Spawn of Azkaban

Chapter Sixteen

Song for the chapter: Sad Day— FKA twigs

Bianca and Juniper ended up spending the night on the floor of the boys' room. They had drunk a few more spiked butterbeer and sat around talking well into the early morning. Neither of the girls felt like getting detention for being out past curfew.

When Bianca wakes up the next morning, she feels fine. Her body is sore from all the dancing, but she doesn't have a hangover. She glances at the clock on the wall to see that it's one in the afternoon. She rubs her eyes, feeling silly for sleeping in so late.

"About time sleeping beauty," Fred says from his bed. Juniper was also sitting on his bed and George and Lee were on their beds. Everyone seemed to be looking at her expectantly.

"We almost went to lunch without you," Lee says. "You're lucky it's your birthday Lestrange." Bianca cringes slightly at the use of her last name but decides to brush it off.

"You guys could've gone without me," she yawns. She pulls herself up from her makeshift bed on the floor. It was just a thing blanket laid on the hard floor and a pillow and quilt, but she slept great on it. She joins George on his bed since it was the closest.

"No we had to give you your gifts," Juniper grins pulling a small box wrapped in sparkling green paper from behind her. She tosses it to Bianca who catches it with ease.

"I thought you weren't getting me anything," Bianca defends.

"No one said that," Lee replies sassily. He tosses Bianca a tin of cookies. "I didn't wrap it though."

"That's alright Lee, thank you very much," Bianca smiles at the boy.

Fred hands her a box wrapped similarly to Juniper's box. Bianca guesses that Juniper did the wrapping there. Finally, George gives her a large box, this one was wrapped in brown paper that had a texture similar to a newspaper. They encourage her to open her presents and she grins shyly while unwrapping each of them. Juniper had gotten her a polaroid camera similar to the one she had. Bianca almost cried when she unwrapped it.

"You bitch, I know this was expensive," she says giving Juniper a watery smile.

"Don't go all soft on me now," Juniper counters but she too has tears in her eyes. "I just wanted to be the one who got you the best present. Well, and I love you I s'pose."

"I already got her the best present," Lee says interrupting the girls' little moment.

Everyone laughed at Lee then Bianca continued opening her presents. Fred gave her an assortment of the prank products he and George were working on. He also gave her black licorice snaps from Honeydukes. Bianca loved black licorice, and all of her friends thought she was weird for it.

Bianca opened George's last. He got her another journal and a quill that had ink that disappeared when she tapped it with her wand. George had been working on it, so she could write in her diary and no one could pry.

"Thank you, Georgie! I love it," Bianca gushes pulling George into a side hug.

"I got you one more thing," he smirks pulling away from the hug. He pulls another box from behind his back. This one is larger but wrapped in the same brown paper.

Bianca tears it open to reveal a white clothing box. Her heart begins racing a little as she gets an idea of what's inside. She slowly opens the box to reveal a black velvet material. This time she doesn't hold back the happy tears that stream down her face.

"George no- it was so expensive- bloody hell how?" she stutters pulling the dress out of the box so her friends could see.

"I have a feeling we're missing an important piece of this story," Fred mutters to Juniper and Lee, who had come to sit on Fred's bed as well.