𝖮 𝗂𝗌 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖮𝖻𝗌𝖾𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗈𝗇 ʰʲᵖ

• ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔗𝔴𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔶 𝔉𝔬𝔲𝔯 : 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔢 𝔄𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔪𝔭𝔱 •

• Chapter Twenty Four : Futile Attempt •

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February arrived in the spur of the moment — the month of love and affection, wherein a lot of couples would go making out in every corner of the school. Others would go sending gifts and confess to their long-time crushes. Some would be with their friends as they do not have their partners with them. While others would resort to watching the love of their life from afar.

(Y/N) woke up in the morning of February the fourteenth on her bed, completely alone but with a pillow under her arms, which utterly smelt like her Gryffindor boy.

Grinning, she stretched out cheerfully, her blanket creased in her direction. She had no idea what was going to happen, but in her mind, she will meet her friends and hang out with them since it just so happened that Valentine's Day was settled on Saturday and a Hogsmeade visit was scheduled as well.

The dormitory was noisy as (Y/N)'s dormmates were preparing for the day. When she got out of her four-poster to take a shower, Padma, Toni, and Jill were all huddled at the door, all of whom were looking at something (Y/N) couldn't see.

"Hey. What's going on?" she called, walking over.

The three girls turned and (Y/N) noticed the large grin on their faces. Then, all of a sudden, they rushed towards her with something in their hands.

"I can't believe it." Toni giggled, handing (Y/N) a purple box with a red ribbon tightly wrapped around it. "This is all for you, (Y/N)."

"This came from owl posts, but for some reason, the owls waited at the door." Jill explained, now putting the bouquet of red roses on top of the box.

"Guess who gave this to you?" said Padma, passing the Heather girl another box, but this time, it has a light blue wrapper and it smelt like French perfume.

"Uh..." (Y/N) murmured, trying to balance all the stuff in her hand. "Harry...?"

"And...?"

The three girls stared at (Y/N) eagerly.

"Er — Andrew?"

"Yes!"

(Y/N) negligibly smiled. Apparently, Andrew sent (Y/N) Valentine's gift to — what Andrew quoted — reimburse all of his debt to her, although, (Y/N) was sure she didn't ask him to do so.

"Well." Padma said, winking. "We'll leave you to it —" She nodded at the boxes and the bouquet. "— we're having dates, too. See you!"

"Enjoy!" (Y/N) called back as her dormmates left the dorm.

The Heather girl returned to her four-poster to place the gifts on her bed. She curiously gazed at the red roses with an uncontrollable grin before grabbing it with her gentle hand — skimming through the thornless stem and soon found a card between the stems.

She carefully pulled it out and read what the card said:

(Y/N),

I would have given this to you personally, but I don't want to burden you with holding this all throughout the visit, so I just sent it through Hedwig.

See you later ♥

Love,
H. J. P.

(Y/N) then went on with opening Harry's gift — it was full of treats that the boy knew she loved and another box was resting in between. She opened it and was welcomed by another card.

I thought the necklace looks lonely so I bought a partner.

And there it was, another piece of jewelry from the rich boy's pocket: a bracelet with (Y/N)'s initial engraved on a small silver plate.