Chapter 5 - Looking at Love
After a bit of walking Emerald turned around. She really regretted turning her back on Rory, even if she did it too.
Emerald started to run back to the beach.
"Rory! Stop, wait!" she shouted.
Rory stopped walking. Was she going to talk to her?
"I can't be angry with you!" Emerald cried. "I just can't!"
"That you should have thought before running after Evan Scott!" Rory muttered.
"What!" Emerald exclaimed.
"Nothing." Rory said quietly.
"I heard. I always hear what you mutter!" Emerald said, who had inherited her mother's well-known weasleytemper and it was starting to show. Unfortunately for the two girl's, both had the temper.
"So that's what it's all about. Evan Scott."
"Yes, it is!" Rory almost shouted and turned around, to face Emerald. "You knew I liked him!"
Emerald sighed.
"No I didn't! But if you bothered to tell me things like that I would know!"
"Yeah and if you bothered to even listen to me, I would tell you!" Rory shouted back on Emerald.
"Okay, then! If that's how you want it!" Emerald knew this was going to make hell brake lose, but she couldn't resist it. "I kissed Evan."
Rory went dead-quiet.
"You what?" Rory finally said. By the expressions in both Meredith and Betty's they wondered the same.
"Yes or more likely, he kissed me!" Emerald couldn't believe she was telling them this. Though he really had kissed her 2 weeks ago in Hogsmeade. Evan was one of the most popular guys in school, and many girls thought he was cute. Surely Emerald did too but for her; he was nothing special, in the beginning. Every guy Emerald had been out with, only dated her for she was the daughter of Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived! But Evan didn't. He had his own opinion about Emerald. Evan found her very beautiful and smart and, yeah. He found her everything. He used to peek on Emerald in the library the few times she went there, but she knew he did. A sixth year looking at a fifth year. She kind of liked having him there.
Evan took every little chance to look at her and get her eyes to look at him. When he sat with his friends in the courtyard, he looked at her. When he played Quidditch he got so caught up looking at her that he forgot to watch the rings, so the other team scored. When he had exams, he gave his all too just get a last glimt of her before McGonagall closed the door. Yes, clearly was the 16 years old Ravenclaw Evan Scott, madly in love with the 15 years old Gryffindor Emerald Potter. And sadly she hadn't noticed, yet.
So Emerald got a pleasant surprise when she bumped in to Evan at Honeydukes. He almost kissed her the moment he saw her and she kissed him back...
Boy was Rory angry. Emerald could clearly see that because her ears had gone red.
"You kissed him!" Betty exclaimed and laughed. "Was he any good?"
Emerald sighed for herself. That was so like Betty to say something like that. Always so curious about everything and everyone. She would really fit as the editor of the Quibbler, like her mother worker as.
"Very fun, Betsy!" Emerald said to tease her. Betty really didn't like to be called that.
"I really didn't know you liked him! Emerald said to Rory who had beginning to develop tears in her blue eyes.
She broke down, crying on the wet sand.
"I'm so sorry Emmy I really am. It wasn't supposed to be like this. I know he don't like me. It was just a teenage crush." Rory cried.
Emerald sat down by her side and hugged her.
"I know!" she said softly. "So you don't mind me, going out with Evan then?"
Rory shook her head.
"Good. You know Quentin West you've always had a crush on, ever since I can remember?" Emerald said.
"Yes!" a still slightly crying Rory nodded.
"I happen to know he's into you!"
"No, he isn't!"
"Oh yeah, you know that time you were in the hospital wing for getting smashed by a bludger, he asked me, Mary and Betty all the time where you had gone." Emerald said. "He even went to see you a couple of times, but you were so nocked out that you probably didn't noticed it."
"Oh, you know I thought I saw his beautiful brown face at some point. Wow!"
"So when we get back to school, I really think you should ask him out or just give him a hint that you like him!"
Rory nodded.
"A trip to Hogsmeade is a good idée!" Betty and Meredith said as they sat down on the ground beside the two former enemies
"Yeah maybe!" Rory said and laughed a little. "We should probably go up, you know, before Molly worries the arse of her."
The other ones agreed and rose to go up to the Burrow.
"Last up is a Snorkack!" Betty said and started running.
"Snorkack?" Meredith said and looked like a complete fool and Rory looked the same.
"Don't know what that is!" Emerald said. "Just run!"
And they did.
The End
