AN: this chapter is in first persons… don't know why… ^_^ anyway, REVIEW!!! Please? You know you want to…
~Chapter Seven~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Blaise's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey Zabini, I think Weasel's trying to take your girl," Terence said.
"Which one?" I asked, with a smirk.
"You know, 'Liphia…"
My eyebrows raised. "Well, there's the pot calling the kettle black…"
Terence grinned sheepishly.
"So why should I care if she sleeps with Weasel?"
"No, that's just it! She didn't sleep with him--Tracy said she heard him talking about her to his friends like she was his girlfriend!"
"When did she hear this?"
"Yesterday…"
Ah. I couldn't help grinning. "Well, let's just say that Oli hasn't been too faithful to her new," pause, smirk, "boyfriend."
Terence shook his head, laughing. "I don't know how you do it."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ron's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey Weasel."
I kept walking.
"Hey, Weasel, I'm talking to you." Blaise Zabini stepped into my path smirking. "Hello there."
I glared. "What do you want?"
"Just want to say congratulations on your new girlfriend…"
Oh? That couldn't be all he wanted to say…
"By the way, have you spoken to her yet this morning?"
And it wasn't. "…No…"
"Well. She might be a bit cranky… she didn't get a lot of sleep last night…" He yawned loudly. "Come to think of it, neither did I…" He smirked. "Just thought you should know." And then he was gone.
"Hi" Oliphia greeted me outside. She smiled and I smiled, because I can't help smiling when she does.
"Hi," I said as we began walking. The conversation with Blaise was still fresh in my mind and the question popped out before I could stop it: "What's with you and Zabini?"
I saw her tense, and her smile fade, and mine faded too and suddenly I wished Zabini would fall into a deep, dark black hole and never, ever come out.
"…None of your business."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Oliphia's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It seemed a much more suitable answer than the truth.
"None of my business?" He didn't seem to understand.
"Yeah, why do you care anyway?" I brushed my hair off of my shoulder as I tried to brush Zabini away and out of the heavy air between me and Ron.
"Why do I care?" What didn't he understand? "Did you sleep with him??"
Well. That's not a stupid question or anything. I mean, he is Blaise Zabini after all. I shrugged and found it much easier to look anywhere else but at Ron.
"Last night…?" He seemed less perplexed and more…sad? Why would he be sad? "I think I have a right to know…"
"A right to know? Ron! You're not my b--" we were standing in the path surrounded by trees and sunshine and grass and his lips pressed against mine and they were soft and timid and everything that Blaise's weren't and they sought permission from mine instead of forced and--"Oh." I found my feet suddenly still and I couldn't walk anymore and my eyes seemed unable to look anywhere but at Ron. "Did you…? Did you think…? I didn't mean… It's not that I don't want… Oh my god."
Ron just stared. And I stared back because I couldn't do anything else. I almost thought I would cry. And then I did.
And then he put his arms around me--soft, wonderful arms, timid and hesitant like his lips, but warm and comforting just the same. "It's ok," he whispered. "Shh…"
I looked up at him because I had too--so ashamed I couldn't look away because that would only be more shameful. "Ron… I was--I was unfaithful to you! It's not ok--I was unfaithful and I didn't even know!"
"That's right, you didn't know… you couldn't help it… it's ok…"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Terence's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey Oli, how'd it go with your boyfriend?"
I saw her look up at him from her book blankly. "It went fine, thankyouverymuch."
"Committing to one man Oli, I never thought I'd see the day…"
"What's that supposed to mean?" she said, probably louder than she'd meant to--because we all knew what that was supposed to mean.
He only smirked at her and she turned back to her book.
"Go away Zabini, there's nothing here for you anymore."
I watched as he put his hand to his chest in mock offense. "Are you implying that I only ever wanted you for sex?"
"If I was would you deny it?" I wouldn't.
"I most certainly would!" Then again, Zabini never liked to stay out of trouble. "You have no idea how much it hurts me that for all these years I could never get you to commit to me and now you've gone and given yourself to some Gryffindor!" His smirk danced in his eyes.
"Shut up Blaise."
"Or else what? You won't sleep with me anymore?" I winced for him.
She rolled her eyes. "Or else I'll hex you so badly you'll have to graduate from the hospital wing!"
"Oh, now I'm scared." He should be.
"You should be!" Exactly.
He snaked his arm around her shoulder. "Oliphia… you couldn't hurt me…" His head bent close to her neck.
She squirmed away from him. "Get off me!"
"I'm not on you… though it could certainly be arranged." One moment he was leaning over her, and the next moment he was on the floor and she was standing over him brandishing her wand.
"Don't push me."
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