𝚝𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 ~ 𝚃𝚁

Taylor

Malfoy's tie was sagging, so I fixed it. We were outside of the entrance in silence. I awkwardly smoothed out his suit coat and sighed. He put his hand on the small of my back and we entered the big room. It was lightly decorated, in the corner, there was champagne, wine, cupcakes, and some other small snacks. There were tables on one side of the room and the rest was for dancing.

Slughorn approached Malfoy and me, obviously drunk already. He asked how we were and we had a light and dry conversation. I handed him a bottle of wine, courtesy of my grandmother, and we left Slughorn and split up.

I approached the table, which Louise was at, and poured myself a glass of champagne. I took a small sip and leaned into Louise's smaller figure. "I missed you, Loulou." She laughed and hugged me.

Our conversation carried on for a while, we continued joking and laughing to each other until some arms snaked around my waist and stole my glass of champagne. "If you drink too much of that you might get drunk."

I turned around and glared up at my boyfriend. "Stop mocking me, Tiernan, what if the goal was getting drunk?" I raised an eyebrow and he laughed, kissing my forehead and downing the rest of my champagne. "I feel like I'm third-wheeling now... I'm going to just..." Louise awkwardly walked away.

"I've already met your friends, now meet mine, not all of them are that bad." I leaned into him and sighed. "Fine. But if Rosier speaks one word to me and it's not 'Sorry for sexually assaulting your best friend' I'm leaving."

His hand went to the small of my back and we fell into a step toward the group of boys. In that group, there was Riddle, Malfoy, Rosier, Nott, Avery, and a few other boys I didn't know the name of. Rosier was looking at me with a face of either disgust or fear, Malfoy was just standing there awkwardly, as he usually does, Nott and Avery were looking at me like I was a piece of meat, and Riddles face was completely blank.

Lestrange protectively pulled me a bit closer to him and we sat down at their table. He introduced me as his girlfriend and Avery stopped looking at me like some kind of animal who hadn't eaten in days, Nott, on the other hand, didn't.

"Excuse me, Mister Nott, I'd appreciate it a lot if you'd stop looking at me like an animal in heat. You're making me feel slightly uncomfortable and if you don't stop I'll smash a glass over your head." I smiled innocently and he went slightly pale and took a sip of his wine. Tiernan chuckled. "Nice find Lestrange, she's feisty, I like it," Avery said and Tiernan nodded. I got up and patted Lestrange on the shoulder before saying "I'm going to go get another drink, since you drank all of mine, want anything?"

my hand and squeezed it lightly, "Yeah, get me a glass of red wine, will you?" I nodded and went on my way to the table of food. I poured two glasses of wine when I saw him. Luke. Fucking. Taylor. We locked eyes for an instant and I could see he was thinking about what he wanted to do. He decided it was best to approach me, again, sadly. I sighed and took a long drink of my wine, refilling it right after. "Funny seeing you here, beautiful. You look ravishing in that dress." Taylor looked at me just as Nott was.

I scoffed and looked at him in his sagging tie. "Actually, no, it's funny seeing you here. I didn't think an idiot who can't see when a lady is uninterested in you would be in the Slug Club" he licked the inside of his cheek as if he was annoyed, and I smiled triumphantly. I turned away and was about to head over to the table again when he grabbed my bicep and pulled me back. I tore my arm out of his grasp and slapped him. "Don't. Fucking. Touch. Me."

A protective arm fell on my shoulders and one glass of wine was taken out of my hands. I looked over to see Lestrange there, taking a sip out of the wine glass and glowering at Taylor. I leaned into Tiernan right before he looked down at me. "This guy bothering you?"