It was the last night at Hogwarts everyone had finished the last of their exams and were packing up to leave but most importantly it was the last time of the school year to be with the friends you wouldn't see over the summer. Victoire and her friends sat in the common room with some firewhiskey, which apparently was something that Victoire would voluntarily take place in these days.
"I'm going to miss you all sooo much!" Bailey said taking another large swig of firewhiskey.
"Well then don't go to America bitch!" Katie said who wasn't much of a drinker but tonight she was sipping and already clearly a little tipsy. Bailey looked at her in disbelief
"Did you just call me bitch!?...BITCH!" Bailey said pretending to be mad but instead burst out laughing.
"God I'm going to miss all of you" Victoire said who was on her way to tipsy as well.
"Vic, me you and Katie are going to get together as some point right?" Kristi said; Victoire nodded.
"Of course! I'll be at my grandparents most of the summer so I'll be even closer to you guys!" Victoire said knocking back the last of her drink.
"Oh thank god!" Katie said with a smile. Victoire reached for their bottle, which was only half full when they got it but now was already gone. Victoire frowned because she was nowhere near done drinking.
"How is this gone already?" Victoire asked, thinking maybe she was drunker than she thought.
"I mayyyyy of had a little more than you guys" Bailey said swaying in her spot. Victoire rolled her eyes.
"Come on Bail you gotta share!" Krisite said who seemed just as pissed as Victoire that the liquor was gone.
"Oh stop just go ask Teddy for more!" Bailey said nodding over in Teddy's direction putting her whole body into it. Victoire rolled her eyes, Teddy still wasn't her favorite person she hadn't really talked to him since she yelled at him the day he fought with Dustin.
"Fuck Teddy" Victoire said scanning the room for any of her other older friends that she could ask for some more alcohol.
"Okay" Bailey said with a laugh, Victoire rose an eyebrow at her realizing what she was implying.
"Seriously Bailey? I thought you guys were over that" Victoire said knowing that Teddy didn't have any interest in Bailey. She simply shrugged,
"I'd still fuck em again though" Bailey said clearly drunk making Victoire wonder how much firewhiskey she actually had. She went back to her room scan finding Tim a sixth year who had hung out with them a couple times, before Victoire could call him over Bailey shouted to Teddy.
"Teddy! Teddd!" Bailey screamed across the room, Teddy turned around his face twisted in confusion as Bailey waved him over. Victoire rolled her eyes she couldn't believe Bailey was doing this right now.
"Hey guys what's up!" Teddy said with a wide smile, his cheeks red because he was clearly drunk.
"Hi!" Katie said with a smile, checking Teddy out up and down. Kristi sat silently but Victoire tell she was just a struck as the rest of them were.
"Hello their sexy" Bailey said bluntly making Katie's eyes grow wide and look at Victoire.
"Hiya" Teddy said with a smirk, Victoire simply shook her head at Katie, knowing the two of them being this drunk would just end up in disaster.
"Listen Bailey called you here cause we need some booze" Victoire said hoping to stop Bailey from whatever else she was trying to do.
"That's not alllll though Vic!" Bailey said leaning forward towards Teddy who seemed to be eating this up. Victoire felt a well of emotion build up in her chest.
"I can help ya with the booze…but um what else are you looking for…" Teddy said playing into Bailey's flirting.
"Okay the booze then!" Victoire said getting up from her seat grabbing Teddy by the arm and pulling him away from Bailey before she said anything stupid.
"Woah Vic...where are we going" Teddy said, clearly drunk as he stumbled behind her to catch up. He had been drinking since the afternoon much longer than Victoire and her friends.
"Your room" Victoire snapped knowing that was where he had all his alcohol.
"Oh yeah…" Teddy said, Victoire could hear the smirk in his voice as he trailed behind her on the stairs he grabbed her ass making Victoire stop dead in her tracks turning around and causing Teddy to bump right into her almost falling.
"What the hell was that?!" Victoire snapped glaring at him. Teddy simply smiled stupidly at her.
"Sorry…you've got a nice butt" Teddy said with a giggle.
"How much have you drank exactly?" Victoire said eyeing him, Teddy simply shrugged.
"I dunno..not enough" he said with a shrug before pushing past Victoire to get tohis room realizing why they had come up here.
"Here ya go nice full bottle for ya" Teddy said smiling down at Victoire who did not seem assumed.
"What's wrong Vic come on lighten up!" Teddy said unscrewing the top of the bottle pushing up to her face. Normally Victoire would protest but not tonight she wasn't nearly as drunk as she should be. She took the bottle to her mouth knocking her head back letting a large swig run down her throat stinging as it went.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" Teddy said looking proudly at Victoire.
"You're still on my list Ted" Victoire said and Teddy rose and eyebrow to this.
"Oh what kind of list…." Teddy said closing the gap between them, going to put his hands on her waist.
"The fuck off I'm pissed at you...list" Victoire said pushing him away and heading back downstairs. She took another large swig from the bottle already feeling the difference from before.
"Got it!" Victoire said holding up the bottle to her friends who had attracted from male company.
"Thank god!" Kristie said taking the bottle from her hands before Bailey could and taking a swig just like Victoire just had.
"Firewhiskey huh? You girls are pretty serious" said Scott a guy from their year that they all had classed with.
"I dig it" said Gus one of Scott's friends.
"Yeah it's what I started drinking so I don't really know anything else" Victoire admitted reaching out for the bottle for another swig. She was ready to get drunk.
"Damn badass over here, though I'm not surprised you are a Weasley" said Cole who was also Scott's friend but a year older. Victoire simply nodded at his comment this was something she got more often than not.
"That I am!" Victoire said raising the bottle before finally pouring herself some in the glass.
"Hey...where's Ted?" Bailey asked looking around the common room.
"Dunno probably passed out upstairs honestly" Victoire said with a shrug.
"Damn…." Bailey said looking said which Victoire just rolled her eyes at. They all were talking and drinking Bailey finally focusing her attention of Scott which Victoire was thankful for. As time passed and the alcohol set in Victoire couldn't help but wonder herself where Teddy was. She scanned the common room and found him in the corner with a sixth year on his lap. Typical, Victoire thought. She knew Teddy wasn't over his player phase.
"Found Teddy eh?" Katie said noticing her gaze.
"Yup. Typical" Victoire said nodding over to him and the sixth year now making out.
"Yea know I really thought you guys would always like…I don't know end up together" Katie said clearly being more open about her opinion because she was drunk.
"Yeah…nope" Victoire said taking a large drink from her cup. For some reason all she wanted was that sixth year to get off Teddy, or throw up on him or something. The weird feelings of jealous had arisen again in her chest like when he was with Bailey.
"I still think there's a chance" Katie said eyeing Victoire as she glared over at Teddy. She quickly snapped out of her trace, smiling at Katie trying to cover up her feelings.
"Oh please Katie, Teddy will never change and he will always be like a brother to me" Victoire said with a smile trying to convince Katie who was partially sassy tonight.
"You know lately when you say that…it's like you're trying to convince yourself along with the rest of us…" Katie said with a knowing look before getting up to go flirt with Gus. Victoire sat there by herself thinking about what Katie said. There was no way that was true. Teddy is like a brother to her. There was no question about it right. Right? Victoire sat confused in her thoughts before Bailey plopped on the couch next to her.
"What happened with Scott?" Victoire asked
"He has a girlfriend! Uhhh" Bailey said defeated.
"That sucks" Victoire said plainly
"Mmmm I'm going to try and find Teddy I think" Bailey said scanning the room. Victoire felt a twinge in her gut. This was the last thing she wanted to happen.
"Why…why would you want to do that" Victoire asked trying to get Bailey's attention knowing her eyes would land on him soon.
"Because Vic I wanna get laid" Bailey said bluntly, Victoire swallowed the lump in her throat knowing that there was no reason in the world for her to mad at Bailey but she couldn't help but be annoyed.
"Got him!" Bailey said staring across the room at Teddy who was still with the sixth year.
"Oh god he's with her...please she won't do anything for him" Bailey said I she go up from her chair stumbling a bit as she went approaching Teddy and the sixth year. Victoire had to admit Bailey had balls. She wasn't afraid to get what she wanted she just wished it was someone else. Victoire knocked back her the rest of her drink before pouring herself another one.
She watched as Bailey acted as if she needed to talk to Teddy about something important making the sixth year leave and once she was out of site she kissed him hard. Victoire felt her stomach turn, watching this was torture. But for some reason she couldn't look away. Bailey took Teddy's hand pulling him up the stairs and Victoire heart sank immediately, she thought maybe Teddy really did change but turns out she was right. As they walked up the stairs Teddy caught Victoire's eye and she simply shot him a knowing look. Teddy looked at her in a way Victoire had never seen before, it was a mixture between guilt and want it seemed, but that had made so sense to her.
Victoire sat on the couch drinking herself silly though she was in a room full of people she felt like she was all alone. She was trying to make sense of her feelings towards Teddy. If you could even call them feelings, Teddy had a way of making her feel all of the emotions at once. On one hand they kissed. That was something though she had pretended never happened, she would never forget. Was there something behind that kiss, or was it a simply drunk kiss that old childhood friends were bound to share at some point. Then there was the part of her that was still mad about him stepping in on her problems and beating up Dustin. And then of course there was their friendship that they had all these years that had never let either of them down. Even Teddy had said "Promise me that we'll never date" they had drank on it that night. Maybe alcohol was the problem here, it was distorting their friendship into something that it's not into something that they both know could never be. Victoire had decided that's what was going on; she was chalking up all her mixed emotions to alcohol.
She looked around the room to see who was still around; Katie and Kristi had left a little while ago shortly after Bailey and Teddy did. Victoire refused to sleep in her room knowing that that's where Teddy and Bailey would be. Not many people where still up, in fact some people were passed out in various chairs and couches. Victoire heard slight whispering and kissing sounds of the few that were too drunk to make up to their rooms to hook up. Dustin being one of them, this just made Victoire simply sick. She decided that since Teddy wasn't going to using his bed that she would. She climbed the stairs slowly as here balance was not what it usually was finally making it to Teddy's room she climbed into his empty bed his sheets smelled of him making her feel at ease for some reason. She drifted off to sleep rather quickly her body grateful she was finally lying down.
Teddy stumbled back into his room in the middle of the night. He didn't feel like dealing with Bailey in the morning. Half awake and still drunk he found his bed with someone in it, he looked down confused almost mad that some random most likely drunk girl thought she could sleep in his bed. He lifted the blankets to see that it was Victoire. A smile broke across his face as he climbed slowly into bed, trying not to wake her. He wrapped his arm around her tiny waist pulling her closer to him taking in the smell of her hair.
"What the fuck!?" Victoire said jumping up from a dead sleep hitting Teddy in the nose.
"Oy! Vic this is my bed!" Teddy said holding his nose; Victoire looked at him in confusion almost forgetting that she had come up here.
"Oh fuck…sorry! Sorry! Are you okay?!" Victoire realizing what had just happened looking at his nose.
"Yea fine really" Teddy said wiggling it around to show her.
"What are you doing here?" Teddy asked
"I umm I don't remember…" Victoire said trying to remember her reasoning behind this decision. Teddy smirked at her.
"I know you just wanted me in bed with ya" Teddy joked, and then it hit Victoire.
"Oh no. Actually it was because I didn't want to hear you and Bailey having sex" Victoire said bluntly. Teddy's face fell instantly telling that Victoire was clearly pissed.
"Sorry…I didn't realize that bothered you" Teddy said honestly, Victoire shrugged because she knew it shouldn't.
"Yeah…well…" Victoire didn't finish her thought dropping her eyes not wanting Teddy to know how she really felt.
"Well what" Teddy said looking at her trying to catch her eye.
"Victoire?" Teddy said softly looking at her with his big now green eyes, she loved his eyes green.
"Yeah" Victoire said forcing herself to seem happy but she couldn't fool Teddy.
"What's going on?" Teddy asked looking at her intently; she knew that there was no getting out of this now.
"I…it...it kind of bothers me okay? And I'm not sure why because it shouldn't! I mean you're my best friend, Bailey is my best friend, if anything I should be like thrilled right? I should be hopping you guys get married and that I'm the maid of honor and somehow since you're practically family that would make me and Bailey family…which you know is all I would ever want! But it's just not the case at all I just feel like I don't want that at-
"Vic relax!" Teddy said stopping Victoire mid rant, who looked up at Teddy wide eyed knowing that she had already said too much, that most of that wasn't even supposed to come out of her mouth. Victoire looked up at Teddy, trying to read him but she couldn't.
"Why did you kiss me?" Victoire asked point blank, this had seemed to be the root of all confusion recently. The trigger of all these mixed feelings, Teddy looked at her shocked at first but recovered fast.
"To be honest, I'm not sure it just felt right…in that moment" Teddy said, the last part stung Victoire. She simply nodded not sure what else to say, if she even had anything else to say to him. Teddy looked down at her and moved closer until he had closed the gap between them kissing her hard on the lips. He grabbed either side of her face pouring himself into the kiss. Victoire sat there in shock not responding at first until she couldn't fight the feeling anymore. She opened her mouth kissing Teddy deeper. There was something about kissing Teddy. She had never felt this before, and frankly it scared her. She pulled away quickly as her rational thoughts came over her. She knew how Teddy was, she knew his ways, she wasn't going to be just another girl, another notch on his belt. She knew what that felt like and she didn't want to feel that again. Teddy looked at her confused there was so much want in his eyes, and so much liquor in her head that if it was anyone else she probably just would've went for it. But not with Teddy.
"Teddy we-
Before she could finish her sentence he pulled her into yet another breath taking kiss, pushing his body further on to making it harder to get him to stop. He leaned into her causing her to lie down on the bed, and now he was on top of her. His hands cupping her face looking down at her as if she was the most amazing thing he had ever laid eyes on, making her stomach flip flop. But she had to remind herself that this wasn't anything new for Teddy. This is what he did; this is how he got all the girls. She shook her head trying to get her thoughts straight again ignoring the fact that he was on top of her.
"Teddy I can't...we can't" Victoire said seriously looking up at him trying to get through to him. But it didn't seem to work he lowered his head kissing her neck so slowly but yet so effectively. It literally took every inch of her not to let out a moan.
"Teddy…seriously. I'm not being just another girl with you" She said seriously pulling his head up from her neck though she wished he never had to stop. Teddy looked down at her confused.
"Victoire…you're different" Teddy said softly making her heart flutter. But she knew for a fact that he had told Bailey the same thing making her stomach turn at this realization making it easier to push him off her.
"Listen Teddy, I would love to believe you but from you're track record…I can't. Plus we promised we would never date…remember?" Victoire said trying to let him down easy, Teddy look down at the ground knowing at she had point.
"Yeah you're right...sorry I don't know what came over me" Teddy said shaking his head.
"We're drunk…chalk it up to the alcohol" Victoire said with a small smile trying to lighten to mood.
"Yeah…"Teddy said with a small looking over at Victoire who now sat at the edge of the bed.
"I was serious though, Vic. You're different. I know I've probably said that to other girls before to get them in bed but it's true with you. I've never felt this way before towards someone" Teddy said.
"You know if you didn't fuck my best friend tonight, after you told me she wasn't what you were looking for and you wanted something real…maybe I would have an easier time believing you" Victoire said before getting up and leaving. Teddy punched his bed cursing himself for sleeping with Bailey, he did it because he was stupid drunk and lonely.
"Fuck" he muttered before laying back down, his thoughts filled Victoire wishing she was still beside him.