Dynamic Duos: We Are Young [hogwarts fanfic]

fourteen

// jamie (still)
"Harry are you okay?!" We all rushed towards Harry, who was coughing and spluttering.

"I-I saved Fleur's sister and Ron both, and I got extra points for getting her and Ron," Harry explained. 

"You're cold, aren't you?" Elsa asked, and Harry nodded as he shivered. "Aww, group hug!" Elsa exclaimed, and everyone wrapped their arms around Harry except for Draco.

"There's no way I'm hugging Potter." Draco crossed his arms.

"I wouldn't want the touch of Malfoy anyway," Harry hissed.

"Guys, cut it out," I snapped, and we all broke apart from the hug.

"Harry, let's go find you a towel," Elsa suggested, and she and Harry set off.

"I'm gonna go see if Fleur and her sister are alright," Kaeleigh told us before she also left.

"Honestly, Draco. You do irritate me sometimes." I huffed. "Why do you always have to go and make fun of Potter?"

"It's bad enough I hang out with Mudbloods, what would happen if my father heard about that?!" Draco clenched his jaw and stormed off.

"Oi! I don't appreciate you calling my friends that!" I yelled, grabbing his arm.

"Well that's what they are, aren't they?! Why so offended by a word?! Mudbloods! It's just a word, and it's true!" Draco snapped, unaware that people had stopped to stare at us.

"Words hurt, Malfoy! They can bloody hurt! So keep your mouth shut and don't call my friends that!"

"Oh, piss off!"

"I'll have your head, you great prat!" I pointed my wand. The people around us gasped. "You know I don't need this to kill you, Malfoy. You remember my rule. Plain and simple. You insult my friends, you don't wake up in the morning. Get. It. Right."

Draco glared at me. "So this is the treatment I get? Your first ever friend, and you treat me like this?"

"If you'd stop calling people that, then--"

"Calling people what?"

"You know what!"

"What, Jamie? What do you want me to stop saying?"

"That Elsa and Dan are Mudbloods!"

"Jamie!"

My head whipped around to see Elsa, Neville, Dan and Phil.

"You didn't just say that. Tell me you didn't just say that." Dan's eyes were wide.

"No, it's not what it looks like--"

"Jamie, how could you?" Elsa's eyes were tearing up.

"No, no, no, guys, come on, you know me!"

"Apparently not." Phil looked sad.

"Guys, please, let me explain!"

"Explain what? That you were never really our friend? Pathetic. Come on." Dan wrapped his arm around Elsa's shoulders and guided her away, Neville and Phil right on their tails.

"Guys!" I called after them to no avail.

The crowd cleared, leaving just me and Draco.

"Jamie?" He touched my shoulder. I lashed out.

"You did this!" I screamed, tears threatening to spill from my eyes. Draco's eyes widened. "This your fault! They'll never talk to me again! I hate you!"

"Jamie--"

"Piss off!" I ran into the woods.

"Jamie, no!" Draco yelled.

-

// aaron
As my twin Rhaenys and I were walking down the hall, I saw Dan with his arm around Elsa who was crying. Behind them were Neville and Phil, but where were Jamie and Draco?

I glanced outside to see Draco standing there, staring into the trees.

"C'mon." I tugged Rhaenys' sleeve and we headed outside. "Draco?"

"This is all my fault," he muttered. "Ugh, I'm an idiot!"

"What's happened?" Rhaenys asked.

"Jamie and I got into an argument because I was annoyed with Potter, and 'Mudblood' slipped out of my mouth, and Jamie, rightfully, got mad, and then she was yelling at me to stop calling them that, and I said 'Stop saying what?' and she shouted out 'That Dan and Elsa are Mudbloods!' because she was talking to me, but our friends heard, and thought she was the one saying that and meaning it, and hey got mad, and Jamie ran off into the woods, and it's all my fault!" I buried my face in my hands.

"We should get a teacher," Rhaenys said.

"There's no time! Jamie could be hurt!" And with that, Draco plunged into the dark trees as well.

"Draco!" Rhaenys called.

"I should go too. I'm better at spells than him. Go get Dumbledore or somebody," I told my sister. She nodded and ran off, and I took off after Draco, yelling his name.

I finally found him with his arm wrapped around Jamie's shoulders.

"Hey, they'll forgive you, I know they will. Once you explain--"

"They won't give me a chance to explain, Drake," Jamie sniffed. "They'll just shut me out."

"Well, then we have to do something about that."

"Even if I did explain, and they believed me, then they'd be mad at you."

Draco faltered, but replied with, "So be it. As long as you're happy."

Jamie cracked a smile and wiped her eyes. "We sound like some sappy love couple."

Draco laughed.

"You guys okay?" I asked. Draco looked up and nodded.

"Yeah. We'll be back in a sec."

"Kay. I'm staying. Rhaenys went to get a teacher in case you guys ran into trouble."

Jamie smiled. "Thanks, Aaron."