tippest och Unicornhorn [PRS]

The lesson went by way to fast. He didn't want to return to the project. He was so done with Audrey. People sucked. Especially Gryffindors. And Hufflepuffs, but not as much.
He walked out of class, trying to get rid of his "buddy" but nope. She walked up to him anyway. Damn it.
"I believe that you forgot the sarcasm", he said, looking at her without any type of expression. He was blank. Which could look pretty scary, to be honest. "Oh yeah. I'll start next class five minutes later than everyone else. I just have to check the halls after anyone trying to skip class."

He looked away from her and opened his brown shoulder bag. He picked up a blue box with mints and took one. He was just going to shove it down his bag again before he realized that he should be nice.
"You want some?"

She rolled her eyes at his comment on sarcasm, and decided not to pour petrol on that fire. She wrinkled her forhead. Why did he look expressionless? He looked like a creepy doll with no soul in his eyes. She nodded.
“Sure, but I hope I’m not counted as one” she said and smiled a bit. She tried to be funny, at least.
“So what, you’re always five minutes late for class? Isn’t that something bad?” she asked and put her schoolbag on her shoulder. She walked out to the corridor and watched the students going in different directions. She turned her head when she heard him ask her something. She looked down at the mints he was offering. She didn’t really want some, but she saw it as a peace offering.
“Sure” she said and took one, and put it in her mouth.
“Thanks” she said and felt the minty flavour spread in her mouth. She pulled her schoolbag higher up on her shoulder.
“So, what corridors do we inspect?”

Before he could stop himself, he chuckled at her joke. Why did he do that? She would probably use it against him. Hell.
He shook his head at her first question.
"Nope. Different Prefects start different lessons five minutes late", he answered and enjoyed that she asked questions about his "job". Well, being a Prefect kind of was his job? He shoved the mints down his bag again and put it back on his shoulder.

"I don't know", he said and shrugged. He usually just took some. "I usually just walk around a bit." He realized that this probably made him seem like a bad Prefect. But he wasn't. According to Snape he was doing just fine. He probably was a terrible Prefect. Hell, he didn't even attend all the meetings.

Audrey noted that he laughed at her joke. It seemed like he at least he wasn’t going to be rancorous about what she had said before. She nodded. She had never been thinking of what a Prefect actually did, more than being annoying, stuck-up snobs. When she thought about it, they actually did a lot of the teachers’ jobs, making their jobs easier. However, they could still be considered teachers’ spies.
“Are you doing this during the night, too?” she asked, mostly so she would know if she had to watch out for Prefects, too.

When they walked around, Audrey was bored. She couldn’t even handle a Prefect’s duties for five minutes, which built into the case that she would be a rubbish Prefect. She stopped.
“Hey, do you hear crying?” she asked and looked at him. She swore she heard someone cry. She didn’t like crying, neither when she did it herself or when others did. She always felt so useless, and didn’t know what to say.

"Sometimes", he answered and raised his brows a little bit. "When the professors suspect that a Gryffindor has something in the making, I think." He actually smiled at her. Baby steps in someones world, huge steps in Noels.

They started walking around and Noel kind of let Audrey lead their way. He noticed that she got really bored. He usually also got bored of it, but he missed class for five minutes, so he was okay with it.
"What? No", he said and looked back at her. Audrey and Noel had at least one thing in common; neither of them liked crying. He rarely cried himself and avoided situations where he could meet other crying people. Shit. He really hoped that Audrey just hade some brain ghosts or something, because he did not know how to handle a situation with a crying student.

Audrey listened. The crying had stopped. She heard steps, and a door slam.
“Well, whoever was crying is not here anymore” she said and shrugged. She understood the student though, if she had been crying she would not have wanted to be interrupted by other students. She scratched her neck and looked at Noel.
“So, duties over?” she asked and hoped for a yes, she really didn’t want to patrol the corridors, it was really boring. She glanced at her watch. Class started five minutes ago, which meant they had to go back. At least she thought that, she didn’t know if Noel had some other boring Prefect duties to do. She didn’t like that he had confirmed that they were out in the night as well, because that meant more people to look out for. She wasn’t going to stop going out in the night because of it, since she had never seen a Prefect out before. But then she was really good at sneaking around the castle.

Noel sighed out of relief. He saw her scar again and wanted to know exactly what had happened, but last time he asked she got really upset. Which isn't actually a reason for him to shut up about it - they weren't friends. Why would he care?
"Yup", he said, a bit sad that they had to return to class. Even though he was a good student he hated most of the lessons. He liked learning by himself - not bothered by a bunch of other students.
He started to go back to class, without checking if Audrey followed him. He supposed that she did. Why wouldn't she?

Audrey liked Defence against the Dark Arts. It made her feel important, that if she had to, she could fight the darkness. However, today it was only theory, which was a bit boring. She listened and kept notes, but it was more fun when they did the practical parts. She looked over her schedule, and this was the last lesson for the day; Fridays were very nice that way. However, that meant more time for studying by herself. She had a paper to write, and it didn’t write itself, unfortunately. When the class was over, she walked over to Noel.
“So, how does it work now? We still have to be together, but we’re in different Houses and different common rooms” she said. She hadn’t really thought about it, maybe they could be in the different common rooms every other time? That sounded like a lot of work. She understood the idea of the project, but some parts of it were not very logical. What if they had forced one of the persons stuff into the others common room? They wouldn’t do that, would they? That was just cruel. They couldn’t sleep in the same bedroom anyway, since Hogwarts was very strict with the whole keep-the-genders-apart thing.
“Well, you’re the wrong person to ask, since you fancy Gobstones more than attending meetings” she said, and didn’t care that she said it sarcastically, he had to suck it up and take it, she couldn’t change too much, after all.

Theory wasn't Noels favourite thing either. He kept his notes and raised his hand whenever he got the chance, thus earning some points to Slytherin. Always felt good. When the lesson was over, Noel realized that it was the last one for the day. Freedom! He didn't have any homework, so he would be free the entire weekend. Those weekends didn't come often, but he made sure of spending them right.

He ignored the sarcastic comment. He was already adjusted to the rudeness of miss Audrey.
"Can you like", he said as he almost threw his book down his bag. "Fuck off?" He said this in a bit more quiet voice because he did not want any professor to remove all the points that he had just gained for his House.

Audrey raised her eyebrows and took a step back.
“Woah, that’s a but rude, isn’t it? I was only asking you a question” she said and looked at him. Why did he get so mad? She had only asked a question. Well, then she had made fun of his hobby. Again. Maybe that hadn’t been the smartest move, but that was the way she was. She had to keep her walls up, to protect herself. She had always been doing that. It had taken forever for Eric to break them, and Audrey had been surprised that he never gave up like the rest of the people she tried to get to know. She couldn’t help it, without the jokes and the sarcasm she was vulnerable, and she hated that.

She looked at Noel. She considered apologizing, but he had told her to fuck off, after all. That wasn’t very nice so he didn’t earn an apology.
“I’m just trying to figure this whole project out to make it easier” she said and sighed. She tried to be funny as well, but that didn’t work, apparently. She didn’t mean to make fun of his hobby. He had laughed in the corridor at her joke about herself, but not now when the joke was about him. Audrey really had to learn what kind of jokes he liked, since she didn’t want to get told to fuck off every time she tried to be funny.