Hogwarts Legacy : A Sixth Year Continuation

Chapter Fifty : A Bad Man

I had gotten my hot chocolate, in the end. Even if I had to heat it with my wand. We had laughed well into the wee hours. Ominis and Poppy sat tightly together on the couch. Natty and Anne were fast becoming friends, Natty re pleating Anne's hair for her. I was sat on the floor by the fire, the smell of pine making slivers of memory appear in my mind. I think Mammy might have used the trees behind the house too, when we needed a Christmas tree for the cottage.

Sebastian had been trying to catch my eye for the rest of the night but I couldn't look at him without thinking about our steamy secret rendezvous in the bedroom. So I chose to ignore him. I felt that everyone probably knew what had happened but the thought of my brother knowing what his best friend had just done to me upstairs was too much to handle.

For the first time in forever I had taken myself to bed willingly, without having to ask someone to follow me , or read to me or hold me.
I awoke in the morning, reaching to feel across the bed for Natty or Poppy. Nothing. I opened my eyes. I had slept through the night by myself. Like a big girl. I felt a strange sense of pride. I wondered if it was a mixture of sheer exhaustion and stress from the morning prior. Or it could've also been the orgasm that Sebastian had blessed me with...or both.

It was still fairly early for having had such a late night, only just gone ten o'clock. I decided I'd run to the shower before anyone else could try and spend an obscene amount of time under the hot water. Only I was allowed to do that. I closed my bedroom door softly, creeping past the new bedroom where I assumed the girls had all crashed. Then to the bathroom, as my hand clutched the bathroom door I heard a small gasp from the door to Ominis and Sebastian's room.

Poppy was stood, hair sticking up wildly around her head. She was wearing a shirt...far too big for her. The same shirt Ominis had been wearing the night before. I felt my mouth fall open. I could see Ominis sleeping soundly in the bed behind her...

She stared at me and I stared back, my hand still on the bathroom door and hers still clutching the one to my brothers bedroom.

'What the fuck' I mouthed jerking my head in the direction of the sleeping Ominis.

She shook her head furiously, turning to look behind her, then back to me. Our faces stern. Then the longer we looked at each other the harder it was to hold our laughter in, I snorted and she rushed forward to clamp a hand over my mouth, laughing herself. There was a silent scuffle in the corridor, I tried to escape her grasp, heading for the other bedroom to alert everyone to what had happened. Poppy giggled as she tried to clutch at my arm, causing me to trip as I reached my fingertips toward the door where the others slept. Both of us were flat on our stomachs , wrestling toward the door where Natty, Sebastian and Anne were still asleep.

"Don't you fucking dare!" She hissed through her stifled laughter.

"Or what?" I giggled , reaching desperately for the wood of the door, attempting to get enough force into my fingers to push it forward.

"Or I'll bring up the fact that you and Sebastian spent a suspiciously long time alone in your bedroom while your brother sipped hot chocolate downstairs none the wiser." She giggled, and I laughed back, relaxing my arm as I turned round. Smiling at my friend. We shook hands in a silent agreement, and she carried on into my bedroom where her trunk was , while I tried to get the thought of Ominis and Poppy out of my head under the water of the shower.

The rest of Christmas Eve morning was more hectic than I'd have liked. I had dressed in my black silk shirt and dragon hide trousers, wand in my thigh holster. It made me feel more productive than any other outfit I owned. I was cleaning up the hectic living room area as my housemates gradually dragged themselves down the stairs one by one. Yawning and complaining about how they would have to stay up till the early hours. We had Mr.Brooke arriving , followed by midnight mass then we had to secretly deliver all the children's presents. It was going to be a long day.