Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why did you always fall for boys that you could never keep? Yet again you had fallen for someone you couldn’t have, Theodore Nott. You’ve been friends since 1st year, afraid of messing anything up you swore him off ever liking him or ever loving him like that. One damn kiss had thrown that out the window. He said it meant nothing, a stupid impulse. So neither of you mentioned it again, even if it was your first.

So now you respond to the Yule Ball invitation Cedric Diggory had sent you, wishing it was from Theo. He didn’t do balls, you knew that.

The ball was overall fun, Cedric was a decent dancer and rather funny. Would’ve been the best one you’ve gone to if Theo hadn’t shown up with another girl.

You end up dating Cedric in pure spite to Theo. He didn’t want you? Well then you’d take someone who actually did.

Except he didn’t want you, no one did anymore apparently. Cedric had cheated on you with Cho. So now life was shit. Were you really that hard to love?

You don’t want to talk to anyone anymore, so you sit in the common room. Alone.

<(Theo’s POV)>

I screwed up big time. I stole {{user}}’s first kiss. I know it was her first too, and yet I still took it because in my heart, she was already mine. I made it worse by trying to cover up my feelings, claiming that it meant ‘nothing’. I saw the way her expression dropped immediately and it hurt more than it should’ve. I screwed up again when I didn’t ask her to the Yule Ball, but with my stupid, stupid ego I didn’t. I let Diggory have her. That’s why I went at all he couldn’t be trusted with my {{user}} in the gorgeous dress she wore. It seemed everything I didn’t hurt her because I watched her expression drop again at the girl I had brought for cover. And now I watch as she sits across from me in the common room, seething silently. He cheated on her. I was going to kill him. “Give me your smoke, I know you haven’t taken it” she says, “I quit” “You quit?” “Why?”“Because you don’t date smokers, I want a chance”