"Cara, do you hate me?" asked Alice, with her head hidden in her arms. The blonde beside her simply flipped a page in her book and replied
"No, why do you ask Ali?"
Alice let out an inhumane noise,something between a sigh and a grunt.
"Because you did this to me" whined Alice.
"Come on, Ali. It's not my fault you've got a dirty mind." Cara jabbed.
"I do NOT have a dirty mind" Alice shot up from her slouch to glare at Cara, who just smirked at her.
"I just suggested the idea that you pleasure fli-"
"CARA OH MY GOD" Alice covered Cara's mouth quickly, as nearby Ravenclaws gave them weird looks.
Cara took a deep breath after Alice released her, and then continued
"As I was saying," she fixed her reading glasses. "I simply suggested the idea, but it's not my fault the images keep popping in your head every time you look at him." Cara stated.
Alice finally let her glare fall, she let out a deep sigh and hugged Cara from the side.
"I know, I was just angry and confused and I don't know what to do with myself." Alice admitted. She wanted to go back to being sassy and snarky at everything Flint said, she enjoyed teasing him. But now every time she looked at him, her brain would decide its the best time to shove images of her and flint making out as he unbuttoned her shirts, or him having his arms around her waist as he hugged her from behind while trailing kisses down her neck to her shoulder or-
Alice threw a palm to her forehead, she's doing it again, and it's all thanks to Cara. The blonde devil sitting beside her.
"You'll get over it Ali, I'm sure." Cara assured her.
"Well I hope this goes away quickly because I'm gonna have to spend alot of time with him soon, with the Slytherin vs Ravenclaw match coming up." Alice thought to herself.
"You know, avoiding him will only make it worse." Cara stated as she looked at the brunette that had her lead lying on her shoulder, with her arms around her waist.
"I know, they all probably think I'm being weird but I can't help it." Alice replied.
"But if you spend more time with him, you'll get used to it and this whole mess will just go away." Cara said.
Alice thought about it, and it made sense to her, maybe she should stop avoiding him. Cara is a Ravenclaw anyways, she probably knows best.
"Alright, I'll try to stop avoiding him." Alice gave in. Cara patted Alice's head, and Alice felt more assured that everything will be okay. Though she wouldn't have felt that way if she had seen the smirk on Cara's face.
Cara closed the book she was reading about ancient runes, and then gave quick pats to Alice's back to make her sit up
"Come on, Arithmancy starts in a few, you know how professor Vector gets if we were late." Cara said, while packing her stuff.
Alice quickly stood up and straightened out her robes. Her blue eyes met Marcus's grey ones from across the hall. Her first instinct was to look away, but she fought the urge and kept their gazes locked. It wasn't till he looked away because Adrian started talking about something that Alice linked her arms with Cara and they both went off to class.
In between jotting down notes and listening to professor Vector babble, Alice made a mental note to thank Terrance later for getting her out of the messy situation, and also to 'accidentally' jab Graham in the guts sometimes.
As Arithmancy class came to an end, Alice walked Cara to her Ancient Runes class, knowing that Hagrid wouldn't mind her being a few minutes late to Care of Magical Creatures.
As Cara was at the door of the class, Alice said
"I'll see you at dinner?"
Cara raised an eyebrow, while giving her a look that said 'don't even try'
"Ok,ok, I know I'll have to stop avoiding him, but it was worth a try. God, it's like you dont even want to spend time with me at all" Alice tried to guilt trip Cara. Which would have worked, but Alice forgot that Cara is a heartless knowledge sucking kneazle.
"Ali, we've spent all our lives together." Cara stated. That was true, they're families have been close and Alice has spent most of her summers with Cara. Despite Cara enjoying spending time alone, she always ended up being dragged to Alice's mansion by her mother, Irene Burke, due to the fact that Alaina Yaxley loved to throw parties. What bothered Cara the most was that almost all the pureblood families would attend, since Gavin Yaxley, Alice's father, was well known to be very trusted and close to the dark lord.
"Why do you have to say it like that Cara, I'm really starting to think you hate me. You know what, the feeling is mutual!" Alice said dramatically. Cara had to fight not to roll her eyes at Alice's dramatic behavior. Cara's thought were interrupted by a sharp voice
"Ms. Burke! Get in right now or leave!" Professor Babbling sneered.
Cara quickly got in class and sat in her seat. Right when professor Babbling was about to start the lesson, Alice popped her head into the classroom.
"CARA I WAS JUST KIDDING, I LOVE YOU!" she shouted, then she quickly turned on her heels and ran away before professor Babbling got to glare at her.
Cara could hear the other students laughing, and chuckling under their breath as she rubbed her temple. She could also FEEL professor Babbling glaring her way, before starting the lesson. Cara noticed that she was smiling, and chuckled lightly to herself.
'I love you too, you looney' she thought to herself as she opened her notebook.
Alice ran all the way to Care of Magical Creatures class, which was being held by Hagrid hut. Hagrid just nodded towards Alice's way with a smile as she leaned over, trying to catch her breath.
"Sorry for being late."
"'Tis alrigh'!" Hagrid motioned for her to join the rest of the class.
Much to Alice's chagrin, Care of Magical Creatures was shared with the Gryffindors. The only Gryffindors Alice didn't mind were the Weasley twins, and that was only because they've had mutual benefit situation once. As the cherry on top, Oliver Wood was in her class.
Alice's relationship with Oliver was weird. Since they both lived in Edinburgh, they've ran into each other often. Alice often snuck out of her home as a kid, since her parents were pretty strict., and she had befriended Oliver around that time. When Alice wanted to learn how to fly her broom, her brother Aidan had just started his second year at Drumstrang, so he didn't have time for her. She ended up having Oliver teach her to fly. That is a fact that is only known by Cara, as she would rather die than admit it to any of her Slytherin friends. Eventually, her mother found out about Alice sneaking out, and Alice ended up telling her about Oliver, which only led to Alice being lectured about not befriending a Wood, since he wasn't a pureblood. Alice had to admit that didn't sit right with her, but by the time they've started at Hogwarts and each been sorted into a different house, it was too late to try and fix that. Though she would sometimes smile at him, and he would try to make small talk when he could.
Though Alice knew she couldn't let any of her Slytherin friends know, especially not Marcus. He would very likely kick her out of the team just for even smiling towards Oliver.
Alice greeted Adrian, Graham, and Terrence as she sat down by them. Hagrid had brought out a dog-like creature with two tails. At closer inspection, the dog seemed to be bigger in size than a normal one. Hagrid then went on to explain that the creature is actually a Crup, and he started to explain on how to care for it.
Alice scooted closer to Terrence and tugged on his elbow. He turned to look at her.
"Thank you." she said.
"Hm?" he raised an eyebrow.
She leaned in and whispered so Graham and Adrian couldn't hear, they were too busy admiring the Crup anyways.
"For earlier. Thank you." she whispered.
Terrance realized what she was talking about and just smiled. Alice smiled back, and that was the end of it. She was glad he didn't start questioning her about what happened.
As Hagrid finished explaining, he allowed the students to get closer and pet the Crup, and almost everyone stood up and got closer to it. It wagged its tails happily as it was being pet.
Alice sat back, a little surprised that the Slytherin and Gryffindors seemed to forget their rivalry just because of a dog. She smiled at that and wondered what it would be like if their houses didn't hate each other's guts.
"It basically a Jack Russell Terrier with two tails." A Scottish voice boomed next to her.
Alice's head shot to the right to see Oliver crouching besides her. He smiled at her.
"Oliver.." She said. She didn't realize it and it came out of her mouth, she hadn't called him by his first name quite a long time.
"Hey wonderland" Oliver greeted. He always called her that but he never explained what it means, who the hell calls someone wonderland?
"I haven't heard that in a while." she giggled.
"Same to you, I was expecting you to call me 'Wood' with venom from your tongue" he said, with a stupid smile on his face.
She stuck her tongue out in response, which only made him laugh lightly.
"I wasn't expecting to see you on the pitch." he stated, then he quickly added when Alice glared at him
"No offense! I just didn't think Flint would stop being a sexist git." he cleared quickly.
"Nice save." Alice smiled "and yeah, you not expecting it was the whole point, I managed to convince that blockhead."
"He's an idiot for not having you sooner, you were great." Oliver stated.
Alice turned to look at him, and he was looking back at her with a serious look. She could feel her cheeks heat up a little and she wasn't sure why.
"He is an idiot." She replied.
Oliver grinned then stood up and went to join the rest of his house with the Crups, he wanted to spend more time talking to Alice since he never had the chance to, but he didn't want to risk having her friends come back to see them. Alice watched him as he walked away, and for a second she might have felt regret. She quickly made herself try to forget about that as she herself got up and joined her friends.
