Red Wine - White Linen | D.M

10

I suddenly wake up loud knocking on my door, I quickly sit up and look around. Tissues, blood soaked tissues. Lots of them.

A voice came from the other side of the door. "Wake the fuck up Keaton" along with the sound of the handle moving. I made one quick motion and swiped everything off of my bed. I couldn't be bothered to use the nose bleed excuse again, Especially to Pansy, she knows better. I watch as she enters as if it's her own room. "Did I say come in!?"

"No, but I pretended you did." She takes a looks around the room. "Why are you sleeping anyway?"

I look outside, dark. "What time is it?"

"Six o'clock, dinner time, we need to go to the hall."

She tugs on my hand. I flop back down on the pillow and pull the covers over my face. "Tell them I'm sick, I've got a bug and I'm stuck in bed."  She grabs the covers and tries to pull them away from me.

"But your not!"

"Obviously, but they don't know that!"

"Anyway you can't! You know you have to come, they won't let you stay!" She pulls harder.

I stay still for a minute, thinking.
"But what if I was actually sick, Tell them they can look to see if I'm in the common room, I won't even leave."

The door swings wide open again. "Please can you hurry up, I'm ravenous here!" Theo says, now stood in the doorway eyeing me up suspiciously.

"Fine, but it's your fault if they come searching for you." She huffs, "I'll be back after, be ready, or atleast out of bed!"

I smile knowing I've gotten my way. "Shut the door on the way out will you, thank you!" I shoo her off with my hand.

Theo frowns, "I thought you said you had this under control Pans! This does not look under control, she's not even coming to dinner!" She shoves him out the door and turns back towards me "goodbye, see you soon." Blows me a kiss and shuts the door before I can listen to anymore of the conversation. I lay back down.

I try to nap for a while until deciding it was useless and made myself get up. Pansy had told me before that on Friday nights the Slytherin group liked to drink together and play a few games or just hang out. She said how I was now a part of this said group and it was mandatory to join in. I wasn't complaining though, it sounded like fun.

I walk into the bathroom, take off my shirt and assess the damage I made earlier to myself. I decide it was 'fine' enough to go without any medical intervention, and continued to shower and get dressed. I went back to my bed for a while until I got too bored and ventured into the main common room.

I walk out into the dimly lit room, it still somehow gives off calm, cozy vibes, even if it was dark to supposedly match the Slytherins. The first thing I noticed was the blonde boy, sat on the windowsill I was heading towards. He hadn't seemed to have noticed me yet so I stayed still, too awkward to say anything. He had the window slightly ajar and was holding a thicker looking cigarette which I atomically recognised as a joint.

"Want some." He said while taking a long drag. Although it didn't really sound like a question.

Since he obviously knew I was there I decided to sit on one of the dark emerald couches.
"How come your aloud to skip dinner?" I said.

He chuckled, "Don't be jealous just because I don't have eyes on me while I eat, be careful there, you don't want to have to be put under supervision now do we?"
He turned to face me and put his hand out offering the joint towards me. I take it.
"How longs it been now? You hitting a record or something?"