It was a dare. A stupid, silly little dare that, arguably, could get her into more trouble than her pride was worth. She’d never turn down a dare. Not when it called for pool-hopping in the summer, eating some really gnarly foods, or tee pee-ing an old friend’s house for their birthday– and not even when she had been dared to kiss one of the most vile people here at Hogwarts.
He wasn’t vile exactly. Just a bit.. Pompous. A prat. A cad. A Pureblood elitist that thought, like Rodolphus, he was a gift to mankind. Respect was a two-way street, most people would say. But with Raphael and Celia, it seemed like it was more parallel lines. They were never to meet, they respected and honoured different things. After all, he had no qualms about hitting a female, and the bruise that had only recently disappeared from Celia’s small body could attest to that.
Yet even with the risk, she was not backing down.
So at one moment, she’d been walking past the Slytherin table during lunch time, making her way away from her friends who were still sitting at the Gryffindor table. But before anyone could realise what was going on, she’d set herself into Rafe’s lap, slanting her lips to meet his in a harsh kiss. He probably hadn’t the slightest idea who was kissing him at the moment.
There wasn’t anything soft about it. There was anger, resentment pouring forth from the girl– evident in the bruising way her lips pressed against his own, and lithe fingers that tangled, tugged at the curling locks at the nape of his neck. Celia wasn’t soft, pliant, and she certainly wasn’t forgiving– not in the way that she nipped at his bottom lip harshly enough to draw blood. She was angry. An angry, hateful girl with little care for Pureblood bullshit.
You could hear the gasp that rang through the Great Hall, the hush of quietness that was shock, utter disbelief in what was occurring. Celia, the girl who openly spat and hissed at the Purebloods that thought they were above all, snogging Raphael Mulciber.
But as quickly as it had happened, she pulled herself away, standing and taking his goblet of pumpkin juice to wash away the taste of his lips. She looked disgusted. She looked indifferent. There wasn’t a blush to her cheeks or laughing light to her eyes. It was a dare, a bet. Nothing more, nothing less.
“–Lips aren’t as soft as you would think,” Celia called down to her friends, setting the goblet back down in front of him. “And I,” She said, snatching a cookie from the Slytherin table before she stalked away. “Will take that. Thanks.”
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