"Wicked little girls
Kiss the boys and make them cry
Raising double trouble every time we pass them by
Some might say we're wicked little girls
With curls and kisses and pearly whites
You better keep an eye on your boy, lock him up tight"
-Esthero
Flashback
"Summer's ending."
"It is." Dominique agreed, though she wasn't sure why he was pointing out the obvious.
"I'm really glad you chose to spend time with me instead of going on your family's big trip. We had fun."
"Yeah, I wasn't at all interested in their trip. Not many of them were going anyway and the parents are all pissy because we're not as close as we used to be or something. I'm pretty sure they thought stranding us on an island together would remind us of when we were younger, which is definitely not the case. The problem isn't that we don't spend enough time together, it's the complete opposite. Plus, I'd much rather hang out with you." He smiled, but rang his hands uncomfortably and she could tell he was struggling with what he wanted to say next. "Is there a problem?"
"No. Well yes, I mean- This is really hard for me to say babe, but I think it's time we had a little talk about a few things."
"Ok. What are you-"
"Shh, don't say anything; it will just make all of this harder for me." Dom rolled her eyes in annoyance, but let him continue. "I've really enjoyed being with you Dominique. You make me laugh, you're a bloody genius, not to mention sexy as hell- I just don't know if what we have is what I need anymore. I think it's time for me to settle down and find something real. Someone real. Does any of that make any sense?"
"Oh, it makes perfect sense to me. Zack Longbottom is looking for a new, fresh girl to occupy his time. Probably a yappy, ambitious little fourth year who thinks she's all that now because she's just grown boobs and can work an eyelash curler."
"That's exactly the type I was thinking. Ah, you know me so well." he said, dropping his whole sentimental boyfriend act. The two of them really had more of a friendship of convience, rather than a relationship. They were together, until it suited to them to be with someone else. Of course, no matter how many times they split up , they would always end up back together. So Dom really wasn't surprised or upset because of the "break-up"; it was just something they did.
"Indeed. I know you so well, in fact, that I know you're only breaking up with me right now because you want to try and look for another girl to tickle your fancy."
"And rightfully so! You surely haven't been tickling anything of mine."
"And I never will." She said as she fixed her make-up, "So who is the poor girl? Do I know her?"
"Why? You want to watch us in action?"
"Absolutely not. But please, make her at least decent looking this time so it looks likely that you would choose her over me. Unlike last time."
"Don't worry; she's more than halfway decent. Inside and out." Dominique could have vomited from the tone in his voice. Zack was not the emotional or caring type. He never did nice things for the girls he toyed with and he certainly never complimented them. He just used them to get what he wasn't getting from Dominique, and the two of them would be back together the next week. "She's amazing."
"For fuck's sake Longbottom, you really like this girl."
"What makes you figure that?"
"Because you're fidgety and nervous looking and you haven't said the words hot, piece, or ass the entire time we've talked about her."
"What can I say? I guess I'm getting older, more mature, that whole thing." She wanted to believe he was just kidding, but Zack hadn't cracked a smile or said he was joking for their entire conversation. He was serious about settling down; enough to actually go through the motions of breaking up with Dominique. "So, are you gonna be ok with this? I mean, me trying out this whole relationship thing?"
"Well you're practically in love or something; I don't have much of a choice do I?" she asked, "Just know that if it doesn't work out and she breaks your heart, don't come crawling back to me."
"Why not?" he asked, "Not that I think she could ever hurt me, but why are you just cutting me off?"
"Because you're right. We're older and I want something real. This whole thing, whatever we have, it can't be healthy."
"It's also not healthy to pine over one guy, who is taken, all of your life."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"I'm talking about Carter Thomas. You've liked him all these years; don't think that just because you traded in your Firebolt for a pair of heels that you've had some change of heart."
"Well what's it to you anyway?"
"You're my girlfriend, I don't want to see you get hurt."
"Thanks to you I'm now your ex-girlfriend, and either way, I never said I liked Carter. Even if I did it wouldn't matter; the two of us are too different and he has Hollis anyway-"
"Screw that brainless whore, D. If you want him-"
"I'm not going to steal him from her Zack. That's so petty and he'd only hate me even more."
"Well he's an idiot for not realizing it and he doesn't deserve you." He said as he kissed her on the forehead. Zack was the biggest asshole she'd ever met, but he was also the sweetest guy she'd ever known. They were a lot alike in that way and even though their relationship hadn't been completely conventional, she was going to miss it.
"You're biased."
"Not much. I do think you're amazing and if he didn't see that while you were friends and overlooked you for Hollis, he's not worth it."
"Thanks. Now go find your new little girlfriend and leave me alone." She said, coming off a little more rude than necessary.
"Slow down on the rudeness Captain Defensive. You know I love you-"
"Yeah yeah yeah, you just want to spread your wings and fall in love and yadda yadda-"
"Hey," he said as he bent down and took her face between both of his hands, "I've got a ridiculous amount of love for you Dominique Weasley, and you know that. I'm not bullshitting you. But I also know that you'll never reciprocate those feelings for me because someone else holds that place in your heart. We could stay together forever and be comfortable and content, or, we could stop being bloody cowards and take a risk, and go for the girl that's twelve times too good for us or the guy that got away once when we were 11. I think two sad, emotionally damaged souls such as ourselves deserve to have the chance to find happiness. Don't you?" It was in that moment that Dominique realized she did love Zack, but he was right; she would never be in love with him. What she really wanted to know was who the girl was that had him in his feelings.
"Fine, you're right."
"What? Excuse me? Did I just hear you admit that I am right about something?"
"Well, it was bound to happen eventually, right?"
"True, I just never thought I'd be alive to see the day or actually hear it for myself."
"Shut it." She said as she kissed him on the cheek. "I love you, Zack. I really do."
"I know."
"If that little wench, whoever she is, breaks your heart, I'll make her wish she'd never come to Hogwarts."
"I know. And I love you for that."
Dominique really understood now, more than ever, what Vic used to always say about not realizing what you had until it was gone. These last weeks without Zack had really proven just how much she was alone in this place. It was clear that most of their friends were his friends, anything they did were plans others had made with him, and that she had hardly formed any relationships of her own. She didn't have her family, really. She only sat in the Weasley section about once a week, and usually came over when it was just Lily, Louis and Hugo. Lily was a great listener and had a big mouth, so Dom could keep up on any family gossip easily. She never sat there when James and Fred were there, because they brought Leah, Linden, Hollis, and Carter with them and that fight was just not worth fighting. Molly and Roxy asked too many questions, Al could annoy her by just being in her general vicinity, and she and Rose could hardly breathe the same air without fighting. It was a nightmare, really.
Everyone else in the castle was finishing up their last class right now, and Dominique was just roaming the halls. She didn't skip class often, but she didn't go that often either. There were guys lined up at her door to do her work for her, so she didn't see the point in sitting through boring lessons. Plus, school had just started so they couldn't be doing anything important anyway. She had taken the Marauder's Map from James- who had probably been freaking out for the last 3 years thinking he'd lost it- so she could sneak around without running into any teachers, or fellow prefects, and she was sure if she saw Lex walking around she could talk him out of giving her detention. Or blackmail him out of it. Either way, she had ways of not getting in trouble or getting out of trouble if necessary. She had planned on continuing her leisurely walk, but almost stopped dead in her tracks when she heard a few abnormal noises coming from a broom closet nearby. She would have ignored it, but any chance for a little blackmail could go a long way in this world. She tiptoed by the door and leaned in as closely as possible.
"What was that?" the male voice asked. Whoever he was with didn't answer, but simply began kissing him again in a rather sloppy sounding way if Dom said so herself. "I heard footsteps, I think someone's outside the door."
"Will you shut your bloody mouth?" a girl whispered. "Just kiss me."
"What if we get caught?"
"Well you're a bloody Slytherin aren't you? I assume you'll just slither your way out of it." The two began kissing again and Dom couldn't believe her timing. You just couldn't write this stuff. Imagine if she'd gone to class today? She would have missed this!
"I don't know, maybe we should have picked a better spot."
"Ugh, whatever Creswell. You know I only get a little time without my boyfriend hanging around and you go and ruin it."
"I'm sorry! Please-"
"Shut it, Nate. Begging doesn't suit you." Creswell? Someone was willingly sneaking around with an idiot like Nate Creswell? What a joke! Overwhelmed by the awkwardness of this situation, Dom lost her footing and her knee hit the door. She had to dig deep to find her old Quidditch speed and race across the hall before the students crawled out of their little mating hole. She heard the retreating footsteps and peeked out from behind the wall just in time to see exactly who Nate Creswell's secret lover was. She would be lying if she said she wasn't shocked, and luckily the two were far enough away to not hear her gasp. "This won't happen again."
"Next time we'll be more careful-"
"No, this will never happen between the two of us ever again. If I wanted to spend a few seconds with a whiny asshole I'd just hookup with my ruddy boyfriend. If you tell anyone about this I'll kill you."
"Hollis, wait-" the poor sad sack couldn't even finish his cries before she swatted his hand away and speed walked toward the Common Room. She had just witnessed Hollis cheating on Carter and had proof that it had happened more than once. What a sneaky, deranged, ungrateful little bitch! She had quite literally snatched Carter away just so she could cheat on him with a big, ugly buffoon like Nathaniel Creswell? She was mental! Dom battled with whether or not she should tell Carter. If she did, the chances of him believing her were slim to none, but bigger than the chance that he would even speak to her. Getting him alone would be impossible and that would just create more problems for Dominique. Maybe she would just let everything play out however it was supposed to. The truth always came out in time right?
She felt pretty bad for Carter. He was under the impression that Hollis was some sort of angel sent to him directly from the heavens above, when really she was a demon in disguise that fed on the misfortune and naivety of others. Just as Dom had suspected from day one. It was sad, but if he wasn't smart enough to realize that for himself, then that wasn't Dom's problem. She continued through the halls and tried to blend in with the students that had just gotten out of class. People were running around, meeting up with boyfriends or girlfriends, and complaining about the rest of their classes or whatever class they had just come from. The nostalgia and familiarity of it all made Dom wish she could just get out of here.
She couldn't wait to graduate in two years and book it to America like Teddy had. The only difference was that she didn't plan on ever coming back. She used to think it would bring her family pain if she left, but it was obvious that they could care less about her whereabouts. Luckily she turned 18 before she graduated so she would have full access to all of the money she had in Gringott's, and could get it all transferred to a non-magical acount. She would simply graduate, apparate to America, snap her wand, and never look back. She didn't need magic, or notoriety, or family, or anything but herself. She would leave farewell letters for Vic and Teddy, but that was it; they were the only ones that would understand. She was all she could really count on and that would never change.
"Weasley!" someone screamed, right as she was about to give the Fat Lady the password, "Front and center!"
"Ugh, what is it now, Alvarez? And what have I told you about how lame your little 'I'm in charge' lingo is?"
"You missed the last prefect meeting without giving me 24 hour notice. That's unacceptable."
"Right. I meant to tell you I wasn't going to yesterday's meeting because I had absolutely no interest in being there. Happy?"
"Not in the least. You need to do better, kid. You're missing meetings, skipping classes, setting a horrible example-"
"Well, you can blame yourself for that. I think it's safe to say I was a pretty awful choice for a prefect from the beginning. I've come to terms with it and you should too." Seriously, who's idea had that been? She new the old prefects could make requests, but she didn't think they held much substance in the final decisions.
"Roxy thought giving you some responsibility would help straighten you out and I agreed, so I requested you personally."
"And now I'm your problem, not hers, so you can thank Roxy for that instead of berating me." She was going to just walk away but he grabbed her arm and spun her around. "What are you doing?"
"Trying to get your attention! As crazy as it sounds, I think of you as a little sister." Dom huffed and rolled her eyes because she really hated how good of a person Lex was. He was always trying to help her for reasons she did not understand. He had become a surrogate Weasley of sorts, and they all really respected him. Even James. It was really hard to not at least try and do things for him because he did so much for others.
"I have enough siblings, thanks."
"I don't care. I said I think of you as a sister- as in hypothetically. How many hypothetical siblings do you have?" She didn't even dictate that with a response. "Exactly. So whether you like it or not I'm looking out for you, and I want to see you succeed and do well because I know you can. You've been slacking off, but it's early yet. You can turn it all around by putting in some extra hours and volunteering for some events."
"It's not volunteering if you're forcing me."
"Dominique…" he said in a warning tone. She sighed, clearly she wasn't going to get anywhere with this argument. He was just so bloody...respectable.
"Fine, what do you want me to do?"
"I need you to help us out with our movie night at the end of the year."
"At the end of the year? And you're asking me about it now, why?"
"Because it's going to take a lot of work and planning to pull off a muggle movie night."
"Muggle movie night?" That just sounded like loads and loads of hard work. "Seriously?"
"Yeah, McGonogall is letting us have a movie night on the grounds as long as we use magic along with muggle methods to set it all up." That sounded like a hell of a lot more work than she was looking forward to ever doing in such a short period of time.
"Yeah. Thanks but no thanks, I'm busy that day."
"I didn't even tell you what day it was."
"Let's just assume that I'll be busy every day for the rest of this year. So no, I won't be helping." He finally gave up and said the password quickly, letting them enter. When they got inside he walked straight to the Weasley Section, probably to tell on her to Roxy for not cooperating with him. She was about to just call it a night when someone ran into her and caused her to drop her bag.
"I would say watch where you're going but with an ass like that it's probably hard to control yourself." Hollis was nothing if not consistent with her insults. She had always tried to call Dom fat. Every time they spoke.
"I don't know what they taught you in America, but here, it's normal for a 16 year old girl to look like a 16 year old girl. Don't try to deflect your issues with your body on me; it's not my fault you're shaped like a praying mantis."
"Take that back!"
"You know what? I don't think I will." She said, noting that Hollis looked completely embarrassed. The two of them hadn't had it out in years; Dom was not the same person she was when they used to be "friends" had Hollis had picked the wrong day to mess with her. "Aww, has Hollis run out of useless insults?"
"You're a rotten whore."
"Ohhh, good one!" Dom said with a laugh, causing others watching to laugh as well.
"It's true! Why do you think Carter chose me over you in the first place?"
"Why don't you tell me, Hollis? I'm sure we'd all get a laugh out of your warped version of the story."
"Well it doesn't matter, because no matter what you do, or say, or how much make-up you put on in the morning, I am and will always be better than you in every aspect."
"Every aspect? Now I'm certain that you're mental. Why don't you just take your shitty ideaology and go fuck yourself."
"Aww, that sounds like a single girl problem to me. I've got Carter for that, remember?"
"Word on the street is that Carter's not the only one you've got for that." Hollis practically lunged at Dom, but she stood her ground. She wasn't afraid of this scrawny little twit.
"Who told you that?"
"Doesn't matter. Just know that I know, and if you ever come near me again I will ruin you." Out of nowhere, Hollis backed up a few steps and put a pathetic look on her face. Dom was confused, but the next voice she heard cleared everything up.
"What's going on here?" Carter screamed. Dom could only roll her eyes. It was funny how history seemed to repeat itself. "Hollis? Dominique?"
"Nothing's going on. Right Holls?" The pathetic girl marched up to Carter and kissed him rather fiercely before winking at Dominique.
"Right, nothing at all. She was just leaving. Right Dom?"
"Right." She shot Carter a fake smile and walked over to the Weasley Section. That was the last and final straw. If Hollis wanted to play dirty, Dom would play. "Alvarez, a word?"
"Sure, what's up? Everything ok with Hollis?"
"It certainly is. About your little movie night; do you still need volunteers?"
"Yeah, of course. You in?"
"Definitely. Sign me up."
"Why the sudden interest?"
"I really love movies. I forgot how completely revealing they can be." Dom was going to help with the movie night alright. She was going to use one school wide event to expose Hollis for who she really was.
There was a little mix up with this and the previous chapter. This was supposed to come after Hugo's so if you saw that the story was updated and were brought to this chapter and already read it, just go to the previous chapter to get the stuff for this week. Confusing I know, I'm and idiot.
Quick update on life and such: School started last Monday, Hurricane Isaac started doing his thing yesterday, classes have been cancelled, chaos has ensued- so really I wanted to get another chapter out in case (when) we lose power from the storm. Hope you guys enjoyed it!
Quick update on the ages:
Not in Hogwarts
Gideon Weasley- 27; Fred Weasley & Angelina Johnson
Teddy Lupin- 21; Remus Lupin & Nymphadora Tonks
Victoire Lupin- 19; Bill Weasley & Fleur Delacour
Chase Finnegan- 18; Seamus Finnegan & Lavendar Brown
Madison Harrington (Gryffindor) 17- I will explain this later
Catalena Lupin- 4 months; Victoire Weasley & Teddy Lupin
7th years
Molly Weasley (Gryffindor) 17; Percy Weasley & Audrey Carrizales
Carson Bennett (Ravenclaw)17
Lex Alvarez (Gryffindor)17
Grayson Goyle (Slytherin) 17
6th years
Roxanne Weasley (Gryffindor) 16; George Weasley & Angelina Johnson
5th years
James Potter -15; Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley
Dominique Weasley-15; Bill Weasley & Fleur Delacour
Fred Weasley -15; George Weasley & Angelina Johnson
Carter Thomas- 15; Dean Thomas & Parvati Patil
Linden "Love" Nott-14; Theodore Nott & Daphne Greengrass
Zack Longbottom-15; Neville Longbottom & Hannah Abbott
Hollis Yates-14
4th years
Albus Potter -14; Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley
Rose Weasley-14; Ron Weasley & Hermione Granger
Scorpius Malfoy-14; Draco Malfoy & Astoria Geengrass
Reid Longbottom- 14; Hannah Abbott & Neville Longbottom
2nd years
Louis Weasley-12; Bill Weasley & Fleur Delacour
Hugo Weasley-12; Ron Weasley & Hermione Granger
Lily Potter-12; Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley
Lucy Weasley-12; Percy Weasley & Audrey Carrizales
Chance Finnegan- 12; Seamus Finnegan & Lavendar Brown
Lorcan & Lysander Scamander-12; Rolf Scamander & Luna Lovegood
-Jazz