Chocolate and Cigarettes

Chapter 42 - Truth or Dare

"Are you fucking serious?" He shouted.

She laughed from where she was and stood up, getting closer.

"I told you I would make you fight hard. I'll make you give up on me, Remus. And I will make it very bad for you while I do so." She promised him.

A few hours earlier

It was a good day. Jen had chosen to spend the day with Fabian. They had spent a lot of time with each other at the Academy but it would not change the fact that they had lost a lot of time when she was dating Remus.

So there they were, on a Saturday, walking in Hogsmeade.

"Who do you think will be the last one to get married in our group?" Fabian asked her, eating some sweets.

Jen smiled. Apart from Alice, they were all single. Well, Gideon might as well be in a relationship.

"Alice will get married first." She told him.

"I know. I hope to be a bridesmaid." He told her back.

She chuckled and shook her head.

"I'd love to see you in a dress."

He quirked an eyebrow up and looked at her with a smile. She looked back at him and smiled back.

"One, two, three it's your turn." Both of them said at the same time.

But Jen was quicker.

She immediately started laughing and he rolled his eyes.

"I'll tell Alice to make you a dress."

One two three it's your turn is a game both of them invented in their fifth year for when one of them said something stupid. The last one to say that sentence had to do it. So now Fabian really had to do it.

"Fucking hell." He said. "But that was not my question."

Jen rolled her eyes at his attempt to change the subject but replied. Even if she wasn't going to forget.

"Alright. Alice first, Lily second, then Gideon, Marlene, you, and then me." She declared.

Fabian frowned and looked at her.

"Why should you be the last?" He asked her.

She laughed.

"Love isn't my thing. I gave it a shot and it didn't work. Why should I try again?" She explained.

She was being very serious. She never wanted love for reasons no one but her knew and she was right. She had been weak and let someone like him in and that would never happen again. She would make him suffer for treating her like that.

Fabian stopped walking and grabbed her arm so she would stop as well.

"Are you serious?" He asked her with an odd expression.

She nodded.

"Yes. I won't fall into the trap love is."