1996
HOGWARTS
Athena had teleported herself and Draco to the Astronomy Tower so they'd be able to talk a lot more comfortably. However, with the choice of topic, being comfortable was far from what they were feeling.
Draco had explained his story, the boy trying his best to explain whilst sobs escaped his mouth. Athena couldn't really do anything else other than listen and comfort him. But then, the girl was also in a state of confirmation. She was still slowly trying to process each word that has escaped his mouth about what has been occurring with her cousin.
It had been a while since he started explaining, and his breathing had started to calm down. It had only been two hours past midnight when he had finished explaining.
Draco chuckled, his head leaning against Athena's shoulder as the cold air hit his tear-dried face. "You know, this isn't the first time I'd been crying and you're there comforting me."
A small smile plastered itself on the girl's face. "Well, you seem to bottle up every single one of your emotions and we both know that you aren't going to do that around your friends."
"Yeah..." He stated softly, his eyes beginning to grow heavy. It wasn't very long until the boy had fallen asleep, to which Athena had noticed.
She carefully moved his body so that he would've been able to sleep with ease. With his head laying on her lap, Athena leaned back, her palms flat on the floor as her thoughts clouded over her head. What Draco story had made sense to her, however there were some parts that made her feel uneasy.
He mentioned that he wanted to avoid her due to his mark, but he already knew that she would find out easily, and she did. She knew that Draco was smart enough to not do something that would fail so easily, so why did he? That one part just didn't add up to her, but she couldn't ask now seeing as the topic was hard for him and he was asleep.
An exhausted sigh escaped her mouth. She just laid back there, getting comfortable as she waited for the sun to rise.
Popping a strawberry in her mouth, Athena was sitting horizontally on an armchair in the Gryffindor common room. A book was placed on her lap as a bowl of strawberries were floating beside her. Her legs hung off the chair as she flipped through the page.
Hermione was also reading a book, the girl sitting on the long couch as Harry was also reading the same Advanced Potions Book that had belonged to the 'Half Blood Prince'. Ron on the other hand, the boy sat on the floor, a visible pout on his face.
Having enough of it, the red-head broke the silence. "I don't understand how you're all reading a book on a Saturday afternoon."
Right as he finished his sentence, an owl had entered through the window, dropping a letter on Athena, Harry, and Hermione's lap. "What's this?"
The owl had flown away, Ron noticing that he didn't get an owl. "Hey... how come I didn't get a letter?"
Athena let out a scoff with a laugh as she opened the letter. "Maybe it's cause we're reading on a 'Saturday afternoon'."
Ron rolled his eyes, heading over to Harry to read the letter. "Dear Harry Potter... I'm glad to invite you to my dinner party this evening... Did you guys get the same letter?"
Athena and Hermione nodded. "I guess this is the dinner party he mentioned when we were at The Three Broomsticks."
Sitting there with a dumb look, Ron blinked. "Oh, I'm guessing he only invited smart people?"
"If that were true, he wouldn't have invited Harry-"
Athena was cut off by an item hitting her head. Letting out a yelp, Athena rubbed the spot on her head. "Ow! Who threw that and why?!"
Her eyes immediately landed on Harry, who looked at her with a grin. "Shouldn't have called me dumb then-"
Athena had moved the direction of her hand to Harry, her bowl filled with strawberry heads hitting the boy. "Suck on that, you twat-"
Harry had fired back as he threw a soft yet hard item that was on the coffee table nearby. Athena had dodged, standing up as she shut her book and placed it on her arms. She ran up the stairs to the girls dorm, a smirk on her face as she had gone seven steps up. "How are you gonna catch me now?"
Now it was Harry's turn to smirk. He placed a foot on the first step, and the whole staircase had become a slide. The girl let out a scream, her body sliding down as she landed in front of Harry's feet. "How're you gonna run away now?"
Another smirk surfaced on the girl's face. Harry was far enough for her to teleport by herself, so as she stared at him eye-to-eye, she brought her middle finger up to the boy's face, the familiar blue and black cloud covering her body.
Harry's reaction wasn't fast enough as the girl had already disappeared.
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Athena had already cleaned herself up. The girl wore a black, body-fit, thin strapped dress that had gone up to mid thigh, some matching black boots and a black, silk, long-sleeve button shirt over the top of her dress. She left the buttons undone, a small knot being tied at the end. She left her hair in its natural wavy state as it was tamed and neat.
Hermione had gone down to the common room, agreeing to meet down there. They didn't really want to head into the dinner by themselves awkwardly so they waited.
After spraying some perfume on herself, the girl had checked herself out in the mirror one more time, before heading down there.
As she entered the room, there were still some other Gryffindor students up since it wasn't any time near curfew. Almost everyone's eyes had fallen upon the girl as the sound of her boots clicking against the stairs made quite an entrance.
A small smile had graced upon her lips as she headed towards her two friends. "You guys ready?"
I was debating on whether I should put a pic of the outfit but then I know that I suck at descriptions so imma just insert ze pic-
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(without the bag fjsoe)