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Chapter 22 | Nicole

Edited: 2/9/2021

Nicole.

I had to admit, being reunited with Amy felt pretty awesome.

Having Elena in my life now, was...different. 

It had been about three weeks and it was the night of that Christmas Party. 

We were all three invited, but none of us had dates.

We decided to do that on purpose. 

Amy dropped her date with Ron, even though Elena and myself tried to talk her out of it.

No luck.

"Girls night then?" smiled Elena, grinning over at Amy as I chuckled from Elena's makeup mirror as I finished pinning up my hair. With a muffled agreement from Amy, we heard a knock at the door.

The three of us exchanged looks as Elena rose and waved myself and Amy into the bathroom.

 We shut the door completely and stood there, attempting to be as quiet as possible. Hell yeah, we were ease dropping.

"Who is it?" I mouthed, as Amy shrugged and we both pressed our ears against the door and heard the entire conversation, it was rather short, but it was worth it;

"...Elena, may I have a quick word?" came Draco's voice.

"S-Sure." stuttered Elena, obviously letting the man in, because we heard the door close. "What's up Draco?"

"I wanted to speak to you about Black."

I swallowed hard as Amy looked up at me. 

That's when I realized Amy was on her knees and letting me stand above her so we both could hear the conversation, I grinned at her childness, but then pressed my ear further against the door as the conversation pushed on.

"What about her?" asked Elena, I could tell she was slightly nervous.

"Has Parkinson had any luck?" He asked.

"Its kind of hard to get close to a person that barley lets you speak to them." Elena, pointed out.

"I've seen the three of you hang out a few times these past few weeks...ever sense Black stood me up at the Three Broomsticks, I haven't really been fond of her." explained Draco, that's when I heard the sheets on one of the beds move, he had sat down.

I felt my face change expression when I remembered Elena telling Draco I had 'stood him up' at the Three Broomsticks. 

We had to lie to him, or it wouldn't have ended well.

"What the hell do you want Draco, I have things to do..." snapped Elena, she was much closer now, it sounded like she was right outside the door.

"What's your hurry? You always have time for me..." came Draco's voice, as I smirked at that line. He was so full of himself. "...I was actually coming up here to ask if you could save me a dance at the Party?"

"Save you a dance?" asked Elena, nervously. "You're not even invited."

"That may be so, but I have my ways...and I would love for you to save me a dance." He repeated, as we heard footsteps coming toward the bathroom door, and that's when Amy and I froze up for a split second, and then flung ourselves as quietly as we could into the shower and quickly, but as silently as possible, pulled the curtain shut as the door was opened.

Amy and I starred at each other as we continued to listen quietly. 

I pressed my finger against my lips as we heard Elena speak.