Chapter Five: No Way Out
"I won't, I just hope I can do the team some justice."blaine was glowing just thinking about Quiddich, she'd made the team her second year.
"I hope so too, it'd give you something to keep your mind off of things like last night." Blaine looked over at her curiously. "I saw Harry go after you, I realized then that he was what had made you so upset…" she trailedoff as blaine began to shake her head.
"it wasn't him, it was actually my own stupidity, I felt like an idiot." Cho frowned.
"you had no reason to feel stupid, he lied to you." her expression changed to a smile. "anyways, enough about that, Sebastien likes you…" blaine's mind instantly ran to Harry.
"cho, I don-" Cho cut her off.
"I really think you two would be so cute together," Cho was looking pleadingly at her, as if she knew blaine was about to protest. "I can't cancel on him now, I told him you would." Blaine thought about it for a moment and then leaned forward in her seat to look passed Cho, Sebastien sat there near the end of the table, talking to some other Ravenclaw males, seeming so confident and flawless, a trait that was so different from Harry. He suddenly turned in her direction and smiled at her, she smiled back, nmot really knowing what else to do, but doing it un-consciously, like a second nature. The boy next to him elbowed himm in the side and his attentiopn moved away from her.
"I'll go as a favor to you, but I'm just not interested in something –new- right now." Blaine said, knowing she wasn't sure how harry had taken things last night, whether he thought they were a couple again, whether he thought there was a chance of that, or wether he still wanted that again, but most of all wheter she actually wanted that again. Blaine had to spend the time to figure things out before diving head-first into something new.
"as a favor to me?" Cho asked curiously. "I thought you liked him." Blaine giggled.
"I do, cho, really I do, I'm just still figuring out what it is I want."the girl across from them shook her head.
"you're a teenager, you don't need to know what you want, you're supposed to experiment, go out with a bunch of boys,then when you grow up you can find Mr. Perfect."blaine shook her head and finisherd what was left in her goblet before standing up.
"there's no such thing." She laughed as Cho and the other followed suit and the three began, along with several others, off to classes.
Lunch was pretty much the same, talk about boys and a little bit of quiddich between blaine and cho, but mostly boys because the talk of quiddich left their third and fourth party out of the conversation.
"so you two are like…back together again?" Ron questioned dumbly, his brow furrowed as they continued their conversation that was cut short the class before their lunch hour.
"Well…" Harry trailed on, shoving the end of a buttered roll in his mouth and chewing fully. "Not exactly, but I think she's not mad at me anymore." The confusion on Ron's face deepened.
"But she kissed you, right?" He asked and Harry nodded as he chewed. "So..." Ron muffled through his own food. "Don't you see a bit of déjà vu in this mate?" Hermione shook her head.
"Déjà vu, Ron? What on bloody earth are you talking about?" Ron made obscene hand gestures as he continued his silent chewing, then swallowed hard and continued.
"Don't you remember when Cho kissed him?" he asked, awaiting some sort of answer, but everyone's curiosity just grew. "The entire thing became a gigantic mess and Harry was left with nothing." Ginny rolled her eyes.
"That doesn't mean Blaine's going to do the same thing, she isn't Cho, plus, her and Harry have already had a relationship." Harry moved his hands out in front of both of them.
"Please stop talking like I'm not here." he suggested as if annoyed, which, he was.
"But, she is friends with Cho, right Harry?" Ron asked, getting a clueless nod, Harry had no idea what Ron was trying to get at.
"What are you trying to do, make him feel like he did before he talked to her Ron, make him feel like nothing's right in the world anymore, lets not talk hypothetically you stupid Git."
"Hey!"Harry raised his voice to get their attention. "Let's just change the subject ok, I'll talk to her again tonight ok?" Ginny smiled.
"Good idea." She voiced, "It'll give these two a chance to sort out their differences, seeing as I won't be there either, they can come to some sort of agreement." Ron looked curiously at his little sister.
"Where're you going to be?" he asked cautiously.
"Not like it's any of your business Ron Weasley, but I have a date." Ginny held her head high, proud of herself that she actually said that aloud without turning red, if she wasn't turning red. Ron's face distorted in disapproval.
"What?" he spat at her.
"Leave it alone Ron, Ginny can do as she pleases, it's none of your business." Ron sneered and rolled his eyes, looking away.
"Thank you Hermione." Ginny praised her friend for sticking up for her and then continued on with her meal.
blaine waitedoutside Cho's last class of the day, waiting for her. When cho finally did appear, Sebastien was right beside her and it seemed as if he was asking her a question when they both spotted Blaine.
"blaine, we were just talking about you." Cho interrupted their own conversation as she sauntered over with him in tow.
"you were?"Blaine asked curiously, shifting the position of her bag on her shoulder for an excuse not to look either one in the eye.
"yeah, I was just asking Cho if she wouldn'tmind joining us, doubling with Shick." Cho smiled giddily, loooking like she was about to melt.
"a double?" Blaine asked, again curiously, she had nothing really else to say, her mind was occupied with other things.
"yeah, is that ok?" He questioned in a honey-coated voice, his normal voice, just blaine had never really listened to it before, but something occurred to blaine.
"Shick, Shick's a Slytherin is he not?" Cho looked pleadingly her way.
"yeah, he is, so what do you say blaine?" blaine smiled, how many times had she heard cho speak of shick, a smooth dark haired boy, the older brother of Blaize Zabini.
"why not? What exactly do you have planned?" she questioned further, hoping it wasn't something too extravagant, when she was likely to shut him down if it came to him asking again, but exactly –how- extravagant could it get within the grounds of hogwarts, maybe homework, but that's about it. Sebastien grinned and looked over at Cho.
"I know exactly the place… it's a surprise." Blaine couldn't understand why cho was keeping such details from her, except for the fact that she was hopng Blaine would find herself a male attatchment to keep her mind from Harry, her from Harry.
"o…kay." Blaine was hesitant in agreeing, she had a feeling this wasn't going to be simple.
"ok, we're going to meet them on the fourth floor at seven thirty." Blaine nodded, and the three of them departed, blaine and cho from sebastien.
"ok, now that we're out of ears reach, what exactly do you have planned?" Blaine inquired to cho, who side-glanced with asmile.
"first of all, you're going to love it, but I still can't tell you, just trust me, this is exaclty what you need." Blaine wondered if she should tell cho what had happened theprevious night so she wouldn't get her hopes up at all.
"uh, cho…" she hesitated and ended up getting a suspicious look from her friend."uh, before you go off planning ways to… well, plannning anymore dates with guys for me, I have to tell you that-" she was cut off suddenly.
"Blaine?" came a questioning call from behind them. Both turned to see Ahrry approaching.
"hello Cho, Um, blaine can we talk about last night?" blaine smiled un-consciously and cho looked at her weirdly. "a-alone." He stuttered, watching Cho's expressions of curiosity.
"yeah." She said simply, taking a step in his direction and turning to Cho. "I'll meet you back in the common room, ok?" Cho gave a nod of approval, knowing she really had no choice, but stood there cluelessly, wwatchign as they walked away.
"I was wondering…" Harry began as they walked. "what exactly happened last night?" Blaine smiled and stifled a laugh.
"I dunno, I guess I couldn't help myself." He smiled and his cheeks pinkened as he looked sideways at her.
"so does this mean you've forgiven me?" he watched her intently as they walked, getting furtive glances from anyone who passed. Blaine bit her lip.
"yeah, but does that mean you forgive me as well?" she replied, watching him as well, only to get a frown of confusion.
"for what?what did you do?" Blaine looked down to her feet.
" I didn't tell you either, I was being stubborn." Harry slipped his hand inside of hers.
"how can I forgive you when I was never mad at you?" Blaine laughed, but his smile faded. "does this also mean that things can go back to the way they were?" Blaine wanted to answer with an immediate 'yes' but then she would simply have to skip out on sebastien, and she just didn't have the heart to do that, so she just imosed another question.
"is that what you want? To go back to theway things were?" Harry stopped her, and moved so they stood face to face.
"more than anything… but is that what you want? Blaine, I really like you and don't think I could live without you, but I'd rather have you as a friend than not have you at all." Blaine smiled, knowing her answer, but not knowing how exactly to go about telling him about her 'date'. Her smile faded to an awkward grin.
"I'd love that Harry, but it'll have to wait until tomorrow." He furrowed his brow in confusion and she felt the most regret she had in a long time. "I kind of… have a date."
I'm going to leave it there for nbow, and when I come back after cxhristmas, I'll have two chapters for you for sure, maybe more, but I'll give them to you one day at a time. will he be mad, or will he simply forgive her because he loves her...???
To my reviewers:
Elanor Black: Blaine really had no choice, how stupid would she feel if she had to cancel... how stupid would you feel if you had to cancel a date with a superhott older guy? besides, blaine's not exactly outgoing, plus she's still the new kid, she doesn't want to upset anyone... thanks.
Intense: why would you hope he'd be mad at her? that's kind of... weird, a first for me getting reviews like this, interesting to say the least, but hey, i'll try and go with your review, it's just... not quite what i had in mind...
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