Breaking Protocol {Percy Weasley}

Chapter Forty-Three

Percy couldn't decide if he was angry or not. He just sat in his own confusion by himself, wondering if he was always going to feel this way. He certainly hoped he didn't because he had just proposed to Clara yesterday and he still couldn't focus on anything else ever since she said no.

He was walking through the Hogwarts corridors, thinking to himself and paying no attention to the students around him. He knew he was the laughing stock of Hogwarts right now, with nearly all of the students witnessing first-hand Percy proposing to Clara in the Great Hall, and any student who didn't see it heard it second-hand from their friends. Percy was very surprised neither Fred nor George had approached him yet, and the more Percy thought about it, he hadn't seen either one of the twins for nearly three days straight. It was definitely odd because the twins were usually everywhere and Percy could never get a break from them.

When a group of girls passed by Percy, pointing and whispering amongst each other, his face inflamed with embarrassment. As much as he tried to ignore all the gossiping around him, he still couldn't stand it. Percy didn't need complete strangers reminding him that what he did was completed irrational, not to mention absolutely ridiculous, because he already knew that. He still couldn't believe that he had actually done that, and to think at one point Percy thought it was a good idea.

He was just so overwhelmed by Clara's love, and love wasn't something Percy experienced much growing up.

Clara and his relationship seemed to change dramatically after that day, as it should have. Percy didn't know that Leo wasn't her real father and discovering that Clara didn't have the perfect childhood he and his family thought she did, caused Percy to feel as if he had to tiptoe around her feelings. It was rather shocking how little Percy knew about Clara. He felt as if she knew everything about him, inside and out, yet Percy failed to get to know the girl Clara was before she came to Hogwarts.

He was ashamed and embarrassed with himself.

Percy was always good with finding information and analyzing what he discovered. However, when it came to understanding people Percy wasn't the best at it. His mother always told him that reading people is not like reading a book, it takes a special kind of skill that not everyone had. She always assured him that it wasn't always a bad thing that Percy didn't understand some things people did, but that with time he would learn.

It always frustrated Percy when he couldn't figure something out because he was so used to being the smartest person in the room. But when Percy was with Clara, she didn't just humble him, but she showed Percy that just because he's read through all of his school textbooks many times, that didn't mean he was prepared for everything that came his way.

And when Clara came his way at the beginning of this school year, Percy wished he had a storm warning because she is unlike anything he had ever experienced before. Without warning, she stole his heart and drove him absolutely mad, and Percy had a hell of a time deciding whether or not Clara was the best thing that ever happened to him.

She was a beautiful disaster, an unexpected storm of a woman.

Thus, bringing Percy to this frustrating state where he was just angry with himself. He wished he hadn't made such a bold decision. Asking Clara to marry him was so beyond his way of thinking, but the thought of losing her pained him so much so that he just had to make sure she was his, and only his. Sure, Clara's haircut and her new look is what drove Percy off the cliff, but he didn't just make that decision based on her one simple decision to change just for him. Yeah, it shocked Percy when he saw her standing there, back to her old self, and after his talk with Penny, Percy came to the final decision that Clara was his soulmate and that he never wanted to let her go.