It's the first of December and it's the favourite month in Hogwarts. The first of December is when all the fun starts to happen, there's more activities and more things to do. It's the same for Halloween and Easter but Christmas is the favourable one.
We all gathered in the main hall sitting in our houses, everyone was discussing their plans for when they go home for Christmas. I extremely disliked Christmas because of my father, he mostly forgets I even exist, the only person that gave me affection in Christmas was Draco, but thats when we were kids, now we've grown up it isn't the same as what it used to be.
"merry Christmas" young Draco said handing me a badly wrapped present, the young me smiled at him taking it carefully "what is it?" young me asked excitedly, young Draco laughed "Open it and see for yourself". Young me started to unwrap the badly wrapped present to see a braclet. "a braclet?" the young me put the braclet on admiring it, Young Draco held out his arm showing a matching one "look! Matching brackets" he smiled brightly.
I looked down at the braclet on my wrist as I thought back to those times when everything was so much easier.
Dumbledore stood up and everyone immediately went quiet, usually Dumbldore would have to yell for everyone to be quiet, but today was different. "oh, how pleasant" he nodded, Dumbldore cleared his throat and looked down at the paper he was holding. "as you know, it's the first of December, and those of you that have been here for a while also know we have a special event that takes place at the start of the month till the very end" Everyone started clapping and whistling, Draco rolled his arm in the air chuckling as Blaise pulled him back, they both laughed. "Now, for this year's event its going to be different. This year, we're going to do a project, in pairs that we've already picked out for you, now let me go through the pairs first then I'll explain."
Atleast ten minutes went by and he was still going through Ravenclaw, I started to get bored knowing we were bound to be read out last. I looked over to see Harry staring at me, when I caught his glance he quickly looked away over to hermionie trying to act as if he was talking to her, I was confused but I shrugged it off.
Eventually he got to Slytherin, he started announcing the pairs in order so all I had to do was sit here and wait for my name to be called, I didn't have alot of friends in Slytherin other than my two rokmatesand I suppose Draco, so this could be a chance to make a new friend of I'm paired up with someone I didn't know. "Miranda and Samantha" they were a pair? That's so unfair. Finally my name got called out "Catalina and Benjamin Posrange" Dumbledore said looking over at the Slytherin table, I didn't know anyone called Benjamin so I looked round to see if anyone was looking at me, a group of boys were fist bumping eachother so I'm guessing one of those was Benjamin. Half an hour after we were all told to get into our pairs, I stayed put in my seat since I didn't know who Benjamin was, so I just let them come to me.
A few moments after someone sat next to me "Catalina, right?" it was a low voice so I was guessing it was my partner, I turned my head to see that he had brown curly hair, green eyes with freckles, I blushed a little at his beauty but it wasn't enough for me to fall for him. "now I will explain" Dumbledore held his hands out "
"you will spend time with your partner, then on Christmas you will go to one of your houses, and then for new years you go to the others" my heart dropped, my house? But my father, it'll blow my cover. "you look worried, its fine we can do mine first" Benjamin said smiling at me, I smiled back, it gave me more time to plan this out.
I was in flight class, we stood in lines mounting our brooms as the teacher walked and inspecting our posture one by one. She finally came to me expecting me to still trying to get my broom to levitate, she looked down on the floor to see I wasn't there, she looked up at me and was shocked "Catalinq Riddle? Are you-" she was gobsmacked, I smiled "flying? Yes I am". The teacher smiled "finally, I thought you were usless for this class, I was about to recommend you to the deputy head to kick you out" she laughed, I laughed nervously but I was angry, kick me out? I didn't even want to be here in the first place. "okay students, we'll leave it here for today" the teacher smiled, I hopped of my broom and walked back to my common room "hey, wait up!" a voice from behind me called, I turned around to see Benjamin, I smiled at him "oh, hello Benjamin.", he smiled back huffing and puffing "why are you sweating? You look like you just ran a 10k" I said, he smiled and chuckled while trying to catch his breath. "so, we're supposed to be spending time with eachother so I thought maybe we could grab a coffee or something?" he said whilst pointing behind him. It took me a few seconds to answer "sure" I looked up at him and smiled "I'll meet you here at 6?"
"it's a date" I winked and walked back to my common room, "a da-- Catalina i- come back a second!" I ignored him and kept walking.
I entered Slytherins Common room I looked over to see Draco standing there leaning against the wall. "where were you" he asked, I raised an eyebrow "in flight class? And I have a date tonight so I can't be distracted. I need to get ready" Draco looked at me as if his heart had been ripped out of his body and eaten "a date? Catalina no!" he grabbed me, I gasped from shock and tried to get him off "Catalina, you can't be distracted by some boy" he started to make his grip tighter "ow! Draco let go!" I started to cry, he looked at me and let go, then pulled me in for a hug "I'm sorry."