The One Who Gave Her Flowers || Remus Lupin x OC✓

II

Arabella Campbell

"Hey Ara. That dude is defenitely starring at you."
Arabella's head immediately snapped up towards her friend.

"Don't you think it'll be weird that your starring too, Jules?"
She asked but only ended up being shushed.

"It's that popular dude from Gryffindor. The prankster group? Lupin, was it?"
With a furrowed brow, she looked to where Julien was looking and was surprised to see Remus starring at her. But he was quick and looked away almost as soon as Arabella and him made eye contact.

"Wow, that defenitely doesn't scream 'I have a crush on you'."
Julien deadpanned, sarcasm dripping from her tone.

"Ryan Taylor is an absolute jerk."
Another voice announced as she sat infront of the two girls. Distaste spread throughout Arabella once that topic came up. Arabella had no problem with the topic of boys but she just makes them sound like absolute saints, most of the time.

"Yes, hello to you too Eileen. My day is great."
A giggle sounded from Arabella caused by Julien's comment.

"I'm serious."
Eileen sneered as she placed food on her plate, her eyes stuck on her plate. Julien snorted at her words,

"Nobody said you weren't."

"Alright! What's so terrible about Ryan?"
Arabella interrupted.

"So we were talking and talking, and I was about to, you know, drop some hints that I like him. But then that damn Emily Collins! Emily Collins with her.... amazing body! Damn Collins walk by and Ryan immediately tailed after her while I! I was left there talking to air for five minutes!"
Without hesitance or a second thought, both Julien and Arabella burst into laughter.

"It's not funny!"
Eileen exclaimed, exasperated.

"Right. Right! No, it isn't funny at all! Ryan is a bastard for brushing you away like that. What an asshole."
Arabella commented, her words genuine. She had no problem with Ryan when it comes to being friends but when it comes to how he treats women, she absolutely loathed him.

"Hey, I still like him, you don't have to talk about him like that."
Immediately, a look of disbelief grew on Arabella's face. All Julien could do was give her a comforting pat on the back.

"Speaking of like! I think someone has a crush on Arabella!"
Informed Julien earning a keen gasp from Eileen.

"Who!?"

"Our good old prankster nerd, Remus Lupin."

"Oh my god!"
Exclaimed Eileen, clapping in joy as well. For a minute, Arabella thought she was a seal.

"Lupin does not have a crush on me. He must just be worried I told someone he was outside the night a few weeks ago!"
Julien and Eileen paused. They looked towards Arabella with a suggestive brow and immediately Arabella sighed in distaste.

"I was outside flower picking and I bumped into him doing a prank! Nothing suggestive about that!"
Arabella defended, a smile unknowingly growing on her lips.

"Yeah right, pretty sure a year from now you two would be up against each other, shoving each other's tongue down their throats." Commented Julien, taking a sip of coffee after as if it was nothing.

"Jules!"
Arabella scolded.

"Do you think Ryan and I would be like that a year from now?"
Mused Eileen which quickly recieved a reply from Julien.

"Absolutely not."

~•∆•~

"Sirius Black is definitely top 1 in most shagable."
Mused Eileen as the trio made their way into the Ravenclaw common room. Dinner at Hogwarts had just ended and classes were now finished as the three headed of to their common room.

"He's a dick."
Sneered Julien earning a gasp from Eileen, as if she too was offended by the words.

"Well, I'm sure he has a big d-"

"Excuse me?"
A boy looking to be in first year with beady eyes and ginger hair disrupted their conversation, a conversation Arabella was glad to be interrupted by the innocent boy unlike the words that were about to be spoken.

"Some guy wanted to give this to you."
He said as he revealed a big bouquet of roses hidden behind his back and offered it to Arabella. Arabella was surprised at how she didn't notice it, she didn't expect a boy his size to hide a bouquet that big well.

"Who is it from?"
Arabella asked hesitantly, her eyes lowering from the boys face to the bouquet.

"I don't know his name but he was seated there."
He gestured a seat by the fireplace that was now strangely empty.

Whoever gave these didn't want to be seen.

Wanting to be a kind person and free the boy from a task she knew he'd rather not be doing, Arabella reached for the bouquet and took it in her hands. Wordlessly, and without any expression, the boy walked back to the couch, as if he'd done nothing at all.

"Bet you a hundred galleons that's from Remus."
Julien said, her eyes scanning the bouquet as well.

"Ara! Your so lucky! You have a secret admirer!"
Squealed Eileen, seemingly unable to stay in place as she took hold of Arabella's arm and gave her a shake.

"I hate it."
Arabella blurted with a sneer, her disgusted emotion proving her statement. Julien bursted into hysterical laughter while Eileen only gasped.

"Why would you?! Their lovely!"
Eileen defended to the point where Arabella had considered the possibility of Eileen in on it.

"E, do you remember who your talking to? Arabella damn Campbell, a girl that knows all the names and meanings of the damn plants and all the damn flowers. You'd expect her to like plain old roses?"
Julien explained whilst she held Arabella by the shoulders, as if presenting Arabella to further prove her statement.

Arabella couldn't agree more on Julien's words. She watched everyone give and receive red roses and nothing but red roses each valentine's. A flower so common that it can be found in every shop. As a girl with expertise in Floriography, she'd always wanted the flowers she'd receive to have meaning, like the flowers her father used to give to her mother. And so, her opinion on red roses were set.

"Yeah.. they probably picked the first flower that came to mind, and besides, I don't like roses."
Added Arabella, now looking for a place to dispose the roses to.

"Why are you so siding with... The giver of this anyway?"
Julien asked Eileen as she started her way to the Ravenclaw girl's dorms with Eileen and Arabella mindlessly following.

"I just... I always wanted to receive flowers from a boy."
And for a moment, Arabella felt bad for belittling the secret flower giver, she realized it is rare to have someone give you flowers, what more of someone secret giving you flowers?

"Here you have it. Imagine it's from the very shagable, Sirius Black."
Said Arabella as she handed Eileen the bouquet of roses to her. Eileen only gasped, and let out a verbal aw.

"Thanks, Ara!"

"You're forgetting Arabella literally collects flowers for fun, why don't you ask her to give you flowers?"
Suggested Julien, now climbing up the stone stairs to their shared dorm.

"I want it to be romantic, imagine if Ryan Taylor gave me flowers though! I'll shag him within a second."
Arabella and Julien only groaned, knowing their conversation traced back to her and the boys she wants to sleep with.