Conall Wolf

27) The deal

Conall is laying on a bed in the medical wing, next to him is Faolán. This transformation wasn't what he thought. For some reason this was one of his worst transformation. This transformation was one of the heaviest, and he felt it from the beginning to the end. He woke up early this morning, he didn't change back yet so he also felt the transformation back and that was even a worse feeling.

After the transformation he felt really nauseous and his whole body hurt. With great difficulty he arrived at the medical wing, together with Faolán. Faolán didn't feel good either, and he said that it was better that they would rest here. This meant that they had to tell the healer what was going on.

The healer understood it, and she said that she was informed that their would be werewolves, so she wouldn't be confused if people would have come to her with problems she couldn't fix. However she was really mad that Conall didn't tell that right after the first task. Then she would have know how to fix his wound.

After a few hours of resting, and taking some sleep it was time to go back to the classes, so Conall is now sitting in the charms class. He kept thinking of what will happen in a short time, and before he knew it, the class was over.

Conall walks from his charms class towards the Care of Magical Creatures class. On the way he sees Brigitte walking, and he runs towards her. They made the plan of doing it today, after the class. He really wants to go through the plan one more time, so she can't screw it up.

"Hey Brigitte." Conall says while he is now walking next to her.

"Hey Conall." She says casual.

"Are you ready?" Conall says, while he looks sceptical to her friends. He is sure that she told her friends everything, but he rather avoids confrontation.

Brigitte realises that and he turns to her friends. "I will see you guys later, when I finish class."

Conall smiles kind to her friends. He remembers that Brigitte is the only one of her friend group that choose Care of Magical Creatures, and that is perfect for this situation.

"Of course I am ready, you told me everything for like 10 times, each day." Brigitte says, highlighting her last words.

"Yeah yeah, but just to be sure. After the class you will go to professor Diggory. You will tell her that you are really interested in magical creatures and that you have read everything in the library. However, you are wondering if she knows more, for example about centaurs. Then she will tell you some things, you will kindly thank her and then you come back straight to me." Conall says. He did as much as possible that he can do himself.

"I know Conall, I know! I can almost dream this plan. Don't worry about me, I will do whatever I can. The faith is in professor Diggory her hands." Brigitte says annoyed. Conall scratches the back of is head, he may overthought this to much, and told her the plan to many times.

"I'm sorry... I just want it to go right." Conall says.

"I know, and it will be." Brigitte says, and then she starts to walk with a quicker pace so Conall is now walking alone. He sighs and he wonders how this will go.

The class went by fast. Conall kept checking on Ashley her mood. He wanted to make sure that all the conditions are perfect, and luckily Ashley looked really happy today, so that was some good information. He kept checking on Brigitte. However, he couldn't tell anything of how she is acting. She was just following the class and doing as if nothing is happening.

Conall starts to walk away a bit, but halfway on the way he stops, and he walks the other way around. He said goodbye to his friends and he walks towards the forest, keeping a safe distance from where the classes are taken. He keeps looking at Brigitte and Ashley. He sees that they are in a conversation and he smiles. This is going the good way.

Conall arrives at the side of the forest and he leans against one of the tree, waiting until Brigitte comes to him to tell everything she heard. While he is waiting he hears some soft laughing noises, that can only come from Brigitte and Ashley. He gets a really good feeling with hearing all this laughing.

After a while Brigitte is walking towards Conall with a big smile. Conall keeps looking behind her, checking if Ashley isn't checking on which way she is walking, and then Brigitte was in front of him.

"And how did it go?" Conall says, so curious of what information she got.

"It went so good! It was really nice talking with her, we had a lot of fun and I can totally see why you hang out a lot with her." Brigitte begins excited and Conall rolls his eyes. This is not what he wants to know, besides how longer she starts to talk how more information she forgets.

"Alright alright, that is nice to hear, but what is the information you got???" Conall asks, he can't wait to hear his answer.

"Oh yeah. So she started with the information that centaurs are really good with astrology. They can predict the nearest future, and see more things in the sky than wizards." Brigitte begins. Conall already knew this information so he hopes she heard more things.

"Was that it, or do you have more?" Conall asks.

"Well, she also said that centaurs have the best hearing of any creature alive. I have to admit that-" Brigitte says further but Conall already zones out. Good hearing, that explains everything! Centaurs have a good hearing, so that explains the screaming. If you have screaming.. then there is also silence. The empty paper, nothing, silence. This is it, this explains everything.

"Thanks Brigitte! Thanks! you just gave the perfect information!" Conall says glad. With saying these words, other words are filling his head. The kiss. Without thinking he gives a quick kiss on her mouth, now he is still in a fuddle where he isn't thinking clearly. If he waits longer, he will overthink it to much.

"What was that?" Brigitte asks.

"The kiss you wanted?" Conall asks a bit confused. Why she is always talking about weird things?

"This was the kiss? I asked for a proper kiss Conall, this wasn't a proper kiss." Brigitte says arrogant. She raises and eyebrow and waits for more. Conall sighs. He hoped it was enough, but probably not.

He closes his eyes, and now he is starting to overthink everything, the one thing he wanted to avoid. He feels that Brigitte is walking closer to him, he can feel her warmth. Then a small touch on his arm, and then he feels her hand in his neck. He stiffens of this movement and he opens his eyes. He sees that Brigitte is now a few inches away from him, and then her lips are touching his lips carefully.

Brigitte is getting complete into he kiss, and Conall has absolutely no idea of what he has to do. He just stands there still, overwhelmed of everything that is going on. Brigitte is getting closer to him and she is now standing completely against him. His feelings say that he needs to pull back, that this is going to far, but his mind is saying something else.

While the kiss is happening he has the feeling that he is getting closer to something, but he can't reach it. He closes his eyes and then he sees a door, he can almost reach is. The longer the kiss is taking, the closer he gets to the door. Even how much he hates this kiss, he feels like he must keep going, because he gets closer and closer.

They came to a point that Brigitte wants to get a step further, and Conall can feel her tongue touching his lips. He swallows when that is happening, but at the same time the door is opening and he sees Katsumi his face. He hears Katsumi his voice and name echoing inside his head, and his face is getting clearer and clearer. He pulls back abruptly from the kiss and Brigitte is look a bit in shock to him.

Conall knows what he has to do, he needs to confess is love to Katsumi.

"What? What are you doing Conall, you are acting so weird!" Brigitte says offended. Conall realises that he was probably the worst kisser ever, because he was only focussed on Katsumi. However, Conall didn't pay any attention to it.

"I am sorry." Conall says, while saying these words he runs away.