The Last Chance

“I got this.” He said pulling out his phone from his pocket and showing her the picture of his project paper. He was relieved when she didn’t seem to realize the fact he was practically lying through his teeth just to make things easier. He couldn’t have a crush like when they were kids, no that was completely ridiculous. “Somehow I don’t think that was it. I think he just wanted me to leave him alone.” Darcy chuckled as he leaned over to look at her laptop screen with her. “I can go get the notes if you need me to.” He offered before scooping out some ice cream with his own spoon. “I tried getting Sammy to help, but he’s MIA right now.” He shrugged bringing up his friend Sammy who used to help him with school work since it was easy to tell that school wasn’t something he got naturally. He scooped out another spoonful of ice cream. He smiled a little, it helped after the kind of day he had.

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“Am I going to alright without them though?” Darcy asked a brow. He hadn’t been able to keep up with her in middle school when she started talking about school subjects, so it doubted that was going to change now. So he grabbed his phone and started typing to try and get what she was saying down as fast as she was saying it. He would occasionally bob his head while she was talking to show he was following, at least a little. When she finally finished he huffed a little and set his phone down on the couch beside him. Picking up a spoon he scooped himself a pretty big hunk of ice cream. “Some things stay the same.” He muttered with a smirk before eating the ice cream and going back for a second. “Seriously though thank you. Now at least I have something. I’d be in it deep if I didn’t get something done by tonight. “ He chuckled albeit somewhat nervously. “Did you know my mom has vein that pops out when she gets angry?” Chuckling a little to himself he shrugged and got another spoonful picking up his phone with his free hand to start looking a few things up that would hopefully help him.

The young man gave an over dramatic sigh and pretended to wipe sweat from his brow. “Bless you. You are truly a saint.” Clasping his hand together in front of himself he bowed his head a little. Then he looked back up to with a lopsided grin sighing as he leaned back on the couch getting another scoop of ice cream. He sighed looking down at the now almost half empty tub of ice cream. “Darcy spin? I wasn’t aware that was a thing.” He murmured through his spoonful of ice cream. He was happy, mostly because she seemed happy. This didn’t exactly erase their less than pretty past. At least it was a quiet moment they could enjoy each other’s company. Humming he tapped his spoon on the edge of the ice cream tub. “If not you can always come raid our freezer. My mom always keeps a couple tubs hidden in the back.” Darc offered a wink before he stretched his arms over the back of the couch with a slight huff.

“Oh come on, don’t let a little thing like this stop you from free ice cream.” There was a teasing smile on his face as he looked down at her ankle before he yawned to take another scoop of ice cream. He happened to glance over at Kambrie out of the corner of his eye and caught sight of her brief glossy distant look to her. Just like that it was gone though and she started asking him about Hogwart houses. “How is that even a question? Slytherin of course. What about you? Please don’t tell me you’re a Hufflepuff or something.” Darcy would be lying if he said he wasn’t a hardcore bookworm when he was growing up. It really shouldn’t be surprising that him being the little brat he was would relate better to the Slytherin house then any other. Yawning he patted his stomach happily with an easy smile. “Man now I’m completely stuffed on ice cream.” He sunk back into the couch completely happy. He quirked a brow when he heard his phone buzz next to him. Setting his spoon aside he picked up his phone and sighed softly as he scrolled through the texts, multiple in fact one after the other from his classmates. None of them were particularly nice. Shaking his head he slid his phone in his pocket picking up his spoon and scraping out another spoonful of ice cream.

He was left blinking a little in shock as she opened her camera and snapped a picture like they were having the time of her life. He offered a somewhat crooked smile when the camera appeared. He sighed softl to himself when she put it away. “Now why’d you do that then?” He huffed although there was a noticeable smile on his face as he went to scoop up the last of the ice cream. Sighing briefly he shrugged it off. He didn’t need to watched over like a helpless baby. Even though he appreciated it. “Gryffindor huh? I should have figured that out sooner rather then.” Yawning a little he stretched before he looked towards his old friend. “Why is that your favorite house?” He questioned as he licked the end of spoon and put settled the spoon on the tip on the tip of his nose ideally crossing his eyes to look down at the end of his nose.

“Sure you were.” He shounded less then convinced, but just shrugged his shoulders. Maybe this would be proof enough for people to just leave him be. That’s all her really wanted now. He glanced over to at Kambrie smiling softly to himself. “Yeah I remember when you dressed up as her for Halloween. I can’t believe you talked me into being Ron. I couldn’t rinse out that dye for days.” Puffing out his cheeks a little leaning back a little. He sighed when his phone buzzed in his pocket. Frowning a little he pulled his phone out of his pocket. He sighed when he saw a message from his mom asking if was behaving himself. He typed out a quick yes before slipping it back in his pocket. “Going somewhere like Hogwarts would be way better.” Standing up from the couch he collected up the empty ice cream container and spoons moving towards the sink with the spoons.

(Lol whoops ^^’)

Darcy looked up practially dropping the spoons in his surprise when she said they should definitely do this again. This was good, right? It meant she was willing to let him back into her life a little more. Washing the spoons off he came back to the table with a goofy grin on his face. “Definitely.” He nodded his head a little before he looked at the time on his phone. “Geez looks like I better get going. I’m almost at my curfew.” Slipping his phone back into his pocket. His mom was no giving him an inch after he came home. “I’ll see you at school then.” Darcy hummed redundantly as he moved around the other side of the couch giving her a somewhat awkward wave.

Darcy walked in the door to find his mom, dad, and even his older brother all sitting in kitchen crowded around a couple to-go bags. “I’m surprised you came back.” His brother commented as he took a bite of his burger. Darcy huffed lightly shaking his head before snagging up one of the bags and hurrying off to his room, having the rest of his homework left to finish. He smiled when he opened his laptop and saw the email from Kambrie. Chuckling to himself he got to work on the project up most of the night to finish it all. His alarm went off way too early for his liking the next morning. Grunting to himself he slammed the snooze on his alarm clock and rolled back over in his bed, grumbling to himself.