Getting over one's first love was always a task people people deemed hard. Ophelia Greengrass, however, finds it to be even harder as she has to get over her first love whilst being engaged to his little brother.
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❝we may be in a love...
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an unsettling feeling loomed over ophelia as she fiddled with the hem of her robes. she was in the library with marry, steve, caroline, and venus. ophelia didn't know what it was, but it's been there ever since valentines day; it was march 6.
mary and steve were in front of venus and ophelia whilst caroline sat in her own side of the square table. they were all studying for the potions essay slughorn had assigned them. though the male professor clearly favoured his slytherin students, it didn't mean he made the workload any less for them.
caroline wasn't taking her breakup with cherry well. especially now that cherry is publicly dating a 7th year ravenclaw. it was an awful thing for cherry to do, but the group of girls tried their best in cheering up their usually cheerful friend.
but the crouch girl insisted that she didn't care anymore. that after years of being with the same person, it was that easy to move on. and, much to her own surprise, caroline meant it.
mary and steve erased the word 'subtle' from their dictionary as the two of them had their fingers laced together on top of the table while the read. evan and regulus visited venus and ophelia a few minutes ago to say hello.
ophelia had noticed how uncomfortable caroline became whenever either of the four couples, her and regulus included, would do anything romantic. she couldn't blame the crouch girl so she told regulus and evan to leave when they visited a few minutes ago. regulus flashed her a brief look of hurt, but it was replaced by understanding when he glanced at caroline.
perhaps that wasn't the only reason she asked them to leave, however. when the two of them arrived, regulus pulled up a chair and placed it behind ophelia, switching from kissing her cheek to her neck. then a wave of emotion had rushed through her so she immediately told him to leave.
"james is having a party later for his birthday," ophelia said as she glanced up from her book. her friends were clearly done reading the assigned text because their ears perked up at the announcement. "and since it's their last words, this is sirius' words not mine, 'prongs deserves to have as much people at these parties so invite your friends! invite your friends's grandma, even.' though i doubt grandma parkinson would ever step foot in gryffindor territory."
venus laughs. "grams may not want to come, but we so are!"
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later that night, marry, steve, caroline, venus and evan and ophelia and regulus entered the gryffindor common room at ten pm. the first three already scattered, caroline probably went to the booze table while the remaining four just stood by the entrance.
the odd feeling in ophelia's stomach was there again. and at first, she wondered if she was pregnant then she smacked herself in the head. you're a virgin, dumbass. she thought.
venus and evan had said something to her and regulus but she didn't hear them because she was still thinking about the odd feeling. merlin, she hated not knowing things. regulus turned to face her and he was about to say something when the weight of an arm was on ophelia's shoulders.
"prongs," ophelia said as a way of greeting. then she saw the redheaded girl beside him and a smile appeared on the greengrass girl's face, thoughts of the odd feeling gone. "well, aren't the headboy and headgirl a cute couple?"
"might say the same for the future-headboy and future-headgirl," lily said as she pointed her head in ophelia and regulus' direction. james snickered and regulus turned red. "oh right, regulus, ophelia is better at you at transfiguration, right?" regulus doesn't open his mouth, he's still shocked lily evans was talking to him directly, but he simply nods. "i have some notes from last year and if you want, you can have them."
ophelia's eyebrows shoot up in the sky. "hey! why are you giving him your notes? i've been putting up with you for the past six years as part of my scheme to get my hands on those notes." the last sentence was a joke, of course, but neither lily nor regulus hear it because their already far away.
james just laughs as he and ophelia walk around before settling by the staircase. it was quiet and ophelia wanted to pick james' brains on her thoughts lately. he was idiot, yes, but he was also a genuis.
"you're not used to being happy, arent you?"
"no," maybe thats what it was. she just wasn't used to having her life this put together. nothing else.
the gryffindor boy looks at his friend, at the girl he considers his sister, and a soft chuckle escapes his lips. he shouldn't say this, it was like betraying sirius. but it was clear to him as night and day. even an idiot would know. "i'm not used to lily loving me back, either," james said as he leaned his head on her shoulders and ophelia placed her head on top of his.
'i'm not used to lily loving me back, either', was all he said but it took ophelia a minute to realize his implication.
do i love regulus?
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i love the idea of lily giving regulus her notes DONT TOUCH ME and james and ophelia, an underrated duo :<
