Chapter 13
The next day, Jackie and Draco went to the library to work on homework.
Draco said, "I'll see if I can find a book that might help us with this charms shit."
"Okay!" replied Jackie as she sat down at a table.
Shortly after Draco left in search of some books, Gary approached Jackie. He had heard lots of information about this girl from Harry and Ron but he thought she was cute so today he finally got the courage to talk to her. "Hi- hi Jackie."
Jackie smiled but then frowned when he sat down next to her.
Gary however didn't notice this.
Jackie said, "Hey. What's your name again?"
"Gary."
"Okay sorry you just seem like such a different person when you attempted to rob my friend's house." (Wow that sounds weird)
"Not really, well maybe a little."
Jackie laughed. "Do you have girlfriend?"
Gary looked shocked.
"I've got a real knack for hooking people up."
"Who did you hook up?" Gary asked interested.
"Hermione and Rocky and I'm working on Luna and Colt but…"
"Colt doesn't like Luna!"
"I know so that kind of creates a problem then…"
There was a bit of an awkward moment.
"Hey you wanna see my gadgets?" Gary said sounding like a five year old.
"Um sure…"
"This watch can do anything and I mean anything."
"Does it tell time?"
"Of course. What kind of watch doesn't tell time?" Gary giggled as he showed Jackie his watch.
Jackie smiled. "That's cool."
"Oh you're working on the charms homework?" observed Gary. "It's so easy. I did it in at least 10 minutes."
Jackie looked around to see if Draco was coming back. "Really? Are you like really smart?"
"What's your definition of smart?"
"Say what?"
Just then Draco came back. "No such luck Jackie all the books have been signed out." He then noticed Gary sitting next to his girlfriend. "Who are you?"
"Gary Giggles."
Draco glared at Gary. "Oh right I remember you…"
"I was just showing Jackie my gadgets!"
Jackie blushed and thought, "Oh my gosh that did not sound right."
"Well I hope that you're done smartass!" Draco said rather nastily.
"Draco!" exclaimed Jackie. "Be nice."
Draco scoffed, "To it? Not a chance!"
"Draco! That was TOTALLY MEAN!" said Jackie as Draco grabbed his and her stuff to leave.
Jackie sighed and followed him as they went past a couple of book shelves.
"Whose girlfriend are you?" Draco said over his shoulder, his anger getting better of him.
"But we were talking! No harm done!" Jackie protested.
"And he's Applebalm's gang member. If Nehal finds out that you're hanging out with Giggles." Draco snorted with laughter. "Then she's gonna strangle you."
"I don't care what she thinks anymore!" Jackie said loudly. Several people looked her way.
Draco was taken back at the outburst. "Did you two get another fight again?" He smirked at her.
Jackie ran her fingers through her hair and muttered, "Tylenol."
"What?"
Jackie looked at Draco. "You're giving me a headache."
"Okay so did you and Nehal get into another fight? Because you two are both important to me and Nehal's a great girl and she's like a female version of me accept not so cocky but she needs your help and you always tend to assume shit…"
"What is going on? 4 months ago you were declaring your eternal love for me, now you're all like Nehal oh Nehal she's such a great girl…"
"Jackie, it's not like that okay? Were just friends. It's completely innocent."
"Hmm, innocent eh?"
"Yeah!"
"Well what Gary and I were doing was also completely innocent." Jackie walked away from Draco feeling pissed.
"Hey we have potions together!"
Jackie spun around. "Right!"
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In potions class…
Professor Snape said, "Follow the instructions on the board and create a memory potion. You may test it on your partner if you wish." He looked at Neville. "However some circumstances may prohibit some of you from doing this simple task."
Neville gulped.
Heather volunteered to team up with Neville because she felt sorry for him, Nehal and Jackie both awkwardly partnered up with their boyfriends.
Danielle was about to go across the room to Ian when Diego came up to her. "Oh hi Diego…"
Ian raised an eyebrow at Danielle.
Diego said, "Can I be your partner?"
Danielle glanced up at Ian and she saw that Casey was stroking his arm seductively. A surge of jealously went through her body. "Yeah sure! Why not!" She started up a pleasant conversation with Diego about all the places that she had traveled to.
Ian was red in the face with rage. He felt like he had to do something.
"My mom and I went to Scotland this summer." said Danielle. "Have you ever been there before?"
"Nope, but where was your father in all of this?"
"Oh he was… he was working at the time. But you should go to Scotland someday Diego it's amazing!"
"So I have heard."
Danielle giggled.
"What?" asked Diego confused. "What are you laughing at?"
"Your accent. It's so cute!"
Ian couldn't believe what he was hearing. His girlfriend was flirting with a different guy! Ian couldn't take it anymore. He pulled Draco aside and said, "Ask Jackie what's going on between Danielle and Diego."
"Yeah alright man." Draco and Ian did the guy fist thing.
Draco walked over to Jackie and kissed her on the cheek.
Jackie couldn't help but blush. But she knew what he was trying to do. He was using his Malfoy charm on her. "It's not gonna work this time." She smiled at Draco.
Draco did the shifty eye thing.
Jackie sighed. "Draco can we talk?"
"Yeah." Draco sat down next to Jackie completely forgetting about what Ian asked him to do.
"Okay, I'm not sure if we have a problem, or if I have a problem."
"What's the problem?"
"You're you and I'm me."
"Yeah but if I was you, you'd be dating yourself."
Jackie gave him a weird look. (She tends to do that a lot, LOL) "What I mean is, I do what I do, and I like what I like, and that's just who I am."
"I know, and that's what I love about you."
"Okay but the drugs you do with Ian and Cam I mean Sean and the dark arts spells you do, I'm not into any of that stuff."
"And I never asked you to be. Okay? You know I kind of enjoy the fact that we're different."
"Okay. I'm really sorry about what happened earlier today. It's just that you're the first really great guy that I've ever dated and that really scares me because I never gave a rat's ass before, okay? But I do now."
"That's good, because I give a rat's ass about you too." Draco kissed her.
They smiled at each other.
Draco then saw Ian out of the corner of his eye looking angry. Draco rolled his eyes and looked back at Jackie. "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure!"
"What's up with Danielle and Luna?"
"Luna Lovegood?"
"Hell no! Luna you know that Mexican dude…"
"Oh there friends. Like you and Nehal…" Jackie's eyes then widened. "Is Ian jealous?"
Draco was about to say something but changed his mind. "Never mind, I shouldn't have said anything."
"No what is it, tell me!"
"Well let's just say Smith is mad." Draco hesitated for a moment. "But he shouldn't be because he's doing far worse then just some innocent flirting."
Jackie thought for a moment. Her eyes went wide. "Ian's cheating on Danielle!" She said loudly.
"Shh!" hissed Draco. "You can't say anything!"
"But Draco Danielle's my friend!" Jackie looked over at Danielle. She looked so happy.
"You can't okay? Just not right now." He gave her puppy dog eyes.
Jackie smiled and then laughed, "Okay, okay I won't…yet. But someone's going to have to tell her eventually. I don't want her finding Ian on top of some girl." Jackie looked disgusted at that thought.
Draco laughed.
"But Draco who is Ian with now?"
Draco sighed and whispered, "Panning."
"Casey Panning?"
Draco nodded his head.
"That bitch. How long has this been going on for?"
"I don't know."
"I think I'm going to have a little chit-chat with Ian."
"No!" Draco quickly pulled her away from Ian and Casey's table. "I don't think that's a good idea sweets just wait awhile."
"Okay."
Eventually the couple started to work on the memory potion. Since Jackie had a short attention span she kept looking back at Danielle and then Ian. She couldn't believe that Ian would cheat on Danielle. They both loved each other.
Jackie tip-toed away from Draco and walked over to Ian and Casey. "Hey Ian…Casey."
"Hey Jackie what's up?" asked Ian
"You know that's a very good question. But nothing much is up with me. But what is up with you my friend?"
Ian shrugged his shoulders. "Nothing."
"Interesting…" muttered Jackie
Casey said, "Do you mind? We're trying to work here!"
"Are you sure, its work your trying to do?" Jackie said innocently.
"Duh! Now scram before I call Professor Snape!"
Draco then noticed that Jackie wasn't beside him anymore. He whipped his head around the room looking for her. To his great surprise he saw her talking to Ian and Casey. He walked over towards the group. He tapped Jackie on the shoulder.
Jackie slowly turned around. She saw Draco who crossed his arms over his chest. "Hey hottie."
"So you're using my strategy now?"
Ian sniggered.
Jackie replied, "I was just talking to and Ian Casey about work…you know…work. W-O-R-K. Work!"
Draco narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "I know how to spell work princess."
Jackie shook her head. "Well you never know. I'm almost 17 and I still don't know how to spell Orange! "
"Come on we've gotta get back to…" Draco was about to say work but then changed his mind and just pulled Jackie away. "I told you not to say anything!"
"I was just talking to him. T-A-L-K…"
Draco rolled his eyes.
"Look I'm sorry, again. But Danielle can not find out about this. She doesn't handle bad news well at all!"
"So it's gotta end before she finds out."
"I agree...maybe you should sort of take the reins on this one, I would but I feel like its more your speed."
Draco just stared at Jackie.
Meanwhile Diego was supposed to ask Danielle a question. "Hi!"
Danielle laughed. "Uh…hello?"
"Does Professor Snape ever wash his hair?" Diego looked at Snape with disgust.
"Nope. I don't think the word hygiene exists in his vocabulary."
Diego laughed. "Apparently it doesn't exist in his vocabulary either." He said directing his comment at Draco.
"He's wearing gel Diego."
"Oh…I see."
"Nice try there!"
There was an uncomfortable silence for awhile.
Danielle watched Diego stir the potion. "Did you have potions at your old school?"
"No…not really."
Danielle laughed. "Well that explains why you don't know what you're doing."
Diego also laughed. "And it also explains why I picked you as a partner."
Danielle brushed a piece of her hair behind her ear. "I don't get it."
"Your really smart Danielle and so ever gorgeous."
"Diego we already talked about this…"
"Which is a very dangerous combination."
Danielle smiled. "Aww you're too kind."
Again there was an awkward silence.
"So…" Danielle looked back at Diego who wore an amused expression.
"So…" Diego said mimicking Danielle.
They both laughed.
Silence settled between them once again. Danielle looked over at Ian feeling jealous as Casey said something to make him laugh.
"You are going to be an Auror?" Diego finally asks.
Danielle nodded her head as she added some more ingredients into the cauldron. "Yeah after Hogwarts."
"That sounds very exciting. I'm sure you'll love it."
"Yeah…Danielle loves it!"
Diego laughed.
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Jamie looked at Nehal. "It's kind of cool that were partners?"
Nehal stopped stirring the potion and she looked up at Jamie. "Kind of cool?"
"No it's cool!"
Nehal thought, "Wow this is a lame conversation. I think I'm going to shoot myself now."
Jamie sighed. "Look I know there's something going on so just tell me."
"Tell you what?"
"I'm worried about you Nehal. Is the Riley situation still bothering you?"
"That's not it."
"Yeah well what was up with you last night then?"
A part of Nehal just wanted to let her guard down and tell Jamie about what happened with her family but she couldn't even tell her friends so how would she be able to tell her boyfriend? "Jamie…"
"Is there something going on between you and Malfoy?"
"WHAT? You think that too?"
Jamie didn't know what to say, he didn't want to get into a fight with his girlfriend.
"You know what thanks a lot." Nehal started to walk away but then spun around and glared at Jamie. "For the vote of confidence."
Jamie followed her around the room. (Aww LOL) "Hey look you've been acting strange ever since we first walked into the heads room. I know you Nehal. You're hiding something! What am I supposed to believe?"
Nehal was furious. "You're supposed to give me a little more credit!"
Most of the class looked up from their work except for Professor Snape because he was having a deep discussion with Sean.
Jamie whispered to Nehal. "Okay fine tell me."
"I have never and will never hook up with Malfoy. 1. He's in love with one of my best friends and 2. He's a Slimeball. If you don't believe me why don't you go over and ask him yourself!"
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It was pretty uncomfortable for Heather and Neville to work together.
"No, no, no Neville. Eye of newt goes after hair of a maiden!" directed Heather. (Ahaha hair of a maiden)
"Oh sorry." said Neville
"It's alright, but next time read the instructions more carefully."
"Okay."
There was silence.
"Heather?"
"Yes Nev Nev?" Heather then cursed under her breath for calling him that.
"Where did Tommy go?"
"Oh he had to go back to Germany for some lame ass reason."
"Oh and…are you two still together?"
"Er…" Heather slightly hesitated. "We broke up in Diagon Alley."
"So you're single again?"
"Yepp but I won't be for long." Heather smiled thinking of a special someone.
"Huh?"
"I mean yes I am single Neville."
Finally the frigid bell rang!
All the girls breathed a sigh of relief. They had not had good day today. The four of them decided to go to the Room of Requirements. As soon as they all sat down on the couch, (It goes Jackie, Heather, Nehal and Danielle) Nehal immediately told her friends about what happened with Jamie in potions.
"NP he was probably just concerned." said Danielle.
"I guess. But it still pisses me off!" growled Nehal
"And you have every right to be pissed! If my boyfriend accused me of cheating on him…oh wait bad point never mind." said Heather
"Everything's going to be okay." Jackie assured Nehal.
"How about we do something fun?" recommended Heather.
"Uh can't we have a Quidditch match right Neh Neh?" asked Jackie
Nehal nodded her head.
"Sounds fun." Danielle said lamely.
"Well I guess Jackie gets the last laugh, she is the one with the stable relationship." Heather said with a laugh that got her smacked with a pillow.
"Thank you very much!" said Jackie
Nehal and Danielle rolled their eyes.
Heather looked at Nehal. "How about a game of wizard's chess?"
Nehal smiled. "Okay, let's go! Are you two guys coming or what?"
"Um…" said Jackie. "I just need to ask Danielle some advice on something…"
"Alright see you soon!"
So that left Jackie and Danielle.
Danielle looked at Jackie. "So what did you want to talk about?"
Jackie sighed. She had to tell Danielle about Ian despite Draco's protests. "You better sit down for this."
"Jackie I am sitting."
"Right…well…I don't know how to say this but…"
"But what?"
Jackie opened her mouth, but she just couldn't tell Danielle. The words Ian is cheating on you was like gibberish to her.
"Jackie?" Danielle said starting to get worried.
"Yeah?"
"You were just about to tell me something?"
"Right…um…I really don't know how to say this but…I used your pink Maybelline eye shadow last night. I'm so sorry…I just couldn't help it…it was like staring at me."
"Jaxs…next time you think of asking me if you can use my make-up…ask me first."
Jackie nodded her head.
Meanwhile in the Slytherin common room…
Ian and Casey were busy making out.
Draco said, "You know you're not very good with this let's keep it on the down low thing."
Ian looked at Casey. "Can you excuse us for a minute?"
Casey grinned. "Certainly." She gave Ian a quick kiss on the cheek and departed.
Ian glared at Draco. "You told Jackie didn't you?"
"Well she had the right to know!" snarled Draco
"Do you realize what this means? She's going to tell Danielle and then Danielle's going to dump me!"
"Your way over your head Smith! I told Jackie not to tell her yet."
"How can you be sure of that? How do you know she hasn't told her yet?"
"Look man! I thought you loved Danielle!"
"I do and that's why I don't want to lose her."
"Well you're doing a good job of that." Draco exclaimed giving Ian as thumb's up.
"Ugh, just don't tell anyone else Malfoy!"
"Okay man but it's not my fault when Panning tells Ott and Beech and they start spreading rumors or confront your girlfriend!" Draco headed to his own room.
"Shit." muttered Ian running his hands through his hair.
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Danielle looked at her Maybelline pink eye shadow. It didn't look like anyone took any…
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"Alright everybody we can do this!" Nehal said to the Gryffindor Quidditch team, before heading out.
Daryl stood beside Nehal nodding and smiling. His eyes fell on Jackie and he stopped smiling because she was giving him the evil eye.
Nehal continued speaking, "Remember Bash Brothers you've gotta keep the Slytherins back when our chasers have the Quaffle. And stop getting into fights with each other when we're in a game!"
The Bash brothers nodded their heads.
The Gryffindor Quidditch team then walked onto the pitch.
Danielle, Heather and the Gryffindor cheerleaders cheered and waved their pom –poms around.
"Great speech." Jamie whispered to Nehal.
"Thanks…I improvised." replied Nehal.
Jamie sighed. "I'm sorry...I went off on you…I was confused."
"I get it; you know I've been kind of all over the map lately too."
"No, no I- you have every right to be mad at me. I shouldn't have accused you of cheating on me…although you already cheated on Riley."
Nehal nodded her head and hugged Jamie. They then kissed.
"Thought you weren't into PDA at school?"
"Hmm, I'm coming around." She kissed him again.
Jackie smiled at them happy they were okay again.
Fiona spoke into the microphone, "Hello! The Quidditch match technically should be starting now…"
"Right!" said Madame Hooch. She blew the whistle and the game began.
Everyone kicked off the ground and Jamie caught the Quaffle and passed it to Nehal.
A Slytherin tried to beat Nehal with his bat but she kicked him in the stomach and scored.
Madame Hooch fell asleep so there was no penalty.
Half and hour later…Gryffindor was winning. 100 – 70. Jackie saw a glint of gold up higher in the sky and went up to it, with Draco following closely behind.
"Hey sweets!" Draco blew Jackie a kiss and she giggled and blushed. But Draco took this time to get closer to the snitch.
"No!" yelled Jackie. Draco's hand was almost touching the snitch.
Furthermore, the snitch darted away before Draco could catch it. He went after it but Jackie used all her mojo to speed up her broom to get past Draco.
Draco was seconds away from catching it. But Jackie cut across him and caught it!
At the same time Nehal dodged past the evil vicious psycho path beater and whipped the Quaffle through the middle hoop.
"GRYFFINDOR WINS!" yelled Fiona.
Heather gave Danielle a high – five.
Danielle laughed and then looked around for Ian. He usually came to meet her after the Quidditch match but he disappeared as soon as it was over. Too bad, because Danielle wanted to comfort him. (LOL)
"Hey Danielle, do you see Mr. Von Gooshy anywhere?" asked Heather
"No…what a loser! He won't even come out for Quidditch games." said Danielle.
"Yeah…" said Heather looking at the sun.
"You're not supposed to look directly at the sun you know!"
"You can't look at an eclipse either!" said Diego from behind them.
"Oh hey…have you seen Ian?" asked Danielle
"Nope!"
Meanwhile…
"Draco! I can't believe you tried to trick me!" cried Jackie
"Sorry, I just wanted to win." Draco gave Jackie a hug. (Aww)
Nehal hugged Jackie pushing Draco out of the way. "That was amazing Jackie!"
"Yeah you too! You practically scored all the goals!"
"Let's go to the party and drink!"
"Well…Draco and I were gonna do something actually…"
"Oh…" Nehal felt kind of left out. "Well, see ya later." Nehal then met up with Jamie. "She's doing something with Malfoy."
"Well they'll always be other parties." reminded Jamie
"Yeah, yeah your right!"
"So let's go and enjoy this one!"
Nehal giggled. "Okay!"
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The next day the four girls were in the courtyard talking.
Heather said, "Omg guys you will never believe this!"
"What?" asked Danielle
Heather pulled a letter from behind her back that she was hiding from her friends. "I got a letter from Tommy!"
"Eeeeeee!" squealed Jackie
"Bloody brilliant!" commented Nehal
"What does it say? Have you read it yet?" asked Danielle
"Yes I have read it." exclaimed Heather. "He said he missed me!"
"Aww." said Jackie. "That's so cute."
"So are you guys going to get back together?" asked Nehal
Heather shook her head. "Nah, I'm not into him anymore."
"Who are you into now Hey Hey?"
"No one! I'm serious Nehal!"
"Sure you are…"
"Hey have you guys seen Ian today?" asked Danielle. "I never see him anymore, I mean he's supposed to be boyfriend and he's not acting like-"
Jackie then screamed as a distraction. "OH it's a flying car…no my bad that's a person flying on their broom…"
Nehal hit Jackie in the back of her head.
Heather looked at Danielle. "He's probably studying for that Ancient Runes test today!"
"Yeah speaking of that I should probably study for it too." exclaimed Jackie
"I'm really worried about him though." whined Danielle.
"Danielle he's a guy he can take care of himself!" assured Nehal
Danielle still didn't look convinced.
Jackie said, "Guys I gotta go get my textbook, I'll be right back." Jackie walked off.
"Hey!"
Jackie turned around. "Hey Luna."
"How are you?"
"I'm good, how are you? How are your classes?"
"Boring as usual. I try to take some pain killers with me to class. They always seem to make things interesting."
"You brought them to class?" Jackie looked astonished by this news. "Didn't anybody notice?"
"Some people, but they usually just laugh it off."
"Oh…I see."
"Yeah."
"Well I'll see you later." Jackie started to walk away.
"I know about Ian and Casey."
Jackie slowly turned around. "Oh?"
"Your gonna have to tell her Jaxs."
"I can't. She just seems so…happy and in love."
"Well the sooner you do it the better."
Jackie nodded her head thinking this through.
"You can do it." Luna smiled and started walking backwards down the corridors.
Many students looked at her weird.
Jackie just stood there frozen thinking about what Luna had said.
A/N: Sup sup! This chapter was lengthy. But please review! Thanks so much! Love you all!
Beckyb007- Thank you!
Lala02 – Thanks and I never really thought of a Sean and Jackie thing but maybe I'll put in a little something…
