"Fuck! What the fuck was I thinking?!" Jade asked, pulling Hermione's necklace off and tossing it aside. She roughly wiped her eyes, trying to remove the mascara and eye shadow from her lids and eyelashes. "I wanted to look like her! I wanted him to see whatever he saw in her! I-" Jade choked and took a deep breath, letting out a shaky sob. "I wanted to look beautiful." Jade said roughly, wiping the lipstick with her shirt.
"Jade…you don't need to look like someone to look beautiful. You're beautiful the way you are sweetheart. You don't need to look like her!" Hermione said gently, touching Jade's face.
Jade let out another sob, feeling her throat scratch from it. Hermione sat next to her and put her arms around her, wiping her tears and nose. Hermione felt someone touch her arm and she looked up to see Harry silently ask her to let Jade go so he could talk to her. Hermione pulled away and Harry squatted to meet Jade's level. Jade hung her head, not willing to meet Harry's eyes.
"Hmm, let me see something." Harry said, lifting up Jade's face. Jade resisted and kept her head down. "Oh come on, let me see." Harry said lifting her face to meet his. He looked pensive, looking at her as if he was trying to look for something on her face. He wiped her tears with his thumb and shook his head. "Herm, do you see anything ugly in this face?" Harry asked, turning to Hermione who squatted next to him to look at Jade's face.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me." Jade said going to move her face away but Harry held her face firmly.
"Nope. I don't see a trace of ugliness." Hermione said shaking her head. Harry raised an eyebrow and met with Jade's eyes.
"That's funny, because I see something." He said.
Jade almost got up to punch him, but he held her down tightly, to let her listen to him. "I see the ignorance and lack of self confidence in this face. Ignorance because this face knows nothing about the natural beauty it holds. Lack of self confidence, because this face is so unique and so beautiful, it's horrible to see the insecurities shine more than the natural beauty." Harry said. Jade stared intensely into Harry's eyes, holding his hands tightly, which were holding his face.
"Don't lie to me." Jade said, her tears stopped. Harry shook his head.
"I'm not lying. I wouldn't lie to you Jade." Harry said.
For some odd reason, Jade believed him. No one called her beautiful, never in her life. Rogue, boy, neuter, bastard and ugly were terms she was all too familiar with, but never pretty or beautiful. Hearing Harry tell her she was beautiful was somewhat of a shock to her, but she believed him.
"If you weren't so terrorizing, I would have asked you for a date ages ago." Harry said lightly. Hermione and Jade burst into chuckles and Harry smiled, hugging Jade. Jade moved her hands, slowly up his back, hugging him back. This felt nice.
Draco stood in the corner, watching Harry take his place and comfort Jade. Draco was stabbed with remorse and guilt. He should have been the one placating her, not Potter. He slumped his shoulders and walked off, listening to Potter cheer Jade up with a few jokes. Draco wasn't needed anymore and he understood that. Whatever she accused of him turned out to be true, he had changed. He spent less time with her and the moments where she truly needed him, he would abandon her. He had hardly been with her nowadays, just because he had someone else in his life. How could he trade off his best friend for some girl? Draco was angry at himself; he brought this upon himself, so he was going to pay the consequences for it. Potter was a better friend for Jade anyways. Potter ran after her, but it took Draco a few moments to come after her, after he had been finished laughing at her. Potter was the better man for her. He felt someone bump into him and looked up to see Ginny standing there, with Jade's golden heels in her hands.
"Draco! Where were you? Is Jade all right?" Ginny asked. Draco sharply turned away from her and walked away, to his dormitory to run away from everything.
Jade walked down the corridors, holding on to the nook of Harry's arm. Hermione walked along with them, talking about something about the dance. She appreciated someone to be there for her, to pull her out of something that she would hurt herself over later. They entered the Gryffindor common room and Harry walked her to the stairs.
"I'll see you upstairs Jade, goodnight Harry." Hermione said walking up the stairs.
"Good night Hermione." Harry said watching Hermione jog up the stairs. He turned to Jade and shrugged. "Are you in a terrible rush to go upstairs and sleep?" he asked and Jade grinned.
"I'm craving for a smoke, but I guess I can push the craving away for a while." Jade said as he pulled her towards the plush couch. He sat down and Jade sat next to him, fiddling with her shirt. She was much more comfortable now than ever before, because she knew that Harry didn't care. Harry didn't laugh at her. She knew her makeup was smeared everywhere, but he looked at her as if she was the most normal thing in the world.
"What?" Jade asked, starting to feel uncomfortable with his staring.
"I never saw you cry that way before." He said softly. Jade started to feel sick all of a sudden. Any sudden thoughts of Draco made her body tense up and her stomach churn.
"I hardly ever cry." Jade muttered, looking at her hands.
"What happened today? Why couldn't you just ask Hermione-"
"Listen if you're here to dish the fucking news out of me, I'm not interested. Good night." Jade said going to leave but Harry held her back.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you." he said, but Jade remained standing.
"Listen, tomorrow's Hogsmeade, would you mind coming with me?" Harry asked.
Jade turned so fast, she felt she was going to fall. "What?!" Jade almost shrieked. Harry looked a bit scared.
"Unless you're planning to do something else?" Harry asked shrugging, looking nervous.
Jade calmed down, trying to keep herself under control. This was another first. The opposite sex had asked her out on a date. "Um…sure, I guess." Jade said walking away from him. She didn't know what else to do.
"Oh…well…I'll see you tomorrow then?" Harry asked walking to the staircase seeing Jade nod.
"Goodnight Harry." Jade said.
Harry wrapped his hands around her and Jade hugged back awkwardly. The common room door opened and Ginny stood there, just in time to see Harry and Jade, hugging each other. Jade released Harry and sprinted upstairs, to meet Hermione.
"That was quick." Hermione said, sitting on her bed, removing her makeup with a toilette. Jade only burned red and grabbed another toilette from Hermione's makeup remover box.
"He asked me out tomorrow for Hogsmeade." Jade mumbled, rubbing her face harshly.
"Easy, you don't want your nose to fall off do you?" Hermione said seeing Jade rub lighter, yet still more frantically. "So, you're going right? We should find you a dress, do your hair and make-"
"If that's the case then I'm not going. I'm never going to put a breath of makeup on my face ever again Hermione. I don't even know if I should go on a date with him. I never have in my life. So I won't know what to do once I get there." Jade said seeing Hermione smile.
"That's the point of first dates. Being completely clueless." Hermione said. Jade scowled and walked to the bathroom to take a shower.
"But how could you be clueless? You're anything but clueless, how did you manage your first date?" Jade asked seeing Hermione shrug.
"You might be surprised Jade, but I was quite intimidated and nervous when I had my meetings with Victor." Hermione said. Jade shuddered. She never knew why in the world Hermione liked Krum out of all people. Jade paused. Wait no, Krum was decent compared to Ron Weasley. The door opened and Ginny walked in, looking red faced, with the golden heels that Jade kicked off, while running away.
"Jade! Are you all right?! I didn't mean to-"
"I don't care, it's all over." Jade snapped, shutting the bathroom door behind her. Jade twisted the shower knobs on and removed her clothes, to step inside of the shower. It took a while to remove the sticky and gooey substance from her hair. When Jade was convinced that she had washed all of it off, she turned off the knobs and stepped out of the bathtub, drying herself off.
Jade stepped out of the shower and saw Hermione already changed into her pajamas and Ginny looking incredibly embarrassed from the earlier incident. Without another word, Jade went straight to her bed and pulled the drapes.