Stupid Brother, Lovely Sister
At half past 6 I collapsed onto my bed. The day seemed to last an eternity. About 7 people had told me that I looked like I needed a rest. Seriously, I swore to myself that I´d punch the next person who told me to lie down.
In the afternoon I even thought about skipping classes – I was sure that Neville wouldn´t mind. I was interested in nothing but sleeping that day – even a special performance by the Chippendales couldn´t have drawn my attention.
Okay… Actually I guess I never EVER would have been interested in the Chippendales. When the day comes on which I´d love to watch men dancing around in nothing but too tight panties and a bow – tie…. Please go shoot me.
Anyway, I didn´t skip them. I never skipped classes.
But there was still one hour left to relax and collect myself.
One hour without thinking about any duties or about homework or anything.
One hour.
Trust my stupid brother to ruin it.
I just had fallen asleep when somebody woke me up by knocking violently at the door of my dorm.
Well, first I thought I just dreamt it. I had this strange dream where I was sitting in the library, and there was a huge pile of books in front of me. Suddenly the protagonist of “Unshaken Love” appeared out of nowhere, started knocking on the bookshelf impatiently and told me how I would fail my final exams if I didn´t read each and every one of them.
Actually I should have been kind of glad that somebody woke me up (maybe Dad was right… maybe I really read too much for my own good). But still… at least I was asleep.
I stumbled to my door.
“Hey Sis´” My brother was grinning at me.
I frowned. “Hugo! What are you doing here?” Yeah, I know I was being rude, but that guy just had interrupted my precious nap.
“I thought I could pay my lovely sister a visit.”, he said. He walked over to my bed and sat down. I slammed the door and looked at him suspiciously. He never paid me a visit – at least he never did without ulterior motives…Despite the fact that he never called me lovely….
“How are you?”
“What do you want?”
“What?”
I ran my hand through my hair. “Hugo, I don´t have that much time. I know you didn´t walk the whole way through the whole castle just to ask me how I am. So, what do you want?”
“Well, I´d need your help…”
“Really? That´s news.”
He just ignored my comment and continued. “The thing is, that I didn´t manage to finish my essay for Ancient Runes. I really tried for about an hour – “I quirked my eyebrow.
“… okay, maybe it was just half an hour… but that´s not the point. I´m just crap at that stuff, and I know that I can´t get it until tomorrow. It was already due until today, and Bingley told me to show him the essay tomorrow morning…” He pulled out a scroll of parchment and looked at me expectantly.
“No Hugo, no way! I´ve got absolutely no time!”
“Rose, please…”
“Look, I could help you and explain the complicated stuff, but there´s no chance that I´m going to write that stupid essay for you. You just have to sit down and try again! I´m sure - “
“Look, that´s the problem. I don’t have the time to sit down and try again… Danny and me, we´ve got detention…” Danny was Hugo´s best friend. They were as thick as thieves, and both had nothing on their minds but pranks… And girls maybe….
“Again?!”, I asked amused. Mum would explode. “What did you do this time?”
“Do you know Jessica Hale?”
I nodded. That chick was amazingly gorgeous. And she was as daft as a brush. But all those testosterone – controlled blokes in her year fancied the pants off her. It was almost pathetic.
“Danny asked her out. He had a crush on her for about 4 years.” I would have thought that Danny had much better taste. Apparently not. “She told him, that she didn´t want to date such an immature moron like him.” Well… Danny was immature. He was childish, and he was completely nuts - like my brother.
But calling him a moron was completely ridiculous. Particularly if it was Jessica Hale who had the nerve to expose him like that – that girl had thought that the Thames was a Muggle Rock Band.
“After that we jinxed her perfume. She smelled like a bucket full of dragon dung – I think she nearly had a nervous breakdown.”
I had to suppress a grin. Yeah, of course their behaviour was ludicrous. But you have to admit that it sounds like a lot of fun. I´d have loved to see her face….
“Now Danny and I got Detention for one week… every evening… But it was definitely worthwhile.”
We looked at each other for a few moments.
“Are you going to leave me alone if I say yes?” I didn´t want to waste more time. I knew that I was going to say yes at some point. This boy was a plague, and he wouldn´t give in until I´d say yes.
Hugo jumped up and beamed at me. “Of course I will.”
I sighed. “Fine!”
“I love you, Rose. I have to hurry now. Neville is going to kill me if I´m late.” He rushed out of my dorm.
He just turned around once more and looked at me closely.
“And,... Sis?”
“Yeah?”
“I think you should lie down. You really look like you´d need a rest…. “
