OBLIVIATE • d. malfoy

chapter eighteen

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❝ Don't want to let you
down, but I am hell bound. ❞
demons by imagine dragons

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"Baby? I can't just call you that."

Dumbfounded by the mysterious boy's sudden words, Alice wanted to leave his presence as soon as possible since she knew he was a stranger. Yet it was impossible for her since the boy pulled her closer to her.

"Well, then no. Just call me anything you wanna call me."

"Hm...how about creep?"

"Whoa now. I'm not a creep." He chuckled as she giggled.

"Anyway, are you from Hogwarts?" Alice asked him.

"Uh..no."

"Durmstrang then? Because if you said Beauxbatons, then you're a lesbian,"

"Y-yea," He answered.

"Yea what? You're a lesbian?"

"No," he chuckled. "I'm from Durmstrang Institute, and hey, Beauxbatons doesn't accept only girls."

"Oh, but tell me anyway, who are you, then? What do they call you, Mr. Creep?" She asked.

He chuckled. "Stop calling me that. I have a name. And it's Leo Hurtzwood." He replied.

"Leo? How old are you?"

"Same as you, Alice."

"Excuse me? But how did youㅡ" her words were cut when he opened his mouth.

"Know you? Well, your brother is a champion so how can it be hard not to know you?" Leo asked.

"I-I see."

"Besides, gossips, you know."

"Well, I guess that's right."

"I'm sorry for stealing you from your partner by the way. I mean that was the rulesㅡ"

"Rules?"

"Yes. It was discussed to us, boys. To pull the nearest girl when the lights are off." He explained.

"So I was the nearest girl?"

"Yea. I'm lucky to pull a goddess, actually." She blushed but then she tried to resist from blushing again infront of Leo's face.

Alice cleared out her throat. "I don't know a Leo Hurtzwood all around."

"That's because I'm from Bulgaria. Have you ever been there?" Leo asked.

"Never in my life," she answered. "But your accent is not."

"My parents made me adapt the environment here in London instead of Bulgaria. Long story, actually."

"I see. So Leo, who were you with? Who was your partner before me?"

"A girl from Beauxbatons, I actually don't like her. Her name was Gianna Willowreid. She likes me so I gave it a shot. But I actually wanna ask you out, but then, Harry Potter asked you so, there." He explained sadly.