Chapter Six: It's a Surprise
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Harry frowned at her, furrowing his brow ever further and further.
"A Date?" he repeated as if he thought he hadn't heard her correctly. "With who?" he questioned further, cooling his demeanor so he didn't seem like he was Jealous, although it was obvious he was. He slowly slipped his hand out of hers and pretended to fix his glasses.
"Well actually, Cho asked this guy out for me, sort of a group thing…" Blaine couldn't believe she was making excuses to him; after all, she did have a liking for Sebastian in the first place. "I agreed to go so I can't really skip out on them now can I?" Harry looked still confused, playing with the hairs on the back of his neck.
"Ok, but if you just want to be friends then why did you say it had to wait until tomorrow…" He trailed off, implying she filling the blanks for him, she knew exactly what he was getting to and didn't quite know how to go about explaining her intentions to him.
"Well…" she began through a nervous laugh. "I guess what I mean is that... that I just… I… I still like you." she shook her head, looking down and missing the grin upon his face, one of simple triumph... "This is a little weird." She said in a hushed voice.
"I know" he replied, making her look up, she hadn't realized he'd been that close to hear her. "I thought you'd never speak to me again." He laughed and smiled, the odd person still passing them in the corridor. Blaine laughed too.
"I was dead set on it." She replied, feeling a bit skittish, like her nerves were rattling in her body. "Hermione Seems nice, a bit nosy… but nice…." Blaine was trying to distract him from the idea of her so called 'date'. Harry laughed.
"Yeah, Hermione's quite the girl, but I'm glad she got nosy this time, didn't have the guts myself." Blaine nodded; this was a weird moment, even more so than the time Harry first tried to kiss her.
FLASHBACK
Two weeks after they met and four days after Harry had first asked her out, Blaine led Harry by the hand through her room on the second floor of their house, not large, but big enough. They passed onto a small balcony through a window along the far side of her room.
"Mum and dad got me this last Christmas. We had a bigger house and I had a bigger balcony." Blaine laughed, letting go of his hand and letting him crawl through the window behind her, motioning to a rather large telescope that took up nearly half of the balcony itself.
There was room enough for the two for them to stand and maneuver properly, but not much otherwise.
"I used to have a thing for astronomy… got boring though, the stars always look the same." Harry laughed at her as she took a seat upon the railing that surrounded the small space. He took the seat directly beside her, because there was no other seat, but also because he wanted to sit there.
"So you um, you sit out here a lot?" he asked stupidly, trying to unroll his tongue from itself, even though he had better use of it than the day they met, much better. Blaine smiled, frowning.
"Actually, I do, but I don't use the telescope a lot, just…sit." She paused thoughtfully. "Privet Drive is quite different from where I came from, it's so… quiet." Again Harry laughed, his laughs were slightly nervous like. A smile slid across her lips. "So Harry… when are you going to kiss me?" she teased, more to lighten the mood and make a simple joke than actually ask, she elbowed him lightly for effect, smiling and laughing. He was quiet and hesitant for a minute before he actually placed a small kiss upon her lips.
When Harry pulled away, they were both silent for a minute, a little shocked, and then Blaine placed a kiss upon his lips in return.
END FLASHBACK
Even though it hadn't turned out to be a big makeout session, and it started awkwardly and as a joke, it was nice.
"Listen…Harry, why don't you meet me in the library tomorrow night, after supper?" He seemed a bit distracted, so she lowered her head to look into his lowered eyes. "Harry?" he suddenly looked up and focused his attention on her.
"Huh? What? Yeah, tomorrow…" she frowned, but didn't question him, she kissed him lightly on the cheek.
"I'll see you tomorrow then…" she began off towards her own common room, but Harry stood there, a little dumbfounded, but most of all, he was quite disturbed. First Blaine had kissed him and now she had a date? But it was Cho's fault and it wasn't like she was going to be alone with this guy or anything. He didn't quite know whether he wanted to blow up at her for doing this to him, or whether he wanted to find anyway he could to have her cancel this. Harry'd never realized the extent of his feelings for her, and there was one thing he could do… and that was to get more advice from Hermione, she was, after all, a girl.
He began at a quick pace for Gryffindor tower and found himself there in record time, his three companions sitting casually in their spots, awaiting him.
"So?" Hermione asked as he sat down and caught his breath. "Did you talk to her?" Harry nodded inaudibly, still trying to catch his breath. "And what did she say?" Harry took one last deep breath and looked right into Hermione's eyes.
"She's got a date…" everybody's eyes widened in unison, shock consumed their faces and expressions and Ron jumped up.
"A date? Are you kidding me? Harry, she's been taking the Mickey, she's gone nutter, first you say she kisses you and now..." Ginny jumped up and clamped a hand over Ron's mouth with much effort; she had to stand upon her tippy toes to do so.
"Shut it Ron, there has to be some sort of explanation…right Harry?" she pulled her hand from off of his mouth with a disgusted look and wiped her hand upon her robes, eyeing her brother weirdly as he glowered at her with a hint of a grin.
"Yeah, it's some sort of group thing, Cho asked him out for her." Hermione seemed like she let out a deep sigh and narrowed her eyes at Ron, jumping up.
"Sit, you bloody buffoon, you see…" she pushed him down in his seat and began gloating. "Just because a girl has a date…when she's single as is…doesn't mean that she's been on the Mickey, and it gave you..." she turned on Harry. "…No right to act all jealous and stuff, she's not your possession and that's been established." Ron rolled his eyes.
"Hermione's right, you guys have no clue what you want, first you want some thing and then you change your mind or do something to screw it up and then act like you're royalty and everything belongs to you…" Harry began to protest, but Ron cut in.
"I'd certainly like to know what's got you all resentful to the male race… who was it?" Ginny rolled her eyes and so did Hermione.
"That…is none of your business Ron Weasley, leave Ginny alone." Hermione protested in Ginny's favor. "Now, what we need to figure is exactly what Harry here plans to do about this?" she laid her eyes upon Harry again, who shrugged non-commitally.
"I don't know, Blaine's special, so if I want her back…" he hesitated in thought for a moment, wondering if he did have her, then falling upon a firm no, just because he technically didn't if she was going out with some… someone and he didn't know who, why hadn't she told him that if it wasn't important? He frowned. "I need something… extremely great." A sudden voice interrupted them.
"Are-are you talking about that new girl?" they all turned heads to see Neville coming over to them, he took a seat nearby and awaited an answer. "You like her?" he continued after a moment of silence. Harry nodded. "She's going out with a Ravenclaw seventh year, I heard them talking in the courtyard." Everyone's eyes were fixated on him and it seemed to be making him nervous.
"Do you know who it is?"Hermione inquired, sitting down and listening intently. Neville hesitated, not knowing whether to say it.
"I don't know if you want to know..."
"C'mon Neville, just spit it out." Ginny prodded, but Neville still seemed quite nervous.
"Well, she's got a date with Sebastian Roecker." He squeaked and both Hermione and Ginny's eyes shot open, as they looked to each other shocked, and a bit conscientious of what Harry would think or say.
"I'm guessing that you two know who he is?" Ron asked, playing with the idea of his sister and Hermione both swooning over this guy.
"He's um…" Hermione mumbled from behind the hand she now found covering her mouth.
"He's…" Ginny too was tongue tied, her eyes catching the clock. "I…have to go, I myself have a date…remember." She grabbed her bag and rushed up the girl's dorm stairs, playing with her hair.
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Blaine was seated on her bed in the dorm trying her best to get done what of her homework she could, but she felt guilty, the way Harry looked gave her the sneaking suspicion that he wasn't happy with her news. She got up to go apologize, when she caught herself, this wasn't privet drive and she couldn't just go next door to talk to him anymore, and she wasn't allowed in the Gryffindor quarters anyways.
Cho appeared in her doorway, smiling casually, but it faded quickly.
"You're not ready." She moved towards Blaine and pulled her over to her trunk. "You can't just go in your robes, you have to make an impression." Blaine began sputtering words.
"What are you talking about, an impression? This is homework we're talking about Right?" Cho stopped and gave Blaine an exasperated look. "I mean…what else is there to do around here?" Cho grinned.
"Since last year? A lot more than before I'll tell you that, there was never anywhere anyone could be alone? The only places besides corridors were the library, the grounds and the courtyard…but there's always people in those places." Blaine swallowed, she was afraid to ask, she felt as if Cho had more in mind than for her to go on a simple 'homework date', which was what she'd thought it was.
"And now?" she asked, a little afraid of the answer. Cho cocked her head to the side as she rifled through Blaine's stuff.
"There's at least one place I know of." She pulled a blue zippered sweater, a lighter blue t-shirt and a pair of jeans out and flung them at Blaine. "Now get ready." Cho exited and Blaine stood in silence for a moment before putting on the clothes and finding her way to the bottom of the stairs and into the common room, where she was met by Cho and Sebastian.
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