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Word Count: 1434

Challenge: Are you Crazy Enough To Do It Challenge

Prompt: 103. (character) Astoria Greengrass

Bold - Hermione Granger

Italics - Daphne Greengrass

Underlined - Astoria Greengrass

Daph, mom called just now. One of my cousin's marriage is coming up next week, and she invited us to her wedding. Mom asked us if we want to go together or…

Do you have any idea how the rest of your family is with homosexuality?

Not really – I'm the first out homosexual in my extended family tree, and I don't know if any of them have any friends who came out – the topic never came up.

So, do you want me to stay back, because I can do that?

I don't know.

By when does she need to know?

The marriage is next Friday, so I suppose Matthew would need to know at least a week in advance. That leaves us about three days to give mom an answer.

Hmm… Alright, we'll think it over when I come home tonight.

Okay.

Are you sure that I should go on my own?

Yeah, just remember to take the day off a day before you leave so I can compensate for the time you won't be there.

Of course, you don't even have to remind me about that – already rearranged my schedule to accomodate for that.

I didn't expect anything else.

Are we becoming too predictable?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

It isn't?

Granger, I might know the hundred most common things you do every day, but there's still millions of things that you haven't done yet. Don't worry, we have a lot of things left to find out about each other; besides, the fact that I know so much about you serves as a reminder that we've been dating for a while now.

Hmm… I guess that's true – I never knew you were such a sap.

Only for you, love.

I love you.

I love you too.

Then it's decided – I'll take the day off on Wednesday, and I'll be gone from Thursday through that weekend. I think mom would be slightly disappointed that you won't be joining us, but she'll understand why.

She'll probably force me to visit their place before we leave anyway, I don't think she'll miss me that much.

Yeah.

Why couldn't you take a portkey to the venue?

Mom is concerned that the family will start questioning how we got there and everything. Apparently, they expected my parents to take the flight directly to Manchester, but dad managed to dodge that by insisting that they wanted to visit me before taking a road trip to the wedding.

Being a muggleborn isn't easy on the family, huh?

No, most muggleborns tend to distance themselves and their immediate family from the extended family after they start school; it becomes exceedingly difficult to manage the lies we have to tell them to keep them in the dark about magic, especially for seven long years.

And we didn't make it any easier for you on this side.

It's in the past now; that world doesn't exist anymore. Don't beat yourself up about it, love.

Okay.

Let's talk about something else – we'll be arriving in an hour or so. Along the way, we stopped at a petrol station to refuel, and I saw the most amazing thing – more Reese's flavors. There was something called Reese's whites. I bought a pack of six, and I love them. Let's search for more when I come back.

Sure, love. I'll see if I can find them somewhere.

Thank you.

Daph, we're here. They gave me a room with the other girls.

That's nice.

They also saved a spot for you… in a room with the boys.

What?!

Yeah, apparently mom let it slip that I'm dating someone. Luckily, she managed to hold herself back from telling them you didn't have as much penis as they'd expect.

Such crude language – am I that much of a bad influence?

So, you're aware; I always assumed you're too stupid to be capable of that.

Haha, very funny, Granger.

Anyway, don't forget to check your message sheet after dinner - I'll want to recharge on my Daphne time.

I'll be waiting.

Hey!

Hi.

So… what did you do today?

Not much, after you guys left I went back to work – we're looking for a new method to detect advanced forms of Polyjuice. There's been an increase in the number of thefts by impersonation in some magical banks across Europe.

How did that happen?

One of those German mad scientists concocted a potion that fooled all but the best of revealing charms – so any bank that failed to increase its security to the maximum extent reported large scale thefts in the past month. Lucky for us, Gringotts completely revamped their security since SOMEONE broke into it during the war.

Oh Merlin…

Yeah. Anyway, I came back home at about seven, made myself dinner, and now I'm spending time with you.

What did you eat?

A few sandwiches, nothing too fancy – I was feeling too lazy to cook. Besides, food for one doesn't always turn out as good.

What do you mean?

A lot of foods, especially if fried on a pan, turn out great if you cook for many people; but if you cook for one, then it burns pretty quickly.

Oh, I never knew that.

Of course you didn't.

Hey!

What?

Nothing.

Hmm… So, what's going on there? Aren't your cousins nearby?

Nope. They all went out for shopping. I suspect they'll be back soon, but they're worse than you when they go out together. Until our parents call them up and order them to come back immediately, they'll probably be roaming from one mall to another.

What about your male cousins?

They got roped into it too.

And they left you out?

Daph, they've been gone since before we arrived.

Wow.

I wasn't joking when I said they were worse than you.

Yeah. Love, I'll talk to you later, Tori's here.

Oh.

We decided to have a sister's night since we never do that. It was an impromptu plan we made an hour ago.

That's nice.

You've been pushing both of us for something like this for a while now, so we decided… why not?

Yeah, good. You two enjoy yourselves.

Alright, talk to you later. Love you.

Love you too.

Finally, I found it. Hey Hermione.

Astoria? Fuck! Why the fuck can't Daph hide her sheet better?

She's never been one for secrecy, except for her love for you. Even then she couldn't keep it from me for more than a few months.

Astoria, put it back, before I come over there and make you!

So this is how you react when you're angry. I've never actually seen this bossy side of you, even though my sister rants about it all the time.

Ast-

No need to get murderous now, I didn't read this for any sort of gossip or blackmail. I already have enough over sis to last a lifetime and you're too nice for me to want to blackmail.

Aww… Thank you.

Besides, I don't need to refer the sheet to know what's on it.

What?!

One of your friend does not exactly possess the most secretive of mouths.

Ginny's dead the next time I see her.

I expected as much; when you and sis suggested that I become friends with her, the two of us met up for lunch last Monday. The conversation was running a little dry, so we started talking about what we knew we had in common – you two. Almost instantly, the conversation perked up. Unfortunately, that also meant we moved on to your secrets pretty quick.

Oh fuck!

Anyway, now we're pretty good friends. Thanks Hermione.

This was a bad idea.

It's too late now.

Yeah… Anyway, please hand the sheet back to Daph.

Here you go.

Granger, I'm so sorry. This will never h-

Save it. It probably would've been for naught anyway.

What do you mean?

Read Astoria's part.

Fuck! What the fuck did we do?!

I know, why did we ever think this would be a good idea? We constructed the ultimate team of blackmail against ourselves.

What do we do now?

I… don't know. I guess there's nothing else to do but bear with whatever those two concoct for us. Just… don't let anyone else get to the sheet.

Yeah, I'm sorry, love.

It's fine.

I love you.

I love you, too. I'll talk to you tomorrow, maybe after lunch. If I don't make it, then I'll definitely be there after dinner.

Okay, good night.

Good night, tell that to Astoria as well.

Good night, Hermione.

She insisted on doing that.

Of course she did.

A/N:

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