I was walking to my early class that Thursday, listening to my iPod when I saw a familiar figure seated near the building I was headed to.
I almost dropped all my books.
What was he doing here?
My heart was beating wildly, and I felt I couldn't breathe.
There he was, alone.. looking like he was waiting for someone.
Then she arrived, and he wrapped his arms around her and spun her around.
I looked away, and tried not to cry.
I walked even faster, determined to make it to the nearest loo.
As I was passing them, he noticed me.
"Hey bushy!" he said with a smirk.
His girlfriend laughed at the remark. I rolled my eyes and kept on walking. That is so immature- a stupid thing to laugh at. Of all the girls he had to pick, he picked the brainless one that would laugh at all his stupid comments, I thought viciously.
Small town homecoming queen
She's the star in this scene
There's no way to deny she's lovely
Perfect skin, perfect hair
Perfumed hearts everywhere
Tell myself that inside she's ugly
Maybe I'm just jealous
I can't help but hate her
Secretly I wonder if my boyfriend wants to date her
I heard him mutter an "I'll be right back," to her, and chase after me.
I walked as fast as I could, wanting to lose him in the crowd.
He was too quick, though, and caught up with me easily.
"Hi love, did you miss me?" he asked, smiling.
I rolled my eyes. The nerve of him to still call me love! Especially now that he had someone else!
"What do you think? NO," I said vehemently.
He stopped, nodded, and just walked beside me anyways.
Was that a look of sadness I just saw?
I wanted to tell him that I lied, but I still had my pride. I wasn't going to wreck their relationship, or degrade myself by telling him how I felt for him.
She is the prom queen I'm in the marching band
She is a cheerleader I'm sitting in the stands
She gets the top bunk I'm sleeping on the floor
She's Miss America and I'm just the girl next door
Then Faye joined me. She was in all my classes, so we get around to chatting a lot. And she's my roommate.
"Good morning sunshine!" she chirped. "Hi," she said, batting her eyelashes at Blaise.
"Hi, how are you?" he asked politely.
"I'm fine- you just made my day!" she grinned.
I laughed at her. "Faye, he's already taken."
"Oh." She said disappointedly, which made me laugh even more. "Well, how do you two know each other?"
Senior class president
She must be heaven sent
She was never the last one standing
A backseat debutant
Everything that you want
Never to harsh or too demanding
Maybe I'll admit it
I'm a little bitter
Everybody loves her but I just wanna hit her
"Oh, right. Faye, this is Blaise Zabini, my former schoolmate at Hogwarts; Blaise, Faye Anderson, my roommate."
"Well, what brings you to the Ministry of Magic's Higher Education Academy, Majorca branch?"
"Well, I'm here because my girlfriend's enrolling late," he said, and my heart plummeted. She would be here?!
"Well, what about you?" Faye asked casually, not noticing I had turned a light shade of green.
"I'm training to become a Healer," Blaise said easily. "Hermione knows all about that, don't you?"
"Well, yes," I said. "It was so you could be rich to the point that your future wife and all your descendants wouldn't have to work for the rest of their lives."
He looked at me questioningly.
"Well, Draco rambled once," I said, shrugging.
"That was one of the reasons, but last year I took care of someone important to me, and decided that it was the most fulfilling thing, to help as many people as possible."
He looked at me then, and I turned away. Was he referring to me?
As I turned away, I thought I saw a hurt expression flit across his face. Maybe..?
He exhaled and said, "Well, I must get going; Daphne's waiting for me. See you around, ladies!"
She is the prom queen I'm in the marching band
She is a cheerleader I'm sitting in the stands
She gets the top bunk I'm sleeping on the floor
She's Miss America and I'm just the girl next door
Oh and I'm just the girl next door
Faye sighed after him and I rolled my eyes. "Let's go already, quit gawking at him," I said tetchily.
"Fine, fine Miss I-Want-To-Murder-His-Girlfriend-A-Million-Times!" she said laughing.
"Am I that transparent?" I wondered aloud.
"Yes you are," she said, putting an arm around me.
I don't know why I'm feeling sorry for myself
I spend all my time wishing that I was someone else
She is the prom queen I'm in the marching band
She is a cheerleader I'm sitting in the stands
I get a little bit, she gets a little more
She's Miss America and... she's Miss America
I'm just the girl next door...
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Two days after that incident with Blaise was my birthday. I woke up and sighed as I remembered that my birthday last year was the start of.. the us that didn't come to be.
It was a Sunday, so Harry and Ron picked me up, and with Faye and Diane, we all went out to brunch, Harry's treat (he insisted). Ron surprised me; giving me a copy each of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. When I asked him how he knew about Muggle books, he shyly said that he once read my list of books to get and read, and asked Harry for help. It was so sweet that I hugged him.
Never mind that Romeo and Juliet remind me of Blaise and I. Eurgh.
And in a way, Pride and Prejudice too.
I shook my head. My parents gave me money to spend, so I bought myself a new bookbag; my old one, even with spells cast on it, was already very worn. I also treated everyone to ice cream later on. Of course, I had the sugar-free strawberry ice cream; everyone else had different fruit flavors. Faye tried kiwi, and wrinkled her nose so we mixed ours together and it tasted good.
We took a lot of pictures that day, and as I was placing them in the big photo album I had since Hogwarts, I stopped at one page. Pictures were falling out from that page; it looked like someone hastily shoved them there but didn't put them in.
I suppose Colin took this one picture, and I just put it away without looking at it.
It was Blaise on his knees, begging me; and I had my arms crossed, looking away.
In the background, you could see Ginny smirking and Harry and Ron laughing.
This was when we were walking by, and he accidentally hit me with a grand gesture of his hand while talking to Pansy.
FLASHBACK
"I'm so sorry love," he said worriedly. "Did I hurt you?"
"No you didn't," I said sarcastically. "You just backhanded me, is what you did!"
He made to take a better look, but I moved away.
"No," I said stubbornly.
He made a frustrated noise and pulled me to him; he said the Charm that would heal the mark on my cheek and lightly grazed my cheek with the back of his fingers to check that it was all right.
"I had better get going," I said, turning when he said, "Love.."
I looked at him; he was on his knees!
I just can't believe him.
"Love," he said pleadingly. "I'm so sorry, I really didn't mean for that to happen.."
I looked at him for the longest time; it did look like he was really sorry.
I sighed. "Okay."
"Okay?" he asked happily, standing up.
"Yes," I said, smiling slightly.
Before I could react, he kissed me on the cheek then said "Thanks love!" before striding away to Draco.
I miss him.
Too bad I let him go.
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Hola!!:P Waaah.. last night and this morning my internet went downTT Which was of course infuriating- but it also helped me focus all my energy on this fic, haha:P
Oh yeah, I know the iPod is too 21st century- it was made in 2001.. but for story purposes, hehXD
Oh, and my email alerts just started pouring in today- isn't that weird? I wasn't getting email alerts for my reviews until todayTT Oh well, at least that's done.. But maybe someone should complain, you know?:P HahaXD
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emptyli'lfirefly: Of course I had to let you know! You touched me by being reading Lovefool, start to end.. Hm.. my answer this time about the ending is maybe, maybe not.. mysterious grin.. I'll just say that it's somewhat better than Lovefool's, although that was a pretty good endingXD The settling-in thing? I think I picked that up from experience, what with moving to a new school every year:P Hahaha!!XD Ahh, Blaise's sister.. With everything I threw you guys in Lovefool, I thought you all wouldn't be surprised I popped that one in, haha!!:P
rent-serenity: Haha, I didn't know what to put so I just put SiestaXD Sounds cute though:P
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Un Petit Diable: Ahh, that anonymous review setting was a good idea, and I set it up after reading your suggestion, hehXD Meh, we all know Harry's a bit of a bighead, so maybe I made him too OOC there. Wahahaha!!:P And Blaise, whee!! Just not how I originally wanted him to figure in the story, but it works..XD
Padfoot's Sidekick: Haha, there'll be some funny parts here- just not as funny as the Draco ballerina scene.. Hm, maybe I should put in one scene to rival thatXD Bwahahahahaha!!
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