Spawn of Azkaban

Chapter Twenty-Five

CW: There are some heavy topics throughout the chapter, including death and implications of suicide. Please don't read if these would be triggering for you! I will put a little summary at the end of the chapter. Love you all!

Song for the chapter: if you're meant to come back— Justin Jesso

Cedric ended up getting first place for the task. This lead to Hufflepuff throwing a huge party in their common room. The last thing Bianca wanted to do was attend the party. She knew it would look bad if she didn't attend the victory party for one of her best friends. To the Malfoys and Blacks especially, looks were everything. Bianca ditched her family's views long ago, but some were so deep-rooted, she couldn't seem to shake them.

So Bianca went into the dormitory with Juniper, Amy, Kate, and Elizabeth. The girls all began getting ready while Bianca lay on her bed. She didn't feel like getting all ready, because she didn't plan on spending too long at the party. Amy kept begging to do her makeup but Bianca laughed her off every time. She felt bad, she wanted to be happy for Cedric and celebrate with him but she just couldn't.

"I think we're ready girls," Juni sings as she and the three younger girls observe themselves in the mirror. "Bianca come over here so we can take a picture!"

Bianca rolls off the bed and brushes her fingers through her hair a few times to detangle it. She rubs her hands over her face and forces a smile as she joins the girls. Bianca does her best acting as she switches poses and makes faces in the picture. What would fourteen-year-old Bianca do? Just act like her and they'll never know how much you've changed. She's so far gone now, it'll never work. They know. The little voice in Bianca's head was being persistent tonight.

Bianca took a second to ground herself. She was getting a lot better at it. Now she only had to get through three or four senses before she was feeling calmer.

"Okay, you guys go ahead, I need to get Bianca this hair clip she asked for," Juniper says causing Bianca to come back to the present. The three girls say bye and hurry out of the room giggling.

"I never asked for a clip," Bianca blurted out once the girls were out the door.

"No, but it's time to talk Bianca. You've been even mopier lately, what's up?" Juniper asks softly.

Bianca can't meet her eyes. "I'm fine, honestly Juni let's head down before the girls get too knackered."

"No Bianca, you're not weaseling your way out of this one. No pun intended," Juni adds the second part as an afterthought with a little smile.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Bianca asks screwing her face up in a defensive way.

"It means, you and lover boy haven't said more than five words to each other in the last month. I didn't want to bring it up the other day, I wanted to let you come to me on your own, but you never did," Juniper says with a frown. She looks bites her bottom lip as her eyes begin watering.

Bianca's heart seems to break another time, she didn't know it was even possible to have your heart turn in so many pieces this early in life. She supposed it did make sense when it felt like the weight of the world was constantly on your shoulders. Bianca stops her depressing rambling as she pulls Juniper into a tight hug. She clings onto the girl, knowing they were both hurting and just needed to hold each other right then. The silent room filled with the sounds of the girls sniffling and shallow breaths.

Bianca pulled away after a minute and stares into Juniper's tearful eyes. "I'm so sorry Juniper. I didn't want any of me and George's shit to interfere with the group. From now on I'll-"

Juniper interrupts Bianca with a scoff, "We're not mad that you two are together Bianca. We're just confused why you guys aren't together."

"What do you mean?" Bianca asks in confusion. As far as she knew, George had never said anything to anyone about their kiss.