♰.. ARSONIST'S LULLABY
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chapter two :
━ i want to have you there actually ━
The fire crackled in the Slytherin common room, as Pandora patiently waited for Evan Rosier and Michael Carrow to walk down the stairs of their dorms. Reilly had gone off the find Lahana, after they just had lunch together. This was their last class of the day, and Pandora knew how impatient Hana could be for this.
The boys always took the longest, Pandora and Reilly had been used to it by now.
"Honestly, I think this might have been a record." Michael walked down the stairs of his dorm, shaking his head at Pandora's words. Evan, who took all the time he could, walked right behind Michael, not even hearing what Pandora had said. He was not really a morning person.
"Don't even start Pandora, we're going to be right on time." Michael, who was about to ruffle Pandora's hair, got pushed to the side by Evan, who gave him a look and shook his head at him. Grabbing her books, Pandora stood up from the sofa and walked behind the two boys, who towered over her.
Taking Evan's hand, Pandora got pulled along through the crowd that had filled the Hogwarts corridors quickly. Once in a while, he looked back at Pandora, to check if she was okay. Michael, who had been walking in front of the two, had completely gone out of sight. Until they reached the potions classroom.
"I'm going to sit over there, okay?" Evan nodded over to his own group of his friends, looking down at Pandora who had seen that Mickey was saving a seat for her. "That is fine, of course." Her smile reached her eyes, her pink tinted cheeks from the warmth of the fire before stood out and Evan couldn't help but smile as well.
Pandora caressed the top of his hand with her thumb before letting go of him fully.
"I saved you a seat." Pandora smiled at Michael who nodded over to a place, standing next to him while professor Slughorn walked in cheerfully. He greeted certain students, and eventually greeted everyone with a smile stuck to his face. Pandora adored professor Slughorn, he had always been kind and his lessons were always something to look forward to.
"You better help me with this." Pandora flinched at the sudden whisper beside her ear, she shrugged her shoulders at Michael. "You don't even know what the assignment is going to be."
"And you know, this isn't my best subject either. We all know who is way better at it." Both of them, looking directly at Hana, who was already completely focused on the lesson. Even if Michael could say they didn't quite get along all the time, he could admit that Lahana was good at this subject.
Luckily to Michael, they were only taking notes today, notes which they had to use for the next lesson. Pandora couldn't believe how Michael could read his notes later today, still knowing what he had written down, his handwriting was something Pandora couldn't get through.
She remembered having to make an assignment with him last year, where their notes had to be joined and Pandora discovered how bad his handwriting had been.
"If you want my notes after class, just ask. You aren't going to be the only one." Pandora turned her head around, as Lahana had leaned towards her. "Obviously I am not going to lend it to everyone, maybe not even anyone but you."
Pandora smiled and looked at Evan, on the other side of the classroom. His eyes were fully focused on his notes, as he wrote down what he had learned. His finger tapped onto the table slowly, his family ring hitting the wood at times. Once he spotted Pandora looking at him, he straightened his posture and send her a smile.
"I was actually going to study with Evan after class. ." Pandora drifted off, seeing the smile that was once placed on Hana's lips so slightly disappear. "But after dinner, we can just hang out with the three of us." Trying to now sound all to loud, so Michael wouldn't hear, but he obviously did so anyway, Pandora really wanted to hang around with her girls.
Something they hadn't been able to do in a while.
"Yeah alright, leave me out of it." Crossing his arms over his chest while his lips pouted, Michael only got a chuckle out of Reilly. Pandora shook her head at him with a smile grazing his lips and Lahana couldn't help but just roll her eyes at him.
"Will you shut your mouth Michael, if was so peaceful when you didn't talk just now." Pandora chuckled at the way Michael's face changed at Lahana's words. A scowl formed onto his face, instead of the teasing look he had going on before.
"You know, nobody fucking calls me that." Michael mumbled and turned himself around, grabbing his books, ready to leave the classroom as they were dismissed to go.
"Well I do, get used to it." Pandora linked her arm with Michael shortly, walking out of the classroom while Reilly and Lahana walked with them as well. Michael who couldn't help but glare back at Lahana's words, eventually started to walk away with a quicker pace, making Pandora left behind.
"Is he really that offended?" Lahana spoke, her tone sincerely confused. Reilly shook her head at her, as they had stopped in their tracks in the middle of the corridor. "No, I think he forgot to mention that he is just going to see when the Quidditch try-outs are.
Evan Rosier had been notified on the last day of school before the summer, that they would love to have him as the new Quidditch captain. Obviously not expecting this at all, Evan Rosier gladly took the opportunity. Even with Michael having played on the team before, Evan did want to set out try-outs, to see if there wasn't any more new talent around.
"Who is the Quidditch captain again?" Reilly asked and Lahana gave Pandora a look. "Evan is."
"Oh! Don't tell him I forgot that, he will never let it go." Pandora kissed the top of Reilly's head as she spotted the one and only Evan Rosier waiting for her. "I won't tell him, don't worry Reills."
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Decided to study in the Slytherin common room instead of the library, Pandora was carefully looking through Evan's notes from potions class just before. Besides Lahana being well known of being a star at the subject, Evan came close as a second. They sat across from another on the sofa in front of the fireplace, his hand circling on her leg while Pandora scrunched her eyebrows together.
"Can you read it?" Evan asked, trying to see what had made her so confused. But before he could get an answer out of her, she had already figured out what it had said. Pandora nodded her head and grabbed a pencil from her pocket. "Just underlining the most important parts."
"I am almost done." Pandora mumbled, underlining the last few words before handing back his notebook. Evan smiled, hearing his friends come near the common room, but not entering through the entrance. They would most likely walk away soon, just chatting in front and then changing their minds about it.
When Pandora heard the way Evan talked to his friends, indifferent to how he talked to hers, she could not let a smile fall onto her face. Once around them, besides some of them being slightly more tolerable than the others, she wished to be one with the floor. Embedded into the ground, roots growing around her.
"They're leaving, don't worry." Letting her gaze fall onto Evan, who had seen the worried look in her eyes, Pandora smiled gently. "Yeah, I know."
"When are the Quidditch try-outs?" Evan's eyes widened, teasingly, with a grin stuck on his face. "Why? You want to give it a go?" His hand was still on her leg, but Pandora didn't even notice as much, it was so normal to her.
Pandora let out a laugh and shook her head. "Yeah of course I want to. I thought you knew me." Her tone, as teasing as his, made him let out an airy laugh, while the grin stayed on his face. He closed the notebook besides him and watched as her smile only widened.
"No but, I wanted to know because I would love to watch. If that's okay?"
Over the years, since Evan had played on the Slytherin Quidditch team, he had asked her to come and watch. It could've been try-outs or real games and anything in between. He felt at ease, knowing she was in the crowd somewhere. He never truly struggled with anxiety, but had felt it when she wasn't around during his games.
"Of course that's okay Andie. I want to have you there actually."
"Good." Pandora smiled back at him, grabbing his hand in her own. The two looked at one another until Pandora chuckled. "When is then? You still haven't old me." She poked her finger in his chest, to which he laughed to.
"This Saturday, after breakfast. I thought it being early is for the best." Evan Rosier wasn't a morning person, but he did take pride in the things he cared for. He loved sports, he loved to win as much as to participate, but winning did always feel the best. He wanted to have the best team, and if that meant to wake up early, he would.
"Then you need to be prepared to be up early." Pandora pointed out, to which Evan nodded, knowingly. "Yeah I do. And we both know how much I love to wake up early."
Pandora let out a laugh, to which Evan gave her a teasing look. A grin, plastered onto this face while they looked at one another. He couldn't help but smile at her, even if she was laughing about him.
"Oh, I know."
author here
i felt like i ended it a little to quick, but i really wanted to get out an update before i get to work. i hope this was alright !!
with love, elise