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broken hearts are so beautiful
because they grow stronger each day
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TW: I hope by now you know that foul language will be used. Thank you.
ROSE'S POV:
"This is ridiculous!" She screeched in an undertone. "No! This is a mockery!"
"Say it a little louder, why don't you?" I said sarcastically. The blonde hufflepuff glared at me with her fierce blue eyes.
It was Monday, the Monday after the twin's birthday. I was sitting with Annie at the Hufflepuff table, since I refused to sit with the Gryffindors. Fred and George's catastrophic party was on Saturday, but i've hidden inside Annie's dorm since Sunday morning. Not only did I didn't want to lie in Fred's face again, but Angelina and Alicia apparently both knew that I somehow kinda maybe, fancied Fred. Since Amara isn't in our dorm anymore, it kinda sucks that I have to share with a bitch like Angelina.
"Well i'm sorry! But it's true! You have to tell him the truth!" Annie insisted for the fiftieth time since I begged for shelter in the Hufflepuff common room. Of course, them being Hufflepuffs, allowed me to take refuge there. They even talked to a House Elf so that he could get my belongings from my dorm! I'm starting to believe that 'Hufflepuff' is the best house.
"Are you two talking about Weasley again?" A voice that I had become very familiar with, said from behind.
"Hi Cedric." I sighed as I stared at my breakfast.
"Yup!" Annie told the other Hufflepuff. "This idiot here," She motioned to me. "Thinks it's better to just hide her feelings instead of showing them."
"I'm not hiding them, Anne" I insinuated. "I am merely, ignoring them."
"And what good is that going to do?" Asked Cedric.
"Maybe if I ignore them long enough, they will disappear!" I chirped. Both Hufflepuffs rolled their eyes at me. "What?"
"Oh, how I thank Helga that i'm in Hufflepuff!" Cedric fake-sighed as he clutched his heart.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means," Annie began as she leaned over the table. "That you Gryffindors can be really thick sometimes!"
I rolled my eyes playfully and looked at the big clock on the wall of the Great Hall. I sighed in frustration and stood up.
"Sorry, gotta go!" I said dramatically.
"Oi! Wait!" Gideon Beattie, a Hufflepuff first year said. He was carrying a camera with him, like he always did at the common room. He was a Half-blood with a muggle little sister, so he took pictures to send to her. "Can I take a picture of the three of you?"
"Oh, of course." I said with a smile. I placed one arm around Annie and the other around Cedric, they doing the same with me.
"Three— Two— One!" Snap!
"I'll give it to you at lunch!" The first-year said with a bright smile. It was almost as if he admired our friendship.
"Thank you, Gideon." I said as the boy skipped off to his own friends. I turned back to mine. "I like him, he kinda reminds me of Ronnie."
"Really?" Annie asked with a confused expression.
"Nope! I'm just messing with your head!" I smirked. Annie shook her head and Cedric bid us goodbye.
I said my goodbyes to Annie, and walked off to potions with Slytherins. On my way there, a hand grabbed onto my wrist and pulled me back. I instinctively pointed my wand at the person, only to put it back down when my eyes connected with his dark brown.
"Hi, Lee." I fake-grinned.
"Don't you 'Hi Lee' me, Rose Lightbourn!" He hissed as he pointed a finger at my face. My face immediately paled. "What were you thinking, Rose?!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh you know exactly what i'm talking about!" He said as he huffed in fake amusement. "You lied to him!"
"I did not" I lied in an undertone. I averted my gaze from his.
"Yes you did!" He snapped. "Don't you see? This lie is going to tear you down! Someone has to tell him!"
I yanked his collar fiercely so that his face was at my level. "Don't you dare tell him, Lee Jordan. He can't know."
Lee tore himself away from my grasp. "Whatever, they are your feelings the ones you're fucking up." He walked past me and into the potions room.
Taking a deep breath, I walked into the room. Scanning it quickly, until my eyes fell in my designated seat.
"Morning, Pucey." I greeted as I sat besides him and took my book out from my bag.
He glanced at me and smiled in victory. "Morning, Lightbourn. How are you?"
"Oh, i'm fine. Just had a row with a friend, you?" I asked as I flipped through my book.
"I'm quite well, Lightbourn. Thank you for asking." The Slytherin boy beamed at me. It was only then, that I noticed that I had been talking to him as if he were my friend. I shook my thoughts away as Snape entered the room.
"You will be working in groups of three." Snape said in his monotone voice. He then began listing off who would work with who.
"Jordan, Weasley, Spinnet." He said, both twins smirked.
"Which Weasley, Professor?" Fred asked with a sly smirk.
"The other one." Snape said, clearly annoyed at Fred's amusement. He began listing students again. "Pucey, Lightbourn, and other Weasley."
My eyes went wide, my gaze connected to Fred and he gave an honest smile. I returned his smile, only to gulp once he turned away. The guilt of lying to my best friend, crashing into me again.
"This should be fun." Pucey whispered in my ear.
"Very." I said sarcastically. Fred, wearing his famous 'Fred Weasley smirk', strud over the table and took the seat to my left side.
"Morning, Rosie!" He grinned happily, narrowing his eyes at Pucey.
"Hi, Fred." I said, relieved that he hadn't figured out the lie.
"Page 109, Fire-breathing solution. Everything that you need is in the storage cupboard. Begin." Snape said as he stalked towards his desk.
I opened the said page, and read over the ingredients.
"Fred, would you mind getting the ingredients from the cupboard?" I asked as I turned to him. He was playing with his wand under the table, while simultaneously bouncing his leg up and down.
"Alright!" He said brightly, he stood up only to seat back down again and lean into the desk. "Rose, would you mind telling me which ingredients do we need?"
"We need—" Pucey began but Fred shushed him.
"I asked Rose, Pucey!" Fred snarled.
"Wanna go, Weasley?" Pucey growled.
"Both of you! Stop!" I intervened, placing both my hands in their chest as to stop them from beating up each other. Fred looked at me in confusion as to why I wasn't fighting Pucey. Pucey on the other hand, was smirking down at me and then at Fred.
"Fred— Please go get what we need for the potion. The ingredients are Mint, Valerian Sprigs, Fire seeds, Powdered dragon horn, and Lavender." I listed the ingredients, the boy still looked warry. "Please."
Fred nodded his head and left to go fetch the ingredients.
"You sure know how to keep your Weasle in check, don't you?" Pucey asked, his smirk still in his face. I turned to him and glared him with force.
"Don't insult him unless you would enjoy a trip to the bottom of the Black Lake." I threatened, my eyes turning red.
"Would you at least tell me what's going on with you and Weasley?"
"If I didn't tell my friends, what makes you think I would tell you, Pucey?" I asked, slightly amused because he thought that I trusted him.
"Oh come on, Lightbourn!" Pucey said dramatically. "Maybe we aren't best friends but you can't tell me that you absolutely despise me."
"When have I ever said that I despised you?!" I asked astounded.
"I assumed you did." He shrugged, but just as I was about to retort Fred came back with the future contents of our potion.
"What next?" Fred asked, still glaring at the Slytherin.
"I'll do it by myself." I informed the two boys who looked in shock. Most of the time I would force Pucey to do the work and if he made a mistake I would fix it at the last minute. "You two don't touch anything."
"Come on Rose," Pucey started, oblivious at the Gryffindor red-head about to snap his neck. "I've been getting good at this potion thing."
"Did you just call my best friend 'Rose', Pucey?!" Fred hissed, placing himself in front of me protectively. I bit my lip and gripped Fred's sleeve in hopes to calm down his bubbling anger.
"Why, yes I did, Weasley." Pucey said proudly. Obviously adding more fuel to the startling fire. "So what?"
"You've never called her by her first name before." Fred said suspiciously. He then turned to me. "Did something happen between the two of you that I don't know about?"
"No, Fred—" I began to lie but Pucey beat me to it.
"Yes it did actually!" The Slytherin beamed proudly, I could feel Fred getting even more riled up. "While you were gone snogging fucking Johnson, your precious so called 'best friend', was beating up walls! There was blood pouring out of her knuckles and everything."
I closed my eyes for a second, my lip still between my teeth. My hands were shaking due to all the anger bubbling up inside me too. I felt Fred turn to stare at me. When I opened my eyes, I saw his crestfallen expression.
"You said you were happy." He said in disbelief.
"I am—" I lied but he interrupted.
"Stop lying! Fucking hell, Rose. For one day in your life stop fucking lying!" He shouted to my face. The whole class turned to us, Snape included.
"Weasley detention and fifty points from Gryffindor for foul language." The Professor said. The man then turned to Pucey and I. "I want the three of you, out of my classroom in this instant!"
I threw all my belongings in the bag rapidly, and hurried to the door. Both boys were behind me as I left the dungeons.
"Rose— Wait!" Fred said as he gripped my wrist and turned me around. Pucey was behind Fred, a worried expression on his face.
"Fred, let go of me!" I said as I snatched my wrist from his hand but stayed were I was. I then turned to Pucey, my eyes shifting to blood red as well as my hair. "Why'd you tell him, Adrian?! You had no right! There is a reason why I told you we'd go back to hating each other, you idiot!"
"I was just trying to help you, Rose!" Pucey said in a strong voice. "I may not like Weasley, but you do!"
"If you weren't alright with it Rose, why'd you lie? I thought we were past all the lies!" Fred asked, trying to ignore Pucey's words.
"Blood hell give me a break, would you?! It's not as if you don't lie to me too, Fred Weasley!" I snapped. I felt the candles around me burning bright, but I couldn't care less.
"I've never lied to you! I would never lie to you!" Fred insisted.
"Everybody lies! So stop trying to guilt-trip me!"
"I'm not trying to do anything! But you lied and you said you were alright with Angelina and I!" Fred yelled.
"WELL I'M NOT!" I finally screamed. "I'M NOT FUCKING ALRIGHT WITH ANGELINA SNOGGING THE HELL OUT OF YOU!"
Fred looked taken aback for a second, he then turned to look at something behind me. Pucey had fear written all over his face. I temptatively turned around, only to find a huge fire dragon snarling at Fred's direction.
I stood wide eyed. 'I did that.' I whispered in my head. I felt all the magic running in my veins, in my own blood. My mouth was slightly ajar, but it didn't compare to the boy's expression.
I took a temptavie step toward the dragon.
"Rose!" Fred whispered in concern. I stuck out my hand to silence the boy, and then brought it up towards the big creature. The dragon neared his big head over to my head.
Relief and relaxation washing over me the moment his head come into contact with my hand. And just like that, the dragon disappeared again.
"What the bloody hell was that?!" Pucey was the first to broke the silence. I took a deep breath and turned around, taking my wand out of my pocket.
"I'm sorry, Adrian." I said sincerely.
About wha-"
"Obliviate." I whispered as I pointed my wand at the Slytherin, who's eyes immediately became dazed. I pushed his body down to the wall and let him slide down.
"Are we just going to leave him here?" Fred asked once he got over the initial shock of seeing me do a charm so powerful.
"Nope!" I said, twisting my wand between my fingers. "You are going to join him!"
"What are talking ab—"
"I'm really sorry, Freddie." I whispered, tears stinging in my eyes.
"Wait! Rose—"
"Obliviate!" I pointed my wand at the boy, erasing the memory of him finding out the truth. I moved forward to catch him and slid him towards the ground too.
Fred began to groan the instant that I kneeled beside him, Pucey was sound asleep on the ground.
"What happened, Rosie?" Fred asked as he rubbed his head.
"We had a duel with Pucey." I lied yet again, as I passed my fingers through his hair.
"Did we win?" He asked brightly.
"Yup!" I said excitedly. "You got stupefied, but I returned the favor." I motioned my head towards the boy besides him.
Fred turned towards him, and after making sure the Slytherin was still breathing, he moved to embrace me.
"You are honestly the best best friend there is, Rosie-Posie!"
I returned the hug, taking it all in. Because I knew that someday, the truth would come out.