The Queen and Her King

Outguessed (Part One)

Brielle POV

After Ben's little number, I parted ways with Harry for a second. It was odd, I could barely even get away from him. He was insisting on following me everywhere but I managed to slip away from him and text Ben,

"Meet me in your office, alone and make sure no one follows you"

I know it sounds ominous but this was serious. I quickly walked through the halls, shoving past people to get to Ben's office. Once I did I went ahead and knocked to find that he had beat me there, Harry did end up stalling me for a long time so I wasn't surprised. Without saying anything I kinda shoved passed him and into his office,

"Hey Bri, what's up?"

He said as he shut the door. I shrugged and tried to play it cool, Ben wasn't going to believe the spelling theory so I had to be tactical with this,

"Nothing much, just wanted to ask how that little song and dance about Mal came about? It seemed awfully thought out"

"Well, I just feel so amazing around her Bri. I really noticed it this morning, it's like she was all I could see..."

Like how I was with Harry after eating that stupid cookie?

"... I just had to let everyone know how much I love her"

He said, obviously over-swooning,

"What about Audrey?"

"What about her?"

I raised a brow and crossed my arms, 

"You know, your girlfriend? Have you completely forgotten you two were even together? Probably not anymore after that musical stunt. She looked awfully distressed"

Ben chuckled,

"I know I know, but I don't love Audrey like that. Just looking at Mal this morning made me realize that"

I slowly nodded and looked out the window to think for a few seconds before turning back around,

"Speaking of this morning and Mal, did you manage to snatch one of those delicious cookies she made?"

Ben smiled and loosely crossed his arms,

"Yeah I did, weren't they amazing? She's so talented isn't she?"

I slowly nodded,

"Yeah... so talented, so smart too..."

I murmured with some venom in my tone,

"... hey, I gotta go I just remembered something I have to go do uh see you later"

I said quickly as I left my swooning brother in his office, googly eyes and dorky smile and all. While it was nice to see him happy about someone, I have to go try something, we can't be going around spelled like this.

I stopped by my dorm and changed out of my heels and put on some sneakers, I was going on a bit of a hike so proper footwear was needed, but I didn't have time to change out of my dress. I had to be quick. I dropped off all of my stuff and began to lightly jog/quickly walked down the halls and down the stairs.

 I was so close to getting out without a run in but of course, that would be too easy. 

As I went down the stairs, head down I passed by Harry. The influence of whatever spell or whatever I was under returned as I brushed his arm, I shivered and looked away as I kept walking head down. I couldn't look at him again until this stupid spell is gone. I guess he had noticed me, I will say it's hard not to sometimes,