Chapter 47 – Struggles
We were lucky that the first full moon was clear of clouds, and we put the mandrake leaf under our tongue, repeated the incantation, pointing our wands at our hearts, and then went to sleep. With my spell in effect, we both woke up with the leaf still under our tongues... although we were drooling like some kind of troll. Then came the second challenge. Breakfast.
"This is... very bad." I groaned, looking for some milk and pastry to dunk into it. Anything that would make it so I can just slurp, chew very little, and keep my tongue from moving too much.
"It is..." Quincy agreed with a desperate look, as eating while keeping that damned leaf in its place was a hard-fought battle in itself.
"Shit... this is not what I expected..." I grumbled a little more before finishing breakfast and somehow managed to keep it where it should be as we headed to our next class in the greenhouses; herbology.
"I totally forgot about eating..." Quincy moaned the same way, feeling hungry as she barely managed to get anything down her throat.
"You need to chew on one side, tilt your head a little... It gets somewhat easier. So, this is our life for the next month, huh? Won't this leaf melt away or something?"
"It... it shouldn't. I think." Quincy added, thinking about it, "It would be illogical! Then how do you keep one under your tongue? And finish the whole process?"
"True..."
As we talked and walked somewhat weirdly, trying our best to keep our tongues as still as possible, I felt a push and almost crashed into Quincy. Looking around, it was Draco who walked into me purposefully, shoving me into her with his elbow.
"Oh, sorry, you almost kissed, didn't you~?"
"And what if we were trying to do it? Then what?" I asked angrily, as my temper was already unstable because of the Malfoys, and the mandrake leaf only added to the fire.