Chapter 19
Bridget was just walking to Herbology but before she got outside someone grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into a empty classroom…
"What in Merlin's name is your bloody problem!" Bridget yelled at the person that had pulled her into a empty classroom.
"What is my bloody problem? Don't you mean what is your bloody problem!"
"Oliver quit overreacting! Wait, what in Merlin's name are you overreacting about now?"
"I have been asking you to Hogsmede every day and you keep turning me down, but as soon as scrawny Terry Boot asks you just jump to the occasion? I saw you eating with him today Bridget!"
"Scrawny? Are you jealous?"
"Hell yes I'm jealous! Damn it Bridget," Oliver said running his hands through his hair. "I love you! Don't you understand that! I know you love me…"
"No…"
"Don't interrupt me Bridget," Oliver growled. "I know you love me and I don't know why in Merlin's name you are doing this! You are just hurting the two of us."
"No, I'm not hurting the two of us. I'm fine, I like Terry. You are only hurting yourself because you won't come to terms that I don't like you the way you like me. I'm fine with being friends."
"Friends? Friends! Are you bloody kidding me!" Oliver screamed, "Bridget we have shagged! We have shagged twice!"
"Ever heard of friends with benefits Oliver? Most guys like that, you know they don't like commitment."
"Yeah and go figure the one girl I want to settle down with doesn't want to settle down," Oliver said and then conjured up a piece of parchment.
"What's this?"
"Your class started almost five minutes ago, this will get you in class. Good luck with Terry."
"Are you finally giving up?" Bridget asked hopeful and Oliver couldn't believe how hopeful she sounded for him to give up on her.
"No, never. I will just have to keep persisting you even more than usual," Oliver said smiling and walked off as he was late for the class he was suppose to be teaching.
"You what!" Ginny asked in disbelief as she stared at her best friend at dinner.
"I think I finally pushed Oliver away! Oliver said he wouldn't be gone but I think I really hurt him."
"But Bridget, you care for Oliver as much as he cares for you."
"No I use to care for Oliver a lot, but I don't trust guys."
"Then why are you going to Hogsmede with Terry?"
"Well," Bridget said smiling. "No only am I going to Hogsmede with him, Terry asked me to be his girlfriend after classes today."
"What? Well what did you say?"
"I said yes!"
"Why?"
"Why not?" Bridget said shrugging her shoulders and eating her pork chops.
Ginny was just glad that Adora, Harry, and Ron were busy studying for N.E.W.T.s and would get food from the kitchens later. Ginny had to try and talk some sense into her best friend. Susan and Draco were having a romantic evening as tonight was their wedding anniversary and Ginny was watching Breeanna. Luckily Bree was asleep.
"Why? Terry is so scrawny."
"Why does everyone keep saying that?"
"What do you mean everyone?"
Bridget huffed, "Well Wood stopped me earlier. Went crazy with jealously because I'm going to Hogsmede with Terry."
"Wait I thought you were dating him too?"
Bridget nodded, "I am. But I wasn't when Wood stopped me."
"So if two of us have told you Terry is scrawny, then why are you with him? It's not as if he can protect you."
"Yeah," Bridget began to shuffle her food around her plate. Bridget was nervous, good thing Ginny could read her best friend like a book. "If Terry tries anything with me at least I can fight him off."
"Aww, Bridget!" Ginny said throwing her arms around her best friend, "Is this why you are pushing Oliver away?"
Bridget pulled away from her best friend, "I'm not pushing him away. I don't like Wood anymore except for just being friends. We have no more personal relationship, look I am done eating. Are you coming back to the dormitory or are you staying with Harry?"
"I don't know I'm mad at him, but I can't have Bree in the dormitory with the rest of the girls. So I'll probably just stay with him tonight."
"You should stay with Harry every night."
"Why?"
"You are married to the bloke Ginny," Bridget laughed. "It's not like you are going to get in trouble or nothing. Besides after Harry graduates he'll be busy with the Order and Auror training."
"We don't even know if Harry will get the marks he needs for Auror."
"Do you think they will actually take notice in his marks?" Bridget chuckled at her best friend, "Harry is The-Boy-Who-Lived. They will take Harry if he doesn't get his marks, hell he could drop out and they'd still take him."
"Yeah," Ginny nodded.
"You realize that we still have a year left here, a year without everyone else. Just you and me here. I don't know what I'll do as you will be Head Girl and be staying in there and I'll still be stuck with our roommates in the dormitory."
"Well the bed is like a King size bed, we can both sleep in my bed. Or we could always magic you a bed up, but you are so staying with me!"
"Okay," Bridget chuckled.
Ginny was walking down the hallway, as Bridget had headed back towards Gryffindor Common Room. Ginny was on her way to the Head Dormitory to hopefully see her husband but someone grabbed her and dragged her into an empty classroom.
"What the! Oliver?"
"Bridget isn't with you, right?"
"No," Ginny said looking at Oliver oddly with her eyes wide open. "Why am I in here?"
"What is going on with Bridget?"
"Uh oh."
"First, I heard that Bridget was going to Hogsmede with that Boot kid. Now, I heard that Bridget is his bloody girlfriend! I am ready to pull my bloody hair out because of this girl! I love her but Bridget is pushing me to the end! One moment I think we are getting back together and then the next she hates me again."
"Bridget doesn't hate you."
"Oh really? Bridget sure acts like she hates me."
"Bridget is scared," Ginny said shifting Breeanna to her other hip.
"Of what! I'm not that piece of shit Longbottom she had trusted."
"I know that and Bridget doesn't think you will do to her what he did, but she's afraid to trust again."
"Are you bloody serious!" Oliver screamed scaring Breeanna and Ginny had to calm the one year old down. "Bridget afraid to trust, but she's dating a guy she doesn't even know! I know Bridget inside and out. If Bridget would give me the bloody time of day, she'd know me too!"
"Bridget is with Terry Boot because if he tries anything she can defend herself."
"True," Oliver chuckled.
"So are you going to give up on her?"
"Are you kidding me?" Oliver chuckled, "I'll never give up on Bridget. I know we belong together."
"You can't keep badgering her like you have been doing."
"Well I can't just give up on her."
"Well," Ginny said giving Oliver I sly smile. "I know that and you know that, but Bridget doesn't have to."
"What do you mean? If Bridget knows that I gave up on her then Bridget will be assured that I have given up on her."
"Oh Oliver, obviously you don't know our dear Bridget as well as I do."
Oliver raised his right eyebrow up, "Do tell."
"Where have you been?" Harry asked as his wife and Breeanna entered the Head Boy's quarters.
"Being a bloody genius," Ginny said giving Harry a thousand watt smile as she placed her little niece down in the playpen that Susan had dropped off for Breeanna to sleep in.
"Do tell."
"I have figured out a way to get Bridget back with Oliver."
"Do you think that wise?"
"What do you mean?"
"You are going behind Bridget's back to help Wood get her back correct," Harry asked his dear wife.
"Right."
"You don't think that once Bridget finds out she will be pissed off at you."
Ginny smiled, "That's the beauty of this. By the time she finds out Bridget will love me even more."
"Confident aren't you?"
"This plan can't fail."
"Oh really?"
"Yup."
"So what's the plan?"
"As you know Bridget is with Terry Boot."
"Yes I was informed of that earlier, in fact my lovely wife I was looking all over for you to find you to make sure I wasn't hearing some odd rumor."
"Nope Bridget is with Boot."
"What is wrong with her?"
"Well my darling husband, I believe Bridget is afraid of getting hurt by Oliver as Neville had."
"But Wood would never rape her."
"True," Ginny nodded. "Bridget trusted Neville as a boyfriend and she's afraid that Bridget had be crushed if Oliver ever dated her."
"Doesn't she know that he loves her."
"Bridget does but she doesn't believe him."
"So Ginny my love," Harry says wrapping his arms around his wife. "Who have you planned this scam with?"
"Oliver Wood himself."
"Oh," Harry said nodding. "So what's the plan?"
"Well, it starts like this…"
February nineteenth was Desdemona Aileen Malfoy's first birthday. It didn't surprise Autumn that her father had forgotten about her daughter's birthday. Autumn rolled over to see her bed empty, and she was surprised to not see Neville Longbottom laying beside her. There was a reason Neville was here but she just hadn't figured it out yet. It didn't matter at this moment as Autumn needed to start celebrating her daughter's birthday with her daughter.
"Happy birthday to you," came a male's voice signing to the baby in her crib. "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Desi. Happy birthday to you."
"Neville," Autumn smiled at him. "How did you know?"
"I remember you mentioning it last night, besides it's not as if her father is a part of her life."
"I wish he was."
"I'll be her father."
"What?" Autumn began to laugh as she thought he was joking and she picked up the birthday girl to change her dirty nappie. "Why would you just volunteer such a job like that?"
"Because every child needs their parents."
"But you aren't her father."
"I could be the closest thing she ever has to a father."
"Vincent tried, but father ended up killing him."
"Because Crabbe disobeyed an order from master."
"You actually listen to father?" Autumn asked frowning at Neville, "I thought you would totally be against my father, my daughter, or me. After all The Lestranges drove your parents insane."
"I want to hurt the Potters the most I can, and I've been interested in the Dark Arts lately. It wasn't your father to drive my parents insane, it was the Lestranges. Mark my words, I will be the death of them."
Autumn's eyebrows rose up, "Really now? Sounds like you'll be a wonderful Death Eater."
"Anything to be around the beautiful Autumn Lewis."
"Alright so do you want to celebrate my little girl's birthday with me?"
"Of course I do."
Days flew by for the Potter kids and soon the Hogsmede trip was ready for all the Hogwarts students to go on.
Bridget was still with Terry Boot and all of the Potters, minus Bridget, knew of Oliver Wood's plan to get Bridget back. Most of the Potters however didn't think that Oliver's plan would work.
Bridget was waiting for Terry down at the Entrance Hall, so they could go on their first date together. As Bridget was waiting for Terry, there was Oliver. This intrigued Bridget, as Oliver hadn't been following her every step lately. Terry wasn't around and after all Bridget and Oliver were only friends.
"Hey," Bridget said smiling that thousand watt smile that always melted Oliver's heart but he couldn't show her how much she meant to him, not yet at least.
"Hey," Oliver said nodding but looking around her.
"You waiting on someone?"
"No, just waiting for the rest of the students to hurry up so I can meet up with my date."
"Date?" Bridget almost chocked and Oliver smiled inside to know that she actually cared.
"Yeah, date. I mean after all we are just friends, correct?"
"Yeah," Bridget replied and Oliver smiled at her. That smile that always made her melt, but she didn't want him to know. Oliver couldn't know. First, because Bridget was trying to push him away, so she could never be hurt by the one man she truly cared for. Second, Bridget had a boyfriend. Lastly, obviously Oliver had moved on.
"Good, so how are you and Terry doing?"
Bridget blinked, he was actually going to ask about Terry? "We are doing great, yeah great. As a matter of fact I'm waiting on him so we can head to Hogsmede."
"That's what I figured," Oliver nodded. "Well since you guys are most likely have the last carriage to Hogsmede, and we're going the same way. It would be okay if we shared a carriage, correct?"
"Of course."
"I'm not imposing on your date am I?"
"No," Bridget said shaking her head. "No not at all."
"Great, I'm glad we can be friends. I missed hanging out with you like we use to, you know before things got all weird." Oliver said slugging her in the shoulder.
"Oww!" Bridget cried and Oliver laughed as he acted as if he thought she was joking around. 'Weird? Things got weird and Oliver was moving on?' "Who's your date?"
"Luna Lovegood."
"Luna!"
"Yeah," Oliver laughed. "Good thing Luna isn't one of my students, Luna is such a lovely girl. Don't you agree?"
"Yeah, but Luna does tend to have weird conspiracy theories doesn't she?"
"Yes," Oliver chuckled. "But that's what makes her so interesting."
"Terry!" Bridget yelled joyfully, but she looked bummed when she saw that Terry was walking with Luna.
"Hello Bridget," Luna said smiling and wrapped her arm around Oliver's. "There is probably only one carriage left, you don't mind if we share a carriage with you guys do you?"
"Of course not," Terry spoke up and Bridget felt as if this day would never end.
It seemed everywhere Bridget and Terry went, was Oliver and Luna. As if one of them had inherited the Potter mind reading and just followed Bridget and her boyfriend around all bloody day!
Finally, Oliver and Luna were no where to be found for a good few hours.
"You are a genius!" Oliver laughed as the two were behind the Shrieking Shack, "It is such a shock that you agreed to this."
"Not really," Luna said laughing at Oliver. "I really enjoy the company of the Potter kids and I have seen you and Bridget together. You guys really belong together, I believe in true love and I'll do anything to see it come true."
"You do understand you will have to put your love life on hold."
Luna began to laugh as if she was crazy, "What love life? You really must be blinded by Bridget Potter. No guys look at me the way you look at her. Besides maybe if I help you guys get together, I might get lucky like you guys."
"You'll find Luna, I promise."
"So what happens when Bridget decides she does really love you?"
"Well I can't give in right then and there because I know Bridget will just pull the same crap as usual, so I've got to leave her hanging around for a while."
"But do we have to act, you know like a real couple?"
"What do you mean?"
"Like kiss and stuff?"
Oliver began to laugh really hard and it took a while for him to catch his breath. "Well you don't have to."
"But it would be more convincible, correct?"
"Yeah, but it's totally up to you."
"As long as you don't fall in love with me," Luna said nodding.
"Okay," Oliver laughed at Luna's mysteriousness. "As long as you don't fall in love with me."
"Deal!" They said shaking hands and laughing as both of them knew that this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
"He just makes me so angry!" Bridget said yelling at Ginny in the Head Boy's quarters.
"Who?" Ginny asked eating some chocolates from that Harry had bought her from their trip to Honeydukes.
"Oliver! Have you not been listening to me for the last hour!"
"Sorry," Ginny offered as she kept eating chocolates. "Can't help it, I've been having this weird craving for chocolates lately."
"Have you started your period yet?"
"Nope," Ginny said shaking her head. "I should be starting any day though."
"That's probably why you have craving for chocolates, I know I always do."
"Nope, I usually like pretzels."
"Maybe you are just sick of pretzels and it's now changed to chocolates."
"Yeah that would make since, now what were you going on about?"
"Oliver!" Bridget screamed again, "He's going out with Luna."
"I happen to like Luna."
"Yeah, but she is a bit weird."
"I like weird, after all I did marry your brother." Ginny said laughing at her own joke as Bridget rolled her eyes at her best friend, sometimes Ginny could be so corny.
"Luna isn't prettier than me is she?"
"What does it matter?" Ginny asked finally putting the chocolate box down, "You are with Terry. You made it perfectly clear to Oliver that you guys were only going to be friends, so now he wants to be friends and Oliver is trying to move on with Luna."
"Yeah, but I didn't think Oliver would move on so quickly."
"Beggars can't be choosers."
"Yeah," Bridget nodded. "It's obvious that Oliver was lying to me before."
"How's that?"
"Oliver kept going on and on about how much he loved me and he'd never give up and blah, blah, blah, blah! Now he's just moved on and…"
"You are jealous!"
"No I'm not!"
"Don't you lie to me Bridget Lynn Potter!" Ginny yelled standing up, "You are jealous that he has moved on so quickly."
"Well…"
"Beggars can't be choosers."
"So you've told me before."
"Hello love," Ron said laying in the Head Girl's room with his wonderful girlfriend, Adora Potter.
"Hi," Adora said sniffling.
"Still stuffy?"
"Yes," Adora said blowing into a tissue again.
"Brought you some chicken noodle soup from the kitchens and some butterbeer from Hogsmede." Ron said setting down the gifts for Adora on her bedside table.
"You are the best boyfriend ever!" Adora said pulling his face down to Adora's so she could give him a nice kiss. "Maybe I shouldn't be kissing you, as I'm sick."
"I would never give up the chance to kiss the lovely and sexy Adora Aimee Potter."
"What's that behind your back?"
"Your favorite chocolates from Honeydukes," Ron said handing Adora the box of chocolates.
"Thank you!" Adora said taking the box from her boyfriend and he sat down beside her on the bed, so they could cuddle together.
"So have you thought about what you are going to do after we get out of Hogwarts?"
"Going to be going around the world for two years to study more on true Seers and then I will start Healer school in September."
"So I guess that scratches you moving in with me?"
"I'm sorry Ron," Adora said giving him a sad smile. "But don't you start Auror school in…"
"September, but I could stay with you until then."
"Do you have a place yet?"
"No not yet."
"Why don't you stay with your folks or Arabella?"
"I don't want to impose."
"You won't."
"Yeah but I don't want Bella to think I am just a bum," Ron said looking at Adora.
"You won't be."
"I would feel more comfortable sharing a room with you."
"Beggars can't be choosers."
