"Congratulations" squealed Athena excitedly.

"What do you mean? Did I forget my birthday again?" I asked confused.

"No- What how do you forget your own birthday?" Athena sputtered, just as confused as I.

"Never mind that" Ginny interrupted us. "Tell us about the kiss."

"That reminds me" I said sweetly with a Cheshire Cat smile. "I am going to kill the both of you" I lunged at Ginny and Athena. They ran around the couch we were sitting on in the common room and avoiding my attack. I chased them both around the common room until my legs wore out. Wow I am not in the best physical shape.

"Why are you killing us?!" cried Athena, "If anything you should be thanking us."

"You basically forced us to kiss!" I yell in response.

"Don't act like you didn't like it!" retorted Ginny.

"Shut up!" I yelled, not knowing what else to say. "I can kill you both if I want to."

"You go do that" Athena said. "And lose your two best friends."

"Fuck off" I threw a couch pillow at Athena's face. She looked offended, but decided not to say anything.

"So how was the kiss?" Ginny asked, "If you're done trying to kill me."

I sobered myself. I was not angry, frankly I couldn't have cared less about the fact that they set the whole thing up. It was just amusing to chase them around.

"Like magic" I sighed. "I dunno it just felt right. Probably how you feel if you kissed Harry, Gin or if you kissed Luna, Athena."

"Aww" Athena cooed. "That's amazing and honestly about fucking time."

"Well he walked me back to the common room and then we parted ways. He kissed my hand though, I liked that. We didn't really have a chance to speak about the kiss and I'm leaving tomorrow anyways for break."

"Well it's a start" Ginny said.

They both looked at me expectantly. "I'm not saying thank you if that's what you two bitches want." Ginny grumbled under her breath in response and Athena just laughed.

"How did it feel?" Ginny asked dreamily, oddly reminding me of Luna.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"How did the kiss feel?" Ginny asked, altering the question slightly.

"It was good" I slowly nodded my head, not really explaining anything.

"Wow" Athena deadpanned, "that's all we get? We're your friends and that's all we get" Athena threw her hands in the hair. "God! Anyone would think that Draco Malfoy is the best kisser in the fucking world!"

"Well I have first hand experience and I can say he is."

"Then fucking tell us how it felt!" Ginny yelled.

"Jesus fuck" I held my hands in surrender. "Well I'm not trying to cliche or anything, but it was so surreal. You know in those movies where they couple kisses for the first time and fireworks get set off and they feel those sparks."

"What's a movie?" asked Athena.

"Muggle thing, but Ginny I've showed you a movie before when I was at the Burrow once, right?" I asked, my memory not being the greatest as of right now.

"Yeah you did, but not all of them were romance."

"Doesn't matter, you get my point" I said.

"That was really cliche though" Athena commented, with a snort.

I rolled my eyes. "Then tell me how it felt when you first kiss Luna. Well technically your first kiss was your sucking her face off like a fucking dementor, but go off I guess." I smirked at Athena who glared at me in response.

"I hate you" she muttered, knowing to herself that I was right.

"I love you too Athena."

"Draco loves you too" she retorted, her arms crossed as she continued to glare at me.

I didn't know about love, but I couldn't deny that the kiss didn't mean something. I hoped the kiss meant something, after all he was the one that initiated the second kiss. And the third one.

"Merlins beard finally!" cheered Theo, clinking glasses of fire whiskey with Draco and Blaise. "To Malfoy gaining balls and kissing Addy. It had been way to long."

Draco rolled his eyes, but couldn't stop the light pink from covering his cheeks. "Fuck off Nott."

"Why are you in such a pissy mood? You should be celebrating like Blaise and I are" Theo retorted.

"This is fucking weird" Draco muttered, taking a sip of his fire whiskey, feeling the bubbly liquid burn down his throat with a satisfying sigh. "But I can never say no to free alcohol."

"That's the spirit!"

"About fucking time Malfoy" Blaise hit him in the chest playfully. "Goddrick, I could smell the sexual tension in the air every time you were around each other."

"Your welcome" Theo bowed, sitting down.

Draco scowled at the two in front of him. "Fuck off."

"I think you owe us something Malfoy" Blaise teased. Draco glared at him in response, "Come on Draco all you have to say is thank you. Is it really that hard?"

"Oh come on, it's Malfoy of all people. Have you ever heard the words thank you come out of his mouth? There as rare as I'm sorry" commented Theo wittily. "But I wouldn't mind that thank you right about now."

"You didn't even do anything" Blaise yelled to Theo. "It was me, Luna, Ginny, and Neville. You were just dancing with Abbott the entire time" and Theo had a faint blush on his cheeks. "Yeah I saw you go dancing with her."

"Sod off" muttered Theo.

"Yeah let's talk about you and Abbott" Draco pointed out loudly with an agreeing eager nod from Blaise.

"There's nothing to talk about" Theo said, taking a gulp of fire whiskey.

"There's a lot to talk about."

"You danced with her. How'd it feel?" Blaise asked to Theo. Draco was glad the attention was off him and he could watch his two friends in amusement.

"I dunno" Theo shrugged, slightly uncomfortable.

It's not like the trio didn't talk about girls. Of course they did before and Blaise as well when everyone thought he was straight. But now it all felt so real and personal because Theo had never felt this way before. None of them had. Blaise was finding love with Neville and he could proudly say that he was in love because they had said the words I love you to each other.

Draco was a complicated little shit and not to mention an oblivious little shit. The obvious chemistry was there between him and Adeleine yet they never acknowledged it until this night. It could only go up from there, right? He knew the whole reason they even took the step to kiss was because of Blaise and the rest of them. He would never thank them out loud, but he silently did so in his mind.

Theo didn't have room for love. At least that's what he told himself. There was no point in denying his feelings when they were so plainly obvious, but that didn't stop him from trying to deny them. He had always thought he would be forced into a marriage that was to protect the pureblooded line, but now that it didn't matter he wasn't entirely sure. It didn't really matter either since Hannah was a pure blood as well so that wasn't really an excuse. Or he would be with some Slytherin woman that was a death eater, but for some reason he felt his gaze always go to a certain blond haired Hufflepuff.

"Really Theo? Come on I talk to you about Nev all the time. The least you could do is tell us about Abbott" Blaise reasoned.

"I am forced to listen to you ramble on about Longbottom" Theo defended, "don't even try to call bullshit because we all know it's true. I'm literally held against my will and I just sit there listen to you ramble on about how big Longbottom's co-"

"Okay!" interrupted Blaise while Draco was chuckling in amusement.

"What! I'm just saying I don't need to know how long Longbottom's" Blaise gave him a pointed look, "thing is. But I've got to say I'm impressed. A whole whopping 7 inches. Merlin Blaise are you sure your jaw doesn't hurt?"

"You're avoiding the question" Blaise deadpanned, with his cheeks beet red.

"No!" Theo retorted a bit to loudly.

Draco rolled his eyes at Theo in disbelief while Blaise chuckled at his friend and poured himself another small glass of fire whiskey. "Haven't you learned from Potter in fifth year? I shall not tell lies" Blaise said. At the name Potter, Draco grimaced causing Blaise and Theo to both roll their eyes at him.

"Oh fuck off" Theo snapped, taking a large gulp of fire whiskey and smacking his glass down on the rug in a thud.

"Come on, not one little detail. I mean what do you guys even do during your sessions?" Blaise asked.

"That's confidential, but if you must know we just talk a lot. She's really nice and surprisingly funny. You know she has the best singing voice too. One time she sang to me and we read together a lot. She shows me muggle books that she's read which are surprisingly good as well. In her dorm she has these fairy lights around her bed and it's so pretty" Theo rambled making Blaise snort and Draco grin at his friend.

"What?" Theo looked at the two who were oddly grinning at him. It almost looked sadistic which was creeping Theo out a bit.

"You're whipped" Blaise commented.

"I am not!" Theo protested, but it sounded more like he was trying to convince himself.

"You definitely are" Draco said, shaking his head with amusement.

In all seriousness, Draco was extremely happy for his friend. If anyone, Theo deserved a happy ending from the shit life they had been forced in to. All the death eater business was what had gotten the two close in the first place. That was probably the only good thing that came out of it all. He had never seen Theo so passionate about something since the time that Theo found out he could dry gillyweed and smoke it.

"Shut up" Theo muttered, not being able to retort because he knew what they were saying was true.

Theodore Nott was truly whipped and he was in the process of being whipped into shape by the lovely Hannah Abbott.

"So you were saying?" Blaise asked, letting Theo continue.

Theo was confused at first, furrowing his brows, but he began to continue his rambling. "And in tea she drinks it with honey instead of sugar which I think is really cool. You should try it some time because it's good. Oh and she has a vase of flowers by her nightstand that she charmed to never die. You know her favorite flower is a dahlia. Also her favorite color is not yellow, but it's green" Theo nodded proudly, "like Slytherin."

Blaise and Draco burst out laughing at their friend.

"Absolutely whipped."

It seemed that the Slytherin trio and the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw trio were both going to sleep happy that night.