RAY OF SUNSHINE ━━ pansy parkinson

iii. divination blues

chapter three
DIVINATION BLUES
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ARIELLE PROMENADED IN THE HALLWAY along with the golden trio, getting lost in conversations and chuckles. "So are you trying out for quidditch this year, Elle?" Harry asked awkwardly, adjusting his spectacles. "I'm actually trying out for beater this year, wouldn't want to upset Chang if I try out for seeker." Elle beamed at him, but Harry frowned.

"Shouldn't you do what you want? And not base your decision on what someone else wants?" Hermione interjected, but Elle shook her head, although smiling softly at her concern.

"There's a war going on, Mione. Cho loves quidditch more than anything. I can't be the one to take that away from her."

Hermione shook her head understandably, and Harry hugged Elle from the side. Elle adored Harry's hugs — they were warm and welcoming.

"There you three are!" Another voice was heard, a bob of red hair walking towards them. "Ron!" Elle exclaimed, and embraced him tightly. The two were great friends during their third year but had drifted apart since, so Elle valued every moment she had with him.

"I'm starting to think she fancies him." Harry audibly whispered to Hermione, the witch's face growing red hot in jealousy.

Elle rolled her eyes at this. "No Potter, I don't fancy him. I just miss him, that's all. Oh, and Hermione, do yourself a favor and ask him out since ickle Ronniekins is too shy to." She pinched Ron's cheek teasingly as his ears grew an adorable shade of red.

Hermione's cheeks were redder than the hair of the Weasleys at this point. "I-I do not!" He spluttered defensively, Hermione's eager eyes losing their light.

Harry grinned widely at the thought of his two best friends together, eyeing them with bright eyes.

"Anyways, I have divination with Luna, Cho and Rohan, I need to run. See you guys later!" She whizzed past a group of Slytherins and made her way to Professor Trelawney's classroom.

"Waah! It took you long enough." Rohan smirked as Elle entered the classroom, exhausted from the run. The blonde made a mental note to stop conversing with the trio in between classes, but then scrapped it because she always fancied a chat with them. Elle embraced Cho as she saw her, sitting down next to Luna.

"There you are... I was wondering if the nargles finally got to you." Luna's eyes were dreamy and her voice soft.

"The day I understand divination will be the day the nargles get to me, Luns." Elle declared dramatically, hearing a soft chuckle from behind her. The blonde turned behind curiously, the laughter was one she had never heard before. It was vivacious and low — elegant but fuelled with amusement.

She was met with a pair of sultry brown eyes.

"Well well well, Parkinson." Elle started, blue eyes gleaming with mirth. "Lovegood." Pansy acknowledged her nonchalantly, the ends of her sensual lips tugging upwards, "You really aren't that funny."

"Tell that to your laughing self about 2 seconds ago." Elle challenged her, face broad and cocky. Pansy scoffed in defeat, finding Daphne Greengrass to converse with.

It took all of Elle to hold back her laughter when Professor Trelawney barged in, her eyes wide and haunting. "Broaden your mind! Use your inner eye!"

Rohan snorted, drawing the attention of the entire class. "Mr. Jain... For that very noise you made... I predict horrible things, things that will cause the breath to turn to stone in your lungs." Sybil Trelawney dramatized, and it was Elle's turn to hide her sniggers with feigned coughs.

"Today... we will be reading our palms... The palm lines that mark our hands can say a lot about your future, your life... and especially love." She explained, causing Malfoy and Zabini to guffaw boyishly, Rohan's cheeks tinting pink as he met Malfoy's arrogant gaze.

"Mr. Jain, since you are so enthusiastic about this lesson, I will start by reading your palms." Trelawney droned on, Elle looking at Rohan with a mischievous smirk.

The divination teacher traced the edges of his hands, her face brightening up, "You will be successful at where your passions lead you..." Her grin faltered. "But will always remain unlucky in love..."

Rohan rolled his eyes, as if he was going to believe the crap that was also known as divination. Elle too personally thought that divination was a bunch of bollocks, but she and Luna had extremely different interests — she just wanted to be a part of Luna's imaginative world.

"Ah Miss Lovegood!" Trelawney beamed as Luna's eyes grew excited. The teacher coughed and turned to Elle, "I meant the other Lovegood. This one."

Elle almost groaned and laid out her palms, the teacher's long nails tickling her skin. "I see... Very interesting... You will fall for someone soon. And that may put you in danger, but in the end — it will only be you and her."

The class turned to her, and Elle froze in her seat. Elle shook her head, her breath hitching in her throat, "I think you meant him, Professor."

"I'm pretty sure it was her, my child." Trelawney clarified, and Elle suddenly felt exposed. She could feel a gaze burning holes into the back of her head, and it took all in her not to turn around.

Slytherins were looking at her curiously, Ravenclaws looking at her sympathetically. She felt hot tears prickling at her skin, and all she knew was that she wanted to get up and slap the glasses off that silly excuse of a divination teacher.

How dare she? How dare she expose the identity that she had kept a secret for so long? How dare she do it in front of the calculative, ambitious Slytherins of all people. Why couldn't that git of a teacher do it in front of the sweet and caring Hufflepuffs?

One thing was for sure — Elle Lovegood fucking hated divination. So she ran. She ran out of class and into the girl's bathroom, sobbing her eyes out as she had never before.

Divination was a fucking scam.

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ARIELLE CRIED UNTIL her eyes were red and her head was throbbing, did that teacher have no fucking bounds? Her sexuality was exposed, who she truly was, and she had not even told her friends about her true identity yet. It was unfair that a fake seer with googly glasses told the world who she was before she told the ones she loved and trusted. Would they judge her? Would they bully her? Why did that goddamned professor have to be so fucking stupid?

"Open up..." A soft female voice that resembled her best friend's was heard. "Go away, Cho!" Her voice echoed in the bathroom stalls, laced with horror.

"Elle, come on..." The voice continued, soft and empathetic. "Luna's here with me too.."

"Hello Arielle.. come on, open up for me please?" Luna's voice was calm and pleading, and Elle could not say no to her twin.

She threw the stall's doors open and only realized how broken she looked when Cho gasped and wiped her tears slowly. "Oh, Elle.. c'mere." Cho wrapped her arms around Elle, Luna joining in the hug. "We both love you very much. No matter what. And Rohan too." Cho explained, Elle only squeezing tighter.

And then she realized how stupid she was — worrying about small things like her sexuality when war was approaching her and her family; bloodthirsty and vile.

Elle looked at the reassuring faces of the girls and realized something. No matter what, she always had her sisters with her.

That was all that mattered.