It was a week after the Hogsmeade trip and the hickey had faded days ago now. I hadn't heard from Chris and felt slightly insulted. Not that I was conceited but it wasn't often that I was turned away after the first date. So I sat with Bella at breakfast as she told me about her latest crush. It was a bit frustrating because all we had talked about recently was her love life. I hadn't even gotten a chance to tell her about the "Chris Situation" as I liked to call it. So I just pretended to listen to her ramble on about Jason Anderson from Hufflepuff as I inhaled down my omelet.
The owls flew in and the normal brown one from the prophet landed expertly in front of my plate as it had every day since I started Hogwarts. I quickly slid the knut into the sack around its ankle and removed the paper. The owl flew off and just as I opened my paper, another owl took its place landing slightly less gracefully, tipping my glass of water onto the table. I looked at the light brown owl. It held a plain white envelope in his claws with my name scribbled on the front.
"Whose owl is that?" asked Belle.
"I'm not sure," I said reaching for the letter. I carefully freed the letter but the owl stayed put. "But I'm guessing whoever sent the owl is expecting a response."
"Well open it!" she said.
I broke the seal of the letter and pulled out the parchment.
Lily,
Sorry I've been out of touch. My life is going to the banshees. I dropped out of my internship am looking into a few different things. I'm keeping real busy.
I'm dropping into Hogsmeade next week to do a few interviews. I was wondering if maybe we could meet up. I promise to make it worth the trip.
But yeah, let me know if you want to hang out.
Chris
I finished the letter and almost laughed. Of what I knew of him, it was very him to practically booty owl me. I passed the letter over to Bella who looked like she was about to piss herself with nosiness. After she read it, she didn't smile. She just looked at me. "Whose Chris?"
"He was the assistant proctor for the apparition test. He asked me to go for drinks after and we kind of just spent the day together."
She didn't smile at me like she normally would when I told her about a guy. "The intern? Why didn't you tell me?"
"You've been so excited about Jason I haven't been able to tell you about it."
"I'm you're best friend Lily," she said raising her voice slightly. "You couldn't slip it into conversation?"
"Bella, I'm sorry," I said trying to ease her drama queen ways. "It just slipped my mind. It was nothing really."
"Sure Lily," she said tossing the letter to me. "Sure." And with that she walked out of the great hall leaving me with a crumpled letter and a cold, half eaten omelet.
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Hope you guys enjoy the quick updates of this story. I've been inspired to write this story since I hung out with Chris a few weeks ago. I've been reminded of his personality so it's been easy to write these chapters. In response to some of the reviews, yes, the broken glass from the last chapter was James's response.
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