Malfoy | Draco Malfoy [Book1](Unedited!)

17

Athena Jones

It's Blaise's birthday today and we all gave him little gifts and decided to spend the day roaming around hogsmade drinking butterbeer, firewisky and stuffing ourselves with food.

We decided to find a empty spot in the park and we just sat on the grass, the atmosphere was light and carefree as we chatted among ourselves, all having the time of our lives.

"Come on, I can drink more than you," Blaise says to William.

Hazel and I laugh looking at them, one thing that was missing was Dahlia, she said she'd be here but she didn't come, I'm starting to wonder if she's avoiding spending time with us because of me? Because of the kiss and my rejection?

Blaise and William took turns chugging down the firewhisky with Hazel and I cheering them on, I smiled as William was already starting to slur his words a bit which made Blaise laugh.

It didn't take long before William passed out from the firewhiskey, he dropped face first on the grass.

Hazel and I sighed and Blaise laughed "He was pretty determined to beat me."

We stayed there for one more hour till the sun was starting to set down, we managed to awake Willie and he was still a bit drunk as we walked out way back to Hogwarts.

I still couldn't believe Dahlia didn't show up today. I mean Blaise was her best friend too how could she not show up on his birthday?

As we approached the castle, I could see the sun starting to set down. it was a beautiful sight. the clouds were painted in pink and orange colors which made the entire sky look gorgeous.

We were quiet when we were walking, William was trying to keep his balance but he was still looking a bit drunk.

Blaise and William went to their dorm and me and Hazel went to ours, I hoped Dahlia would be in the room since she didn't show up before but to my surprise she wasn't in the room either

At this point I wasn't surprised that Dahlia wasn't in the room, she seems so disinterested these days.

It's like she was purposely avoiding being in the same room as me.

"I can't believe Dahlia ditched Blaise like that," Hazel sighed settling on her bed as I did the same on mine.

"Me neither, this is just stupid of her,"

I thought about it for a few moments, wondering why she would do that, did she hate me so much that she didn't want to be around me even for her friend's birthday?

"She's so weird lately," Hazel says.

I sighed as I leaned back on my pillow, there was certainly something odd going on with her lately.

"She keeps avoiding hanging out with us," Hazel continues.

I sighed and nodded, that wasn't all she was doing. She was avoiding me.

She'd been avoiding me ever since that one kiss, but what's stupid was that she was the one that kissed me. so why was she avoiding me? was it because I rejected her? How was I supposed to fake something like that? I was not into girls and she was, I can't fake it just to not hurt her.

"I don't get why she's doing this, but I think I'm getting a bit concerned," Hazel said.

I nodded, "Me too, I wonder if she might have something going on."

"Should we go talk to her?" Hazel suggest.

"We don't even know where she is these days, she comes in the dorm late, she leaves for hours and hours without telling where she was or where is is going," I say and sighed.

"You're right, we barely know where she is or what she's doing," Hazel says.

"And when she's in the room, she barely even talks to us, and if she says anything it's just a few sentences." I say to Hazel.

"Yeah but is she just going through something?" Hazel say.

"Maybe." I reply "but shouldn't she tell us about it? if it's affecting our friendship?"

"Maybe she doesn't feel comfortable," Hazel says, "You know how she is."

"Yeah, you do have a point," I reply agreeing with her reasoning.

Hazel and I sat there for a few minutes in silence.

"You do realize this is Dahlia we're talking about right?" I said, "She's just doing what she does best—being unpredictable"

"But it's Blaise's birthday, we were the ones to plan the day, and she's not even there to greet him. I'd say that's a bit odd even for Dahlia,"

"Yeah," I reply, "I don't know, it's weird, she's acting more like a stranger to us than a friend lately,"

"Let's just focus on the ball tomorrow at Blaise's house for now, we have dresses and gifts to buy," She sighed.