Young Warrior

Chapter 23 - The Next Morning

I woke up to my head pounding and my body weak. I didn't want to leave my bed yet, it was too comfortable. I rolled around in the sheets and I noticed something...the feeling of the sheets, they were different?

I opened my eyes and looked at the different bedsheets on me. I then picked my head up and looked around.

This was not my dorm.

How the hell did I get here? What happened last night? I don't remember anything after Cedric passing out. I slap my forehead which I instantly regret after I winced out of pain. So this is what a hangover is like.

I got up from the bed and walked around the room looking for my shoes. Then I noticed a Slytherin sweatshirt on the chair in the corner.

Slytherin?

When I find my shoes they're laying next to a nice clean Slytherin robe. Am I...am I in the Slytherin dorms? I silently curse myself. I put on my shoes as quickly as possible. I was slipping on my last shoe when the bathroom door opens.

I hesitantly turn around to see a girl with big blue eyes, dark brown wavy hair, and big full lips. I stumble back a little bit. I recognized her...she was one of the people I seen haging around with Malfoy. She must be new.

"Oh shit. Sorry I kind of forgot you were here." She said to me as if this was normal.

I lightly chuckle but you could hear the concern in my laugh. She looks worried, "Do you um...remember anything from last night?"

My eyes flash away from her to look around the room and then back at her a few times. "No...Can you tell me what exactly happened?" She walked over to me and sat on the bed looking a little frantic.

"Well, I saw you were really drunk and that you could barely walk and that you were alone....so I took you up here."

I can feel the worried expression on my face, "Did I– we....um...do anything?" I question her and she let out a laugh.

"No! No we didn't. Ugh screw this I'm telling you what really happened. Last night Malfoy had—"

I interrupt her "Malfoy?? What the hell does he have to do with this?"

"Yes I know he's annoying but he's the one that brought you up here last night. He told me to let you sleep in here because you couldn't walk. I mean you were really drunk. Even I don't get that plastered" I laughed naturally. She seemed pretty nice.

"Weird he would do that. Thank you though, I appreciate it. I'm also sorry it was my first time drinking." I put my head in my hands out of embarrassment.

She laughed, "No it's fine, you passed out anyways. At least you're not one of those drunks that won't shut up. You're a quiet one." She joked and it made me feel better. Her personality was just warming.

"I guess that says a lot about me." I joked back.

She laughed, "You're actually pretty cool. You want to come to breakfast with me and my friends? I mean if you're up for sitting with Slytherins. Draco told me you're a Gryffindor."

I gulped, I really wanted to. I don't mind Slytherins but I worried what Harry or Ron or even Hermione would do if they saw me anywhere else besides the Gryffindor table.

They hated when me and Malfoy had gotten close last year but they were still supportive, well as supportive as they could be.

"Sure, but only if you have something for this bloody headache." She laughed, "Yes I have a potion for that, I also have some clothes you can borrow because I'm sure you don't want to go to breakfast in a red dress."