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The morning after the first task, Zinnia felt the uneasy sting in her stomach remembering the events from the night before. Not only did the whole situation make her throat feel dry, but she had awoken fully clothed in her outfit from the night before, which raised a series of questions from Hermione.
As the two walked to breakfast Zinnia was berated by questions from Hermione about what happened last night and where she went. She simply shrugged them off as the bushy haired girl lept from either side of her. When they approached the great hall full of the morning rush of hungry students, Hermione pulled Zinnia's are right before she could enter
"I'm serious Z, what happened last night" she stared intently into the eyes of the tired girl. Zinnia looked around in a sigh and stared into the great hall, at that moment she spotted Harry idly sipping his morning juice at the Gryffindor table. Hermione looked in the direction of her gaze and gasped slightly.
"Harry? Did something happen between you two?" she muttered out, drawing back the attention of Zinnia's eyes.
"Not right now hermione" she softly said back to her, looking at her feet in a sort of shame. Hermione let out a sympathetic sigh for the girl, even if she didn know what was wrong, she knew it wasn't good and she had to comfort her friend. Hermione gently took her hand and led her to where the boys were sitting.
There were no words to describe how utterly awkward it was sitting at that table. Hermione and Ron greeted each other niceley, however Harry and Zinnia shared an emotionless head nod at each other. The group sat in silence for a bit as the boys continued to eat and the girls stacked their plates.
"Why do you two look like you were in The Eagles together?" Ron obliviously asked Harry and Zinnia with a mouthful of toast when he finally noticed the coldness of the table. He was eagerly met by a foot to the shin from Hermione who gave him a scornful look. He winced and muttered a quiet 'what?' before going back to eating his toast.
Hermione reached across the table to pick up the newspaper, she aggressively opened it and started speedreading the daily news. Zinnia was poking around the cereal in her bowl when interrupted by the flirtatious tone of the Patil twins.
"Hi Harry," they uttered in synchronicity as they passed the heedless boy. Harry returned a smile to them and then caught the gaze of Zinnia. His face fell immediately to a shy frown as he missed the ease between them.
He turned around shyly to look at the hall and catching the eye of Cho, he sarcastically thought that the timing could not be any better as he spilled his pumpkin juice down his front. He looked back at Zinnia to find her crestfallen and avoided his leer with uneasy eyes. His stares immediately interrupted by the sound of paper rustling and a scoff from Hermione.
"Look at this!" she loudy remarked as she aggressively removed the paper from her view in front of her face. "I can't believe it, she's done it again!"
