Remember the day after a party, when you wake up with a clear head and fully clothed? That doesn't exist, ever. Not for Violet. Not for Theo. That's why Violet and Theo are in bed together, past eight in the morning. Violet is curled up into Theo's arm, completely naked from top to bottom while Theo is just in his undergarments. They both have no idea what they're about to wake up to. More specifically who they're about to wake up to.

Violet hums quietly as she moves her hand up and down Theo's warm chest and as she adjusts her head in the crook of his neck. He's quietly breathing into her hair, hugging her body over the bed sheet they're both tightly wrapped up in. They've been this way all night and not once did they push away or realize what was going on. For once, they feel normal but that's only because they're still asleep.

The sound of a hummingbird tapping on the window beside the bed causes Violet's eyes to bat open and shut immediately when the sun hits them. Then, she realizes what she saw the one second her eyes were open and she quickly opens them again and gasps when she sees Theo hugging her.

"Oh!" She gasps and covers her mouth with her hand before pulling the bed sheet off the both of them to only cover herself. "What did I do?"

Violet stands up, stumbling out of the bed to close the curtains from the sun that is giving her an even worse headache. She touches her forehead and notices that she's drenched in sweat with a really high fever.

Now it makes sense to say: Remember the day after a party when you wake up with the worst headache while you're fully naked in a mans bed? Yes, that exists and it's for Violet.

Violet spreads the bed sheet around her open and huffs when she sees her body naked and completely bruised up. She has bite marks on her thighs, along with some on her breasts and neck. Her stomach is covered in scratches and she can't figure out how she's going to get rid of them.

"What time is it?" Theo speaks behind Violet and she ignores him, continuing to walk into a walk-in closet and leaving him in the room. "I'm talking to you!"

Again, Violet ignores him and grabs a pair of his boxers before sliding them on with a black button up of his. She walks back out and furrows her eyebrows at him as he's fixing his bed and throwing out the blood-stained sheets.

"It's nine in the morning." Violet sighs and starts helping him tuck in the sheets and fluff the pillows on the bed. "I need clothes, to make it seem like I went home last night. Covering clothes for all these marks. Can you do that thing with your hand please?"

Theo holds his hand up and a stack of clothes appears in his hand, along with a pair of comfortable shoes. Instead of handing her the clothes, he walks away with it into the bathroom connected to his bedroom. Violet follows him and starts to feel her stomach boil up when she reaches the bathroom. She runs over to the toilet and throws up hot blood into the bowl, causing Theo to panic and hold her hair back for her.

"What the hell?" He gasps as he watches blood gush out of her mouth and splash disgustingly into the toilet. "Is that blood?"

"I'm burning up with a fever." Violet cries and lays her head on Theo's chest as he flushes the blood and rubs her head. "I feel like I'm boiling inside and I can't stop sweating."

"I feel the same." Theo gasps in confusion as he's still holding her and Violet pushes away to feel his head.

"You're burning up." She sighs and wipes away the sweat from his forehead, cupping his face with a sad expression. "Do you think someone at the party last night was sick?"

"We'll call a healer before breakfast." Theo groans as he picks Violet up and walks over to a glass shower and sets her down on the stone benches surrounding the drain. "For now, let's get you showered and do something about these marks."

*******

Theo was kind to Violet the entire time. She didn't have to stand up, she just sat and let the cold water run on her while he scrubbed her body and washed her hair. The blood she threw up earlier, it wasn't hers it was Draco's. It's probably his blood that made her sick along with the liquor.

Violet got dressed in all black today. Black trousers, a black turtle neck and a black sweater vest over the turtle neck. It's enough to cover her body from the scars that are healing because of a potion Theo gave her after her shower.

"Ready?" Theo asks as he extends his hand out to Violet and she takes it. "I'll apparate you outside the doors, you just walk in and head to the dining room, okay?"

Violet nods and holds tighter onto Theo as they turn into black smoke out of the room and woosh down in front of the large doors of the Manor. Theo apparates back inside and Violet knocks on the door and they swing open, allowing her to walk in. She holds herself on the walls, watching as the room fades away and then fades back.

"Merlin's beard Violet!" Cressida's voice beams through the foyer as she's running down the stair's towards Violet to help her. "You look so pale and sweaty! Are you feeling, okay?"

"I'm just a little light headed is all." Violet lies and holds onto Cressida as they walk into the dining room, bringing attention to themselves as they look away from Theo and his sweaty self.

"Gosh is everyone going to get sick?" Cressida groans as she sets Violet on a chair and goes to check on her father who's sitting on a chair in the corner with Pansy holding a wet towel to his head. "Did you call a healer already mom?"

"He's close by." Pansy replies and grabs another towel to go place it Violet's forehead. "Are you alright Violet?"

Violet nods slowly and takes the towel out of Pansy's hand to hold it herself. Multiple footsteps come into the dining room and Violet sees the Malfoy family with a healer in all red walking behind them. The healer and Draco rush over to Violet and the healer begins to take Violet's temperature.

"Are you okay?" Draco asks as he kneels beside Violet and watches the woman check Violet's throat for any signs of swollenness. "Is she going to be, okay?"

"It's nothing to too afraid of." The healer shakes her head and turns to look at Theo, not even going to examine him. "They both seem to have the same symptoms of Mono. A kissing disease spread with saliva from the tongue after kissing multiple people."

The entire room goes silent and Violet's stomach turns with nervousness that she grabs a bowl off the table and throws up more blood into it. How is she going to explain that she got mono because she kissed and had sex with her friend's father? Who by the way has his ex-wife in the room with them?

The silence stays longer and Theo has his head resting in his hands, scared and trying to figure out what to say. Violet's eyes land with Draco's and he's just frozen with shock and he walks back to Astoria, clutching onto her arm for dear life. At this point, Violet doesn't even want to look in Cressida's direction because she can already feel the anger radiating off her body. Cressida is so angry and it doesn't take looking at her to realize she wants to know what's going on.

"We shared a drink out of the same bottle." Theo finally breaks the silence and groans as he walks over to the healer and sits next to Violet. "Last night, we played a game of poker and Violet took a sip from my bottle. It was covered in my saliva after kissing my girlfriend, Elaine."

"He's right." Elaine chimes in, making Violet and Theo secretly thank her for covering for them. "I was with them last night. Sorry our relationship has to come out this way, but it's true."

"That happens." The healer sighs and sets down to cups with pills inside. "There have multiple Mono cases after shared drinks or unproperly washed dishes. Take these pills, get some rest and you'll be fine."

"Thank you, madam." Pansy sighs with an angry face and leads the healer back out before storming back into the dining room and stopping with a huff. "Elaine, take Theodore and Violet into a downstairs bedroom. Then pack your things because you're on a two-week suspension from this job."

"What?!" Cressida and Theo scream in unison and Cressida steps forward with angry stomps and heavy breaths. "You don't live here anymore; you have a husband and a new life. Elaine stay, mother you leave!"

"Pansy, leave!" Theo shouts with as much force and voice as he has left and Pansy runs out of the room with Adrian following closely behind her. "Elaine, help me up please."

Violet starts to stand up, hoisting herself on the table and Draco steps forward to pick her up and take her with Elaine and Theo to a bedroom. Astoria drops her purse on the table and storms after them with this angry look on her face that could kill.

Elaine leads them into a bedroom with two separate beds and both Theo and Violet get laid down on their own bed. Violet covers herself with a thick blanket and she doesn't care that she has shoes on, she's just so tired.

"We'll all be outside if you need anything." Draco whispers as he adjusts Violet's pillows for her and tucks her in better. "Just call us, okay?"

Elaine and Draco start walking out, but Astoria stays behind. She closes the door behind them and walks back to Violet's bed, putting her hand on the wall. She stays breathing heavily over Violet's body and there are tears of anger falling down her cheeks.

"I don't like the way you're in love with my husband." Astoria finally speaks, causing Theo to turn over in his bed with a shocked face to listen in. "He's a married man and you have a school girl crush on him. You prance around him in these provocative little outfits, dying for his attention. You're a little girl and he's twenty years older than you. You won't have him."

Violet stays with her back facing Astoria but she still talks back. "I don't love your husband Astoria. It's disrespectful that you come to my bedside while I'm sick and accuse me of such things when in reality it's your husband that's dying for my attention."

"How dare you –"

"Shut the hell up and let me finish." Violet interrupts Astoria and finally sits up with whatever strength she has left. "I was innocent before I met your husband! He flirted with me! He chose to provoke me! I don't prance around in provocative outfits for your husband! Believe it or not, I was fully clothed when I first met him and I still drove him crazy. So do me a favor, check your husband and get the hell out of my face."

Astoria huffs with anger and leaves the bedroom, slamming the door behind her and revealing Draco to be standing outside when she opened the door. It's possible he heard the entire thing but Violet had no other choice than to protect herself. Violet turns and covers herself again with her blanket, upset with everything. She sleeps with her best friend's father and gets Mono and then, her other friends mother comes to yell at her for being her husband's mistress.

"That was cold." Theo chuckles before coughing into the pillow and turning over. "I'm sorry you have Mono. However, I'm pretty positive you gave it to me because I didn't kiss Elaine."

"Shut up." Violet sighs and pushes a pillow to the side of her face. "I don't want to talk about Mono or kissing people. I just want to rest without arguing with anyone."

*******

It's been hours since Violet and Theo have gone to sleep and Astoria left the room. However, Astoria didn't leave and nor did Draco. They stayed back and argued the entire time in the living room. Both of them can't leave because Theo is sick and they have no one to take care of Violet, Thomas, and Cressida.

Violet bats her eyes open when she feels a wet cloth placed on her head. "Cressida?" She whispers and swallows with pain at how dry her throat feels. "How long have I been asleep?"

"Just a couple of hours." Cressida whispers back and presses the towel more onto her head. She looks down at Violet with these sad puppy eyes that even sad are still full of anger. "Did you kiss him? My dad, did you kiss him like the healer said?"

"No of course not. I promise I didn't." Violet lies and yet again swallows with pain. "I'm sorry I'm just so thirsty is there any water?"

Cressida grabs a glass of water from the side table and she holds it up two Violet's lips, holding her head up for her and tilting the glass. Violet closes her eyes as she drinks the water and finishes it, sighing with relief that her thirst was quenched.

"I believe you." Cressida responds to Violet as she sets the cup aside and makes Violet more comfortable. She moves Violet's hair away from her face and tucks it behind her ear. "You're a good friend, I know you wouldn't."

Violet parts her lips to speak but gives up and just sighs instead. She knows she deserves that she got Mono. She betrayed Cressida and slept with her father in her own home and now Cressida is here taking care of her while she's sick. Violet can't help but feel like the worlds biggest bitch right now.

Cressida and Violet's phones chime and they both laughs softly when they realize that the notification is the one, they always get when Mrs. Reality publishes another article. Cressida reaches for her phone and starts to read the article out loud for Violet to hear.

"Remember that time when you got married, had a child and lived happily ever after? Not most people do. Especially not a couple in particular, the Malfoys. We all saw how close they were last night at the Ball hosted by Theodore Nott. He bought her an expensive Victorian chandelier and she enjoyed it and took it home. However, as always, a chandelier is the cover for what's behind closed doors. You have probably guesses it already dear reader, the chandelier is a guilt gift because Draco Malfoy has been unfaithful. If it wasn't enough for Draco Malfoy to have an at home, beautiful wife. He had to go get involved with an unknown young woman."

Cressida stops reading and a large smile grows on her face before she bursts into laughter and uncontrollable blushing. "Oh my gosh!" She stops for a breath and covers her mouth to avoid waking Theo up. "Oh! This is golden. That girl must be really hot if Draco is getting it on with her! I mean he's never been unfaithful; gosh this is wow!"

"Keep reading." Violet sighs with fright and looks back at Cressida who's face is still full of shock and a big smile. "It sounds interesting."

"He had to get involved with an unknown young woman. There's no source as to who the woman is but she is a homewrecker as obvious as it may be. Did I say homewrecker? I mean a stinking whore who enjoys toying into a long marriage of decades. Many of us at the Ball last night noticed that Draco disappeared and was found by Astoria leaving a private room with lipstick marks on his neck. These days, men need to learn to be more discrete if they're deciding to be unfaithful. As always dear readers, another day, another drama. This is Mrs. Reality."

"I hate that woman." Cressida sighs and pulls the blanket off Violet. "Let's get you out of bed and feed you while we listen to the drama after Astoria reads this article."

Violet holds onto Cressida's arm and stands up from the bed as they both walk out of the bedroom quietly. Before they even reach the end of the corridor, Astoria's shouting can be heard along with Draco's groans of annoyance. Cressida and Violet continue to walk and they take a seat at the end of the stairs with Scorpius and Thomas who are listening to the argument too.

"I don't want you to see her anymore do you understand me Draco?"

"Has she said a name?" Cressida whispers and receives no's from the boys as they all continue to listen and be very quiet.

"What is it about her Draco?" Astoria cries louder than before. "Was that her lipstick on you yesterday or was it another hooker?! We haven't had sex in three years and you meet her and suddenly you're head over heels for her and she's leaving lipstick on your neck!"

Scorpius gags with disgust and shivers. "I did not need to hear that."

"I love her Astoria!" Draco shouts back, causing Violet's heart to stop and her jaw to drop. He loves her. What is she supposed to do about that? "I seduced her and now I love her! Is that what you want to hear from me?"

"You won't see her ever again do you understand me? When the school year finishes, you won't ever see her in your life! It's me or her Draco! Pick!"

"She's a student?" Thomas gasps and laughs as he turns to everyone else.

Cressida closes her jaw and rubs her temples with stress. "Who's he going to pick?"