You rolled over and nearly dropped off the side of the couch in the Slytherin common room.
You sat up, confused.
I could've sworn Draco was right here. You shrugged and stood up. Your eyes widened as you plopped right back on the couch.
Draco? What the fuck. Must've been a dream. Gross.
You flopped back down. You were sleepy and didn't feel like getting up.
Your head was throbbing, as it usually did after a night of intensive crying. You rubbed your temples suddenly remembering what had happened the night before. You felt your eyes well up with tears in an instant, but you blinked them back and stood up again.
'ARGG!' you heard a battle cry and looked up to see a boy with messy white hair and multicoloured eyes flying at you and tackling you onto the couch.
You blew your hair out of your face. 'How did I not see you standing there, Mason?' you rolled your eyes and tried to push him off of you. He locked his arms around you hugged you, you could tell he was grinning something fierce.
'I'm a man of stealth. I like to think of myself as-' he was cut off.
'yeah yeah, a ferocious white tiger fighting a dozen others to get to the juciest meat around.' You quoted, pushing him off of you. You'd heard him say that a million times before. He was so full of himself.
He frowned. 'You forgot the part where it says I'm the sexiest tiger.'
You gagged. 'You're my brother, so I find that disgusting.' You went up to your dorm and changed into your school clothes. You looked in the mirror and sighed, trying not to think about what had happened the night before.
You weren't even entirely sure if it had even happened. Mason hadn't said anything, and Malfoy wasn't there when you woke up. You shrugged and pet Sophia.
Paige walked in, grinning. 'Heyo, sleepy head. I saw you passed out on the couch.' she plopped down on your bed next to you and Sophia.
You laughed softly. 'Yeah, I was pretty exhausted I guess. I didn't even realize it.'
'Soo..' Paige said slowly. You could tell she was about to start prying for information. 'You had a... pretty busy night, eh?' she looked at you suspiciously. You returned the look.
You weren't sure if she knew what had happened with Snape, if it had happened that is, or if it was something else. You didn't know what else it could be though.
'Uh. I don't think so? Why?' You pulled your legs up on your bed and crossed them indian style as Sophia crawled into your lap and fell asleep quickly, purring away.
She sighed and stood up. She walked over to the dark silver and green wall next to your bed. 'Well.. Emmaline's really upset.' she crossed her arms.
You looked up at her confused. 'Why? What happened?'
She sighed again, this time deeper. 'She thinks you had sex with Malfoy. How could you? I mean she really likes him and he likes her too.' she looked hurt, though you weren't sure why.
You stared at her for a second with a blank face then erupt into laughter. 'Oh god, that's rich. That's perfectly rich.' you pretended to wipe away a tear, giggling.
Paige's arms dropped to her side. 'Uh..' she looked confused. 'So you...didn't? Or...what?'
Your face suddenly got serious and cold. 'There is no way in hell that i'd ever fuck that slimey hateful cowardly serpent!'
You realized your voice had raised drastically, just in that one statement.
All the colour from Paige's face was gone. 'That was really loud...' she whispered to you, then let out a breath of relief. 'Thank god though. Wait till Emmaline hears about this. She'll feel much better!' Paige smiled. 'I never doubted you for a second!'
You glared at her. 'Uhuh. That's why you were accusing me of doing it, right? So much faith.' you crossed your arms and looked away.
Paige's jaw dropped. 'No, no! It's not like that! I mean... yeah it seemed like i was quizzing you about it but honest to god I defended your honor when she said you did it in the first place!' she looked hurt as she pleaded for you to believe her.
You turned towards her. 'Fine. Well thank you for checking with me. I don't plan on sleeping with...ugh.. him.. though. So no need to worry your pretty little head.'
Paige grinned from ear to ear as she pounced on your bed and glomped you. You couldn't help but laugh at how silly she was being. You stood up and brushed out your hair, promptly pulling it into a cute ponytail, letting your bangs hang loose.
You looked at the clock and realized it was still pretty early. You and Paige went to leave the dorm, when you realized you were forgetting something. 'Can you grab that shirt for me?' you pointed towards Mason's shirt next to your bed. Paige picked it up and eyed it.
'Whose is this?' she asked, analyzing it.
'Mason's.' you replied without thinking.
She suddenly started blushing like crazy. 'Ohh..' she giggled.
You laughed loudly. 'Would you like to return it to him for me?'
'I suppooooseeee...' she answered quickly but slowly, trying not to sound eager.
The two of you walked out of the dorm, Paige with Mason's shirt in hand. At the bottom of the stairs were Mason, Pansy, Blaise and Flint.
'Morning boys.' you smiled and waved at them as they turned their heads towards you. Only Blaise and Flint waved back.
'Laciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..' Mason groaned, rolling his head back, hitting the soft plush green pillows on the back of the couch. 'Where's my shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirt. Can I-' he stopped mid sentence, as his shirt landed directly on his face. He peeked out from under it. 'Did you throw that?' he asked, looking at you.
You shook your head and pointed next to you, at Paige, who was flushed.
He closed his eyes and smiled brightly at her, trying to look cute. Paige giggled profusely.
Pansy huffed and glared at you and Paige. You rolled your eyes. Paige didn't seem to notice any of it.
'We're going to get breakfast, Mason, care to join?' you asked politely.
'I gueeeeeeeeeeeeess I could go for some grub right about now.' he stood up and stretched.
Blaise stood up and headed over to where you were. 'Mind if I join too?' he asked, looking you up and down. Flint was checking you out from the couch as well.
Mason looked at them strangely. 'Guys stop looking at her like that. She's my sister. Jeez.' he smacked Flint in the back of the head, since he was closest.
Pansy smirked at you, as if she knew something you didn't. You brushed it off and walked around Blaise towards the entrance of the common room with Paige following closely behind, still watching Mason.
All of you exited and headed to the Great Hall. On the way there, many people passed by, all of which (excluding a very few) smirked or looked you up and down, both males and females. You weren't used to this much attention, and were a little worried about it.
When you got to the Great hall, Mason pulled you to the side as the others entered. You leaned against the wall. 'What's up?' you asked, crossing your arms and legs.
'Are you okay?' he had a serious look on his face. 'You know, after...last night.' he had a slight amount of pain in his eyes as he spoke.
'Uh, yeah, I guess.' you looked away. That was enough confirmation that the Snape incident actually did in fact occur. You took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. Suddenly, memories of what happened washed up into your mind, it was enough to make you sniffle a little. You crossed your arms tighter.
Mason pulled you into a tight hug. 'Maybe you shouldn't go to classes today.' he suggested, pulling away. He was pissed about what had happened. He felt worse that he wasn't able to stop it before it got to the point it had. He felt it was his responsibility to watch you, this only showed him he needed to keep a better eye on you.
You shook your head. 'I'll be fine. Don't worry about it.' you grinned weakly and headed in for breakfast with him.
As you walked down to your seat, you felt like there was an unusually high number of pairs of eyes on you, which made you feel quite uncomfortable.
You sat down at your spot, and instantly Emmaline stood up and walked over to Draco and sat on his lap.
You looked at them completely puzzled. The last time you'd checked, he was cuddling with you, which would indicate he was single. Though that didn't necessarily mean anything. Afterall, you weren't sure of your status with Oliver, yet you cuddled too. You instantly felt a wave of guilt fill you up.
Paige looked at Emmaline and Draco and shrugged. She leaned in and talked quietly. 'I thought she was pissed at him, I guess they got over it.'
Maisy nodded, then looked over at you. She looked disappointed then stood up and walked out of the great hall back to the commons.
You and Paige exchanged confused glances, having no idea why Maisy had walked off. You decided to disregard it.
Paige seemed to let everything completely dissolve from her thoughts as well, as Mason sat down across from her, where Emmaline usually sat.
He instantly began stuffing his face with french toast. You rolled your eyes. 'You're so messy.' You crossed your arms on the table and burried your face in them, then peaked up at Mason and Paige.
Paige was watching him closely but trying not to make it seem to apparent. She was obviously failing quite terribly at that task.
Mason was entirely oblivious to it though and continued stuffing his face. You wondered again to yourself how girls possibly found him attractive.
You looked ahead, where there was a gap from Maisy not being there anymore, to see girls at the table across from you giggling and looking at you.
You suddenly got frustrated.
'Why is everyone acting so weird?' You asked, the frustration showing brightly in your tone of voice.
Mason stopped eating and looked around, as did Paige. You joined in. Multiple people were watching you, some with disgusted looks, some just laughing, others just observing.
'What the fuck..' you whispered, turning in every degree you could to see people from each angle watching.
Mason looked irritated as well but it quickly faded. He shrugged. 'They're just jealous of us Laci.' He chortled and put out his fist and awaited a fist bump in return. You looked at him, annoyed.
His smile faded. He promptly swung it next to you, now in front of Paige. She looked at him, confused.
He smiled a very large cheeky smile at her. 'Bump me, girl.'
She just stared at him, still confused, then fist bumped him.
He winked at her and took a sip from his drink.
She smiled at him, blushing.
After a while, you began getting even more annoyed. You turned to Draco and Emmaline to see her glaring at you. She wasn't on his lap anymore, now sitting next to him. On the other side of him was Pansy, who was glaring at Emmaline. She saw where she was glaring and followed the gaze back to you. She sneered at you.
You stood up and got ready to leave. 'I'll see you guys later.'
'Oh, alright.' Paige replied, sounding worried.
Mason just waved.
You rushed out of the great hall into the corridors and let out a huff. You didn't understand why everyone was watching you.
You prayed they didn't know about the Snape situation.
Suddenly you spied two red headed brothers down the hall, sitting on the floor together.
You walked over to where they were and sat down in between them.
'Hey guys.' You greeted, you leaned your head back against the wall, forgetting you had a ponytail, which prevented it. You leaned up instead.
'Uh.. Heyy..' They replied together.
You looked at them, skeptically. 'What's going on, guys? Up to anything fun today?'
They shook their heads. You looked from one boy to the other then let out a large exhale, it was evident that you were annoyed. 'Fine.' You stood up and started walking away. 'If even you guys are going to act like you've got a problem then i'm just going to go.'
Normally you wouldn't freak out, but everyone was acting so weird, added to the situation which occured last night, you just didnt feel like dealing with it right then.
The boys exchanged glances and stood up. They briskly caught up to you and walked aside you. 'Sorry.' Fred murmered.
'It's just that we've been hearing some things, and the thing last night..' George added.
'Right..' You'd forgotten they saw what happened. You'd forgotten it was their crazy device that saved your ass.
You stopped walking, causing them to as well. They spun around facing you again.
'Guys, can you please do me a favor..' You pleaded. 'Please don't tell Oliver what happened last night.. I don't want him to know.'
They looked at each other. 'Normally we wouldn't promise you something like that..' George began.
'But it's really not our business what happened, anyway.' Fred finished.
You smiled weakly. 'Thank you. And thank you for watching out for me.' You looked at your feet and rocked back and fourth.
'Not a problem.' The two of the boys bowed together.
You giggled slightly. You found it absolutely adorable that they did so much alike. It was like they were one person. You suddenly got serious again. 'What did you guys mean though when you said you'd heard things? Things about last night?'
'Well...' Fred replied. 'Kinda.'
'Sorta.' George added. 'But not quite...that.'
You were becoming increasingly worried with every word.
'Well? What is it?' You asked, wanting the answer.
'Uh.. Well..' they said in unison.
You gave them a questioning look. 'Spit it out!'
They exchanged glances.
GEORGE'S P.O.V. (starting at last night)
You paced the halls, confused as to why the device wasn't working. You and your brother, Fred, had put so much time into it.
'We've put so much time into it!' Fred exclamed, frustrated.
'Ya know, I was just thinking that..' You replied, impressed.
'Right, right. I'm sure.' he snapped back.
The two of you had a tendency to get grumpy when your inventions didn't work quite right.
You huffed. 'There's no way no one's using magic right now. We've walked all around the school now.' You analyzed the device.
'Oh, oh Laci! C'mere!' You heard Fred call out. You looked up to see Laci rushing briskly into Snapes office. Fred shrugged. 'Guess she didn't hear me.'
'Guess not.' You agreed. You found Laci to be charming, so far. She was adorable, and you had to admit that you hadn't met someone whom actually looked good with plain white hair until you'd met her. Especially someone with white hair who had her brilliant big doll-esque brown eyes and pink tinted cheeks. Not to mention her body, but you tried not to think too much about that. You liked to be a gentleman, even in thoughts. Plus you were a little worried at times that Fred really could read your mind, in which case that might be a bit embarrassing. Though, if you two were really that alike, you couldn't help but wonder if he found her as charming as you did. Nevertheless, you were glad to have made a friend with a Slytherin, to prove that they're not all necessarily bad people.
You continued to walk with Fred, testing the device. 'Here, you try. Maybe i'm holding it wrong.' You handed it to your identical brother.
The two of you walked a few more steps, until you were right in front of Snapes room.
The whisps of light emanating from the top of the device began swirling around rapidly and it began making a sharp loud sound, making your ears ring with displeasure.
Fred dropped the device, as the both of you covered your ears in unison, cringing from the harsh noise.
It promptly stopped upon being dropped, which you were glad for. The two of you looked at each other excitedly and picked it up.
'Well, it says here that there's a silencing charm and a locking charm.' The two of you looked at one another and back at the device, a little confused.
'Coming from where?' you asked your brother.
'I'm not sure..' the both of you turned towards Snapes room and your eyes grew.
Neither of you had remembered to bring your wands with you, for whatever reason.
'Why didn't you bring it?' Fred asked you loudly.
'Why didn't you?' you smacked him on the back of the head.
The two of you began to wrestle and bicker at one another then you suddenly stopped, remembering the situation. You weren't sure if it was situation to be worried about, but decided not to take any chances.
The both of you raced down the corridors until you ran into Draco Malfoy and Mason Sterling, Laci's brother.
You recognized him instantly from the hair and features. Twins for sure.
'What the fuck do you want?' Draco snarled at you.
'Hey!' Fred snapped. 'Shut up and look at this!' He shoved the device into Mason's hands.
Mason read it then dropped it and kicked it. 'Why the hell would we care about your dingy projects?'
You felt your face boil with anger. You didn't understand how Laci turned out so different from him, then remembered at first, she seemed pretty rude as well. You swallowed your pride and spoke up. 'Snape casted charms on his room silencing it and locking it.'
Draco looked at you with irritation. 'So? Why would we-'
'Laci is in there, you morons!' Fred blurted out.
Before you knew it the four of you were racing down the corridors towards Snapes room, after picking up your device and dusting it off of course. Oh and high fiving Fred for having the successful invention. Though it may have been a dire situation, a congratulations was still called for.
When you caught up to the two Slytherin boys, you and Fred peered into the room, not daring to go in.
The first thing you saw was Mason with his wand to Snape's neck, him snarling with fire in his eyes. You were puzzled as to why, until the sobbing registered in your head. You whipped your head to see Laci on the ground in the corner missing her shirt and her skirt messed up, her blue lace panties sticking out, along with her matching bra.
All the colour drained from you and your brother's face as you stood there completely taken aback by what you were witnessing.
Laci was a mess on the floor, kicking and screaming pushing Draco away from her until finally she gave in and began sobbing uncontrollably into his chest. You felt a pang of guilt for not alerting the two boys sooner, even if you'd done the best you could, you felt you could've done better.
Fred seemed to share the thought, as we watched her guiltily. She peaked around Draco's shoulder, shaking, and looked at the two of you. Her hair was messy and her face was a red mess of tears, yet she still looked beautiful, though what little she had of her innocence left had been snatched up just moments prior.
The two of you waved slightly then bolted out of there, realizing it wasn't your place. You'd done your part, there wasn't much else that you could help with.
You and Fred slipped into the Gryffindor common room without uttering a word to anybody inside.
'Fred, George, show Harry and Hermione your device!' Ron ran up to the two of you smiling, tugging on freds shirt. Fred brushed him off. The two of you just walked briskly up to the boys dorm avoiding anyone's gaze.
You sat on your beds and exchanged guilty glances then looked away. You both laid down simultaniously, crashing into your soft pillows and matching comforters.
You heard the door creek open and Oliver slipped inside, laughing at a joke made by someone down in the main room. The both of you looked up at him.
You knew he and Laci had been seeing a bit of each other. Oliver would tell the two of you after anything happened. Not that he was big on sharing relationship stuff, just that you and Fred were inquisitive and had a way with perusading him to spill things.
'Why are you guys up here? It's only eight eleven.' He looked from you to your brother skeptically and curiously.
You rolled over, not wanting to discuss what you'd seen. 'Just tired.' Fred lied.
'Ah, gotcha.' He went to walk out. 'Hey, did the device work? You should show Laci, i'm sure she'd get a kick out of it.' he smiled. 'she really likes bright lights, and that little invention had plenty of that.' she chuckled, thinking about how he'd shown Laci the lake at night and casted the spell to make it glow and how much she seemed to enjoy it. He loved how happy she seemed when she was around him. The feeling was mutual of course, he was crazy about her already. He wanted nothing more than to be beside her as often as he could be, and if not that, he just wanted to be able to talk about her as a substitute.
'Uh. Not really..' Fred continued lying. 'It definitely needs some work.'
'Ah, well better luck next time, fellas.' He closed the door and vanished on the other side to join the fun below that you and Fred were usually the center of on any other night.
You slipped into an uneasy slumber and awoke the next day earlier than usual, but only because you'd taken a pillow upside the head.
Fred smiled brightly at you as he dropped the pillow.
You grinned back at him. When the two of you awoke early enough, that meant you'd get to the great hall faster, giving you the ability to pick up the best treats before anyone else arrived. You guys had a tendency to steal from other tables as well. Mainly Slytherin though, you felt they deserved it so it was all justified in your minds.
You and Fred quickly bathed and darted to the Great hall. You did your usual routine, and swiped the best goodies then took a seat at the Gryffindor table.
You saw Draco walk in and take a seat with Crabbe and Goyle, making both you and Fred making mock kissy faces at the trio.
'Two is a partnership-' you announced.
'But three is just plain fruity!' Fred roared.
The three turned towards you and glared.
The great hall wasn't filling up much and was rather empty when you saw one of Laci's friends, Emmaline walk in, looking rather pissed off. She rushed over to where Draco was and slapped him. He looked up at her and gave her a glare you were glad you hadn't seen head on.
'What the fuck is wrong with you!' he stood up and yelled at her.
Her eyes filled with water. 'I saw you with Laci on the couch sleeping together!'
He looked at her like she was mental. 'Are you mental!' he glared at her again.
'Called it.' You muttered to Fred, elbowing him. 'me too.' he took a bite of his sticky bun. The two of you continued to watch what was going down.
'You slept with her didn't you?' Emmaline accused. 'THAT'S DISGUSTING!'
He smirked. 'And what if I did?'
Her jaw dropped. 'THEN WE'RE THROUGH.'
He sneered at her and looked at Crabbe and Goyle who were doing the same. 'Were we ever together?'
Her eyes filled up with tears. 'Please tell me you don't mean that, Draco.' she pleaded.
Pansy stood up, roaring with laughter. 'You're pathetic!'
'Oooo!' You and Fred called, looking at one another, then back to the fight.
Draco sat back down and Emmaline ran out.
The two of you shrugged, knowing there was no way Draco had actually slept with Laci.
Then again, she was vulnerable...
And he was comforting her...
But her brother was there, so no way. You brushed the idea away.
Not ten minutes after, a larger swarm of people began to enter. They were almost all whispering or muttering to one another, sneering and looking around as if trying to spot someone.
You and Fred both noticed it and began to eavesdrop even more.
'Yeah, she seriously tried to steal Emma's boyfriend.' 'Isn't it fucked up? She begged Draco to fuck her.' 'She seemed like a slut anyway..' 'I don't know, she seems really friendly. I guess now we know why guys fancy her so much now.' 'Yeah, poor Emmaline. It's a good thing Draco is faithful. She's so lucky to have him!'
You and Fred's jaw dropped. Oliver walked in and sat in front of you.
'Uh, hey Oliver.' You greeted.
'How're you?' Fred asked.
Oliver didn't answer. He looked upset.
'What's up?' You asked him, worried.
'Nothing.' He quickly snapped.
'C'mooon Oli.' Fred teased.
'Ya know she fucked him? She seriously had sex with him. I mean anybody else I might be able to get over but-' he replied quickly, then picked up his stuff and darted out.
You and Fred exchanged looks, eyes wide.
You rushed out of the great hall after him, to set the record straight.
By the time the two of you got into the corridors, he was gone. You shook your head and decided to look for him, but he was no where to be found.
'Goddammit..' You muttered.
'This blows. They don't even know..' Fred added.
The two of you leaned against a wall outside the great hall and slid down till your asses hit the ground. You leaned your heads back against the wall.
You cloesd your eyes and sat there a while, trying to think of ways to fix this.
You weren't sure how long exactly you'd been sitting there when you heard footsteps. You looked over to see Laci walking up to you two and sat between you both.
You all greeted one another, but weren't sure whether or not to mention the situation. You hadn't said much, and were kind of spacey, when she stood up, frustrated.
You looked up at her.
'Fine. If even you two are going to act like you've got a problem, then i'm going to go.' She walked off briskly.
You and Fred exchanged looks and jumped up and headed after her.
After she calmed down, she asked you to not tell Oliver about the Snape situation, to which you both promptly agreed.
She then asked about everyone asking strangely, and since you two had mentioned something earlier on about hearing people talk about things, she was quite curious, understandably.
After pushing around the topic and beating around the bush, she finally requested you'd just spit it out.
'Everyone's saying you and Malfoy fucked.' Fred blurted out.
'And not just that, they're saying you stole Emmalines boyfriend...' You added.
'The worst part is-' Fred explained. '-We're pretty sure Emmaline started it all.'
Laci looked up at you in disbelief.
LACI'S P.O.V.
'Everyone's saying you and Malfoy fucked.' Fred blurted out.
'And notjust that, they're saying you stole Emmaline's boyfriend...' George added, sympathetically.
'The worst part is-' Fred explained. '-We're pretty sure Emmaline started it all.'
You stood in disbelief, unable to comprehend what was going on.
'Emmaline wouldn't start something like that...' You explained.
The boys shook their heads. 'Are you sure?'
Am I sure? ...Would she really do that?
Your eyes welled up but you blinked the tears back, once again for that day. 'Please tell me these rumors haven't reached Oliver yet..' you looked up at them, pleading.
'Well...' George began.
'He heard. He's really upset about it. We were going to explain but he ran out before we had a chance.'
You shook your head. You had to find Oliver. Your breathing suddenly got ridiculously uneven and you got dizzy. You'd had this feeling before, you were having an anxiety attack.
You gasped for the air that you weren't quite getting and fell to your knees. You couldn't believe all of this was happening at once.
Before you could comprehend what was happening, everything went black, just like the night before, when you passed out into a lonely world of your subconscious. You felt your head smack the ground and saw whisps of your white bangs flying down in front of your eyes before you blacked out.
