Pay Attention Jauregui! (Harry Potter!AU)

Chapter 15

Things are getting better. Barkley, my cat will be missed, but it was better for him. He didn't hurt anymore. There is a picture of him at the bottom. I don't like putting pictures between things. I keep them at the bottom.

So, this chapter has Norminah. Enjoy.

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Trying one more time to elicit the sympathy she craved, Lauren sniffed and rested her head in her hands with a low groan, most of the students at the breakfast table fought hard to keep their amusement from erupting from them in audible giggle. Normani, having no such compunctions, just laughed loudly, Camila sighed leveling a glare at the Ravenclaw who was looking very sorry for herself before huffing.

"Lauren Jauregui, did I or did I not tell you to wear more layers when we went out shopping at the weekend?"

Wiping at her nose again with a tissue and shivering, the Ravenclaw reluctantly nodded at the brunette's raised eyebrow she sighed but dutifully verbalised her reply.

"Yes Camz."

Nodding in satisfaction Camila turned back to her breakfast but carried on speaking.

"And did you or did you not ignore me, then proceed to get into a ridiculous snowball fight with Normani that ended up with you in wet clothes."

Shifting awkwardly in her seat, Lauren pulled her robe tightly around her and sniffing again sipped her tea gratefully.

"Well yeah but..."

A raised hand stopped her and sighing, the Ravenclaw subsided again.

"No buts Lauren, if you will do these stupid things then what else do you expect, I said I would have no sympathy if you got a cold, and I was right, you did!"

Pouting, Lauren attempted to eat some more of her porridge but she just couldn't find her appetite and just ended up poking it irritably. She understood Camila's irritation but would a little sympathy be too much to ask, just one tiny hug maybe?

She felt truly miserable, her limbs ached like crazy and she couldn't get warm, it wasn't like she had asked to get ill and in her defense she had been in worse weather wearing much less when playing Quidditch but had not gotten sick.

Normani, who was smugly and happily feeling just fine, had been watching this interaction with a smirk. Lauren had in fact never been ill before, not in the whole time the dark skinned girl had known her and looking at the wreck of a girl in front of her she was suddenly very glad of that fact. Lauren Jauregui was annoying when she was ill and Normani rolled her eyes.

"Lo it's a cold...get over it, you're acting like you have man flu, and that is a highly unattractive look, you carry on like this and Cabello will find herself a real woman!"

Lauren mustered the energy to scowl at her friend before sinking her head back down to her folded arms on the table, it was pathetic really but the hint that Camila might hate her for being ill made her feel even sorrier for herself and she let out a shuddering breath.

Camila noticed her girlfriend's dejected look and directing a harsh look towards the smirking Slytherin she reached out and rubbed a hand soothingly over Lauren's shoulders, to her surprise the quidditch captain gave what sounded like a purr at the contact. Smiling softly to herself for a moment, she turned back to Normani and glared again.

"Normani Kordei that's harsh, Lauren may be ill through her own stubborn streak and idiocy but she is still my girlfriend and I wouldn't leave her! I'm shocked you would even suggest such a thing and would put forth the theory you are projecting your own feelings of inadequacy onto your best friend."