Under the moon - - Tiffany scenario pt 3
[a/n] sorry for the long wait and thank you to all the wonderful people who still read the stuff i spew out onto a digital page :) If you haven’t read the other two you should probably go read them, I’m not linking them so check my masterlist !!! Enjoy this installment kids and look out for the fourth and final part coming v soon.
Saturday morning you woke and rose from your bed, you groped around on the bedside table trying to find your wand and instead your hand knocked an empty mug. It clattered to the floor and with a resounding clink shattered.
“What in merlin was that?” Jessica mumbled, her face burrowed in a pillow.
“That was my favourite mug.” You said mournfully.
“It’s too early for this I swear.” Another 6th year Slytherin commented as she was donning her gown.
Waving your wand you cleaned up the mess of a mug, storing the fragments in the top drawer of your bedside table and you stepped towards your trunk from which you withdrew your Quidditch robes. Once you were fully dressed in your robes and only once you were dressed did Jessica begin to shuffle in her bed as she woke up. Unfortunately for Jessica though, you were an impatient friend and had no time for her lousiness so you dragged her limp form off the bed and stripped her of the covers. Lying on the now vacant bed was your Puffskein, he’d been missing for a while now but you hadn’t noticed it. The kerfuffle of Tiffany and Yuri filled all corners of your mind that you little friend Puffinstein (yes that was his name and no it was not an awful pun as Jessica declared) was all but forgotten.
You swiped Puffinstein off of Jessica's bed and began to whisper sweet nothings and apologies for your negligence to him, he seemed to not care as he burrowed into your neck and settle down for a nap. You smiled, glad all was forgiven and began to head to the Great Hall for breakfast; Jessica glided behind you muttering how lucky Puffinstein was for being able to nap whenever wherever and you could only roll your eyes at her.
“Do you ever shut up about sleeping?”
“Why would I?”
“Tch, go join your girlfriend for breakfast I’m not in the mood to talk to you.” You spat back at her and before Jessica could even stutter a reply through her violent blushing and visible shock you had sauntered off.
You knew inside you wouldn’t get far from the ice princess Ms Jung before she came to pester you and deny anything you told her about her Gryffindor fuck buddy but still that didn’t stop you from acting as if you could. On the next table over you could hear Taeyeon rustling through papers, presumably her revision sheets for the test later. Nerd.
Jessica's bowl clanked down next to you and she hiked her leg over the bench in a very unladylike fashion, as she stooped down to sit next to you she murmured in your ear
"Yuri Kwon, not my girlfriend, actually gave me some good intel that you might be interested in. Unless of course you still want to be a sarky bitch about everything."
You resisted for a precious few minutes, focusing rather on the grains of porridge as they swirled from the spoon in the wand movements you'd learnt.
"It's about Tiffany."
Your grip tightened around the glass as you brought it to your lips and gulped down the apple juice.
"She's-"
"What? She's what? I give up with your fucking games."
Jessica lowered her voice and conspirationally whispered "Someone told me she’s not doing so great these days - hardly speaks apparently, which I find hard to believe - and that she’d even been ditching her normal friends completely."
You flipped your bowl and the finger at Jessica before marching out of the Great Hall; behind Professor Snape could be heard yelling out punishments and threats to you but you continued on.
Marching all the way to the greenhouse.
*
Jessica remained in her seat and continued to pick at her breakfast as if nothing had ever happened. Students around soon realised they weren't getting any gossip anytime soon and focused back on their own lives, a small sigh released.
"tch Y/n always making a fuss of everything"
She gathered her robes and when she finished her bowl she stood up and left the hall in time with other students at her table. Together they all filed out and began to head off to prepare for another round of practices of Quidditch in their houses, Jessica had turned the corner only to hear a familiar nickname called out.
"Sica!"
She stopped in her tracks as if permitting the other to speak; instead though she was greeted with the sound of wooden soles tapping closer to her. Her former friendship group now surrounded her with their glares softened slightly. Taeyeon’s glance however remained accusatory, pupils tainted by betrayal and the kind of solemnity that stems from your best friend just upping and leaving.
Jessica bowed her head in shame slightly despite knowing it wasn’t her fault. Damn y/n for always getting her into these tight situations.
*
“Humbleness and respect is best in these kind of situations. I believe Miss Y/L/N that you owe it to yourself and to the rascals with you to take this opportunity as a learning point. There will of course be disciplinary action, you are no exception, however see this as a warning for now and a punishment of a ban from the quidditch game will follow if I am to hear of any further trouble from yourself. Understood?” With a spin on her heels and a clap of her hands Professor McGonagall was thundering off, giving you little room to agree or disagree with her.
You breathed a heavy sigh of relief and flurried off to the dorm to snatch your quidditch robes and get to practice before Madam Hooch had your head. Slytherin’s quidditch team was as notorious for its fouling as the 1473 Quidditch World Cup, some gryffindors even contested that Slytherin’s underhand techniques surpassed the 700 types of foul seen in said game - whether your teammates would ever concede was a different matter entirely.
Arriving at the stands breathless and mildly disheveled, you observed the final minutes of play for the Gryffindor practice session including their new upcoming ace Kang Seulgi, a somewhat wiry first year chaser with the speed and agility of Dragomir Gorgovitch. Her determination and concentration on the rather intense session showcased itself in her capability to keep up with the far older and more seasoned players on her team, not least spurred on as well by Bae Joohyun her doting fourth year mentor. A brief mental image of Tiffany in the stands with your scarf snugly wrapped around her crossed your mind and you physically shook your body to rid yourself of it, bewildered by such a thought you missed the clanking prescience of Jessica’s weighty shoes. Needless to say those vicious warlike shoes would be making a rather frequent appearance as Jessica’s second line of defence alongside the bludgers she hurdled at people - as she always maintained ‘being a beater means less crowd focus and more opportunity to gain advantage for the team’ and of course that advantage came entirely in the form of slytherin spirit fouling.
Madam Hooch whistled off the Gryffindors who grumbled but begrudgingly dragged their broomsticks with them to the changing rooms; now the proper play started and Captain Park Min-Young was quick to divvy up the teams and let loose the four balls into the pitch. The dodging and ballistic launching that succeeded truly exhausted you and the other members of your team and you wanted nothing more than to collapse under the blistering heat of the showers and then lumber across to your blissful four poster bed. Unfortunately for you a gaggle of girls stood unmoving in the changing room doorway and if there was anything you feared, it would be this sort of situation.
Jessica simply smirked and grabbing Yuri by the forearm headed off into the showers grumbling about how ‘unjust and frivolous’ the play was today - rich coming from her to be frank. Taeyeon’s reproachful glare began to irritate you and fire up your self conscious side again and you, unwilling to show any sign of vulnerability, soon looked away and tried to suavely say “So girls…..what brings you here? I’m guessing not the match play, even though- ”
“Of course not you jerk, it’s Tiffany.”
Taeyeon’s words, despite your best attempts to ignore it, stirred some strange emotion (most likely concern) within you; the facade dropped and you pulled the group to the side away from prying eyes. “What about her?”
“We assumed” Sunny began, “as any sane person would” Taeyeon interjected, “that you’d said something insensitive or hurtful and Tiff was just taking some quiet time to process everything and so we gave her space, except that she still hasn’t spoken and we’re beginning to think something seriously bad happened. She refuses to say anything or even write out an explanation….it would seem whoever did this to her really has a hold over her and you might just have been the last person we want to go to but Yuri claims you’re good at fixing these kind of things. So well, we’d really appreciate your help…when we track her down that is” Finishing her spiel Sunny briefly glanced down, in embarrassment you presumed, and as you were contemplating a response Taeyeon yet again cut in.
“Although we don’t need your help so no using this against us, clear?” Geez the midget could be scary when she wanted if you were honest.
Perhaps against your better judgement you promptly agreed, in fact definitely against your better judgement as you saw some of the girls within the group giggling at your eagerness. Jessica and Yuri, both seemingly now freshly showered (you refrained from commenting on this), sauntered over and almost immediately the gaggle were distracted by their new prey. Crude remarks (mostly from Sooyoung) and teasing comments were thrown towards the pair yet you still lingered on the thought that Tiffany hadn’t immediately told the girls it was you - scrap that, hadn’t told them at all. A strange feeling of warmth spread in your chest, quickly replaced by a heavy load of guilt. Now you felt obligated, not that you didn’t want to before, to un-silencio her (if you could at least) and so you snuck off in search of the library and however many books you could find on the topic of curses and how to undo them.
After a long long shower of course.
