Cheat (Scarlet)

[yallxluvxher]

Scarlet smiled and nodded. She gratefully took another bottle and took a sip. "Do you have any extra abilities, outside of being able to use a wand?" She asked cassually as she took another sip.

[urdabomb]

Alec grinned again and cracked open his butterbeer. "Yes," he replied, still smiling. "Air elemental and invisibility. You?" As Alec sipped his butterbeer he realized that he had never admitted that before either. It was like Scarlet put him under some kind of spell. It was as if they were meant to be together and their secrets had to be shared.

[yallxluvxher]

Scarlet opened her mouth to say she was a Veela but changed her response. "I can read minds" She said quietly with a smile. "Strange, I never told anyone that" She studied Alec's face, meeting his gaze.

[urdabomb]

"Wow," Alec replied. "I've never told anyone my powers either. Yours is awesome. Reading minds. So, what am I telling you right now?" Alec thought hard, trying to project his thoughts at Scarlet. Kiss me? he thought, smiling lightly.

[yallxluvxher]

Scarlet laughed. "Hmmmmm..." She said, pretending to think it over. She bent over the table and lightly kissed his lips then pulled away. "Did I guess right?" She asked, grinning and took a sip of her butterbeer.

[urdabomb]

"Almost," Alec whispered, leaning back over the table. He kissed her again, harder and longer than before. Nothing could break them apart, it seemed impossible. He loved her, he knew that. They were still kissing, he felt no need for air. And then...

[igloogirl]

The door to the Three Broomsticks opened with a quiet creak. Gabriella stepped inside, humming quietly, ready to have a butterbeer. But what she saw broke her heart as well as her easy-going composure. Her boyfriend was sitting at a table...kissing another girl. White hot anger coursed through Gabriella's veins as she came over to their table where the kiss had just broken apart. "Alec Reese, how dare you!" Gabriella yelled, much louder than she needed to for him to hear her. Her hand reached out, slapping him hard across the face, leaving a bright red mark. He opened his mouth as if to explain, but Gabriella would have none of it. "Go! Just go! I don't ever want to see you again." No one in the pub moved. "I SAID GO!" Gabriella yelled.

[yallxluvxher]

Scarlet bit down on her lip and threw an apologetic smile towards Alec. She let her Veela charm hang back on Alec as she swiftly left the pub. She was halfway to the Shrieking Shack when she realized she had forgotten her cloak. Turning on her heel, she headed back to the pub but decided that it wasn't wise to go back until that Vampire had calmed down. She sat on a bench outside a shop and closed her eyes, shivering at the cool air. She had a book tucked away in her cloak that she would like to read. Scarlet didn't bother to open her eyes when she heard the crunch of footsteps.

[urdabomb]

Alec walked out slowly, Gabriella had practically pushed him out of the pub. He threw Scarlet's cloak in her general direction, unaware of the book inside. Saying nothing, he began to walk toward the castle, his hands stuck in his pockets.

[yallxluvxher]

Scarlet didn't open her eyes. She felt those small tendrils of guilt in her stomach. She felt her stomach lurch and she fell to her knees, coughing. Scarlet's head burned and she wanted to scream, but she didn't. Why did that always happen?

[igloogirl]

Gabriella took a deep breath and collapsed on a barstool, sobbing without any tears. Her head fell into her hands and her body shook. She bit her tongue after a few moments and looked up at the bartender. "O-one," she said, unsteadily. He nodded, but said nothing and pulled a firewhiskey off of the back shelf. Gabriella had expected a butterbeer, but she wasn't about to complain. "It's on the house," the bartender said softly as he set it in front of her. Gabriella nodded a took a sip. The firewhiskey flew threw her throat, electrifying every sense of hers. It tasted great, nearly as good as blood. She drained it quickly. "Keep them coming," Gabriella said, throwing most of her money on the table.

*1 hour later*

Gabriella couldn't remember how many firewhiskey's she had had in that hour, but the room seemed to be glowing, sharpened, and fun. She felt better than she could ever remember feeling, not that she could remember much. Her thoughts were shrouded, but every other sense was more alert than ever. The Three Broomsticks manager came out and opened up the floor for dancing. The music came on and Gabriella grinned. She pulled someone, a guy about the age of 19, next to her onto the dance floor and they began to dance.

*Another hour (and just a few more firewhiskey's) later*

Gabriella was exhausted, sitting back on the barstool watching the last of the people dance. The bar would be closing for the night soon and she knew she was drunk, not in the normal way, but in a cool vampire way. She had danced to exactly 23 songs in a row and her legs were starting to ache. She was walking out of the Three Broomsticks when she ran into...

[lily]

Ariana had come by to get some food for the night. She hadn't gone back to Hogwarts yet. She walked into the pub and found ran into Gabby. "Gabs?" She asked, smelling Firewhiskey in her cousins breath. "You okay?"

[igloogirl]

Gabriella managed a smile in Ariana's direction. She wasn't too happy that her cousin hadn't come back to Hogwarts yet. "Fine," she replied. Her smiled faded as she became concerned for her cousin. "How are you Ariana?" she asked, purposely not using her cousin's nickname.

[lily]

"Just fine" Ariana sniffed. Gabby's eyes were out of focus. "I got a job and a place to stay until I can get my own place in the muggle world" She shrugged. "And your drunk" She added in the same tone, folding her arms over her chest.

[igloogirl]

"You can't get your own place until your eighteen, Ariana," Gabriella countered. "That's how the muggle world works." Gabriella's eyes focused in on her cousin, who was looking much shabbier than when she had last saw her. "And no, I'm not drunk. I had a few firewhiskey's. It's not against the law, you know. I am seventeen."