Who Nicodemus Augustine Pye & Jackson Beckett Sloper What A non-date! When Friday afternoon Where By the lake Status/Rating Incomplete/Close
Don't say you love me
Jack knew that today probably wasn't going to go the way that Nicodemus Pye wanted it to, but he was going to try his best to be nice about it. After talking to Colin about everything that was going on, and after Colin confessed what he felt, everything changed for Sloper. His priorities were in a completely different order.
There was a whole new set of challenges associated with what was going to happen next for him and Creevey--and there were certainly barriers and complications that he had no idea how to tackle. There were even some reservations, and a few doubts as to whether or not he was doing the right thing. And then, of course, there was Melinda who he did like, even if she wasn't exactly what he'd always had in mind for someone he'd want to be with given what was (and what wasn't) in her trousers.
First thing was first, though. He needed to meet with this Pye bloke and ask him exactly what in the pastoral green meadows of hell he was thinking.
Except in a nice way.
Sloper didn't think of himself as attractive in the slightest, and while he knew that he was smart (and perhaps a touch arrogant) he didn't think he was the kind of intelligent that drew people to him. He wasn't exactly nice about telling others how wrong they were, for example, and he was aware of the fact that he was probably making more friends than enemies with how he treated other people. He sort of hoped that didn't happen with Pye, but he had a feeling that that was the way this was going to turn.
As lunch approached, Sloper bundled himself up in a scarf against the cold in his Gryffindor scarf, and walked down towards the lake where he was meant to meet with the other boy. The sober expression on his face made him look more like a boy who was on his way to that dentist than one making a lunch date, but he trudged over the leaves and grass with determination just the same.