My Love // Theo Nott

three

It took me a while to fall asleep last night, but I was thankfully able to before Pansy came back into the room.

Back home, mum would tell Elio not to tell me something she had gotten me for my birthday, but he always reported back to me, and vice versa.

Maybe he was never going to be like that again. Who knows. This was the biggest secret my mom had and I spent years trying to figure it out. Mainly for Elio's sake, so he'd stop being so sad about it. But after one night of Elio talking to my mom, he knew all the answers. And he wasn't even willing to share it with me.

I woke up at 6:30 and noticed Pansy wasn't in the dorm room or the bathroom. I didn't care to look for her so I took a quick shower and started my day. I was ready by 7:30 and Pansy still hadn't shown up. I wasn't sure if I remembered the way up to the great hall so I really didn't want to walk by myself.

By 7:40 I decided to go down to the common room to see if any of the boys were down there. When I got there it was nearly empty, but I saw Pansy sitting on a couch talking to another boy. She looked up and saw me.

"Hey Aurora, this is Adrian. He's a seventh year." I did a simple head nod and he did the same. "How are you? You left the boys dorm pretty fast. I told Elio to go after you but he just rolled his eyes and kept eating his food."

"I don't even want to deal with him today."

"Do you want to head up for breakfast?"

"Um... what time does class start and breakfast end?"

"Class starts at 9 today and breakfast ends at 9 everyday."

"Even on the weekends. So if you sleep in late you'll miss breakfast." said Adrian.

"We can go whenever you want. I'm in no rush."

"Well why'd you wake up so early?" asked Pansy.

"I'm used to waking up this early in London. It actually feels kinda weird not rushing to class right now. Why are you up this early?"

"Adrian is helping me with pranking the Weasley twins."

"Who are the Weasley twins?"

"Only the biggest pranksters in this school." said Draco right behind me. He sat down next to Adrian on the couch opposite of me and Pansy.

"Is pranking a big thing here?" I asked.

"Only certain people pull the pranks. But everyone gets pranked at least once." said Adrian. I absolutely hated pranks being done on me, so I stopped talking about it. As they were talking about their plans I took out my book and started reading.

By 8:05, Adrian left to go with his friends. And at 8:15 the rest of the boys except Theo had come down so we went up for breakfast without him.

On our way I was standing behind the rest of them looking down at my feet. When I looked up to look around I saw two tall red headed twins talking to three other people that looked to be around my age. I was thinking that they were the ones Pansy wanted to pull a prank on.

When we got to the great hall I sat next to Draco who sat next to Pansy. Across from us was Elio and Blaise. Elio has literally never gone this long without apologizing to me and he has yet to even look at me.

A teacher with greasy black hair came up to us and started calling out our names to give us our timetable. When he got to Elio he froze and had a look as if he'd seen a ghost. "De Luca?" he asked.

"Yeah." said Elio.

"Who's your father?"

"Lorenzo De Luca, why?"