The heart of a Black (A Severus Snape love story)(Watty Awards 2012)

Chapter 3

    Aria leaned her chin into her hand as she sat at the breakfast table the next morning. She had Defense Against the Dark arts with the slytherin's first thing this morning and she was not looking forward to seeing Professor Snape. Not after last night. She remembered the kiss, it was passionate and heated. She had never felt anything like that, not even with kissing her boyfriend Neville. She looked up at the staff table to see Professor Snape looked at her. He had a smirk on his face and she wondered if he was thinking about what happened last night in the storeroom. It was no longer his storeroom but Slughorn had needed to it cleaned and Snape was her detention teacher so they did it instead, besides Professor Snape was very good with Potions... and he was good at kissing. Aria looked away from him as she felt herself blush.

    "Right, Aria" Neville asked her, touching her on the shoulder. She looked up at him blinking.

    "I'm sorry ... what?" Aria leaned toward Neville, "I'm sorry, Neville, my mind was else where"

    "Detention was horrible, wasn't it?" Ron asked Neville's question a little differently. She looked at the red haired boy sitting across the table next to Hermione and shook her head. She knew that he had a crush on Hermoine, that he had since the beginning of them starting school.

    "It was not so bad" Aria sighed softly looking at them. She sighed watching them all look at her with horror, like she had just said the world was going to explode or something. She thought it was good for a different reason. She had come back to her dorm crying, but not because he had kissed her. She had been upset because he had rejected her right after the amazing kiss. She shrugged. "What? I said it wasn't bad, i didn't say it was good"

    "True" Neville laughed. He put his arm around her shoulders seeing as he had finished his breakfast. "But i would not want to have detention with Professor Snape for a week, I admit he scares me to death sometimes."

    "Well, neither do I, but i wasn't thinking it through, I honestly didn't think he'd go for it." Aria took a bit of her pancakes. She leaned into Neville's arms, and took a sip of her milk. The bell rang indicating that breakfast was over. She took Neville's hand and he pulled her to her feet. She grabbed her bag and they went hand in hand to the Defense Against the Dark Arts room on the third floor. As they entered the classroom there came a cough from a head of them and they jumped apart. She looked up to see Professor Snape glaring at her from his desk. She knew that he hated public displays of affection, but something in his eyes made it seem like he was ready to murder Neville. She could have sworn she saw jealousy in his eyes, but she couldn't be sure and she didn't have the guts to confromt him about it, even in privacy.

    "Miss. Black, Mr. Longbottom, please refrain from sharing your joyous relationship with the rest of us" His tone was cold, even more so then when he normally talks to her.

    "Just because you can't get any..." Aria stared into his eyes as she sat down in her chair between Neville and Hermione, they both looked at each other with horror as they realized where her converstation was going. "Doesn't mean that the rest of us should suffer"

    "Its not of you business wither or not I can .... get some" Professor Snape said, it sounding very awkward on his lips. She felt a smile slip on her face as she heard him speak. "We just don't need to see it from you, its rather disgusting and annoying"

    "Really?" Aria sighed. She wanted to say, this coming from the man that pinned me against the wall last night and kissed me, but that didn't seem like a good idea. "Well, whatever, carry on with your teaching, please. I'd like to learn a few things before the day is out"

    "I don't need your permission to do my job" Professor Snape crossed his arms across his chest and paced the front of the class as he spoke again. "What i would like is for you to keep your mouth shut so we can get through our lesson"

    "Very well" Aria waved her hand dismissing his words without a second thought. She was surprised she hadn't gotten more points taken away or any more detentions, but she was sure after last night he probably didn't want to spend more time with her then necessary. It wasn't long before the bell rang and everyone was filing out as fast as possible, including her with Neville on her heels. 

    Aria was glad that today was going by so fast, even though she had detention tonight. Maybe she could ask him why he kissed her like that. Maybe she didn't want to know, but she was a very curious person, so if she didn't ask it would drive her nuts. So again dressed in dark blue jeans, a low cut shirt, bearing the muggle band name Skillet on the front and the tour dates on the back, she pulled a black sweatshirt on and said goodbye to her friends. She made her way to the third floor where his office was. She saw that the door was open, she peaked in, before she knocked. He was sitting behind his desk, his hair was pulled back out of his face, which highlighted his handsome facial features. She felt herself blush as she realized just how handsome he was when he wasn't hiding behind the curtain of black hair.

    "Sir?" She spoke as she knocked on the door. He looked up at her, almost confused, like what was she doing here, until it dawned on him. She had detention. "Are you okay?"

    "Yes, I am fine" He blinked looking at her as if for the first time in the six years that she has been going to the school. "Why are you concerned?"

    "I don't know, you just looked tired for a moment" Aria sat in one of the chairs in front of his desk. "Sir, because we start, i was wondering if i could ask you something?"

    "I suppose, but I reserve any right not to answer" He looked across at her. He could see the shadow of her cleavage underneath the sweatshirt she wore. He wondered if she knew what it did to him, wondered if he knew that he actually liked her, not hated her. He highly doubted it since he treated her so badly.  He looked away from her.

    "Why did you kiss me yesterday?"

    "I... uh" He wasn't sure how to answer. "I can't explain why i did that, it was inappropriate and I apologize"

    "I believe that you're sorry, i just want to know why" Aria looked at her hands. She could be bold, but something about him made her want to crawl in a corner and pray he didn't see her. Her heart pounded fast against her chest.

    "And when I have an explanation, I will give it to you" She thought for a moment that maybe he smiled, but it was gone as quickly as it came. She looked back at him for a moment.

    "What are you going to have me do today?" Aria sighed softly wondering if it was going to be more manual labor.

    "Homework" he sighed pulling out a stack of papers. "You can help me grade the first years essays."

    "Yes, sir"

    They sat in a comfortable silence, something they had never been able to achieve before. She glanced at him every so often wondering if they might be able to kiss again, but she doubted it. She pushed the thought out of her head before she turned the situation awkward again. She continued to grade the papers with him. They both seemed to be at peace with each other at the moment and it seemed that neither of them wanted to interrupt it.