By my Side ~ Tom Felton fanfic

Chapter 16: Just Bestfriends

A/N
Sorry it took a while :/
All rights for the Umbridge scene goes to Warner Brothers Entertainment and J.K. Rowling!! (And all the Harry Potter parts in this story)

I thought breaking up with him would've made everything better.

It didn't.

Alicia and her new friends, especially Alicia, decided to take over their boyfriends' jobs to give me crap. But theirs were probably worse. It wasn't physical, it was verbal and it was about my background (I won't touch on that for certain reasons), family and... My career.

'Have you heard?' I heard Alicia say "quietly" to her friends at lunch as I walked past them with Em, Tarlee, Kat and Dessy. 'Her brother's a singer. I searched him up and his group's called Arashi. What kind of name is Arashi? It probably means "shit". Like, if you put a 't' at the end, it would spell "Arashit".'

All her friends shrieked with laughter.

I balled my fist and my eyes stung. I knew that wasn't true about them: they were the most popular group in Japan and they have thousands of fans around the world...

'Congratulations! You can spell!' Dessy yelled furiously at them.

'Dessy, don't worry about it...'

'You clearly aren't happy.' She turned to look at me.

'You shouldn't need to put up them anymore...' Kat looked at me guiltily.

I just shrugged, quickly wiping my eyes with my sleeve.

'But seriously, if don't start to do anything about it, they're just going to continue doing it.'

'Yeah.'

I didn't say anything.

Good thing they weren't in any of my classes, though. If they were, I think I would quit.

'The most talented young actress?' She said loudly. 'What talent do you even have? Being on TV since you were a baby doesn't make you talented.'

I know. I know.

'Seriously, what's with them?' Thomas, who came up to us with Ian, Matt, Kosuke, Akihiro and Keita, said as he steered me away from them. 'Alicia especially. Like, whateven.'

'I don't understand why they're still continuing on with schooling, to be honest.' Ian said. 'I mean, they do nothing during class.'

'And why the school hasn't at least given them suspension. They've done and said enough to receive it at least five times.'

That, I was wondering too, but my mind was too busy thinking about the other thing she said.

But anyway, enough of this stupid thing.

We were almost done filming the Order of the Phoenix; we just had to do two more scenes today, give them to the editors and the movie will be released in two weeks.

***

'How are you?' Tom asked me as we waited for the others at the studio after school.

'Good.' I answered shortly. He looked at my eyes searchingly.

'You know you can tell me. I'll listen.'

'Yeah I know...' I said quietly. 'But it's nothing to worry about.'

He blinked as he looked at me closely. 'Are you... Are you sure?'

I nodded and smiled slightly.

'Okay...'

There was a split second of pause.

'Thank you though.' I said.