Under My Skin

Chapter Thirty Six

"New Beginnings"

Athalia and Delilah bolted from the closet they found Ember in. Making eyes on their target and moving in. Delilah grabbed the girl by her hair and threw her to the floor. Athalia fisted Kieran's black t shirt and dragged him up the steps to her dorm.

Delilah behind them. Lilah slammed the door shut after they filed in. "What the fuck is this about?" Kieran yelled in an angered tone. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Athalia countered back.

"Wrong with me? The fuck did I do?" He stood there in a stiff position. "You treated Ember like shit in the infirmary. The fucked up shit you said about her mom is foul Kieran. Then you make out with some skank right in front of everyone!" Delilah spat, her tongue laced with venom. Her inner Slytherin came out very rarely.

"If this is about Ember then you can tell her to leave me out of it and bother her dad about it." His eyes rolled in annoyance and frustration. "She can't bother her dad about it because he's dead." Athalia admitted. Ember told them to keep quiet. But they couldn't.

"Your 17 years old Kieran. You and Ember were in a relationship. You fell in love. Then you went into a coma and came out of it with memory loss." Athalia informed him with Delilah beside her. Kieran stayed stiff and silent. His hands rubbing together as his nerves grew.

"I know." He muttered quietly.

"You knew?" Delilah questioned, her mouth dropping in shock. "Embers new sister told me when everyone left the infirmary this morning." He explained how.

"So you know everything and you still kissed that girl." Delilah shook her head in disgust.

"I hate her. Nothings going to change that this time. You can tell her to forget it ever happened. Merlin knows I wish I could again." He stated before leaving the dorm room.

"What are we going to tell her?" Delilah asked Athalia in a disappointed voice. "The truth. I don't think she can save him this time." She admitted before leaving in search for Scorpius. Ember had stopped crying when they got back to the closet.

She was backing away towards the door telling them she's okay and that she was being unreasonable. "He doesn't know any better." Ember defended Kieran.

"He does." Athalia cut her off.

The three of them turning to face the two girls. "Aspen told him everything after we left the infirmary this morning. He knows everything." Delilah spoke next with a sorrow filled expression on her face.

"I'll kill him." Atlas mumbled, storming over to the door. "Stop it! You won't kill him, he'll kill you." Scorpius argued with him. "He's unhinged." Athalia explained. It was hard for her to say. Ember stood in the closet not speaking a word. Everyone else argued beside her.

"So it's over." Everyone paused to look at her as she spoke. Nobody wanted to tell her. "It's over." Another voice piped in from the doorway.

"We're over." Kieran repeated.

Embers head nodded slowly as she closed her eyes. And then she opened them and walked closer to the door. "Okay." She said before sliding Kieran.

She began walking back into the party but then she stopped. And turned around one last time. "Oh and Kieran." He turned his head in her direction. "Don't come back when you realize I was rare." Then she walked into the crowd of people.

The girl from before was still on the ground. She was crying and holding the strands of hair Delilah pulled out not so accidentally. Ember stepped over her, her heel crushing the girls finger bellow it as she passed bye.

She went back up to her dorm room and locked the door. She redid her makeup, she changed her hair, and she definitely changed her outfit.

Instead of playing it safe like how Kieran would've wanted like before she changed into one of the most revealing dresses she owns. Stopping right below her backside. The top showing plenty of cleavage. Open areas on the sides showing the outer part of her breasts.

Her door closed behind her as she walked down the steps again. Guys had a newfound affection to the girl when they noticed her coming down.

She came to the bottom of the steps and immediately guys planned on making their move on her. A new drink in her hand as she swayed to the music.

"Hi there!" A boy came up. He had a baby blue polo t shirt on and white dress pants. He looked country clubish and way too dressed up for the Slytherin savor party.

"Hey." She nodded to him and then took another sip from her drink. "Your body is hot as fuck." He exclaimed with a grin while looking her up and down. "Thanks." Ember rolled her eyes and looked over at the people dancing.

"I'm Ben, it's great to meet you babe." He continued to try to start a conversation with her.

"I am jealous of all the people who haven't met you." She replied with a sweet smile.

"Look I get it your trying to play hard to get. It's cute, very amusing. But can we skip this part to the reasons why I'm actually here." Ben leaned in closer to her.

"If your waiting for my attention you might want to get something to eat because I'm gonna give it to every other male in this room before I let you have it." Ember shot back extremely unamused by his presence.

"Listen here you slut, you're not hot enough to have such a bitchy mouth." He gripped onto her wrists making her back up. "I'm gonna tell everyone I fucked you anyways so either we do it or we don't." Ben gave Ember an ultimatum. If that's what you could call sexual harassment.

"Back up." A deep silky voice called out behind her. Ben let go and looked up at the man attached to the voice.

"So here's how this is gonna go-" He paused in thought. "Your names Benny, right?" He questioned him.

"No it's just Be-" He was cut off.

"Great, so Benny option A is you leave the party and tell everyone you fucked this diamond right here. Cons to option A is that if I hear that you told people that, I'll bash your face into the tile." Ember gasped and then her face broke out in a wide toothy grin. Ben had a furious emotion on his red face.

"Option B you continue to try and bother her or any other girl in here tonight. Cons to option B is that if I see you talking to her or any other girl tonight, I'll break your fingers." Ben opened his mouth to respond only for the man to shush him.

"Option C you go back to your dorm and go to bed. When you wake up in the morning you don't spread lies about women who would never even give you the time of day. Cons to option C is that you don't get to speak to the diamond right in front of you." Ember had noticed the man standing up for was undeniably attractive.

He was tall, very tall. A slight muscular build to his physique. Bold eyebrows that gave him an intimidating appearance.

"So which option would you like to choose Benny boy?" He asked the annoyed boy in front of them. "How rude of me not to introduce myself, Coven Drakos." Ben changed his temper to hesitation as soon as he heard his first name.

"C." He blurted out.

"Good choice, sweet dreams Benny Boy." Coven waved slowly as Ben turned around to go back to his dorm. "Why is Coven Drakos a name that other makes men run the other direction?" Ember wondered.

He looked down at the girl and his sarcastic face changed to a sly white smile. "I got kicked out of my old school and my dads the new Defense Against The Dark Arts professor here." He explained to the girl.

"Ember get away from this dude." Kieran came out of nowhere. Pulling Ember behind him and glaring at the guy. "Riddle get the fuck out of my way." Ember tried to shove him back.

"Don't worry, it's fine. I'll see you tomorrow diamond." He gave her one last grin before walking through the crowds of people.

"Don't talk to that guy. He's bad news, alright?" Kieran waited for an answer. "Fuck. Off." Ember growled, throwing her drink at his face. Gasps we're heard from the people surrounding them. Kieran didn't say anything.

So she walked away and danced, chatted, and smoked until the party was over. She went to bed without a single worry in the world for the first time in months.