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Oliver's POV!

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Free Period

I sit opposite her, my Potions homework abandoned on the grass beside me, my eyes drawn to her as she flicks her hair from her face, rubs her eyes and groans, placing her quill into her bag and looking up at me.

"What's up?"

"I'm bored." She yawns, looking over at Cullen and Alicia, who have their heads together, working on their Arithmancy homework. She sits up straight suddenly and grins evilly. "Aguamenti" She flicks her wand at the pair, the jet of water hits them square in the back and they jump up, Cullen laughing, Alicia shrieking to high heaven.

"Oi!" He yells over as he shakes his hair dry and runs a hand through it, still smiling, "Was that necessary?!"

"'Course it was!" She launches back, rising to her feet. "Duel?"

"Certainly." He draws his wand and bites his lip to stop laughing. "En Garde…"

"Aguamenti!" Katie flicks her wand again; more water hits Cullen in the face. She giggles and he huffs, trying to think of a spell good enough to retaliate with. Suddenly, it hits him, and I don't just mean another jet of cold water.

"Tarantellegra!" he counters, she dodges it and hits him with the water again, and the pair of them fall about laughing. I smile as she comes and joins me again, picking up the potions homework beside me and leaning her head on my shoulder and curling up against me. She sighs happily as she unfurls the

"Hmm…" she pulls her glasses from her pocket and slips them onto her face, scanning my potions work for any incorrect measurements or spellings. "I think you're pretty much there," She says, and as she looks up at me, I notice the colour of her frames have settled on a pretty dark pink - the same colour as a Valentines Day card. "You'll need to change - what're you staring at?" I blink and shake the paralysis from my brain.

"Your glasses," I say without thinking, "They're pink. What mood are you in?"

"Pink?!" She looks at me, then pulls them from her face and holds them in her hand. They slowly change from pink to orange. "Well… orange is confusion." She says softly, "I know that." there is a slight shift and it turns a pinkish red. "I'll need to check the parchment that came with them…" She says.

"But what mood are you in? Surely that would tell you?" I say, catching her wrist as she rises and goes to get the stuff from her dormitory.

"I… I'm with you." She stutters as she considers it, "I suppose there's not really a mood… as such." Then she pauses and looks down at her feet, then back at me, a confused frown on her face. The glasses on her face are now bright orange. "Give me a minute." She disappears for about twenty seconds and returns with the parchment.

"How did you-"

"Charmed the window open, used a summoning charm. You know. Simple stuff." She half smiles and closes her eyes, then opens them again, unfurling the parchment as she does so. The sheet rolls down to her waist and she uses her finger to run down the list and find the colour, then looks up at me, a bright, embarrassed blush across her face.

"Well?"

"Well what?" She avoids my question and looks over at Alicia and Cullen, the glasses on her face turning white when she looks at Cullen and Blue when she looks at Alicia.

"Well, what's Pink?" I pause, "And what are white and blue?" I add as an afterthought, because I am suddenly interested in how she feels towards the others.

"White is gratefulness. Blue is…" She checks and smiles, "A desire to laugh, to join in. Energy." She smiles and sits down beside me, takes my hand and awkwardly runs her thumb across the back of it, across the words etched deep into my skin from last night. "Forget those words," She whispers as she looks at me again, "You know that chivalry is all we can hope for in times like these." A sudden downturn in the conversation, I must admit.

"Wh-" She leans forward and kisses my cheek, so close to my lips it almost hurts.

"Pink… is love." She whispers embarrassedly as she pulls away, her hand finding the back of my neck and touching it so softly it makes me shiver. She smiles, the pink of her glasses matching the pink of her cheeks. "And I'm with you."

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A/N... and they think it's all over... But it's not!

(I'm hedging there will be two more chapters. i'm not sure. It just depends if you want to read on)

Bet you didn't think there'd be a return of the glasses?

Cackles evilly

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