Slytherins Golden Girl

Chapter 36

Eleanors stepped over the threshold of the corridor and into the common room, the fires roared and laughter filled the room. Except one table in the corner was rather silent, with five rather miserable looking Slytherins sat around it.

She made her way over to them, every step bouncing along the stone like a trotting horse, she was still riding the high from the kiss her and Rodger shared the other night. Eleanor dropped into the seat bedside Blaise who was studying from a transfiguration textbook and rest her head on his shoulder.

"What are you doing?" She asked playfully.

Blaise swivelled his head and frowned, blowing a feather that had been caught in her hair away he spoke, "Transfiguration homework and by the looks of it you've been rolling round the floor of the owlery."

"Close, I sent the owl to my parents. I have to somehow explain why there's a article about me in the prophet. I must admit my father found the portable swamp a lot funnier than my mother did." Eleanor smiled to herself remembering the howler her father had sent the morning the article published.

Her mother on the other hand was not as amused.

"Well they are still trying to get rid of the damn thing. It's almost been a week." Blaise snapped his textbook shut and wrapped his arm round her shoulders. "Have to hand it to them, the Weasleys outdid themselves I must say."

Eleanors head nuzzled into the collar of his jumper as he shuffled his chair along the ground towards her. "Shouldn't you be working?" She asked.

Blaise sighed against the top of her head. "I need a break and luckily you're perfect size to take a nap on."

Eleanor rolled her eyes at Daphne who smiled as she silently worked from across the table, she would often visit her dorm midday to find Blaise fast asleep in her bed. He'd deemed it the perfect place to nap away from everybody and he like that her scent of Jasmine was fresh on the sheets.

The silence between the pair made Theo and Pansys muttering or better put arguing audible from the other end of the table. It's seems that the pair were squabbling over their potions homework, that was before Eleanor distinctly picked up on the phrase Theo used to describe Pansy as a 'moody cow' and 'life sucker'. She'd say it didn't go down well as she watched Pansy smack him across the cheek before storming out of the common room, leaving her books and bag behind.

"That was a mistake." Theo turned to look at her, his cheek getting more inflamed as the seconds passed. "I'm in shit now, aren't I."

Eleanor stared back at him as if it wasn't blatantly obvious. "You think."

"Oh Merlin, I'm gonna have to deal with her later. What's up with Zabini?" Theo whispered to Eleanor as he slowly rose from his chair, quill in hand.

"I'm sleeping, fuck off." Blaise mumbled with his eyes shut as Theo shuffled along the table. "Don't you even think about it, put the quill down."

Blaises eye shot open just in time to witness Theo slump back into his chair with a face like thunder. "How does everyone always expect I'm going to do something." He grumbled under his breath.

"Because most of us have at least one brain cell to rub together." Daphne chimed in as Eleanor laughed.

Eleanor picked up Blaises textbook and flicked through the pages correcting the notes he'd made in the margins. She could feel his breathing becoming deeper and more spaced out as he rest against her. Bet he knew she wouldn't be able to resist searching through his notes.

She dipped the quill into the ink pot and noticed Draco had slipped into the free seat beside Adrian, he was not happy. Eleanor flicked her eyes back to the page in front of her, quietly humming along to a song from Cedrics muggle Walkman that had gotten stuck in her head.