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She had it all.
Money, looks, and everything else she ever wanted. She was spoiled beyond compare.
But, she was missing something from her life.
The one who was going to take her breathe away one day.
Except, how could someone if she was the shy one around the guys and the total bitch around everyone else?
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Running down the stairs, he wasn't aware of his surroundings. All he was thinking of was getting to where ever he needed to be, where ever that ought to be. Nevertheless, his plans came to a halt as he collided with someone, falling to the hard floor. He groaned and looked at the other person.
"Sorry. Are you okay?" he asked.
The person rubbed their eyes and rubbed the back of their head as well. "Mind watching where you're going next time?" scoffed the person.
"Well, I'm sorry if I was thinking."
Getting up the person continued, "Think on your own time, not in the damn hallway." Extending their hand out to him, they pulled him up.
"Nice to meet you, again, Ron." smirked Andi.
Smiling slightly, his freckles and his smile seemed to become brighter. "Nice to see you again, too, Alexandra."
Staring at him for a mere second, she coughed and looked away from him. He blushed a faint pink.
"So, er...I...I guess I should be going." said Ron pointing behind him. She nodded and placed her teeth over her lower lip. Walking away, he took about twenty paces, when Andi walked up by his side and stopped him.
"Can I ask you something?" she asked.
Looking down at her, he noticed that she was a lot shorter than he remembered. "Yeah, sure."
"Okay. I know it'll seem weird coming from a Slytherin, but...uh, I was wondering if you and I could talk?" she said looking at him. "I mean you don't have to if you don't want to, I'll understand. I just kind of wanted to show you my good side, atleast. Since you saved my life and all." she said quickly.
The wheels and lightbulbs in Ron's mind were working together in processing everything. He didn't know why she wanted to talk, but he did have to admit, he did fancy her. "I sort of have something to do." he said. Basically to put it, he blew her off.
Nodding slowly, she looked down at her feet, "Oh. Okay. Thank you anyway." She moved away from him and walked away from him. Rounding the corner, she put her hand against the wall and breathed out deeply. She'd never gotten rejected by anyone, even if it were a talk. She was a Slytherin and everyone respected her, so they knew what they should never do and he did the unexpected.
Watching her leave and round the corner, Ron looked at the slip that he had taken out from his robes and looked back at the corner. He walked towards the corner and put the slip back into his pocket as he rounded it as well. When he saw Andi, leaning against the wall, he thought that she was going to collapse or get hurt again. Walking up behind her quickly, her knees fell underneath her and he caught her in his arms just in time.
"Seems like I'm always the one to save you, Miss Rainey." said Ron, smiling widely. She gave him a small smile and held unto his arms, making sure that he wouldn't let her fall.
"If I fall, I swear I will kill you." warned Andi.
"I think I can promise you that, on account that I'd like for you to spare my life." said Ron a bit cocky. She laughed faintly. "About that talk. Since I can't do it right about now, how about in an hour? In the Quidditch Pitch." Placing her upright, he let her stand on her own two feet by herself, making sure that she could do so.
"Sure. Pitch. Hour. See you there." They both smiled and walked in opposite directions.
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It was getting dark as Ron walked to the Quidditch Pitch, hands in his pockets. He was about eight minutes early to meet up with Andi. He kept looking up at the moon that was now forming beautifully in the sky. He breathed out deeply and held unto his wand tightly in his pockets, just in case. About five minutes later, he saw a figure walking towards him with a glow-in-the-dark skull with a heart engraved into it on their face.
Lighting her wand, she came across the pitch and saw that Ron was waiting for her about a foot into the stadium. She smiled and walked up to him.
"Hey."
"Hey, to you too." said Ron smiling.
"Your hair looks like its on fire." said Andi laughing.
Blushing a dark crimson, he bit his lip hard, making it bleed. "Oi, shit."
"What?"
"N-Nothing." he said as he licked his bottom lip to rid of the blood. Andi only raised her eyebrow and glared at him.
"Are you bleeding?"
"...No."
Grabbing his face gently, she looked up at his lips and saw that a bit of blood was coming from a tiny cut. Letting go, she conjured up a tissue and handed it to him. "Here. Apply pressure."
Taking the tissue, he muttered a thank you and pressed the tissue to his lips.
"I know what you might be thinking. Why would I be asking you to talk. Especially since Slytherin's don't habitate themselves with Gryffindors, but I don't know of any other Gryffindor that would've helped me that day and I just wanted to say thank you. I know very well that 'thank you' cannot give up an even exchange-" she said, as Ron waved his hand in front of her.
Looking at the tissue that was now in his hand, with a little bit than a size of a sickle of his blood on it, he spoke "No. A thank you is fine. You're welcome." He looked at her and pressed his lips together and spoke on again, "I just remembered what you said the other time, when you tried to help me. It didn't really matter what house you were in, you and I are just alike in many ways. We just don't ever want to find out, because we don't cooperate at all."
Nodding, she intertwined her fingers and looked down at her hands. "Oh. But, I do have one question for you. It may seem weird and awkward, but I'd like to give this a try." Looking back at him, she waited for his answer.
"Sure. What is it?"
"Well, I was wondering for some time...if you-" he cut her off.
"Come on, you should be able to say this." he said smiling softly. She laughed faintly and she bit her lip softly.
"Alright, then. Would you like to get to know the real me? Either way, I'll be...happy...about your decision." she said. Her heart was pounding so hard, that she felt like it were going to just jump right out of her chest, maybe even Ron could hear it.
Ron laughed softly and nodded. "Sounds good. Just one thing I ask from you. If we befriend each other, should we keep this under wraps or what?"
She blinked quickly and stared at him blankly, like he were dumb. "Duh!"
"Thought so." he said smirking.
"No smirking. That's my job." she said also smirking.
"Fits you."
Eyes narrowing slightly, she held a comment that she was going to spit at him. She breathed out deeply and looked down at her feet.
"You okay?" asked Ron.
Nodding slightly at her feet, she turned around and looked at the castle. Ron, had a feeling something was bothering her and walked up behind her.
"What's wrong?"
She ran her hand through her hair and shook her head. "Nothing. I just don't know how to act nice around you."
"Don't then. The real you is what and who you are. You shouldn't change it for me."
"That's not the point." said Andi as she turned to look at him, as he was now right there point blank in her face. She took a step back and looked up at him with more ease. "I-I'm only nice to my friends. They know me like this whole school, from top to bottom. Draco knows so much about me, it's sometimes scary."
Ron laughed and spoke up before she could. "Well, act like you always do. Plus, look, you're acting civilized with me right now!" exclaimed Ron. He smiled at her and she smiled back.
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The hours passed as Ron and Andi talked. There was a lot of laughter as they talked about themselves.
"I remember one time back a couple of years ago, I had gone to the beach with some of my old friends and we went surfing. Nikky and Adam were on the same surf board, when this massive wave came and knocked them both down. When they came back up you should've seen them. Stark naked! Perfect laughing time for everyone around. I couldn't help them though." cried Andi as she laughed hard. Her eyes glistened as she laughed and Ron was lying on the ground dying of laughter.
Ron calming down a tad asked why. Andi stopped laughing at once and looked straight ahead of her.
"Muggles around. They were muggles. I guess you could say, I hung out with a lot of muggles. I don't hate them you know." she said looking at Ron. "It's just that being a witch is hard, they can't know about us, but we can know about them. And being a Slytherin doesn't exactly have too many perks. You have to live up to what the house is, what you should be, what you are. I'm bitchy, everyone knows that. I may be smart and all, but get on my case I'll thrash out on you beyond everything. Oh and I guess cunning adds to that pile as well, just because I used to hand my teachers back in grade school fake, realistic apples. Bit into it and it would come off, but it was just plain plastic after they finished eating it and realized it. Most wouldn't even let me give a brownie to my friend because they thought it were fake." She shrugged and continued, "Not my fault that they were blind."
"So, you had muggle friends? I would've never guessed."
"Yeah and neither would Draco, when I told him."
"Malfoy's a prick."
Her head snapped towards him and her eyes narrowed dramatically.
"Excuse me?"
"I never liked him. He always thought that he were better than me or anyone else for that matter, just because he's a Slytherin. I may not have everything that he can get, but I have so much more. I have people who love me, I find that much more valuable."
Getting up and glaring down at him, she shook her head and walked away from him. He was confused and chased after her.
"What did I do?" he asked as he caught up with her. She shoved him away from her and kept on walking.
"What!"
Turning around to look at him with fire blazing in her eyes, she looked like she were crying. "I'll tell you what you did. You insulted Draco. My boyfriend. How dare you. You don't know anything about him. Nothing!" she screamed and she ran up to the castle angry.
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Holy fucking shit. I blew it. Ron kicked his dresser as Harry walked into the room.
"Woah, Ron. What's on your mind?" asked Harry.
Walking over to his bed, he slouched down upon it and put his head in his hands. "I can't tell you Harry."
"Why not?"
"You wouldn't understand." mumbled Ron.
"Understand what, Ron?"
"Nothing, Harry. All I know is that I blew it."
Smirking Harry walked up to his trunk. "Rejected by a girl?"
Ron's face stayed neutral as he spoke, "No, Harry. It's something completely different."
"Like?"
"Alright. Do you really want to know?"
"Well, it would seem so." he said as he looked up from his trunk and sat down on his bed, waiting.
Sighing he spoke about how him and Andi were talking in the Pitch for a couple of hours and until the part where she ran inside the castle angry. Harry was surprised by his friends actions and how everything had happened so quickly and sank like the Titanic.
"Okay, so let me get this straight Ron. You and Alexandra Rainey, a Slytherin, were getting to know each other?" asked Harry dumbfounded.
"Yeah. I swear Harry, I'm not making this up." cried Ron.
"I know. What I want to know is why in the world would anyone and I mean anyone would want to be Malfoy's girlfriend?" He shook his head in disgust and scratched his arm.
"I don't know. I just don't know how I couldn'tve seen it before. That day back two months ago, when I went to give her that gift, why I didn't see it. I mean come on, they were kissing like mad. Harry, I'm so dumb."
"No you aren't."
"Harry, I am. When she said that Malfoy was her boyfriend, I felt my heart break. I don't get it."
"Your heart...broke? Like are you telling me that you have blasted feelings for her, Ron!" said Harry wide-eyed.
Ron's face turned the color of a newborn baby's behind. "I don't know, Harry. I mean would my heart sink if I didn't? Or is it out of jealousy?"
Getting up and walking over to the window, Harry looked outside to see the brilliance of the moonlight. "You know, Ron. I really don't know. Whenever you look at her do you feel calm, like you could stay there forever with her? Or when you look into her eyes whenever you feel tense its like you can say about anything the next second? That's what you have to think-"
"Harry. I-I I do fancy her. Everytime I'm around her, she makes me smile without warning. And you know her eyes, dark, but shows so much love. It's so weird, I mean she wouldn't show those types of feelings to just anyone."
Harry looked at his best friend and sighed. "Well, Ron. I can tell you this. She can't fancy you, I'm sorry that I had to be the one to tell you. She has Malfoy and the way she acted doesn't seem like she was playing around with you. Okay, I have an idea. Tomorrow in Potions, hope that we have partners and hope that you get paired up with Alexandra and then you can try and talk to her. Tell her you're sorry for what you said the other night and that you didn't mean to hurt her. You never know what she might say."
"Oh, I have an idea. How about an 'I don't care'. I think I like that possibility."
"Ugh." groaned Harry. "Okay, fine. Then ask if you two could start over, give you one more chance. It won't be easy asking from a Slytherin, but if you show her how much you really do want to start over, I doubt she'd say no. Try that."
Laying down on his bed, he looked up at his ceiling with a solemn look. He thought about Harry's idea for awhile and sighed slowly and softly. "You know what, mate?"
"What?"
"I'll try it."
"Good. Now pray on every star known to man that she gets paired up with you tomorrow and I don't mean 'Please let her be with me.' either Ron. I mean a prayer. If you really want to start over, you should do about anything." said Harry.
"Gosh. I'm happy to have you as a friend, Harry."
"Believe me. You'd be lost without Hermione mostly." said Harry laughing. Ron threw a pillow at him and it flew out the window as Harry ducked.
"Ah! My pillow!" yelped Ron.
Harry laughed hard and fell off the windowsill unto the ground. "AHAHA. I can't believe you. You're such a loser, Ron."
"Why thank you, Harry." said Ron.
Getting up, Harry took out his wand, stuck his head out of the window and murmured, "Wingardium Leviosa." The pillow rose from the ground and traveled its way up towards Harry, until he grabbed it. Throwing it back at Ron, he walked over to his bed and got in prepared to sleep.
"I have one word for you, Ron."
"What's that?"
"Ican'tbelieveyoulikeAlexandra."
"That's not one word, Harry. That's," said Ron as he tried to recall the words that Harry had just spoken. "that's erm...six words!"
Harry stared at him and if he wanted to, he could've had a bead of sweat rolling down his face from the stupidity of Ron. "Um. Wow. Ron you need some serious help. Anyway, for your mind I'll say the one word."
"Grrr, Harry!"
Harry laughed and closed his eyes and spoke, "Night."
Ron looked like he actually was about to count the number of words that came out of Harry's mouth, but decided that it would use too much brainpower. If there was any. Falling asleep after contemplating and planning his talk with Alexandra, if he got the chance, he figured to just let it go and see what would happen.
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AN: I wrote a lot. I should be doing my other stories, but for some reason I really like this story because I said so. :P
Review, please! XD
P.S. I heart you SHARIZ! Stupid duck butt. :)
