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The two girls entered the common room together, arms linked.
Oliver hurried towards them: "Wy! Are you okay? Sev said, you left the meeting looking quite upset."
"Uh, yes, I'm okay, it was nothing really", she smiled reassuringly at him.
He frowned.
"Stop staring at me that way!", she laughed, patting his shoulder.
"Wyna!", Severus' voice sounded through the common room.
"Oh lord", she rolled her eyes as he stalked over to them, his expression similar to Oliver's.
"Are you alright?", he spat, grabbing her arm.
"Gods, guys! Stop acting as if I had a nervous breakdown!", she glared jokingly at them and while Oliver seemed to relax, Severus expression turned into a frown.
Aerwyna sighed with relief as he turned and the subject was dropped.
The four of them made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast, discussing the trimester projects.
"I'm concentrating on Herbology this trimester", Oliver said, "I need to compensate my not-existent effort from last year."
The other three laughed at him, Imogen leaning against Aerwyna in joy.
"I'm looking forward to raising up my griffin colt", Imogen smiled softly, "What is your project, Aer?"
"Defence!", Aerwyna beamed with excitement.
"Surprise, surprise!", Oliver chuckled.
"I'll create a curse on my own, it's going to be fantastic!", the shorter girl grinned, ignoring Oliver.
"Always the head in dark clouds", the melodious voice of Lily chirped.
Aerwyna felt as if her inside was filled with ice, but she pulled herself together and turned to smile at the red-head.
"Do you feel better?", the Gryffindor nudged her with her shoulder.
"Yes, it had been from exhaustion I believe", Aerwyna answered.
Lily told Oliver and Severus about the potion, she would be studying this trimester, while Imogen shot worried glances at the Slytherin girl beside her.
"What's your project for the trimester, Sev?", Lily asked.
"I have not decided yet", he bit his lip in thought.
"That's very unlike you! Usually you are the first to decide!", she giggled.
He shrugged his shoulders, avoiding her eyes.
Imogen knitted her brows and looked down at Aerwyna, who was still attached to her arm.
Her smile never faltered.
"Good, Miss Rivers, that was a major step forward. Although I would recommend an approximately rectangular shape for wand movement, as it adds sharpness to the curse", Professor Quaster smiled warmly at the dark-head.
Aerwyna nods in concentration, cursing under her breath as blue, icy stings shot out of her wand and bounced against Emily Stanton's hat.
The strawberry blonde girl looked around confused, until Aerwyna yelled: "Sorry!"
The Hufflepuff girl smiled back at her and waved it off, before she turned around to go to work.
"I. Just. Don't. Get. It. Right", Aerwyna growled, punctuating ever word with a thrust of her wand.
"Don't force it, Wyna", Severus, who sat beside her, chuckled.
She sighed theatrical as the bell rang and Professor Quaster shooed them.
Lily and Mary MacDonald hurried off to their common room, while Severus and Aerwyna made their way to the Great Hall for lunch.
"Uh, fuck!", Aerwyna cursed as soon as they arrived at their table, what earned her a disapproving look from Professor Euler.
She smiled apologetically and then turned to Severus: "I have to find Lily, she has my Ancient Runes book and I need it after lunch."
"Gods, yes. Should I come with you?", he asked while staring longingly at the meatloaf.
Aerwyna grinned: "No, I will leave you to your love."
He chuckled as the girl hurried off. She tried to ignore the feeling of falling in her stomach at the sound.
Panting she climbed staircase after staircase towards the Gryffindor Tower.
Suddenly she heard Mary MacDonald's voice interspersed with giggles:
"But he is into you!"
Aerwyna stepped behind a statue of Reinold the Ridiculous, as Mary's voice approached her.
"Don't be silly", Lily answered, but she sounded quite amused.
"Come on, you can't possibly not notice it!", Mary insisted.
Lily remained silent.
"I mean, he's not the most handsome guy in the castle, but you are friends for I don't know how long already!", Aerwyna suppressed a sigh as Mary made no move to stop her babbling.
Nonetheless her brain started to work on high speed as she tried to figure out, whom they were talking about. In the back of her mind Severus face became prominent, but she pushed the thought aside.
"We are friends, yes, but I would never start a relationship with him! He gets darker with each passing day", Lily muttered the last part, but the two girls were already so close to the statue, Aerwyna was hiding behind, that she could understand every word.
"But it would be so romantic. A Gryffindor girl and a Slytherin boy. the lioness wins the snake over to honesty and truth", Mary sighed.
"Nothing about him is romantic. I don't think he's able to truly love someone.
He's too dark already. And I don't agree with the path he has chosen. I know, his life hasn't been easy, but it's his own decision."
Their voices trailed off as they walked past Reinold and Aerwyna.
She remained leaned against the wall, her head twirling with thoughts.
They had been talking about Severus. There was no other possibility.
Lily had no contact to other Slytherins, except herself, Oliver and sometimes Imogen.
'You are friends for I don't know how long'- It has to be him!
Ever so slowly rage started to built inside her chest.
How dare she to talk about him that way!
Lily's words repeated themselves in her mind and she shook her head desperately.
She remained behind the statue for a little while longer to sort out her thoughts and emotions, annoyance mixing in as she realized, that she had to do that quite often lately.
When the bell rang she pushed herself off the wall and slowly she wandered off to the Ancient Runes classroom.
The first and clearest conclusion she had come to was, that her friendship with the red-headed Gryffindor could not possibly last any longer.
She would not suppress the Slytherin, that she was.
