tippest och Unicornhorn [PRS]

Noel sat there, leaning against the tree, and watched the playing first-graders in the school yard. It did take his mind of things for a while; but once in a while it just came back. After some time he looked down at his arm, where he had his watch. It was time for lunch. Which meant that he had to face Audrey. He really wasn't ready for it. He wasn't even sure that he'd ever be ready to face her ever again.

After some time arguing with himself inside his head he stood up and went to the Entrance Hall. Hopefully Audrey would turn up and be like "hey, I don't want to keep the baby!" and everything would be fine again. But that wouldn't happen.

Audrey wiped her eyes. Not that it helped, they were puffy and red. God, crying was so annoying. She stood up, and walked back towards the castle. She didn’t want to see Noel, but she had to. She sighed, and went into the Entrance Hall. She saw him standing by the wall. A big part of her wanted to just leave. Go tell Dumbledore what had happened, and leave Hogwarts for good and do something else. But she needed education. She went up to Noel, but didn’t say anything – what was she going to say? She knew he didn’t want the baby, but she wanted to. She didn’t want to have that conversation again.

He just nodded at her when she arrived. She hadn't said anything herself; she made it quite clear that she didn't want to talk. He walked in to the Great Hall and sat down, before looking around him. No one was staring at them anymore. It was nice, really nice. But he could only imagine the staring when they found out about Audrey being pregnant... His thoughts wandered away for a while but they went back to Audrey again He turned to look at her, although he immediately wanted to turn away again. Looking at her was hard. He felt ashamed when he looked at her.
"You okay?" he asked after a while, his voice a bit hoarse.

Audrey walked into the Great Hall, with her mind full of thoughts. She tried to take in the room, looking at the people in there, but it was as if her brain didn’t register. She sat down and filled her plate with food, even though she didn’t feel like eating at all. She had to, though, since she now ate for two. She registered that Noel spoke, but it took a few seconds to hear him. She looked up, meeting his eyes. Her eyes were a mess, she just wanted to leave and be alone again, she couldn’t do that, however.
“I’m fine. I’ll talk to Dumbledore after dinner” she said, and her voice was quiet and expressionless. She hesitated but spoke again.
“How about you?”

He ignored her question when he saw her eyes. Had she been crying? Crap. He'd really been a dick. A douche. A scumbag. Every synonym to dick, really.
"You're obviously not fine", he stated, nodding in the direction of her eyes. "I'm not blind." He ate another bite of his food before quickly looking up at her again.
"You want me to follow you to Dumbledore?" he asked. He probably should follow, considering that he was the father. Or was going to be. He wasn't a father yet, luckily.

Audrey shook her head.
“Let me rephrase that; I’m as fine as I can be, considering I’m growing a baby in my stomach and the person with half of the responsibility wants nothing to do with it” she said, still expressionlessly. She shrugged.
“Do whatever you want, go with me or not. It’s your decision” she said and took a bite of her food. She chewed it slowly, her thoughts spinning away again. A horrible thought had just popped up; what if parenting was genetic? If that was the case, she would be a truly horrible mother. She swallowed her food and stared at her plate, blinking, trying to force the tears back into her tear canals. She looked up at Noel again. She had sounded a bit harsh, but to be fair, she was filled with feelings and didn’t know what to do.

..Ouch. She wasn’t lying, though.
“I’m sorry”, he answered, not trying to defend himself. He knew that he had been rude, and a dick, and he wasn’t going to make it sound like it was okay or anything. “Do you want me to follow you?” He looked down at his plate before looking up again, around the Great Hall. He saw William; although in a deep conversation with a slytherin girl, whom he didn’t know the name of. He became jealous. Jeez, Noel, could he just stop? He was going to be a dad, and there he was, being jealous over his crush talking to someone else than himself. Hell, he needed to stop being such a teenager!

Audrey took a sip of her drink. She followed Noels gaze. What was up with him and William? Something had happened, because Noel was being weird and all. She wondered what. Probably not a fight, because then they wouldn’t speak with each other. She stood up and shrugged.
“As I said, your pick” she said and pulled her hand through her hair. She took two steps from the table and turned around towards Noel.
“I’m leaving as you might notice, so pick fast” she said with a little smile, showing that she still could be fun and nice.

He ate up his food and looked away from William. Audrey grabbed his attention by standing up. Did he want to follow her? He knew that it was his responsibility; but still, he didn’t have to do it. Not if he didn’t care about being a decent human being.
“I’m coming”, he said and took the last sip of his drink and stood up.

Audrey nodded and started walking upstairs. She took a left and found herself in front of Professor McGonagall’s office.
“I changed my mind, I might not have to talk to Dumbledore, maybe McGonagall is enough” she said and knocked on the door. After a few seconds, Professor McGonagall opened the door.
“Miss Swan. And Mr McFlynn. Do you need anything?” she asked and Audrey nodded.
“I need to speak with you” she said, and McGonagall looked at her for a few seconds, and nodded. She moved to the side, so they could walk in. Professor McGonagall sat down behind her desk, and Audrey on a chair.
“Well, I need to talk to you about me being…. Pregnant” she said and McGonagall got a shocked look at her face, for just a second, before turning professional again. She cleared her throat.
“Well, I see. I suppose you are the father, Mr. McFlynn?” McGonagall asked, looking over at Noel.