After the official ceremony, there was a party in the Hufflepuff common room. Jade and I had promised Teddy to come, and even though I was not in the mood to party, I put on a brave face. This wasn't about me.
When we arrived at the party, someone handed us fire whiskey shots and Jade immediately chugged hers. "Go on Vic! Let's get wasted." I normally didn't like to drown my sorrows in alcohol, but I normally wasn't this upset either.
I chugged the fire whiskey. Then I immediately regretted it, coughing as my throat burned. I turned to Jade. "How did you drink that and not die?" I asked. She shrugged. "Practice makes perfect. Let's dance." She took my hand and pulled me into the middle of the common room where the furniture had been pushed aside to creat a dance floor. Jade and I danced and did silly moves, occasionally drinking more fire whiskey, now mixed with Coca Cola. I twirled and Jade and I did the twist, laughing loudly.
I didn't know how much time had passed when Teddy tapped me on the shoulder. "Teddy! Congrats!" I yelled over the music and gave him a hug.
"Can we talk somewhere?" He asked. He had to lean down a bit and yell into my ear. I nodded and he started walking somewhere. I followed, not caring what people thought.
We left the common room and walked up some stairs. Before my brain had time to catch up with the layout of Hogwarts we were on the astronomy tower.
Teddy turned around and I could tell that he was upset about something.
"What's wrong?" I asked, I thought he would be happy to have graduated.
"After what you said this morning, I couldn't help but think about you and I've not been able to think clearly all day. It's just… I thought I knew where we stood, but now I'm confused." He said.
I wasn't sure I was following him.
"Confused about what?" I asked. He always seemed to have everything figured out.
"About us, Vic. About you and what I mean to you. I thought… " he stopped. I tilted my head.
I could usually read him like a book, but this insecure, confused version of Teddy was utterly unfamiliar.
"Teddy, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at." I had an idea of course, but that may have just been my drunk brain making things up.
"Never mind, you're drunk. We can talk tomorrow." He said and started to leave.
"Wait." I said and he stopped.
"I'm not that drunk and it's going to be hard enough to say goodbye tomorrow, so we'd better talk now. You thought we were just friends but now you're not sure?" I guessed.
He turned around.
"Vic, if you wanna be friends that's alright and I won't say anything about this ever again but I just got this feeling." He shrugged. Apparently he was as bad at talking about this stuff as I was.
"Me too." I kissed him.
AN: I forgot to mention this yesterday but I honestly don't remember if anything was said about Victoire and Teddy in Cursed Child so let's just pretend that Cursed Child is not canon.
Xx, EmbraceTheMystery