A Letter 2 Years Late

Chapter 17 - Apologies, Allies and Letters

I currently sat alone at the three broomsticks sipping on a butterbeer. I felt the warm liquid slide down my throat and sighed in delight. Sitting in front of me on the table was the journal from my mom. The place was oddly quiet but it was peaceful.

Tapping my fingers, I stared at the old journal still trying to figure out what to do. Four pages total were missing from the back, meaning there was something important my mom had written. Something someone wanted to keep away from me. Other than my fake parents, I couldn't think of anyone who had access to it or would want to take them. But my fake parents would have nothing to gain from that journal. Which meant someone had gotten hold of it sometime while the journal was being passed along.

Finally giving up, I grabbed the journal and stuffed it into my bag. I let two sickles fall onto the table beside the empty cup and walked out the building, shading my eyes from the bright sunlight. I looked around wondering what to do for the rest of my afternoon. Fred promised a date later that day so I had to find something to occupy myself until then.

I turned towards the castle and made the long hike back. I ran into my dorm room and threw my bag onto my bed. I quickly hid the journal in the drawer under some notebooks and left as fast as I had came. In the courtyard, I found the usual. Malfoy was off boasting to his friends. Some annoying girls from Hufflepuff were laughing at something supposedly funny that some younger kid from Gryffindor had said. And of course, to tug at the seams of my already tearing apart life, Brandon. Don't get me wrong, I really like Fred, but seeing your ex everyday and remembering how he left you, isn't the most fun.

At the back of the courtyard, sitting in the shade of a big tree, was Rose, but who I found her with made me debate whether to talk to her or to let Jake finally ask her out. I decided on the latter and turned around, almost bumping into the devil.

"Hey, Tressa,"

"What now Malfoy?" I sneered. Did this boy have anything better to than to annoy me?

"Look I just wanted to apologize for being such a jerk the last few months but if you would rather I don't then fine."

"Wait what?" I peered over his shoulder to see Jessie standing by the corridor entrance. She gave me one nod and turned to leave.

"I'm... sorry for being such a jerk. Can we start over? I don't want to make the same mistakes my dad made and miss out on having friends and allies in all the houses."

I raised my eyebrow, "Wow, nice thing to say about your father."

"Look, my dad regrets being such a jerk. He had a lot of pressure from his father, something I don't need to worry about and-"

"And Jessie convinced you to do the right thing." I said finishing his sentence for him. He frowned.

"But I knew it was the right thing to do... I just... couldn't do it without a push..."

"I know and I accept your apology."

Scorpius looked surprised that I had accepted so quickly and to be honest so was I. But I already had one battle to fight, I didn't need another. Besides, who knows, maybe his family knows something about mine. Scorpius was about to turn to leave but he stopped midway and turned back to me;

"My dad may know something about your parents by the way, but I can't guarantee anything." With that said, he departed probably off to find Jessie.

"What was that about?"

I jumped and twirled around to find Rose hand in hand with Jake. I had to force myself not to smirk and come up with some witty comment.

"That was Scorpius apologizing."