Heart's Desires [ Adrian Pucey ]

Part 18

It was Monday, and I had a long day. Schoolwork was getting somewhat harder. I jokingly said I was going to drop out, and Christi got worried and gave me a talk about why I should not do so. I had to tell her I was joking before she would do something else. Estella and Yill just laughed at the conversation. I had talked to Kieran and Tafnes a few times here and there. Kudo was helping my stress. He was quite some work.

I was getting ready to go to Adrian's quidditch practice. I put my hair up in a ponytail with a few hairs framing my face since I didn't feel too comfortable showing all of my face. I started walking to the quidditch pitch. As I was making my way over there, I was getting a little anxious.

I had made it on time, thankfully. Adrian jogged over to me and said, "Glad you made it!"

"Me too!" I said.

"Um, so, you can sit here." He pointed over at a random spot.

I made my way over to the spot and sat down. I have to admit. I did feel rather awkward, just watching them. Not gonna lie, quidditch did seem like a fun, well kinda. But I would be too afraid to fly a broom. Not that I have not flown one, but I rarely ever do. Even if I did, Marcus doesn't want any girls in the team. At times Adrian would not focus and instead would be making funny faces. I would attempt to not burst out laughing. Sometimes he would wink at me constantly. I would probably not be able to take any of his winks seriously in the future.

He started flying around when he was checking me out. He almost fell off his broom-I shook my head and covered my face. I was dying of laughter. He jokingly rolled his eyes. This had to be his most unproductive quidditch practice. Marcus did not really say much to Adrian. Most likely as they were best friends. I mean, he did occasionally tell him to focus, nothing too demanding.

Once quidditch practice finished, Adrian walked over to me. I stood up.

"Laughed when I almost fell off my broom, huh?"

I was red-faced. "I'm sorry-It's-" I couldn't finish the sentence. I couldn't help but start laughing.

Adrian wrapped his arms around me and said "You think that's funny? Well, now you have my dirty clothes all over yours!"

"Ah! Adrian!" I said giggling.

"Come on, let's head back inside the castle." Adrian got a hold of my hand, and we started walking.

We stopped near the Slytherin common room, where many showers were at (separated by gender).

"Alright, I'm going to go take a shower," Adrian said pecking my cheek.

"Very well then. In that case, I'll go and take one as well." I said.

"Let's take one together," Adrian said quietly.

"Adrian!" I whispered-yelled, slightly slapping his arm.

"Just joking." He said, meanwhile laughing.

"Okay then, um, I'll see you in a bit then."

"See ya," Adrian said.

He walked into the boys' shower room. I realized I had forgotten my clothes. I walked over to my dorm and grabbed some clothes. I headed back and took a shower. Once I was finished. I headed back out. I didn't see Adrian, so I just went to my dorm.

Several minutes later, I heard a knock on the door.

"It's me, Adrian." He said.

"Come in!" I sat up from my bed and quickly tried to fix my hair. He walked over to where I was and took a seat on my bed, next to me.

"What if I spiked up your hair?" I said, laughing.

"Go ahead then." He got up and Accio-d some hair gel from somewhere. Not sure where. I went to go find a brush from one of my cabinets. I really thought he'd say no. He handed me the hair gel, and I told him to sit down.

"Now, don't make me look ridiculous." He said, chuckling.

"Can't make any promises," I said, shaking his head slightly.

We were talking during the process. I wasn't doing a good job. It looked really sloppy.

I had finished and told Adrian "Well, huh? I did a spectacular job if I do say so myself!"

"Uh-huh," he touched his hair and then said "feels...weird." and then he got up to go grab a mirror. He was going to absolutely hate it.

"Oh goodness- well, it uh, um, it doesn't look too bad?" He obviously disliked it as much as I did.

"Be honest. It looks like a porcupine!" I said crackling up.

He walked over to me and started tickling me. "Ah! Adrian! I'm ticklish!" I couldn't stop laughing. I was squirming. Adrian was having too much fun tickling me as he didn't want to stop. Once he let go, I didn't waste time, and I started tickling him, the only problem was I wasn't really good at it-

He quickly flipped me around and said "Nice try, but it isn't that easy to tickle me." He said, breathing onto my neck. That made me laugh, even more. I easily laughed when someone's breath hit my neck in a certain spot. He took notice of this reaction and said, "Looks like me breathing on your neck causes you to laugh, huh?" he had to say this while breathing on my neck. I tried to push him. I was laughing far too much that my stomach was hurting.

He was about to breathe on my neck, but I couldn't possibly handle more laughing.

I grabbed his face and kissed him. He had slid one of his hands under my shirt. This made me flinch a little since his hand was cold. I didn't blame him though it was 54°f, and on top of that, we were in the dungeon, where it was even colder. I moved one of my hands from my face to his hair. I was ruffling it. Our lips slowly parted away from each other.

"Antoinette, I love you." He whispered while stroking my face.

"I love you too, Adrian," I said, looking into his glistering green-blue eyes.