Secrets and Dirty Deeds
By the Barefoot Pianist
Chapter 8
That night, everyone looked pretty pissed off. Carmen and Daphne were eyeing each other, making sure that neither of them said a thing. Jade sat near them, looking between the two with an air of discomfort. Draco was busily chopping up his pork chop, which ended up taking the shape of pork mash by the end of the meal, and Pansy was sobbing into her bread roll a few seats away. The only person that didn't look discontented was Nott, his eyes glinting, and perhaps Crabbe and Goyle who never showed much variation in their facial expressions.
What Carmen noticed was Malfoy's abandonment of the female kind. He was always a natural womaniser, but tonight he sat with his right-hand-man, Blaise brooding over some deep and meaningful subject in a dark manner. Once or twice he would look up in the direction of Pansy and narrow his eyes, the same one he never fails to do in front Potter.
The incident didn't take long to reach Carmen's ears, and indeed everybody else it concerned. But that was as far as it went. Everyone in Slytherin knew of the "unwritten" rule that everything concerning Slytherin would stay within Slytherin.
There wasn't much exchange in words between Malfoy and Pansy, despite Pansy's attempts. Until one day…
Malfoy had just closed and locked the door to the equipment shed, where he came face to face with Pansy. Her eyes were red, though they had been like that for quite a few days. He looked at her coldly, then turned to leave, only to be grabbed by the arm.
"Wait," she cried out. "I need to talk to you."
"Let go of me! I don't want to talk so why don't you cry and tell Nott!"
"I will, but in a minute!" Pansy yelled. That stopped Malfoy. Pansy, seeing that he had stopped wriggling out of her grasp, let go and said, "Look, I'm sorry."
After a pause, Malfoy asked, "Is that all you want to say? That you're sorry?"
"Yeah, pretty much. I'm sorry that I cheated on you…"
"Last year and this year."
"And in between," corrected Pansy.
"What?!"
"Whoops."
Malfoy gaped at her at some time, but then took a breath and said, "I shouldn't be surprised…"
Pansy looked sour but composed herself and then said, "Nott's not that bad you know."
"What do you mean, not that bad?"
"He can be a nice person…"
"Yeah, until last year when…"
"Only because he was jealous that he didn't get the position of Quidditch Captain." Draco paused. There wasn't much point in arguing anymore. Pansy though, continued, "He only did that to get you back, but then… but then…"
"Then what?"
"… He started to like me." Malfoy tried hard to contain his laughter.
"So why did you do it? Because you like him?"
"I suppose…" she trailed off, looking self conscious.
"I've had enough of this. Good bye," and with that, he turned and left.
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Carmen walked into the Slytherin common room closely followed by Jade. As soon as they set foot in the room, they noticed a crowd had gathered around a pair who seemed to be shouting profanities at each other. They both gathered around to see who it was.
It was Pansy and Daphne.
A/N: Please R&R! Dun dun duuuum!!!! Right, well, that's my pathetic attempt at describing scary music. How about you insert the first two bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony… that's pretty scary. So, people are starting to act pretty badly and the scene is starting to look pretty dark. Look out for my next chapter – it's a killer. I can't wait to start it! More turmoil to come and there'll be more of Carmen! But while you're waiting, R&R please!