DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter, nor do I own the lyrics, it is Feist and the song is 1 2 3 4.
XoXo
I looked at Abel with wide eyes and smiled shyly at him. It was like the heavens had opened up and were singing Hallelujah in my face. Abel smiled back and then jumped off of the counter. The smile quickly slid off my face and I stared at him in disbelief. "What are you doing?" I asked, jumping off the counter and catching his hand in mine.
"Your brother is coming inside and I want him to see this," he answered, shooting me a smile. I felt confusion flutter through me and I took a step closer to him. He then put a hand on the small of my back and touched his lips to mine again. This time it was fleeting and almost stolen. When he lifted his head, I saw his smile and felt the tingle on my lips. I reached up to see if something was there.
"Oi!" Tristan yelled, slamming the door shut and ripping me away from Abel.
"Hey!" I yelled back, turning my angry eyes on him. "What are you doing?!"
"What am I doing?! What is he doing?!" Abel didn't shy away from Tristan's loud voice, he just smiled at me and winked.
"All right. Listen to me," I growled angrily, my eyes icy with anger and the hairs on my neck standing up. "You are my brother, yes, I understand that. Does that give you any right to mess with my personal life, sometimes. Now? No. So just go outside and play with Raine and Abby. I am free to do whatever I want without you breathing down my neck!"
And with that I whipped away from him, my dark curls spraying around my face like water and stalked away from him with Abel's warm hand still clasped in my grip. I stopped at the bottom of the stairwell and blindly dropped his hand, hanging my head and gripping it in my hands. I could hear Abel sit down next to me and then his warm hand rubbing my back in comforting circles.
"One, two, three, four. Tell me that you love me more. Sleepless long nights, that is what my youth was for." I sang to him, smiling at him finally. He gave me a half-hearted smile and lifted me up off my seat.
"I'm sorry about that," he said in my ear. "Obviously that didn't go as I planned."
"Obviously," I laughed as he spun me around. "But it was okay. I needed to get some of that out."
"I'm sure." He spun me around again as I sang louder this time.
"Old teenage hopes are alive at your door left you with nothing but they want some more." He lifted me up on his toes and started to dance with me at his level. I rested my head on his shoulder and smiled as I felt myself being rocked back and forth.
"Are you asleep?" he asked with what sounded like a laugh.
"Nope," I mumbled into his clean shirt. I rubbed his shoulder and mindlessly started to sing again. "One, two, three, four tell me that you love me more. Sleepless long nights, that is what my youth was for."
I looked up into his dark green eyes and smiled, not able to break away. He smiled and rested his chin in my hair. In that one, fleeting moment, I felt older than thirteen. I felt like I was fifteen and able to compete with the other girls that hung around with Abel. I finally felt like I was loved and that I could say anything I wanted and not be hit for it. I stared defiantly into his eyes and sang at them. "Old teenage hopes are alive at your door. Left you with nothing but they want some more."
I looked at the doorway as Abel spun me around one final time and screeched to a halt. There was someone staring at us from the doorway. Abel turned to me with a smile on his face that drooped off when he saw who was at the door.
"What are you doing here?" he asked disgustedly. The girl just laughed and walked farther into the room, her hips swinging and her heels clicking on the floor.
"Is that any way to greet your girlfriend, Abel?" she scoffed laughingly, clapping a hand on Abel's shoulder. I gulped and stared disbelievingly at Abel's impassive face.
"Girl-girlfriend?" I stammered, tears gathering at the corner of my eyes. I couldn't believe that Abel had turned out to be exactly like Vondurri and I had been roped into the injustice of it all.
"Acacia..." he said quietly, reaching for me. I blindly pushed away and ran up the staircase into my room. Once I got into my room and ripped open my window, stumbling onto the roof and crawling into a ball and crying my eyes out.
"Oh, you're changing your heart. Oh, you know who you are. Sweetheart bitterheart now I can't tell you apart. Cozy and cold, put the horse before the cart. Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes. Too scared to own up to one little lie. Oh, you're changing your heart. Oh, you know who you are. One, two, three, four, five, six, nine or ten. Money can't buy you back the love that you had then. One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten. Money can't buy you back the love that you had then. Oh, you're changing your heart. Oh, you know who you are. Oh, you're changing your heart. Oh, you know who you are. Oh, who you are. For the teenage boys, they're breaking your heart. For the teenage boys, they're breaking your heart."
I looked up at the bright sky and resolved to never believe Abel Vondurri again. Once a Vondurri, always a Vondurri. Right?
XoXo
A/N: I hope you liked it. There were a few twists and turns in there and it was sooo much fun to write! Keep Reading and Reviewing! You know it makes a writers world go round! Haha, just kidding, of course!
