The Grey-eyed Serpent

Chapter 29: To be a Clementine

Okay, before you read, I just have to ask something that has been bothering me for a while now. I don't know if some of you know and I'm just the only one who didn't know it but us authors can actually see whatever reading list our stories get added to, and imagine my HORROR when I saw "this person added the grey eyed serpent to tiktok found", please tell me my fic is not on tiktok 😭, like, did some of you see it on tiktok? what is happening? ive been livid ever since seeing that notification and I really have to know.

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Alix peeks a glance at Blaise who was intent on avoiding her. It had been days now since their argument at the Great Hall and the Slytherin's determination in avoiding Alix had set everyone on edge. And that includes her sister.

"He still hasn't talked to you?" Alix's calm expression turns into confusion.

Althea looks at her with sadness in her eyes – an emotion that Alix never wanted to see on her sister's face ever. She shakes her head slowly and plays with the cuffs of her school robes, a habit she got used to doing when Thea was nervous about something.

That boy – really! And to think that he had the nerve to shout at Alix for keeping his soulmate away from her! And now he made her sister upset! Alix had just about a hundred painful hexes in her mind as she thought about how to make Blaise suffer for making Althea unhappy.

Alix looks at the Hufflepuff in front of her, eyes downcast like she was a puppy who had been scolded by her owner. "Oh, Thea. I'm sorry, I didn't know our fight would affect you this much" she wraps her left arm around her sister as she places the book that was held tightly in her hands out of frustration.

Thea keeps her voice small, louder than a whisper but softer than how she usually talked, as they were currently in the library and any loud noise that would be made by them will cause the uptight librarian to throw them out of the library.

"You did nothing wrong, sister" Thea sighs and leans onto her elder sister who she got used to depending on as she grew.

"I just – just thought that...this is not how I imagined it would be to meet my soulmate"

Alix runs a hand down Thea's soft hair. "I'm sorry, Thea, I'm really sorry. If I hadn't kept the truth from Blaise, then this wouldn't have happened" the third year Ravenclaw flinches when she received a light pinch from her litter sister on her arm.

"D-Did you just pinch me?" Alix blinks in bewilderment.

"Don't say such things about yourself, Alix. You did nothing wrong! Oh, if that boy is here right now, I would've hexed him as well, soulmate or not" Thea pouts and despite the threats that came out of her lips, she looked utterly adorable.

Alix swells. Her sister was defending her. Thea had just threatened someone, despite the threat sounding like a poem out of her lovely sister's mouth. "Oh, Thea" she couldn't help but sigh out of adoration. It really was no wonder their Father doesn't want Althea to meet her soulmate yet.

She was much too adorable to give away.

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Alix was in the wide courtyard of the castle, just before the Black Lake, brushing her familiar – quite aggressively at that. Sure, Mina could groom herself but she finds grooming the Zouwu to be quite comforting and anyone who passes by the courtyard knew better than to try and initiate a conversation with her. If the repetitive brushing on Mina's side and the blank look on her face was any sign that she was not in the mood for pointless chatter.

Althea was with Eryl, she took the dragon for a joyride to stretch his wings for a bit. The Headmaster has allowed Thea to do so, as long she does not venture past the wards. He has made it so that the youngest Clementine would be able to fly her dragon around the castle, expanding the wards a bit. If it was special treatment, no one dared say anything. Having a dragon for a familiar can be useful at times, not to mention the power behind the Clementine name. Anyone would be very foolish to even be bold enough to say anything that might cause offense to them.