If I told you

by I'veGotManyNames

"If I told you" is a story about falling in love with one of your best friends and getting up the courage to do something about it. It's about rumors and misunderstandings a little too, but most of all it's really about butterflies and crooked smiles. And Thursday evenings. It's very much about Thursday evenings.

8. Thursday, April 28th 2022

Disclaimer: As always, I don't own Harry Potter.

Author's Note:I spent a lot of time watching Kurt Hugo Schneider's Epic Patty Cake song on youtube while I was writing this. Go figure... Enjoy!

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Chapter Seven

Thursday, April 28th 2022

Ravenclaw Common Room, Hogwarts, Scotland

Grace is humming under her breath, clapping her hands and snapping her fingers in an attempt to remember the elaborate patty-cake song Alexandra had taught them last Friday.

"What are you doing?" His voice startles a small squeak out of her.

"Lorcan!" she hisses, a hand pressed to her chest. He just smiles a little sheepishly. "Alex tried to teach us last Friday. She calls it an epic patty-cake song."

He sits down. "An epic patty-cake song?"

She nods. "Yeah. I think I have it down mostly by now. But it's technically meant for four people. The actual patty-cake part is pretty much the same for all, but there's four different vocal parts to go along with it."

"So who did she teach it to?" he asks with a smile. She isn't sure if he is just indulging her or actually interested, but she tells him anyway.

"Oh, everyone, really. But only Coral, Diane, Molly, Carla, Louisa, Eva and I learned the vocals. Which worked fine because it meant that with Alex there were eight of us." She smiles at him. "Alex says it's supposed to be two male and two female vocalists, but well… we didn't have any guys around."

"You could have just gotten some," he points out. "There were enough in the common room, I'm sure."

"Are you volunteering, Lorc?" she laughs and he looks caught off guard for a second. "I could teach you," she says before he has a chance to say no.

"Ahhh… Gracie…" he doesn't look too enamored with the idea, but she turns her best puppy dog eyes on him and he relents. "Alright, fine. But stop looking at me like that."

"Yay!" she gets up and does a little victory dance while she goes to grab a chair so she can sit opposite of him properly. "Alright so first, you clap your hands together like so, and then we both clap each other's right hand," she demonstrates into the space between them, "then you clap your hands again and after that it's left hands together…"

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