Quote:
Originally Posted by
Bumblebee 
Johnny chuckled, Percy was another child he was sworn to look after and for FREE! What the heck, she’s getting PAID?! ”Wait, you’re getting paid to watch my nephew?!” John scoffed, ”I’m going charge Danny and Aiden interest and taxes when I get home.” It felt a bit strange to have a nephew so close in age to him. Why mom and dad, WHY?!
Johnny grinned, ”I beg to differ, dear cousin.” He teased. Johnny raised a brow, who uses the word ’woo’ nowadays? Perhaps Serena’s been hanging out too much with grandpa Jack. ”Okay but did you specifically tell him you had feelings beyond friendship? Because if a girl tells me she’s flirting to ’woo’ me I’d be like: ’cool, thanks.’” ‘course this is coming from Johnny’s perspective as he was a blunt and direct person. But he reminded himself that this was probably his cousin’s first crush or something like that and tried to be sympathetic. ”He’d be daft to not be into you.” He nodded. ”That aside, just ask him if he likes you the way you like him. Or I can ask him for you?” John was willing to play Owl for his cousin if need be.
That's right. They were both cousins, but Johnny was Percy's uncle. That was so weird. Serena smirked at his reaction.
"Yeah. Uncle Aiden came to me before Percy's first year and since I refused to look after him, he offered some galleons and I accepted." Back then she had been stripped from her allowance for riding a hippogriff in front of muggles.
"Don't do that. They might reduce my money." And Johnny would NOT hear the end of it. She'd make sure of it.
Woo might not have been the best term she could have used, but in her defense, Serena hasn't been into the romance genre. All the romancing she did was what she thought felt right. She didn't grow up immersed in fairytales. Her life has consisted mostly of academic subjects and quidditch. The only romance she's been exposed to is her parents. They're the only love story she knows through and through. They were forbidden. Her grandfather REFUSED her dad to date her mum. He SEPARATED them. Then her mum ran away--more like flew away on a broomstick--and went to her dad. She was the knight in shining armor. The female lead. The girl who went after what she wanted and
got it.
Serena admired that a great deal.
Here she was, though. Afraid to bare her true feelings to Jasper. Johnny spoke his words as if it was soooo easy.
"I didn't and I haven't told him that." It was probably a mistake on her part, assuming Jasper would read her feelings through kisses and stuff. Serena gave Johnny a little smile for being a supportive cousin.
"The last time I confessed my feelings to someone it didn't go well," she admitted.
"I guess now that I know how that feels, I'm hesitant to open up like that. It's one thing feeling it and keeping it inside and another, voicing it to the person and giving them power to break your heart." It made her anxious to even think about giving someone else a sliver of power to any part of herself.