Chapter Eleven
Seamus entered the common room at first break "Lexi?" he asked with a worried expression on his face, he quickly walked over to me. I was sitting on the lounge in front of the fireplace. "What is the matter, why did you skip out on potions"
My fast beating heart slowed down. I could tell by the way Seamus was talking to me that Draco had not said anything to him about what had happened between us. I was relieved about that, even though it would mean I would have to do it myself now.
Seamus could tell by my red puffy eyes that I had been crying. I did not know what to say to him. I could not exactly tell him what happened between Draco and me right now like this, he would never forgive me.
I shook my head refusing to tell him what was wrong. Seamus sat on the lounge next to me and pulled me into a hug and kissed the top of my head "It will all be alright" He whispered soothingly to me.
How could I break up with him when he is being so sweet to me, and for someone who is a total jerk to me and doesn't even care that he hurt me. I just could not do it now. I held onto Seamus and rested my head up against his chest, letting the sound of his heartbeat soothe me.
Seamus stroked my hair lovingly as I cuddled into him. A rumbling sound then came from Seamus's stomach and I looked up at him. He went red and we both laughed "Sorry to ruin the moment, but I'm so hungry" He grinned at me.
"You can go down for lunch," I told him.
"I want you to come with me though, and besides you will need to go to class after lunch, you might get into a lot of trouble if you miss all day"
"I really don't want to," I groaned.
"If you don't come, you least have to tell me what's wrong," He said crossing his arms across his chest looking down at me.
"It's nothing... Fine I will come to lunch with you" I gave in.
I got off the lounge "Just give me one second" I said before running up the stairs to the girl's dormitories. I went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. I frowned at what I saw. My hair was a mess, my eyes were red and puffy and my black eyeliner was smeared down each side of my cheeks.
I grabbed a facecloth and whipped off my entire makeup. I applied a fresh lot of foundation to cover-up the redness under my eyes. I brushed my hair out straight and let it fall down around my face. I looked much better; you could barely tell I have been crying now.
I ran back down the stairs where Seamus was waiting for me, holding his belly. "That was more than one second," he complained as he tummy grumbled again "Let's go, I am starving"
I rolled my eyes at him as we made our way out of the portrait hole, down to the great hall. Seamus had my hand in his and he smiled kindly at me. I returned the smile but with not as much enthusiasm as he did.
We entered the hall and my heart rate began to pick up again, from out of the corner of my eye I could see Draco Malfoy sitting at the Slytherin table with all his friends.
Don't look at him. Don't look at him. Don't look at him
I kept repeating this in my head over and over as we made our way to the Gryffindor table. Seamus took his seat next to Dean and I sat on the other side of Seamus. Unfortunately, we were sitting on the tableside that faced towards the Slytherin table. It took all my strength to just look down at my plate. I could sense Draco staring at me in the distance; I knew he wanted me to look up at him. But I could not handle seeing his smug face right now, I just couldn't.
I fiddled around with the food on my plate with my fork. I really did not feel like eating while Draco was watching me. It made me feel nervous, what if I spilled something on myself and he saw. I don't think I could handle him laughing at me for something like that.
"You should eat something Lexi," Seamus said to me, turning away from his conversation with Dean.
"I don't feel hungry" I lied, truthfully my stomach was begging me to eat something, but I was not going to give in so easily.
After lunch, we made our way to defence against the dark arts. I sat with Seamus at a table around the middle of the classroom. I kept my eyes down as Draco sat in the row next to mine, just one back from where I was. I knew he had a perfect view of me, and I could just see him out of the corner of my eye. I had no idea what he was planning, probably another way to embarrass me I dare say.
"Alastor Moody" An old man's voice growled as he walked into the classroom. He had a wooden leg, a glass magical eye, and lots of scars over his face. He walked up to the chalkboard and wrote his name for all of us to see "Ex-Auror, Ministry malcontent... and your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I'm here because Dumbledore asked me, end of story, good-bye, the end. Any questions?"
I looked at Seamus who raised his eyebrow with confusion at me. When no one rose their hands Professor Moody Continued.
"When it comes to the Dark Arts, I believe in a practical approach. But first, who can tell me how many Unforgivable Curses there are?"
Hermione was sitting in front of Seamus and I "There are three, Sir," She said.
"And they are so named"
"Because they are unforgivable. The use of any one of them will..."
Hermione did not get to finish as Moody cut in "Earn you a one-way ticket to Azkaban. Correct! The Ministry says you're too young to see what these curses do. I say different! You need to know what you're up against! You need to be prepared! You need to find another place to put your chewing gum beside the underside of your desk, Mr. Finnigan!"
I looked next to me where Seamus had removed his gum he had gotten from Dean before class and was sticking it under the desk.
I frowned at how gross he was being.
"No way. The old codger can see in the back of his head" Seamus whispers to me.
Moody threw the piece of chalk he had been writing on the board with, at Seamus "And hear across classrooms!" He yelled, "So, which curse shall we see first? WEASLEY!"
Ron stood nervously and gave the first curse to Moody, The imperious curse. Moody removed a spider from a jar and placed it on the desk in front of the class.
He enlarged it so we could all see and put the unforgivable curse on it. He made the spider jump around the room on people, everyone was laughing except the person it was one. Ron seemed freaked out but it was no secret Ron's fear of spiders.
Moody made the spider land on my head. I did not react. I just frowned at him with a bored look on my face. Moody could see I was no fun to mess with and made the spider jump onto someone behind me.
"Get it off. Get it off" Draco's freaked out voice could be heard all around the room. I turned around to see the spider had landed on Draco's face, and he was freaking out as Crabbe tried to flick it off with his hand.
Moody removed the spider from him and I couldn't help the laugh that escaped my lips at Draco's reaction.
Draco glared daggers at me and I quickly turned back around regretting having laughed at him. Who knows what he would do to get back at me now.
Moody showed us the other two unforgivable curses. The second was the torture curse. He tortured that poor spider in front of us, it was a terrible thing to see, and it really seemed to bother Neville more than anyone else to watch it.
Finally was the killing curse, putting the spider out of its misery, Moody killed it in front of the whole class. Everyone was silent as we watched. My heart broke for the poor little spider, it didn't deserve all that.
"That was an intense lesson," I said to Seamus as we left the classroom.
"I don't like him," Seamus said.
"You just don't like him because you got into trouble" I shrugged. I hated what he did to the spider, but it was an interesting lesson, to say the least.
Seamus did not answer, "I think I'm going to go see if Neville is alright, he seemed a bit upset"
I nodded "I will catch up with you later" Seamus kissed my cheek softly before turning back around to go find Neville.
"Boyfriend left you did he?"
I turned around to see Draco walking towards me from the opposite direction Seamus had left. We were alone in the hall and I did not like it one bit.