Potions | | Theodore Nott

"I'm sorry." Lorenzo spoke to Astoria and you. "I wanted to tell you both as soon as I suspected the move, but I wanted it to be confirmed. I wouldn't told you two as soon as I told Cami, but it was easier to tell her than to tell you two."

"How? How was it easier?" Astoria asked, dropping your hand and starting to get mad at her best friend. "We are your best friends and all of a sudden, we aren't important enough to know about this!?"

"Are you even listening to me?" Lorenzo asked her and Astoria scoffed. "I only told Camilla because she is my girlfriend and it was easier to talk to her! I can barely even talk to you before you get mad at me, look at you right now!"

"Enzo, that's not fair." Camilla whispered.

"Is this some kind of joke?" Tori questioned Lorenzo. "You really think that you cannot talk to me? Really?"

"Yeah." Enzo nodded his head. "I can't talk to you without you getting pissed at me."

When saying that, Lorenzo had jumped up off of Camilla's bed and was raising his voice at Astoria, who has now joined him in standing up as she voiced her opinion more.

"Unbelievable." She chuckled through the frustration. "I'm only pissed at you right now because you don't talk to me! Enzo, I thought our friendship was more than this, I thought we could talk about things like this because of how close we are... well, I guess I was wrong."

"Astoria, wait-" Lorenzo said, completely cut off as she walked away from him and to the dorm room, walking out and slamming it shut behind her.

The room grew silent and Lorenzo sat back down and held his head in his hands, his elbows sat on his knees. He seemed so sad as well as frustrated, you weren't quite sure what to do or how to help.

Camilla was sat next go him, so she laid her hand on his back in attempt to comfort him, but it didn't work. You knew that Lorenzo would be alright and quite frankly, you were also mad at him and didn't really want to see him, so you stood up.

"I'm gonna go after her." You told Camilla.

"Okay. We'll be here." Cami told you. "Oh, and Dani, he didn't mean any harm-"

"I know." You nodded at her, gave her a tiny smile, and followed after Astoria.

You gently shut the door behind you and began to search the common room for your best friend. It took you a while, but you soon found her sat on a rather large window ledge in the middle of the corridor toward the boy's dormitory.

She was sat on the window ledge, staring out of it and watched the rain fly down the glass. She hadn't even noticed that you were there until you cleared your voice and sat down on the other side of the ledge to her.

Astoria looked at you for a moment before bringing her knees up to her chest, resting her head on the wall behind her, and then turning her attention back to the rain on the glass window.

You didn't say anything and neither did she, she just wanted to be in silence and so did you.

The two of your sat there for a good twenty minutes before saying something.

"I'm mad at him." Astoria spoke up.

"I know." You told her, looking over at her as she continued to stare out the window. "I am, too."

"I don't know why he did tell us." She said.

"Me, neither." You said with a heavy sigh. "I guess he just wanted to keep this a secret for a while."

"I guess so." She said, also sighing. "Me and Enzo have our little secrets together though, him and I have always been really close. I just thought he would tell me about this..."

Astoria and Lorenzo have always had their own little thing, it was the same for you and Camilla. Yeah, you were all friends and nothing would change that, but you were a lot closer with Camilla than you were Enzo, and Astoria was a lot closer with Enzo than she ever was Camilla.

They were inseparable, which was probably why this was hitting Astoria pretty hard.

"Do you want a hug?" You asked your best friend and she finally looked up at you.

She nodded her head, tears pooling on her waterline as you shuffled over to her and pulled your best friend into a warm hug.

The two of you stayed like that for a while.

•••

After about an hour of you and Astoria sat on that window ledge together, you and her felt it was time to go back to the dorm. She was getting cold and your legs hurt from being sat up there for so long.

The two of you walked back to your dorm together, getting ready to talk peacefully to Lorenzo.

"Hey, wait." You told Astoria before she had reached for the door handle of your dorm.

"What's up?" Astoria asked you.

"I can talk to Enzo any other time, you take this time now." You told her. "I don't care where you go, or even if you have to kick Cami and I out of the dorm, but you have to talk to him one-on-one."

"I will." She nodded with agreement. "Dani, thank you for earlier."

"You're my best friend, you don't have to thank me for being there for you." You told her and she smiled at you. "Now, come on."

You opened your dorm room and the two of you stepped inside together, Cami and Lorenzo quickly wrap up their conversation as soon as they laid eyes on the both of you.

Lorenzo stood right up, looking at Astoria as she looked back at him.

"Can we talk?" Astoria asked Lorenzo.

"Of course." Lorenzo told Astoria. "I think my dorm is empty."

"Perfect." She said.

You took Lorenzo's spot on Camilla's bed and the two of you watched and Enzo and Tori left your dorm room, shutting the door behind them.

"I can't believe he's moving." You sighed.

"Tell me about it." Camilla said, also letting out a sigh.

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