"And I told Sage that she should cry in front of you, but she's too nice." Olive sighed as the small group of Hufflepuffs made their way out of the school, to Hogsmeade. "No. I'm just a decent human being." Sage laughed. "Cedric. If Sage had of cried in front of you, would you have forgiven her?" Olive turned to Cedric, who was staring off into the distance.
"Is that Athena?" He squinted, and Sage followed his eyes to Athena, who had locked lips with Blaise Zabini. The two second years were sitting in a space between the pillars, tongues in each others mouthes, it was disturbing.
"Oh. My. God." Sage's jaw dropped open. "She is snogging a boy?!" Sage took a step towards them, but Cedric grabbed her arm. "No, Sage. Let her live." He laughed.
"Cedric are you seriously telling me this is okay. She's twelve!" Sage tried to free herself from his grasp, but he was too strong. "Fine. But I will be speaking with her later." She scoffed, exiting into the outside.
"And isn't he friends with that terrible Draco Malfoy." Sage rambled on, and on about Athena and Blaise, all the way to Hogsmeade. "And he was so smug. Did you see how smug he was?"
"Yes, Sage. He was smug." Rowan chuckled. "I'd be pretty smug." Harper grinned. "Don't tell me you want to snog my twelve year old sister, too." She growled. "No." He raised his hands in the air as a plea for his innocence.
"Are you sure you're not just jealous that your sister's making out with boys, and you haven't even had your first kiss?" Jill raised her eyebrows cheekily. "Oh, please. I don't need a boyfriend." She rolled her eyes. "Speaking of, how's your girlfriend, Cedric?" Harper snickered. "Not my girlfriend, never was."
"Butterbeer?" Cedric asked when they arrived at the bar, and everyone nodded. "I'm kind of bored of butterbeer." Olive rested her head on the table as their drinks arrived. "What?" Rowan scoffed.
"We always drink it, we need another interesting drink. Add more variety." She concluded. "There's Hogshead." Sage suggested. "I said a new drink, not a new bar." She groaned. "Athena can go to Hogsmeade next year.." Sage changed the subject.
"Oh yeah, that's great." Olive smiled. "No. She's going to bring that Blaise Zabini to the three broomsticks on a date, or maybe they'll go to Hogshead, it's dark and quiet. Good place for a snogging date."
"You're obsessed." Harper rolled his eyes. "What if you and I were caught snogging by Athena? Do you think she'd be as pedantic." Harper laughed. "Why? do you want to snog Sage?" Cedric scoffed, his body visibly tensing up at the idea. "What- I never said that." Harper frowned.
"Just checking." The two boys looked at each other for an uncomfortable amount of time, both silent. "Anywayy.. Who wants to go to Honeydukes?" Sage tried to ease the tension that had set at their table.
"I'll go." Cedric got up, following Sage out of the bar. "What was that, Cedric?" Sage sighed as they wandered down the street. "Honeydukes is there." Cedric pointed behind them as Sage kept walking.
"I don't want to go anymore, let's sit down." She kept walking. "So.. What was that about?" She repeated. "I don't know." Cedric shrugged. "You do know. Are you still mad at Harper?" She led them over to a large tree that was off the side of the street.
"No, i'm not. I was just asking. You were all over each other just a week ago, can you blame me." Cedric sat down, leaning against the tree. "Cedric, we've been over this." Sage raked her fingers through her hair.
"So you were trying to piss me off? Then why was he going along with it, what was his motive? Simple. He likes you." Cedric told her, and she scoffed. "Oh, please. You can't honestly believe that."
