A/N: The chapters are going to start to get a bit longer. Enjoy! =)
Chapter 7: Friends no more.
Cynthia sat at the Great Hall for breakfast. Erica and Brittany were chattering away about how Roger asks her out.
"Oh my god, seriously you are going out with Davies?" Erica was so excited.
"Yes, we are dating. It was official as of last night" Cynthia said. She kept an eye out at the entrance. Hoping she would see Oliver walk in.
"Does Oliver know yet? Is that why you are looking for him?" Brittany asks her.
"No. He knows already. We had a screaming match downstairs in the common room. I am surprised no one heard us" Cynthia said.
"What did you two fight about?" Erica asks her.
"Me and Roger, now we aren't speaking anymore, we aren't even friends. Now this is going to be interesting" Cynthia said.
Both Erica and Brittany saw Oliver walk in with Scott and Justin. Cynthia then walks out of the Great Hall. Erica and Brittany walk up to Oliver.
"What the hell?" Erica shouted at him.
"Seriously!" Brittany shouted.
They both were loud enough that everyone in the Great Hall was staring at them. Oliver grabbed both them by their elbow and led them out of the Great Hall.
"I guess she told you" Oliver said. They both nodded their heads. "Well I took your advice and now she is gone. I can't have her, she is with Roger."
Erica look at him, "We didn't say wait two weeks. We said wait until you knew if you loved her or not."
Brittany shook her head in disbelief, "And she isn't gone. Roger Davies isn't you. She isn't in love with Davies."
"Well…now she is. I'm not going to ever be with me. Once again I think I broke her heart" Oliver said.
Erica then looks at Brittany. Then she looks back at Oliver. "Don't worry. We will help you. If you end up being petty with her, she'll never forgive you."
Oliver look at the both of them, he was biting his bottom lip.
"You already acted petty didn't you?" Erica asks him.
"Oh my god, Oliver what did you do?" Brittany questioned him.
"I said if she was going to be with Davies then there was no way we would be friends" Oliver told them.
"Way to act mature there Wood. No wonder why I am dating her now. And you are just watching on the sidelines" Roger told him.
Oliver turns around and saw Roger standing there. Oliver made his hands into a fist. Oliver could see Roger smirking at him.
"Well don't worry Roger, she won't be with you for much longer" Oliver said.
"You see that is where you are wrong Oliver. You know the two of you aren't friends anymore. So who will she believe? Me or you?" Roger said.
Roger then walks past Erica and Brittany saying hello to them.
"Where are you going?" Oliver asks him.
"To go to the Fat Lady, I'm walking Cynthia to Divinations. See you later in Charms, Wood" Roger said.
Oliver finally let his fist go when Roger was out of sight. And he turned to look at Brittany and Erica. "Well it is a lost cause. I'll never get my dream girl," Oliver said. He then walked back into the Great Hall to breakfast.
Erica and Brittany both look at each other. They definitely need to find the Weasley twins and Harry. They had a feeling that they were going to lose a chaser by the end of the week. They need to meet to make this situation back to normal.
Cynthia sat in Charms with Jennifer and every once in a while saw Roger wink at her. Jennifer couldn't help but notice.
"So you and Roger?" Jennifer asks.
"Yeah…he asked me out last night. I still can't believe it. It still seems like I was dreaming" Cynthia said.
"So what about you and Wood?" Jennifer asks.
Cynthia looks at Jennifer, then she glance over at Oliver. "Wood and I are no longer friends."
"Seriously?" Jennifer asks.
"Yeah seriously," Cynthia sighed. She was already getting tired of answering that question.
Jennifer look at Cynthia, she saw that she wasn't really happy when she answer that question. Jennifer like everyone else knows that Cynthia and Oliver were the best of friends since first year. She always thought that Cynthia and Oliver would just end up dating, since Oliver didn't show much interested in girls, except for the few he dated. Jennifer saw that Cynthia didn't look or speak to Oliver in class like she would usually.
"Hey Wood" Jennifer smiled.
"So she told you huh?" Oliver sounded angry.
"Yeah listen, I really thought you and Cynthia were like secretly a couple. She like adored you to death, what the hell happen?" Jennifer asks him.
"Nothing, Roger just asks her first that's all" Oliver said. Oliver then thought to himself, a way to get Cynthia back was to ask someone out like one of her friends. Oliver then smiled at Jennifer. "Jennifer, do you have a date to the ball?"
Jennifer look back at Oliver a little confused, and shook her head no. "Well would you like to be mine?"
Jennifer stood there she was unsure. She had always had a crush on Oliver Wood, but so did everyone else. Now Cynthia and Oliver had been fighting, and she didn't want to get in the middle of it. But going with Oliver would be the highest point in her Hogwarts experience.
"Alright I'll go with you" Jennifer said. "But Wood if you are just using me to get back at Cynthia, I swear to you I won't forgive you."
Then Jennifer walk away from Oliver, she went to go and talk to some other seventh year Gryffindor girls. Scott walks up to Oliver and he patted him on the back.
"You are totally using her aren't you?" Scott asks him.
Oliver looked at his friend, and shook his head, "I have no idea what you mean."
Cynthia was sitting on her favorite couch in the common room, when she saw Jennifer and her friends come walking through the portrait. They were talking about Oliver and how he asks her out to the dance. All of them stop talking when they saw Cynthia sitting on the couch.
"Hello Cynthia" Jennifer said.
"Hey everyone" Cynthia said, looking at the group. Cynthia then focuses her attention on Jennifer, "He asked you out Jen?"
Jennifer stood her ground and answered, "Yes he did, right after Charms today."
"Oh…" Cynthia said.
"Why do you care, we heard you and Wood aren't even friends anymore" Penelope said. She was standing next to Jennifer, with long curly black hair. Cynthia thought Penelope was annoying as hell, but she didn't want to start anything.
"I don't care. I was just asking. Me and Jennifer don't have anything wrong with each other" Cynthia said.
"Well actually…" Jennifer started. "Actually what?" Cynthia asks her back. "Well in order for Wood to ask me out to be his girlfriend, I won't be friends with you anymore." Jennifer told her.
"What are you serious?" Cynthia looks at her shocked.
"Well yeah, see you got your Quidditch captain. And I am hoping to snag Wood. So if I stop being friends with you, he'll see I'm loyal to him and ask me to be his girlfriend," Jennifer smiled.
Cynthia stared into the fireplace; she knew this wasn't Jennifer talking to her. This sounded more like Penelope. "Alright thanks for telling me to my face."
Then Jennifer and her friends walk up the stairs to their room. Once Cynthia knew she was alone in the common room she started to cry. She didn't expect to lose all her friends. Harry then came in the common room and Cynthia tried to find the fact she had been crying.
"Cynthia?" Harry asks.
"Yeah Harry," Cynthia answered him.
"Are you okay?" Harry asks her.
By this time Oliver was walking down the stairs from his dorm room, and overheard Cynthia and Harry talking. He didn't know what to do, so he stayed on the stairs out of sight to listen.
"No Harry I am not okay. First off, I am losing everyone I thought was my friend. I lost Wood because I'm now dating Davies. Jennifer doesn't want to be my friend anymore because she is hoping Wood will ask her out someday. And I'm going to have to quit the team because I don't want you guys to choose between me and Wood." Cynthia told everything to Harry.
"Well I don't think you should quit the team" Harry said.
"I know Harry. This whole situation should have never happen. Maybe if I had just told Wood how I felt for him instead of doing the impossible just acting like one of his guy friends. Finding how I truly felt for him. But I can't just stop dating Roger now because Wood knew this whole entire time I was in love with him and said nothing to me. But its okay for him to kiss me and then its okay for him to ask who I thought was my friend to the dance.
"I just don't know what to do anymore Harry. Erica, Brittany, George and Fred get involved everything seemed to end up ten times worse. I know they were the ones that ask Roger what he thought about me. And eventually lead him to ask me out."
Oliver stood on the stairs; he couldn't believe everything he was hearing. His team was behind this whole thing from the beginning. Playing him and Cynthia like fools.
"And the worse part of it is, I said yes to Roger. Wood wouldn't speak to me, he wouldn't sit anywhere near me. I must be a bad kisser, because here I am exposing myself to you Harry. You have enough problems of you own."
"Don't worry Cynthia. It is nice to take a break from being me and talk about real life you know?" Harry told her.
"Trust me Harry, I am probably the only person in the universe who wishes nothing but the best for you and who isn't jealous of you and your frame" Cynthia said looking at his scar.
"Well I am glad to know that I'm not the only one who feels that way" Harry smiled at her.
Cynthia smiled back at Harry and playfully punches him in his arm. "I'm glad I can always count on you Harry."
"Hey up until now, I could always get you to talk my way out of any practice. Looks like I am going to have to do it myself," Harry giggled.
Cynthia giggled also. "Well trust me Harry; you have no problem on your account getting out of practice, especially if the Dark Lord is around."
Oliver stood on the stairs for a bit longer, he then saw Harry walk back out of the common room through the portrait. Cynthia was still sitting on the couch and she continues to work on her Defense against the Dark Arts. Professor Lupin had a lot of work for the seventh years for the N.E.W.T.S. and Cynthia was one of the top students for Gryffindor. Oliver debated to go down the stairs or not, finally he did. Cynthia looks over at Oliver at the bottom of the stairs. She then turned her attention back to her homework.
"Cynthia…" Oliver said.
"Please Wood, don't talk to me. I have tons of homework to do," Cynthia said, not taking her eyes off of her homework.
"Cynthia…" Oliver said. "Listen Wood, I give you the common room just like everything else. For now on I will study only in my room and the library. Please just leave me alone, I don't want to start another fight or help spread more rumors."
Cynthia grabbed all of her stuff and headed for the stairs until she saw Oliver was still standing there. So she turned around and walk out of the common room. Oliver was left in the common room alone; he didn't know what to do or to say anymore.