Chapter 10 - The Unexpected Rendezvous
Harry stormed into the front doors of the castle infuriated. He paced for a few feet before slowing down and throwing his head in one of his hands and started crying. Recent events were very overwhelming for him to handle. To think, everything that he had with Hermione, everything they shared; it was suddenly gone and no more. To make things worse, the special night that he had been waiting for with her, was now a total lost. All that time, two years of waiting, wasted and all for nothing.
He stopped in the middle of a corridor placed his forehead on the nearby wall and banged his fist on it, immediately crying some more.
"This! Really! SUCKS!" shouted Harry, his voice echoing the hall. He again broke in tears, not seeming to care about anything at all. So what if someone saw him? So what if they saw him crying like a baby? He cried and cried for what seemed like forever, until a voice called to him from the end of the corridor.
"Harry!"
At first, he didn't care who it was. He just told himself mentally for that person to go away and to leave him alone. That moment passed when he saw that it was Adelle.
"Are you ok Harry?" she asked, full of concern as she approached him. Harry turned around and leaned against the wall, resting the back of his head on it and closing his eyes.
"I'm not ok Adelle," he said sadly, tears still coming down his face.
"Oh Harry," she groaned, feeling really sorry for him. "Come here."
She approached him and gave him a comforting hug. Harry had no choice but to accept it. For a split second, his sadness died down a bit. He felt warm and cozy in her arms, feeling things he had never felt for her before. When they released, Harry took a good look at her. Ron was always correct when he judged girls and Adelle was a very pretty Ravenclaw girl. She was no match to Hermione of course, but she came very close.
"Ron is very lucky," Harry thought.
"What happened Harry?" she asked.
"Everything that I didn't want to happen," he said sadly. "Everything that I had with Hermione is gone; a thing of the past."
"You're upset aren't you?" she said. "That you were so close right?"
Harry's eyebrows came down in an asserting way.
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
"I know why you're so upset Harry," she confirmed. "Your dream was about to come true with your special rendezvous with Hermione in two days right?" Harry blushed a deep red, now that he knew that Adelle knew that he was waiting to have sex with Hermione on her birthday, just two days away.
"How do you -?"
"I'll give you one guess," she said in a sarcastic tone. Harry rolled his eyes.
"Ron?"
"Bingo!" she said, pointing a finger at him in a you-got-it-correct manner. "I know all about it Harry. The Chastity Spell she cast on herself, about how she must be chaste until her seventeenth birthday. And how you mutually agreed you two would share that special moment together."
"Gees," said Harry looking a bit disgusted. "What else did Ron tell you?"
"That's all basically," she said as-a-matter-of-factly. Then she became very serious with him. "There's one thing that I want to know though Harry."
"What's that?" he asked, looking a bit fearful.
"You don't have to answer if you don't want to," she said in her matter-of-factly voice. "But I need to know. Were… you waiting for the day because you wanted to see what she was like in bed? Judge her by that and if you weren't satisfied, you would leave her? Or did you wait because you really are in love with her and want to share something special like that with her?"
Harry's mouth dropped opened. He couldn't have felt more insulted in his entire life! But, seeing where Adelle was coming from, he agreed why she was asking him that. He told her as truthfully as he felt.
"Of course I waited because I loved her Adelle!" retorted Harry. "I. Love. Her. I love her more than anything in the world. When I first attended Hogwarts, I thought that Quidditch was going to be the love of my life. But it turns out, after being with Hermione, Quidditch meant nothing more to him than a hobby. To tell you the truth, I couldn't see myself losing my virginity to anyone except her. A little while after going out, I realized that she was the one, the one I wanted to lose my virginity to." Harry blushed a little. Talking about something like this with Adelle made him feel uncomfortable.
"Of course Harry," she said, looking a bit embarrassed. "I knew you weren't a fool like some other boys I know who use their charm just to get a girl in bed then break their hearts afterward. I… just wanted to make sure. That's all. I hope you're not upset with me for asking you that?"
"No no," said Harry shaking his head. "I understand."
"So did you talk to Hermione?"
"Yeah…"
"What'd she say?"
"That we're just going to be friends. Go back to the way things were before we went out. I know it's not going to be exactly the same but, I'm just happy that she still wants to talk to me and not ignore me completely."
Harry's eyes became watery again.
"It'll be ok Harry. I'm sure of it."
"I hope your right Adelle."
Adelle gave him a hopeful smile, as if to hope for the best. Harry returned a smile back to her, but this one took some effort to do.
"Want another hug Harry?" she asked in a friendly manner.
"Sure, why not?"
Adelle again embraced him and again Harry felt the warmth of her hug.
"You better go," he said after they released. "Or people might think that you're cheating on Ron!" he said playfully.
"That's not funny Harry!" she said, hitting him playfully on the arm. Harry smiled.
"Go. Now," Harry said, his voice sounding mysterious. "Or I'm going to start hitting on you."
"Oooo, that'll be fun," Adelle said flirtatiously, taking a step and getting closer to him.
"You'd like that wouldn't you?" Harry said in his own flirtatious tone, giving her a dirty look. He put both hands around her waist and pulled her dangerously close to him, far closer they had ever been to each other than before. "You do realize that you're my best friend's girlfriend?"
"Oh yes Harry," she moaned softly. "I bet the sex will feel so much better."
"The sex is best when you have it with your boyfriend's best friend," Harry confirmed as he wet his lips.
"It's so sad," Adelle replied as she ran a finger down Harry's cheek slowly, looking sorry for him but still teasing him, "that Hermione broke up with you. You need to forget all about her as your girlfriend and move on Harry"
"And what, date you?"
"We'd make a good team," Adelle replied with a sense of sexual gleam in her eye. "In fact…" she said, seductively, holding out her tongue and licking the air before his cheek, pretending to lick it, "…I can already feel you… thrusting yourself inside me Harry," Adelle finished in the dirtiest tone Harry had ever heard her say. She moved her head closer to his, still with her dirty look. Harry returned it with a dirty smile of his own.
"Ron's such an idiot for not satisfying you, Adelle. Maybe we can see what… we can do together?"
Adelle narrowed her eyes and gave him the most seductive and dirtiest look she ever gave.
"Shut up and fuck me Harry…"
Harry did shut up. Her lips got closer and closer to his and just when they were about to touch…
"Harry?" Adelle whispered.
"What?" he replied, whispering flirtatiously but also with a bit of impatience.
"Don't even think about it," she said, sounding a lot like it would if a teacher were to say it. Harry released her and took a few steps back giving them decent amount of space. Then at the same time, both of them broke out laughing. They were laughing so hysterically that they had to use the wall to hold themselves up.
"You better go," Harry managed to say between laughs.
"Right Harry," Adelle choked from her laughs as well. "Bye!"
"Bye!" he said, waving at her as she ran off to find Ron.
Harry laughed out the last bit he had left, thinking about what just happened. Harry was merely joking around with Adelle, and she played along, to add to some comic relief, hoping that it might make Harry feel better. She did her job because Harry did feel a little better than before. His attraction to Adelle was about as much as Ron being a sister to Ginny; Harry wasn't turned on at all from the incident with Adelle, proving to himself that all his love was still with Hermione.