5th Year Friendship (Girty;Closed)

[Alex Doyle]

((This is set in their fifth year when they had still sort of drifted apart, when Alex was with Stephanie and when Girty had fallen for Thom))

It had been a long day in all honesty. The lessons werent that hard but Steph was mithering him about the ball, wanting to know if he could dance and things like that. He hadnt even asked her to go with him yet but she was assuming he was going to. Then again they were together so it kind of suggested for himself that he was going to ask her to the ball and not anybody else. Though thinking on it, there wasnt anybody else he would have asked was there?

He was stood in the corridors. Fifteen year old Alexander Doyle, the stubble on his chin breaking through at some points and yet not at others. He supposed he could get it all off quickly but he didnt want to, despite the fact Steph told him it was like kissing a human cactai plant. The corridors were pretty deserted save for Alex and a few passers by, the older years taking in what could be considered as a shabby appearance. Though Lex never did care what others thought about him as the only opinion that matters was his own, and Stephs counted too of course.

He had a letter in his hand off Steph telling Alex to meet him at Hogsmeade so they could go looking for something to wear to the ball, but he had decided to skip this feat and stay inside the castle instead. This whole ball jig was becoming more stressful by the minute. Steph was clearly a ball nazi. Lex went to lean up off the wall, though as he did he collided into someone, sending his own books flying and the girls too.

"Sorry,"

Alex mumbled and bent down to help her retrieve the books, though as he looked upon the face he realised who it was. "Girty..." It had been a while since he had seen the Hufflepuff and pulled her into a bear hug. Of course he wouldnt tell Steph about this meeting, she would only crucify him.

[Girty Hubbles]

The ball was the hottest topic; it seemed to be what everyone was talking about. Who was taking who, who was wearing what, which professor will make a fool out of themselves and as a result the real meaning behind it was being lost. This last point however was a very happy bonus seeing as no one seemed care about who The Champions were taking which was a problem Girty had been having. Obviously there was one person she would have loved to walk in through the grand oak doors arm in arm with but…well Thom he…he had not been seen in a while.

Because of the absence of this larger then life character Girty’s mind had been wondering, she had been thinking of other members of the male population in the school and a particular Ravenclaw kept appearing. Girty had toyed with the idea of asking Alex to come along with her to the ball, she knew Dan would have a thing or two to say about going with a non Hufflepuff and a Ravenclaw at that seeing as he stood strong that anyone who belonged to that house were a bunch of good for nothings.

But no of that really mattered after all she had not talked to Alex in months and she had heard rumours that he was with someone called Steph and anyway he never liked her in that way they were just friends. Well that is what she kept telling herself as she walked down the corridor towards the Charms classroom on her way to visit Dan, in fact she was so wrapped up in trying to convince herself that Alex never liked her and most likely never will that she happened to walk into something.

This was not an uncommon thing for Girty Hubbles to walk into something so she was not surprised by that fact, only that the thing she had walked into apologised. It was normally inanimate objects she walked into as they could not get out of the way while people normally did. Muttering something that sounded like ’Don’t worry about it’ Girty started to bend down to pick up her book…only she did not get that far as the not so inanimate object had shouted out her name and was now wrapping his arms around her.

“Alex!” Girty squeaked as she tried to free her arms so she could hug him back. It was a slight struggle seeing as he seemed to be holding onto her quite tightly but she did not mind it was nice to be with him again. Once her arms were free she did embrace him tightly not really wanting to let go but fearing what the passing students might say if they saw them standing there for to long like this.

Pulling herself away from him Girty looked closely at him to take it all in, his eyes were dimmer then they used to be his hair was longer and he had…stubble!

“Oh Alex I love the stubble.” She gave him a rather wide smile. “It suites you, will look even sexier when it gets a bit thicker.”

It took every bit of strength the Hufflepuff had not to run her hand along the sides of his face just to feel the roughness against her palm. Girty always thought that stubble suited a guy it has been the one flaw with Thom…that and the fact he did not like her.