CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY NINE
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The weekend arrived at Hogwarts with Saffron practically obsessed about that afternoon's match against Ravenclaw. Alexa had rarely seen her best friend all week as Saffron had devoted every free moment to her game plan. Alexa knew she probably wouldn't see her best friend until after the match, but at least it gave her time to concentrate on her reading. She was reading a book from one of her favourite authors that her mother had sent to her just a few days ago.
The Great Hall wasn't too crowded that morning because most students were having a proper lie-in, but Alexa had never been one for sleeping late. She'd dressed quickly, grabbed her book and headed downstairs for a breakfast of French toast and bacon. She looked up from her book to see the owl post start to arrive.
She hadn't heard from RJ since his secret visit and she hoped to receive a letter from him soon.
To her delight, an old barn owl plopped an envelope down before her. She grinned when she saw her boyfriend's familiar messy handwriting.
Alexa eagerly ripped into the envelope and she quickly scanned the contents of the letter. What she read, however, made the smile drop from her face.
Lexie:
I hope that you are doing well and that you aren't missing me too much. I think about you way too much. So much in fact, that my team mates have teased me unmercifully about it.
I can't stop thinking about that night in the Astronomy Tower. I did something that I'm not very proud of.
I told you that I was protected when in fact I wasn't. I didn't cast any spell- I wanted you so bad and I couldn't wait to have you.
It was crazy and reckless of me and I've felt guilty about it ever since. And thankfully, you haven't written to tell me that you were...well, that you were...you know...
"I can't believe him," Alexa muttered angrily. "Of course I wouldn't know yet..." she put the letter down and rubbed her temples.
Saffron led her team mates into the Great Hall. "Eat well, guys. You're going to need your strength today. But don't eat too much where you feel like you're going to be sick."
Imelda laughed. "Saf, how about you fill up our plates for us?"
"Very funny Melds," Saffron retorted, seeing her best friend sitting at the table.
She walked over and plopped down across from her. "Good morning, Lexie. Do you smell that? That, my dear friend, is fear from the Ravenclaws. They know that we're going to kick their...what's wrong?"
Alexa shook her head, too upset to talk. "Just read this..." she shoved the letter across the table.
Saffron took the letter and read it, her mouth dropping. "Is he a complete idiot?"
"God, Saffy... he didn't use anything!" Alexa said. "I can't believe he'd do this to me!"
Saffron shook her head. "Well, we know what he was thinking with!"
"Obviously," Alexa felt tears well up in her eyes. "What am I going to do?"
"It's been a month since that happened, right?" Saffron asked. "I-I think you need to go and see Madam Pomfrey, Lex."
"What should I tell her?" Alexa asked softly. "I mean... I'm really scared. I can't be... pregnant."
"I'm sure you're not," Saffron said keeping her voice low so no one else could hear. "But it would give you peace of mind and anything you tell her is confidential, Lexie. You're certainly not the first girl to go see her about that."
"I just can't believe RJ would lie like that, about something so important," Alexa said.
"I know," Saffron said angrily. "I knew when I opened the door that night and saw him that it was a bad idea."
"I wish I had listened to you," Alexa said softly.
"It's going to be okay," Saffron reassured her. "If you want to wait until after the match, I can go with you."
Alexa nodded after a moment. "Thanks Saffy."
"It's what friends are for," Saffron said smiling at her. "It's going to be okay, Lex. Either way, I promise."
"I don't know how I'll be able to concentrate on anything else now," Alexa muttered. "I want to kill him Saffy."
"You'll have to get behind me," Saffron said stabbing her fork into her French toast. "Out of all the stupid things he's done in the past, this one is the most idiotic!"
"I really have to agree for once," Alexa pushed away her plate. She was too upset to finish her meal now.
"Look, why don't you just go upstairs and have a kip or read your book?" Saffron suggested. "I'll understand if you don't want to go to the match."
"You'll really understand?" Alexa asked. "I want to support you but--"
Saffron waved her hand. "You've been to every other match. Don't worry about it. It's okay."
Alexa nodded. "I'm just going to sit in our room. Maybe I'll watch from the window."
"I'll be back as soon as it's over," Saffron promised.
"Okay," Alexa took her book. "I'm going to head up there now."
Saffron handed Alexa RJ's letter. "Don't forget this."
"Yeah," Alexa crumpled the note in her hand. She was so angry with her boyfriend at the moment she didn't even know what to say to him.
Ewan took Alexa's vacated seat beside Saffron who glared at him.
"What?" Ewan asked looking at her defensively. He pointed to his plate. "Lots of protein here, Saf."
"You blokes only think of one thing!" Saffron retorted.
"What?" Ewan looked startled. "What did I do?"
Saffron just shook her head. "And then you always ask questions like that when you bloody well know exactly what you did!"
"I didn't do anything..." Ewan replied. "What are you going on about?"
Saffron pushed her plate aside and stood up. "Be on the pitch in 15 minutes!"
"Okay..." Ewan said as Saffron stalked off. "Can anyone tell me what just happened here?"
One of Ewan's mates shrugged. "Maybe it's her time of the month..."
"Like you'd know anything about that," Imelda rolled her eyes.
Upstairs in the dorm, Alexa was curled up on her bed contemplating what she should do. She wished that she had a Muggle phone and that it'd work here so she could scream her lungs out at RJ.
She knew if she was Saffron, she would send a Howler, but she didn't want anyone aside from her best friend to know about what was going on.
Her eyes fell on the frame beside her bed. RJ stared back at her waving enthusiastically at her. "Wanker," she muttered turning the frame down.
From a distance, she could hear the roar of the school on the Quidditch pitch and she was glad that her roommates were there and not here badgering her. Beth and Mimi were convinced that RJ had been there and it was hard to hide things from them.
This morning, she'd been so happy and now...she was facing the possibility that she could very well be pregnant....at 16.
She lay in bed staring at her canopy for a few minutes longer before she grabbed a piece of parchment and began writing a letter. She did three pages in about fifteen minutes, telling him everything she was feeling at that moment.
The sad thing was, she thought as she folded the letter and placed it in an envelope, was that he probably would just dismiss her feelings. Tell her she was overreacting and that it would never happen again. But, she'd trusted him and he'd let her down and both of their lives could be changed forever because of it.
She set that letter aside and then paused a moment before starting another one- this time to Gabriel.
Gabe:
I know I haven't written in awhile, but I've been really busy. Not busy, but a little preoccupied, I guess you could say.
I hope me writing this to you doesn't make you very uncomfortable, but I desperately need a guy's opinion and there's no guy I'd trust more than you to tell me the truth.
Things with RJ and me had been going great. Even though I felt left out of his new life, he was so attentive and loving to me. He wrote some really great letters to me and I thought that everything was perfect. Until a few weeks ago when he snuck into the castle to see me.
Alexa wrote about their impromptu night together, leaving out the truly intimate details.
I trusted him and he lied to me, Gabe. I never thought he would do that. And now, I don't know what to do.
Again, I hope I'm not making you completely uncomfortable, given what happened over summer hols, but you're a good friend Gabe. I feel like I can tell you just about anything.
She signed her name and folded this letter, placing it into an envelope. She grabbed the letter to RJ and headed up to the owlery.
A couple of hours later, Saffron returned to their room, grinning from ear to ear because they'd won the match. She'd left the victory party on the pitch to check on her friend.
"How you doing?" Saffron asked.
"Okay," Alexa shrugged. "You won, I take it?"
"Thanks to yours truly," Saffron said proudly. Her expression turned serious as she took in the sight of her best friend. "Just let me get changed and we'll go to the hospital wing."
"Thanks Saffy," Alexa said. "It really means a lot to me."
"And then you and I can sneak to the kitchens and nick some ice cream," Saffron said grinning at her.
Alexa smiled. "You are the best."
"If more people would just accept that fact, think of what a happier world this would be," Saffron mused.
Alexa couldn't help but laugh. "Truer words were never spoken."
Saffron quickly changed into jeans and a sweatshirt and a few minutes later, she and Alexa were waiting to see Madam Pomfrey.
"Here she comes," Saffron said putting her hand on Alexa's arm for support.
"Please don't tell me you injured yourself, Miss Potter," Madam Pomfrey said sternly.
"Not me Madam Pomfrey," Saffron answered. "I'm fit as a fiddle."
"Then what on earth are you doing here?" Madam Pomfrey asked questioningly. "You know, you aren't in here nearly as much as your poor father..."
"She's here with me," Alexa interrupted. "Um... I need a..."
"Speak up, Miss O'Leary," Madam Pomfrey urged.
"A.... I need..." Alexa couldn't form the words.
"She needs a pregnancy test," Saffron finished softly.
Madam Pomfrey looked admonishingly at Alexa. "Miss O'Leary..."
Alexa couldn't even face the nurse.
"Right then," Madam Pomfrey said quietly. "Come with me."
"Can Saffy please come too?" Alexa asked.
Madam Pomfrey hesitated for a moment before nodding. "This way, girls."
"Thank you Madam Pomfrey," Alexa looked at her best friend.
"Sixteen years old," Madam Pomfrey said quietly. "Too young to be doing such things, if you ask me."
Alexa pressed her lips together and remained silent as Saffron reached for her hand and squeezed it.
"You are aware of the various protection charms, are you not?" Madam Pomfrey asked as Alexa and Saffron sat down on one of the beds. Thankfully, there were no other students in the hospital wing that day. "If not, we can go over some of the more elementary ones, Miss O'Leary. You young people think that you're invincible."
"I know," Alexa snapped. "It was an accident!"
Madam Pomfrey looked sympathetically at her for the first time since she'd arrived.
"They have been careful," Saffron said to Madam Pomfrey. "Except this one time which is why we're here."
"Please," Alexa said softly. "I just need to know."
"Miss Potter, if you'd just stand up so your friend can lie down on the bed," Madam Pomfrey requested.
"Right," Saffron said doing as she was told.
Alexa laid back, her hands trembling. She had never been so nervous in all her life.
Madam Pomfrey stood over her murmuring a certain incantation over and over again as she waved her wand over Alexa's abdomen.
"What does it look like Saffy?" Alexa whimpered. "Am I?"
"I don't know," Saffron replied.
"Well," Madam Pomfrey said a few moments later. "You're not pregnant."
Alexa breathed out a sigh of relief. "You're positive?"
Madam Pomfrey pocketed her wand and nodded. "I hope that this scare will teach you to be more careful, Miss O'Leary."
"I will be more careful," Alexa vowed. "He's not getting this opportunity again for awhile."
Madam Pomfrey nodded. "Take care, girls."
"Thank you Madam Pomfrey," Alexa said. "I appreciate this."
"I hope I don't see you in here again asking for this test," Madam Pomfrey said before heading back to her office.
"That was a close one," Saffron told her friend when they were alone.
"I don't think I've ever been this angry with RJ," Alexa said, her hands clenched. "How irresponsible could he be?"
Saffron shook her head at a loss for words. She wanted to make her friend smile. "Well, think of it this way. I don't plan on having children for awhile and we always said that our kids would be the bestest of friends, remember?"
"Right," Alexa said softly.
Saffron stood and up and held her hand out. "Come on. You and I have a date with some butter pecan ice cream."
Alexa smiled. "I'm so glad you're here Saffy."
"Of course," Saffron said with a grin.
"And ice cream sound perfect right now," Alexa said.
"And we'll get to hear Dobby serenade me again because of my mum," Saffron giggled. "He really goes a bit over the top."
"He's so cute," Alexa agreed.
"He is," Saffron said as she and Alexa made their way out of the hospital wing.
They walked in silence for a few minutes. "I just can't believe this," Alexa said. "I mean... I could have been pregnant Saffy. I could be having a baby because RJ didn't bother to protect himself."
"But you're not," Saffron said. "And maybe this will teach him that you can't be too careful with something like this."
"I really gave it to him in the letter I wrote earlier," Alexa confessed.
"Good," Saffron said. "It's good that you told him how you felt about it."
"You're lucky," Alexa said softly. "Andrew would never have done this to you."
"Lex," Saffron said.
"He wouldn't have," Alexa said. "And you know it."
Saffron looked thoughtfully at her friend. "I would hope not, but Lex...RJ still loves you. I mean he made a colossal error in judgment, yes, but he still loves you very much. I know that."
"I guess," Alexa rubbed her eyes. "I just feel so betrayed."
"I know," Saffron said giving her a hug. "But you guys will get through this. You've gone through so much together."
"Yeah," Alexa said. "But I'm still going to really give it to him next time I see him."
"I'll hold him down while you throttle him," Saffron said with a grin.
"I had a feeling you'd understand that," Alexa finally smiled.
"I never need an excuse to give RJ a hard time, you know that," Saffron said with a laugh.
Alexa giggled. "That's very true."
"We have that Hogsmeade weekend coming up soon," Saffron said. "We can ambush him then."
"He won't know what hit him," Alexa agreed.
Saffron giggled. "Revenge..."
Two Slytherin girls passing them smirked. "Revenge?" one of them asked. "Would you be talking about Nick Malfoy's revenge on your sister, Prefect Potter?"
"What are you two airheads talking about?" Saffron retorted.
"Your sister and our gorgeous new headmaster," the other girl smirked. "They're having quite the affair it seems."
"Annie, why don't you and Marianne go on your own way and leave us alone?" Alexa asked them. "And stop spreading rumours."
"Oh but they aren't rumours, O'Leary," Marianne said with a smirk. "We heard the two of them with our very own ears."
"Here's a newsflash for you, you half-wit," Saffron said sarcastically. "They work together. He's her boss. They have to talk from time to time."
"About everything in their personal lives?" Marianne asked with a knowing smirk. "And in her office, late at night with the door closed?"
"And what were you doing out after curfew?" Saffron asked folding her arms. "That's against school rules. I could take points..."
"Then take points," Annie replied. "But it doesn't change the fact that your sister is a cheating whore."
Without thinking, Saffron slapped the Slytherin on the cheek. "Don't you ever say anything about my sister ever again!"
Marianne shoved her. "Don't you dare slap her!"
"Don't you dare shove me," Saffron said rounding on her. Alexa tried to hold her friend back.
"Saf, they're not worth it," Alexa urged.
"Thirty points from Slytherin, each of you," Saffron snarled.
"And what about you?" Annie asked rubbing her cheek. "How many points do you plan to take from Gryffindor, you hypocrite!"
"You're lucky I only took thirty points," Saffron said angrily. "For spreading rumours about a professor AND our headmaster!"
"Why don't you just go cry to your mummy and daddy about how unfair it all is?" Marianne asked glaring at her. "That's what you do best, isn't it?"
"I think you've mistaken me for you," Saffron smirked.
"And what are you looking at, O'Dreary?" Annie asked. "You are such a follower."
"Would you like another thirty points off?" Saffron knew she was slightly abusing her power but she didn't care. "I suggest you two be on your miserable way before I have to report you both."
"I'm going to tell Professor Snape about this," Annie said haughtily before grabbing her friend by the arm and leading her away.
"What a stupid bitch," Saffron said furiously.
"They're such cows," Alexa agreed. "Starting rumours like that about Julie and Headmaster Wood."
"I hate them both," Saffron said scathingly. "I'm going to tell my sister about this."
"Good idea," Alexa said. "Saf, I can't believe you slapped her..."
"I really didn't mean to," Saffron confessed. "But when she called my sister a..." she shook her head. "I can't even say that about Jules."
"Julie would never cheat on Nick," Alexa said quietly. "She and the headmaster are just really good friends."
"They are," Saffron said. "They really are. Julie told me all about it last time we had lunch together. She's been having trouble with my niece and sometimes it just helps her to talk to someone outside the family."
"Katie?" Alexa asked.
Saffron nodded. "You've got to swear you'll never tell anyone this..."
"Of course," Alexa promised.
"Katie's got dyslexia," Saffron lowered her voice. "And she's been taking out her frustration on Julie."
"No wonder Julie has looked a little preoccupied these past few weeks," Alexa said thoughtfully.
"It's been really tough on her," Saffron replied. "Nick tried to make a deal with Katie that she'd work on her reading 4 days a week but she hasn't been living up to it apparently."
"This can't be easy for her," Alexa said sympathetically.
"It really isn't," Saffron agreed as they reached the kitchens. "That's why those stupid Slytherin bints making up rumours pisses me off so much."
"They're just looking to cause trouble," Alexa said. "Anyone who knows your sister knows she wouldn't do this..."
"Oooh!" they heard a familiar voice say behind them. "Saffron Potter Miss!"
Saffron couldn't help but smile at the little elf. "Hello Dobby."
Alexa smiled as the elf wrapped his arms around Saffron's leg and beamed up at her. "Have you come to see, Dobby?"
"Yes," Saffron laughed. "Just to see you, Dobby."
Dobby twirled around happily. "Mister Harry Potter's little girl came to see Dobby!"
Saffron was pleased to see her best friend giggle at the little elf's antics. "Hey Dobby? Have you got any ice cream here?"
Dobby stopped twirling and scratched his chin. "Chocolate? Strawberry? Vanilla? Butter Pecan? Black Currant? Pistachio? Rocky Road? Chocolate Chip?"
"Dobby," Alexa protested as the elf snapped his fingers at each flavour. Large tubs of the ice cream appeared on one of the large tables.
"Oh my goodness," Saffron replied. "Um... we don't need that much, Dobby."
"Really," Alexa said nodding. "We just wanted a small bowl..."
"Dobby can do that," the elf said eagerly, snapping his fingers again.
"Mister Harry Potter told me to look after his girls," Dobby said happily producing two bowls of ice cream. "Dobby won't let Mister Harry Potter down."
"I'll have to tell my dad about how great you are," Saffron said.
"Harry Potter freed Dobby," Dobby told Alexa as if she hadn't heard the story hundreds of times before.
Alexa nodded. "I think that's lovely."
"And Harry Potter's love gave Dobby money," Dobby continued happily. "Now Dobby can buy presents for Winky!"
Alexa smiled. "What did you buy her, Dobby?"
If Dobby could have blushed, he would have. "Flowers," he said. "And socks... many, many socks."
"That's very sweet," Alexa said. "I'm sure she's very happy."
"Does your Wheezy give you socks?" Dobby asked Alexa.
Alexa's smile fell from her face. "Um... no... No socks."
"Oooh, ring!" Dobby exclaimed seeing the one on her finger. "Your Wheezy give you that?"
"Yeah," Alexa replied.
Dobby beamed at her before going off to join Winky.
"Lex?" Saffron asked.
"Hm?" Alexa twisted the ring around her finger.
"Don't be sad," Saffron ordered. "Come on, we're not going to think about boys at all today."
"I can't help it," Alexa said. "I mean... he's so sweet, sneaking in to see me, giving me a promise ring... and then he goes and messes everything up."
"He did tell you," Saffron said quietly. "I mean, he didn't have to..."
Alexa looked at her friend. "I'm surprised you're sticking up for him," she said.
Saffron shrugged. "So am I, but even with all his faults, he does love you, Lexie. And he did a completely boneheaded thing, but I think it does say something for him that he did tell you. He could have kept it secret."
"I guess you're right," Alexa stirred her ice cream around. "But I'm still glad I gave it to him in that letter."
"I am too," Saffron said. "You've come a long way from that shy girl who wouldn't speak two words to him without her cheeks turning bright red."
Alexa smiled. "A lot has changed for me..."
"And don't you ever tell him that I took up for him," Saffron said with a grin. "Because I'll deny it."
Alexa giggled. "It's our secret."
Back in London, RJ was lying on his bed staring up at the ceiling. Alexa's letter was unopened on the bedside table. He was scared to read it, but truth be told, he was glad it wasn't a red envelope. That was a good sign at least.
"RJ," Andrew called out from the other room. "You want to go down to the pub with me and the guys?"
"Um..." RJ thought for a moment. "I'll meet you there in a bit?"
Andrew came into the room. His friend's hair was a mess and he hadn't shaved in a few days. "You look like shite, mate. You aren't still upset because of that match, are you? That was over a month ago, RJ. You haven't lost a match since..."
"It's not that," RJ ran his hands through his hair. "I just... I did something really horrible and I feel like shite for it."
"Did you shag Serena Starr?" Andrew asked point-blank.
"No," RJ replied. "I just... you remember that night after the match how I snuck into Hogwarts to see Lexie?"
"I still can't believe you did that," Andrew said quietly. "But what about it?"
"Lex and I slept together... and I told her I was protected when I really wasn't," RJ muttered.
Andrew gaped at him. "And I take it she wasn't..."
RJ shook his head silently.
"Is she---" Andrew asked. "Is she....or is it too soon to tell?"
"I don't know." RJ replied. "I haven't opened her letter yet."
"Why not?" Andrew asked.
RJ shrugged. "Nerves..."
Andrew shook his head. "Grow some and open the damn letter, RJ."
RJ glared at his friend before snatching the letter and ripping it open.
RJ:
This morning, I woke up as I usually do. I looked at that photograph of you and me from your sister's wedding. I told you how I have it right beside my bed so that your face is the first one I see every morning. Well, after reading your letter, I can't bear to look at it.
RJ almost tossed it aside but Andrew grabbed his wrist. "Read it," he said sternly.
RJ took a deep breath before continuing.
How could you lie to me like that? It would have taken 30 seconds for one or both of us to do that charm, but you didn't care, did you?
He read the rest of the letter in a subdued voice and Andrew gave his best friend a look. "You know you deserved every word of that, right?"
RJ nodded wordlessly.
"You'd be lucky if she forgives you for this," Andrew said.
"I shouldn't have told her," RJ said quietly.
"And nine months down the line, if she pops out a kid, don't tell her then either?" Andrew asked sharply.
RJ glared at him. "She's not pregnant, Andrew. It was just that one time."
"You don't know that," Andrew pointed out. "She didn't tell you if she was or wasn't in the letter."
RJ got to his feet and walked over to the window. "I can't be..."
"If I were you," Andrew said thoughtfully. "I'd owl her back and apologise some more. You're really going to have to make this up to her RJ."
RJ was silent as he looked out the window to the street below. He was far too young to be someone's father. Getting married so young was fine for Jon, but it wasn't what RJ wanted.
"Look," Andrew said. "You know if she's pregnant, I'll be here for you both."
RJ turned around and looked at his friend. "I think I will go with you to the pub."
"Aren't you going to write her back?" Andrew asked.
RJ shook his head. "Not now."
"When?" Andrew pressed.
"Leave it, Andrew," RJ said angrily. "I'll write to her when I know what to say, alright?"
Andrew held his hands up. "Fine," he replied. "But you realise that you can't just ignore this and it'll go away, RJ."
"WHATEVER!" RJ roared. "I'll take care of it, all right?"
Andrew sighed. "Fine."
RJ pulled a jumper on as they left the flat. "Where are we going?"
"I told Derek and Jason we'd meet them at The Trafalgar," Andrew said quietly. He wished he could knock some sense into his best friend.
"Cool," RJ nodded, walking ahead.
"We don't have to go," Andrew said. "We could go to a film or maybe to see your uncles..."
"The pub is fine," RJ quickened his pace. The sooner he could get pissed, the better off he'd be.
They walked the rest of the way to the pub in silence. Derek and Jason were already there.
"You won't believe what this sorry arse has done," Derek said to them. "Jason took leave of his senses and asked Monica to marry him..."
"Whoa!" Andrew exclaimed. "That's fantastic mate!"
"What the hell did you do that for?" RJ asked.
"I love her," Jason answered.
"You're 18 bloody years old," RJ said shaking his head.
"So what?" Andrew asked. "I think it's fantastic."
"What can I get you to drink?" the bartender asked cutting off RJ's retort.
"A round," Andrew said. "On me!"
Jason grinned. "I can't get pissed though. Monica and I are going over to her parents' later."
"One or two shots won't kill you," Andrew joked.
"Okay," Jason said clapping Andrew on the back.
RJ stood back and couldn't believe this. Jason was getting married? This was all too much. "Could you be quick about it?" he asked the bartender.
"Hiya," a soft voice said from behind. "I had a feeling you'd be here."
RJ turned. "Serena," he said in surprise. "What are you doing here?"
She put her arms around his neck. "Waiting for you," she whispered in his ear.
Andrew turned and glared at his best friend. "RJ," he said coolly.
"RJ's a big boy, aren't you, RJ?" Serena asked nuzzling his neck. "You don't need Andy's permission, do you?"
"Hell no," RJ said, grabbing his shot off the counter and downing it.
Serena grinned triumphantly at Andrew. "I'll make sure he behaves, Andy."
Andrew only shook his head.
An hour later, Andrew was playing a game of billiards with Derek and Jason. RJ was nowhere to be found, but every so often, he heard Serena's shrill laughter.
"He's an idiot," Andrew said. "He's got Alexa but he lets Serena hang all over him."
"That's not all he's doing," Derek said motioning with head to the bar. "Look..."
Andrew whipped his head around, his eyes nearly bugging out at the sight in front of him.
RJ and Serena were kissing like there was no tomorrow. Andrew pushed his way through the crowd and tapped his friend on the shoulder. "RJ."
"Shove off," RJ muttered before pressing his lips back to Serena's.
Andrew grabbed his friend by the arm. "RJ, do you remember Alexa? Sweet girl? Red hair, brown eyes? Do you remember any of that?"
"Um..." RJ slurred.
"RJ," Serena purred, but he pushed her away.
"Come on," Andrew said shortly. "We're going home."
RJ nodded and Serena could only watch in dismay as Andrew and RJ left the pub.
"What the hell were you doing?" Andrew asked furiously. "Do you realise you were just photographed snogging Serena? It's going to be all over the papers!"
RJ struggled to keep his balance. "Lexie..."
"Yeah you just cheated on your girlfriend," Andrew pulled him along.
"I-I didn't mean to," RJ mumbled.
"Well you did," Andrew yanked him up the stairs to their flat.
RJ stumbled on the steps. "Lexie."
"You need to lie down," Andrew said. "And once your head clears you'd better figure out how you're going to apologise for this too."
RJ nodded and collapsed in a heap on the sofa once Andrew had opened the door and drug him inside. He honestly didn't know why he had done what he had.
Andrew disappeared for several minutes in the kitchen and then came back with a goblet full of sobering potion. "Drink this," he said.
RJ took the goblet with unsteady hands, but did as Andrew asked.
Andrew watched his best friend drink the contents. "Sleep it off a bit," he said.
"I might be someone's father," RJ said sleepily as he lay back down on the sofa.
"Yeah," Andrew shook his head. He wondered if he should write to Saffron about what had happened.
"Baby," RJ slurred before falling asleep.