A Letter 2 Years Late

Chapter 16 - Revealing Secrets

The next day seemed to be a great day. It was a typical nice, sunny and warm spring day. The usual cheesy birds chirping, flowers blooming, happy kind of mood. Of course pathetic fallacy does not come into play here. The world may be happy and cheery but I was grumpy and tired.

I woke up much too late for a start and had almost missed breakfast, which would have added onto my grumpiness if I did. Then I remembered it was Monday, meaning I had charms, with the Slytherins and Professor Forester. And then History too, which meant more torture. This day was not looking good.

"Hello, Bae." I turned around with a groan to come face to face with the jerk himself.

"What do you want Malfoy." I growled, seriously not in the mood.

"Weasley left you yet?" He asked with a smirk.

"No, why would he. Unlike you, he's really sweet." I snarled.

Why were guys such jerks when they like someone? Just as he was about to answer with some snarky remark, Abby bounced by grabbing me with my arm, dragging me to the back with Lilith towing behind us.

"What's with Malfoy?" Abby whispered as we sat down.

"Asking if I'm single yet," I growled rolling my eyes, "Either he thinks I have a bad rep with boyfriends or he really does like me..."

Lilith snorted, "Wow. What an idiot."

The three of us were quickly shushed when Professor Forester walked in. But our silence didn't hold for more than 5 seconds.

"I thought Malfoy had a girlfriend..." Abby whispered.

"Who?" Lilith asked with the most shocked expression ever.

"Jessie, she's a year younger I think," Abby scoffed silently, "Leave it to Malfoy to find a way to seduce a younger girl into dating him."

I was laying my head lightly on my desk since I was so tired but the second those words came out Abby's mouth, my head snapped back and I stared at her shocked.

"Wow." Lilith said with a roll of her eyes. I kept my mouth shut and we turned back to the lesson but I still wondered why Jessie lied to me.

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"JESSIE!" I shouted spotting her by the Gryffindor table during lunch.

"Oh hey Tressa! Been a while hasn't it?"

"Yeah. Could I talk to you for a sec?" I asked sweetly.

"Sure!" Jessie said a quick good-bye to her friends and followed me out courtyard.

"What's new?" Jessie asked.

"Nothing much, you?"

"Same here, but I heard you and Fred are together now." She said with a smirk.

I smiled; "Yeah, how about you? Got a boyfriend yet?" I nudged and winked at her hoping she would tell me something to either prove or disprove Abby's theory.

"No." She replied all too quickly.

"Come on, spill, I heard you dated Malfoy. What's the deal? Why didn't you tell me?" I hadn't wanted to actually have to say I knew but the time was ticking and I still needed to eat lunch. Jessie pulled me aside to an empty corridor and looked around to make sure no one would hear us.

"How do you know?"

"A little birdie told me."

"No seriously."

"Someone told me, I'm not ratting her out." The last thing I needed was more drama.

"We've been hanging out for a while. Ever since last year I think? It wasn't anything serious. Honest! Not until a couple months ago he kissed me but then he started acting all weird and I haven't talked to him for a week now."