Sweet Serenity

Chapter 19 part2

-- How curious, very curious. --

THIRD PERSON's POV

The classroom that was filled with students is now almost empty, only two persons remaining. A tall, slender, pale black haired professor with a cold expression and a curious yet nervous young female student. Both of them are staring at each other's eyes, waiting for one of them to utter something.

"Why.. do you... want to know.. what I smell?", the professor asked as he slowly strides near her desk.

"I-I was just curious... p-professor.", eyes fixed to his.

"Nervous, are we?", he teases but then stopped his strides when he's half near her desk.

"If you are that curious, I smelled... vanilla with a hint of mint, floral scent, and... fresh... tears...", he describes when he leaned in near the cauldron in where the love  potion is.

(Y/N) is surprised by his description of what he can smell from the potion, because the scents are very familiar to her. Why? Because it is simply her scents. The scent of her favorite vanilla with mint perfume that she always use every morning and afternoon to freshen up, the floral scent shampoo she uses to make her hair clean and smooth and fresh tears... that describes why there are times that her eyes are puffy or red.

"Interesting.. earlier you told me that it is none of my business, but professor why did you end up telling me?", her thoughts escaped her mouth without thinking about what may happen since her potions teacher is like a ticking bomb.  

"What else do you want (y/n)? I already told you what you wanted to know.", he slams his hands on her desk with an irritated look but in a few seconds his expression softened. "I apologize, that was uncalled for Miss Burns."

"Professor Snape.. I-", a knock on the door interrupted her and he walked to the door revealing his new set of class of first years.

She quickly grabbed her stuffs, "Thank you for your time Professor Snape, I am sorry for bothering you for something stupid, I will take my leave now. I don't want to be late for DADA class."

LOCKHART's POV

I was signing some cards for my fans when students came inside the classroom, right I have to teach them but I am afraid I am only interested on teaching one student.. one particular student. (Y/N) Burns.. Oh there she goes, walking in my room without any idea how much I want her. I walked over in front of my desk and gave the class my famous charming bright smile, "Right then! Go to your seats my wonderful students, and oh Miss Burns do seat at the front row."

"Now! Lend me your ears, since this is our first meet. I got an easy question for you lads, tell me... Does anyone knows what pixies are?", walking at the middle of the class to her row.

There are 4 students raising their hands and there includes (Y/N), "Yes! Miss Burns, please do enlighten us about Pixies."

"Pixies sir are tiny creatures who are actually mischievous, semi-intelligent creatures, native to Cornwall. Won't be a great idea to mess with them if you're not good at defending yourself.", she answered cleverly. 

"Perfect! 20 points to you Miss Burns. Very good! Now, in this box I have imprisoned some pixies and now I will be releasing them. Ready?", I excitingly opened the box and lots of them flew away and started to mess with the students.

"Professor Lockhart! What should we do? We haven't started learning defensive spells yet since our previous professor wasn't around that much!", one kid shouted as three pixies starts to carry him upward and hook him at the chandelier.

"Help me! Somebody!", a girl begs as books are flying towards her.

"Calm down children.. they are harmless, relax everyon-", I was almost hit by a flower vase. 

'Oh no, what spell was it to make them freeze?', I thought as some students are now running around trying to escape from those pesky creatures and after a minute there was a wave of spell that hit every pixies. "IMMOBULUS!", said one student and when I turned to see who it was everyone cheered.

"Well done again Miss Burns! I am somehow disappointed to some of you, even if you haven't tackled defensive spells before. You should have read your books, now class that was all for today's lesson. Practice the immobulus spell and we will test your skills again next time. Miss Burns, please stay for a while.", straightening my coat and brushing off dust.

It's only the two of us left in the room, this is perfect! I motioned to her to come near me and offered her some tea and biscuits. "Professor is there something you want to talk about?", she shyly smiled.

"Nothing in particular yet, but I won't mind if you tell me some things about you and your experiences from your previous professor in this class.", fixing my hair and smiled at her.

"Well... as one of my classmate said earlier, Professor Silvia wasn't around much because of personal reasons and obviously we don't know what those were. He only attended our first meeting and then he just leave some activities for us to do on his time such as 5 long parchment essays.", she carefully said before sipping into her cup of tea.

"I see, interesting.. now if I may ask, have you ever had someone as a romantic partner before?", I leaned a bit closer to her.

Her pale complexion quickly turned into a beautiful blush of pink to red, "P-Professor.. I-

AUTHOR'S NOTE: OOOPS! WHAT DO YOU THINK MY LOVELIES?