Hey everyone! Sorry it took me so long to update. But heres the next chapter. I hope you all like it. Its not one of my best and eventful chapters but the next one I will be posting is a ton better. I am almost done with it and should be posting it hopefully by Monday or earlier. Please review this chapter and lemme know what you think so far!!!
Chapter Eighteen
"What is it, Alex? I know there's something bothering you and you are going to spit it out now." Lia stated as the two walked around the school grounds. It had been a few weeks since the night in Snape's quarters. Alex had awoken the next morning even more confused then before. Now every time she was with him, she found herself analyzing her feelings for him and the possibility of his feelings for her.
It was early December now and Alex knew that she had only a few weeks before she had to return home.
"You know, you're starting to sound like me. I think I am becoming a bad influence" Alex chuckled lightly, trying to think of how exactly to tell her friend what was bothering her.
"No, I think it is us who are the bad influences." Lia replied with a smile. She adjusted her winter cloak as she waited for Alex to start talking. Alex knew that she could trust Lia with this, and not be laughed or lectured at. Or at least she hoped so.
"I think I am falling in love with him." She blurted out. Lia looked at her quizzically.
"Who?" she asked but then interrupted. "Wait. Let me guess. Remus?"
"No!" Alex said as if insulted. She knew that Fiona and Remus were just starting to get their relationship back together after so many years of being apart.
"Hmm. Hagrid?" Lia asked thoughtfully, trying to think of all the eligible bachelors at the school that weren't students. Alex shot her a dark look, clearly saying that it was not the half giant.
"Dumbledore?" Lia teased lightly.
"LIA!" Alex yelled, starting to get annoyed. She was trying to be serious but Lia was making that hard to do.
"I think you have been hanging around Severus too long. You're starting to sound just like him when you get annoyed." Lia stated rather indignantly. Suddenly, she froze. "No! Not him!"
"If you mean Severus, then yes." Alex sighed, adjusting the scarf around her neck.
"I should have known!" Lia cried out with a laugh. "I mean, you two hating each other from the moment you first met? How does that not scream out sexual tension?!"
"Yeah well, what the hell am I supposed to do about it now? It's obvious that he does not feel the same way about me." Alex sighed, kicking at a pebble with the toe of her boot.
"Ah unrequited love is a bitch. But who says he doesn't feel the same way? From what I can see, there's tension on both sides." Lia commented. Alex looked up at her.
"That doesn't mean that he feels the same way."
" Oh and did he tell you that? Or are you just making assumptions." Lia asked annoyed. Truthfully, Lia knew Snape well enough from childhood, that she did know that he did have feelings towards the student teacher. But it wasn't really him to go after a girl, especially since he didn't even know how Alex truly felt about him.
"He made my hair green. You don't get any more hateful then that." Alex stated. Lia looked at the girl like she was crazy.
"Yes but do you remember what you did to him before that? It was pretty funny, anyway." Lia laughed lightly.
"But he didn't have to kiss me!" Alex blurted out. She realized what she had just revealed and felt herself turning red as Lia gaped at her.
"He kissed you? Why didn't you tell me?" she gasped.
"I don't know. It just didn't seem like something worth mentioning." Alex shrugged lightly.
"But don't you understand? This is the evidence that you are looking for. He obviously has feelings for you if he kissed you."
"I… I don't know." Alex sighed out of exasperation. Her feelings were flitting from one to another in the matter of seconds. Maybe all these feelings she was having was nothing. Maybe she was looking too deep or something. But then why couldn't she get him out of her head?!
"He also invited me down to his sitting room for a cup of tea one night since I couldn't sleep due to the storm. And when I had fallen asleep, he took me back to my rooms." Alex admitted guiltily. It was that night that gave her the speck of hope that he could feel something for her.
"This is what we have to do. We have to make him realize his feelings for you! It's obvious that he feels something if he's doing that for you, but he must not realize the extent of his feelings yet" Lia said excitedly. A plan was forming fast in her mind, and Alex was slightly worried about what her friend was thinking.
"And how do you propose we do that? And you better not be thinking of anything that involves me taking off my clothes or any form of seduction!" Alex warned, smirking slightly. Although the idea might work, she wasn't about to stoop so low just to get a man.
"No of course not! That's more of Fiona's style anyway." Lia said grinning. "This is what I was thinking. The Yule Ball is in exactly two weeks from today. I am thinking the simple art of blowing his mind away when he sees you all decked out. Make him weak in the knees and all that."
"I can't really picture Severus as the type to go weak in the knees." Alex laughed. Lia just shrugged and continued.
"There's a Hogsmeade trip this weekend so we can go and find some dress robes. I still need to get some as well. I remember this one set there, that would be perfect on you, too!" Alex listened silently to her friend as she prattled on about the plan, secretly praying that she wasn't about to make a fool out of herself.
Next Chapter: Christmas Morning
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