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Chapter 3 - Forgive and Forget
"I can't concentrate!" cried Lily. "It's too loud, how am I supposed to revise with this noise?"
She was trying, and failing, to work through a huge mound of Revision for her Charms N.E.W.T. Matthew was doing some revision too, but everyone else in the common room seemed to be too busy shouted and messing about to do any work.
"You're Head Girl, why don't you just tell everyone to shut up?" asked Matthew, rolling his eyes.
"Matthew! I couldn't possibly put myself above their fun! It's all excitement in the run-up to the Final. No no, I'll just have to do it tomorrow. Anyway, I rather fancy a break." This was true. She was completely exhausted, having spent the whole day organising the End Of Year Feast.
"Lily darling, you know that it will be exactly the same tomorrow. You will keep sacrificing yourself for your revision for the sake of their immature bawling, you will fail your exams and they will keep on bawling for the rest of their lives."
"But-"
"I mean it. You've got to get a grip on yourself. If you won't tell them to be quiet, I will. I am a Prefect, after all."
Why? Why was Matthew such a bore? She'd been revising all week, not to mention her duties as Head Girl, surely she deserved a break? She felt as though he was constantly at her throat, always breathing down on her.
Lily just couldn't take it any more. She grabbed her stuff and ran up the stairs to the dormitories.
"Sweetheart?" called Matthew. "Sweetheart, I'm sorry, I didn't mean-" He trailed off as Lily's shiny auburn hair disappeared.
"Uurgh!" snarled Lily. "He's so annoying sometimes! Still, I should be prepared to forgive and forget. Yes, I'll go to bed, and tomorrow we'll forget all about it. Yes... Forgive and forget..."
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Sorry it's so short, I decided to add this chapter as a sort of 'setting-the-scene' thing. The whole chapter can be summed up as : Matthew is a very boring person who is very very patronising to Lily, but he has her best interests at heart, is a lovely person really, and simply adores her. So there you go.
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