9 September, 1997 (10:41a.m, Tuesday)

this chapter contains
nsfw content i will
put *** where it begins

Scarlett was walking to her first class of the day, she was thirty minutes late and the hallway was completely empty.

She was almost to the class and she was dreading it, Divination was not her strong suit. In fact, it was rather-

She could hear footsteps behind her, it sounded like someone was running up to her, before she could turn around, an arm was wrapped around her, "Hey!" Theo Nott greeted.

She looked up at him and smiled, "Shouldn't you be in class?"

He shrugged, "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"I'm running a bit late."

She tried to turn left but Theo stopped her, "Since you're already late, I don't think it'll matter if you're a bit later, wanna go somewhere?" He asked her.

She smiled, "We've talked about this, I'm not hooking up with you in a broom closet."

He rolled his eyes, "Come on, live a little." He teased, "No one's going to walk in, the halls are empty. We can find an empty classroom."

"If we get caught, you're taking the blame."

He grinned, "Deal."

She looked down the hallway, there was still no one around, "Where are we going?"

"Muggle studies classroom, I heard Zabini say that the first years were going on a trip today with Professor Burbage."

"Okay, let's go." She took his hand and let him pull her towards the classroom.

After what felt like forever, the two stopped in front of the shut classroom door, Scarlett looked up at him, "What if there's someone in there?"

He grabbed the doorknob and pulled her closer, "See, no one's in there." He swung the door open.

...Only to be met with the eyes of twenty five first years and one unhappy Professor Burbage.

Scarlett held back a laugh, Theo was dumbfounded, he made an attempt to grab at the door and shut it— and maybe make a run for it, but Burbage was already at the door.

"What is the meaning of this interruption? I would hope it's not for what I think it is." She asked, looking between the two.

Scarlett turned red, "Of course not, Professor, we were sent to, um, grab books... for Professor Snape?" Her sentence came out as more of a question and she sounded more confused than she intended to be.

Burbage nodded, unconvinced, "I see, and what are your names? I don't think I've taught you two before."

Theo cleared his throat, before Scarlett could make the situation any worse, he spoke up, "Draco Malfoy and Astoria Greengrass."

Burbage made a hmph noise, "Slytherin's I presume?"

Scarlett nodded. 

"Thirty points from Slytherin and Detention with Snape tonight, might I suggest you two return to your actual classes now?"

Theo nodded, "Yes, Professor." He grabbed Scarlett's arm and lightly pulled her from the classroom.

Once they were far enough away, Scarlett burst out laughing, "Draco is going to murder you!"

"I wouldn't have even had to lie if you wouldn't have been such a bad liar!"

"We wouldn't have even been in this situation if we would've just went back to your dorm." Scarlett argued.

Theo rolled his eyes, "What's life without a little risk?"

Scarlett scoffed, "You're so annoying."

"You don't mean that."

"I don't." She smiled.

He looked over at the clock, "Want to ditch today?"

"And go where?"

He shrugged, "My dorm, your dorm, anywhere but class."

She nodded, "My dorm it is."

The two made their way to the Slytherin common room, no one was in there so they didn't have to hide their hand holding and laughs as they walked down the hall to her dorm, "I think a nap sounds like a good idea." Scarlett was telling him.

"You always think a nap is a good idea."

"Because it is!"

"Well we will nap then."

"Is Draco not going to wonder where you are?" She asked.

Theo shrugged, "I don't know, if he does I'll make up an excuse, I want to spend the day with you, it's been forever since we've had time to be alone together."

She shut the door behind them, "We won't have long, Astoria only has one class today, she'll be back in here in less than an hour."

"We can go to Hogsmeade then, we'll have a date." He suggested.

Scarlett frowned, "Theo.. You know we can't do that."

Theo sighed, "I know, I just wish the circumstances were different."

"Me too."

She sat down on her bed and reached out for Theo's hand and pulled him down to sit beside her, "I'm going to tell him soon. I don't want to hide this anymore."

Theo pulled her into him, "I'm tired of hiding you, Scar, I want everyone to know that you and I are together. I want everyone to know that I'm in love with you." The words came out before he could stop them.

She froze, did he really just say that and did he really mean it?

She turned to look up at him, "I love you too, Theo."

Theo smiled, "I wanted to tell you the night we first had sex but I didn't want to scare you away. But I do, Scarlett, I really love you. I don't have the best track record with relationships but I really do want this to work out, I want to marry you once this mess is over and I hope this isn't too soon to be confessing and I'm sorry— this is probably the least romantic way to tell you this, I just really wanted you to know."

She blinked, it was a lot to take in all at once, but it was how she felt too, she nodded, "I want to marry you too."

He had nothing else to say, he was thrilled, thrilled that the girl he'd spent so many years being in love with felt the same way he did, so he leaned down and placed a light kiss on her lips.

When he made an attempt to pull away, she grabbed his face and pulled him back to her, putting her forehead against his, she glanced down at his lips and back up to his eyes, he took it as his sign to close the distance between them, connecting their lips together for a longer kiss.

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He pulled her onto his lap and wrapped his arms around her waist, getting her as close to him as possible, when he parted his lips a bit to deepen their kiss, she took this as her opportunity to lightly bite at his lip, causing him to let out a groan. She leaned backwards onto the bed, pulling him down on top of her.

"We probably, really, shouldn't be doing this here." He mumbled against her lips.

"Come on, live a little." She teased, quoting what he had said earlier.

He smirked, "Fine, but if we get caught then you're taking the blame.

She raised an eyebrow, "My own words against me?"

He shrugged, unbuttoning his white shirt, "You started it." And with that, he pulled the shirt off, discarding it on the floor beside her bed.

She sat up, doing the same, pulling her shirt off and discarding it into his pile of clothes.

He lightly pushed her back down on to her bed and began trailing kisses down her body, stopping at the waistband of her skirt, he looked up at her, she gave him a nod, not quite sure what he was wanting to do, but wanting to find out anyways.

He pushed her skirt upwards and pulled her panties off, readjusting to where her legs were over his shoulders and quickly buried his head between her thighs, her hands found his hair and she began twisting and pulling at his brunette strands as she squeezed her legs around his head, while his tongue slid in and out of her.

She was so close.

She was shuddering as she canted her hips forward... He pulled his head away before she could come, she sighed in frustration, looking down at him, noticing that he was repositioning and settling between her legs as he gently thrust into her.

He whispered sweet nothings in her ear between every thrust and not long after, her muffled moans against his throat signaled to him that she had come, and with a final thrust he did too.

They laid in silence for a few minutes before she finally tilted her head up, her lips tickling at his ear, and she whispered, "I love you."

He was slightly out of breath as he wrapped his arms around her waist and held her close, "I love you too."
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authors note:
me 🤝 attempting to write smut again
BE HONEST GUYS is it ok

also guys i'm NOT old 😭 so many of you have commented and/or messaged me saying that you didn't realize that i was a lot older then y'all (bc i've mentioned having a husband a few times in my authors notes) but i'm nineteen guys, i just got married young. i got married 3 months after my 19th birthday 😭