The weekend came faster than anyone truly expected. Neville stood in the courtyard, where the two had agreed on meeting. He stood there for almost thirty minutes after their agreed meeting time, and finally Sky walked outside. "Hello," Neville said, noticing she actually brushed her hair, but it still retained it's frizzy and curly form.
"Hi," she said before hugging him. Neville hugged her back, happy that she actually came.
He said, "What took you so long?"
She sighed and said, "First, Adie gave me a big long lecture about how I shouldn't own any clothing of the color pink. Then, I brushed my hair which is a lot harder than it seems. Lastly, Draco continued to question me on why I don't brush my hair more often."
Neville laughed and said, "I know what brushing your hair is like, I do it every day, Sky."
Sky looked at him amazed and said, "People actually do that?"
"Yes, they do," he laughed, before walking with her.
She looked at him confused and said, "Why?"
He sighed and said, "It looks nice?" He wasn't entirely sure, but he thought that it was just because everyone else did it.
"Oh," Sky said. She rolled her eyes at him, and then she tripped over a twig and fell onto her face.
Neville continued walking, staring at the trees happily, and then he looked over to talk to Sky and noticed she was gone. "Sky?" he said, looking back, noticing she was on the ground, sitting up angrily.
"Are you okay?" he asked, running over to her, helping her up. He dusted a few leaves off of her shoulders and back.
She glared at him and huffed, "Barely."
He sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I just didn't notice-"
"That I had almost died."
"You did not almost die!" he said, as he looked at her amazed at how dramatic she was.
She crossed her arms and said, "I could have fell on my neck and broken it. Then you wouldn't be happy."
Neville sighed and hugged Sky before saying calmly, "I'm sorry, I'm not happy now, okay?"
"Not happy because I almost died."
Getting annoyed now, Neville said, "Okay, can we change the subject please." Sky glared at him, noticing he had an irritated tone to his voice. She then kept silent, keeping her glare on him, as she walked. Neville sighed, questioning how dumb this idea truly was.
"Shut up," Sky snarled.
Neville looked at her like she was crazy and said, "I'm not even talking!"
"Don't talk back at me!" she exclaimed, clearly getting angry.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to!" Neville said, putting a halt to the walk to Hogsmeade.
Sky gritted her teeth and she slapped him as hard as she could. "I hate you," she said through her teeth.
Neville grabbed his face and took three steps away from her. "I'm sorry!"
"You should be," she said, before hugging him. "Does your face hurt?" Sky asked him, petting his cheek where there was a scratch. A little bit of blood was starting to appear.
"Yea, a little, but I'll be okay," Neville said, awkwardly looking at Sky. Her personality changed quickly, and then he guessed that it might be that time of month.
She hugged him and kissed his cheek. "That's a muggle thing, it's supposed to make it feel better," she said, with a proud smile that she knew. "I learned that in muggle studies, we were learning about their healing methods," she said. "It's not a true method, it's only a thing mums do a lot."
Neville smiled at Sky and said, "That's really... cool." Neville was taking muggle studies as well, they just had a different class time, so he already knew. "Professor Burbage taught my class about that too," he said smiling at her.
"Oh," Sky said dissapointed that she couldn't seem smarter than him. It was a Malfoy thing, and she was raised to try to be superior in things, but she couldn't do that around Neville.
Sky and Neville arrived to Hogsmeade, and they both walked into The Three Broomsticks. A waitress walked over to the two and said, "Two?" Neville nodded, and decided to hold Sky's hand.
"Would you like to sit inside or outside?" she asked, after grabbing two menus.
A smile swept across Sky's face and she said, "Inside, please. It's really cold outside."
The waitress led them to their tables, and then Sky said, "Neville, I'm sorry for being mean to you earlier." She picked up her spoon and poured one of the sugar packets into it.
"Uh, what?" Neville asked, because he forgot all about the event. "Oh right, It's fine."
Sky smiled at Neville and then ate the sugar, which made him look at her strangely with a false smile. "You're a really nice guy, Neville," she said, happily. "You aren't like Theodore. When I yelled at him, he went gay."
Neville said, "You don't have to worry about that with me." A giant smile swept across Sky's face, as well as his.
They both had crooked teeth, but his were big and her's were small. They both were purebloods, but his were blood-traitors and her's were not. They both had dark hair, but his was straight and neat, and hers was frizzy and untamed. They were the same in a way they could get along, but so different that they never could have imagined they could be together.
Sky looked up and noticed Draco had walked in. "Oh shit," Sky whispered, holding her menu up above her face. "Draco and Adie are here," she whispered to Neville.
"So?" Neville said, confused.
"They don't know where I am!" she said concerned.
Adie and Draco made their way over to the two, and Draco laughed. "Sky?"
Sky slammed her face on the table and said, "What?"
"Longbottom is here," Adie said pointing to Neville. "Oh!" she said, then realizing what was going on.
Draco sighed and said, "Wow, it's like a double date with two losers and two normal people."
Sky glared at Draco and said, "Go away."
He laughed and shook his head, "Nah, I think I will stay right here." He pulled two chairs from the other table, and he put them down, so that he was beside of Neville and Adie was beside of Sky.
Sky glared at Draco, feeling like she was going to kill him or herself. "Go away!" she said, and her face began to get a bit red. Neville's eyes widened, and he looked at Draco.
Adie said quietly, "Sky, it's going to be okay."
Draco laughed and said, "Aw, she is getting angry that we are with her on her first date."
Sky crossed her arms and said, "It's not my first date!"
The blonde sighed and pointed at Neville, "I was talking about her."
She lost it, and she finally stood up and walked over beside of Draco, "Get your own table or leave!"
Draco stood up, so that he was roughly a foot taller than Sky, and he said, "I think you are forgetting, I am the big brother. I tell you what to do."
Neville looked at the two awkwardly, and tried to keep quiet and out of the way, but he also wanted to stand up for Sky. Draco could really ruin things if he did, though.
"No you don't," she whimpered, before pushing Draco against the wall as hard as possible. "Why are you such a jackass to me?" she asked Draco, grabbing his tie. She got out her wand and pointed it to the side of his face.
Adie was standing beside of Sky, almost in tears. Sky lowered her wand slowly, and then she dashed out of the restaurant as fast as possible.
Draco looked at Adie, and he was still shaking from Sky's terror. He hugged her, and kissed her gently on the lips. "Shit, my sister is really screwed up."
Neville stood up, and as he did the chair made a very loud noise on the floor. He walked outside, and then he began glancing left and right for Sky. "Sky?" he said, when he got to a small alley.
She looked up at him, tears running down her face, so now her eye makeup ran down her face. That was when Neville noticed that it must have been a big deal for Sky, because she made it clear many times that "she didn't give a damn how people thought she looked".
Neville sat down beside of Sky and hugged her. She hugged him back, so now her face was pressed against his shoulder. She started to cry again, and she eventually was crying so much that she was hyperventilating. Neville gently ran his hands through Sky's hair, noticing that when she brushed her hair, she might have forgotten a few parts.
"I'm sorry," he said to her quietly. "It was my fault, I should have listened to you, we should have just left before things got bad."
She smiled, "Everything is okay, Neville. We can still have fun together tonight, right?" Neville looked at her confused and she said, "I think we could just talk... you know?"
Neville smiled and nodded, "Okay... but what about dinner?"
Sky nodded and said, "Good point... Maybe... The Hogs Head?"
Laughing, Neville shook his head. "No, bad idea. They don't have very good food."
"I've never been," she said, before sitting closer to him. "Maybe we can wait until Draco and Adie leave the Three Broomsticks and we go in there."
"They will be there for hours," Neville said, sighing.
"Let's just go back in now, okay? I can deal with Draco and Adie," Sky said with a smile. "If they try to annoy us, it will be one of the last things they do," she bragged, with a devious smirk on her face.
Neville smiled, and the two walked back into the restaurant.