Cardigan

chasing shadows in the grocery line,

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Disclaimer: The summer flashback scene is taken directly from the Euphoria script, with some modifications. All credit to them! So, if you recognize it that's why :)

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Emersyn Osborne
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SUMMER BEFORE YEAR SIX.
UPTOWN LONDON
NOTT PENTHOUSE

I have a headache. I've been drinking. Theodore Nott and I have been hanging out all summer while we both were in London. It actually was fun to have someone I knew from school here.

After a really heated, intense make out session.. I pulled away. "Theo, I'm... I feel really drunk. I should just go home.", I said softly

He stops me, "What, are you joking?

I pulled away and walked towards my shoes, "No. I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what?" he scoffed,

I didn't even get a chance to reply.

Theo snapped, "Who the fuck do you think you are?"

I stop, "What?"

His eyebrows raised, "Well, this is literally the second time you've done this to me. So, if we're not gonna fuck then what are we doing?"

"Are you being serious?" I said in shock,

"You think you're here because I'm interested in you? In what you have to say? Or what you think about things, as if you're so fucking interesting?" he yelled,

I took a step back, I didn't even know what to say.

After a few seconds, he started yelling again- "Fuck, are you dumb? You came on to me, remember? And ever since then, you show up, you lead me on, and then you whine about your fucking boyfriend."

My eyes start to water, "He's not my boyfriend.." I interrupt,

He was talking about Draco. Fucking pathetic.

He continued, "Like, every time you start talking, I think to myself, who the fuck does this girl think she is? You are so fucking boring, Emmy."

I took a breath out, he was... drunk. Beyond drunk.

His palm came next to the wall, inches away from hitting me,

A sleeze ball smirk was on his face, "Hey, Emmy. Look, I'm gonna be honest with you, because no one else will." his hands cupped my face,

"Any guy who says he's interested in you beyond just fucking you, is full of shit. So good luck with your 'boyfriend.'" he pushed my face away, harshly.

I started crying. I just wanted to go back home to Mum and Dad.

Theo looked at me and laughed, "Wow. You're crying now. What else is new? Just go, Em. I'll see at school."
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I dreamt that I was at home. Back in my room at the Osborne Manor.

Daddy wasn't drinking yet and Mum was downstairs cooking. I was eight or nine. Right before I came to Hogwarts and right before Micheal died.