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CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
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-: sixth year :-

── IN WHICH FLEUR FINDS OUT

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"The brother of your date asked me out earlier." Fleur said, flicking through the pages of yet another catalogue as Elodie appeared in their shared room, collapsing down on her bed.

"Yeah - mhm." Elodie replied, completely having not taken in what her best friend said, and Fleur noticed this, sitting up and closing the catelogue. The sudden movement caused Elodie to glance over, only to see her best friend practically staring into her soul. "What?" She asked.

"You!" Fleur gestured at her. "Your nose is all rosy and cheeks are pink, and it doesn't look like it's just from the cold." She said, pointing at her, slightly accusatorily, pointing between her nose and her cheeks.

"Yeah.. well, you know. It's almost the end of the year, it's cold." Elodie shrugged, sitting up slightly on her bed, looking across to her friend.

"You're lying! " Fleur half-yelled, and winced as she heard someone yelling about how much noise she was making.

"No - no I'm not! " Elodie replied, sitting up and shaking her head. She was lying, she had just gotten back from her walk with Fred, having said a quick goodbye to him outside the common room and literally running off.

"Yes you are! Your nose twitched and your playing with the end of your hair. You're lying and you know it!" Fleur was practically jumping up and down at this point. She gasped, pointing and covering her mouth. "You had sex!"

"No!" Elodie jumped up. "No, seriously, I didn't." She said, and Fleur narrowed her eyes, sitting back down on her bed.

"Fine then, what happened? Ronald asking me out can wait." Fleur continued, moving closer to Elodie's bed, practically hanging off the edge of her own. "So, what happened and why do you look all flustered."

Elodie hesitated, wondering just how to tell the story of what happened - just how much detail to leave in, and what to take out. "Well.. I was with Fred and..."

Elodie explained majority what happened, leaving out what was said, and the much more.. physical stuff. "And so, we almost kissed." She finished, and Fleur looked suspicious.

"That's what you're all hot and flustered about? An almost kiss?" Fleur narrowed her eyes again. "You went on a walk to the owlery, almost kissed and now you look like you're on fire?"

"Yeah pretty much." Elodie shrugged, trying to ignore just how suspicious Fleur looked. "It's just very close to kissing, and well.. I like him a lot."

"There wasn't of that dance practise stuff? You know with the lifting chin thing? 'Almost kissing' just seems boring in comparison." Fleur replied.

The blonde girl watched as Elodie's face went up in flames. They caught each others eye, and Fleur gasped, the champion jumping up out of bed, grabbing her pajamas and rushing into the en suite bathroom, and Fleur yelled as she heard the door lock click.

"What did you do young lady!" Fleur shouted. The water began to run, and the part-veela grumbled as she sat down on her bed, returning to her catalogue and wondering what her best friend had done in that owlery.

Meanwhile, Elodie was practically trying to wash herself away. Well, in a way. She was so flustered from Fred's actions that she didn't know what to do with herself.

Luckily, Fleur had decided to stop with the questions, and their conversation stayed mostly on the upcoming Yule Ball, until Fleur fell asleep, the catalogue on her face.

Elodie smiled slightly, slipping off of her bed and gently pulling the catalogue offf of her face, placing it on her bedside cabinet. Somehow, she got the covers over her best friend's sleeping body, before returning to her own bed.

With the lights dimmed, Elodie lay awake, the small window above her bed letting her see the snow falling outside. Despite her feeling so flustered from her date's actions, Elodie couldn't help but feel happy about it.

There was almost definitely something between her and Fred at this point, whether it was just a Triwizard thing, or a long term thing. Whatever it was, Elodie was going to enjoy it.

She would have as much fun as she could during the time between the three tasks. And if that meant flirting with Fred the entire time - then she was going to do just that.

Elodie liked to have fun, her time there would just be depressing.

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