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The rest of the night was full of laughter and innocence, speaking of everything and truly getting to know one another more than ever before.
Willow told Cedric about things no one else knew about her, things she hated and things she loved, and Cedric attempted his best to remember them all. He knew he wanted to grasp onto this moment until he died.
After a while of talking, Willow managed to get a board game and set it up for them to play against the candles lit on the floor.
They attempted their best to be quiet, but for no apparent reason, the laughter was uncontrollable. Willow knew her mother slept like a bear in hibernation, she wasn't worried.
Before she knew it, she was waking up from the floor, sitting up and feeling the terrible tightness in her neck.
As she reached up to attempt to massage it out, she came to her senses and realized Cedric was still there.
There he was, sleeping like an angel on her bedroom floor, still in his clothes from yesterday. She felt like a creep but she couldn't help but stare at him.
Even with the light drool spilling out of his mouth, he looked like a painting. His hair was spread everywhere around his face like a lions mane and he was clearly a mouth breather.
Cedric looked so gentle and young on the floor and she found herself smiling as she stared. It felt different, like this feeling she's been holding in for months was beginning to spill over her again and again.
Still, it felt like home and it felt like forever somehow wrapped into a fuzzy warm feeling in her face and body. It felt like nothing before this mattered.
Part of her wanted to reach out and feel his soft skin against her fingertips or run her fingers through his hair as he continued to lightly snore, but she couldn't.
Her entranced and amazed state soon fell to an end when a knock came against the door.
"Darling? Are you awake?" It was her mother, she had been an early bird their entire life. The sound made her jump out of her skin and caused Cedric to wake up.
"I'm up mother, I'll be downstairs in a second." Willow tried to keep poised, trying to make her voice sound like she didn't just wake up next to a boy from her school.
This was the first real thing she did behind her parents back, the first thing that would get her actually shipped away for good. If her father heard about it, at least.
