hang me out to dry // Lizzie and Lucas

[ETHAN GIDEON WHITE]

Ethan was excited for the trip. Although Lizzie Finnigan had yet to have given him an answer on what she wanted to do. He wanted to give a relationship with her a definite try but she didn't seem so keen on that idea. The seventeen year old had grabbed his luggage and was taking it upon himself to set up his room without his roommate. Ethan liked to be in control of situations. He'd always been in control of situations. Maybe this is what was so hard waiting to find out what was going on in Finnigan's head. Oh how he wanted the agony of waiting for her to make a decision.

He'd walked up and opened his door. He picked his bed and quickly flicked his wand making his bed just the way he wanted it. He pulled out a favorite blanket from home, for a rather cold human being he loved the comforts of home. This was his personal secret. He had a blanket that he slept with every night, a blanket that has been a prized possession for years. The wear and tear showed on it as well. There were holes that lined the seams of the blanket and he carefully tucked it under the pillow hoping that none of it would show. He was quite the baby without that blanket. It'd been through many times with him, many big moments in his life.

Ethan smiled as things looked the way he wanted them to. He'd carefully unpacked his neatly folded clothes and slid them into the bedside table before sliding his luggage underneath the bed. Whilst he was working on making things look proper for himself he hadn't really realized that he'd left the door wide open. Anyone, literally anyone could just walk in and see him arranging things very personally. Ethan didn't show this side of him to anyone, even his own siblings had no idea that he could be so very particular about his arrangements.

He focused on this while thinking about the girl he confessed his love to, the girl who wanted to think about it. Typically that meant a no. He felt like a hole had opened deep with in his heart that the could try to close but it would never become of anything, the hole would stay open and that feeling would always hang tight in his heart. Maybe he was beginning to regret the decision to tell her about his feelings, maybe he felt like he should have never said anything at all. Instead kept it all inside and started dating someone a bit more respectable for himself, some girl in Slytherin, that would have been smart. Ethan isn't exactly smart though. No, he allowed himself to fall for a halfblood Gryffindor of all people, one that would probably never love him back.

A sigh escaped his lips as he sat upon his chosen bed and his hand moved under the pillow for the tattered blanket, a comfort that he needed right now. A soft side of Ethan was shown, a soft side that even he didn't know that he had.

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Tagged: LUCAS RYAN MACMILLAN @eliza
Notes: Just saying it would be pretty awesome if Lucas and Ethan were roommates for the trip. Anyways super excited for this!

[LUCAS RYAN MACMILLAN]

Lucas dragged his bags which were attached to a trunk that rolled through the hotel. He had no clue who his roommate was going to be but figured he'd get along with whoever it was no problem. He didn't usually have a problem with getting along with anyone.

So he was excited as he made his way to his assigned room. As he got there the door was already open. He figured his roommate must already be there and he smiled as he opened the door the rest of the way. "Hey! I-" he started to say before he saw who it was. He glared. "Merlin's dirty feet, you've got to be kidding me!" he said.

"Why am I paired with you?" he asked more himself than Ethan.