25. No longer a secret
The one where Hogwarts knows.
"Good morning." Al said to me as I slowly opened my eyes.
"Right back at you!" I said smiling as I watched him come closer and give me a small kiss.
"Last night was amazing." He said slowly kissing me again.
"It really was..." I said in a bare whisper blushing.
"I'm glad I waited for you." He said grinning.
"Stop Al, you're making me blush!" I said laughing a bit.
"It's true!" Al said touching my cheeks.
"I know..." I said looking down.
"Can we sleep together every night from now on? You smile when you sleep, did you know that?" He asked making small circles on my cheeks.
"I didn't..." I said smiling again, I have a feeling that I'm going to be smiling a lot from now on. "Hey, what time is it?"
"10:30..." He stated simply.
"What? Oh Merlin, we'll be screwed!" I said panicking but unable to move away from him.
"No we won't, it's Sunday, remember?" He answered smiling. "We can stay here at least until lunch time."
"Oh, that's right..." I said gladly. Wow, still two hours of just me and Al, I don't think that anything could make me happier.
Al came closer to kiss me again but I looked away quickly.
"What happened?" He said preoccupied, making me giggle, it's so sweet to see him like this again.
"I just wanna brush my teeth first." I said grinning.
Honestly, whoever thought that putting actors to kiss in the morning on muggle movies looked natural have got to be kidding me, hellooo morning breath, gees...
"Oh, right." He said laughing a bit but I couldn't help but notice his relief. "I've already brushed mine while you were still asleep."
"Can you, erm, look away?" I asked suddenly very aware that I was naked.
"Absolutely not, You're not putting your clothes back on, besides, you have nothing to be ashamed off, you're gorgeous!
"Oh, please Al, don't make me do that..." I said giving him my puppy eyes. What? I know that theoretically I got naked in front of him on a secret passage - maybe not my best idea... - but it's just weird, I'm not used to someone looking at my body like that.
"All right, all right, you can have my shirt to go to the bathroom ok? but that's all you're getting for now." He said taking his shirt off the ground and handling it to me.
"Thanks." I said grinning once I had it on. I remember the first time that I wore Al's shirt, the night we got detention, if only I knew back then how much I would enjoy wearing one of his shirts again...
Unfortunately, all that is good have to end, and so two hour later we were fully dress and ready to go.
"Are you ready to face Hogwarts as a couple?" Al asked me.
"Yeap." I said smiling.
With Harrison, Roxy and her friends, and all the dates that were at the party, we were probably already the biggest new piece of gossip in Hogwarts - why do teenagers gossip so dam much?
I was defiantly not wrong. Once I got into the Great Hall for lunch after taking a shower and changing - of course - the entire hall went quiet and stared at me, few seconds after the curious glances, everyone started whispering.
Oh well, I thought shrugging and made my way towards the giggling waving girls I called my friends.
"Gosh, calm down An. Did you start the gossip yourself?" I said taking a seat next to Rose.
"I would, but everyone was already talking when I got down for breakfast." She said grinning like a maniac.
"I told you he was gonna come around!" Rose said smiling sweetly at me.
"Oh, enough with the chitchat already, I want all details!" An hissed, but then quickly started laughing.
"You didn't sleep on our dorm." Kat stated dully.
Oh really? I thought she wouldn't notice... NOT!
"Yeah..." I said grinning, remembering the moments prior to this conversation, when I was still wrapped around Al.
"Tell us!" An said impatiently.
"Give the girl a break Annita, she'll tell us soon enough." Rose said smiling.
Mental note to love Rose forever.
"Oh, she's telling us right now!" I looked back to see Lily grinning like a baboon on hormones. "Tell us! Tell us!" She said excitedly sitting on my other side.
"I'm not sure you want to hear this things about your brother Lils..." I said with a meaningful look making both Lily and Rose blush furiously.
If I had to chose one day to be glad for the fact that no one was sitting near us, it'd be this one...
"Gosh, you're disgusting..." Lily said pulling a face.
"You were the one asking all the questions." I said shrugging.
"Can't you just tell us the, erm, sweet parts?" Kat said hopefully while An had disappointment written all over her face.
"You kind of saw the...erm, what did you call it? Oh, sweet parts. Although the rest was quite sweet too, if I may add." I said grinning again.
"Oh, stop it already!" Lily said punching me on my right arm.
"So, I guess everybody knows now." Rose said carefully. "Are you ok with this?"
"Yeah, you know what? I was being silly before wanting to keep it a secret, just think about it, if I hadn't we probably wouldn't even have broken up, or whatever that was." I said smiling.
"How could you keep it a secret for so long anyway?" An asked.
"Dunno, guess I was afraid of it..." I admitted blushing a bit.
"Greengrass, a word?" I looked back to see Gloria Harrison staring at me, she had her arms crossed and everything, probably trying to pull a threatening look, the mere sight of her made me roll my eyes.
"What's she doing here?" Rose said irritated.
"I got this Rosie." I said giving her a meaningful look, I was already expecting to hear from her anyway. "Harrison, this is not the way you do things, coming here outnumbered, I was expecting you to corner me alone, maybe try some hexes on me." I said eyeing her carefully.
"I would, but you are as much of a freak as she is." She said now pointing at Rose annoyed.
Mental note to love Roxy forever for giving us those shield jewelry. And maybe Harrison' parents for making her this thick...
"Oh, frustrated, are you?" I said smirking. "Anything you have to say to me you can say in front of my friends."
"Coward!" She hissed. "You'll pay for this, you'll see, he's not gonna stay with you for long, you know that, right? He'll dump you in less than a week, it'll be a school record!"
"Oh, just move along will you Harrison? We're in the middle of something here." An said giving her a contempt look that would have scared the bejesus out of me. Harrison suddenly turned into a horrid shade of purple and ran away.
"Nice one An!" I said grinning at her. "Anyway, I wasn't the only one looking cozy yesterday, Lily, care to tell us about you and a certain Gryffindor boy called John Clark?" I said slowly looking at her grinning. Sure enough, her face quickly turned into an impressive imitation of Red Rose.
"We hooked up!" She said finally smiling broadly.
"Shocker." Rose said rolling her eyes.
"Hey, no way! He isn't related to any of us, start spilling the details!" An said throwing her hands in the air, making us all laugh.
"Oh, it was incredible! He was soooo sweet... He told me he liked me since third year, but wasn't sure if I liked him in the same way." Lily said smiling and blushing a little.
"Another shocker." Rose said rolling her eyes again.
"Hey! What's that suppose to mean?" Lily asked frowning and crossing her arms.
"Lils, we all knew he liked you, you were the only one who seemed oblivious to it." Rose said giving her a pointed look.
"You knew?" Lily asked in disbelieve. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Lily Luna Potter! I've told you a million times!" Rose said looking at her as if she was mental. She clearly was because honestly, I've heard Rose say this to her probably about one hundred times.
"Ok, ok, no need to get all 'full name' with me Rosie." Lily finally admitted.
"So, DETAILS?!" An hissed.
"Ok, gosh Annita, chill woman! He asked me to go to Hogsmeade with him on Saturday morning, but I was in charge of decorations alongside with Di for Rose's party, so obviously I couldn't go with him." Lily started stopping only for a sip of her pumpkin juice.
"Wait a second, Di, did you go to Hogsmeade? I thought you weren't going!" Rose said in disbelieve putting two and two together. "HEY! You own us for the sugar quills we bought you!"
"Erm, right... yeah, sure..." I said blushing a bit. "Hey, wait a second here, I was there for YOUR birthday party! Can't you at least give e some sugar?"
"So you want Rose to give you some sugar, hum? I should have a talk with my brother." Lily said laughing. I only realized the pun after I said it out loud, but naturally everyone started laughing like crazy.
"And then?" Kat said encouraging Lily to go on once they finally recomposed themselves.
"Then I asked to speak to him in private when we got back, and sort of invited him to go to Rose's party with me." Lily said blushing again.
" You told him about the party on Saturday?! We only found out about it on Friday!" Kat said crossing her arms looking hurt.
"Katherine, that doesn't even matter, will you let the girl talk?" An interrupted giving Kat a glare that probably would kill her if glares could do such a thing.
"Anyways," Lily started wisely, honestly, I have seen what those two are able to argue about, if no one stopped them they probably would end up fighting for the entire meal... "We sort of got talking that night, and that's when he admitted to like me for a while, when I blushed furiously and smile in return he took the cue to kiss me." Lily finished smiling.
"Oooohhh!" I said pretending to wipe a fake tears out of my cheeks.
"But my party was your official first date, right?!" Rose said a little too proud of herself. Someone has got to tell her that all she did was get older, we were the ones who had to bear her lunatic boyfriend for an entire week...
"That'd be correct." Lily said still smiling.
"Maybe I'll break up with Paul." An blurted out of the blue.
"WHAT?!" We all asked in unison.
"I don't know, I really like him, but I miss this, you know? The beginning, the 'I can't live without you' part." An said looking nowhere in specific.
"But An, you love him." Kat said looking at her seriously.
"I know, I'm not saying that I'm actually breaking up, I just mumbling..." An said shaking her head. "But look at them Kat, Lily and Di, they look sooooo happy..."
"Hey, I'm as happy as they are!" Rose said defensively.
"Oh for Merlin's sake, do you guys have to pick an argument about everything?" I said in disbelieve. "Rose, honestly, you look better than happy with Scorp, and so do you two! If I could chose it, I never would have taken time apart from Al, I would gladly not have this 'I finally got him' grin on my face if I could have had him for all those weeks we missed together!"
I couldn't quite place why but both An and Kat were suddenly smirking at me.
"Thanks!" I head Al's voice from behind me and blushed furiously without even looking back to confirm it was him. "I would gladly exchange my grin too." Al finished giving me a kiss on the top of my head.
"Hey, big brow, what are you doing here? This is a girl talk!" Lily asked frowning.
"Excuse me! I just came to check if my girl wants to go for a walk, but I can leave if it makes you so dam happy, you little Clark lover!" Al said crossing his arms and frowning at Lils.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" She replied flushing nearly purple with anger.
"You heard me little sis, C-L-A-R-K L-O-V-E-R! What are you doing with him anyway? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSE TO DATE TILL YOU'RE THIRTY, remember?!" Al shouted. Thankfully the Great Hall was pretty empty by now.
"Oh Merlin, is this what I'll have to deal with from now on?" I muttered covering my eyes with my hands making An, Kat and Rose laugh and earning a huge frown from Al and Lily - crap, they were not suppose to hear that...
"Just chill guys." Rose said recomposing herself. "Al, you're publicly dating Diane now, you have no moral to say that to Lils, and Lils, relax, he's just teasing you." She finished massaging her temples.
"I'm not!" Al said frowning but quickly dropped it once he took a good look at Rose's threatening glare. Dam Wooters and their way of being completely mental. "We'll see what James has to say about this." Al muttered looking down.
"JAMES? You wanna bring James into this?! So typical, can't even respond for yourself." Lily said clearly still angry.
"ENOUGH YOU TWO!" Rose shouted getting extremely irritated. They both stopped immediately. "Oh, that reminds me, Di, you got a letter from James, an insanely annoyed owl dropped it to you on your bed. It probably was looking for you the entire morning, poor thing..." Rose finished smiling at me as if she wasn't shouting just seconds ago, and taking a letter out of nowhere.
"Great, thanks Rosie." I said gladly taking the letter hopping that the discussion was finally over. "Al, should we go for that walk now?" I finished smiling at him.
"That'll be perfect." He said grinning.
How is it possible that I adore his grin now when I hated it only a few month ago? I blame hormones...
"I wanna read that." Al said potting at my pockets where I'd just putted James' letter once we got outside.
"Not a chance!" I said remembering that I didn't answer James about his whole plot thing to get Al alone, so this was probably a rude/ want to know if my family blood is clean kind of letter.
"You're kidding me right?" Al asked frowning annoyed.
"No, this is my letter, you're not reading it, and that's final." I said pushing his hands away from my pocket.
"Ok, so you're telling me that I just took a deep step believing that I could actually trust you only to hear you twelve hours latter saying that you don't exactly trust me to read a letter my brother wrote to you?" He said stopping in complete disbelieve.
Oh Merlin, what have I agreed to? Can't Al just see that this has nothing to do with trust? I mean, yeah I don't want him to read the letter, but hey, it's about him! Except he doesn't know that...
"Albus Severus Potter, I'm crazy about you, how can you even doubt it after last night? I just don't want you to read it because it's probably about you, ok?" I said taking a deep breath.
"About me?" Al said suddenly grinning - adorable handsome prat. "Oh, now I wanna read it!"
Git!
"Al please..." I begged.
"Di, please..." He said giving me his puppy eyes.
Holy Fuck! His puppy eyes is the most adorable thing I've ever seen! Those insanely gorgeous bright green eyes pleading at me. How can anyone say no to that? I bet Mr. and Mrs. Potter spoiled him to hell with that look...
"Fine!" I said at last giving up. Yeah right, like if I stood a chance against those eyes. "But under two conditions." I announced crossing my arms
"Name it." He said still keeping his puppy eyes on probably for moral effect. Cute prat...
"First, you can't NEVER EVER use that 'you don't trust me' thing on me again. Secondly, you can NEVER, EVER, and I mean it, use that look to take advantage of me, ever again." I said really emphasizing the last bit.
He seemed to consider it for a few second.
"Agreed, but you'll miss this look on me." Al said grinning.
I can't disagree with that...
I finally took the letter from my pocket once we sat and took a deep breath before I opened it.
'Sweet cheeks,
I told you to write me as soon as you cleared my family's name! Please don't tell me you couldn't do it... Actually, please don't tell me you did it and betrayed my trust by not telling me!
You can't turn into Albastard just because you got into his pants, I'll be devastated, you're my favorite girl!
So, tell me, how did my master plan worked out? Am I the best or not?
Know that if you say 'not' you'll be such a disgrace to my family's name as Albastard.
Lovely love, Jamesy-poo!
Ps: tell Lily to include a request for nana to knit a scarf for me as well, you can't imagine what winter is when you have practice at ungodly hours!
"Albastard? Master plan? What the fuck is this all about Diane?" Al said crossing his arms. Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't supposed to be a girl, he's so overly dramatic...
"See why I didn't want you to read it..." I said looking nowhere in specific.
"No I don't, so start telling!" He said in disbelieve.
Dame it Wotter temper!
"All right, all right... erm, remember how I managed to confront you?" I said slowly getting more and more embarrassed.
"Yeah..." Al said quietly looking at me.
"Well, it was sort of James' idea..." I said looking down at my hands.
"What?" Al asked frowning at me.
"Well, it was, he sort of gave me the entire plan..." I said embarrassed.
"You mean, even the naked part?!" He said a little bit louder than I was expecting.
"Kind off, well, not exactly, but I think he mentioned it, and I sort of thought about what he would do, if he was a girl and all..." I said looking at him in fear of what he would think about it.
"So you went to James to get advice on how to get to me?" He asked slowly trying to put the pieces together.
"Kind off..." I said flushing. I wasn't just about to turn Lily in, he already knew about James, one brother's treason for now was more than enough.
"And Lily was on it as well." He said connecting the pieces from the letter.
Dam you brilliant Wotters...
"Kind off." I said almost punishing me. Let's face it, I couldn't have done it without both of them, and now I was turning them in! Bloody traitor...
"Did you really went to all this trouble just to get me alone?" Al asked smiling a bit.
"Well, yeah... you wouldn't talk to me Al..." I muttered.
"You know I adore it when you call me Al?" He said smiling a bit and kissing me lightly.
"I know." I said grinning and kissing him fully on the lips.
A/N: I just wanted to tell you all that it's both great and sad to upload this chapter, I've been really nostalgic (although it still didn't end) about letting go of this story, and I can't believe we're almost there.
I'd love to know what you guys thought of this chapter, happiness is finally back to our lovebirds!
Thanks for all the support guys!
All my love,
Lucyzi