Huflepuff x Slytherin & Griffindor x Ravenclaw

Misunderstanding

Valerie sits in her four-poster holding a small picture in her head while crying silently. The picture was her and Zayn in the Yule Ball on their fourth year. 

Suddenly, the girls' dormitories door opened. Valerie wiped her tears and hid the picture before sweeping away her four-poster hangings. There stood Alyssa. Valerie glared at her.

"....good evening, Val..." Alyssa said awkwardly, slightly panting.

"There's nothing good about this evening, Alyssa. Not when you find out your so called best friend steals the guy you love, especially when she knows you like him so damn much." Valerie said furiously but made her voice as calm as she can.

Alyssa sighed sadly. "I just thought you'd like to know, Zayn's downstairs and he's waiting to see you." She said, before walking away.

"Tell him I'm as interested to see him as I am interested to see you." Valerie growled coldly. 

Alyssa sighed again. "Okay...." She muttered before turning her back on Valerie and walking out the door.

Valerie closed her four-poster hangings around her and lied down on her bed. The door opened again, but this time a little bit more violently. Then Valerie heard Alyssa.

"Please don't...I don't think she needs to be upset anymore...."

"I don't care. I need to apologize." Came Zayn's almost crying voice, and soon enough, Valerie's four-poster hangings were swept aside.

Valerie's glare returned, yet this time it was less cold. "You have no business in the Hufflepuff's common room at this time, and don't get me started about how you're not supposed to be in the girls' dormitories." She snapped.

"Valerie, I take no pleasure in entering this dormitory. I just want to talk to you." Zayn replied more strongly than earlier.

"And what if I don't want to talk to you?" Valerie asked savagely.

"Stop this facade, Valerie." Zayn ordered.

"This is no facade, Cromar. I am merely showing my stone side."  Valerie said earnestly.

"Since when in hell have you ever called me Cromar?!" Zayn queried, now furious.

"Since now. And to be honest, it's like pulling a giant dagger off my chest when I say the surname. It still sends pain, but barely enough." Valerie shrugged.

"Alyssa, out. Now." Zayn commanded, and Alyssa obeyed.

Valerie raised an eyebrow as Zayn sat on her bed.

"Val," He began, and it was obvious he was choosing his words carefully. "I know what I did was unforgivable...but..."

"I know where this is going. 'But it wasn't me, it was Alyssa' or some bullshit like that." Valerie rolled her eyes.

"Valerie, you don't know how much pain I went through to get here!" Zayn said loudly, and instantly regretting it. 

"....what do you mean...?" Valerie asked, all anger forgotten. She sat closer to him and saw, with horror, that he had a bruise on his eye, the rest of his face covered in scratches. She gasped. "Zayn...who did this...?"

Zayn hesitated then said, "You remember those guys that provoked you? The day we met Kitara?" 

Valerie nodded. 

"They beat me up. Turns out they all like you, that's why they 'teased' you. When they found out I  was in the Hospital Wing with you, they had their anger an jealousy fed (A/N: we have no time for wise words, baka.) and when they found out I quot and quot cheated on you, they hunted me down (A/N: is that the correct term to use?) and well, one thing led to another." Zayn explained, then shook his head. "But that's not the main point. My point is, I would never ever cheat on you. You know in your heart that this Slytherin is loyal to the bone." 

Valerie, finally, was convinced, but not fully. "Answer me this first." She said calmly. "Why didn't you push her away?" 

Zayn sighed. "Have you ever been in a situation where you've been paralyzed on a spot because you feel that the situation is rushed that you can't even think straight?" He asked. "Also, if I did push her away, she'd be another patient of Madam Kiesha. You know how violent my pushing skills are."

For the first time, Valerie laughed, a light one. Then she subconsciously leans on Zayn. "I'm...sorry. I shouldn't have assumed so quickly. But now you need to go to Madam Kiesha." She smiled softly. "Zayn, what are the names of these boys?" 

"I...don't know them much. They sorta just came out of the shadows (A/N: ya, I think his name's Jellal. He is a bully and all. Bullies me and sissy all  the time.) and, you know what happened then." Zayn shrugged.

Valerie grumbled something under her breathe before taking out her animal; a black cat. Zayn gaped at it, surprised.

"Black cats have been descended in my muggle family. It's a tradition to have the oldest child keep a black cat. It doesn't give us bad luck, as my father would say, because we are the ones who take care of it. This is Nebula. She's been the cat of my grandmother, passed to my father and soon to me. Nebula has always been a loyal Joyce cat, and will do anything the Joyces tell her to. Of course, she only gives bad luck to those her family have a grudge against." Valerie explained, playing with the cat. "Go on, she won't bite. Well, she won't bite you. She's smelt your scent before, on our first day here at Hogwarts. She's used to your scent now, used to follow all four of us when we go out, so she's also used to Lizzy's and Edwin's scents now."

Zayn hesitated before reaching out a hand and petting the cat cautiously.

"Nebula has the nose of a dog (Like Gon). She remembers you..." Valerie added, smiling as the cat licked Zayn's hand. "Nebula, I have a job for you. Zayn, let her smell your eye and the rest of your bruises."

"What? Why?" Zayn asked, withdrawing his hand.

"For Nebula to sniff out those assholes who did that to you! Unless you want me to deal with them." Valerie rolled her eyes. 

"She won't...scratch me...will she?" Zayn asked attentively.

Valerie raised an eyebrow at him. "I thought I already explained this, Zayn." She sighed. 

Zayn sighed as well and nodded. Valerie set Nebula free and Nebula climbed Zayn, then sniffed his bruises. Then she hissed.

"Think you can find them and cause a little...mayhem?" Valerie asked, a smile tugging on her lips. 

Nebula meowed as if saying "That's what I was born to do, master" and soon she jumped off Zayn and made her way to the window, where she jumped off.

"...will she be okay?" Zayn asked.

"She'll be fine. Nebula's always landed on her feet even if dropped from the highest building." Valerie shrugged then turned back to him. 

"I'm sorry, Val..." Zayn said as he closed his eyes and felt Valerie's hands snake their way on his cheeks. 

"I said I forgive you, silly." Valerie chuckled. "But I can't promise I can forget it." 

Zayn smiled as he slowly drifted off to sleep with the girl he's loved for the past five and a half years.