So here's the next chapter. It's been over two months since i posted the previous chapter and I'm sorry for that. But I haven't been able two write because of homework.
Aria sat and stared on her desk, it had gone three weeks since she saw Ezra kiss his
ex-fiancée. She hadn't talked to him since then, even if he tried, but now it seemed like he had given up. He didn't even teach the 7th years anymore.
"Ms. Potter, could I have a word with you?" Aria looked up and saw her teacher, professor Winters, standing by the blackboard.
"Okay, professor." All the other students left the room as she stood up and walked towards the brown haired professor.
"Why did y…" She started, but he interrupted.
"What the heck is going on?" He said, and Aria looked confused. "Ezra refuses to teach your year. And he's all depressed as well, even if he tries to deny it, I can see it. And so can the rest of the staff to."
"Why are you asking me, professor? Why do you think I'd know why he's all depressed."
"I know." He paused. "I know about you two. I noticed the way you looked at each that night at the pub. And he didn't deny it when I asked. He wanted to stay together even thought it was dangerous."
"He apparently changed his mind, and started liking Jackie again." She said before she walked away from the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
When Aria came back to the common room, she couldn't see her friends anywhere, but she didn't want to go searching for them. So she walked up to her dormitory. And even though it was early, Aria felt tired and went to bed.
She didn't wake up before the next day. The others were still asleep as Aria got dressed and walked down to the common room. Nobody was in here either, which was strange because it always felt like it was someone in here. But somebody has to be the first, right?
Aria sat down in front of the fire place, and stared into the dancing flames. After at least thirty minutes, somebody got down to the common room. Aria didn't recognize the person in the weak light. And she didn't feel like talking to anyone, so she got up and walked out of the common room.
Aria walked around the castle for awhile, just staring on the floor. So she didn't realize that someone were walking a in front of her in the opposite direction, until she bumped in to him. She looked up into a pair of blue eyes.
"Aria…" Ezra said.
"Ez…" She started. "I'm sorry, professor. It won't happen again." Aria begun to walk away from him.
"Aria, wait. Why are you ignoring me? It's killing me."
"Just stop it."
"What have I done now?"
"Don't act like that. You know what you have done."
"No, I don't."
"You kissed her!" Aria cried. "And I need a break from whatever 'us' there still is." With does words Aria ran away from him not giving him a single chance to explain.
When Aria got back to the common room. The most people where there. So Aria decided to go the dormitory. The dormitory was empty, and Aria liked it that way. She sat quietly and just thought everything through. She thought mostly about her and Ezra, about everything they went through. And about how much she missed Rosewood. Everything became to much and she needed fresh air.
When Aria was outside, she heard a voice call her name from behind, her brothers voice.
"Hi." She said trying to sound as polite as possible, even thought she just wanted to be alone.
"Hi." He said back. "Has something happened? You know you can talk to me about anything."
"No, I just miss Rosewood."
"I know you well enough to know that's a lie."
"Why are you out here alone?" Aria said changing the subject.
"I saw you walking out and you looked sad, I wondered what had happened to my baby sister."
"I'm two minutes younger then you, so I'm not exactly you're little sister. And I don't want to talk about it, because it's not my entirely my secret to tell."
"Okay, but just remember that you can always talk to me about anything." Harry said as he hugged her.
"I know that. Lets go in side, its starting to get pretty cold outside. And I think it's dinner soon." She said smiling.
Days passed without Aria and Ezra ever talking, not that Ezra hadn't tried. Aria wanted to talk to him really badly but had no idea what she would say. She knew she wanted to explain and let him explain but it still felt like she somehow would forget how to talk in the middle of the sentence or that she wouldn't knew how to formulate her sentences. She knew that she wanted to talk to him more then anything right now, but she didn't know if he still wanted to talk to her. She obviously knew that he had tried to speak with her, but she didn't want to talk to him so she ignored him and it was since his last try. Maybe this was a sign that her feelings for him was stupid and childish. He probably never felt the same. In that case he is a damn good faker at least, she actually believed him. Then on the other hand it could have been Jackie as well. She could have kissed him. It wouldn't be too not her. Aria started to believe that it actually was Jackie, but she wasn't completely convinced so she decided to speak with him as soon as possible. Her last class, Herbology, was about to end and after that she could finally talk to him.
"I want the essay done by next week." Professor Sprout said. Aria had no idea what homework but pretended that she did. She didn't really care about the essay, and she could just ask somebody about it later. Aria packed her things in a hurry before she walked to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class room. The second thoughts appeared in her head in no time. Was it really a good idea? She knew that even if it were a terrible idea, it had to be done.
The door was closed but the class ended about five minutes ago. So she walked in and saw that Ezra was talking to a 6th year student. They both looked at Aria when they heard her enter the room. The student who was from Slytherin, didn't pretend that Aria was in the room and continued to speak to him.
"I'm sorry Felicia but I promised Aria that I'd go through a assignment with her." He lied to the Slytherin girl.
"Okay." She faked smiled at him before giving Aria a hateful glare.
"We need to talk." Aria said as soon as the Slytherin student exited the room.
"Why?" Aria continued. "Why did you kiss her?"
"I don't know. She came her and said things like that I don't have to keep acting like I like you to make her jealous, I could have her back if I wanted her, and then I explained that I don't want her back and whatever feelings I ever had towards her was gone and gone forever. Then she just started to say that she didn't believe her and that I should kiss her and then say that I didn't feel anything. So I did, just to make her back of, and she did, or at least she hasn't even talked to me since then. I know that I shouldn't have kissed her, but she has been nagging me about it since the begging of the year. I couldn't stand it anymore. What you and I have feels realer then anything ever did with her. It feels right and much better. I love you. Only you, forever and always. "
"I love you too. I'm sorry I thought otherwise. It just feels like I can't think clearly. Do you really think she'll back off? I mean I should have noticed how she act towards me, even though I think she'd act the same, it's just that I've not exactly been here."
"I'm not sure, you can never know with her. So I guess that we should expect the worst."
"This is going to sound really cliché, but at least we have each other." Aria said with a smile before Ezra kissed her. A kissed that lighted fireworks in side of both of them. Aria had missed his taste and the feeling of his lips against hers.
"I have homework but can I see you tonight in the Room of Requirement?"
"In what room?" Ezra asked her confused.
"Oh, I forgot that not everyone knows of that room. But it's a room that like is hidden and it only appears when you need it and it's always equipped with the seeker's needs. So if we hang out in that room no one can find us, at least if they doesn't know how to enter it and not many people does. My friends used to train with Dumbledore's Army in there, and they told me it was good to have it there because Umbridge and her little
Inquisitor Squad had problems getting in and they could always find what ever they needed in their, except things like money and food. So if we get hungry, we have to go to the kitchen, but there's time to eat before so…"
"The what-army, squad and who's that Umbridge person and why weren't you with them?"
"I wasn't at Hogwarts during my 5th, I was in Rosewood, so I don't know everything either. But it starts with that Umbridge, this really annoying woman, started teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts and wouldn't allow them to use magic, so my friends started this group to teach out spells, and jinxes and stuff because she wouldn't. Then she made this rule about groups not being aloud in Hogwarts, but Dumbledore's Army continued and she knew about it somehow. She created the Inquisitor squad to find out more about my friends group. Yeah that's the most of it at least."
"Okay, but I have no idea how to enter it so you have to help me." He said before kissing her quickly again.
"I'll come to your office by 7? Bye."
"Bye, sweetie." She left the room with a smile on her face.
She was still smiling when she came to the common room. Ginny and Hermione was sitting in front of the fire place.
"What are you smiling about, I mean you have been kind of depressed the last weeks?" Ginny asked her with a smile.
"It might have happened something great." Aria answered.
"You talked to him, didn't you?" Hermione said.
"I might." Aria said before she started picking up her stuff from the bag. "Do any of you know what the essay in Herbology was about? Or how long it should be? Because I didn't listen and have no idea."
"Hey, don't change the subject. Tell us everything!" Ginny said happily.
"Okay, but keep your voices down so no body hears."
The hours passed and Aria was bored. Aria, Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione were sitting by the corner of the Gryffindor table eating lunch.
"Is the clock 7 soon?" Aria said completely bored.
"It's like 20 minutes left. Going somewhere?" Her brother asked.
"Yeah kind of. Bye I need to get ready. Bye." Aria left the great hall in a hurry. She ran up to the dormitory, which was empty. She quickly brushed her hair, hoping that her brother or Ron wouldn't ask to many questions. She checked the clock 10 minutes left.
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Aria knocked on her boyfriends door exactly 7, and he opened the door as quickly as he could. Aria forgot to say hi, as she got lost in his blue eyes.
"Aria?" He asked when he didn't get any response to his hello.
"Yeah, sorry." She said blushing.
"So where's that mysterious room?"
"It's in the left corridor on the 7th floor. Just follow me, but we have to be careful so no one sees us."
They talked about everything on the way there. Aria suddenly stopped.
"We're here." Aria said.
"You're sure? Because there's nothing hear." Ezra asked confused.
"Yeah the room's hidden, remember?" Aria explained. "Just think 'I need a room where I can hang out with Aria alone, with no one knowing' the same time as you're walking in front of the entrance three times, and the door will appear. Lets do it together." Aria took his hand in hers, and started walking back and forth in front of where a door soon would appear, three time before they both stopped to look while the massive door was created.
The door was easier then a door in that size usually was, and the inside of the room was at least as surprising to Ezra. The room was now like bedroom-ischy with a King-sized bed, a couch and fireplace. It looked really cozy.
"Didn't you say that they trained Defense Against the Dark Arts in here?" He asked her a bit confused.
"But if you would have listened to me you would have heard that I also said that the room is equipped with the seekers needs." She answered with a smile.
Aria woke up the next day with her boyfriend's arm around her waist. She checked the clock on the wall tiredly, before getting a shook that almost made her fell out of the bed. It was already 9:30 which meant that she already had missed her first class and so had also Ezra who laid beside her. Aria quickly woke him up before she got dressed.
"We are late to class." She said when he had woken up enough to understand.
"How late?"
"An hour and a half." She said with a bit of panic in her voice and she knew that the panic had started to appear in him as well.
"I have an idea. And I think that it might work." Ezra said waiting for her to listen to him. "If you go to the hospital-wing and say that you feel ill and act like you're really sick, and say something about that you couldn't get up from your bed earlier. While I talk to Hardy and explained, it was supposed to be both of our class this morning because we were supposed to teach the kid to duel. If we do that I think it will work."
"Okay. But I will probably have to stay for a couple of days in the hospital wing, so see you after that." She said walking towards the door.
"Wait." He said running after her in only a pair of boxers. He grabbed her arm and kissed her. "I love you."
"Love you too." She said kissing him back.
Aria walked to the hospital-wing happy, and almost forgot about acting sick.
"So ms. Potter why are you here?" Madam Pomfrey asked as soon as she saw that Aria was the one who opened the door.
"I don't feel very well." She said with a fake sick locking face that she hoped madam Pomfrey would buy, and she did.
