Chapter Three: Pass You Buy
'My Dearest Draco,
Words can not express how much I love you, but for now I must let you go. As a girl, I befriended a classmate of mine and together we formed a bond between yourself and her son. Your aunt, Bellatrix, though thinks she is, is not your god-parent. My cousin Sirius and I were childhood friends until he an away from home, but we continued to stay friends. When I gave birth to you, I made him your godfather, as did my friend, Lily Evans, Lily Potter by then. You and her son, Harry, were named brothers if anything were to happen to either of us.'
"Mmmmmmmm…" Draco stirred in the bed.
Harry quickly stuffed the note back into Draco's cloak pocket and gracefully and noiselessly hopped back into bed.
Out of the corner of his cracked-open eye he could see Draco sit up and reach beside him for his cloak. He took out the letter and began to read it. Harry looked at where Ron was sleeping peacefully. His red hair was everywhere. Harry then looked to where Theo usually slept, but he was nowhere to be seen.
'Probably downstairs,' Harry thought.
Suddenly, the door quietly squeaked open and caused Draco to shoot his head up.
With his eyes still only cracked open, Harry saw Zelia walk into the room and sit beside Draco. The two began talking in hushed voices. Zelia looked over at Theo's messy bed and giggled.
What was going on between the two of them? Harry saw the two shake hands and realized that he was never going to find out anything by pretending to be asleep. He sat up and stretched while scratching his head. He looked over at the two and mumbled something along the lines of 'good morning'.
"Good morning Harry." Zelia whispered. "I was just telling Draco that the girls aren't witches, nor do they know anything about magic. Same with Theo, by the way. Now-"
"Theo?" Draco asked.
"Hermione's boyfriend." Zelia sped through. "And speaking of Hermione, call her Thera. It's the name she uses here. Before Hogwarts, it was all she would go by."
After a few more minutes of rules and explanations, the three teenagers went downstairs to the kitchen to grab some breakfast, leaving Ron to sleep a while longer.
"Not so loud Zeel." Tanya whispered as she swallowed some asprin.
"I told you not play all those drinking games." Shari said, pouring Tanya a glass of orange juice.
"You let her get drunk?" Zelia was pissed. "How stupid are you guys? I leave and all of a sudden-where was Theo?"
"He was ruling the games over in the other room." Daliah let out a small chuckle. "He was so drunk off his ass by the time we left, we had to carry him to the car."
"Could barely get him up the stairs too, remember?" Tanya chuckled, but grabbed her head.
"Yeah. We had to wake up Ther to get him up the stairs. I think he ended up spending the night with her." Daliah shook her head. "I don't know, though. The second she came down the stairs we just left them."
"Oh-my-GOD!" Everyone turned to see what Shari was trying to hide her laughter for. "Don't even think about it honey!"
Hermione froze where she was and looked at her friends.
A flood of juice came squirting from Draco's nose. He couldn't believe it.
Hermione had been creeping up the hall towards the stairs in nothing but a pink, oversized shirt, well, as far as her friends knew. Her hair was messed up and sticking out in all directions. She looked over at her friends and gave an innocent, yet nervous, smile.
"Good morning everyone," she said, making her way to the island in the middle of the room. "Any coffee?" Before anyone could say anything, she grabbed the biggest mug and filled it with a majority of the contents of the pot in front of her.
"I made that last night Ther." Daliah said.
Hermione spit a large amount of coffee out of her mouth and into Draco's face.
"Just the way I like it." She smiled weakly as she forced a sip down her throat. Her friends began to crack up as she forced a smile onto her face.
"Well drink it all up dearie. I have a whole pot-full and I know how you hate to waste." Zelia got out before another burst of laughter followed.
"Shut up," Hermione mumbled into her mug.
"So Granger, enjoying a night with a drunk high school boy?" Draco asked with a smirk.
"Who is this guy?" Tanya asked, squinting her eyes at him.
"Oh, sorry guys. This is, erm, my cousin. Remember?" Zelia tried to explain. "I told you that my cousins and their friend were going to be staying with us."
"I thought you only had one cousin."
No one replied to Shari's comment, though, because they were now joined by a tall, dirty blonde stumbling into the kitchen. He looked up at Hermione and smiled, making his way over to her.
"Good morning," Theo said, planting kisses all over Hermione (Well, Her cheeks, lips, neck…).
"Oh get a room." Draco said, disgusted. He took a sip of juice from the cup in front of him.
Theo turned around, his hands stopped touching every bit of Hermione he could find and his eyes focused.
"ANOTHER GUY?"
"NOT SO LOUD!" Tanya grabbed her head.
"Thera, I thought that those two friends of your's from school were the only guys staying." He turned to Zelia. "Zelia, what the fuck?"
"He's my cousin. He just didn't come with Harry and Ron because he had to-to"
"He had to run an errand," Hermione said calmly to Theo.
"Oh, but-"
"Ssh, don't worry baby," Hermione said. 'He got so drunk last night you'd have thought he wouldn't remember that he wanted to talk.' (A/N ''thought)
Hermione could not have been happier when she saw Ron stumble down the stairs. All eyes left her and followed Ron as he picked himself up from the floor quickly.
"Haha, Ronnie! Gotta watch out for those stairs." Zelia laughed as Harry went to go help him up. "They're uneven, ya know?"
"Ugh!" Ron grunted as he rubbed his butt and limped over to the stool beside Hermione. "Shut up Zeel. Someone left a shoe at the stop of the stairs."
"Tanya, is this your shoe?" Zelia asked. "Guys, I'd rather no one had any broken bones when my parents get home."
"Come on Malfoy," Harry said after grabbing a piece of toast from the toaster. "We have some business to attend to."
"No, no, no!" Zelia said, grabbing Harry by the arm.
"We're all going to sit down at the table and you are going to meet my friends and then I am going to see if I can find something about-about, that book you were telling me about M-Draco." Hermione said, helping Theo over to the table. "How much did you have to drink last night?"
Everyone laughed at her scolding her boyfriend before turning on Tanya.
Breakfast was quite enjoyable. Everyone was basically tired and not too many questions were asked towards Harry, Ron and Draco, especially from Theo.
After everyone had finished cleaning their dishes, a.k.a. dumping them into the sink to leave until they had no choice but to clean them, Harry, Ron and Draco ran up to their room to write a letter to Ron's father and re-read Sirius's will. Hermione had tried to go up with them, but was stopped by her friends, with Theo waiting for her in the living room.
"So what's the deal on them?"
"Are they single?"
"Why do Draco and Ron have different hair color?"
"Oh my god, Zelia, how could you have kept them under wraps for so long?"
"Zelia? Don't you mean Thera?"
"Guys, guys, just shut up for a sec!" Hermione put her hands up. The girls stopped their talking at once. "I need your help."
"What is it Thera?" Tanya asked. She put her hand on her friend's shoulder in a comforting way.
"Theo wants me to say that I love him, butIcan't! I don't know what to do and I think that he's going to break up with me if I don't, especially with the guys here…" Hermione continued to rant, refusing to cry, for the next five minutes. Within that time, she didn't notice Shari walk into the next room.
"Do you love her?"
"Yes."
"Then why do you want to let go?"
She was like nothing I'd ever known
Her eyes shine like diamonds in a field of snow
The way destiny led her to me
Made me feel like life was now complete
And now days have passed
The nights gone by
You can see the glow slowly fading from her eyes
Though she denies her pain and her dismay
Know I said this to her anyway
Don't have to stay with someoneThat makes you cry
You'll end up killing all the love you have inside
Can't hope to see the sun
If you don't open your eyes
Girl don't let real love pass you by
Boys II Men