Theodore, still disguised as Braeden when was this bloody potion going to wear off?!, stepped back as someone intruded on his personal space. Was that... it was Brae! Well, it was Theo, himself. He was looking at himself. And he himself was hugging Emma Malfoy.

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAE.

Where had he come from?! Turning around, and finding that the logical answer was the double doors that led to the grounds, he saw that Brae was with Alfie, no less! His stomach did a backflip and he bit his lower lip, both enamored and embarrassed. Seriously, though: leave it to Brae Theodore to mess up everything and confuse everyone even more than the narrators are. For the moment, he couldn't resist the humiliation that Brae had thrown upon them both, placing a hand over his eyes and momentarily refusing to even peek through his fingers at the damage that his friend had just done. Unbeknownst to Theo Brae, a few students who had been mulling around stopped to stare and point, as if knowing what romantic shenanigans were going on. Theo Braeden hoped that Emma would notice them, give them her famous Malfoy glare, and scare them off. This wasn't Jerry Springer, for Merlin's sake!

"Hey, erm, Theo. Ol' buddy, ol' pal..." A faux smile on his lips, he grasped who he thought to be Emma's hand more tightly and pulled her to his side, punching Brae "playfully" but more like anxious and irritated that he was forgetting his disguise in his bicep. Had he had psychic twin powers with his best mate, he would have mentally sent him a scolding of giant proportions, something along the lines of: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!. "And hey, Alfie!" Theo The lion-maned teen waved meekly, attempting to hold back his glee at seeing her in the vicinity. Had she told Brae Theo that they were an item now? He hoped to Merlin she hadn't. She had promised that they would announce it together!

But now he was losing character. Why would she have told her own boyfriend that they were a couple now? Theodore Dumble, disguised as Braeden Stonem, had officially lost it.