[HP] Born to be a pair

Madame Puddife's teahouse was still the same, full of lace and pink satin, the dark stained floor covered by a large scarlet Persian rug.

Red is an extremely friendly and pleasing color, which makes the narrow room more lively, at least the couples sitting at the round table think so.

It turns out that love can really confuse people's eyes and make people forget the panic and fear brought by the black wizard.

Renee sighed, and Neville came to a remote corner, surrounded by falling bushes to separate the other round tables, so that the customers sitting inside had the illusion of a private environment.

"What would you like to drink?" Neville asked a little uneasily, obviously he was here for the first time and was trying to imitate the boys at other tables to look more experienced.

"Coffee? Or black tea, I want to eat something," Renee looked up at the small blackboard hanging on the wall in the inner room, on which were written today's special offerings and menu. "are you hungry?"

"Not hungry—oh, well, I'm a little hungry," he said sheepishly, looking away from the rum-raisin cookies on the next table.

Mrs. Puddiffe carefully squeezed through the gap between the tables when she saw the two of them sitting. Renee ordered two cups of coffee, a plate of buns, a plate of rum raisin cookies, fresh honey and butter.

"Did we order too much?"

Neville looked around and found that there was no more than a plate of bread on the other tables, and there were more tea or coffee to quench his thirst - because those couples were busy absorbing the flavors in each other's mouths, maybe that would make them thirstier.

"What does it matter?" Renee said routinely. "If you're hungry, you should eat—I can't think of anything that would stop one from eating, except in class and the library."

Before waiting for the order to come, they talked for a while about recent homework and sixth year lessons, and the attitude of abhorrence seemed to coincide-at least according to Neville, and Renee just let him go.

"Why are you still refusing to introduce me to your best friend?"

Someone at the next table across the fallen bushes spoke. Renee felt that it sounded familiar, but couldn't distinguish it for a while.

"Oh! Wayne, you know! Morag is having a hard time with her, and I can't let this knock her off—"

It was Renee's roommate - Sue's voice!It was she who was dating Wayne Hopkins of Hufflepuff, and they mentioned Morag, which made Renee slightly embarrassed, something like this should not have happened to her.

"Ho! Shocking? You call it hitting her?" Hopkins asked incredulously. "If she's going to be hit by the happiness of two people, she shouldn't be your friend."

"Wayne, you don't know Morag, you can't say that about her." Su was also a little angry, and the stiff atmosphere between them had almost passed to this table.

Neville grabbed her hand nervously, and stared at Renee with an expression of wanting to flee the place immediately, with two annoying blushes floating on both sides of his cheeks, looking more embarrassed than those two.

"I just don't understand, do you really like me when you treat me well and badly?" Hopkins asked.

"I have to do this... I can't show my liking for you in front of Morag, she will die of grief."

"If you really care about me, that's never a reason."

The voices from the neighboring table fell silent, save for the clang of silver spoons stirring porcelain cups.

And Neville's hand retracted unknowingly, and inexplicably began to stare at a wavy scratch on the round table.

"Here comes your coffee and bread, boys."

With a warm smile on her chubby face, Mrs. Puddife put the carved coffee cup on the tray and two plates of warm bread and cookies on the round table, breaking the silence between them.

Renee squinted at the top of Neville's head against hers, and he looked down again and started fiddling with his fingers, the swirls in his blond hair revealing his frustration and depression.

Perhaps it was because of the conversation between Su and Hopkins that Neville remembered something.

Renee guessed casually, lowered her head and took a sip of black coffee, soaking her tongue with the bitter liquid, and then it flowed down her throat.

"What's wrong with you?" Renee asked quietly.

"Oh...it's nothing, I'm just too hungry." Neville avoided her eyes and took a hard bite of the bun.

He usually wouldn't open his heart to Renee. The childhood surrounded by inferiority and cowardice made Neville always hide his troubles and suspicions in his body, and then use imaginary pressure to make himself more and more depressed.

Neville was willing to take the initiative in his relationship, but if he didn't receive a response from Renee for a long time, he would quickly withdraw his reckless tentacles and wrap himself in a scarred shell.

Snail, Neville the snail.

Renee couldn't help sighing that her ex had few such sensitive people—pubescent boys, hot-headed and very satisfying, and she could easily cheer them up with just a few words.

But Neville couldn't, from the first time she visited his dormitory, she knew how much Neville cared about her emotions and feelings, he would rather give up on himself than try to make her happy - by any other means.

Because of this, Renee can already conclude that Neville is almost the person who can empathize with her nerves the most.As long as she frowned a little, he could immediately ask nervously.

Was the recent estrangement made too obvious?Renee thought, but she hasn't mastered the invisibility spell yet... What if I hide the notepad by the bed?He couldn't get into Ravenclaw's women's dormitory, and her friends wouldn't turn her bed around...

"What are you thinking?"

Renee didn't speak for a long time, which made Neville even more nervous. He raised his head quickly, with bread crumbs on the corners of his mouth, and he was cuter than before, which also eased Renee's tense emotions.

"I was thinking about you," Renee said, adding before he could react, "wondering why you wouldn't talk to me when you were sitting across from me."

Su and Hopkins at the round table next door packed up their things and left, leaving only empty tables and chairs and weakly scented bouquets of lilies.

Neville's lips trembled, and he murmured to say something, but he seemed to be the only one who could hear him, until Renee clicked his tongue impatiently, and he shouted as if he was going all out: "Please—please don't Break up with me!"

Renee was startled, raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise, "I don't understand, I don't think I meant to break up with you."

"But," he said wretchedly, "but they're all talking about it—last year you broke up with Dean in September, and this year you're going to choose to leave in October."

"Nonsense!" A shadow of anger crossed Renee's face. "Do you believe what they say?"

"No—of course not, not at first—until, until you refused to meet and date me, I had deliberately picked a time when you were not busy...but...you still have other things...

But I think... I think, if you really cared about me, those reasons wouldn't be reasons. "

Renee laughed angrily, she couldn't believe that Neville had just embezzled Hopkins' tricks in such an open manner.

And since Neville seemed to have learned some speaking skills without a teacher, it was difficult for her to distinguish whether he was really sad because of inferiority complex, or his tricks to win her attention.

— What a lie expert!Renee thought to herself.

"If you want me to be by your side all the time," Renee said slowly, "maybe I can—but, Neville, you're forcing me to drop some of my studies, which is normal. Socializing and down time.

So, let me check with you again, do you really want me to do this? "

Sure enough, Neville hesitated, he pursed his lips in bewilderment, not quite understanding why his request would sacrifice Renee's original life, but he quickly replied: "...No, of course I don't want you to do that. "

"I'm very sorry," Renee's expression gradually became serious, "because you easily believed those gossips instead of asking me—I thought our relationship was already deep enough to resist those gossips— But--"

"I believe you!" Neville interrupted her anxiously, "I'm just a little uneasy, I think I just need an answer from you..."

"Answer to what?"

"...where are we... now?"

"Lady Puddife's teahouse."

"...No! I mean, our feelings."

"It's hot, it's emotional - if that's the answer you want, you shouldn't be asking me that."

Neville's reaction was mediocre, he just opened his mouth wide and blankly showed surprise at the answer, as if he understood that he had screwed up everything, he slumped down in the dining chair.

"I'm sorry, I'm... sorry."

According to normal logic, Renee should really put forward the idea of ​​calming the two of them at this time.

Then, as chic as she was, she shook off her curly hair and strode out of the teahouse, leaving the remorseful Neville here to regret for the rest of her life.

But he's special - one in a million -

Renee suppressed her anger and said to him patiently: "I hope you can understand... what I said to you before is not ordinary love words, Neville, we should be together forever."

It was a bit scary and grim, like Renee was going to put a curse on him, but it was exactly what Neville wanted!His frightened mood since the beginning of school has really been soothed——

His face had turned from light red to purple due to shame and excitement. He drank the clear coffee in the porcelain cup in one gulp, and then he was so bitter that he pulled out his tongue, and kept stuffing bread dipped in honey into his mouth.

"I'm sorry, Renee, let me do something to make up for it," Neville could only wrinkle his face and say bitterly to her after several times of tossing, "You can do whatever you want me to do."

"Don't do that again," Renee said. "If you have any questions, just ask me and I'll give you the answer."

The author has something to say:

The emotional transition, the relationship between the two is simply a bomb under the honey, which may explode at any time.

Neville could sensitively sense Renee's mind wandering, so could she also feel her perfunctory and impatience?

感谢在2021-10-3114:26:07~2021-11-0122:14:55期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Li Daitao;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!