James and I are back to sitting next to each other in lessons. I'm glad. I've missed it. He's the only person who will play tic-tac-toe with me on the parchment instead of taking notes.
Unfortunately, it seems the entire school is under the impression that the two of us are dating. Even the professors seem to have gotten wind of the rumour.
"Ah," Slughorn sighs as James and I brew our amortentia - love potion. "This is a very fitting brew for you two, isn't it?"
I struggle not to roll my eyes.
"I don't smell anything," James suddenly says, sniffing our vat of potion. Amortentia is supposed to smell like what you love the very most. "Can you?"
I take a sniff. Nada.
"Are you sure we brewed it correctly?" I ask him. James flips through his textbook.
"I'm positive!" he exclaims, throwing his hand up to his hair in obvious frustration. "It looks exactly like it looks in the picture… This just doesn't make sense…"
"This is your fault, you know," I tell him. "If your disgusting forest cologne crap wasn't so strong, maybe we'd actually be able to smell something."
James frowns. "Right, Evans. It's your flowery hairspray or whatever that's clouding our senses, not my cologne."
"Perfume, James. Not hairspray. Hairspray doesn't have a scent. Moron."
Slughorn is giggling, for some reason. "Ah, you two are too cute. Young love!"
Neither James nor I have any idea what he's talking about.
Marlene and Alice are giggling too, but they won't tell us why.
"Your friends are airheads," James tells me as we walk out of the classroom. I laugh out loud.
"Believe me, I know."
this chapter is literally 200 words. PATHETIC. so i'm posting another one immediately after I post this one. get excited, folks! the next chapter is an important one.