ow, ow, ow! She's gripping my arm too hard!" Lewis scowls. He tries to get her off but Michelle hangs on tight. What in the world is she dreaming? Then Helda sighs.
"She's having a nightmare." Helda says and walks to Michelle's side.
"Michelle Chang, if you don't wake up right now, I'll get Keith over here." The moment Helda finishes that sentence Michelle immediately shoots up out of her seat.
"I'm awake." Michelle grumbles and rubs her eyes. She plops back onto her seat.
"Thanks for injuring my arm." Lewis says with sarcasm, showing his arm. On his forearm, there's crescent marks from Michelle's nails. Michelle looks apologetic.
"Sorry. But is that what you say to someone who carried your heavy butt to the Hospital Wing?" She growls at him. He glares at her.
"Are you trying to say something here? You could levitated me over here." He grits out. Then Michelle pauses.
"Oh true...Why didn't I do that?" Michelle wonders and facepalms herself.
"Nice to know that you talk to yourself out loud." Lewis says sarcastically. Michelle glares at him. Then Helda puts her hand on Michelle's shoulder to try to calm her down.
"You know that you can't harm a patient. Madame Pomfrey made that very clear." Natalie tries to intervene.
"Whatever. Lewis, I need to talk to you. Alone." Michelle says with a serious face. Lilly begins to look panicked.
"If this is about the Valentine's day thing," Lewis answers. "I don't know yet, okay?" Michelle sighs.
"No, I'm not talking about that. It's something important." Michelle insists.
"Well I'm sure you can say it in front of your 'best friends' and Lilly." Lewis pushes. Michelle looks at all of us.
"Fine. But Lilly and Helda has to go." Michelle firmly says. Lewis looks at her weirdly. Tamara and Natalie gives her curious looks. I think it has something to do with what happened in the stores.
"Sorry Helda, but this is a thing that I don't want you to know." Michelle apologizes as she pushes Helda out the door.
"B-but-" She stutters.
"I promise I'll tell you after all this is over." Michelle promises. Helda relents and let herself get pushed out the door.
"Alright, but you better tell me later as you promised!" Helda yells and then walks away with a disappointed face.
"I'm sorry!" Michelle yells to her and then closes the door.
Lewis smiles at Lilly. "See you later Lilly." Lilly pouts at his goodbye. Tamara smiles comfortingly at her and walks her out the door. On the way there, she's whispering something to Lilly and gives her a hug and closes the door.
"So what do you want?" Lewis asks.
"What happened while you were in the stores? Before you fainted." Michelle begins to interrogate.
Lewis shrugs. "I don't remember anything, it's completely a blur. I rather not talk about it thank you."
"You're not lying to me, are you?" Michelle eyes Lewis. "Can you remember anything?" She presses on.
Lewis shakes his head stiffly. "Nothing." Michelle bites her lips and her eyes shows irritation.
"I really don't believe that you fainted for no reason Zhou." She replies.
He narrows his eyes at her. "I didn't faint." She ignores him and continues.
"Not even a glimpse?" She asks. I really don't know where she's going with this 'interrogation'.
"A glimpse of what?!" Lewis asks irritated. "What would you expect me to see?"
Michelle rolls her eyes. "Of course, who attacked you. That person didn't attack you for no reason." She reasons.
"Why the heck are you asking this much stuff? I never thought you cared." Lewis asks with annoyance clear in his voice.
"Because I think that person is behind my sister's appearance okay!? Besides, if this person didn't spare a second thought on attacking you, this person is a danger to the entire school." Michelle spits out.
"And what exactly makes you think that your sister's disappearance has anything to do with me?"
"That person could have been using something from the stores to use on my sister!" Michelle yells. "I should have checked that broken vial's label..." She mutters.
"You didn't answer my question." Lewis states.
"What do you want me to say then!?" Michelle yells at him. Man this is getting intense.
"Hey, you're the one asking questions here. What makes you think what happened today is even connected to your sister's disappearance?" he continues to question.
Michelle turns to Tamara. "Is it? Is it connected?"
"Don't drag her into this." Lewis says darkly.
Michelle glares at Lewis. "Look. Whoever was in there, was in there for a reason. They could have been looking for something to use on my sister. I need to know."
Lewis looks seriously pissed now. "For once in your life, would you be realistic here! Your sister has been gone for four months now. Why would they wait until now to 'use something on her'? And why would they come here to get it? They can easily just make the potion themselves." he growls frustratedly.
Michelle shoots him a death glare. "Look. Either way, whatever happened in there wasn't a mistake."
"But it was." Tamara suddenly speaks up. We all spin our heads towards her. What?
Lewis stares at her weirdly. "Excuse me, what?"
"It wasn't?" Michelle questions with a softer tone rather when the harsh one she used with Lewis.
Tamara shakes her head. "Whoever it was, didn't intentionally hit Lewis. It was an accident."
"Then why did he get hit?" Natalie asks.
Lewis shifts his gaze from one person to another. "Wait, pause. How do you know all this?" he asks, clearly confused.
"Oh shut up." Michelle answers, wanting to hear more. "Continue."
"He didn't want to hit Lewis." Tamara explains. "He wanted to hit you." Dun dun dun...
"But...what makes them think I would go in there?" Michelle questions.
"Were you missing an ingredient for your potion?" Michelle slowly nods her head. "Yeah, he took it so you would go get another one. But Lewis offered to."
Lewis scoffs. "Wow. For once being a gentleman did me bad."
"You? A gentleman? In your dreams." Michelle huffs, causing Lewis to narrow his eyes at her.
One thing is confusing me. "Why were they in there in the first place? Or were they in there just to hurt Michelle."
"He was gathering ingredients for a potion."
"How exactly do you know all this?" Lewis cuts in. Tamara just shrugs. "Are you sure all this is accurate?"
Natalie nods. "She was the one who found out where Milly is."
"Then she doesn't need me to go out with her on Valentine's Day!" Lewis exclaims. Tamara gives Lewis an apologetic look.
"I only know where she is. But don't know where exactly the location is. Only the lead we got knows where it is and can show us." Tamara says. "That's why we had the deal in the first place."
"Oh, by the way. Do you have your answer yet?" I ask. Lewis ignores me. What's his problem!? I want to know his answer already.
"The guy seems to have tampered with your memory then." Michelle says.
Tamara nods. "Of course."
"Why would they want to mess with my memory?" Lewis asks.
"Remember, he meant to hit Michelle." Natalie clarifies. "Obviously they knew Michelle was going to ask you what happened and who attacked you since her sister went missing. They don't want any of us to find out it's them until they accomplish their goal."
I nod, then turn to Lewis. "So. What's the answer, dude?" Once again he ignores me! I can see why Michelle wants to snap his neck most of the time.
"Wait. I do remember something." Lewis suddenly says. All of us turns to him for his answer. "Green skin. With scales, like a snake. That's all I can remember right now." He says.
"Green snake-like scales...that matches what I saw..." I hear Michelle mutter. Lewis seem to have caught it too.
He turns to Michelle, "You saw it too?"
"I only saw the tail of it when it escaped into the large sewer drain in the stores. I got there a bit too late." Michelle replies. "Not only that, but I saw the person's shadow...It was too tall for it to be a student that I know of. But definitely the average height of a teacher."
"So you're saying it's most probably a professor?" Natalie concludes.
"Maybe." Michelle replies.
"Okay, now that we've got this business down," I say "Lewis, don't you dare ignore me again. What's your answer?"
Lewis sighs in annoyance. He opens his mouth to answer until Madame Pomfrey comes in with a handful of plants. Dang it! So close! I stare at Madame Pomfrey in irritation.
"I'm sorry, I took so long. Peeves was causing trouble in the greenhouses." Madame Pomfrey apologizes and says the mischievous poltergeist's name with distaste and disapproval. "You girls need to leave now, Mr. Zhou needs his rest." I curse Madame Pomfrey in my head for her terrible timing.
Michelle, Natalie and Tamara obediently leave the infirmary. I just stand there.
"Ms. Wu?" Madame Pomfrey asks.
"I want an answer first." I reply, as Lewis repositions himself in the bed.
Madame Pomfrey walks over and starts dragging me out backwards. "Noo!" I exclaim, trying to resist. Just before she pushes me out and wishes me a good night, I look at Lewis straight in the eye. "This isn't over!"
There's three days left until Valentine's Day. He still hasn't said yes to Michelle yet! That jerk. He's purposely avoiding Michelle and me, I just know it.
"So, have any of you guys gotten a special guy to spend with on Valentine's day?" I ask cheekily.
"No." Tamara answers without a second to spare as usual. "Why, you do?"
I shake my head and turn to Natalie and Michelle.
"No." Natalie mutters in a why-on-earth-would-I voice. Hmm, we'll see if Brian changes that. He he.
"Lewis hasn't said anything about it. I think he's going to say no, if he's taking this long to 'think' about it." Michelle says without looking up from her homework. "Who knows? Lilly might have asked him out. He probably said yes, and right now, is probably thinking how to say it without me tearing him to shreds."
"You know about Lilly?" Tamara asks.
"Of course, she's like an open book when it comes to Zhou." Michelle states as she closes her Herbology notebook.
I smile. "So is Natalie with Brian." From that comment, Natalie glares at me.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She denies. I sigh. She always denies it. Maybe she's afraid of rejection. But I have a feeling that Brian feels the same way though.
Out of the corner of my eye, I spot Lewis pulling a book off a shelf and flipping it open. It was the first time I saw him since our little conference in the infirmary. "Hey Lewis!" I call out, making his head pop up at the sound of his name. I see his eyes widen a bit. He quickly closes his book and disappears behind a bookshelf. "Hey! Why you little..."
I abruptly get up from my spot grab Michelle's arm, dragging her in the direction he turned to. "Hey, what are you..." Michelle asks. I spot Lewis trying to blend into a shelf at the back of the library. Perfect. He has no way to escape. I push Michelle in his direction. Oops! I push her a little too hard and it causes her to collide with Lewis.
After Michelle regains her balance, she turns to face me and glares. "What's your problem?" I glare at her back.
"What's your problem? After that day, you never asked him again about the Valentine's Day thing. Quit being so scared to ask that coward again!"
Lewis looks pissed. "Him is standing right here you know. And now I'm leaving." He says, with a turn to the opposite direction. I block his way of escaping. He glares at me, wanting me to get out of his way.
"Get outta my way." He grits out.
"Not until you answer Michelle's question." I narrow my eyes at him with my arms crossed.
He turns around, face hard. "Then answer me. Why should I help her?" That catches me off guard, I hesitate for a moment. "Exactly." he finishes. With that, he turns and starts to walk away. Michelle looks like me when my rice krispies got stolen. That was not pretty.
"What happened?" Natalie and Tamara jog up to us. Tamara spots Lewis walking away in a pissed off fashion. He somehow was able to convey it into his walking. Weird.
"That can't be good..." she mutters, running to catch up with him.
Natalie turns to me. "What did you do?" I pout at Natalie, crossing my arms.
"What makes you think I did something!?" I exclaim. Natalie tilts her head at Michelle in response. "Oh...that..."
She nods. "Yeah. That. Now what happened?"
"I tried to get Lewis to say his answer. That's all I did! I swear."
Natalie sighs. "You really shouldn't push him. He's been through a lot lately."
"But it's almost Valentine's day! Michelle deserves an answer!" I try to justify my reasons. But obviously to Natalie it's not good enough.
"Are you okay, Michelle?" She asks cautiously.
"Other than being pushed into Zhou and getting humiliated, I'm fine." Michelle spat out. Oh no...I hope she's not mad at me...With Natalie too busy to make rice krispies for me, I can't handle it if she's mad at me. So I decide not to make things worse by leaving her alone.
I sigh. "I'm sorry Michelle..."
Michelle just shakes her head. "Whatever. Just forget about it. I should get going. See ya guys later." she gives a small smile and walks off. Great, now I feel bad...But still the guy could still give Michelle an answer. Then I turn to Natalie.
"Are you sure you don't have anyone special for Valentine's Day?"
"No!"
The bell rings, signalling the end of classes for the day. There's only two days left until Valentine's Day. He still hasn't given her an answer. What is he?! A coward? Is it that hard to give a girl an answer?
"Looks like Lewis isn't even going to say no to her. He's just going to leave her hanging on Valentine's Day and the lead to her sister." I say to Natalie and Tamara. Michelle isn't here yet for some odd reason.
Tamara shakes her head. "No he's going to give her an answer alright. He just has a lot on his plate right now."
"Either way. Michelle needs an answer." I state. "She's been really down lately."
"I'm fine." Michelle urges, cutting in. She didn't sound 'fine' at all.
"Hey." I cautiously greet.
Michelle narrows her eyes at me. "You know I'm not breakable right?"
"Oh. Right. Sorry." I quickly apologize. "So where were you?"
"I bumped into Lewis." She casually answers. I perk up at her answer.
"Did he say anything about it?" I asked eagerly.
Michelle sighs. "He said that he will do it for something in return." That is just sad.
"Do what?" Natalie asks.
"He doesn't have anything yet. So whatever the favour might be, it can happen anytime, anywhere. The thought of it kind of scares me...who knows what he is thinking of making me do..." Michelle says with a little bit of fear in it.
"You are doing a lot of favours for people..." Tamara comments.
Michelle rolls her eyes. "Tell me about it. Seriously...when we find Milly she is seriously going to get it..."
"At least he's actually doing it." I state.
Michelle sighs. "That's the only good thing that's happening so far."
"So what do you two have planned?" I tease with a smile. "A romantic dinner?"
"You're just asking for trouble aren't you?" Michelle narrows her eyes at me. Oops. I shouldn't have said that...
"Sorry...but you have to have something planned, don't you?" I apologize. Then Michelle shakes her head.
"Really? Why not?" I ask her.
"He said he would plan it..." Michelle answers. He what?! I stare at her in surprise."What?!" Michelle asks. I totally did not expect him to take charge like that. Now I'm just curious on what he has in store for her. We can't leave school grounds. Which make things very boring and limited.
"I don't know...it's just...unexpected and..." I can't find a word to describe it. "Anyway, did you tell Keith that his date with a ghost is on?"
"Nope. Going to tell him the next time I see him." Michelle replies. Soon after she says that, we see Keith walk by. That guy seriously needs to improve his timing...today is a start I guess. I wonder how Michelle was able to explain sleeping on Lewis' arm...
"Keith! Come over here." Michelle calls him over. Keith comes over and casually plops down on an empty seat between Michelle and me.
"What's up? Did he finally say yes?" He grins at Michelle. She nods in response. "So what am I supposed to wear on a date with a ghost?"
She gives a little amused smirk at that question. "Just wear your normal school robes. She didn't say anything about you having to dress up as if you're courting someone. Like you were about to with someone this Valentine's Day."
"Yeah. Thanks for ruining my plans by the way." He mocks. Michelle pats him on the back, to say, `there, there'. "By the way, why were you sleeping on Lewis's arm?" He says curiously.
"Ohh...I thought you forgot about that..." Michelle trails off. I have been wondering about that too. Knowing her, she would have never done that, unless she absolutely needs to.
Keith snickers. "Kinda hard to forget. It made it look like all the rumors were true and you two are a cute couple." That comment makes Michelle mad enough for her to punch him in the gut and push him out of his chair. She stands up from her chair, gathers her stuff and stomps away.
"Owwwww...what's her problem..."
I turn to Keith. "You kind of asked for it, dude."
"How?" He asks and winces as he holds his stomach in pain. I roll my eyes at him.
"Why are boys so dense..." I mutter. "How would you feel if Michelle said you and Moaning Myrtle made a cute couple?" I chuckle a bit at the thought, that would be pretty hilarious. Keith gives me a grimace for that comment. Serves him right.
Finally it's Valentine's Day! The best or worst day of the year, depending on your relationship status.
After constantly debating with myself, I concluded that I would stalk Michelle on her date. What can I say? Curiosity can seriously get the better of someone, especially people like me.
It's not completely selfish if you're thinking that's what I'm doing right now. I mean, sure, it's like totally invading their privacy but if Lewis decides to somehow show his angry or pissed off side of his personality towards Michelle, which might I add happens a lot, I can totally scare him off with some of my epic kung fu moves, which I don't even think are authentic...but whatever, it's the thought that counts, right?
I quickly walk to the Great Hall for breakfast. For the past few days, there has been buzz and rumors about their date. It's become even bigger as someone had overheard our conversation about Lewis saying yes. I suddenly start to wonder whether or not I'm going to be the only one stalking them on their date. I mean, they are pretty much celebrities now. I think.
"You're going to stalk them. Aren't you?" Bianca questions me.
I blink. "...What makes you say that...?"
Bianca nods. "Yeah, you totally are."
"Why what are you doing?" I ask her.
"Collin and I are just going to study together at the library." I widen my eyes. "No! Not as a date, just studying."
"Whatever you say..." Bianca rolls her eyes.
She nudges my elbow. "If you are going to stalk them, better follow them now. They're leaving." I abruptly get up from my seat. "Just don't react to everything they do like that." Bianca comments.
"Yeah. Okay." I say, silently jogging up behind them. They aren't holding hands when walking so it's probably not a serious date. Let's hope it is!
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