Sweetness
(Neville x Reader)
You've always struggled to feel love because you were a slytherin, until the tri-wizard tournament. Neville was always around.
(Fluff? Romantic tension? strangers to friends to lovers? yule ball?)
-------------------------------------
Bring a slytherin, you always had a bad reputation. Nobody seemed to like you, even growing up you were always bullied. You grew and learned to stand up for yourself. You always expected the worst from people.
One day, there was a new teacher. You walked by yourself to class like you did everyday. Jealously filled you body as you heard warm chatter and laughter in the halls that always seemed so cold and lonely, shivering at the voices around you. You walk into class and walk to the table you usally sat at.
These two other students were sitting there, for a moment you thought you were getting bullied so you let out a rude, "Excuse me." It was dry and rough.
"He assigned different seats, can't you read?" He said pointing at the board. You look up to read the board and the student was right, you look back to apologize but you see him and his friend laughing at you already. You roll your eyes and walk to your new seat.
Class had already begun and nobody sat in the seat next to you until the first three minutes of class goes by.
A boy with messy brown hair, green eyes, and bucked teeth sits next to you. He shakingly puts his bag down and sits down carefully, almost scared of you.
"h-hello." He pushes out stuttering. You already knew him, Neville Longbottom..
The clumsy and stuttery boy, he didn't have many friends but he was sweet to everyone, even you. You've never talked to him before, you were scared to have friends of yourself.
"hi." You say, dry and uninterested. You pretended not to care but you hold back your smile. You've never cared for Neville. As sweet as he was, even you thought he was a loser.
His head always in book but not any books.. herbology books. He was a nerd and not even you wanted to be seen like that.
Class goes by and he ends the class early after showing three forbidden curses. All the students are left in their seats uncomfortable.
"Wow.." Neville says, "That's.. that's something."
"Yeah.." you say chuckling back. It was rough to watch your teacher practically abuse a spider like creature. You take out work that needs to be finished in other classes and decide to do it.
Neville watched you and does the same. You notice every once in a while he would look over at your paper, you assumed he was copying and didn't say anything, you didn't care much to be honest.
"Do you need help?" He says in a low voice. You look up confused, why does he wanna help? You look back at your paper and see your doing herbology work.
You let out an accident chuckle and let out a breathy "yeah.."
You confused yourself. Yeah? When did you need help, help with herbology at that? You never struggled in any subject where you needed help. You wanted to say no but you saw the look in his eyes and how bright they were, you couldn't help but say yeah.
He tilts your paper towards him and reads it for a second. You can't help but watch him. His eyes scanning your paper, his hair falling on his eyes, his slight smile. You try to hide it but let out a slight smirk.
"Oh this is easy, in class she practically answered all of these."
He said still looking at the paper. The moved the paper towards you and gave you the answers, you were done is a minute.
"T-thank you." You say smiling. For the first time in a while, you felt happy about talking to one of your piers. He smiled at you and says "Your welcome." You saw his adorable buck teeth..
adorable? why did u call him adorable. that's weird.
"uh d-do you need um.. help with anything?" You say trying your best to seem confident. Something about not being rude was so odd.
"Actually, i don't get this potion work." He says going through his folder. You couldn't help but watch him again.
-------------------------------------
Once you helped him with his work, the class was over. You pack your stuff and get ready to leave, as you get up, slightly upset that you would have to leave neville, a hand touches your shoulder hesitantly.
"Um, would u like to come study with me in the library later today? maybe round.. 5:00?"
You are stunned, looking at the shy boy look at your eyes then his feet as he asked you. You wastes to say no, but you couldn't help but say..
"Yeah.."
-------------------------------------
You walk into the warm library that's lit with only candles, you're in an oversized sweater that is falling off half your shoulder and shorts that's are honestly too short for just going to the library. You see neville, fidgeting with his sweater vest before he looks up and sees you. He slimes and walks over.
"Hey, um.. wanna go over there, it's quieter?" He said pointing his head behind him. You nod and follow him.
It was quite chatty but not too noisy in the library. As you walk with neville you hear other people talking about it.
"What are they doing together?" "What is she gonna do to neville?" "should we watch?" "does he know he's being followed?"
You finally sit down next to neville in a far place. You are surrounded by books. You never cared to really look at the library but it was very pretty.
"Don't min them." Nevill says smiling, pulling a book out his book bag. You stare at him confused. "The people, sayin stuff. Just ignore them." He says moving his chair closer to yours.
You too move your chair accidentally bumping them together. You look at his face and notice his face was slightly pink, you didn't know if he always had that pink hue or if he was blushing. He opens his book at his book mark and leans in.
You smell him, you felt like a creep but you loved it. He smelt like vanilla with a hint of earthy tones, mainly wet dirty. You loved it though. It was fresh and lovely.
-------------------------------------
You and him take notes out of the herbology book. Neville looks at your notes and stares at them for a bit. He grabs them and says, "Your handwriting is bloody beautiful.." He looks at you waiting for an answer. You can't help but smile and nod awkwardly looking the other way. "S-sorry for grabbing your notes." He says, you don't answer.
You hated how awkward you were, you never were really quiet and it bugged you. Neville closes the book while you were thinking causing you to look up at him. "Are you okay? You looked very zoned out. Wanna talk?" He says.
"um, nope. i-im okay." You say looking at the pencil sitting on the desk. "Let's have a break." Neville says. It was quite at first until he starts asking questions.
-------------------------------------
You talked about your families, his friends. Past relationships, classes, and other stuff.
You learnt how his grandma treated him. She was harsh but had sweet words often praising him for stuff, if he didn't do something right, she would ignore him or tell him off in a rude way. He learnt you were just nervous about making a new friend a you weren't always quite.
After laughing and talking for an hour in a half, "Do you wanna go to hogmead with me, this weekend?"
Merlin, how was Neville Longbottom making you nervous, he as more confident then you and it scared you.
"Yeah, sure i would love too." You say smiling.
-------------------------------------
That weekend you meet up, Neville was with some friends. You didn't want to go up until he saw you and walks up. It was cold and windy outside so you dressed in a long skirt and an oversized sweater. He puts a hand behind your back and looks to his three friends, "This is y/n!" He smiles and looks happy.
His friends on the other hand weren't smiling, Hermione walks up to you and shakes your hand.
You were quite the whole day only laughing quietly or whispering things to neville making his friends look at you weird.
-------------------------------------
Going back to school Neville invited you to the gryffindor common room. You walk up with him and see how cozy it was compared to yours. It was nice and you sit next to him quietly as he talked to his friends the next of the night. Although you weren't talking, you lived just being near people. They weren't even laughing at you. You were thankful for Neville, he was so nice and even bought you a few small things.
They all one by one went to bed and it was just you and Neville. "Did.. did you have fun?" He says. You look into his green eyes with the fire crackling in the back. "Yeah, it was awesome." You said smiling.
You noticed Neville looked at your lips as you smiled and just stared at you.
-------------------------------------
A month goes by and your best buds with Neville. More confident now, talking to Hermione, Ron, and Harry. You weren't best friends but you were able to talk now. You were happy at your improvement. Neville comes up to you. "I heard two schools were coming, something about a tri-wizard tournament?" "Oh yes, I've heard, i'm so excited!" You said smiling touching his arm.
People have noticed your sudden change in behavior in the last month. They've noticed how you smiled more and laughed more, and importantly, less alone. You were nicer and more considerate.
-------------------------------------
You and Neville were in the library once more, something about the yule ball made you flustered. "Oh Neville i don't want to go alone.." You whined putting your head in your hands. He laughs at you and rubs your back, "Don worry love, i'm sure someone will ask you."
You already knew Neville had a slight crush on Ginny, you felt honestly pretty jealous. You didn't like anybody and knew nobody else and was hoping Neville would ask you. Neville had already planned on asking Ginny.
"Ughhhh Neville..." You whined as he laughed in your face. Usually you would feel offended but this time, it made you smile. His laughed brightened up your heart and always tugged a smile out of you. "It's okaaay, i'm sure someone with ask you."
"Nev, I don't talk to anybody else.." You looked at Neville through your eyelashes and pouted. You never acted like this before but with Neville you felt different. "Have hope y/n, trust me you're very beautiful."
Beautiful.. Woah. It made your heart flutter and cheeks fluster.
-------------------------------------
The more you hung out with nev that week the more flustered you noticed you got. When he brushed your hand in potions, and he gilded your hands in herbology, and the way he laughed. It all made you blush. You noticed more and more throughout the week, he mentioned Ginny less. It was odd, a month ago he always fawned over her, saying her name and being over dramatic about every situation that involved him.
-------------------------------------
In the Gryffindor common room you sat alone infront of the fire place, you held a book but didn't read it. You drifted off thinking about the yule ball.
A familiar voice called you..
"Y/n.."
It made u jump and snapped you out of your thinking and turn around. With wide eyes, nearly deer like you look at the voice behind you. There was Ron. Ronald Weasley. He looked at your eyes and looked down, he played with his fingers. It was only you guys in the warm common room. The two friends he had were nowhere to be found and Neville had gone to his dorm to find cards for you guys to play.
"um.. i was wondering, w-would you go to the yule ball with me." He was shy and his eyes flickered between your eyes and the floor. You weren't really friends with Ron and it shocked you, did he like you? If so for how long? Is he asking just because your the last choice? Are his friends going to pop out and laugh at you?
You doubt it, the way he looked, very nervous and sweaty.
"So what you say?" Ron said chuckling nervously finally being able to hold eye contact.
"yeah.. sure." You said breathlessly, you waiting to be made the punchline of the joke but instead you watched his eyes light up. "Really? Thank you y/n. I'm very excited to go.. with you." He walked away up the stairs stiff, you can't help but laugh at his nervousness. As you watch him go up, Neville comes down.
He walks up to you and sits down right next to you, "What happened?" He asked looking back at the stairs.
"Ron Weasley asked me to the yule ball." You said chuckling and rolling your eyes smiling looking back at your book pages, flipping the page you 100% didn't read.
He laughed, "He's a sweet guy, maybe somebody will say yes." Neville said taking the cards out of the package getting ready to shuffle them.
You look at Neville confused, "I said yes." You looked at him and see his smile drop just a bit and looked up, "Oh.. seriously?" He tilted his head once more, he didn't believe you.
You frowned and furrowed your eyebrows. "He's nice to me, and he's cute. Like you sad yourself he's a sweet guy." You shrugged and looked back at your book. Nevill moved uncomfortably in his seat and shuffled the cards almost ignoring the words that seemed to bother him.
"Did you really say yeah?" He asked again looking at you frowning.
"Yes Neville. Is there anything wrong with me going with Ron Weasley?" You raised your voice a bit to show him he's upsetting you. You didn't know what Nev meant.
Neville started at you quietly, his eyes widened just a little bit with a frown on his face and tilted eyebrows.
He looks at his cards in his hand and fiddles with them, "I-i wanted to ask you. I was going to ask tonight.." He hands you a card in the deck that reads, "Will you go to the yule ball with me y/n" with a little heart at the end near your name.
You stare at the card you took from his hand and can't help but feel like you made a mistake. Even though Ron was cute, you liked Nev more..
You guys say in silence and you manage to mumble out "oh neville.." you looked up from the card and make eye contact with him. "i'm sorry, i didn't know." You say.
"Don't worry, if u didn't want to go that's okay, um i-i'll ask ginny then.." He looked down at his feet and seemed genuinely upset.
Seeing Neville sad, because of you, a discussion you made, you felt bad and can't help to lean into him and hug him.
He wraps an arm around your waist leaning onto your shoulder. Even thought he's taller, he rest on you and melts into you as he brings his other arm to your waist hugging you fully, pulling you onto him.
"I-im sorry.." Nevill says. "For what?"
He gets off of you and looks at your eyes, "I shouldn't have waited this long, i wanted to tell you how long i've liked you but.. i thought you would get uncomfortable."
"What.. i thought you liked Ginny?" You felt confused as you hand rested on the back of his head playing with his choppy hair.
"She's pretty but i just wanted To make you feel jealous so you asked me instead.."
"You're so dumb." You laughed at him softly with an even softer smile and rest a hand on his chest.
"Neville, i've liked you too, for a long time." You confess to him, making your face pink, a softer pink than his. Nev's face was nearly red.
"S-so will you go to the yule ball with me?.." He said stuttering and hopeful, leaning into you an upright.
"I'll have the break the news to Ron but yes i will." You smile at him making him hug you immediately.
"T-thank you y/n.. You mean so much to me."
You push him back and held his face. His face looks to flushed and his eyes look teary, almost crying. You can't help yourself and lean into his face. Placing a soft kiss on his cheek then his mouth.
He leans into the kiss, he seemed to love to lean into you. You guys melted into one. His soft and chapped lips fit perfectly with yours. He breaks the kiss and whispers, "Thank you so much."
You open your eyes at the stomach fluttering words and see him looking at you with tears forming.
You giggle and caress his cheek, "Your so cute Neville." Making him smile all stupid. Once more, you kiss again.
