𝐒𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐍

Chapter One

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Draco | 1998

"You think a party, the same night of the eclipse ball is a good idea?" Theodore asked his friend as they entered their first class, pushing open the dark creaky door.

"It's our last year, I want to make a spectacle of it," Blaise shrugged his shoulders, that menacing grin curved his upper lip.

The group sat down at their usual table, joining the chattering students in conversation.

"You just want an excuse to get out of that tedious ball," Yasmine laughed, her dark hair falling over her shoulder as she sat closer to her boyfriend. Theodore placed a hand on her thigh under the table.

Blaise pointed a paintbrush at her, "That is true. That ball is mind numbing. And repetitive. And I am sick of it," He looked at his friends who he knew deep down agreed with him, "You can't sit here and tell me you'd rather spend five hours listening to the same 1800's ballroom music instead of getting drunk, celebrating our last year of school."

Yasmine's eyes glistened with temptation, her finger tapping on the paint-stained table as a menacing smile spread across her plump lips, "y'know I think it'd be fun—"

"You do?" Theo turned his head to her.

"Yes! It's our last year of freedom before we all go to university," Yasmine voiced, "I agree with Blaise. We should be young and wild while we still can."

"I suppose I could be persuaded," Theo confessed with a show of his palms.

"What about you, Vesper?" Blaise relaxed back in his chair, "you're awfully quiet."

Draco peered up from the desk, "If there's beer, then you know I'm in."

"Don't be silly," Blaise frowned, "Of course there's going to be beer. And lots of it!"

"If we get caught, Lenoir, then I'm going to kill you," Theodore pointed at Blaise, "I can't be getting in trouble every week this year, My dad is threatening to homeschool me."

"What?" Yasmine turned to him, clearly it was the first she heard of it.

"Don't worry, I won't be going anywhere," he assured her as his hand tightened on her thigh, "as long as this goon has a plan—"

"I do."

"—Then there should be nothing to worry about," Theo said but the look he gave Blaise said otherwise.

"Where is this party going to be?" Draco questioned.

"I was thinking the Moonlight Lake—"

"Absolutely not!" Theodore shook his head as an unbelievable laugh left his throat.

"Yeah, Blaise, I'm down for a party and all but I haven't gone near that lake in the four years I've been at this school and I don't plan to either," Yasmine stated through a nervous smile.

"Oh, c'mon," Blaise sighed.

"No one is going to want to go to a party if they're just scared the entire time," Draco said rather boaredly, like he was merely chipping into the conversation in hopes of ending it sooner.

"You won't be scared if you're drunk," Blaise shrugged.

"How do you think all those people have died in that lake? They didn't slip on a rock," Theo commented.

And just as the words left his mouth, the art teacher strolled in with an arm full of papers, her wild red curls, falling freely over her face as she uttered apologies for her tardiness. Miss Rose was never an organised person, which was why her lessons consisted of chit-chat and useless art.

Their conversation halted as they watched the "class flirt'' take the papers from Miss Rose's arms, "here, let me help, Miss Rose," Rian grinned. His white pearls sparkled menacingly, while Miss Rose's cheek brightened to a light shade of pink.

Yasmine's dark eyes rolled.

"You don't want to be the reason our classmates don't graduate, do you?" Theo turned his eyes back to Blaise who was still relaxed in his chair, "c'mon don't be stupid."

"Fine, we'll have it in the woods — the usual spot I suppose," Blaise frowned but there was knowing in his eyes, "forgive me for wanting to party somewhere new."

Their conversation soon turned into what they did during the summer holiday. Yasmine traveled all fifty states of America, which was very different from the cold mountains and forests of Scotland. Before she went travelling she spent a week in Wales with Theo, where their close friendship turned into something more. . . romantic.

And when Theo wasn't calling and texting Yasmine after making it official, he practiced Lacrosse. Well he didn't have much of a choice. It was all his father and his dream for his son to become an athlete, but that wasn't Theo's dream. He had his own ambitions, but for now they had to be kept out of his fathers knowledge.

Blaise spent his summer in his home country, France where he was intoxicated with alcohol and god knows what else. And every day he would be mingling with a different lady friend. And Draco— well how Draco's summer was spent remained unknown. He hadn't spoken and when Yasmine was about to pester it out of him, the creaky wooden door opened.

"Who is she?" Theo questioned as the entire class turned their head in a swift movement.

A girl with lovely brunette hair and a messily cut fringe which hung loosely over her forehead, stood beside headmaster Benjamin. The girl wasn't short, nor was she tall and her eyes were a deep blue which stood out immensely.

"That must be the new girl," Yasmine whispered, "Benjamin came to be yesterday evening and told me I will have a roommate this year."

Blaise and Theo's eyes bounced back to the girl and Yasmine. And Draco just stared at her like he would figure her out with just one, Intense gaze.

"This is Vera Smith," Headmaster Benjamin announced to the class, "transferring from a school in London for her final year."

The new girl, Vera smiled softly but it wasn't very friendly, not rude but not kind either. There was something mysterious about her, and the entire class staring at her could see it too.

But mysteries and secrets weren't something that was rare in the wall of Angelwood. It may as well be a school requirement at this point.

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