[HP] Riddle's Spirit Behind

"Oh, damn it, Tom, you scared the hell out of me!" said Eleanor, clutching her chest.

Tom stared at her for a moment with a frown, then with a final sigh released his grip on her shoulder.

"To be honest, I always don't understand what you want to do." He sneered shortly and said in a low voice.

"I want to say that to you, too," said Eleanor, folding her arms, solemnly. "I saw you with them, and I could see that you didn't like them at all. What a shame." I don't understand why you two are together."

Tom snorted coldly through his nose.He was silent for a moment, leaning against the wall and looking at the snowflakes falling on his palm.

"It has nothing to do with liking it or not. They need me and I need them, it's as simple as that," he said calmly.

At this time, the snowflakes are getting denser and denser.Eleanor couldn't help noticing how much snow was falling on his plain black sweater coat.

She subconsciously stretched out her hand to help him brush the fresh snow off his shoulders.

Tom immediately opened his eyes slightly, and his body stiffened involuntarily.

Eleanor didn't notice anything amiss.That movement seemed perfectly natural to her.

"You don't need them, Tom." Eleanor continued, she grinned, "I think you are good enough, you don't need those idiots to set you off."

Tom didn't meet her eyes, but looked down at her collar, and said in a low voice, "You really think so?"

"Of course, I always thought you had great potential." Eleanor said truthfully.She thought for a while and said in a joking tone, "Except for selfishness, indifference, and lack of compassion, you are perfect in other aspects. Otherwise, why do those professors like you?"

Tom chuckled immediately. "Sounds like I'm just a hypocritical bastard."

"Well, if you have to say that, I can't refute it." Eleanor stuck out her tongue quickly, as she often did.

Tom suddenly restrained his smile, he suddenly met Eleanor's gaze, and then looked at her quietly.

Eleanor couldn't help looking into those black eyes.

Normally, they are like pitch black without waves, and you can rarely see any emotional fluctuations from it, only occasionally a trace of indifference and boredom.But at this time, they turned into a deeper color, and there seemed to be such a strange emotion surging in the eyes.

"...I think I should go. Avery and the others are still waiting for me in Honeydukes." Eleanor said in a voice.She was startled by her hoarse voice.

"Avery—that's right." Tom still stared firmly into Eleanor's eyes, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "It seems that you have a good relationship with him."

Eleanor shook her head and nodded again, "Of course, he is my friend. And so is Abraxas, but—"

"Not as close as Avery, though," Tom continued.

The smile on his face was so weird that Eleanor couldn't help guessing what he meant by what he said.

"Yeah, not as close as Avery." Eleanor followed suit. "You know, I've been with him the longest, so—"

"So you like him?" interrupted Tom.

Eleanor vaguely felt that the atmosphere had become even weirder.But she still said her true feelings, "Of course I like him, there is no doubt about it."

At this moment, Tom suddenly stood up straight.He frowned and looked at the other end of the alley, and the expression on his face instantly became terribly gloomy.

But he quickly returned to his normal expression, and the speed of the change made Eleanor almost think that he was hallucinating.

"The guy you like is waiting for you," said Tom in his usual nonchalant tone.

Eleanor turned around, and sure enough, she saw Avery standing motionless at the end of the alley, with a tense expression on his face, like a sculpture.

"Hey, Avery, what are you doing here?" Eleanor said in surprise.

"Oh—Abraxas is in Honeydukes." Avery gave a forced smile. "He sent me to see if you're still with the Three Broomsticks."

Eleanor walked over to him quickly, "I'm sorry, there was a delay. Let's go now, he was kept waiting for too long."

Avery nodded silently.

At this moment, Eleanor suddenly thought of Tom behind her.But when she turned her head to look into the alley, she found that Tom had disappeared.

"He's really weird today." Eleanor subconsciously searched for Tom's trace, and whispered.

"What's weird?" Avery asked.

"Nothing," Eleanor gave up looking for Tom, turned her head and shrugged and said to Avery, "I just said some weird things."

She started walking in the direction of the Duke of Bees.The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and now she just wanted to hurry to a warm room.

Avery followed closely beside her, walking shoulder to shoulder, before pressing on, "What did he say?"

At this moment, Eleanor was thinking about whether to use the change to buy some Honeydukes candy later.She looked at Avery in a little confusion, "Huh? What? Oh, he asked me if I liked you."

Avery stopped abruptly, his face turned pale for a while, and then a faint blush appeared again.

"That's what he asked?"

"Yeah." Eleanor stopped and turned around, looking at Avery strangely, "What's wrong with you?"

Avery shook his head violently, "Nothing."

He quickly came to Eleanor's side, and he stopped talking for a long time before saying: "Then did you answer him?"

"I answered." Eleanor said, "I said I really like you."

Avery looked stunned.He stared at Eleanor as if she had said something shocking.

"You, you—what?" he stammered.

At this moment, Eleanor suddenly stopped.

"Here it is!" she said excitedly, and pushed the Honeydukes door open.

A quarter of an hour later, Eleanor walked out of Honeydukes contentedly, her pockets full of pepper urchins and explosive bonbons of all flavors.

"Look over there, isn't that your fiancée?" Eleanor pointed to a few girls not far away.The blonde girl walking in the middle is Abraxas' fiancée.

"It's her," Abraxas mumbled. "I'll go and have a word with her. Wait for me."

"Go and hang out with her." Eleanor said with a smile, "We can do it by ourselves."

Abraxas nodded, then walked quickly towards the girl.

Eleanor turned around on the spot and looked at Avery with a smile, "Where shall we go next?"

Avery's cheeks flushed instantly.He swallowed awkwardly, "What do you think?"

"I don't know either." Eleanor shivered suddenly, and quickly hugged her shoulders, "Damn it, it's really cold today! Let's go back to the Three Broomsticks."

Avery suddenly made a strange movement—he put his hand on the button of his woolen coat, and then put it down again.Finally, he cursed something in a low voice, and quickly took off his coat.

"Here you are." He raised his hand and put the coat on Eleanor's shoulders.

Eleanor looked at him in surprise, "Oh! Thank you!"

Avery's face suddenly became like a ripe tomato.

Eleanor laughed immediately, and she put the coat back on Avery.

"You'd better wear this, though. You'll catch a cold in just a shirt. Let's go back to the Three Broomsticks!" she said cheerfully.

Avery nodded hesitantly.

Just when he was about to leave, he suddenly saw someone standing behind the window of a pharmacy store not far away watching them from the corner of his eye.

Avery turned his head immediately, but happened to meet the pair of dark eyes behind the window.

—It's Tom.

The slightly pale face seemed ghostly to Avery, made even more eerie by the dimly lit store.Avery suddenly felt a tinge of fear.

"What are you looking at?" Eleanor asked curiously.

But when she looked over, Tom had turned and retreated into the shadows of the store.

"...nothing." Avery whispered.

In The Three Broomsticks, Eleanor and Avery enjoy delicious Dukes of Bees together by the fire.

Avery finally plucked up the courage to ask the question that he had held back for a long time.

"What did you mean when you said to Tom—you liked me?"

Eleanor licked the bloody lollipop that Avery had bought, which dyed her tongue cherry red, "meaning I like you."

Avery felt that his throat was very dry. He swallowed his saliva and said hoarsely after a while: "I like you too."

Eleanor grinned and said, "Well, thank you."

Avery stared at her with wide eyes. "That's all? Don't you have anything else to say?"

"Uh, and the bloody lollipop you bought is delicious?" Eleanor blinked and said jokingly.

Avery thought he was going crazy.He took a deep breath and said bluntly: "You said you like me, and I just said I like you too. Don't you have any opinion on this matter?"

Eleanor put down the lollipop, and she, who was always dull, could hear something was wrong.She asked cautiously: "Well...you should know that the liking I said is the liking of a friend, right?"

Avery's cheeks flushed again, he clenched his fists and said angrily, "No, I don't know!"

Eleanor suddenly understood what was going on.

"Wait a minute, Avery," she said, frowning, "you're not—you're not—"

"Yes, I like you, but not as a friend!" he exclaimed angrily. "Now you understand!"

Everyone in the bar—including Mrs. Rosmerta, who was wiping glasses, stared up at them.

Eleanor suddenly felt herself blushing.

"I see." She whispered.

"Then what do you say?" Avery stared at Eleanor with burning eyes.

"You are my friend." Eleanor found herself losing her confidence in speaking in front of Avery for the first time, "So, I never thought of it that way—I have always only regarded you as a friend. You know me the meaning of."

Avery stared at her stiffly, then let out a dry laugh.

"Of course I know... I've known it for a long time." His voice gradually sank.

"I'm sorry." Eleanor said quickly.

But her apology and acknowledgment clearly backfired.

Avery jumped up from the table. "Stop it." He said bluntly, "I'm leaving, what about you?"

Eleanor didn't know how to respond to him at all, and she was always clumsier than ordinary girls when it came to such questions.So she stammered, "I, I think... I'd better sit a little longer."

Avery looked away, cleared his throat, "I'm going to find Abraxas."

After muttering this, Avery turned away from the Three Broomsticks.

The author has something to say: After mumbling this sentence, Avery turned away from the Three Broomsticks. 【Anti-swallow backup】

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