Chapter 235 - Girls Bathroom (2/2)
Rowan narrows her eyes and says, ”I know for a fact that you'll end up as a rat of some sort.”
”Excuse me!” Pettigrew puffed out indignantly.
”Let's make a deal,” Rowan persuasively said. ”I'll guess what the three of you will be and if I'm right in the end, I want the free usage of James's cloak, three times with no questions asked.”
”Deal,” James instantly said as he cheekily grinned. ”Go on, now, tell us what we will be?”
Pointing a James first, Rowan says, ”A Stag.” ”A Black Dog.” ”And, A Rat.”
Sirius pensively purses his lips as James mutters, ”I always thought I'd be a hawk given that I'm a chaser.” Pettigrew on the other hand mutinously glares at Rowan no doubt swearing revenge.
”And what about me?” Severus said with a raised brow.
Rowan feels a dash of cold sweat on the back of her neck, before gathering all her know psychology on her brother. ”A black creature of some sort. I'm thinking of a black leopard.”
”That would actually fit,” Lupin pensively said out loud. ”Severus is rather dark and does have a powerful, sleek gait.”
”Oh, and before I forgot,” Rowan muttered. ”Oh, Myrtle, dear as promised I brought some guests to visit you.”
”Guests for me?” Said a squat girl with pimples and thick glasses, who suddenly sprung out of one of the stalls causing Sirius to leap backward as Pettigrew quaveringly reached for his wand. James, on the other hand, began to roar with laughter as Lupin merely shook his head.
”And you are?” Severus said staring down his nose at the pimpled ghost.
”Oh, my!” Myrtle blushed at seeing all the boys in the bathroom. ”I'm Myrtle Warren.”
”You're moaning myrtle?” Sirius curiously said to only receive a glare from the ghost.
”Don't listen to him, Myrtle, dear,” Rowan airily said. ”He's doesn't appreciate your charms as the others do.”
Myrtle shyly blushes as Severus flashes Rowan an annoyed look, before loftily saying, ”I expect that the ingredients within the next two weeks.” Stomping out the door slams behind him as everyone stares at his retreating back.
”Well, that was rude,” Myrtle said as Rowan sighed, ”What can I say, he's my twin brother.”
Myrtle immediately begins to chat with the boys and to Rowan's amazement, James quickly charms the female ghost. Shaking her head, she wryly left them to only be followed by Pettigrew closely behind her. A short way away, Pettigrew solemnly says, ”You really think, I'll be a rat?”
Rowan pauses to glance at the forlorn expression of Pettigrew. ”Rats are nothing to scoff at Pettigrew,” Rowan explained. ”Rats are brave often many times challenging creatures much larger and ferocious than they are. Rats are cunning able to find and enter places that others can't. Rats are survivors, who survive against miraculous odds.
And you, Pettigrew, are no less than James, Sirius, or Lupin. The biggest difference is that James and Sirius are not only good-looking and wealthy, while Lupin, on the other hand, is brilliant. But you've more than proven their match as you've gotten on the Quidditch team and have beaten Sirius on the exams. What you may lack in wealth, you more than made up for it in cunning and courage.”
Pettigrew stares at Rowan and says, ”I think that's the nicest compliment you've ever given me.”
”Hmm, don't get used to it,” Rowan smirked, before leaning over to brush her lips against his cheek.
Pettigrew turns bright red as Rowan's lips twitch upward. ”As I said, you're brave enough in your own way, Pettigrew. I haven't forgotten what you did for me that day. And I suggest that neither do you. Because you're most certainly a lion.” Rowan turns away and leaves as Pettigrew is left dumb folded holding his flushing cheek.
”That's the second time, she's done that,” Pettigrew whispered, before dumbly heading to the common room area. Despite snorting afterward, there was a smile on his face the whole day. Because whether Pettigrew admitted it or not, it still was nice to be appreciated by a girl.