A group of four Beauxbatons boys made its way across the room and up to the table where Briana, Draco, Alex and Chuck sat together. Draco shot them glares as Chuck and Alex watched the boys intently. Briana was confused.

"Can we help you with something?," Draco asked as they approached his best friend.

"I'm not here to talk to you, I'm here to talk to this fine lady," said one of them in a thick French accent, gesturing to Briana.

Recognizing their accent to be French, Briana stepped in, speaking their language, "Oui, que voulez-vous?" (Yes, what would you like?)

The main boy who spoke before got a delighted look on his face, then replied, "Vousparlez très bien français. C'est très impressionnant. Mon nom est Christian. Et le vôtre?" (You speak French very well. That's impressive. My name is Christian. Yours?)

"Mon nom est Briana. Pourquoi venez-vousme parler?" (My name is Briana. Why have you come to talk to me?)

"What are you guys saying?", Chuck wondered.

"Since when did you speak French, Bri?!", Draco asked her.

But they were ignored. Instead, Christian just answered Briana's question, much to Chuck's relief, in English.

"I was just wondering if you would like to join us for the night, spending time with much better company...", he threw a dirty look at Draco and the others.

Chuck and Draco tried to control their tempers.

Briana replied, "Thank you for that offer, but I'm rather enjoying the company I have now."

"I don't think you know what you'll be missing, my dear."

"I think she knows that she'll be missing a lot of nonsense and pointless shit," Draco cut across.

"You should learn to keep your mouth shut, you filthy boy," Christian glared at him.

"You should learn to stay home in France, you idiotic git," Draco stood up, glaring back at him.

Alex and Briana both began to worry. Alex tried to reason, "Hey, there's no reason to fight about it. Draco, calm down, whatever-your-name-is, just leave and we can avoid all this nonsensical arguing."

Christian shot a dirty look all across the table, then left with the three friends of his.

"We could not get rid of them fast enough. Thanks for that, Alex," Chuck said, drinking the last of his drink.

"I didn't like them very much...", Briana commented.
"See what we mean about other boys though? Who knows what would've happened if you'd gone with them?", Chuck said.

"Well, now, I don't think you can be thatjudgmental, I mean we don't even know what they were doing or are going to do," pointed out Alex.

"Alex. They were Beauxbatons. Remember the Beauxbaton boys from 4th year?", Draco said.

"...yeah, I guess that's true. But still, those Beauxbaton boys could have been completely different."

"Who knows. When it's said and done, Briana made a good decision to stay with people she knows," Draco stated.

"But she just met us tonight," Alex said.

"But she's known Draco for years," Chuck finalized.

Briana cut in, "You guys, shush please! I'm here, so that's all that really matters, yeah?"

The boys all nodded and sat around for a minute.

"What do you guys wanna do now?", Chuck asked them, looking around at his friends.

"Take me around," Briana suddenly said, standing up.

"What?", Alex asked.

"You guys, the three of you, take me around to your favorite places here in town."

"I'm greatly offended that you said 'the three of you', but I still think it's a great idea," a bored-looking Blaise suddenly appeared behind Briana.

"There you are! Well, it's not my fault you disappear for an hour or two!"

"Come on then! Stop chit-chatting, we've got many places to take you, Bri," Draco took her hand and led her out of the club with the rest following closely behind, picking up their coats on their way out.

The cold night air hit their skin as they all stood at the end of the block, looking around. Briana turned around and smiled at the four boys. Her four friends.

"What are you smiling at?", Blaise questioned her as he buttoned up his coat.

"You guys," she answered simply. "So where are we going first?"

"Let's go to my favorite place first," Chuck said, starting to lead the way, taking Briana with him.

"No objections," Alex said, following.

"Alright, well let's get a move on then," Blaise walked too, pulling Draco with him.

"Calm yourself, Blaise. The night is still young," Briana said.

The group of five walked through the streets of their hometown, together and happy.

They may not have known it yet, but this would be the first of many great nights that would build their long, durable friendship.