Ch 14 – What is HE Doing Here?

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Finally Herbology's detention was over. I strode my way out and practically bolted out into the empty corridors. It was only seven. I ruffled up my hair as I peaked outside through an open window. I could see that Quidditch practice was still going on.


"What is your oh so perfect boyfriend out there?" De Love said. He probably had stalked me over here.

"Boyfriend?" I questioned as I looked out the window planting my elbows on the windowsill and resting my head on my hands. "I have no boyfriend, De Love." I heard footsteps darting over to us then heard a little squeaky voice or just Travis' voice.

"What about Malfoy or Higgs?" I shook my head a bit but I doubt he noticed.

"Pierre!" He shouted and stopped in front of Pierre panting from the run. "Can you help me with my beater practice?" He asked. He looked up at him pleadingly.

"Of course not. Now stop bugging me." He let out hot breath.

"Well aren't you being a prick?" I snapped.

"I just want a meeting with your father!" Pierre shouted and slammed his fist on the windowsill. I quickly picked my head up and let my arms go limp.

"When are you planning to give up on that idiotic quest? It's not going to happen. My father is DEAD!" I rolled my eyes and looked down at Travis who stood there staring at me for the longest time.

"She's her?" Travis whispered over to Pierre who gave a nod at his question.

"I'm what?"

"Nothing." They both said in unison. I cocked up an eyebrow and turned my head back and looked outside again. There were no longer Quidditch players out in the field. The sky was darkened and grey even for it almost being completely dark. Then a crackle of thunder came down and almost instantly after the bolt it started to pour rain.

"Why don't you give me the meeting and I will stop bugging you." Pierre whispered into my ear, which made me practically jump.

"I rather not help you at all. You even got the wrong girl." I said flipping my hair over my shoulder before leaning over the windowsill and looking down at the stony path beneath me. I was trying to catch some Slytherin Quidditch players after their shower.

"What are you looking for?" Pierre De Love rang into my ear. I ignored his question and continued to stare down below me. "Is brown your natural color?" He let out a stray laugh. "What? Do you have a deaf ear, Miss Riddle?" I felt him poke my ear drum after I smacked his finger away from my ear like a annoying Doxy bug that used to be hidden in my curtains in my bedroom at my father's house. I had finally spotted dark green robes unsystematically. Two Slytherin's carrying there brooms were criticizing their team captain's lesson plan.


"-dolt, Montague needs to teach the new beater how to actually aim the bludger away from us! I almost got hit twice during practice!" The other boy nodded as they walked toward the opened doorway leading down an open corridor then into a closed one.

"Hey boys!" I yelled down to them. Both boys looked up at me. I was on the ground floor but the hill made the windowsill hang higher. "Can you two tell me when Quidditch practice started?" I tilted my head and twisted my finger around a couple strains of my hair.

"It started around-" He looked to his friend next to him, Miles Cletchley; his brownish hair was getting more and more soaked in the rain. Of course the boys didn't mind the rain. They played in it all the time.

"5:55?" Miles guessed as he shrugged his broad shoulders. Warrington glanced back up at me and said "Yeah I think 5:50." Miles shook his head 'no' and rolled his eyes.

I untangled my finger in my hair, "Thanks boys, have you seen Montague?" I asked trying to lean closer to the windowsill to get a closer look of the two men standing slightly below me. I felt the rain hit the top of my head.

"Montague? I think he is still showering back at the locker room." Miles told me letting his face go into a smirk. I bit my fingernail taking a look out into the rain then back down at Cletchley and Warrington.

"Thanks again." I turned around to find the face of Terrence Higgs. His blonde hair was slightly messy from the rain outside. I let my hand fall down to next to my hip. "What can I-"

"You break up with me?" He said with anger. He put his arms on either side of the wall by me not letting me escape from his clutches.

"Sounds like Terrence found her." I heard Cletchley say from outside.

"Miles! Once I get away from him-" Terrence's face hardened more. "I will kill you!" ~Miles Cletchley should have warned me about Terrence visiting Hogwarts.~ "Look Terrence-" I tried to talk but was rudely interrupted.

"This better be about the break up!" He seethed. I'm guessing Terrence doesn't like to be broken up with.

"Terrence." I warned him. I picked up my hand and traced through his light brown hair and down to his cheek his face softening at my touch. "We both have heard rumors about each other being with opposite people- cheating perhaps- Terrence." I spoke tenderly to him because his face was starting to get irritated. "Plus we are so far apart, how can we stand on our relationship being so distant. -"

"But we will!" he said swiftly after I said that sentence. I smiled faintly as I let my eyes drop down his body. He had his shirt unbuttoned at the top revealing his nicely bronzed skin. He was wearing his usual burgundy button up shirt and blue faded jeans.

"Where have you been?" I asked absent-mindedly as I let my hands touch his chest. "Where is your jacket?" I noticed in the corner of my eye Pierre standing there against the wall while Travis had disappeared. He took a bit of hesitation before telling me. "I let my jacket in the locker room and I was um, in Australia with my Aunt Ruth." He spoke quickly.

"Don't you mean you left it?" He nodded. His arms fell around my waist and squeezed my backside. "Fine. Let's get it then." I turned to the side and glanced outside seeing it still pouring rain out and some blondie walking out of the locker room with his two big lugs.

"We can get it later." Terrence tried pulling me in the opposite direction.

"No it's cold out." I said and held on to Mr. Higg's hand and took him down the hall and out into the opening and I was just about to step foot out into the rain. I smirked towards Draco who looked at Terrence and I, skeptically. I saw his eyes go down to my and Higgs' hands that were laced together.

Draco shook his head briefly, "Higgs." He said with a sneer. I let my hand fall out of his. Something was up because Malfoy wasn't rude with Higgs before. "First you call Rachel a little bitch for breaking up with you before you could?-" I narrowed my eyes on Terrence who looked frightened. He was so cute when he was scared. "Where were you two headed?" Draco asked setting his broom against the stone wall of Hogwarts.

"He left his jacket in the locker ro-"

"He left his jacket with Nina in the main hallway before practice," the blonde interrupted me.

"I did not! Riddle you know that Draco has been trying to get you and this is the way he wants to! He's lying!" Terrence spoke frantically.

"Rae, I was in the outside hall waiting for you to help with my homework-which you never showed." Draco hissed. "And Higgs was with Clearwater." I snapped my head back to Terrence and he looked at me pleadingly. I let a soft smile form on my lips and I ran my hand through his hair.

"Terrence," I said with a cute innocent voice. I saw the look on Draco's face, the what-the-hell-are-you-DOING look. I kept the sweet smile on my face and grasped down on his hair and punched him hard in the stomach. "Terrence you fucking bloody bloke you! Thank Merlin Draco was here to tell me the bloody truth!" I sneered at him kicking his shin because I always hated it when people kicked the boys' members. I dropped his hair and let him collapse on the ground holding his stomach. I sighed and tried calming myself down again. To be plain, I didn't really like Terrence. He was just a toy.

I turned back to Draco with a smile on my face as he stood there smirking at me. "Sorry Ter. She's way to good for you."