Pay Attention Jauregui! (Harry Potter!AU)

Chapter 14

While most of Hogwarts student body were busy digging into the feast of a breakfast that was always laid on, one particular student was rapidly trying to scribble down the last few notes of an essay. This was not an unknown phenomenon at the school by any means, and on any given day you could find Austin, Shawn and even sometimes Becky desperately scrabbling to finish an assignment to avoid detention or taking their grades.

But not Lauren Jauregui. To see the Ravenclaw with bags under her eyes scribbling out answers while she occasionally took a sip from the coffee in front of her...well it was like seeing a Malfoy handing out candy for no other reason than it just made people happy.

....EVER!

Until today that is, today the blonde ignored all conversation going on around her and even the worried looks from her girlfriend. Camila wasn't used to being ignored and Lauren was never usually the one to ignore her, but this was different. While the Ravenclaw maintained near flawless grades in all of her other classes and was known as a reliable tutor, her Arithmancy grade was slipping further and further.

"Lauren, please talk to Professor McGonagall, ask to drop the course, you don't enjoy it or need it and you would be better off swapping to a course you can do!"

Looking up at the brunettes imploring tone, Lauren sighed and rubbed her face with one ink stained hand.

"It's not as easy at that Camz, my...my dad wanted me to take this course, if I drop it he'll freak out and I don't...can't handle that."

Camila chewed on her lower lip worriedly and reached for the scroll.

"Then let me do it, I can finish it off while you eat at least, you were up all night working on this, weren't you?"

Fighting off the irrational flash of irritation, Lauren reached out and pulled it back towards her before laying her hand on Camila's firmly.

"No, I can finish it I'm just a little...confused right now is all, this stuff is kind of difficult to me, I'm a words type of person not a numbers one"

Camila turned to Normani in a silent plea for help, the Slytherin sighed and despite knowing this wouldn't end well, she forged ahead.

"Lo...I know you don't wanna upset your folks but we're only like two and a bit months into the term and you're already lost, just talk to the Professor...at least maybe you can get her to change it without making it official."

Lauren was by no means a perfect person and one of her main faults was that when she got tired, she got short tempered, and when she got short tempered, she lashed out at anyone and everyone around her.

"Screw the both of you! It's like you want this, you want me to fail, don't you? Well I'm not going to, I haven't quit a course yet and I'm not gonna start now and if all you two are going to do is distract me and bitch then you can both just piss off!"

Standing angrily she grabbed her work in one arm and her bag in the other storming off, Normani just rolled her eyes having seen this sort of behaviour from her best friend before. Camila however was devastated and swallowing hard she half rose to go after the older Latina. Normani's hand on her arm stopped her however, she shook her head.

"No...when she's like this, she shuts down. The more you push, the nastier she'll get and then she won't know how to apologize and end up retreating completely, trust me okay...just give her time."

Reluctantly Camila sat back down and as though she was psychic, Dinah was there in a second, arms around the Gryffindor offering comfort. Normani watched her girlfriend comfort Camila and not for the first time, wanted to lay some serious smack down on her Ravenclaw friend. There had to be a way she could get through Lauren's thick skull...not exactly open and honest ways but sometimes a Slytherin's gotta do what a Slytherin's gotta do, masking her smirk she turned to Camila.