I Don't Wanna Be In Love

Chapter 3: The Eye

I flopped down at the Gryffindor table for lunch after History of Magic. My head was pounding and I already had an essay due. I didn't understand why Binns was still teaching. I mean he was a ghost after all, and a very boring ghost at that.

He would just drone on in his nasally voice and it lulled me to sleep.

When Remus elbowed me at the end of class and informed me that we had a 5 page essay due tomorrow about goblin techniques in the war of 1812, I had developed my head ache.

I only took a bite out of my sandwich as I listened to Lily and James bickering about Head duties tonight. After they got boring I turned my gaze to Alice and Frank. Alice was feeding Frank and it mad me sick. "Oh gross, get a room you love birds" I called turning away from them.

I than turned my attention to Remus who had a charms text book propped against a jug of pumpkin juice and who was reading it ignoring everyone around him.

Sirius had not appeared for lunch yet and I suspected that he was having a snogging session with Amelia.

I sighed and finished my sandwich than waited for the others to finish up.

Lily, Alice and I had herbology next. After Lily gave up the argument and Frank said he was full did we get our acts together and left for class.

When we stepped outside Sirius and Amelia were snogging against the wall. "Get a bloody room" I called as we passed. They didn't even look up.

"This is grotesque" Alice cried beside me as her, Lily and I were harvesting bubotuber pus for herbology review. It squirted yellow-green pus at us and we ducked.

"But it's easy" Lily said.

I cut the end of the root and held it over the bottle than squeezed it so the pus went into the little tubes.

"Good job ladies" Professor Sprout called as she inspected our 6 tubes full of the pus.

"Thank you professor" we said in unison.

Alice than scowled as pus squirted onto her goggles. "This is so gross".

I tried to stifle a laugh as it slide down creating a slimy path. "Sod off" she barked.

After herbology Lily and I met up with Sirius and James and we walked to charms.

My stomach twisted into a knot as we entered the classroom and I noticed a familiar face already sitting down with a group of his mates and waiting for class to start.

Chad Charters –my ex.

And boy did he look good. He raked a hand through his blonde hair making it fall into his dark blue eyes and he smiled at me. Not a mean smile but a pleasant one like the ones he use to give me when we were going out.I smiled back and was about to walk over and join them but Sirius grabbed my arm and directed me over to the opposite side of the classroom so I was now sitting across from him.

Sirius was shooting dirty looks that way and I tried to ignore it. I also tried to ignore the fact that I could feel Chad staring at me.

"Bloody wanker" Sirius said and James snorted.

"Who?" I asked, although I knew who he was talking about.

"Your ex. What did you see in him?" he scoffed and I narrowed my eyes.

"Everything" I replied tersely and turned back to Lily.

Sirius grunted something incoherent and he and James began to whisper.

Professor Flitwick than entered and began the lesson.

We were practicing the Orchideous charm that conjured a bunch of flowers.

I had some trouble and was losing my patients as everyone else around me had succeeded in producing a lovely bunch of flowers.

"You're adding in an extra flick of your wand" Lily told me as I tried for the umpteenth time. "It's not my fault I'm charms illiterate" I snapped.

Lily clucked her tongue, "temper, temper".

I threw my wand down and scowled. "Cheer up buttercup" Sirius said turning to me and handing me a bouquet or red and purple flowers.

He grinned charmingly at me and I couldn't help but smile. Sometimes Sirius had this weird effect on me.

However he had some competition as another bouquet of black and pink flowers (my favourite colours) zoomed toward me. I looked up to see Chad smiling at me and trying to act innocent but I knew he was the one who conjured them.

"Looks like you have some competition Mate" James grinned as a bouquet of red roses popped out of his wand.

"Yeah right" Sirius sniffed as I smelt Chad's bouquet.

"For you Lily flower".

Lily looked up at James as he held out the roses for her. She hesitated but to everyone's surprise and to James' relief she took them.

"Thanks Potter" she said as she smelt them. I smiled when I noticed the small smile tugging at her lips.

"Chad is giving you the eye" she whispered to me as she hid her face behind the bouquet so if Chad was looking he wouldn't know we were talking about him.

"The eye?" I asked dumbly and Sirius whipped around.

"Who's giving you the eye?"

Lily smacked herself on the forehead, "way to make it noticeable".

"I didn't know it was a secret" I replied ignoring Sirius who was asking me questions.

"It's Charters isn't it?" he barked.

"What are you talking about Sirius?" I asked as he was starting to get on my nerves.

"Charters' the one that's giving you the eye".

"Yes. According to Lily, Chad is giving me the eye but what does it matter?"

Sirius looked at me like I had grown an extra head or something.

"You don't know what the eye is?"

"No I do not know what the eye is" I rolled my eyes.

"It's the eye! You know, the look us guys give you girls when we want you. And Charters giving you the eye means he wants you. But the eye comes with rules too. And you are not allowed to give another mans' bird the eye".

"Sirius?"

"Yes luv?"

"That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. And, if anything, I would be Chad's bird" I batted my eye lashes at him and his face fell.

"So you like him again?"

"I never stopped liking him" I replied.

He shifted in his seat like he was uncomfortable so I chose to drop the subject. The bell rang anyways and we all began to pack up.

Sirius and James were ahead of Lily and I but I was stopped when someone tapped me on the shoulder.

I turned around to see Chad standing there.

"Hey" he smiled.

"Hi"

"Did you like the flowers?" he asked.

I nodded, "Yes, very much so. Pink and black are my favourite colours" I smiled.

He grinned, "I know that. I was your boyfriend for 4 months after all" he laughed.

I looked down at my feet and shifted uncomfortably, "Yes. You were".

He seemed to look a little sad but he scowled as Sirius called to me.

"Abs, let's go".

I could see the look on Sirius' face. And he didn't look too pleased.

"You seeing Black or something?" Chad scowled.

"No. But I'm going. See you around" and I walked away before I said something I would regret.

"Why were you talking to that git?" Sirius asked as I walked over to him.

I just shook my head and rolled my eyes. Sometimes boys were so immature.

"Done!" I called later that night as I finished my History of Magic essay. Everyone else who hadn't groaned, I even finished before Lily started her Muggle Studies essay, although she had just come back from Head Girl Duties.

I settled back down beside Lily after and watched as she wrote furiously across her parchment.

You know when you get that feeling that someone's watching you? Well I was getting that feeling as I tried to concentrate on Lily, so I glanced up and noticed that Sirius was staring in our direction. Not even blinking. Lily who had felt the same way looked up and frowned as she caught Sirius.

"What's Black staring at?" she hissed.

I shrugged and than grinned, "Oo, maybe he's giving you the eye"

Lily just rolled her eyes. "Please. If anything he's giving you the eye"

"I think I hurt his feelings today when I said that I was more Chad's bird than anyone else's"

Lily just grunted, very unlady like, and began to write again. "Well you're right. You were Chad's bird at one time and not Sirius' so obviously it would hurt Sirius. His prides wounded that someone else got the girl he's madly in love with".

I was looking back at Sirius who had finally snapped out of it and turned back to the game of chess that Remus and James were playing.

I whipped my head back so fast so you could hear the crack of my bones. "Excuse me?" I asked.

Lily shrugged, "Everyone knows he likes you. But you and him"

I frowned. It really did bug me when people said things like that. I know Sirius had no trouble asking a girl out if he did like them and he hadn't asked me out. So clearly he didn't like me. I couldn't believe the smartest girl at Hogwarts thought that rubbish.

"No. You know what everyone knows? That you like James and James likes you"

Lily snorted with laughter, "I would never like that prat".

Before we could continue our little argument the portrait hole opened and in stepped Tessa Morgan. All eyes turned to her-most of the eyes belonged to the guys. For Tessa was one of the prettiest girls at Hogwarts and she just so happened to be a Gryffindor, my year, and another girl in our dorm. How ever she was never usually in our dorm because everyone knew she slept in her boyfriends' bed, Mike Bones, a 7th year Ravenclaw. It had been that way for a whole 6 months.

My attention was drawn to her when I heard her sniffle and plop down beside me. I turned to see that her bright blue eyes were now puffy and red and she stuck her long black hair into a messy ponytail a top her head. I didn't really like the girl because I thought she was bossy and rude. Okay I will admit I was jealous of her.

Lily, being the more sympathetic one, put her quill down and asked the question. "Did you and Mike break up?"

She sniffed again but this time big, fat tears fell down her face and she began to sob. Everyone turned to look at us and I turned red. It was kind of embarrassing.

"Maybe you should go up to the dorm?" I tried to sound polite and sympathetic.

"Alright. Can you guys come with me?"

"I can't right now Tess. I still have to finish a Muggle Studies essay. But Abby will go with you. She's done" Lily oh so nicely volunteered my services. I'd remember that when I'd volunteer her to go on a date with James.

"Fine" I said and stood up, grabbing my books.

Tessa stood up and than grabbed on to me and began to cry on my shoulder. I glared at Lily who was ignoring me. I sighed loudly so she could hear and began to fast walk up toward the stairs so no one could see me in this embarrassing predicament.

When we made it into the dorm, Tessa sobbing all the way, she collapsed on her bed and began to sob loudly.

I cursed Lily and sat down on the end of her bed trying to be a "comforting friend". After 10 minutes of her sobbing they turned into hiccups. She sat up a few minutes later and drew her knees up under her chin.

"I don't know why he dumped me" she said.

'Maybe because you're a little tart and have shagged all his friends' I thought but of course that would be too mean so I just shrugged.

She than launched into a tirade of how much she loved him and how she had given him everything. I shivered at the thought of them shagging. Mike Bones was not the nicest looking guy and he had some extra meat on him. In other words, he was a fat arse and no one knew why someone as pretty as Tessa would ever want him. Not to mention he was mean.

An hour later and Lily came up. I couldn't be happier to see her. I was tired and getting cranky of having to listen to Tessa moan about how sweet and charming Mike was. A couple of times I had come close to telling her to shut her trap but than she'd start wailing again and I couldn't kick her when she was already down.

"Well now that Lily's here I'm going to sleep" and I quickly rushed over to my bed and flung the curtains around so she couldn't stop me.

"Actually I'm tired too. I think I'll just go to bed too" Tessa said and I slightly cursed.

"Thank you Abby" Tessa called but I was so exhausted that I was already in la la land.

So what did you guys think? This isn't really my favourite chappie but I had to introduce Tessa because she's going to play some what of a role later on.

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