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Chapter 3 In loveless mutant butterflies

As I entered the Great hall, I spotted Rose sitting opposite Sirius. I walked briskly over to them. Before I got there, Sirius said something to Rose who blushed and nodded.

As I sat down, Sirius stood up. "Well I guess I'll see you ladies later. Bye Rose," he said winking at her before walking away.

"What was that about?" I asked Rose suspiciously.

She grinned at me. "Well…" she took a deep breath. "Sirius just asked me out!"

Alice giggled in delight and Rhea smiled happily. Me on the other hand? Well let's just say that those were the longest 3 seconds of my life so far. When time finally turned back to Hogwarts time, I blinked. "Did you just say that Sirius Black, as in my dweep of a brother's best friend just asked you out?!"

Rose nodded beaming, then turned to her sister who gave her an ecstatic hug.

"Well at least you didn't say 'yes'," I said loudly.

The three of them stopped their celebration and turned to me.

"What do you mean?" asked Rhea.

"Well at least she didn't agree to it of course. She didn't say yes." I turned to Rose. "Did she?"

She beamed at me again and nodded before turning to Rhea and giving her a hug.

"But why?!" I asked thoroughly confuzzled.

Rhea rolled her eyes. "Maybe it's something to do with Rose liking him."

"Nah, it can't be that." Said Alice sarcastically.

"But he's my brother's best friend. James won't like it."

"Since when have you cared what James thought?" pointed out Rose. "Besides, he's going to like it less when he finds out that you've got a huge crush on his best friends Slytherin brother."

"Ooooo burn!" laughed Alice giving her twin a high five.

"I do not have a crush on Reggie!!!" I said gritting my teeth

"It's okay Ellie," 'comforted' Rose, giving me a pat on the shoulder, which I shook off. "You don't have to admit it now. One day you will see the light. Besides, blatant denial is the first sign of true lurrrrve!"

Alice chose this moment to make kissing noises and Rhea broke into song singing 'love is in the air'.

I glared at them and turned to shun them angrily picking at my food.

And then to make my day even better, my darling brother came over.

"So Rose, you and Sirius aye?" He said. I could hear the smirk in his voice.

"What's it to you?" Rose answered.

James shrugged. "Nothin'. Just wanted to wish you good luck, that's all."

That was too much! Fed up, I stormed off.

"What's with her?" asked James.

"She's just in denial."

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The next day, I furiously tried to give them all the silent treatment, which was particularly hard, seeing as I saw them pretty much 24/7. So it was a relief at last to be free of them at the end of the day to go to tutoring lessons.

"Wow, you must really hate transfiguration." Commented Reggie as I sat down opposite him in the library. "You're looking miserable and we haven't even started."

"Oh no, it's not you." I put in. "In fact, I've been looking forward to this all day. It's a good excuse to finally get away from… well yeah."

"Get away from who?" he enquired.

"Oh it's nothing. Just some stuff that's going on between me and Rose and co. that's all."

"Stuff as in: Sirius asked Rose out and she said yes and your other friends are happy for her but you feel annoyed/betrayed as he is your brother's best friend who you have despised from a young age?"

I stared at him. "How…?"

He shrugged. "Gossip travels like wild fire at Hogwarts… Or it could have been the fact that Sirius came up to me yesterday and bragged about him and Rose."

"Wait, why would Sirius brag to you."

"Well, I used to have a crush on Rose two years ago. But not any more," he added seeing my expression. "She's not really my type. Not like- Oh joy. Look who's here."?

I turned around to see James Sirius, Remus and Peter walking towards us.

"Great, just what I needed." I muttered to Reggie. He rolled his eyes at me as a shadow fell over us and I looked up to see darling James and his sidekicks; Blacky & co.

"What are you doing?"

"It's called learning James." I say to him slowly so he can understand me. "You should try it sometime."

"No, I mean what are you doing with…him." He said gesturing at Reggie.

I sighed. "He's my tutor James."

"Tutor? Him!" smirked Sirius.

"What? Jealous are you?" I say back to him. "Not surprised really, seeing as Reggie is the only Black that has enough brain power to actually teach someone."

"Ouch," muttered Reggie grinning at me.

"What was that Regulus?" spat Sirius. "I notice you're awfully quiet leaving Ellie here to defend herself."

Reggie lent back in his chair. "Well she seems to be doing a splendid job as it is and if I were to interfere, I would merely be taking the glory away from her."

"You're so… silly!" said Peter trying to sound menacing.

Reggie and I looked at each other before cracking up.

James glared at Peter who blushed furiously.

"Well bye," said James turning to go. "Just try not to get too cozy!"

"Hey, at least I'll be better off than you. When's the last time Lily spoke to you, huh?" I called after him. "A week ago? And what did she say to you again? OH yeah, I remember. 'I hate you James Potter. I will never go out with you so stop trying!'."

James made no comment but simply pulled his hand out of his pocket and made a rude hand gesture before storming off.

"Well that was… enlightening." Reggie smirked.

"Welcome to a day in the life of the Potters."

"Sorta reminds me of mine and Sirius' relationship… Except me and him aren't in the same houses so I guess that makes you worse off."

"Gee, that makes me feel loads better."

"Glad I could help! And speaking of help, we should probably be getting onto this transfiguration thing."

I let out a groan causing him to grin.

"I thought we'd start off by seeing what you can or can't do." He said pulling out a teapot from his bag.
"That's a can't," I said automatically.

"Okay then, how about this." He pulled out a small cage, which held a canary.

I shook my head.

"Mouse?" he said hopefully.

I winced. "Possibly. On my good days."

"Well lets find out what sort of day today is then." He said placing one on the table and gesturing for me to take out my wand.

I took a deep breath, the butterflies in my stomach feeling like they were turning into mutants with lead wings, thrashing about with their evil blood sucking fangs. I started to turn my wrist nut Reggie's hand sped out and caught it. I looked at him in surprise. "What-was I doing it wrong?"

"I guess you could say that." He grinned. "First of all, your wrist is turning the wrong. Second, you should have started saying the spell by now, and third. You look like you're about to faint."

I lowered my wand. "Oh…"

"Right, let's see." Reggie muttered to himself. He stood up and walked around the table so he was sitting next to me. "First you need to relax, so um, maybe if you breathe, that might help."

I tried breathing, which funnily enough helped, but the mutants in my stomach seemed to get worse when I noticed how close Reggie was sitting. As I breathed in, the smell of his cologne swept over me, turning my mutant butterflies into mutant bats. His face had perfectly chiseled features and had a glow to it like he had been working in the sun. And, oh Merlin, his eyes. They were a deep dark grey, but when he smiled, they turned a smoky blue, and-

"Ellie?"

My mind faded back and I realized that Reggie was staring at me with a slightly perplexed expression on his face.

"Ellie?" he said again.

"What? Yeah I totally agree." I blurted.

"You didn't hear anything I just said did you?"

"What? No of cause I did. You said um… You know uh… You talked about the um… thing that was, you know…" I sighed. "No not really."

Reggie grinned causing his eyes to-Stop it Ellie!

"Are you sure you're okay?" he asked placing his hand on my arm which did not help the mutant teradactors in my stomach.

"I- I'm fine." I said. My face feeling it was about to combust.

"You're sure?"

"I, um…could you excuse me for a second?" I said trying not to like at him. "I need to um, you know…" I quickly walked away before he could answer. Once out of his sight I sat down and lent against a bookshelf, trying to calm myself down. Oh, incase you were wondering, I don't usually act/ feel like this when I'm around the opposite sex. Believe me this is a totally new experience for me.

All right Ellie. Forget about Reggie and how good he looks, or his hands or his-damn it! What is wrong with me!! He's just a guy who happens to be unfairly good-looking. I've talked to good-looking guys before and I was fine. Namely Sirius who is utterly annoying, but still… I know! I'll just pretend he's James.

I groaned.

No that won't work coz I would insult him all the time and besides. That would be like incest coz it would be like I was in love with my brother. Did I just say… Okay I am not in love with Reggie! I am not in love with Reggie!

I looked over at the shelves opposite me and noticed that one of the books is the same colour as Reggie's hair. Sort of a dark- Stop it Ellie!!! I! AM! NOT! IN! LOVE! WITH! REGGIE!!!!!!!

I slapped my face a few times for good measure-

"Ellie?"

Great, now he's seen me inflicting self-harm… But why should I care what he thinks of me. It's not like I'm in love with him or anything. Oh no, not me. I am 'in love' free. I am-

"Ellie?" Merlin, I love it when he' says my name. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said in the most unfine voice in existence.

"Are you sure? It's just been nearly like," he looked at his watch, "nearly 20 minutes."

"Really? Wow. How time flies when… Yeah." I got up because he looked really good from where I was sitting and I couldn't concentrate.

"So um, do you want to get back to…you know-"

"Oh right! Transfiguration! Sure!"

He gave me a weird look before walking in the direction of the table and I took a deep breath before following him.

He sat down on the chair next to mine, but after doing some quick thinking, I sat in the other chair next to mine so there was a chair between us. He looked at me as of to say 'okay…' but then carried on talking about…Wow. His jaw looks really good in this light. I sort of-

"Ellie?"

"Yup?" Great. I guessed I zoned out again.

"Are you sure you're feeling all right?" he asked, his voice full of concern.

I stared at him trying not to 'stare' at him. "Yeah, I'm-" I stopped and thought. "You know what? I do feel a bit sick. I think I might be coming down with something. I might just head over to the hospital wing and get myself checked out."

"Um o-okay? Um, here, I'll come with you-"

"No!" I blurted out. "No, I'm fine. I mean I should be fine. It's probably just something I ate over dinner."

"He looked at me weirdly. "Dinner?"

"Yeah."

"We um, we haven't had dinner yet."

"Oh really? Gosh, this sickness must really be messing with my brain," I 'laughed'

"Well can't I ju-"

"Thanks for the lesson!" I called as I practically ran towards the door leaving a confused Reggie Behind me.


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