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It had been two days since the Three Broomsticks incident, however (Y/N) found herself not even thinking about the dark-haired boy. Instead, her mind was going 54 miles per hour; thinking about how to apologize to Sam without losing her pride.
You see, (Y/N) was an extremely proud person, she refused to be wrong and accept her mistakes. She spent the cold evening after classes in the library, with a book about muggle-borns and the different struggles they faced. The girl felt incredibly bad, not believing she could have been stupid enough to think one book was enough to discriminate against one of her best friends.
Christmas was going to be soon and it would be the perfect occasion to apologize to Sam while also kind of bribing her with a gift. Her plan was flawless!
(Y/N) started going to Hogsmeade regularly, looking around with a bag full of galleons in her hand; she was usually alone and no one really wanted to get near her. She wondered why but brushed it off when she saw a beautiful ring that she was sure Sam would love.
The ring was black, it had a black stone in the middle and a silver snake going around it and your finger if you put it on. (Y/N) knew how proud Sam was of her house, so she decided to buy the ring.
It was a bit expensive, but she had brought more than enough money. (Y/N) ran back to the castle, slowing down suspiciously when someone saw her.
Halfway there, she bumped into someone dropping the small box that had the ring in it. She gave the "stranger" a glare, standing up and dusting off her clothes.
"I'm really sorry, I wasn't seeing where I was going", the boy looked oddly familiar but he had still bumped into her and damaged Sam's present. The boy reached down to grab the dark box and extended his hand to give it to the girl.
(Y/N) scoffed and grabbed it, "Yeah you can say that again."
"Wait a minute, I know you! Remember me? I'm Leo, we had Potions in the first year. Merlin you look so different, what happened to your hair, and- where are Louis and Sam?" (Y/N) did recognize the boy. They'd been partners in Potions and he had sat in her compartment.
"They're-" she coughed awkwardly, trying to come up with something. "They're not really with me right now. Decided to stay in Hogwarts."
"Oh, and are you alone? Maybe we should hang out. We didn't really get to know each other, and you look so changed! We should really catch up."
Leo had already started walking towards Hogsmeades again, so with a sigh and reluctant steps, the girl followed him. They went to the Three Broomsticks, by Leo's petition, it was his first time at Hogsmeade and he really wanted to try a butterbeer.
The two-third years sat down facing each other, and (Y/N) found herself actually enjoying his company. He was a talkative person, something she liked and disliked at the same time. The afternoon went by fairly quickly, and soon enough (Y/N) was back in the Slytherin common room, engulfed by several blankets and with a hot chocolate she stole from the kitchens in her hand.
From her place, she could see her friends laughing and playing around, missing their laughs. She knew she'd fucked up, and seeing them so... happy without her made her heart ache. It was something so stupid to be sad about, she had brought this on herself, she thought as she gave the hot chocolate the first sip.
She almost cried when the brown liquid hurt her tongue, one more tragedy in the list. She was so frustrated with herself at being so afraid of confrontation, and so pathetic, so powerless. Throwing the blankets aside and leaving the mug on the table, she went up the stairs towards the girls' dorms. Her eyes went from her boots to where her friends (or ex-friends) were sitting, trying to see if they had seen her and would approach her.
Oh, they did see her alright, but instead of an invitation, she received a glare from Sam and was ignored by the two boys. With hurried steps she tried to get away from there as quickly as she could, throwing herself to bed and taking a book with shaky hands, wanting to distract herself.
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The next trip to Hogsmeade was a week later, and it had been very lovely. Well, except for almost being a victim of one of the Marauders' jokes, if you could even call them that.
(Y/N) had been with Leo most of the day, and lucky for her it seemed Louis, Regulus and Sam stayed behind. The two-third years spent a good time together, Leo was really entertaining and talkative, making up for (Y/N)'s lack of jokes.
During this trip, the girl had bought more gifts for her friends, hoping this would be enough to forgive her. For Louis, she bought a case for his wand, since he was always losing his and almost breaking it at some point. The gift for Regulus was the hardest one to choose, and in the end, decided to buy him a cool communicating device.
It was a pair of mirrors that were magically connected. This would allow them to communicate with each other whilst in different locations, especially during the summer. She also ended up buying something for Leo even if she hadn't known him for so long, she sneaked into Honeydukes and bought lots of different kinds of candies.
She also bought him an Auto-Answer Quill, a quill that when it touches a question on a piece of parchment it writes the answer instantly. Finally, she bought wrapping paper with different Christmas designs.
On their way back to the castle, (Y/N) walked him to the Ravenclaw common room. She then made her way to her own common room, carrying lots of bags and a smile on her face; she tried to not glance at her friends, hanging out in the common room once again.
"Are you sure we can't talk to her?" Regulus whispered to Louis, slightly intimidated by Sam's intense glare towards (Y/N).
Louis shook his head, "They should work this out on her own. Going with her would just, like, mess this up even more."
The two boys missed the (Y/H/C) haired girl, but objectively Sam was right and (Y/N) wasn't. As long as it concerned Louis, he would just lock them in a room and don't let them out until they made up.
But he couldn't, that would just make things worse because he didn't know if (Y/N) had just given up on them (which wouldn't be so weird, considering the smile she had when she entered).
It would be Christmas soon, and Louis decided he would talk to her so they could go back to how they were.
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(Y/N) had been trying to wrap up the presents for her friends for almost half an hour, it was so annoying and she wanted to just rip the paper. She was sitting below the big tree in the courtyard, no one really paid her any attention, which she was grateful for.
She was just putting the tape in the last present, which was Leo's quill. It was extremely difficult because the sharp tip would rip the paper, but she had finally done it. Someone sitting beside her frightened her and the wrapping paper got ripped.
She glanced to see who was beside her and found Sirius Black, the most insufferable human in Hogwarts. "Yes?", she asked.
"Ooh, what's this?" He grabbed the quill, "An auto-answer quill? Are you planning to cheat in this year's exams or what?"
(Y/N) took the quill back, with so much force she nearly broke it. "What do you want, Black?"
"So I can't talk with my friends now?"
"We're not friends."
"So, what are you doing?", he saw all the other messily wrapped presents. "Presents? Is one of them for me?", he took Sam's wrapped present and shook it, trying to hear what was in it.
(Y/N) took the present back, "No. Why don't you go bother someone else?"
"And why would I do that? You're fun to annoy."
"Where are your friends? Go with them and leave me alone."
"They're working on some... Astronomy project. It's really boring and I don't care about it."
(Y/N) chuckled mockingly, "Okay, Mr. Too Cool For School."
Sirius stayed quiet for a moment, trying to come up with a good insult. "Okay, Ms. I still smell like fish after two years."
"That was so... lame."
Sirius' nose and ears turned red from embarrassment, he expected her to scoff, roll her eyes and go away, not breaking out laughing. "I was serious. You smell."
"You were Sirius?", she smirked.
It was now his turn to scoff (Remus had discovered the resemblance between the two words and had been annoying him for it for the last two weeks), roll his eyes, and go away, finally leaving (Y/N) alone, back to trying to wrap up the damn pen.
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