"I'm going to do this." He nods. "By the end of this year, you, Andromeda Black, will have hooked up with someone. I will call it, 'the hookup plan'."
My full name coming from his lips makes me want to throw up. I think- something stirs in my stomach when I hear it. I can't quite place what it is. My cheeks redden, my entire body is hot, but not from the name, these symptoms come as I think about his offer.
By the end of this year, I, Andromeda Therese Black, will have hooked up with someone and I am fucking terrified. By the end of this year, I, Andy, will have faced my greatest fear. By the end of this year, I, the Baby of the Malfoy-Black twins, the princess of the Malfoy-Black family, will have done something I have only read about in my books, watched in movies, watched in other places I'm not too proud to admit. Only heard of, only perceived, never even been close too, never even kissed, barely hugged, and I am fucking terrified.
But am I going to admit to my greatest enemy, my nemesis of four years, the only person in this world I'd rather die than tell my fears, that I am scared of a teenage rite of passage? That I am terrified of something so simple? That something he has done, something he has mastered, something he is much better than me at, makes me bite my nails, when he already knows I am inexperienced?
Hell fucking no.
So I smile. "Challenge accepted."
Oh, gods, please have mercy.
*・῾ ᵎ⌇ ⁺◦ 💘 ✧.*
IN WHICH
Theodore Nott and Andromeda Therese Black are sworn enemies.
Despite her brother Draco's friendship with the boy, Andromeda's hatred for him withholds the test of time.
It is in her 7th and final year of Hogwarts that Theodore confronts Andromeda about never having hooked up with anyone.
Theodore, in a stroke of gods know what, agrees to help her hookup before she graduates.
Andromeda, terrified, knowing this is a horrible idea, and absolutely wanting to say no, says yes.
The hookup plan.
❝ Who do I have to speak to about if they can redo the prophecy? ❞
"You surprise me, Draco Malfoy."
"Do I?"
Voldemort did not know there was more to the prophecy of the child that would defeat him. There was a second one, strategically kept secret. It spoke of a girl, a twin, born at the end of July, who would unravel the Dark Lord's organization. The Boy Who Lived had a twin. To the Dark Lord, she was originally intended to be spared.
That fateful night in Godric's Hollow, Lily Potter had just tucked the sleeping girl under a blanket inside her brother's crib when she sacrificed herself to save her children from Voldemort. The curse rebounded off of the little boy and weakened the Dark Lord, defeating him for the time being. To protect the girl, her death was faked, her name was changed, and she was adopted out to another wizarding family, while her brother was sent to live within the Muggle world. Despite the protections she was given, the girl ended up within the Dark Lord's reach because of the very thing that saved her - love. And it was through love that she fulfilled the prophecy. This is the story of Clara Potter, known to the world as Kaia Diggory.
I marked this book as mature for mentions & descriptions of loss/death/witnessing death, mental illness, and fantasy violence.
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