Chapter 28

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Nehal and Draco were in the corridor talking and laughing at something that a portrait said.

Jackie was walking down that corridor because she wanted to talk to Luna again. Jackie really admired how strong and smart Luna was.

Draco was stretching out his shoulder.

"What happened?" asked Nehal.

Draco replied, "I pulled a muscle in Quidditch practice."

"Nice."

"Yeah, it's just a little tight."

"Here." Nehal took hold of Draco's bicep and helped him stretch it. "You're just rusty. Pretty soon you'll really suck. Better?"

Draco nodded his head and then noticed Jackie coming towards them from the corner of his eye.

Jackie avoided their gazes, but she had this urge to yell at them, so she did. "You know I'd tell you two to get a room, but then you've already done that." She then kept walking.

Nehal looked at Draco. "I'll go talk to her. I'll see you later." Nehal ran after Jackie who walked outside. "Jackie!"

Jackie turned around. "Hey."

"Jaxs, listen the rumors aren't true, okay?"

"Did you sleep with him?"

"No! No I didn't. Okay? We just shared a bed. I know you still like him and all and I just…"

"Thought you'd spare me the heartache?"

"Yeah."

"Yeah well that worked out real well, didn't it?"

"Jackie!"

"Are you in love with him?"

Nehal paused. Why was Jackie asking her this question?

Jackie said, "You know what, I don't even care. He's all yours now, have a great life together" Jackie walked away from Nehal. She then met up with Luna by the oak tree.

Luna smiled. "Nice seeing you."

"How come you didn't come to the party yesterday?" asked Jackie.

"If I did, who would I talk to?"

"Me!"

"Yeah well you're the only one."

Jackie sighed and sat down beside Luna. "I know it's hard to make friends. I'm pretty shy, so people see me as a snob and a bitch. Actually I am a bitch."

Luna laughed. She then said, "Jaxs, I'm sorry this is so hard for you to see Malfoy and Nehal together. I wish there was a way that I could help, but I don't think there is."

"There's not."

"The only thing I can suggest is to keep using the pain killers."

Jackie nodded her head. "Well, they don't make it easy, do they?"

"Pain killers or Malfoy and Nehal?"

"Malfoy and Nehal."

"I see. No, they don't make it easy. That doesn't mean you have to sink to their level."

"Take the high road, huh? Yeah, sounds familiar. But, Luna, I tried that. It just doesn't seem to work. But there comes a certain point when you have to fight back. And I'm at that point."

Meanwhile Neville and Heather were walking down the corridors holding hands.

"So Heather you and Jackie?" asked Neville

"Are just better off being friends." answered Heather.

"So, you were seeing her behind my back?"

"No Neville. Everyone thought that we were like…you know but we were never like…you know?"

"No I don't know. You're confusing me."

It was now time for divination class with the Ravenclaw's. The four girls sat down and started predicting the future with the orb, following Professor Trelawney's instructions.

"Hey Jackie?" said Nehal

"Sorry. I'm already partnered up with Heather." Jackie said coldly, remembering Draco and Nehal together.

"We are? Oh…yeah…we are." said Heather

"Here!" said Danielle. "We can be partners Nehal."

"Let's see…oh I see something." Nehal said loudly. "In the match against Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. Ravenclaw will loose!" She finished dramatically. Danielle started giggling loudly. Nehal looked at Riley and smiled at him sweetly. He looked as though, he was going to crush the orb, he was holding.

"Nehal?" said Danielle.

"What?"

"I see injury ahead."

"Hey Danie! Stop making things up! You know better, with the match coming up!"

"Nehal, I'm not making it up!"

"Oh no!" gasped Nehal. "I see two angry faces looking at me." Nehal pointed to the orb.

"Er Nehal? That's Jackie and Riley." Danielle was laughing so much that there were tears in her eyes.

"Oh!" Nehal couldn't help but smiled. The bell rang. As people were filing down the staircase, Nehal and Riley approached the trapdoor at the same time.

"Ladies first." said Riley. Nehal found this strangely nice. As she was on the second top step, she felt a push and fell down the rest. She heard a gasp behind her but was too embarrassed to look up.

"Are you okay?" Riley came up behind her as the people filed out.

"Fine!" snapped Nehal. "Just fine! Do I look fine?" Riley helped her up, while she dusted herself off.

"Here, let me take you to the hospital wing." Riley said grabbing her hand gently. Nehal was so confused, she didn't object.

Before this happened…

"Jackie?" said Heather. "Why didn't you partner up with Nehal?"

"Hello Heather, there a couple now! And I really don't feel like talking to her anymore." replied Jackie. "You know it's funny. I look around at all these great looking guys and all I want to do is smash their pretty little faces."

Heather laughed.

"Don't even ask what I'm thinking when I look at Nehal. You know, with Draco I can understand what happened. He's a guy, you know? But Nehal is one of my best friends and I thought that was supposed to mean something."

"Oh…so what are we supposed to do?"

"I don't know but Nehal said something to make Danielle laugh and the Ravenclaw's mad."

"It was something about the match probably."

"That reminds me, we have practice today and I have so much homework!" Jackie turned and glared at Nehal, as though it was all her fault. Then the bell rang. Jackie was eager to get out of the classroom, that she knocked someone down the stairs by mistake. When she saw that it was Nehal, she didn't feel sorry at all.

Meanwhile, Danielle had lost track of Nehal. She met up with Jackie and Heather. "Do you guys know where Nehal is?"

"No! You'd think we keep tabs of her or something!" Jackie said rudely and walked ahead of them. Heather shrugged her shoulders and followed Jackie to the grounds outside.

Danielle decided to check the common room.

Nehal and Riley were on their way to the hospital wing.

"Er Riley?" said Nehal.

"Yes?" said Riley.

"You can let go of my hand now."

"Oh right." Riley blushed and let go off Nehal's hand. "So are you ready to lose the match tomorrow?"

"Yes of course…wait did you say lose the match?"

"Yeah I did!"

"Oh because I thought you said are you ready for the match tomorrow?"

"Ha ha ha ha that's funny. Well, you know what else is funny when your team loses!"

"That's not funny."

"Well maybe to you it isn't. But to me it's hilarious!"

Nehal stepped on Riley's foot. "Ow!"

"Our team is so gonna win."

"Wanna bet?"

Nehal didn't know if she should do this but she didn't want to look like a coward in front of Riley. "How much?"

"10 gallons." (I actually don't know if that's a lot, but who cares)

"20."

"Whoa, you're quite the gambler."

Nehal smiled.

Riley said, "Alright that's 20 gallons for the match tomorrow…you'll be sorry."

"Oh I'm sure I will be." Nehal said sarcastically. Nehal walked back to the common room regretting what she had done. She saw Danielle sitting on a couch reading her Peter Pan novel. "Danie you gotta help me I just did the stupidest thing in the whole entire universe!"

Danielle said, "Well I'm sure it's not the stupidest thing."

"Trust me it is."

"What happened?"

"I bet Riley 20 gallons that we're going to cream their team!"

"Well that doesn't seem stupid to me." Danielle turned her attention back to her novel.

Nehal threw Danielle's book across the common room and it hit somebody in the head, and the person fell over.

"Hey! I was reading that!"

"Danielle please I need your advice."

Danielle sighed, "Okay."

"Jackie hasn't been to Quidditch practice in a while because she's been in detention and if she plays tomorrow she might hurt herself. Quidditch is a sport that requires basic training and fitness. That's all I'm asking for from of all the team players."

Danielle thought about the situation. Finally she titled her head ever so slightly without looking Nehal in the eye and said, "I think she should play."

A/N: Hey I know that was a short chapter, but the next one will be long and a bit gory. Remember Danielle said, she saw injury ahead (hint, hint) Anyways, thanks so much for the reviews. Love you all, so much.