VIII
The next day at 8 pm sharp, Naire's already in the dungeon. She take a look at the wodden door, but there's no signs of Oliver or Snape coming. The night's so silent and dark. Dungeon probably is the last place she wants to be at, especially at a night like this. It's nearly freezing although winter has passed. She take another look at the door, hoping someone would come soon. Then suddenly she hears two soft knocks on the door. It must be Oliver, Snape would never knock on his own dungeon.
"Come in" she said.
The door opens, and she can see Oliver's dark brown hair, although it's almost black in the dark. Oliver is here, she never thought she would be this glad.
"Umm... so you're here. Have you been waiting long?" he asked.
"Not really, Snape's not here yet" she answered.
"I'm sorry, but McGonagall caught me on my way here. She wanted to talk about the team" he explained.
"That's okay, it's not like you're late for an hour. It's only 5 past 8" she said smiling.
"Thanks" he smiled back at her.
He looks very nice when he smiled, very nice.... No wait! What am I thinking? Ethan has a very nice smile too! But, not as nice.. and surely not as handsome...
"Naire, still there?" suddenly his voice came up to his sense again.
"What? I'm sorry... I didn't hear you" she said trying to calm down.
"I'm just asking, do you think Snape will ever come?" he asked.
"I don't know, maybe. Aren't we suppose to do something?" she said worried.
"Do you think he's fine with it if we start without him?" he asked again
"Maybe, I don't know. But I do not want to add a single day in detention. I think we should do it, he did say that he won't be with us all the time. We might as well start without him" she suggested.
"Are you sure? We can set our self in another detention you know" he asked again, still unsure.
"I'll take the risk. So lets start!" she said walking to the cabinet and preparing some of the ingredients.
"Okay, if you say so" he said following her.
He helped her preparing the things they need for brewing the potion.
"Lets see... first to be add in the boiling water is the Snuckel's eye" she said reading the note that Snape gave them.
"Hmm, and what exactly is Snuckel?" he asked holding a black slime ball in his hand.
"Don't know, but I bet it's as ugly as Marcus flint!" she said laughing.
Marcus Flint was the captain of Slytherin Qudditch team till last year. He was a very strong and brutal, and not forget to mention, very ugly player. They at least have been knocked down once by him at the game in their history at Hogwarts. The thought of him brings laughter to them.
"So, what next?" he asked peering through her shoulder to get a good read at the note.
"Ah..umm...that's it" she answered nervously.
Why does he have to be this close? She can smell the soft musky scent on him, very manly. She inhale to it. She can feel his warm breathe on her shoulder, breezing a fresh mint scent, every time he spoke.
"It says here that we must stir it for two hours till it reach a greenish colour, then leave it for 20-24 hours until the next ingredient came. Umm.. that should be easy, right?" he said reading the note out, still behind her shoulder.
"Yeah... I'll do it" she grabbed a big spatula, give the note to him, and quickly letting her self far enough from him.
"If you tired, just give it to me" he said smiling.
"Okay, don't worry" she said.
For the past two hours they've been changing on stirring the potion. When finally it reached it's greenish colour, they prepare their self to go back to the common room.
"Bye, see you tomorrow" she waved at him on her way out.
"Okay, bye" he waved back.
Well, not bad for first day. He's not as annoying as I expected. Actually, he's not annoying at all!
The next nights at the same time, they're there again adding more ingredient one by one to the potion. It has change colour several times, from green to grey, then to red, etc. Snape was there sometimes, but not as often as they expected. Almost all the time, they were left, alone. Without them wanting it, they grew closer each day. They finally got something better to do than fighting. She enjoyed her time with him, and maybe he is also.
Everyday after the detention, Ethan's always there. He waited for her to finished and then walk with her back to common room. Maybe he's a little bit worry about her being alone with Oliver every night. Maybe he's jealous, but she's fine with it. She knew that Ethan did that only because he cares for her, a lot. She can see that sometimes Angelina was there too. Oliver seems very happy if Angelina's there.
Although sometime it hurts, she's happy for Oliver and Angelina. She can deal with them being friends. It's fine, there's nothing wrong with it. Besides, she had Ethan to take care of her. It's not like they'll be together if there's no Ethan and Angelina, right?
On the 10^th day, they're in the dungeon again. The dungeon is unfriendly as ever. It's cold and dreary because of the rain. Snape's not there, so they're working alone again. She regretted it for wearing just a shirt and not bringing any sweater or jacket, and now she's very cold. She hugged herself while watching Oliver stirs the potion, which is dirty pink right at this moment. He wears his dark blue sweater, the one that she gave secretly to him.
"Hey, are you okay? You seems a little bit cold there" He asked her.
"Yeah... it's cold here, but I'm fine" she smiled.
"No you're not. Here, put this on" he said walking to her, took his sweater off, and hand it to her. He wears a blue shirt under it.
"That's alright, I'm fine, really! You must be cold also" she refused.
"Hey, don't worry about me. I've been wearing this for hours. I'm warm enough now, unlike you. Come on, wear it! You're very cold right now, you could turn into a snowman anytime!" he insist, still handing the sweater to her.
"Oh all right! I'll wear it" she takes the sweater from his hand and slid it over her head.
"That a girl" he smiled.
"Thanks, I'm feeling warm now" she smiled gratefully.
The sweater brings his warmth to her body. It feels good wearing it. She wonders all the time. Did he ever notice that she's the one who gave the sweater? She hopes he doesn't realized it, it'll be embarrassing.
"Hey, do you think we've put enough kirshee leaves in here?" he asked.
"I don't know, maybe. The note says that its colour should be bright pink" she said looking at the dirty pink fluid.
"Maybe we should add some more, I'll get it" he said walking to the cabinet. It was on the top of the cabinet. He put the steps in front of it.
"Let me do it. I'm not strong enough to hold the steps while you're on it. It's better if I do it, and you hold the steps" she suggested.
"Okay, be careful" he agreed holding the steps.
She climbs up one by one. When she reached the top, she searches for the kirshee leaves. When she found it, she starts to climb down again carefully. But suddenly she hears a loud crack sound when she's on the second steps from above. Without warning, the steps break and send her flying down to the floor. She screamed and didn't realize a thing until she landed on the floor. It's odd because she feels no pain, and then she realize. She was on top of Oliver, who seems to catch her right before she reach the floor.
They're holding each other, as if they will fall again. She looked straight at his deep beautiful dark brown eyes. They stares at each other and kept silent. She can feel her and his breath started to get heavy. Her lips opened a little, and she wants to kiss him badly. His gazed softened, and his lips opened a little also. She leaned closer, shut her eyes and kiss him. She knew it is wrong, but something so wrong couldn't be this good. First he was shocked by this sudden move of her, but then he kissed back. They kiss softly and gently. She can feel his soft lips on hers. He runs his fingers through her hair. It's a sensation she never felt with Ethan. With Ethan everything is so different. He never kissed her like the way Oliver did. Then suddenly she realizes, how could she do this to Ethan? She pulls her lips from Oliver, ended up the kiss.
"Oh no....no!" she said trying to stand up.
"Naire?" he asked confused.
"I can't... not with you, no" she started to cry.
A part of her still wants to kiss him, be with him, and feel his touch. But, she knows, Ethan doesn't deserve to be treated this way, even if he would never know, never. And Angelina, she knows how much Angelina loves Oliver. They're not friends, but she knows that she doesn't want to hurt Angelina, nor did Oliver. Still crying she gathers her things, and start running to the door, when his hand stopped her.
"Listen, Naire..." he said.
"No Oliver, no....let me go!" trying to let herself go.
"I'm sorry, I .." he continued still holding her hand.
"No Oliver, It's my fault. I should've never kissed you. It's so wrong, very wrong!" she screamed.
"How can it be wrong? We enjoyed it, and I kissed you back. There's nothing wrong about a kiss!" he said.
"It's very wrong, Oliver. What's right is when you kiss Angelina, and I kiss Ethan! But you and me are very wrong! Do you want to hurt Angelina?" she asked him with tears falling down from her eyes.
He didn't say a word. Guilt appears on his face. He let go Naire's wrist.
"I figure that... and you know what? I don't want to hurt Ethan, he loves me!" she said.
"But,.. do you love him?" he asked.
"I..." she didn't continue her words.
To be honest, she never knew exactly about how she feels about Ethan. When she thinks about it, she's with Ethan because she wanted to forget about Oliver. She looks at him, and sees his beautiful face. She realized, it's him who she loves. She's been trying so hard to deny it, but after the kiss she knew she couldn't deny it again. She loves Oliver Wood.
"I have to go" she whispered in her voice, didn't answer his question.
This time he didn't hold her back. He just watches her disappeared behind the door.
She ran as fast as she could to Ravenclaw's common room. When she reached it, she gave the password, and quickly run to her bed. She could see Jessica and Sandy on their bed, sleeping. She cries quietly on her pillow, didn't want to wake her friends up.
"Naire, is it you?" suddenly a voice came. Jessica is awake.
"I'm okay Jess, just go back to sleep" she said trying to hold back her tears.
"No, you're not okay! Is there something wrong? Did Oliver do something to you?" Jessica asked again, worried. She walks to Naire's bed and sits next to her.
"it's just... oh, Jess! My life is such a mess!" she cries again to Jessica's shoulder.
"Sshh... it's okay, you can tell me" Jessica said trying to calm her down.
"We kissed" she finally said.
"What? He kissed you?" Jessica asked surprised.
"No, I kissed him, and he kissed me back"
"But, how?"
"I don't know, it just happened...it was an accident, I fell and he caught me. And I kissed him" she explained.
"Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine... what hurts now is my heart"
"Tell me, I'm confused here"
"Now I know Jess, I love him! I love Oliver Wood!"
"And he kissed you back... so, I guess he loves you too"
"I don't think so, when I mentioned Angelina, he didn't say a word. I was actually hopping he will say that he loves me, that he didn't love Angelina. But he just stood there, silent"
"What about Ethan?" Jessica asked.
"Ethan, oh God... he's so nice! I can't hurt him, I don't want to hurt him!"
"But Naire, it's better for you and him if you just tell the truth. It'll hurt more if he find out on his own"
"No, he'll never know. And I'll make sure of it!"
"But why?"
"It's better this way, I'm with Ethan, and he's with Angelina!"
"Are you really willing to sacrifice your feeling? Your heart?"
"Is it matter? I sacrifice mine if it will make three people happy" she smiled weakly.
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The next day at 8 pm sharp, Naire's already in the dungeon. She take a look at the wodden door, but there's no signs of Oliver or Snape coming. The night's so silent and dark. Dungeon probably is the last place she wants to be at, especially at a night like this. It's nearly freezing although winter has passed. She take another look at the door, hoping someone would come soon. Then suddenly she hears two soft knocks on the door. It must be Oliver, Snape would never knock on his own dungeon.
"Come in" she said.
The door opens, and she can see Oliver's dark brown hair, although it's almost black in the dark. Oliver is here, she never thought she would be this glad.
"Umm... so you're here. Have you been waiting long?" he asked.
"Not really, Snape's not here yet" she answered.
"I'm sorry, but McGonagall caught me on my way here. She wanted to talk about the team" he explained.
"That's okay, it's not like you're late for an hour. It's only 5 past 8" she said smiling.
"Thanks" he smiled back at her.
He looks very nice when he smiled, very nice.... No wait! What am I thinking? Ethan has a very nice smile too! But, not as nice.. and surely not as handsome...
"Naire, still there?" suddenly his voice came up to his sense again.
"What? I'm sorry... I didn't hear you" she said trying to calm down.
"I'm just asking, do you think Snape will ever come?" he asked.
"I don't know, maybe. Aren't we suppose to do something?" she said worried.
"Do you think he's fine with it if we start without him?" he asked again
"Maybe, I don't know. But I do not want to add a single day in detention. I think we should do it, he did say that he won't be with us all the time. We might as well start without him" she suggested.
"Are you sure? We can set our self in another detention you know" he asked again, still unsure.
"I'll take the risk. So lets start!" she said walking to the cabinet and preparing some of the ingredients.
"Okay, if you say so" he said following her.
He helped her preparing the things they need for brewing the potion.
"Lets see... first to be add in the boiling water is the Snuckel's eye" she said reading the note that Snape gave them.
"Hmm, and what exactly is Snuckel?" he asked holding a black slime ball in his hand.
"Don't know, but I bet it's as ugly as Marcus flint!" she said laughing.
Marcus Flint was the captain of Slytherin Qudditch team till last year. He was a very strong and brutal, and not forget to mention, very ugly player. They at least have been knocked down once by him at the game in their history at Hogwarts. The thought of him brings laughter to them.
"So, what next?" he asked peering through her shoulder to get a good read at the note.
"Ah..umm...that's it" she answered nervously.
Why does he have to be this close? She can smell the soft musky scent on him, very manly. She inhale to it. She can feel his warm breathe on her shoulder, breezing a fresh mint scent, every time he spoke.
"It says here that we must stir it for two hours till it reach a greenish colour, then leave it for 20-24 hours until the next ingredient came. Umm.. that should be easy, right?" he said reading the note out, still behind her shoulder.
"Yeah... I'll do it" she grabbed a big spatula, give the note to him, and quickly letting her self far enough from him.
"If you tired, just give it to me" he said smiling.
"Okay, don't worry" she said.
For the past two hours they've been changing on stirring the potion. When finally it reached it's greenish colour, they prepare their self to go back to the common room.
"Bye, see you tomorrow" she waved at him on her way out.
"Okay, bye" he waved back.
Well, not bad for first day. He's not as annoying as I expected. Actually, he's not annoying at all!
The next nights at the same time, they're there again adding more ingredient one by one to the potion. It has change colour several times, from green to grey, then to red, etc. Snape was there sometimes, but not as often as they expected. Almost all the time, they were left, alone. Without them wanting it, they grew closer each day. They finally got something better to do than fighting. She enjoyed her time with him, and maybe he is also.
Everyday after the detention, Ethan's always there. He waited for her to finished and then walk with her back to common room. Maybe he's a little bit worry about her being alone with Oliver every night. Maybe he's jealous, but she's fine with it. She knew that Ethan did that only because he cares for her, a lot. She can see that sometimes Angelina was there too. Oliver seems very happy if Angelina's there.
Although sometime it hurts, she's happy for Oliver and Angelina. She can deal with them being friends. It's fine, there's nothing wrong with it. Besides, she had Ethan to take care of her. It's not like they'll be together if there's no Ethan and Angelina, right?
On the 10^th day, they're in the dungeon again. The dungeon is unfriendly as ever. It's cold and dreary because of the rain. Snape's not there, so they're working alone again. She regretted it for wearing just a shirt and not bringing any sweater or jacket, and now she's very cold. She hugged herself while watching Oliver stirs the potion, which is dirty pink right at this moment. He wears his dark blue sweater, the one that she gave secretly to him.
"Hey, are you okay? You seems a little bit cold there" He asked her.
"Yeah... it's cold here, but I'm fine" she smiled.
"No you're not. Here, put this on" he said walking to her, took his sweater off, and hand it to her. He wears a blue shirt under it.
"That's alright, I'm fine, really! You must be cold also" she refused.
"Hey, don't worry about me. I've been wearing this for hours. I'm warm enough now, unlike you. Come on, wear it! You're very cold right now, you could turn into a snowman anytime!" he insist, still handing the sweater to her.
"Oh all right! I'll wear it" she takes the sweater from his hand and slid it over her head.
"That a girl" he smiled.
"Thanks, I'm feeling warm now" she smiled gratefully.
The sweater brings his warmth to her body. It feels good wearing it. She wonders all the time. Did he ever notice that she's the one who gave the sweater? She hopes he doesn't realized it, it'll be embarrassing.
"Hey, do you think we've put enough kirshee leaves in here?" he asked.
"I don't know, maybe. The note says that its colour should be bright pink" she said looking at the dirty pink fluid.
"Maybe we should add some more, I'll get it" he said walking to the cabinet. It was on the top of the cabinet. He put the steps in front of it.
"Let me do it. I'm not strong enough to hold the steps while you're on it. It's better if I do it, and you hold the steps" she suggested.
"Okay, be careful" he agreed holding the steps.
She climbs up one by one. When she reached the top, she searches for the kirshee leaves. When she found it, she starts to climb down again carefully. But suddenly she hears a loud crack sound when she's on the second steps from above. Without warning, the steps break and send her flying down to the floor. She screamed and didn't realize a thing until she landed on the floor. It's odd because she feels no pain, and then she realize. She was on top of Oliver, who seems to catch her right before she reach the floor.
They're holding each other, as if they will fall again. She looked straight at his deep beautiful dark brown eyes. They stares at each other and kept silent. She can feel her and his breath started to get heavy. Her lips opened a little, and she wants to kiss him badly. His gazed softened, and his lips opened a little also. She leaned closer, shut her eyes and kiss him. She knew it is wrong, but something so wrong couldn't be this good. First he was shocked by this sudden move of her, but then he kissed back. They kiss softly and gently. She can feel his soft lips on hers. He runs his fingers through her hair. It's a sensation she never felt with Ethan. With Ethan everything is so different. He never kissed her like the way Oliver did. Then suddenly she realizes, how could she do this to Ethan? She pulls her lips from Oliver, ended up the kiss.
"Oh no....no!" she said trying to stand up.
"Naire?" he asked confused.
"I can't... not with you, no" she started to cry.
A part of her still wants to kiss him, be with him, and feel his touch. But, she knows, Ethan doesn't deserve to be treated this way, even if he would never know, never. And Angelina, she knows how much Angelina loves Oliver. They're not friends, but she knows that she doesn't want to hurt Angelina, nor did Oliver. Still crying she gathers her things, and start running to the door, when his hand stopped her.
"Listen, Naire..." he said.
"No Oliver, no....let me go!" trying to let herself go.
"I'm sorry, I .." he continued still holding her hand.
"No Oliver, It's my fault. I should've never kissed you. It's so wrong, very wrong!" she screamed.
"How can it be wrong? We enjoyed it, and I kissed you back. There's nothing wrong about a kiss!" he said.
"It's very wrong, Oliver. What's right is when you kiss Angelina, and I kiss Ethan! But you and me are very wrong! Do you want to hurt Angelina?" she asked him with tears falling down from her eyes.
He didn't say a word. Guilt appears on his face. He let go Naire's wrist.
"I figure that... and you know what? I don't want to hurt Ethan, he loves me!" she said.
"But,.. do you love him?" he asked.
"I..." she didn't continue her words.
To be honest, she never knew exactly about how she feels about Ethan. When she thinks about it, she's with Ethan because she wanted to forget about Oliver. She looks at him, and sees his beautiful face. She realized, it's him who she loves. She's been trying so hard to deny it, but after the kiss she knew she couldn't deny it again. She loves Oliver Wood.
"I have to go" she whispered in her voice, didn't answer his question.
This time he didn't hold her back. He just watches her disappeared behind the door.
She ran as fast as she could to Ravenclaw's common room. When she reached it, she gave the password, and quickly run to her bed. She could see Jessica and Sandy on their bed, sleeping. She cries quietly on her pillow, didn't want to wake her friends up.
"Naire, is it you?" suddenly a voice came. Jessica is awake.
"I'm okay Jess, just go back to sleep" she said trying to hold back her tears.
"No, you're not okay! Is there something wrong? Did Oliver do something to you?" Jessica asked again, worried. She walks to Naire's bed and sits next to her.
"it's just... oh, Jess! My life is such a mess!" she cries again to Jessica's shoulder.
"Sshh... it's okay, you can tell me" Jessica said trying to calm her down.
"We kissed" she finally said.
"What? He kissed you?" Jessica asked surprised.
"No, I kissed him, and he kissed me back"
"But, how?"
"I don't know, it just happened...it was an accident, I fell and he caught me. And I kissed him" she explained.
"Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine... what hurts now is my heart"
"Tell me, I'm confused here"
"Now I know Jess, I love him! I love Oliver Wood!"
"And he kissed you back... so, I guess he loves you too"
"I don't think so, when I mentioned Angelina, he didn't say a word. I was actually hopping he will say that he loves me, that he didn't love Angelina. But he just stood there, silent"
"What about Ethan?" Jessica asked.
"Ethan, oh God... he's so nice! I can't hurt him, I don't want to hurt him!"
"But Naire, it's better for you and him if you just tell the truth. It'll hurt more if he find out on his own"
"No, he'll never know. And I'll make sure of it!"
"But why?"
"It's better this way, I'm with Ethan, and he's with Angelina!"
"Are you really willing to sacrifice your feeling? Your heart?"
"Is it matter? I sacrifice mine if it will make three people happy" she smiled weakly.
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