CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
WHOA Lily thought as she sat down to eat dinner on snowy December night. She was happy, she and Scorpius had been together for a while now, and as this would be their third week, Lily was just so happy that there were no words to express it. To top it all off Scorpius' birthday was just four days away, on December 19th.
Lily looked over at Jeal and Dani, who were talking about Christmas and going home for the holidays. Lily smiled at them, wondering what to get them for Christmas, as well as their birthday. Should she ask? Yeah.
"Hey," Lily said, and both girls turned towards her, wondering what she needed. They had, of course, noticed Lily acting a lot happier and cheerfully than usual, but they didn't bother to ask questions; they knew that even if Lily didn't want to tell now, she would later. Unfortunately for them, Lily was going to keep her secret a while longer, as she liked keeping secrets sometimes.
"What do guys want for your 16th birthdays?" Both squinted their eyes in thought. Dani's birthday was on the 20th and Jeal's was on the 21st. This was because Dani was born on December 20th 2008 at 11:55pm, while Jeal was born on December 21st 2008 at 12:05am. They had told Lily this when she asked them about their birthday, and both replied a different day, even though they were twins. Even weirder was the fact that Scorpius birthday was one day before Dani's. Definitely strange…
"Let's see…" Dani mused.
"What to get?" pondered.
Lily turned to see Scorpius walk into the Great Hall with Janika besides him. If Lily and Scorpius arranged a time to meet up, and Scorpius was late, he would say it was because he was with Janika. Lily didn't want to admit that it to got to her, but it did, and she didn't like the feeling at all. Janika was actually a really nice girl, but she really clung to Scorpius - and didn't seem to notice.
Scorpius noticed Lily and gave her a small smile, which Lily returned. Lily and Scorpius had decided that for now it was best if they kept their relationship a secret. In the meantime, they'd figure out how to subtly bring their relationship to the public. Lily turned away and looked at the teachers' table, shivering slightly when she noticed Jaeger looking at her, Lily didn't know why, but she was getting a feeling that whenever Jaeger talked to her, all Lily wanted to do was run away.
Turning away, Lily saw that Jeal and Dani were now looking at her.
"I don't know really, just surprise me," was all Jeal said and Dani nodded in agreement.
Lily just shrugged. "Just don't complain when you don't like your gifts."
They started eating again, Lily was still trying to get information about what to get them for their birthday and for Christmas. By the looks of it, so was Scorpius.
"Not OBVIOUS," Jeal sneered, and Lily looked in the direction of her gaze. She was looking at the end of the table where Mike was sitting down with Scorpius and other Slytherins. A brown haired girl was hugging Mike from behind, pressing her boobs into his back, whispering something in his ears. Lily looked back at Jeal and saw the anger there. Lily wondered if this was how she felt whenever Janika was with Scorpius.
"Jeal, calm down, he's not paying attention to her," Lily said, watching with some amusement as Mike glared at the girl, but the girl still didn't get the hint.
"Yeah, you're right," Jeal said, talking a deep breath, turning back to her food.
"I should have been harder," Jeal muttered and Lily wondered what she meant.
"What?" Lily asked, taking a drink of her pumpkin juice.
"I... I slept with Mike," Jeal admitted. Lily chocked on her juice, while Dani hit her back. When Lily stopped coughing, she looked at Jeal with incredulous eyes. WHAT? Lily ignored the people that were looking at them, instead turning to Jeal.
"WHAT?" Lily said and Jeal looked ashamed and embarrassed. Lily told herself to calm down and not make a big deal out of it.
"I'm sorry for overreacting," Lily said. Jeal nodded.
"It's okay, it was all my fault," Jeal said. Lily turned to Dani, who was looking at her food intently. So Dani knew about it as well and didn't tell Lily. Why?
"What happened" Lily asked in a soft voice.
"I don't really know. Mike and I were alone at our house, and because Scorpius, Dani and my parents had gone out, we drank some firewhiskey. He got drunk easily, but I still knew what I was doing, and led him to my bedroom," Jeal said, staring into the depths of the fire in the candle, as she remembered the memory.
"But… why?" Lily questioned.
"Because I liked him, I always have really, and I thought he liked me too, and was just scared that I'd reject him. All I really wanted was a make out session, but I just couldn't stop. But then, later on, it's like he didn't want to remember what happened and just ignored me. Only recently did he start talking to me again," Jeal said, now looking towards Mike.
"When did this happen?" Lily asked.
"This summer, it was around July," Jeal said. Five months ago and yet Lily had just found out. Did Scorpius know?
"What about your brother?" And at that Jeal's eyes turn to her. She shook her head.
"Don't tell him, please, I don't know what his reaction might be but Mike is his best friend. I don't want him to hurt Mike." Lily knew what she meant, having older protective bothers of her own who insisted on talking to every new boyfriend she had. And if they didn't' like him, they insisted that she dump them. Just like Alex, whom she did not dump until he cheated on her.
Jeal laughed. "It's funny," Jeal said.
"What is?" asked Dani, wondering what Jeal could find to be so funny.
"Just that whenever a brother sees his sister with a guy, he gets protective, but when he is with a girl, he tells his sister to bugger off."
"Have you seen him with a girl before?" Lily asked, curious, wondering how far he has gone.
"Yep, you remember that trip we took for a whole summer to Spain…" Lily nodded. "Well, Dani and I returned to the vacation home early, and we caught Scorpius having sex with a girl!" She laughed, "He told us to go away and never say a word about it." And with that, she kept on laughing. "That's the only time that I know of, but I'm sure he's had others."
"Oh" Lily said. She now wondered if Scorpius would want something like that from her. Until today, she had thought that Jeal was a virgin, but it seemed that only Lily and Dani (she thought) were still virgins.
"What about you Dani?" Lily asked. Before Dani could say anything a scream came from the end of the table where Mike and Scorpius were sitting. They saw the brunette soaking wet. Jeal smirked, got up and left the Great Hall. Dani and Lily exchanged confused looks, but didn't bother going after her, since they knew she wanted to be alone.
Okay, Lily thought, but put it off her mind for now. Lily asked Dani again. She blushed slightly but shook her head.
"No, still a virgin" she said, and raised her eyebrow as to inquire about Lily herself. Lily smiled. But again, another sound came from the end of the table, making Lily turn to watch as Mike left the Hall, as Jeal had done only minutes ago. Okay, Lily thought again, some strange night this is turning out to be.
Lily turned back in her seat towards Dani, who had a worried look in her eyes when she saw Mike leave. To make her forget about it, Lily brought the virginity subject back.
"Nope," Lily said and she and Dani chatted about different things while eating dinner.
Jeal walked down the hall and towards the big door that led to outside. So what if it was cold, she could think better that way and let herself cool down. Ah, she hated Mike and that brunette bitch and she hated herself for acting like a jealous bitch. But when she saw that bitch kiss Mike, Jeal couldn't help but blow up and curse a bucket of water to dump on top of her. So now she was out here in the cold, alone.
She leaned against the wall, and put her face in her hands, keeping her face from the cold wind. She heard footsteps, but didn't bother looking up to see who it was, only for the person to sit next to her. Jeal looked up, expecting her sister or Lily, even Scorpius, but found Mike grinning at her. Why was he here?
"Hey," he said casually.
"Hey," Jeal said back.
"Why did you leave all of sudden?"
"Oh, you really didn't notice," Jeal said sarcastically, and his face seemed hurt. Damn it, she didn't want to get any ideas that he cared more about her than he really did.
"Jeal, don't say that."
"Say what? That you actually do pay attention to me or say that the only time you do notice me is when you want something," Jeal said. She instantly regretted her words, and wanted to take them back. Those words had been uncalled for, and Mike had never attempted to have sex with her or even mention it, and like she said earlier to Lily and Dani, he had wanted to forget.
"I'm sorry, that was really uncalled for." Jeal said as she looked down at the ground.
"No," Mike said and Jeal looked up at him in surprise. "What we did was a huge mistake and I never meant to make you feel that way." Jeal felt tears in her eyes and fought to try make them go away. "But even now, I don't regret it. Maybe it's because I liked you a lot." Jeal eventually succumbed to her tears, and as she as she sobbed, she felt Mike's hands go around her shoulders, holding her while she cried.
"Mike, I... I..." Jeal tried to say.
"Shh," Mike said, "You don't have to say anything. I know and I'm sorry. I took advantage of you that night and I shouldn't have. I should have asked you out first and go on dates with you. But I was scared that you'd reject me since you're such a beautiful girl and I always see smarter, better looking guys talk to you." And if possible, Jeal cried even more and louder and all Mike did was hold her.
"And Maddie?" Jeal asked, since she knew he liked her. He chuckled.
"I don't know why I liked her, but I... I guess I forced myself to like her," Mike said, with a small shrug. "Even then, I still saw you, because I've always liked you..." And when he said that, Jeal threw her arms around Mike and started to kiss him. He was so surprised, that he was completely still until she stopped kissing him.
"Mike," Jeal said, looking at his shocked eyes. "I've always liked you and I like you even more now. Why do you think I did what I did?" And at that, he smiled, his hands cupping her face as he kissed her. He then pulled away, his faced filled with hope, and some confusion.
"So does this mean you'll go out on a date with me?" Mike asked. Jeal smiled and laughed.
"I would have to say that this means that you are my boyfriend, so yes, of course you can take me out on dates," Jeal said excitedly. Mike smiled at the prospect.
"I like that better," Mike said and both Jeal and Mike laughed.
"Lets go inside, it's cold out here," Jeal said and Mike agreed. He got up, and held out a hand to help Jeal up.
"Hey, do you know of a warm, quite place?" Mike asked and Jeal just laughed, pulling on him, as they walked hand in hand, wandering around the castle to look for a nice warm quite place.
Okay so the birthday thing is weird but I actually have cousins who are like that, except not twins. The oldest is a girl age 15 born Nov. 5, second is a boy age 13 Nov. 6, and the third is a girl age 9 Nov .7 weird huh but yeah and when they have a birthday party with family, they have it together. In my family everybody my me has a same month same day birthday. My mom is Jan. 1, my brother is April 4, my sister is May 5 and my dad is July 7, while I am May 13. I like my birthday though because it lands on Friday the 13th some years, then it lands on Tuesday the 13th which is like Friday in Mexico and my birthday also lands on mothers day. Back to the story, I am contemplating on how to not keep dragging this story on and I shall have the helpful hand of B.V.A. to hints some stuff and be my editor yeah, anyone else could also give out suggestions if they have some as to more future plot line.