Heart's Desires [ Adrian Pucey ]

Part 17

About a month had gone by and today was Valentine's Day. Adrian had asked me out on a date to Hogsmeade at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop and obviously accepted with no hesitation. I had already put on my clothes and was now putting on makeup. I felt more comfortable in my skin, at least more than I had in the past. I ultimately decided to do natural makeup today. I also decided to curl my hair to change it up a bit. I grabbed my bag and made some final touches before Adrian came. A few minutes later, he showed up.

"You look beautiful Anto," He looked me up and down, which made my face burn a little.

"Thank you, and you look handsome." His curtains were gelled back...that was a bit different nevertheless I liked both hairstyles.

"Well, thank you!" Adrian walked over to me, standing behind me. He put his arms around my waist as he kissed my cheek. I had my hands on top of his.

"Should we get going now?" I asked in a low tone.

"Yes."

We locked hands and made our way to Hogsmeade. We settled down at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop and sat next to each other. We were holding hands until we started drinking our tea and eating.

"So, I was thinking, that maybe we could spend the summer together, even though it's not until a while." Adrian had asked me, and I was shocked, in a good way, though. I wanted to see him over the summer, but I was thinking of what my parents would think about this, maybe if I lied to them...

"Yes! I'd love to. It's just-" I paused and thought of what to tell him.

"What's wrong?" He scooted in closer to me.

"Well, my parents. I'm not sure what they would say." I felt upset at this thought.

"I'm sure we can come up with something." He said while rubbing my back.

"Hopefully, or I could just tell them I'll be with Estella?" I was wondering if Estella would lie for me, but I didn't want her to get involved in a lie. I should've kept my mouth shut.

"You think she'd be able to lie?" 

"Well, probably, but I don't want her getting in trouble if I do get caught- so maybe not?" 

"True, but we still got loads of time! Either way, we don't know, maybe your parents will say yes." 

"I hope so." I smiled, trying to be positive.

"Anyways, I love how you did your hair." I resisted touching his hair, not wanting to ruin it.

"Thank you very much. I see you curled yours." He said, playing with my hair, which I found cute."

Thought I'd do something different." 

"Of course, always changing up your hair," Adrian said jokingly.

"Can't help it." I mockingly said.

"Sure, you can't."

"Oh, whatever." I laughed.

"What if you came to quidditch practice on Monday?" 

"Oh, um, sure! But- what would I be doing?" I didn't honestly want to go, but I didn't want to say no to him.

"Just to watch, but you don't have to come if you don't wanna." 

"No- I will go." Taking a sip of my tea.

"Great! So I'll wait for you in the common room then on Monday evening." Adrian said while he took a bite of his cookie.

"Sounds good. I was also thinking... if someday you'd wanna go to muggle places?" I felt weird asking this.

"Doesn't seem like a bad idea, perhaps maybe next month?"

"Next month- hmm, well yeah, I'll plan it out and then tell you," I said, feeling relieved. I thought he'd say no.

"Great then."

He finished eating his cookies, along with his tea. I was already done. I tend to eat my food fast, not sure why. It's something I've always done. We hung out at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop for another hour until we decided to go to Zonko's Joke Shop to buy a few things. We had also stopped at Honeyduke's for some candy. Along the way, we saw Estella and Damien kissing. Damien accidentally ended up dropping his lollipop on the floor while they were kissing. I couldn't help myself. I quietly laughed into Adrian's chest as we continued walking. We continued making our way back to Hogwarts.

As we were talking, I heard meows coming from somewhere near. "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Adrian was looking around. 

The meows got louder. "It sounds like a kitten!" 

"Huh?" Adrian seemed a bit confused. He, at last, started to hear them as well. "Oh, wait, now I can hear them too!" 

"I'm going to go look around to see if I can find it." I let go of his hand and started walking around. He started helping me look around.

"Look!" I turned around and headed my way to where Adrian was standing.

"Merlin's beard-wait, what if it has fleas?" Adrian asked as I picked up the kitten.

"We'll take care of that later." 

"Um, okay, then-wonder If it's a boy or girl?"

"Mmm, well, we can try to ask someone, perhaps."

The kitten looked like a Himalayan cat. Once we made it to the castle. We decided to go to Hagrid's. Frank was a bit too hyper... But Hagrid helped us a lot and apparently the kitten was a boy! Adrian and I were thinking of names on our way to the common room.

"How 'bout, Chips?" Adrian asked. 

I laughed and said, "We can't make him after food, Adrian!"

"Just a thought." He put an arm around my shoulder.

"Well, then what about Kudo?"

"Now that's a much better option," I said jokingly.

"So- is that a yes?"I thought about it for a few seconds. 

"Yes, it's a yes."

"Now you have an official name- Kudo," Adrian said, looking at the little kitten.

We decided that Kudo would stay the night with Adrian, and then we'd figure out who would get Kudo on which days, who would feed him, groom him, and things like that.

The rest of the weekend, Adrian and I got cat food, toys, planned out a schedule, and spent time playing around with Kudo.