ℑ𝔫𝔳𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔖𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 //𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔲𝔰 𝔏𝔲𝔭𝔦𝔫

chapter three

“you got in Camila! ”ellie says excitedly as she looks over the scroll pinned up to the notice board in the Hufflepuff common room . Camila looks over at ellie and breathes a sigh of relief. She saw many tall guys who looked like they knew what they were doing at the tryouts and was worried if she'll even get in as a backup chaser . It was a Tuesday morning and ellie made sure to wake her up today to check if camila got in. And she did.

And now she was being dragged away to the great hall by ellie probably to tell amara Whether camila got in or not. She happily skipped along to the great hall and went over to the Slytherin table where amara sits at the corner.

“looking at your smile, I'm assuming camila got in ” amara says looking at ellie before looking at her to confirm and when she nodded amara gave a her a big smile showing off her pearly whites “good for your mila, congrats! I know how much you loved quidditch” amara says , excited for her

  “ thank you amara, but we should probably head back to our table”  camila says  and takes ellie back to the Hufflepuff table, it wasn't that she disliked spending time with amara, it's just that she was uncomfortable as she noticed several people glaring at her, she did know that many slytherins did not care about blood purity but there was many others who cared about blood purity a lot, and they exceeded in numbers more than the people who didn't care. And she particularly wasn't the best person to hang around the Slytherin table given her blood status.

After breakfast, the rest of her day went fine, she went to her morning classes, she ate lunch, and she continued on about her day until it was time for potions class. She walked in to the potions class and kept her bag down on the desk and sat in the corner of her desk, by the time she came her partner was already sitting at the desk as usual, but today  the class was so far empty except for a few people being here and there.

Usually they had fifteen minutes in between classes, and camila and ellie went to class together and just talked with each other if they came earlier but today ellie has told camila to go first and that she forgot some of her books. So there she was, sitting alone with her partner amd awkwardly looking around. She was just fidgeting around with her ring that she wore just for this purpose.

From when she was young, camila always had trouble with just sitting and not moving and this had constantly got her in trouble with her schools which in turn got her in trouble with her parents, so she always tried to minimize her movement by just fidgeting around. She got this ring at a fair a few years ago but had somehow gotten attached to it.

So she just sat there, twisting her ring around and bouncing her knees. Her partner was sitting with his head lying on the desk, his eyes closed. His fluffy light brown hair looked messy, like he just brushed his finger through it before coming, he looked very tired , he had dark circles under his eyes and was very pale today. Her eyes were tracing  over his freckles  and the long scar running over his jaw  when his eyes opened, camila panicked and quickly averted her gaze.

Now, it must look like she was shamelessly admiring him, which she was, but he didn't need to know that, oh god she was so embarrassed, she hoped the rest of the class will quickly come and rescue her from embarrassing herself further. But they still had ten minutes left till the class started, and around only 5 people- counting herself and her partner  showed up so far.

She just continued on with fiddling her ring and bouncing her knee and hoped that these ten minutes will pass quickly.

“would you please stop doing that?   ” her partner's voice cuts  through the silence, his voice deep and husky from just waking up.

“doing what?” she asked. She was really hoping he wouldn't point out the fact that she was shamelessly staring at him earlier, because if he did, she would avada kadavra herself out of this world.

“doing that ” he quickly placed his hand on her knee to stop it from bouncing, the feeling of his cold hand over her knee has caught camila off guard so she just nodded, dumbstruck. He quickly removed his hand. “sorry for being snappy , I'm just tired,” he apologized to her.

“oh no, it's okay I'm the one who should be apologizing.I didn't mean to disturb you .I just do that sometimes, actually I do that a lot , I'm sorry I know  you didn't ask about that i just talk a lot sometimes, not really I do that a lot too. I'm ranting , aren't i? I'm sorry I'll just stop talking now. ”

needless to say camila has a bad habit of either talking too much or not talking at all, there's no in between for her. when she was a kid she used to talk too much, but after she started getting in trouble in school for talking too much and being too energetic. Many of the people she knew along with her parents and friends just told her to shut up as they can't keep up because she talks too much so now she just most of the times doesn't talk at all.

More people started filling in the classroom  now,remus gave her a small smile and was about to say something but was soon interrupted by the professor barging into the class. The class continued in the same boring manner with her half listening and half zoning out.

And that marks the longest conversation that camila had with remus since second year