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-THAT NIGHT, ADHARA WALKED INTO THE COMMON ROOM AFTER TAKING A WALK. Her mouth dropped open in shock at the loud music and dancing people in the middle of the Slytherin common room.
"Why are we having a party?" She asked Blaise, who was the nearest to her.
Blaise, who had a bottle of unopened firewhiskey in his hand, replied, "Welcome-back party. Us seventh years threw it. C'mon, it's our last year. We've got to make some memories worth remembering." He pointed out, then noticed the distant look in her eyes. He passed the bottle to her, pointing to the bags under her eyes. "You look like you need it way more than me."
She chuckled, but accepted it immediately. She snapped the bottle open and put it straight to her lips, not giving it a second thought. She did need it.
She needed it to forget.
Adhara needed to forget.
Within a few gulps, the bottle was already half empty. Blaise seemed shocked, but didn't say a word. He merely stayed by her side, rolling his eyes when the girl he was distracting himself with, left, since his attention was on his obviously-broken friend.
Something was wrong, and Blaise knew what it was. Adhara's breakup wasn't something unknown.
"Slow down," tried Blaise, wincing when Adhara did the exact opposite as she put the bottle to her lips again. "Ara, what's wrong?"
She didn't reply. She walked over to his side and leaned on the wall behind her, putting the bottle down after drinking more of it. "Where's Draco? And Pansy?"
"Draco's already drunk," answered Blaise.
"I'm not," slurred Draco, trying to catch himself by holding onto the wall. He appeared almost out of nowhere to Adhara, but he was actually near them the entire time. It just took him a while to realize who it was.
Adhara giggled at his drunken state. She put the bottle back to her lips again, finishing it with three gulps. She gave it to Blaise, whose mouth dropped open in shock. "Get me another one, will you?" She said, slurring her words together a little already.
"No," cut in Draco, with a glare even though he was swaying, trying to regain his balance. He was obviously drunk. "You — you will not have more, Adhara Malfoy!"
She raised an eyebrow at him slurring his words together. However, she gave Blaise a look that made him immediately get her another bottle. He did not want to be at the receiving end of that look.
Within a minute, Adhara had an unopened, new bottle of firewhiskey in her hand. She opened it and immediately put it to her lips, laughing when Draco fell to the floor while trying to dance to the music.
"You— you cannot even move!" shouted Adhara, trying to be heard behind the blasting music.
Draco groaned on the floor in pain, pointing to her. His eyes immediately closed. "Tired," mumbled the boy on the ground.
Adhara seemed to not have heard him. She put the bottle to her lips again, finishing it for the second time. She frowned when she did so, and looked around the common room.
Everything was spinning. But Adhara liked it. She liked not being able to see.
She grabbed another bottle of alcohol and finished that as well within two minutes. That was a new record.
She flinched when someone— someone familiar— grabbed her by the arm and pulled her up the girls' dormitories. "Let me— go!" tried the girl, trying to be let go, but she was too drunk to realize. She let go of the empty bottle of alcohol on top of the stairs, flinching when it broke into a thousand pieces.
Pansy Parkinson, who had grabbed her bestfriend after Blaise had rushed over to her, groaned at the mess the other girl made. She pulled out her wand and with a wave, the mess was gone. She continued pulling the girl into their dorm room, ignoring her incoherent mutters.
When Blaise had rushed over to her and told her that Adhara was drunk already, Pansy was shocked. She rushed to the two Malfoy siblings and shared a look with Blaise, both of them agreeing that while Blaise looked after Draco for the night, Pansy would look after Adhara.
"Let me— go!" tried the drunk girl, flopping onto her bed immediately when she was grabbed into the dorm room and near her bed.
"Ara, it's me Pansy." Pansy pointed out softly, crouching to the girl's level, looking at her already-drunk state on the bed. "You're safe with me."
"Pansy," mumbled Adhara, opening her eyes. She stopped fighting it and stared into the other girl's eyes. "H— help."
"That's what I'm doing," replied Pansy as she waved her wand, charming Adhara's clothes that she was wearing into her usual silk pajamas. She stared at the girl in the now-pajamas, frowning when she couldn't make out the words she was saying. "What? I can't hear you."
"Help me," muttered Adhara, a bit louder. She did not know what she was asking help for. All she knew was that she wanted— no, she needed help.
Pansy frowned in confusion and concern, crouching down to the other girl's level again. She tucked a strand of hair behind Adhara's ears.
Adhara opened her eyes again finally and looked into the other girl's eyes.
Pansy was about to ask Adhara what she needed help with, but Adhara immediately cut her off and whispered, "I wish I could love you."
The other girl froze, her fingers right above the laying girl's ear. "What?" She asked in shock.
Adhara closed her eyes again and mumbled, slightly slurring her words together, "I wish— I wish I could— could love you. But I— I can't. I love her, but I—" and suddenly, she became quiet.
Pansy swallowed when Adhara stopped talking suddenly. She needed to know what Adhara was going to say. So, she shook the girl softly and asked, "What were you going to say, Adhara?"
The girl opened her cloudy eyes. She continued the sentence, "I know you would've treated me right." And closed her eyes once again, for the last time that night. However, she still continued in a whisper, even with closed eyes. "I wish I could love you."
Pansy felt her heart shattering in her chest. She had no reply to the other girl. Instead, she put the covers on the other girl and tucked another strand of hair behind the girl's ear. "I wish you could, Adhara." She whispered to herself.
She stayed in the room, tears running down her face for exactly half an hour. When she couldn't hold her sobs in anymore, she checked to see if Adhara was fully asleep. When she was sure, she opened the door room and walked out of the dorm.
