Disclaimer: hmm… no, not really.
Unrequited Hate
Chapter Six
It was Monday night, and Pansy had had a rather bad day. After dinner she sat in the common room and finished her Charms essay, but was still feeling the effects of the day. She went up to her dorm and changed out of her robes into a pair of faded blue jeans and a green tank top. She walked out of the common room and down to the edge of the lake. It wasn't quite past curfew yet, so she was in no danger.
She sat down on a rock near the edge of the water and watched the ripples run across the surface. It calmed her down, helped her relax. She closed her eyes and listened to the sounds the water made as it lapped against the shore.
Unwittingly, she remembered something that had happened earlier that day. It was right after lunch, and the sixth year Slytherins and Gryffindors had been walking to Care of Magical Creatures - Pansy had let Juliette talk her into talking the class once more. She had been walking across the grounds with Juliette and Daphne Greengrass, another one of her roommates, laughing at a joke Daphne had made, when she saw something that caught her eye. The Golden Trio was walking in front of them, and Hermione had paused for a moment to look at something, and Ron had swung an arm around her shoulders and led her to class.
Without being completely aware of it, she had started crying. When she did, it just made her mad. There was no way in bloody hell that she was going to get a shot with Ron Weasley, hell she couldn't even talk to him without getting ridiculed, but Hermione could touch and laugh and joke with him all she wanted. It just made her bad day seem even worse.
She managed to stop crying, and went back to staring across the lake, and listening to the sounds of the water.
And then another sound invaded her ears - a twig snapping behind her. She spun around and found herself face-to-face with one Ron Weasley.
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Ron had been listening to Neville mutter over his Potions essay, Hermione going over Charms movements with her wand, Harry read his Transfiguration book half aloud and Ginny scribble a letter for the last hour and he was sick of it. With a sigh he stacked all his books together, took them up to his dorm and dropped them unceremoniously at the end of his bed. He then changed into a simple pair of jeans and a red fitted shirt. He then walked out of the common room without attracting any attention, for which he was glad - he needed some time to clear his head.
He walked down to the grounds, no real destination in mind, but decided to wander around the lake. He was gazing at the tree tops of the Forbidden Forest, lost in his thoughts. Then he stepped on a twig, causing it to snap. The sound drew his attention back down to earth, and he found himself looking at the girl who had been torturing his thoughts - Miss Pansy Parkinson. He noticed something in the moonlight - there were faint trails on her face - she had been crying. At that moment there was nothing he wanted more than to gather her in his arms and just hold her.
For a moment the two simply looked at each other. "Can I help you Weasley?" she finally asked, but it lacked her usual bite.
He shrugged. "Not really," he told her.
She rolled her eyes and instead of replying went back to staring at the ripples on the lake. He walked off, and Pansy assumed that he had gone off to finish his walk or the like. She left out an inaudible sigh and closed her eyes. His image was clearly imprinted on the insides of her eyelids, and she could see every feature perfectly.
She must have sat there longer than she thought, because she felt someone shaking her shoulder. Her eyes snapped open, staring straight into the blue orbs of Ron's eyes.
"Yes?" she asked, sounding more tired than anything else.
"It's past curfew. You might want to get back to your dorm," he told her before getting up from the crouching position he had been in and walked away.
She sat there looking after him for a moment, then got up and brushed herself off before taking his advice and walking back to the Slytherin common room.
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A/n: sorry it's so short. But I think you all will like the next chapter… I wouldn't want to give it away, but trust me, it's probably the best chapter so far… even though it's not Ron/Pansy, I'm pretty sure you'll like it. Until then!
Many thanks to - TriGemini, Steelo, Sequoia, Sali, tru, XKayXBearX, degrassichick, gyrlfrend, and Aradia-rising.
.-Tiarwen-.