Glass Love

Chapter 11

"I love you too." Orla says before kissing his cheek. He smiled before looking down at his hands. "How do I use this?" Orla laughed before standing up and holding his hand out. "It's actually quite simple. Just think what you want and it'll happen. When you get better at it, you won't need to think too hard about it."

Draco looked at her before holding his other hand out and thinking long and hard about a heart shaped jewel. Glass slowly formed in his hand into a slightly lopsided heart. Orla cover her mouth with the tips of her fingers, trying not to laugh. "I'm doing it better." Draco says making Orla hold her hand up.

"No. I want it. This is your first thing you've ever made." She smiles before making a chain to hold the glass lopsided heart. "Orla, I know I can make it better." Draco smiles while trying to grab the necklace from her. Orla laughed and walked away from him.

"Now I will make you a gift. Give me your hand." She says holding her hand out. Draco sighed before holding his hand out. Orla wrapped both her hands around it before contemplating what kinds of ring to make for his thumb. She decided on a simple glass ring with a Bowen knot on the underside.

"In my country, that is the true lover's knots." Orla smiled before she looked over at her clock. "You should sleep." She says before walking towards the door and unlatching it. "Orla." Draco says before intertwining their fingers and pushing her against the door slightly. Orla stared up at him before he leaned down to kiss her.

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"Four butterbeers." Harry says as he and Orla stand near the counter and wait for their tables drinks. "So, friend. Tell me, what you think about the crippling of our world as we know it?" Orla asks looking over at him. Harry looked at her perplexed, but shrugged. "It's a lot easier to think about it when people finally see what's going on."

Harry grabbed two butterbeers as Orla grabbed the other two. "Did people not believe you when you said he was back?" Orla asked squeezing herself between two seats and walking after him. "Not many. A lot of people denied it until it was too late. Now we are left to deal with the consequences as he grows more powerful." Ron and Herminone thanked them.

"He is more powerful I suppose." Orla took a sip of her drink while thinking about her previous summer and hummed. "This is so good!" She smiles before taking another drink. The other three smile and laugh and soon Orla joins in as she wipes the whipped cream from her upper lip.

"Harry, my boy!" yells Professor Slughorn before clapping his hand on Harry shoulder. "Hello, professor." Harry says with an awkward smiled before asking him to sit with them. "So, you have recruited Miss. Ricci to your pack?" He laughed loudly, showing his clear indulgence into his mead. "I thought it would get me an invite to one of your parties professor." Orla raised her glass towards him and smiled.

Professor Slughorn nodded before thinking it over. "I am having one before we go to break. You are most welcome! Bring a friend!" He smiles once more to her before turning back towards Harry. Orla looked down at her drink and tapped the glass with her fingernails before a feeling of familiarity comes over her.

Orla looked around for Draco, but could not see him anywhere. She thought this strange as she could've sworn she felt him. 'Where could he have went?' The three broomsticks was not a big pub by any means.

"Orla?" Ron asks shaking her hand a little. Orla blinked before looking up at the three friends she had acquired. All three of them were bundled back up and ready to go back out in the cold. "Right." She mumbled before standing up and putting her jacket back on and looking around one more time.

The four of them walked back out in the snow towards Hogwarts. The day had turned out to be the first big storm of the season. The holidays were just around the corner. "What a dreadful day!" Herminone yells over the wind as Orla stopped walking. Harry turned around first and looked at her. "Orla?!" He yelled over the wind before a scream like nothing he had heard filled the air.