these are the lies. | magnolia

It took everything Isaac had not to burst into laughter after he pretended to defend Horus, but at Magnolia's response, Isaac was powerless to stop it. His head tilted back as he laughed, a hand on his side, as he chuckled. "Yeah, I know what you meant," Isaac said between his roaring laughter and finally turned his eyes back to her. They were glossy and crinkled, and the teenager laughed again when she seemed to give up the whole thing and then insulted him instead. She was so easy to upset, but somehow it was still fun.

"Easy now," Isaac teased, putting his hands up in front of him as he mockingly pretended to be afraid of her. "I know what you and Boreus have is truly special," The Slytherin laughed again, nearly forgetting that she was threatening to ask out some lame-ass Ravenclaw to piss him off. Isaac didn't care for the way she thought that would bother him almost as much as the fact that it would indeed bother him. He sucked in a breath, feeling like the laughter had knocked the wind out of him, and shook his head.

"Well, this has been entertaining, but I should probably go before your boyfriend gets the wrong idea,"

Typical. she considered, an incredulous look on her face as he burst our in laughter though she supposed she should have been expecting as much from someone like him. This is what she got for taking the things that Isaac said seriously, he was a consistent person and here she was hoping that he would eventually turn a new leaf. Though Magnolia figured that if he ever did, it wouldn’t be in her presence that he showed a nicer side of himself. “You’re such a prick,” she sighed heavily, trying not to show how upset she was with him because she just simply didn’t want to give him the pleasure of enjoying her anger and embarrassment any more than he had been the last few months. But that was also a struggle as well, especially considering how easily her emotions often showed on her face.

“Yeah well it might be, what would you know about people that are special,” she retorted, her mind immediately drifting to all of the rumors she had managed to dig up about him in the last month or so, mostly from disgruntled girls that either thought they had a chance with him or were jilted that things hadn’t turned out how they had imagined. Rather than consider that it was just a bunch of lies to get back at him or that none of that really showed who he was, she concluded that this meant to give her insight into how he had treated his previous “girlfriends”. Either way, she didn’t care. This whole Horus joke was getting so out of hand, Magnolia considered that she might actually have to date the boy if he showed some interest. She’d show him.

“Well I highly doubt he’d get the wrong idea, I’ll be sure to tell him what I think about boys like you,” she added, hugging her book closer to her chest as she turned to walk (or rather stomp off) down the hall.

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"what would you know about people that are special," Isaac's smile waivered at her words, but he couldn't know why. Maybe there was some tiny sliver of guilt for making fun of her for this long. Isaac liked talking to Magnolia more than just about anyone else in their year. His own friends were included. But he wasn't going to tell her that, and he wasn't going to stop behaving the same way he had for the last sixteen years of his life either. He was who he was, and no one was forcing her to stick around and deal with his nonsense.

The Slytherin opened his mouth to ask exactly what she thought about boys like him, but before he had the chance, Magnolia was turning to leave. It was a strange thing to be left standing in the middle of the hallway. And as he watched her walk away, Isaac realized he didn't like it, not one bit, and he frowned as he started heading toward the dungeons.

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