Reality Bites Harry Potter

Or Something...

Thanks a lot, Shay. Thanks. A. Lot. I slowly walked out of the room and saw Theo. He was just standing there and staring, looking shocked. Crap, now what? "Um," I started to say, but then he ran off. I sighed. Great, now he doesn't want to be my friend anymore. I thought, starting to feel depressed. I decided to go for a walk around the school grounds until dinner. I can't believe he heard us! That's so embarrassing! I just want to crawl under a rock and never come out. Why did I have to be so stupid and make a scene like that? Right in front of him, too! Oh Merlin, please help me get through this. I found myself sitting by the Black Lake. I ended up burying my face into my knees. I sat there for probably twenty or thirty minutes before Blaise joins me.

"Pyper, what are you doing out here?" He asks me curiously. I sighed. Should I tell him? "Theo has been acting so weird ever since we got back to the common room after 5th hour. He won't tell me what's wrong. Do you know what's going on with him?" Blaise sounded so confused and worried.

"Well, I kind of maybe sort of have a crush on him and he found out in a very inconvenient way." I said hugging my knees.

"How do you mean?" Blaise asked curiously. I'm surprised that he isn't shocked about that. Maybe it was more obvious than I thought. Oh well, the cat's out of the bag now.

"Well, he tried to sneak Shay into the common room earlier so she could come see me, but then Malfoy decided to be a jerk and question it. Theo came up with the brilliant idea of calling Shay his new girlfriend and me being an idiot actually believed it and I got angry with her. So, she dragged me off to the side and basically forced me to admit it and then to my horror, Theo was standing not too far away and heard everything." I said and I could feel my face heating up. "I tried to say something to him after Shay RAN away, but he just took off. So now I'm thinking he just doesn't want to be my friend anymore and that he thinks I'm stupid or something." I definitely feel stupid.

"You're not stupid, Pyper." Blaise said shaking his head. "Theo is the one being stupid."

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"I mean, that idiot has a crush on you, too and after hearing that you feel the same way, he just ran away from it." Blaise said rolling his eyes. I felt my eyes grow to the size of a dinner plate.

"He does?" I was definitely shocked.

"Well, yeah, it's pretty obvious." Blaise said shaking his head. I pouted.

"Well you didn't have to be so mean about it." I said frowning.

"I didn't exactly mean for it to come out that way." He said looking apologetic. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay," I said smiling.

"Anyways, I'm going to find him before dinner and have a talk with him, okay?"

"You really don't have to. I kind of want to talk to him myself." I said starting to feel determined now. Blaise looked at me surprised.

"You're not going to get mad at him are you?" He asked looking worried.

"No, I'm not mad at him. I just want to talk to him about this, that's all." I said standing up. "Thanks for telling me this stuff, I really appreciate it." He nodded and stood up too.

"The last time I saw him, he was in the library. I'll be in our room if you need anything." I nodded and then the two of us went our separate ways. Theo was where Blaise said he saw him last. He was sitting at one of the tables and looked like he was working on a homework assignment.

"Hey Theo," I said sitting down in one of the chairs. He flinched a little and looked at me. He looked really upset for some reason. "What's wrong?"