TRAINING WHEELS | draco malfoy ✔️

38. the third task

TRAINING WHEELS--
THE THIRD TASK

038

Days passed where Amora pretended that Leon didn't exist and Leon did the same. He'd given up trying to apologise, realising that, for the first time ever, Amora was sticking to her word. Nothing he said to her seemed to mend the friendship he'd managed to tear apart, and so he was forced to watch her keep to herself, occasionally talking to the Golden Trio and eating with Cedric.

The third task was approaching quickly. Next week, it would all be over and done with. The thought filled Amora with an indescribable amount of anxiety. Whilst at the start she had tried to remain unbiased, she had to admit that, now, all she wanted was for her cousin to win the tournament. She would only be satisfied with second place if he lost to Harry, who she'd been seeing less and less of recently.

She was pretty sure that Harry, Ron, and Hermione knew Leon and Amora weren't speaking with each other, but none of them had bothered to ask. Amora wasn't sure what she would tell them anyway. She didn't exactly want to throw Leon under the bus and cause him to lose all of his friends. She still felt some sort of sympathy for him beneath her anger.

She supposed that she was able to sometimes separate her 'best friend Leon' with the boy who had nonconsensually given her Veritaserum to make her spill all her secrets.

"Come here." Hands grabbed her waist and pulled her close, lips hungrily attaching themselves to hers. "Mhm. Sweet like honey."

Amora's lips quirked up a little as she pulled away, rolling her eyes in amusement as Draco's fingers pushed back her soft brown hair. He seemed to admire her face for a few seconds as he brushed her cheekbone with his thumb.

"Leon been bugging you?" Draco murmured.

"Nope," Amora whispered, "I think he's got the message."

"Good."

Draco's lips attached to hers again, her arms flinging up to rest on his shoulders, her hands in the back of his platinum hair. Her fingers grazed his scalp, the taller boy shuddering against her. As his tongue swiped her bottom lip, a figure came around the corner of the desolate hallway and nearly rushed straight into them.

"Merlin's beard!" Cedric practically shrieked, looking as though he was about to vomit. "The two of you are getting lazy."

Draco wasn't the biggest fan of Cedric but bit back a sarcastic remark for the sake of Amora who was blushing furiously, embarrassed to be caught kissing her boyfriend by her cousin. Cedric adjusted the Hufflepuff tie around his neck and raised his brows at them.

"I could easily give the two of you a detention for skipping class," he muttered.

"Ah, but you love me too much, don't you, Cedric?" Amora teased him.

Cedric glared and ruffled her hair before looking to Draco and giving him a short nod of acknowledgement. She watched as he moved down the halls, smiling until his tall figure disappeared.

Draco studied the expression on her face and realised how much she cared about her cousin. Draco himself had a lot of family, some of which he didn't know nor intended on knowing, and he wasn't close to any of them like Amora was Cedric.

"Hey." Amora traced her fingers along his jaw, snapping him out of his trance. "Cedric is right, by the way. We are getting too lazy keeping this a secret. There was a one in a bazillion chance of that being Cedric, and we got lucky this time."

"Yeah, I know," Draco sighed, "Sometimes... I wish we didn't have to keep us a secret."

"Me too," Amora murmured, her arms wrapping back around his neck innocently as his hands held her waist. "Except I think about it all the time. What it would be like to walk through the Great Hall holding hands, or for our friends to get along. Not that I have many of those nowadays."