Jealousy Kills || James Potter

Chapter 8

"Fuck!" Odetta shouted. She could not seem to simply conjure the bird.

"Avis!" She shouted again, waving her wand in a stupid way.

"Why won't this bird come out of my fucking wand already!" She shouted once again.

"We've been at this for 15 minutes Lynch. You're getting nowhere." Evan sighed. Soon, he began walking up behind Odetta and placing his hand on hers, also holding her wand.

"What the fuck are you doing Rosier?" Odetta said defensively, scrunching up her face as she did so.

"Just shut up." He said, placing his hand on her waist.

"Look Rosier, if you're going to put your hands on my waist and be all pushed up on me, atleast take me on a date first." Odetta half joked.

"Oh is that so?" Evan replied, smirking while he spoke.

"Maybe." She said, ending that conversation.

"Just focus Lynch. I promise it's not that hard." Evan said, trying to get her to focus so that they could move on.

"That's what she said" Odetta spoke again, while struggling to hold back a laugh.

"Oh really? Well if you're so worried about me and say my... Little Evan. Atleast take me on a date first." He said, chuckling.

"Ew, you're so gross Rosier. Let's get a move on with this shall we? So I don't have to focus on this anymore." Odetta said, rolling her eyes.

"Okay okay fine. But focus. Just focus." He said, as she repeated the spell once again, trying to focus with all her might, while Evan guided her wand movement to match the spell.

And before the pair knew it, a bird had flown out of Odetta's wand. Odetta was the first to notice it, as she shouted "Rosier! I did it. I've finally done it!" While almost jumping into his arms out of joy.

"Good job Lynch! I knew you had it in you." He said while smiling at the brunette girl who had turned to face him.

"Thanks for helping me Rosier. Honestly. I would fail out of this class if it weren't for you." - "But can you remove your arm from my waist? Thanks." As she said the second part, Evan moved his arm off of her, as well as letting go of her hand.

"You don't seem as bad as everybody makes you out to be you know?" Odetta spoke again.

"I know. I honestly don't understand why people are so vile towards me. I don't even do anything to anybody." He lied. He was in the mini death eaters group, consisting of Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Black, Rodolphus Lestrange, Severus Snape, Regulus Black, and others.

Evan seemed to notice that his plan was working, as the Gryffindor girl quickly warmed up to him. "Well this looks like it'll be easier than I thought It'd be." He thought, slightly smirking to himself.

After a moment, Evan finally spoke again.

"So Lynch, we seem to be getting along quite well. Wanna get a few drinks with me from hogsmeade tomorrow?" He spoke, with a sky grin on his face.

"Oh uh.. sure." Odetta replied, kind of shocked at the sudden request.

"Wait." She paused. "This isn't like.. a date right?" She said, hoping it wasn't actually meant to be a date as she'd just met the boy that night.

"Not unless you want it to be" He said, winking.

Moments later, he left the room as Odetta had already learned the spell they had planned for her to learn that night.

"Well that was.. something" She said aloud to herself.

Not long after Evan left, Odetta made her way back to her common room, seeing some of the girls (and the Mauraders) we're all in there as well. Remus was reading a book, Sirius was bickering with James, Lily was braiding Marlene's hair, while Alice had gone back to her own dorm, and Dorcas was upstairs.

Marlene was the first one to notice Odetta walk into the common room, as she shouted "Hey detta!" Making Lily, Remus, and Sirius all look up from what they were doing.

"Well hello Odetta." Remus called out, closing his book but making a mental note of the page he was in before he did so.

"Hey Odetta!" Sirius shouted, making her subconsciously stumble backwards as Sirius ran over towards her and wrapped her in a hug.

"Where have you been for the past 45 minutes?" He asked, not unwrapping her from the hug yet.

"One, if you don't get your hands off of me right now. I will cut them off. Two, why is it any of your business?" She said somewhat defensively.

"One, you would never. Two, because it's my job to constantly bother you, and being overprotective like the brother I am." Sirius said, joking about the brother part. The two were only best friends. Very close best friends at that.

"Also" he continued. "Who are you so dressed up for?" He slightly let go of her, to inspect her outfit.

"I'm not dressed up for anybody, why do you ask?" She said, knowing exactly what he was implying. That she was seeing a boy. While that wasn't a complete lie, it wasn't completely the truth.

"Because you're so.. I know when you dress up Odetta. You seem to forget I've known you for 4 years." He said, confused if she actually saw someone or not.

"Oh shut up-" Odetta began speaking, getting cut off by Marlene.

"So whose the boy detta?" The blonde asked, trying to joke with her.

"I'm not with any boy Marlene" Odetta rolled her eyes.

"Totally. Alice says you getting all dressed up for this said boy, about an hour ago." She said with a smirk.

"I'll tell you girls about it later, definitely not Infront of these boys." She paused. "Well I may tell Remus, but he's the only one. Not James or Sirius." She looked at the two boys while calling out their names.

"The disrespect." Sirius scoffed jokingly, backing away from Odetta as he did.

"Oh shut up Siri. You wouldn't approve of it anyways so why would I tell you? Actually, none of you would approve of it, but I'm only telling the people who would be somewhat considerate." She said before turning to James. "And I think you understand why I'm not telling you." She sneered.

"Yeah I'm completely fine with it, it's bad enough already having to be in a room with you, I'd much less rather your hot breath being in my face while you tell me something that isn't even important." James said, making a look of disgust as he did so.

"Oh really? Because that's definitely not what you'd thought the other ni-" Odetta started, before getting cut off by Marlene grabbing her and yanking her toward the girls dorms, with Lily following close behind.

After a few seconds, the boys heard a loud slam, which was the girls dorm door.

"Um.. okay?" Remus said before going back to his book.

With the girls..

"So whose this boy detta?!" Marlene asked, just as the door slammed shut.

"Okay okay Merlin." Odetta sighed before speaking again. "So as you guys probably know if I've mentioned it earlier, I have to study 3 nights a week with Rosier." She started, already knowing how the conversation was going to turn out.

"So that's who you were getting all dressy for?" Lily asked, almost in complete disbelief.

"Yes and no. That's who I was going to see, yet I was not getting all dressed up for him, so drop that." She said half sternly.

"But Rosier of all people. Why?" Marlene asked.

"Because, McGonagall said that he had the biggest transfiguration grades in our entire year. Crazy right?" Odetta said.

"That's.. but he's a Slytherin. Obviously she would know not to mix a Gryffindor with a Slytherin right?" Marlene spoke again.

"Well I'm not sure what's up with Minnie these days, so don't even ask me." Odetta said, throwing her hands up in defense.

"But anyways guys, guess what?" Odetta said to the two.

"What?" The two girls said in unison.

"He asked for me to go to hogsmeade with him tomorrow!" Odetta yelled from excitement.