Sorry for this long chapter! It's my favorite one though ) Reviews are extremely nice!!!
The holidays seemed to come and go, as students went to Hogsmeade every day. Most of them spending their time in the Three Broom Sticks or Zonko's Joke Shop. Reilly spent her time with Seamus, walking around in the snow. On Christmas, the Gryffindors woke up with presents wrapped at the bottom of their beds. Reilly woke up to the giggles of Lavender and Parvati.
"What are you guys laughing about?" She asked.
"Ron got me a teddy bear!" Parvati said.
"Oh...how cute!" Reilly said sarcastically.
"Why don't you see what Seamus got you Reilly?" Lavender said.
"Oh he didn't get me anything." She said.
"Yes he did! Look!" Lavender said while pointing out a box on top of the rest of her presents.
Reilly was unaware that Seamus got her anything at all. She jumped out of bed and grabbed the box. It wasn't big, in fact it was pretty small. Reilly quickly unwrapped it all, and opened it up. She looked at it and noticed it was a bracelet. It had minuscule red rhinestones in it that spelt out "I love you".
"Aww!" She said.
"What is it?" Lavender asked.
"Look!" Reilly gave Lavender the bracelet.
"Aww that is cute!" She squealed.
"Oh let me see!" Parvati said. She looked at it, and threw it back at Reilly.
"What's wrong?" Reilly asked alarmed.
"You get some expensive bracelet, and I get a shitty bear!" Parvati said.
"Oh don't be like that!" Reilly said.
"Yeah, don't! That's my brother you're talking about!" Ginny had woken up and was now listening to Parvati.
"That's it! I am going to find him!" Parvati said and she left the dormitory slamming the door behind her waking up everybody else in the room.
Once everybody finished opening presents they headed down to the common room with smiles on their faces. Reilly came down to see Seamus sitting on the couch talking to Ron and Dean. Reilly sat down next to him.
"Hi..." She said shyly.
"Hi." The three said back in unison.
"Seamus, thank you for the bracelet!" She said.
"Do you like it?" He asked.
"I love it!" She said. Ron and Dean looked at each other with smirks on their faces. She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Well me and Hermione are going down for breakfast, do you want to come?"
"Nah, its ok. I'm going to stay here for a while, I'll meet you down there." He told her.
Reilly followed Hermione out of the common room and into the halls. She looked at Hermione who seemed a bit surprised.
"Uh, Hermione...what's wrong?" Reilly asked her.
"Reilly...look!" Hermione said while holding up her wrist.
"What is it?" She asked confused. Then she noticed a shining gold bracelet around Hermione's wrist.
"Who's it from?!" She asked anxiously. Hermione didn't answer, she just stared at the bracelet.
"Hermione?"
"Its...its from...Ron..." She said.
"Oh...wow!"
"Yeah...wow..." Hermione said.
"Did you get anything from Draco?" Reilly asked her quickly.
"Yes..." Hermione said.
"What?"
"A necklace...with my name on it." Hermione said sadly.
"Is that a bad thing?" Reilly asked her.
"Well...no...but I mean...I don't know...I'm just so surprised that Ron got me a gift, after what had happened that I'm starting to think...well...maybe things could work out for me and Ron again." She said.
Reilly wasn't too sure of what Hermione was saying to her...
"Do you mean...you want to be together with Ron again?"
"Yes..."
"Then do it."
Hermione looked at her confused.
"Who would you rather be with, Ron or Draco?" Reilly asked her quickly.
"Ron..." Hermione said.
"Then go be with Ron! Look there's Draco, just go tell him that you don't think things can work out anymore..." Reilly told her.
"Are you sure?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, and make sure you give him back the necklace." Reilly said.
"The necklace? I've never done this before Reilly..." Hermione told her cautiously.
"Just tell him things aren't working out and give him back the necklace."
Hermione looked at her, and started off towards Draco. Reilly could tell that Hermione was nervous, but she watched her. Hermione and Draco headed over to a corner and she saw Hermione start to take off her necklace. She then saw Draco say a few words, though she couldn't make out what he was saying. Then to her surprise she saw Draco slap Hermione across the face.
Reilly ran towards Hermione screaming. A few other heads turn in the Entrance Hall.
"How dare you hit a girl!" She screamed running towards Draco.
"Stay out of this!" He yelled back.
"You can not hit a girl!" She screamed again. Draco took out his wand, Reilly was surprised and totally unprepared, and she left her wand up in the dormitory.
"Well, well. Look's like I'm not going to have to hit you...Reilly." He said.
"Don't you dare!" Hermione said. Reilly looked at her and saw tears streaming out of her eyes, and a huge handprint on the side of her face.
"You wouldn't." Reilly said casually.
"You want to bet?" Draco snarled.
"Expelliarmus!" A voice came from behind them. Reilly turned around to see Harry standing there with his wand pointing out a Draco. Draco's wand flew from his hand as he was about to jinx Reilly.
Reilly quickly looked at Draco and gave him a good punch in the face.
"And that is for hitting a girl you fucking dog!" She yelled.
"Miss Lawrence!" A voice yelled from behind her. She saw the teachers walking towards her.
"What is going on here?!" McGonagall asked her rudely. Reilly looked at Hermione who was shaking her head.
"Nothing professor..." Reilly said softly.
"Well this certainly isn't nothing! You, Potter, Malfoy to my office now!" She growled. The three students headed off towards McGonagall's office, Malfoy's nose bleeding from Reilly's punch. Reilly looked behind her to see Hermione mouth the words...please don't tell.
"Now...I am very disappointed in you Miss Lawrence! I want a full explanation from all three of you!" She yelled. Nobody answered, they all stood their in silence.
"Well? Anybody?" She said. "I want to know what happened out there!" She yelled furiously, giving all three of them a shock. "Mr. Potter I saw you use a spell on Mr. Malfoy, and then Miss Lawrence I saw you hit Mr. Malfoy. Now what is it that Mr. Malfoy did to make you two do that?!" She asked her voice shaking.
"Well...Professor...I think they were trying to fight me...two on one." Malfoy said.
"Fight you?" She repeated.
"Yes Ma'am."
"Why would they fight you Mr. Malfoy?" She asked.
"Well you see-"He was saying until McGonagall's door flew open and Snape charged in.
"Malfoy! My office NOW!" He roared.
"Severus, we were having a conve-"McGonagall was saying until he cut her off.
"Minerva I know! But this is much more important!" He said.
"Why would it be more important?" She asked patiently. Snape walked over to her and whispered something in her ear.
"Oh...very well. Take him!" She said rudely showing them off. Snape grabbed Malfoy's arm and dragged him out of the classroom.
"Uh...professor?" Harry questioned.
"Yes...well! Now that I know, I can see as you two trying to help. But I must give the both of you a week's detention for using a spell on another student, and for hitting another student." She said calmly.
"When?" Reilly asked.
"Well, I guess when the vacation is over. But don't think I will forget!" She said. "Now go eat before any more trouble is caused." She said and motioned them to leave the room.
The two of them walked back to the Great Hall in silence. They walked over to the Gryffindor table to see Hermione, Ginny, Seamus, Dean, Ron, Lavender, and Parvati all there already. When the two arrived at the table all the heads were turned to them. They both angrily sat down at the table.
"Uh...what's going on?" Ron asked.
"Nothing!" Harry said.
With that being said, everyone else looked down at their plates and continued eating. Reilly couldn't eat, in fact she didn't even noticed how the Great Hall looked. There where Christmas trees all over the hall, and icicles hanging from the ceiling. The sky above them was gray clouds, with snow falling from them. She would have thought it looked beautiful if it wasn't for that fact that her Christmas was possibly the worse she has had so far.
"Reilly can I talk to you? Alone?" Hermione asked. Reilly got up and followed Hermione out of the Great Hall.
"What happened?" Hermione asked quickly.
"Well. None of us said anything, but then Draco said that Harry and me were fighting him. And then Snape came in and whispered something to McGonagall and he took Draco. I think somebody told him." Reilly said.
"Really?" Hermione asked sadly.
"Yeah, but don't worry. Just say you don't want to talk about it...if they ask you." Reilly reassured her.
"I'm going back to the common room...I'll see you later." Reilly told her. Reilly walked back up to the common room thinking about her Christmas so far, it sucked.
Hermione went back into the Great Hall when everyone started asking her "What did you say to her?", "What happened?". She just ignored them.
"Hermione, where did Reilly go?" Seamus asked.
"Back to the common room." She said while eating her breakfast. Seamus got up and walked back to the common room to see Reilly sitting on the couch.
"Reilly? Are you ok?" He asked her.
"No...Seamus, my Christmas sucks!" She whined.
"Reilly, what happened?" He asked her. Reilly and Seamus sat there and talked about what had happened in the Entrance Hall that morning. Seamus was in a bit of a shock.
"He slapped Hermione, then you hit him?" He asked confused.
"Don't say it like that..." She said.
"Reilly get your cloak...come with me..." He said.
"Where are we going?" She asked.
"I want to take you out...lets go!" He rushed. Reilly ran upstairs grabbed her cloak and left the common room with Seamus.
"Seamus where do you want to go?" She asked.
"I want to take you to Hogsmeade. Somewhere that should make you feel better...even though it's more of a girl's favorite place...I'm willing to go there for you." He said.
"Where?" She asked again.
"Madame Puddifoot's." He said shrilly.
"How do you know about it then?" She asked.
"Lavender once dragged me there last year for Christmas." He said. Reilly started laughing hysterically.
"See I got you feeling better already!" He said sarcastically. They walked through the snow towards Madame Puddifoot's. They walked into the warm, teashop. They walked to one of the tables in the back of the room.
"Ah Seamus...here again?" A tall women came over to them.
"Eh...yeah..." He said.
"Is this your girlfriend?" She asked him fondly.
"Uh...yeah." He said again.
"Well I am Madame Puddifoot!" She said loudly to Reilly.
"I...um...am Reilly Lawrence." She told her.
"Well what would it be?" She asked them.
"Two coffees please." Seamus told her.
"Surely." She told them. She walked away and left the two sitting confused.
"Oh gosh, what's with her?" Reilly asked.
"She isn't like that to some people, she's a friend of my mum..." Seamus told her.
"Ah...ok." Reilly said. A few minutes later their coffees arrived.
"Here you are..." She said.
"Thanks." Seamus said while taking out his money.
"No, no Seamus! Its on the house!" She told him.
"Uh...ok." He said. They sat there, drinking their coffee. Not really talking. Once they were done they thanked Madame Puddifoot and left the shop.
It was snowing a bit more than once they got into the shop. Seamus took Reilly's hand and walked back to Hogwarts with her.
"I don't want to go inside yet!" She told him.
"Where do you want to go?" He asked.
"Lets walk by the lake..." She suggested.
"Alright." He told her. They walked by the lake talking about what everyone had gotten them for Christmas.
"Well do you want to go in now? It's getting later..." Reilly asked him.
"Sure...if you want to." He said.
"I guess..." And this time she took Seamus' hand and they walked to the gates of Hogwarts. She stopped before they got inside.
"Why'd you stop?" He asked. But before she answered him she softly kissed him on the lips. She pulled Seamus towards her who then put his arms around her waist. Seamus then used his tongue to trace Reilly's lips, she parted them allowing him to enter. She put her hands on his face and massaged his tongue with her own. She let out a soft moan, which made Seamus kiss her harder. He then planted little kisses across her neck, she moaned again.
Reilly pulled Seamus back up to kiss him again. She then started to suck slightly on his neck,
"Reilly..." He groaned. She kissed him again on the lips softly. She parted and look him in the eyes.
"Merry Christmas Seamus!" She told him with a smile on her face. He took her hand and they walked back to the common room together.