She is an odd one, but most Mudbloods were. This one, especially so. She was from Beaubatons, but American, which confused us all when she first arrived here. She didn't have the French-ness that the other girls have, that certain je ne sais quoi that has all of us blokes in the dungeons following them around like we were lead by some string about two meters or so behind.
But this girl - Adrienne of all the bloody names out there - she just irks me. Even my mates pick on me, joking 'Adrienne and Adrian, a perfect match'.
Yeah, like I would sully myself with a Mudblood, much less an American Mudblood.
It all went sideways that day in Astronomy class; it was weird because it was all the sixth years going to what is usually our late night - and, honestly, our semi-makeout - class in the middle of the day. To make it worse, that hag Trewlawney was there smoking us out with her sickening sweet incense muttering about 'the rise of darkness' and 'loss of the innocent'.
To me, it was blarney. Adrienne, on the other hand, hung on to the hag's every word like it was gospel. Then once the old bat shut her trap, the Muddy Yank was singing to herself something about a wench named Lucy and a sky full of diamonds.
When it finally came time for us to see what we were meant to, Professor Sinistra waved her wand towards the open part of the tower, constructing some type of shield. "Normally, it is not advised to look directly into a full solar eclipse," she prattled on. "But this," she motioned above our heads, "will deflect any dangerous rays. Now, if you would turn your eyes towards the heavens-"
She lost me there, but my eyes drifted upwards, like my classmates. I felt a pair of eyes on me instead of where we were supposed to be looking, so I quickly scanned the circular room finding Adrienne looking directly at me.
She sauntered over, her hips swaying - as all the Beaubatons birds do - and when she reached me I noticed she was humming to herself still. "Once upon a time, there was love in my life…" She sat herself down next to me, showing more grace in that one fluid motion that I had seen since her arrival. "Total eclipse of the heart…"
Her voice could only be called angelic. Something I didn't expect from the American witch. I looked in her eyes, they showed a bright aquamarine blue, nearly as clear as the sky above us.
"Bright eyes…" her ethereal voice trails off. "Adrian Pucey, you should ask me to the Yule Ball."
How have I not noticed this witch before? Her blond hair falls around her nearly symmetrical face in a halo of ringlets. She isn't tall, I stand head and shoulders above her, but that would be perfect for dancing.
I don't notice my head nod, nor recognize the words as they escape my lips, "Yes, Adrienne. Will you do me the honors of being my date to the Yule Ball?"
"Adrian, silly. Of course, I will. See," she points upwards to the sun, completely in shadow, "it was foretold in the eclipse. We'll be holding on forever."
Her body nestles next to mine, and I instinctively wrap my arm around her almost protectively. "What else does the eclipse tell?" I implore her.
"That the light will return after the darkness," she says with a tone of complete knowledge as the sun began to reappear after the moments of the night that we just had.
A/N:
Mentions of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from the Beatles and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.
THC/The Houses Competition.
House - Slytherin
Class - HoH
Prompts - [Event] Total Solar Eclipse
Drabble
Word Count - 603