The Year of the Revolution VIII. The Return to Innocence

17. Brave

On Monday night, on the way to the Quidditch pitch, Sev had planned the next day's excursion with Hippolyta.

"What do you think about Shelley and Ariel coming with us to the pond tomorrow?" he asked the girl.

"Oh... I thought we were going alone," not disappointed.

"The decision is yours, Hippolyta, there is a reason I am asking you. Don't you want to have a good time with your friends, who are helping you so much in your studies, and also take a bath with them? We are going to have a great time, playing between four is more fun than between two, and so, if you want, we can spend the whole morning together, it is not as compromised as if the two of us go alone."

"Well, I'll give you my opinion. To begin with, get out of your head those nonsense about whether or not it's compromised, you're not that many years older than me and we're not doing anything wrong. Whoever wants to think badly, it is their problem, not ours, we can do whatever we want."

"You're right."

"To continue, I do agree that the four of us are going to have a better time and I really want to bathe with them, but if they come there are things that I really want to do and we won't be able to," she went on. "It's not because I want to be alone with you, it is because of those things that we are going to miss."

"What things?"

"Cast curses, fight and talk about our things."

"We can do them anyway," he said.

"Oh really? How?"

"We'll put Shelley and Ariel to fight each other for a while and we'll stay in the pond chatting and casting curses. And then, when they get tired, let they let us fight or we do two against two with them."

"Okay, I want to be your partner, so we can practice for when we have a snack on the Death Eaters," Hippolyta proposed.

They laughed.

"And another condition," she continued.

"Go ahead."

"If we return after the exams like you told me, we will return alone."

"Okay."

So, the next morning, after breakfast, the four of them went home to prepare for all go to the Forest. The boys took clothes to change into and the girls also took t-shirts because they didn't have swimsuits. We have to buy swimsuits for everyone this summer, so we can also swim in September, thought Sev.

They also went through the kitchens to get something to eat for everyone, Sev carried everything in his backpack. They went directly across the country, taking the shortest route so that Hippolyta would not be exhausted. Shelley and Ariel are excited because they have never been to the pond, and Hippolyta simulates the same excitement as them so that they don't know that she was with me last Thursday, without me having to ask her.

So he let them chat with each other all the way while he guided them. They were excited about the Defense exam they had that afternoon, very happy because everyone expected to get Outstanding. They arrived at the pond.

"Wow... How cool! Sev, why have you never brought me here before?" Ariel asked him.

"I don't know, honey. At Christmas, when we could, I was still very silly and barely paid any attention to you," Sev responded. "Shall we sit down and chat for a while?"

They sat.

"It was frozen at Christmas, right?" asked the boy.

"Of course, like the Lake," Sev responded.