Addictive Attraction 3 ~ J.S.P

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"You'll burn a hole into the back off her head" Roxanne laughed as she caught Alya staring daggers at the group of girls flirting and giggling loudly around James, blocking the corridors obnoxiously

Nico seemed to revel in the attention, a few years ago, so would James. Now, he aimlessly pulled on a thread on his gryffindor jumper, not listening to anything they were saying.

The girls twirled their hair and 'accidentally' bumped into him, placing their hands on his arm and gazing up to him. James, irritated would brush them off and go back to fiddling with his jumper uninterestedly. Still, they were persistent, doing everything in their power to get James to notice them.

And Alya hated it. She hated it so much

It took everything in her to not storm over there and interrupt.

"What's up with you?" Nico asked raising an eyebrow suspiciously at James. The two boys had grown up with each other and Nico liked to think he knew both James and Frank pretty well, it wasn't like James to deny attention, especially from pretty girls

"Huh?" James asked, abandoning his jumpers thread, blinking at him

"Nothing" Nico just concluded, shaking his head and giving him a confused look

"For god sake!" Alya huffed as she tried to push past the large group, "I just want to get to fucking transfiguration. But no! I have to Wade through thousands of girls to fucking get my newts!"

Daria and Roxanne cackled behind her while Amalie rolled her eyes

"You're jealous" she said simply

"Yes I'm jealous!" Alya exclaimed, yanking her satchel back onto her arm that had fallen off as she'd pushed past the last person blocking the hall, "of course I am! Look at him! He's gorgeous, how could I not be jealous of all the pretty girls swarming him!... don't tell him I called him gorgeous. Please, I'll never live it down"

"Your secrets safe with Me" Amalie smiled

"It's not with me" Daria sniggered

"Well that's a given" Roxanne nudged

The four girls seemed to be the first student in the classroom.

Transfiguration had quickly become everyone's favourite lessons but closely followed by defence against the dark arts. Professor Potter always made the lessons fun and interesting. Alya loved transfiguration in general and with Viola teaching there was never a boring moment.

"Harry can you get your gross feet of my desk. Like, the fuck?" Viola asked raising an eyebrow at Harry who was sat at her desk, in her chair with his feet propped up

"Gross?" Harry asked, looking thoroughly offended

"Alya!" Viola exclaimed spotting the girls, sending them a casual smile, "Rox, Dar! Amalie!"

The four girls all laughed heartedly and waved back.

Harry swiftly pulled his feet of the desk as Viola snickered at his embarrassment.

"That's what you get for putting your feet where they don't belong" Viola whispered in Harry's ear as he went to leave. He rolled his eyes and discreetly flipped her off as he disappeared around the door.

Viola saw and laughed to herself while the girls gingerly took their seats.

"Sorry about that" Viola apologised, casting a cleaning spell on the desk as if Harry had infected it, "can't get rid of him. He's like a bad smell" she joked as the girls giggled.

The room started to fill as all the students filtered in.

James slid into the spare seat, beside Alya.

Alya, still irritated from the corridor, gave him a glance before pulling out her paper and quills

"What? Not even a hello?" James smirked poking her side

"Don't poke me" Alya rolled her eyes swatting his hand away

James just raised his eyebrows, putting his hands up in surrender, "what's a matter has something happened?" He asked, a concern spreading onto his face

"Fine" Alya muttered

"She jealous" Daria laughed, leaning across her table to whisper to James

"Dar! Really?" Alya sighed putting her head on her desk

"Jealous?" James said, a sly smirk slowly pulling his face, "of the girls in the corridor?"

"Stop pulling that face" Alya said, irritably scribbling down the date on her parchment

"What face?"

"That smug thing right there" she said pointing to James' face

"I like you jealous" he teased with a wink

"I'm not!"

"I think you are" he replied, tapping her thigh under the table with his index finger

"Am not"

"Are too"

"It's okay Lya. You're better than all them combined"

"I'm not jealous okay!"

"Fine! Fine" James laughed throwing his head back, "but I'd still chose you one hundred times over "

Alya's face softened as a gentle smile pulled across her face, "you can be cute sometimes you know"

"I'm cute all the time"

"Don't push it" she laughed quietly as Viola had finally stopped chatting to the students and started explaining.

James grabbed Alya's hand, gently dragging his thump across the back of her hand as they both listened quietly at the back of the room.