A/N - Well… I'm scared of an angry mob at this point, but here goes. I know excuses are lame and everything, but I have been so unimaginably busy. I've had homework, an extra curricular activity every day after school till about 5, basketball games, and readying for a school play. On top of all of that, I got sick! I almost dropped out of the play a day before the actual thing, but when I was talking to my mom I left out the part about me having a fever of 100.8, and going to school.
SO ANYWAY! Here is the chapter, finally, because school is out for the holidays. Even though I'm still sick. I'll get over it, so enjoy if you can, review if you want, hate me if you must, just let me sleep.
NEW STORY – I'm about to post my newest story 'Confessions of a Broken Heart'. It's about a girl named Layla who is betrothed to Draco Malfoy, who becomes like the nightmare her father was before he walked out on her and her mother. It's my favorite story yet, so how many of you will read it?
On to the story!
NOTE TO MY BETA'S – Bambiky is amazingly forgetful and unorganized, SO, if you were one of my beta's please contact me because I've lost track and obviously not gotten someone to beta this. Thanks!
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The next few days Mindy wasn't speaking to anyone. Not Ginny, not Seamus, not Colin, and not even Blaise. She was upset about the girl named Rose that had so openly flirted with Blaise, and just thinking about what she said and the way she said it, made Mindy wonder if something happened.
Blaise was noticing her seclusion as well. They never didn't talk for more than a day, and her isolating herself worried him. He decided to write her.
Mindy,
Please meet me in the astronomy tower at midnight tonight. We need to talk.
Blaise
Mindy received the letter right after classes on Friday afternoon. Her stomach became the slightest bit queasy. She didn't want to talk to him. She didn't know exactly how she even felt.
Regardless, at midnight Mindy was standing in a shaded corner of the astronomy tower in dark jeans and a hooded purple jacket. She shivered in the cold and tapped the heal of her foot on the cold, hard brick floors.
Finally around 12:10 Blaise arrived. He didn't see her at first, but when he spotted her he hurried in front of her.
"Hey," he said.
"Hey," she said.
"So…"
Mindy blinked, "So what? Say what you want to say 'cause it's too damn cold to stand out here right now."
"So… I'm sorry," he said honestly.
"For?"
"For not telling you what was up the other day."
"Then what was it?" she asked with her eyebrow raised.
"I…" Blaise hesitated. He didn't want to tell her anything, but he knew he had to.
"You what?"
"I kissed her."
Mindy froze. She blinked and wondered if she heard right, but the look on his face told her that she did.
"You…" she said, "You cheated on me."
"No Mindy, it's not like that-"
"Then what is it like, huh? You can kiss whomever you want and don't qualify that as cheating?"
"Mindy will you listen to me for a minute?" he pleaded.
Mindy reached her hand up and smacked his cheek rather hard.
"You filthy, lying little !" she yelled, "I should have known you would never break your old habits!"
"Mindy please-"
"You son of a god-damn bitch!" she said fiercely, "I never should have agreed to go out with you."
"MINDY!" he shouted, "Look, I know you have a right to be mad, but at least I told you, right?"
Mindy laughed mockingly, "Oh yeah and that makes everything all better. Go shag her too if you want, just tell me so it'll be okay."
"Mindy I'm sorry," he said, "I don't know what else to say."
Mindy clenched her nails into her hand so hard it almost bled, "You've said enough," she said tensely, walking past him.
He turned to her retreating back. "Mindy wait!" he said desperately, "Please don't leave!"
She turned around for a moment and said in a low voice, "You've given me no reason not to. Dirty man-whore."
And then she left. As he heard the door slam behind her he leaned against the wall and sunk down to the floor, his head in his hands.
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Mindy tore down the hallways at a fast, frantic pace.
He cheated on me. Blaise cheated on me. I can't believe he cheated on me.
Thoughts kept whirring through her head and as she reached the Fat Lady she found herself absent-mindedly, desperately hoping Ginny was there.
"Tiger-lilies," Mindy said harshly to the woman.
"Calm down dear," the portrait said, "and go to bed!"
Mindy didn't pay any attention, only stumbled into the common room hopelessly, and trudged up the stairs. She pushed the door to the dormitory open forcefully and slammed it behind her. Ginny was awake, writing a letter no doubtedly to her owl-pal.
Ginny looked up at the sound Mindy falling onto her bed and dry sobs shaking her body. It wasn't like Mindy to cry. In fact, the last time Mindy had cried was when her dad died, and even then Mindy was 11.
Ginny contemplated for a few moments, whether or not to talk to her, but the good in her conscious soon won over. Mindy was her best friend, even if they had a fight.
She stood and made her way to Mindy's bed, taking a seat beside her shaking body.
"Mindy…?" Ginny said softly, "Mindy, what's wrong?"
"Go away." Mindy's voice was harsh, but muffled.
Ginny swallowed, "No… Mindy, what happened?"
"Nothing, leave me alone."
Ginny sighed, "Okay Mindy get up right now. Something happened and you're going to tell me what it is."
Mindy sat up, stared Ginny straight in the eye, and said, "I hope you're happy."
"What?" Ginny was puzzled.
"We're over. Blaise and I had a fight."
"Mindy, why would that make me happy? I love seeing you so happy with him."
"You were saying I never had time for you because I was with him, so now I won't be around him anymore."
Ginny felt terrible. Perhaps she had overreacted on what Draco had said to her. "Mindy… I'm sorry. I was just hurt… Please tell me what happened."
"He cheated on me," Mindy said, her voice quivering.
"He what?"
"He kissed another girl," she said, "Some Slytherin whore he dated."
"Did he give any explanation?" Ginny asked. It had seemed to her that Blaise would never cheat on Mindy. Perhaps she had been wrong about him.
Mindy looked at her helplessly, "Well…no… I left before he could explain more than him being sorry. I wouldn't let him see me like this."
Ginny looked at Mindy sympathetically, and hugged her. "I'm sorry," she whispered, "I'm really sorry."
Mindy knew Ginny was apologizing on behalf of Blaise and the situation, but to her, it felt like so much more.
"Mindy?" Ginny whispered after Mindy calmed a bit more.
"Yeah, Gin?"
"Are we okay?" she asked, "Are we friends again?"
Mindy smiled, "Forever."
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Blaise woke up Saturday morning in the Astronomy Tower to an owl pecking at his fingers. He pushed it off and rubbed his bloodshot eyes wearily, and then took the message in it's claws.
Come to the lake. Now.
There was no signature on the note, no greeting or signature, just the short message. He furrowed his eyebrows and looked around at the awkward surroundings, trying to remember why he was in the astronomy tower. Then, he remembered the night before, Mindy yelling at him, and the rest of the fight. He reached his hand to his cheek and felt where she had slapped him.
Reluctantly Blaise stood and ran his fingers through his hair, deciding to meet the mysterious person at the lake. He checked his watch, which read 1:46 p.m.
He had slept all morning.
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Ginny watched the doors of Hogwarts as students passed in and out. Finally she saw Blaise heading toward her at the lake, and stalked over to him, smacking him on the cheek Mindy hadn't hit the night before.
"Ow!" he yelped, "What was that for?" And then he recognized her, "Oh."
"Yeah oh," she said, "You worthless piece !"
"Oh god," he groaned, "Not you too."
"You better believe it. What the hell were you thinking, cheating on my best friend?" she said loudly.
Blaise got defensive. "You're no better! You dumped her when you met the Wizarding Wonder Whore!"
"This is not about me!" Ginny defended, "You cheated on my best friend! How could you do that to her?"
"I-"
She cut him off, "Seriously, what the hell did she do to deserve that from you?"
"Nothing," he said.
"Then what the hell?"
"Look," he said, "I'm not talking to you about this until you're calm and stop pointing fingers. I regret what I did, and I don't need you playing my mother and getting at me for every thing I say."
"Zabini-"
"Good bye, Ginevra," he said, "You can talk to me when you're calm and reasonable."
Blaise turned and walked toward the building again, heading for his much needed shower and a talk with his best friend.
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Sorry I haven't written. Week was long, day was fine, too much homework. I'm happy the weekend is here, no matter how short the time.
I do believe that if one suffered from amnesia, they would not remember that they suffered from it, because if they did they would remember forgetting therefore remembering and not forgetting. Does that make sense? Maybe just to me.
No I haven't found the parchment yet. Sorry!
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Draco put down his quill and glanced over at his stack of books, which was topped with the piece of parchment he had created only weeks ago to correspond with 'S' faster and laughed as he sent the letter on its way, to the woman that secretly held a piece of his heart.
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D-
What do you think about this: Let's run away together, and never come home. We'll make nature our home. Never come back. No duties, no regrets, no war, no blood, suffering, blame, or guilt. We can create our own little world in a land undiscovered.
What do you say? We can leave this world behind and be together forever.
:sigh: I wish. Life just gets so hectic I sometimes don't know how, or want to deal with it. Does that ever happen to you?
Bummer about the parchment. I thought it was cool. Oh well.
And that whole amnesia thing, made no sense. Haha.
With stressful love,
-S
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Okay, this one was a bit longer than usual though not by much. Did you like it? Glad Mindy and Ginny are back together? But what will happen with Vivian? I'll let you know when I figure it out! For now, I sleep. Good night and good love,
Bambiky.
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THANK YOU FOR THIS REASONING FROMThisBurningHeartShe wrote:
And I realized something, about what people (including myself, only I was half joking when I said it) said regarding D and S figuring out who the other is. I guess, since they hate each other in actuality so much (or at least they think and act that way), that they really wouldn't even consider that the person they care about so much could really be the other, You know? I mean, if you wrote to someone every day, and they appeared to be really nice and caring, your first intuition OBVIOUSLY wouldn't be your mortal enemy...Just a thought...
And that is exactly it! Just think on it!
Also, question-answer time!
Q. I Am The Krow - I LOVE your 'thought of the day's...where do you get them?
A. Bambiky – Some of them I make up, and some of them I get from random sites or friends.
Q. cocoa-latte - Why does she keep talking to herself as in third person?
A. Bambiky – Vivian is based totally on a mixture of myself, and about two of my other friends. Me and my friends Morgan and Amanda have the habit of talking about ourselves in the third person. And I have one or two unmentioned friends who are a little loose with their sexual lives. Plus I have some smart friends. So put it all together, and vuala! That makes a Vivian.
Q. Moonyk - Why was it called Blaise's Big Mistake?
A. Bambiky – It was called Blaise's Big Mistake BECAUSE, Blaise got a bit too tempted by Rose and the way he used to manage his 'love life', and kissed Rose, almost going too far into it. Now it may not seem too bad, but you must realize this is a habit Blaise is trying to break, and Mindy doesn't tolerate it…
Q. ameera-undomar - So, did Blaise not actually do anything with Rose?
A. Bambiky – Blaise kissed Rose. Blaise also allowed Rose to get into a position where more than kissing could be accomplished. In other words, Blaise cheated on Mindy, even if he didn't sleep with her.
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Well that's all the questions! I'm very tired and doubt you want to wait longer for the chapter, so I'll just say thank you to everyone that reviewed and sorry I'm not saying you by name! I hope to start personal responses soon.
Goodnight!
Bambiky.