Très Belle [James Potter II]

5. In which everyone hates each other and we meet Prince

Okay, so everyone is really upset.

Basically, this is it:

Dominique is upset because her best friend and little brother and having a child, and her brother is madly in love with her friend, but the friend barely knows him.

Arianne is upset because she’s having a child at 18 (which is like, her worst nightmare), with a boy she barely knows, but is the little brother of her best friend.

Cecilia is upset because the boy she’s madly in love with confessed his love for her best friend.

I am upset because I’m madly in love with the boy who made my first years at high school living hell.

I guess Cecilia got over it first.

After the party, we all skulked off to our own little homes, and I stayed with Mum.

I spent the days watching TV, eating chocolate ice cream, and screaming at my brother whenever he came around (he stopped coming after three tries).

Finally, after about a week, Cecilia popped up in the fireplace. Well, she stumbled out of it, while I was in the middle of re-watching Season 5 of ‘Gossip Girl’ (an old muggle TV show) for the third time.

“Arabella, I don’t want to hear it. We need to get over this, okay? Dom is being irrational, and you have no reason whatsoever to be skulking, and Arianne is having a child, she needs support! We have to go and sort shit out, because no one else is doing it, and I’m starting with you, because you have the least reason to be upset, okay? I have more to be upset about than you.” Cecilia screams at me.

Obviously, she hasn’t been inside my head.

“But, you-” I start, but she cuts me off, “I DON’T CARE!” pulls me up, and drags me to the fireplace.

We arrive at Arianne’s. The place is huge, and we eventually find Ari’s room.

“Arianne, we’re here to help!” Celi announces as she opens the door.

Arianne has always been the neatest person I know, but she was basically floating in a sea of tissues.

“But I don’t want help.” She murmurs.

“We don’t care! You need to fix shit, like Louis Weasley, and his older sister, Dominique!” I scream at her, picking up Cecilia’s vibes.

“Oh.” She whispers.

We haul her up, and dress her up, making her look pretty good, and making ourselves look a bit better at the same time.

Finally, we’re ready to go.

“But I don’t want to!” Arianne screams, squirming in Celi’s tight grip.

We jump into the fireplace, and tumble out at Shell Cottage.

Thank God, Dom was out shopping with Tante Fleur. Oncle was there, but he was just about to leave, going running.

We drag Arianne up to Louis’ room, where we scream at his friends to “fuck off home!” as Celi puts it.

“What do you want?” Louis asks, not looking at Arianne.

“What do you think?” I ask, conversationally.

“I don’t know!” He cries.

“I’m pregnant.” Arianne says bluntly. Lou gapes at her.

“Like, its mine?” He asks stupidly.

“Well, evidently, as I don’t usually go around having random sex with people.” Arianne jokes.