Dinner came and went and there was still no sign of Draco or Gracie. Layken had taken to pacing the common room in her worry, to the annoyance of everyone else.
"You'll wear a hole in the carpet if you keep pacing like that." Theo laughed.
Layken dropped onto the sofa and began to chew her nails, a far off look in her eyes. Blaise sighed before sitting beside her, sliding his arm around her shoulders.
"You won't do anyone any favours if you're riddled with anxiety. They'll be fine. You know what Draco's like, he can talk his way out of anything." Blaise said.
"Too right I can." A voice drawled from the door and Layken whipped her head around to see her two smiling best friends. Layken leapt from the sofa and rushed over to the pair, throwing her arms around them. Only once she realised they were really there in front of her did she pull back out of their embrace, arms crossed and a stern expression plastered on her face.
"Do you realise you could have been expelled?" She asked.
"Yeah but we weren't." Gracie laughed.
"But you could have been." Layken replied.
"Yes but we weren't. That's the main thing." Draco laughed.
"Those two aren't worth it! I don't want you two getting into any more fights with them, they're just rotten." Layken said.
"We won't, we promise don't we Gracie?" Draco said, looking over his shoulder at Gracie with his hand on his heart.
"Promise." Gracie smiled.
"Yeah whatever." Layken laughed, swatting Draco's arm as he draped it over her shoulders.
They settled themselves on the sofas in the middle of the room as they recounted what happened in Dumbledore's office.
"I bet Dumbledore wasn't best pleased you two battered his golden boys." Blaise smirked as Layken grimaced.
"No he wasn't." Gracie laughed. "I genuinely thought he was gonna kill us."
"He was really furious. Screaming about how he was going to expel us and how we weren't welcome in his school. When Snape told him he couldn't expel us without expelling the Potter creeps I thought the old codger was going to explode his face was so red." Draco recounted, tears in his eyes as he fought to stop laughing.
"So what happened?" Theo asked. "Surely he didn't let you go without punishment."
"You're joking aren't you?" Gracie laughed. "Of course he didn't. We've got detention every night for the next two weeks."
"What about Potters? What happened to them?" Layken asked.
"Well he had to give them detention too but we all know they won't have to do it." Draco shrugged.
Layken internally cringed. What was it about these boys that made them so 'special' in the eyes of the wizarding world? They were exactly the same as her. The same as any other young witch or wizard all over the world. Just because their parents were murdered didn't make them any more special. She didn't get any special treatment so why should they? It was all so unfair in Layken's eyes and she didn't like it one bit.