chapter forty-seven; new questions "Sectumsempra!"
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Lucy Reese Collins
I WALK INSIDE THE CLASSROOM AND NOTICE HOW EVERYONE IS ALREADY HERE. "You're late, Miss Collins," Dumbledore says as he looks at a watch. "I am sorry sir, I had to change into something appropriate," I say trying not to look at Charles. "That must have been a good party then," Dumbledore says with a small smile making us all look at him. "How..-" "He's the headmaster Hudson, of course, he knows," I say as I roll my eyes making Jo and Theodore chuckle a bit. "Thank you for clearing that up, Lucy. Now, you and Mister Lanchester-" "Which one?" Hudson says confused. "Your brother and Lucy will clean the potions classroom together." I look at Nathaniel for a moment who smiles. I am pretty sure we have the best duo. "Then we have miss Merriweather with Mister Garfield who will do the divination classroom." Now all four of us look at the two boys that will have to work together now. This meant to go wrong. "And last but not least Mister Ellington and Hudson Lanchester will clean the Moaning Myrtle bathroom." Both of the boys groan.
"Do I have to work with him?" Hudson whines as he looks at professor Dumbledore. "Now that I know you don't like it, definitely." Dumbledore laughs. "I mean I think I am pretty lucky this is the first time I work with that asshole, but I am more worried about the fact we have to do the toilet of Moaning Myrtle... Can we not just do the Charms classroom or something?" Theodore states and I directly have to keep in a laugh. "No, and after you are finished you can do the prefects bathroom as well." I snort a bit and now everyone looks at me. "Do you want to share something with the rest, miss Collins?" "No, no I don't." "A lot of dirty things happened there, she was there last week." Charles exposes me and I give him a death stare. "You aren't even a prefect," Hudson states as he grants me a look. "No, but I am," Theodore says and immediately everyone looks at him. "You and Lucy?" Jo says confused and I don't know what she's thinking. "No! No! Hell no!" I directly say. "That almost hurts, Luce. But I just let her in." Dumbledore sighs and raises his hand making us stop talking. "Miss Lucy and Mister Lanchester, you may go to your potions room and the rest, just leave." He almost sounds tired and I chuckle as we get up and leave.
"Well, that was awkward." Nate laughs as we walk to the potions classroom. "Yea it was," I say as I run my hand through my hair. "So you and Charles are still-" "No. I stopped it because I can't do it any more." "I am sorry," he states as he looks at me. "Nah, it's fine. I am fine." I lie because I don't want to hurt him. We walk inside the classroom and directly Nate looks up. "You went pretty heavy on your perfume today, Luce." I turn to him. "What did you just say?" "That you went heavy on your perfume." He says again while smelling again. "I am not wearing any today, Nate," I say and my eye falls on a cauldron standing in the middle of the room. We both walk closer and the smell of cherries, charcoal, chocolate and cologne gets into my nostrils. I turn away from the cauldron again and suddenly realise how close Nathaniel is. "Is that-?" He whispers while looking down at me. "Amortentia," I whisper as I glance at him. He grabs my chin pulling me closer. Right before his lips touch mine, we hear an explosion. We back away from each other and look at the door. "What was that?" "I don't know!"
