Love Triangle - Draco Malfoy & Cedric Diggory X reader

Five

"so your in a three way relationship with two boys who hate each other?"

you and Alicia are sat, alone, in the common room working through a pile up of homework from the previous week. youre stressed beyond limits with the essays and your friends constant questions arent helping you stay focused. its bad enough the whole Cedric and Draco thing is on your mind already, now you have 4 hours worth of homework to do and you have to answer Alicia without getting mad and its already 1am.

"its not a relationship" you mumble as you toss another failed attempt at an introduction into the crackling fire. you dont know what it is, really. you like them both more than you know you should, but having them both is proving to be more problematic than just one.

"and they both know that youre seeing the other at the same time?" she asks for the second time in the last 30 minutes. your tempter is rising but snapping at Alicia wont relieve you in anyway so you calmly nod and continue with your writing. a while passes, the only noise being the scratching of two quills on parchment, when the echoing crack of a door swinging on its hinges sounds from the top of the boys dormitory staircase. the two of you look up from your work and listen as the mumbling voices and footsteps become louder, exchanging confused but eager looks.

theres never this much movement in the dormitorys at this hour, most people are in bed by 11 and the common rooms is isolated by 12, so the hissing whispers of a boy and a girl is something to distract you. you cant make out a word being said until the figures round the spiraled corner and into sight. a distressed Pansy Parkinson, tears streaming from her eyes, stumbles shakily onto the paved floor and catches your eye. she looks distraught and ignores your concerned smile when she walks, storming the stretch of the common room in long strides and sprinting up the other set of steps. her sobbing continues all the way up until the door slams and silence falls again.

you left the girls dormitory empty a few hours before and until now, hadnt had a clue where Pansy was. now you gather that she'd been in the boys room, presumably with Malfoy, and something didnt go to plan. as if staged, the tall, blonde and exhausted Draco Malfoy enters the room holding a wand in his pale hands. the wand isnt his and you recognize it as Pansys. the confusion fogs the air but none of you speak as Malfoy slumps into an armchair and places the wand gently on a table.

Alicia clears her throat very dramatically to support her perplexed eyebrow raise. "are we going to hear about what just happen or what?"

Malfoy lets out a sign of defeat and the weak sneer gives the impression that he isnt up for talking right now. but he begins to speak after meeting your eyes, obviously encouraged by the similar need of an explanation on your face.

"she found out about us" he says, sounding completely fed up and the irritation clear in his voice.

"what about you?" Alicia asks, looking from you to him and back to you.

after breaking up the near fight between Cedric and Malfoy yesterday, you spend the Thursday afternoon together in the girls out-of-order bathroom. you and Draco havent yet found a spot to meet up so had some time alone in the abandoned bathroom. the memories make your legs slightly weak but you force the smile off your lips and frown.

"neither of us were at dinner yesterday" you hint, avoiding having to speak any details about the meet up as the thoughts alone burn your face bright red. Alicias eye flicker in realization and she lets out a long "ah" in understanding. as suspected, her grin turns to a smirk and she points a wagging finger at Malfoy. "youre a sneaky one"

"obviously not sneaky enough" Malfoy spits in response, clearly not as amused by her jokes as you, and the silence returns. it only just occurs to you that being with Malfoy will create much more conflict than Cedric. Pansy has liked him for the longest time and youve known it the whole time. now youve betrayed your friendship with her and the guilt dumps a huge weight on your heart.