Adhara's distaste for Theodore Nott has been heightened in the past week. Every time Adhara seems to forget about that night, he seems to whisper something in her ear or send her winks across the Great Hall. Helga, he flirts with her whenever he has the chance.
Theo Nott was known to be a flirt, he flirted with everyone; Adhara gathered that it was Theo just being Theo. Yet Adhara was never on the receiving end of it, until last week. And if Callisto or Rowan ever found out (she's quite shocked they haven't already) they would start being overprotective, Adhara didn't need it or want it, especially when it was only Theodore bloody Nott. Yes, she had slept with him and yes, she liked it. But she didn't want to do it again.
So when Theo sat at her table in the library that morning, Adhara had decided she had enough, "Theodore, what do you want?"
Theo scrunched up his nose at the use of his full name but ignored it, "To do my homework."
Adhara stared at him dumbly before speaking, "No, what do you actually want?"
"To be friends?"
"We have never got on from the moment we met, in first year, you killed my plant in herbology. You pulled my hair all through second year." Adhara started counting reasons on her fingers. "In third year, you hexed me. And last year, you tripped my date for the Yule ball up and scared him off."
Theo smirked at her at the last part, completely unbothered, "I didn't like him."
"I did," well she had until Theo achieved in scaring him off. Charles DeRose had been a half-blood wizard with a muggle father and a pureblood mother, he had a little sister Esme who had not been subtle about her dislike for Adhara. He was from Beauxbatons and he had shown interest in her. Callisto hadn't even managed to scare him off, which has never happened. Yet somehow all it took was Theo to trip him up for Charles to ignore her.
"I don't know why," Theo sighed, sinking further into his seat. Adhara wished he would stop smirking at her like that. "He was a right foul git though, I'm surprised your brother didn't hex him."
Adhara snorted, "It wasn't for his lack of trying."
"Ahh, yet he failed."
Adhara simply rolled her eyes at him, deciding not to answer and carry on with her work. Very aware that Theo was still staring at her.
Sometime later, Adhara rubbed her eyes tiredly glancing at the clock on the wall, she jumped up, eyes widening. She cursed under her breath. Quickly packing her things away.
"Are you okay?" Adhara jumped at the voice completely forgetting he was even there.
"Yeah," she replied, "Shit, Nymph is meant to be floo calling Callisto and me in like five minutes which means I am going to have to run."
Theo's eyebrows furrowed, "Nymph?"
"My cousin, Nymphadora but she hates it so we call her Nymph and everyone else calls her Tonks. Well I will see you later, Theodore."
As Adhara was walking away, Theo lightly grabbed her wrist. "If you take a right out the library then go to the fourth suit in armor, slightly push the wall, there's a passageway leading outside the Ravenclaw common room. Or, technically, the end of the corridor."
"Thank you, Theodore."
"It's Theo, Lestrange," Theo shouted over his shoulder to her, receiving a glare and warning from Madam Pince and a grin from Adhara.
Just as Theodore said, the secret passageway led her near the Ravenclaw common room. As soon as Adhara made it to the common room the door opened, Callisto dragged her in.
