Loneliness in Difference

Chapter 13: The Hogwarts Letter That was Never Answered

Luke discovered three things over the course of New Year's Eve night. One, Adelaide hates coconut with a burning passion, two, never invite Cecillia's boyfriend to a party, and three, you never  want to tell Cecillia and Adelaide's mothers, "no."

He experienced Adelaide's hate for coconut during a game everyone in the Ravenclaw's party decided to play. Hana, of course, had snuck himself and Jakob into the Ravenclaw dormitory because she wanted to hang out with Luke. He was very grateful for her gesture of kindness. The game included one person being blindfolded, fed a food of the party members choice, and trying to guess what it was.

When Adelaide was told the game's rules she tried to sneak up the steps back to the room she was staying in. Cecillia had caught her and, naturally, because of Adelaide's discretion, they decided she'd be the first to be blindfolded.

They decided to give her plain coconut and her exact words when she tried it was, "it tastes like a stupid ass piece of coconut." They told her to swallow it but she spit back out instead and her expression as she tried to get rid of the taste in her mouth made everyone laugh.

Luke made a mental note to never get her anything that included coconut as a present.

Later in the night Luke ran into Cain while he was making a stupid, but funny, joke with Cecillia. The thing about Cain is somehow he got the idea into his thick skull that Luke was trying to take Cecillia away from him. So now whenever Cain showed up and he was hanging out with her, Cain tried to one up Luke and be better than him. This repetitive process was starting to seriously piss Luke off. He didn't remember how many times he had tried to convince Cain that he was NOT interested.

Ten minutes after they stopped playing the food game Luke was in the middle of telling his terrible jokes, Cain showed up and challenged Luke to a duel for no reason what so ever. Luke laughed at first and said Cain had probably had too much butterbeer or something. Cain kept glaring at Luke until he caught on that Cain was dead serious.

Luke turned down the duel as he rolled his eyes.

"I'm not going to tolerate you harassing my girlfriend Veiltick ," Cain said disgustedly. "So you are going to accept my challenge."

"First of all, Cain , I'm being a dork, that's my job," Luke said as if he was talking to a toddler. "Secondly, everything you think is going on between us isn't happening, and thirdly, before Cecillia was officially your girlfriend she was my friend. If I want to be an annoying dork, I sure as hell will. If she gets to annoyed with me, she punches me in my ribs. It's a compromise that has been standing for a year and a half. Cecillia is not a damsel in distress who needs you to come save her."

"Well-" Cain began.

"He's right Cain," Cecillia interrupted. "I appreciate you worrying about me Cain, but if he gets too annoying I'll sucker punch him in his rib cage. So there's not need to worry."

"I'm not sure whether I should be happy you're agreeing with me or worried," Luke said.

Cain bit his lip and Cecillia turned away from them. Not even a moment later Cain whipped out his wand and yelled, "Petrificus Totalus!" Luke's arms raised to cover his face instinctively.

"Protego Maxima! Expelliarmus!"

Cain's wand flew out of his hand and his attention refocused to the girl who was now pointing a wand at his throat.

"And you claim Luke's childish." A voice sighed. Luke lowered his arms. Adelaide.

"Who the hell are you?" Cain ordered.