Author's Note:
Hello my dearest readers, I am terribly sorry for not updating in almost three months. I have writer's block and was super busy.
Hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break and enjoy reading!
Audrey woke up in the morning of Saturday completely sober. She was the only one who didn't touch a drop of alcohol last night. Sitting up from her bed, she spotted her friends scattered across the room. Blaise was lying on the end of her bed. She softly shook his shoulder and he awakened, murmuring. She giggled, "Blaise."
"Oh, hey." He smiled, sleepily, scratching his muffled up black hair. "What a blast, eh?"
"Yeah." Audrey nodded, grabbing his arm, "Let's go get breakfast."
"You mean ditch them?" He asked, looking around at their passed out friends.
"Uh, yeah." She said, impatiently, "Come on, let's go." She tugged on his bare arm.
"Aren't we going to change or anything?" He asked.
"I don't think so." She shook her head, jumping off the bed and grabbed him along. They tip-toed out of the room in their pajamas into the dining hall.
"Are you sure about this?" Blaise asked, uncertainly.
"Totally." Audrey hand-combed her bed hair, "It's Saturday morning anyways."
"Right." He agreed.
Audrey sat down casually onto the bench of the long table, gesturing to Blaise, telling him to sit across from her. He did, of course.
"So," She began, reaching for a chocolate chip cookie from the tin plate in front of her and bit on it, "What should we do today?"
Blaise shrugged, helping himself to a goblet of pumpkin juice, "I have no idea."
"Why not…" Audrey tapped her chin in a theatrical fashion, thinking—then her eyes wondered to the couple entering the dining hall. The 'golden' couple. Her lips curved up into a mischievous smirk, "Why not," she stated clearer this time, "We should ask them out for a double date." She tilted her head towards Draco and Mona.
Blaise raised his eyebrows, "Uh, you sure?"
Audrey rolled her eyes, "Uh, totally. It would be a blast. No?" He smiled as well.
Yes, indeed.
"Draco, Mona!" Audrey called enthusiastically, waving to them, "Come sit with us!"
Draco Malfoy had a cynical expression on his face, but holding Mona's hand they walked to the other two. "Good morning, Blaise." Mona greeted, smiling at him.
"Uh, hi." Blaise gushed. Audrey clucked her tongue and kicked him from under the table. "Ow." Blaise mouthed. Audrey rolled her violet eyes before flashing the most friendly smile she ever had to Mona, "My dearest friend Blaise and I are heading to Hogsmeade this afternoon, and we were wondering if you two wanted to come along? It would be fun!" The sweetness in her voice wrapped around with venom, it made Draco wince, "What is your exact agenda, Spinnet?"
Audrey fake-pouted, "Oh Draco, dear," she grabbed his hand and squeezed it, "What could I possibly have in mind?" Then she gave him the most genuine grin she had in weeks. He sneered at her, pulling his hand away as if she was contagious of some deadly virus. Audrey tsk-tsked, "Aw, don't be bitter. We really should go on a double date, it seriously would be fun." She bobbed her head up and down to make it more believable. Blaise coughed away his urge to laugh and joined in, trying to convince Draco, "She's right, you two should put away the past and we should all have some fun, man." Mona definitely wanted to, her eyes glistened in excitement, her hand gripping Draco's, "Drake, I think we should go. It does sound rather exciting, I've never been to Hogsmeade too, please?"
Aw, Mona had sweet little nickname for her Drakie-poo. How cute.
"Yeah, I guess it would be fine." Draco finally agreed. "Hurray!" Mona clapped, excitedly.
"Great. Why don't we meet at the blind old ladies statue at let's say, two?" Audrey suggested. She noticed that Blaise was shaking, trying to his best not to burst out in laughter. She dug her nails into his thigh until his body tensed up.
And it's not like it hurt, anyways.
"Oh, Audrey," Mona giggled as she drank from a mug of Butter Beer as they all sat in the Three Broomsticks Bar, "Are you not at all excited for the Goblet of Fire? I can't wait to see my friends from Beauxbarton! Oh, and I heard that the guys from Durmstrang are completely sexy."
Draco cleared his throat intentionally, "Oh, Audrey, and I heard that Pucey is coming too."
"Oh, really." Audrey raised her eyebrows. Her chest tightened and she physically twitched. She couldn't breath…she felt nauseous. She grabbed Blaise's hand from under the table. He squeezed her hand, giving her support.
"Can we please go now, I don't feel well." She whined. She was having a panic attack. Draco smirked at Audrey's reaction, "Well, you and Zabini can go first, Mona and I would like to hang around here for another while."
"Suit yourself, asshole." Audrey snapped before pulling Blaise up from the chair.
One Week Later
"Do I have to go in there? I can just skip dinner---" Audrey suggested.
"No, you have to." Blaise set his hands on her shoulders, "But hey, look."
She looked at him with her violet, sad eyes.
"Take a deep breath." He instructed. She did as she was told.
"You can do it, it's not that big of a deal, right?" Blaise gave her a quick pep talk, giving her back a pat, "Come on, the feast is starting."
"Why the hell is there another Goblet of Fire? Like, what stupid idiot decided to hold it again so soon? And why isn't it held at Beauxbarton or whatever?" Audrey said angrily as she sat down next to Miles at the Slytherin table.
"That stupid idiot is Dumbledore." Dorothy whispered from across the table, "And the Goblet of Fire is just plain fun! We get to miss classes!"
"I don't like that at all." Emma shook her head, looking depressed.
Dumbledore clinked his glass and the dining hall fell silent. "Let us first welcome our lovely guests from Beauxbarton!" He clapped his hands and the dining hall was filled with boys' hollers and shouts and whistles.
Audrey rolled her eyes at the boys' behavior. As if there aren't any girls in Hogwarts.
Or did the boys prefer the French?
Audrey nudged Miles, "Look whose admirer is here?"
Miles groaned, burying his face into his hands, "Please tell me she didn't come."
"Unfortunately, she did." Audrey giggled, "And she's looking for you."
"I need to hide." Miles said, desperately. "I don't want to even get close to her."
"Oh, yez, I have come to zee Miles from France. Bonjour." Audrey mimicked Mile's nightmare: the French, stalking blonde, Marie's annoyingly accented voice.
"You're not helping!" Miles whined.
"Oh come on. Be a man!" Audrey mocked him, "I can help you," she suggested.
Miles looked up to her, "How? Please."
"I can pretend to be your girlfriend." She giggled at her own idea.
"Bloody brilliant!" Miles laughed, hugging her, his back to the girls from Beauxbarton, "Is she looking at me?" He asked.
Audrey smirked, "Oh yes, indeed. She's pissed that I'm hugging you."
Miles snickered, "Thanks, Aud."
The girls from Beauxbarton were seated and the Hogwarts boys have calmed down from swooning over the French beauties. Dumbledore then continued, "Now our next wonderful guests, Durmstrang!" Miles felt Audrey's body stiffen. He broke away from the hug and reached for her hand, "Audrey, are you okay?"
She didn't was too busy searching through the crowd of handsome, tall, bulky guys in parkas for Adrian. And she spotted him in the crowd.
She let go of Miles's hand and grabbed her fork and stabbed it into the piece of beef on her plate. That bloody bastard, she could kill him---
"Audrey," Dorothy interrupted, "Did you see him? He's the one in the---"
"Oh yes, I've caught sight of him easily." Audrey spat, "And I don't care."
She wasn't a good liar. Her whole body was trembling with anger. She wanted to march up to him, grab him and scream at him, 'How the hell could you leave me like that?' and slap his handsome face. Then she could rip off his clothes and they could have make-up sex--- slow down, Miss Drama Queen. Getting a little over, aren't we?
As all the guests been seated, the feast had been officially announced to begin. The beef on Audrey's plate had already disappeared. She was now scooping for chocolate pudding. "Aud, you probably might want to slow down on the food, it's like you're choking on it." Blaise cooed, as he stared at his female best friend in awe.
Audrey looked up from the bowl she was holding, "That's exactly what I'm attempting to do, choke myself, it would be better than facing that---heartless moron." She then smiled in pride when she thought of the perfect words to describe Adrian Pucey.
Blaise couldn't help but laugh at her behavior, "Seriously, I have not seen a girl eat chocolate pudding like you." Audrey put down her bowl and said mouthful, "Oh, sure you haven't. Now what shall I eat, vanilla cupcake? Mango cheese cake?"
He grabbed her thin wrist from across the table, "Audrey, stop it." She looked at him.
Her face wrote: anger, desperation, sadness, confusion, betrayal---
Blaise just wanted to hug her. Or maybe kiss.
She frowned, "Fine." She placed down her plate and glanced over at the table the Durmstrang boys were sitting. Adrian was looking right back at her. Audrey wanted to look away, she was so hurt by him, but at the same time, she wanted him badly.
"I need to talk to you," He mouthed to her. She bit her lip and shook her head. Then she forced herself to tear away from his intense eye contact.
Audrey grabbed a green napkin that was neatly folded beside her hand and wiped her mouth. Then she crimpled it into a ball and threw it on her plate. She knew her behavior was very unladylike but at this moment, she did not care, nor did she know how she was supposed to react, "Excuse me." She rudely excused herself from the table as she walked away from the noisy dining hall. She could hear her friends calling for her but she just kept on walking.
She did not want to be seated in the same room with Adrian.
Or perhaps she wanted to be on the same bed with him, naked.
A/N: Err, that's it for now. Hope you guys liked it. I apologize once again for the delay of updating. I've been working on another story and sort of abandoned this one, I'm really sorry. Hopefully I'll update soon! :)