The Snake and His Star

Dolan

Dolan proceeded to walk back to the common room as fast as possible. He wanted to sketch a little bit before he went to sleep, and he wanted to think about harrison too.
After awhile he decided to give up on drawing, because he thought all of his drawings were shit. He stood up and walked over the the couches, his best friend Astrid was sitting on the couch, wrapped in a black blanket with a tub of ice cream in her hands.
"Hey Ash, you look pissed what's wrong?" Dolan asked Astrids winced and a tear ran down her cheek.
"You know that Hufflepuff girl, Izzy I liked?" Dolan nodded. "Well, she got a girlfriend and it's that stupid Gryffindor girl."
Dolan was astonished, he couldn't understand what people didn't see in her, she was pretty, funny, and a great person. Dolan was getting sick and fucking tired of people taking advantage of her heart. He hated seeing his bestie in so much pain.
"Come here" Dolan simply said with his arms out. Astrid gladly leaned into her best friend. She leaned onto his chest and cried, she cried until she was drained, after an hour and a half of  sobbing in Dolans arms all that came out were silent tears and the occasional shiver. He was singing a melody to a pretty sad song, it calmed her a lot for some reason. She looked up at him and smiled, mascara running down her cheeks.
"I should get to bed, it's already late and I have Quidditch practice tomorrow." Dolan smiled a real sympathetic smile.
"Okay, goodnight Ash love you."
Astrid sat up and wrapped her blanket around her head, she scrunched her nose at him, she grabbed her now half melted tube of ice cream and handed it to Dolan. He gladly accepted it, he needed something cold in his system. He took the spoon and sunk it into the creamy goodness. Astrid being her slender man self leaped up the staircase with a bit of grace, her feet barley hitting the floor.
"Oh, and Dolan?" Dolan hummed, " I love you too." Dolan smiled and Ash made it the rest of the way to the girls rooms. Dolan thought, he thought of how he felt.
He looked down at his wrist and read, "I actually haven't thought of that, thanks." It was a strange sentence but the one and only Harrison had said it.
Harrison was so soft sometimes Dolan wondered why he wasn't in Hufflepuff. Probably because when was pretty bold and a hard worker. He decided he would write a letter to him; After he talked to him. He racked his brain on what classes he had with him, potions, history of magic, transfiguration, and break period. He was deciding on what he was gonna say to him as he, without knowing it walked out of the Slytherin common room.
~Dolans POV~
Next thing I knew I was at the Hufflepuff dorms. I fiddled for my bracelet on my left hand. It was a silver bracelet wih two little silver snakes with green emerald eyes as fastener, I tapped the bracelet twice and waited. About 20 seconds later my Hufflebuddy Jude answered the door. Jude was a scrawny tall boy with blue eyes and chestnut hair. He ran down the stairs to the common room and screamed, "I missed you so much!!" He jumped from the last two stairs and hugged me. He was so light I could spin him around easy. He always buried his face in the crook of my neck when I did that.
"Do what do I dwell with Dolan Magee?" Jude asked.
"English please Jude, I don't speak 1853." He laughed and opened his common room door. The Hufflepuff dorms were right next to the kitchens, so they sometimes helped the house elves cook.
"I would die for some chocolate chip cookies and milk right now." I really would. Jude knew it was one of my vulnerable moments, he said he'd be right back and i nodded, sitting down in one of the cozy couches in the Hufflepuff common room. There was a dim yellow light shining through the walls. It was a settle glow to make me tired at any time. Lanterns infested with fireflies hung from the ceiling. There was a fairly new t.v. in the common room (all common rooms had t.v's in them) flipped to the cartoon channel. We Bare Bears was currently playing at a low volume. It was fairly late but we didn't mind one bit, we always had the best time no matter when it was.
Jude came back with the cookies minutes later. "Careful they just came out of the oven, there hot." I smiled and picked one up. It was the good kind of hot where they were taken out just a little bit to early and they were still gooey in the middle. I took a bite and let out a groan, they were even better than I remembered. He dipped his cookie into the milk and it broke.
"Nooooooo!! the agony!" I leaned back on the couch and draped a dramatic hand over my forehead, half a cookie on my hand. Jude chuckled.
"Why are you here, I feel like I haven't seen you in ages." I sighed,
"Buckle your seatbelt and hold on to your wig lad, this is gonna be a bumpy ride." I explained everything that happened over the week. I finished and there were two cookies left. We both took one and dipped them in the milk. We wolfed down the cookies and Jude held up his glass of milk.
"Cheers to finding your soulmate." Jude was 14 and was hoping that his soulmate was a Ravenclaw boy named Benjamin, to Jude he was the cutest fuckin thing he ever laid eyes on. Benji has black curly hair, freckles, a blush underneath them was created by a sunburn, it kinda just stayed there. He also has round glasses to big for his face. Jude had talked about him all the time, that's why I know this. I clanked my cup with his and downed the glass, choking on the peics of now soggy cookie from earlier. Jude has the audacity to laugh at me. It was about 4:00 in the morning, the only reason the we were up this late was because we both had late arrival later, so we could sleep in. I stood up and stretched.
"I think i'm gonna call in a night J." I started to walk out the door before Jude ran up to me and told me to wait. He ran up to the dorms and seconds later he was back down again with a blanket in his hands. It was a black knitted blanket with a giant D in the middle of it.
"Thank you so much! For the blanket and the pep talk. It really helped." I have Jude a hug and walked out. I was completely oblivious to how cold it was until I walked into the corridors. I wrapped myself in the blanket burrito style and made my long ass journey back. I usually manipulate people to get my way. Astrid and Jude brought the best in me though, i'm never turning my back on my true friends.
The blanket smelled like the Hufflepuff common room, it was a comforting, homey smell, saying I lived in a house of Hufflepuffs for fucks sake. I made it back to the common room 10 minutes later and ran up to the dorms. Duncan was still awake reading. He was to into his book to notice me walk in, and i was thankful for it. He always picked up conversations with me and I was too tired to have the fear of him skimming me if I fell asleep on him. I changed into my pajamas and fell asleep before my head hit the pillow.

It's 3:45 in the morning, you paint the picture, i'm about to be Dolan. Let me know if you want more pov swaps.
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