smile↪ tom riddle

-chapter 16

Victoria inhale the morning breeze air of saturday as she listen to the melody of the birds, chirping.

This makes her relax.

A lot of thing happened in her first week of Hogwarts. Most of them are crazy things that makes her feel worried that's why she went to the Forbidden Forest to take a walk.

Alone in the woods, Victoria traveled her eyes at the forest, admiring it's beauty.

It was her comfort place.

Victoria darted her eyes to a Bird, flying towards the nest with a worm in it's mouth. She heard the low chirping sound in the nest which she believe is coming from the baby birds. The Mother Bird dropped the worm out from her mouth, feeding it to her babies. This makes Victoria's heart soften.

Victoria smiled genuinely in the sight of it.

Victoria continue to walk through the Forest when she heard footsteps coming at her, so she pulled out her wand, clutching to it very tightly and turned her head to check out who it is. She sighed in relief when she only saw a stag walking around.

"I'm such a paranoid..." Victoria thought as she put her wand back to her pocket

Meanwhile, the Trio, Gideon and the Corpus Siblings enjoyed their time at Hogsmead. They are currently at the Honeydukes, enjoying the sweets they bought.

The idea of Yule Ball make Gideon excited and nervous at same time. He thought that this will be probably the perfect time to confess his love for Rhea Corpus.

The plan is to ask her to the Yule Ball. 

Gideon told this to her brother, Henry and when he told it about it, Henry laughed.

Henry said that he know it and it was pretty obvious especially when Gideon called Rhea 'Love'. The way Gideon said it to her sister gave him the idea that Gideon was literally inlove with his sister.

Gideon flushed a blush in embarrassment and this make Henry laughed even more.

Gideon asked Henry for help of how to ask Rhea to the Yule Ball. Henry jokingly said to Gideon: "You can face a Dragon but you can't ask my sister out?"

Henry almost choked from his own saliva for laughing at the sight of his long time friend Gideon with his full face looking like a tomato because of embarrassment.

Henry never saw Gideon looking nervous and embarrassed. I mean — He's Gideon Andrew Williams! The Greatest Prankster! The Trouble Maker! The Lion amongst them!

But because of this, Henry knew that Gideon won't never hurt his sister so Henry agreed to help Gideon.

In the other hand, Rhea was scared to this upcoming Yule Ball.

What is she gonna wear?

Should she attend?

Who's gonna ask her out? Who's gonna ask Rhea Kyle Corpus? The nerd? The loser? The weirdo?

She is losing hope.

Rhea shook her head and fixed her glasses. She put asides the thoughts about the upcoming Yule Ball and continues to eat the Liquorice Wand she bought from Honeydukes.

"Anybody want to go to Jonko's?" Gideon asked the Corpus Siblings but none of them reply

Gideon wish Victoria was here with them because she's gonna flip out when she find out there's a joke store in Hogsmead.

"Yes i do, Giddy!" Gideon answered his own question, imitating Rhea's voice but in a high pitch tone, making him look like a lovesick girl

Gideon grabbed Rhea's arm to the Joke Shop.

"I don't sound like that!" Rhea complained

"Ofcourse you are, Love..." Gideon playfully replied as he winked at her causing Rhea to rolled her eyes

Henry silently chuckled to himself while shooking his head as he followed the two to the Joke Shop

The Trio entered The Joke Shop and started to make their own way to different section.

Gideon looked for Dung Bombs and Fireworks while The Corpus Siblings just studied every material for pranking.

While looking for things, Henry accidentally bumped to someone.

"I-I'm sorry..." Henry muttered weakly

Henry looked up to see who is it and saw the Brunette Girl wearing a Gryfinndor scarf. It's Kathleen Widowskirt, from his Herbology Class.

"Oh," Henry said in realization, he cleared his throat "Hi, Kathleen!"

Kathleen widened her eyes as she realized who's person she bumped into "Oh, h-hi Henry..."

Henry just nodded and was about to walked towards to Gideon, who was busy looking for Dung Bombs when Kathleen stopped him.

"Yes?" Henry politely asked the girl

"Well," Kathleen started, She took a deep breath as she keep muttering in her mind To be a Gryfinndor

"I was wondering if you wanted to go to the ball with me?" Kathleen asked with her charming voice

This left Henry shocked. He was full of racing thoughts such as:

Someone wanted to go to the ball with me!

Wait, is the boy supposed to ask the girl?

What about Victoria?

Right... Victoria...

Victoria...

"Well?" The Gryfinndor Girl questioned, snapping Henry from his thoughts

"Oh, uhm, I—uh..." Henry stammered nervously, looking for a word to answer the girl

Just be true to yourself, Henry! Listen to your heart!

But what if Victoria reject you? This is your chance, Henry. Don't miss it.

No Henry! You'll regret it! You're a Hufflepuff! You're supposed to be Loyal!

This is your chance, Henry...

The good and evil in Henry are fighting so he mentally shook his head.

He finally made his decision...

Henry smiled sadly at the girl and answered the girl politely as he could. "I'm really sorry but i'm going with someone else..."

"Oh," Kathleen's shoulders dropped "Okay..." Kathleen smiled sadly

"I'll see you at Herbology Class!" Kathleen said, bidding her farewell to Henry and immediately left the scene

Henry sighed heavily and went to Gideon

"Who's that lass?" Gideon asked, not looking at Henry because his eyes are fixed in the Dung Bomb he was holding

"No one..." Henry answered "Just a classmate..."

"Uh-uh" Gideon replied, still his eyes at the Dung Bomb

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a/n: hi y'all! wdyd? so yeah. the henry and kathleen scene makes me wanna kill myself from the cringeness of it. i don't even know why i'm continuing this book but the ideas in my mind are stuck in my head. well, i don't wanna waste it so yeah. i'll probably focus in this book and maybe after i finish this, i'll continue my draco malfoy one because that book is 100% cringe (fair warning). anyway, what do you think kathleen's last name? i want it weird/unique so yeah. i changed my theme as you can see. so what do you think? school just started here in my country so the update will be very very slow. so yeah keep sane and stream lovesick girls by blackpink for better life :))

the author's note is longer than the chapter itself, wtf...