Hey guys this chapter is inspired by Ali Hazelwood, so some scenes in this chapter are written by her <3. Btw this chapter contains cussing. So if that's a problem for you then you're too young to be reading this story.
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"What do ya mean it ran?" Hagrid asks.
"It just ran away" I explain. The harsh, shivering forest made me feel unsettled.
"Okey, you kids go back inside the castle I'll take care of this." Hagrid says as crunches his crossbow next to him and walks off.
I speed walk back to the castle, the others following behind me.
"What was that?" Luna asks.
"I- I don't know, it looked like a beast" Evan shivered.
When I get to my dorm I close the door, the room is dark, so I turn on the lights, just to see Hecate sitting on the chair with a cup of tea in her hands.
"What was that?! I thought you said monsters couldn't get inside forcefield!" I yell.
She takes a sip of her tea and sets it on the floor. "I don't know I'm surprised as much as you, I'm just here to let you know there must be more of them coming, which means we have a problem."
"Yeah, but this one was different I mean it was eating a rabbit, they couldn't do that before." I say.
"I know, but until I figure out why you stay put"
And on that happy note she disappeared.
Third person's Pov
In Percy's defense, he didn't mind being the talk of the whole entire school. It did take him a while to adjust—perfectly understandable, given the events of last night. The stares, the rumors, and the awkward silence when he entered the room were one of the many things he had to learn to ignore since he came to Hogwarts.
What did slightly bother him was the random Ravenclaw girl kissing him in the corridors.
But to Valerie's defense, Percy didn't mind the kiss too much. He didn't kiss her back which is perfectly understandable due to the sudden circumstances. It was an awkward, uncomfortable, somewhat painful minute, in which Valerie was simultaneously smashing her lips against his and pushing herself as high as her toes would extend to keep her mouth at the same level as him. Did he have to be so tall?
Valerie gasped and pushed herself away from him, frantically looking at everyone. Percy on the other hand, was standing right in front of her, lips parted, chest rising and a weird light flickering in his eyes, which was exactly when it dawned on Valerie, the enormity of what she just done. Of who she had just-
Fuck her life.
Fuck. Her. Life.
Because Percy Jackson was bad news. At least if the rumors were anything to go by. He was known for being Voldemort's grandson and if that wasn't bad enough her parents are totally going to kill her when they find out. Because the Aesther's find out everything. The thing is before Voldemort became well Voldemort and Tom Riddle was in Hogwarts no one suspected that he was evil, he seemed pretty normal and in fact one of the best students they had, but that was before he became a murderer and killed a bunch of people. He was friends with Alexander Aesther (Valerie's grandfather) until Tom killed his wife. Since then, the Riddles and the Aesther's were mortal enemies. Like they really hated each other. In fact, when Harry killed Voldemort her dad even threw a party and offered to rebuild Hogwarts. But when her dad found out that he had a grandson and he went to school with his daughter well let's just say Percy Jackson was the reason Valerie was maybe changing schools.
And she had just kissed him.
She wasn't sure how long the silence lasted—only that he was the one who broke it. He stood there in front of Valerie with those intimidating sea green eyes and dark hair, staring down from who knows how many inches above six feet.
Its okay. Its fine. Totally fine. She was just going to pretend nothing happened, nod at him politely, and run her way out of here. Yes, solid plan.
"Did you...Did you just kiss me? He sounded puzzled and maybe a little bit out of breath. His lips were full and plump and... god. Kissed. There was simply no way Valerie could get away with this.
Still, it was worth a try.
"Nope."
Surprisingly it worked.
"Ah. Okay, then." Percy nodded and turned around, looking vaguely disoriented. He took a couple of steps down the hallway, reached the potion's classroom door—maybe where he'd been headed in the first place.
Valerie was starting to believe that this might actually work when he halted and turned back with a skeptical expression.
"Are you sure?"
Dammit.
"I—" She buried her face in her hands. "It's not the way it looks, okay i... okay" she repeated slightly panicking. Just slightly.
"What's going on here?" His voice was deep and low and sounded a lot like he was on his way to getting mad. Like maybe he was already mad. There was simply no way to explain this. Any normal person would have found Valerie's situation odd, but Percy Jackson, who was obviously not a feature of humanity, could never understand. She let her hands fall to her sides and took a deep breath.
"I... listen, I don't mean to be rude, but this is really none of your business."
He stared at her for a moment, and then he nodded. "Yes. Of course. I'll just ignore the fact that you assaulted me."
Valerie exhaled in relief. "Yeah that would be great since—Wait. What? Assault? I didn't 'assault' you."
"You did kiss me"
"But not really"
"Without my consent"
"I asked if I could kiss you!"
"And then you did without waiting for my response"
"What? You said yes"
"Excuse me?"
She frowned. "I asked if I could kiss you, and you said yes"
"No. You asked if you could kiss me, and I said huh."
"Okay listen, I'm really sorry it was a weird situation. Can we just forget that this happened?"
He studied her for a long moment, his angular face serious and something else, something that she couldn't quite decipher because she was too busy noticing all over again how damn towering and broad he was. Just massive. I mean everyone knows he's drop-dead attractive but no one had the balls to actually come up and talk to him. She knew that he was tall of course because she had seen him walking around the hallway or from the really few times, he came to class but they've never been this close. Except a second ago when she kissed him.
"Are you mental?" He sounded almost concerned.
"What? No. No, I'm not."
"Because" he continued calmly "kissing a stranger in the corridors might be a sign you are."
"I'm not."
"The kiss. Explain."
Valerie bit into her lower lip. She had truly screwed herself over. She had to tell him, now. "Ellie Green." She looked around to make sure Ellie was really gone. "The girl who was passing by. She's a Hufflepuff, blond hair, green eyes."
Percy gave no indication of knowing who Ellie was.
"Ellie has..." Valerie pushed a strand of brown hair behind her ear. This was where the story became embarrassing. Complicated, and a little dramatic. "I was seeing this guy Aaron Brown from the Gryffindor house he has like curly hair and... anyway, we went out a couple of times, and then I brought him to Ellie's birthday party, and they just hit it off and—" Valerie shut her eyes. Which was probably a bad idea, because now she could see it painted on her lids, how her best friend and her date had bantered in that common rooms, as if they'd known each other their whole lives; the never- exhausted topics of conversation, the laughter, and then, at the end of the night Aaron kissing Ellie... It had been painfully clear who he was interested in.
"Long story short, after Aaron ended things with me he asked Ellie out. And she said yes but she wanted to make sure I was okay with it first and I told her it was fine but she didn't believe me, so I just lied and told her I was already seeing someone and she thought I was lying so I just grabbed you and... I'm so sorry."
"Ah." But his expression was totally unreadable.
"I just needed her to belief that I was seeing someone."
He nodded. "So you kissed the first person you saw in the hallway."
Valerie winced. "When you put it like that, perhaps it wasn't my best moment."
"Perhaps"
"But it wasn't my worse either! I'm pretty sure Ellie saw us." She shook her head. "Listen I am so, so sorry about the kiss."
Suddenly, the enormity of what she had just done fully dawned on her. She had just kissed a random guy, a guy who's related to the most evil man in the world. She'd basically attacked him in front of everyone, and now he was staring at her in that odd, pensive way, so large and focused and close to her and... shit. All of a sudden the entire situation was just too much.
"Okay I'm going to leave now okay? Thank you, and I'm so, so, so sorry" Valerie spun around on her shoes and ran away down the hallway.