A/N: For my dear friend the stargate time traveler who helped me with this idea. A few mentions of sexual themes in this chapter but not detailed!

Chapter Seven

Flirting

When Esmerelda woke up her head felt like she had been hit with a hammer. She had a pounding headache from her hangover and in that moment she wondered why she had thought it would be a good idea to drink so much. Without magic she needed normal medicine but she knew her parents would not get her any as way of punishment.

She laid low for most of the day, her head aching to much to do anything to productive and her stomach hurting from worry. She knew how much trouble she would be in for what she had done. She wished she could just get it over with but her parents were working so she would never get her punishment until the night.

She was therefore thankful when they walked in her room later that night, now they had given her a chance to get over her drunk state.

"Never in my days would I expect something like this from you" her father started of by saying, pacing her bedroom as he spoke.

"I am sorry father" Esmerelda told him with a sigh.

"What on earth were you thinking?" Mrs Hallow asked her glaring at her angrily.

"I was depressed because of my absent powers and I just thought it would help, a lot of people drink so I didn't see the harm it would do" Esmerelda replied with a shrug as she didn't know what else to tell them.

"A lot of people are not you Esmerelda, you are a Hallow, what kind of example are you setting getting so drunk you need a stranger to bring you home?" Mr Hallow asked and Esmie looked at him confused. She couldn't remember that part.

"I don't know what I was thinking I am sorry" Esmerelda told them hoping they would just give her the punishment and leave.

"Do you know how dangerous your behaviour is? You could have ended up in a gutter, being mugged or worse you could have gone to far with a boy" Mrs Hallow told her and Esmerelda looked at her more confused. Was she saying the worst thing was she could have had sex or being raped because she wasn't sure what she meant.

"I didn't do anything with anyone!" Esmerelda told her parents annoyed

"If you did you wouldn't remember though would you?" Mr Hallow replied and Esmerelda rolled her eyes.

"I didn't do anything, why do you not believe me?" Esmerelda said knowing she might of being drink and had a foggy memory but she knew she hadn't done anything as she was so sick she remembered leaving the club.

"Well you are lucky you didn't, we will not tolerate this behaviour!" Mrs Hallow shouted making Esmerelda's head pound more as she did so and Esmie subtlely touched her forehead trying to stop the pain without them noticing.

"You think it is clever to get drunk? Well then you face the consequences afterwards, you can deal with your headache yourself, you don't deserve any medical treatment" Mr Hallow told her and Esmerelda wished she had magic so she could curse them.

Esmerelda sighed. She knew already they were not going to help her but it didn't help the pain in her head.

"You will not be allowed to leave the house again unless we say so" Mrs Hallow told her as she glared at her.

"What? That is not fair, what about when I want to see Ethel and Sybil?" Esmerelda asked horrified she would not be able to see them until the summer if they had their way.

"You should have thought about that before making a fool of yourself" Mr Hallow told her before he left with his wife and Esmie was left to be shocked by their punishment. It was to harsh and she would not accept it.

Despite this her parents did not up the security and it was not long until she was out again. Her first experience being drunk did not make her learn her lesson. In fact, apart from the headache, she had enjoyed herself and that is something she had not done in a long while. She was enjoying behaviouring like a teenager for once in her life. She learned to be smarter and not get so drunk she couldn't get home, just a little tipsy was fine but with alcohol in her system she found she was more confident in a way she would never usually be. Some people became drunk with alcohol or obnoxious. Esmerelda became a flirt.

"Are you not going to buy me a drink?" Esmerelda said to a dark haired guy one day. He was tall with dark hair. The boy smiled at her and shook his head.

"You can't buy it yourself?" he asked her a bit louder than normal because of the music in the club.

"I am eighteen but I left my ID at home so they won't serve me" Esmerelda lied and the boy smiled as well not believing her.

"Oh well that is to bad, I can't buy us any, I am only seventeen myself" he told Esmerelda "Plus I think you have had enough" he told her able to tell she was drunk already. He wasn't exactly sober himself.

Esmerelda did not know what came over her in that moment but suddenly she found herself throwing herself at the stranger and kissing him. No-one in the club reacted as it was such a common thing for people to do. Before the boy could so much as decide whether or not to kiss her back she dragged him out of the club.

"What are you doing?" he asked her confused.

"Mmmm let's go back to my place, we can't kiss in there it is to crowded" Esmerelda told him. She had gone a bit far with her drinking today and was more drunk than usual.

"Oh you have your own place even though you are no older than me?" the guy asked her as she dragged him further down the street.

"Well no but mummy and daddy don't mind me having guests" Esmerelda told him lying to him as that was a huge no in her house.

"Oh really that is unusual" the stranger told her. "My parents don't let me bring girls home, they are strict" the boy told her.

"What is your name?" Esmie asked him as she dragged him further down the street.

"Cory" he told her and Esmerelda smiled as she told him her name.

Cory being just as drunk as the female and being a teenage boy was not exactly going to say no to a girl inviting him to her place. Esmerelda sneaked them in easily and then led him upstairs before kissing him hard.

"Mmmm nice place" he told Esmerelda looking around in between kisses.

Esmerelda smiled and opened her bedroom door pushing him in. If she had being sober she would not have any of this confidence and would probably be horrified about what she was doing but she wasn't thinking properly. In fact if she was sober she wouldn't be so reckless as she knew her parents would never let her forget this.

It didn't take long for the two teenagers to be kissing on the bed and Esmerelda was unbuttoning the boy's shirt in between kisses and just as she reached the last button her door flew open.

"ESMERELDA WHAT ON EARTH?" Mr Hallow shouted as he found his teenager daughter getting sexual with a boy. He walked over to the boy and tugged on his arm.

"DAD LEAVE HIM ALONE" Esmie slurred but was to drunk to actually do anything about it.

"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE AND IF I EVER LAY EYES ON YOU AGAIN YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY TEETH LEFT" he told the boy as he dragged him down the stairs and out of the door by his arm.

"OWW you are hurting me!" Cory told the man as he tried to button up his top as he was dragged

"IF YOU COME ANYWHERE NEAR MY DAUGHTER AGAIN YOU WILL FEEL MORE PAIN THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE" Mr Hallow told him as Mrs Hallow watched him drag the boy out and then come back in slamming the door so hard that the hinges broke.

"What is going on Triton?" Mrs Hallow asked confused.

Mr Hallow didn't reply but stormed up the stairs, ready to punish his daughter. This time she had gone way to far.