You Spin Me Right Round (Dorian)

[Samantha Montgomery]

She had been successful in avoiding him the past few days. Ever since Lyra's falling out with Rystain, and Sam's minor spat with Ryan she hadn't even really talked to him.

She couldn't avoid him in class but if she showed up after he had to a class she sat on the opposite side of the room. If he was in the common room when she got there, she usually went up to her room. She sat on the other end of the dining table during meals, and made up quick excuses when he did corner her.

Polite excuses of course, she was a busy girl after all.

Right now however she was exhausted from her business. She had just finished her Astronomy class and was dreading the walk back down to her dorm. It was several floors after all. Sighing she was the last to leave class and instead of leaving she simply decided to sit there for a bit and work up the energy to get back downstairs.

Then again the Owlry was up here and she could send that letter home that she had been meaning to, it would delay her a bit but at least she could prolong the journey.

Parcel and quill in hand she wrote her letter and headed off towards the Owlry to deliver it but bumped into someone instead. A familiar someone.

[Dorian Knight]

"I am so sorry," Ryan said, putting his hands out to grab her in case he accidentally knocked her down.

It took another second or two to realize who he was holding on her feet, and he frowned.

"On second thought, I don't think I'm that sorry anymore."

[Samantha Montgomery]

She was quick to apologize as well but recognition was instant. She didn't know when she had learned his scent or his frame but it had all come together when their bodies touched.

She glanced up at him he was still holding her only now he was frowning.

She shrugged him off, " I wasn't looking where I was going." she said simply before trying to get around him.

[Dorian Knight]

"Which is funny, kind of," Ryan told her. "You've been so careful to make sure you know where I am at all times... you know, so you could be anywhere else. What is going on with you, Sam? I'm not Rystain and I wish you would stop treating me like I was."

[Samantha Montgomery]

Sam thought about his words for a long moment. It wasn't like she wasn't avoiding Rystain, whom she kept trying to tell herself was the one that she was scooting around, but Rystain didn't bother her so much.

Oh she could murder him for what he did, but being around him at least didn't make her squirm.

She had no real cause to avoid Ryan *he* had done nothing wrong, and she could admit that. But she found that she enjoyed his company too much. Sometimes when Lyra would talk about Rystain's and her relationship...pre-their break up, the scenarios would seem similar to things that had played out between Ryan and herself well at least the way that Lyra had enjoyed her time with Rystain.

Sam did not want to become another Lyra. Besides, she had waited her whole life to be free of men and head games and Ryan would just be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

"I'm not treating you any differently.." she lied, but superbly, " Things were bound to change Ryan..." she shrugged, "We're not exactly a foursome anymore that's all. I'm not avoiding you."

[Dorian Knight]

"We were never really a foursome. When did the four of us ever hang out together? I refused to get too partial to Lani or Lyra because I saw this coming. And you're lying to me."

He sighed and let go of her arms.

"Whatever. Get out of here."

[Samantha Montgomery]

"I am not!" she huffed. She was, but her arguments were completely logical, "And don't tell me what to do." she frowned, she didn't like him just dismissing her like that, even if it was what she wanted since he had taken hold of her.

She didn't like being in his arms, oh...she just liked it too much. What a hand full of kisses and all of a sudden she's putty? How pathetic. She had been kissed before it was nothing new...just the feeling behind it was. It was...strange and new...and if she was honest a little scary. Especially because of what had happened to Lyra.

"And I wasn't saying that we all hung out together it was just that you're Rystain's best friend, Lyra's mine and well they were together...so we...and that's all over now."

Her argument lacked logic the second time around or at least partial coherency. She was replaying all of his words so far and realized that had she been in her right might she would have been able to end with the upperhand. Perhaps it wasn't too late.

"And I am *not* avoiding you Ryan. I just happen to be busy that's all, you place too much stock on yourself." she said haughtily with her nose in the air as she stepped around him.

[Dorian Knight]

"Oh, because I'm Rystain's best friend. Well, now it all comes together. It *is* because you think I'm Rystain. Guilty by association, right? You're contradicting your own arguements, and for the record, I'm still friends with Lyra, so whatever idea you have in your head is half baked and wrong. But who am I to try to reason with a girl?"

He did not move to stop her. It wasn't worth it.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"I do not think you're Rystain!" she nearly shouted at him. She didn't think he was Rystain, no, he was too much his own man to be anyone else and that was the problem. If she could just group him with the rest of the guys that'd be easier, a guy she didn't feel funny around.

Even now she was getting hot and her stomach was coiling and she didn't know what that meant, but she got "sick" when he came around her.

"I'm not contradicting anything. I was just saying that there's no reasonable excuse for us to hang out anymore." and by hang out she meant kiss. She wasn't sure when she had complicated matters so much, but she was asking herself that very question, what was an excuse? She wanted there to be an excuse to have to see him and at the same time any excuse to see him would only put her in danger's way.

"Stop accusing me of things."

[Dorian Knight]

Ryan put his hands on his hips. "There's no reason for us to hang out anymore?" He repeated. "That's sort of how friendship works, Sam. I wasn't hanging out with you because of Rystain or Lyra or anyone else."

[Samantha Montgomery]

Sam mimicked his action by putting her hands on her hips, "Well weren't exactly just hanging out. People can do that without their mouths...well I mean for talking yes but..." she gave him a momentary frown, she wasn't feeling well with him around her and she couldn't think properly so she bit her lip. For a split second the wall she had built up around her where he was concerned disappeared and there was confusion in her eyes.

Perhaps because seduction had been forced on her from a young age, perhaps because she never fully understood what it was to want someone though other girls came around it at her age and a little younger, she didn't really understand what she was feeling.

But if she did she wasn't sure if she'd be any less afraid, she was afraid in fact because she didn't want to be attracted to him, one look at Lyra was all the information she needed about "attraction" but she had more, plenty much of it stemming from others being attracted to her and the consequences that brought about. She didn't want to be one of those people. She refused.

[Dorian Knight]

Ryan's eyes narrowed almost instantly. The more she talked, the more he was convinced that she thought he would treat her like Rystain treated Lyra.

"So if I hadn't kissed you a couple of times, you wouldn't be avoiding me?" He asked. That's actually a little low. I'm not sure how to take that."

[Samantha Montgomery]

Maybe she did think that. Maybe she didn't know what to think. Every Slytherin guy here practically wore the "I'ma heartbreaker" button on their sleeves and she just wasn't sure anymore. She liked her heart. Safe and snug and whole.

"Well...why did you kiss me?" she asked before she could stop herself, she was angry with him saying that what she had done was low and she had wanted the answer to that question for a while now.

[Dorian Knight]

"Because it felt like the right thing to do," he told her, crossing his arms over his chest. "Are you going to punish me for that, or would you feel more vindicated if I told you it was because I was hoping for more?"

He didn't care how openly he was asking her these questions. He wanted *her* to realize why she was doing this to him, even if he didn't.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Did it?" she asked losing a bit of her heat for his first answer then at his second her eyes narrowed, "Were you?" she asked. She swallowed, she wasn't sure if she wanted to know. she knew that he wouldn't be the only one and there was no real way of knowing the truth but....she wished it wasn't so confusing.

[Dorian Knight]

"Yes, and no," He said. "Maybe in that order. What do you want from me?"

She was being unreasonable, but then, she was a girl, and girls were always unreasonable. But he didn't know how to work with her. Honesty obviously displeased her, even if it was good truth. He wouldn't lie to her.

[Samantha Montgomery]

She glanced up and tried to search his eyes, not finding what she was looking for she sighed and looked to the floor, "I don't know..." she shook her head, " I'm sorry Ryan...I just don't know."

She didn't know what she wanted from him. She didn't know what she was expecting from him. All she knew was that in his arms, his lips against hers, her body melting into his it was the best and the scariest thing that had ever happened to her and she didn't how what any of that meant.

[Dorian Knight]

Ryan didn't say anything. He just shrugged and moved past her. He was on his way to the room of requirement, and he wasn't in the mood to deal with her anymore.

Let her hate him if she wanted to. He was over trying to make her happy or whatever he'd wanted initially anyway.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Where are you going?" she asked. Really the question popped into her mind and out of her mouth before she could stop herself.

She was looking downward and feeling guilty and then he was leaving her and she wanted to know why, no she knew why, she wanted to know where.

[Dorian Knight]

Ryan didn't even turn around to answer her. What was the point?

Over his shoulder, he called, "Why? So you can know exactly where to avoid? I'm sure you'll manage."

She was just frustrating him more, and he needed to get away. She was just a silly girl. He shouldn't let her get to him.