Yellow Snow
Chapter 1: Of Sabre-toothed Panda's and Elephant Ears
"Anyway, Ignatius told me that Emmett told him that Cassie told him that Druella told her that Orion told her that Mira told him that Sandoz is going to ask you to Hogsmeade!" said Lucrieta Black.
There was no reply and Lucrieta looked at the girl before her with a very indignant look on her face, "Aurora?"
Still nothing, "Aurora?"
"…"
"Aurora, are you listening to me?"
"…"
"I kissed your mother in the shower."
"…" The sixth year boys were now showing an interest in the one sided conversation.
"I was the one that puked up on your favourite jumper." She tried. Some of the boys smiled, remembering the huge riot that Aurora caused after she'd found out that her favourite jumper was ruined.
"…"
"I stole your diary in first year and showed it to your family at Christmas. Now they all know about your problem."
"…" Still nothing.
One of the boys watching was Tom Riddle who cocked an eyebrow, "Problem?"
"What?" Lucrieta looked confused.
"You said she has a problem."
"Oh right yeah, she's really sensitive about her ears. Says that she could give the African Elephant a run for its money!" There was a round of laughter from the Slytherin boys watching.
Lucrieta tried again, "I had a threesome with Lynx and Jet."
"Ignatius won't approve of that Lu!" drawled a boy with white-blonde hair and a pointed, arrogant face.
"Shut up Abraxas, it's not true. I'm just trying to make her snap out of her little day dream thingy."
"Obviously." He replied in a slimy patronising voice.
"Who is Lynx and Jet?" asked another boy with chestnut brown hair and with softer features than Abraxas but had still perfected the Slytherin sneer.
"You people never listen do you?" Lucrieta more stated than asked, clearly annoyed.
"Not really no." answered a newcomer to the table, who slipped and arm around Lucrieta as he sat down.
"Hi Ignatius." She said grudgingly.
"What's going on here? And why does Rory look so bored?" he inquired.
"Well I was telling her about how you told me that Emmett told you that Cassie told him that,"
"Yes okay, you can cut that bit." Ignatius interrupted.
"Well, then when I checked if she was listening she just looked really bored and now she's not answering to anything I say!"
"Oh." Was all he could manage and then suddenly the bell rang through the Great Hall causing Aurora to jump and stand up with her wan outstretched.
"SOMEONE CATCH THAT SABER-TOOTHED PANDA!" She screamed.
The Great Hall was silent for a moment as the occupants turned to stare at her. Emmett Rosier trying to stifle his sniggering broke the silence and the occupants of the Hall became loud again as everyone started talking about the strange outbreak from the Slytherin.
Aurora walked into Ancient Runes, followed by Tom Riddle who was the only other Slytherin that had decided to take the subject for NEWT's. They sat together at a table in the middle of the room.
Hardly any people had decided to take Ancient Runes for NEWT's in Aurora's year. There were three Ravenclaw's, one Hufflepuff, one Gryffindor and of course, two Slytherins.
When the professor had set the work for the lesson and the everyone had started on it, Tom spoke, "I do hope that Sabre-toothed panda wasn't too terrifying!"
"Oh shut up, Lu was gabbing on about something and I just sort of spaced out. It's not my fault that crazy panda decided to creep its way into my thoughts."
"A true sign of intelligence, I'm sure."
She glowered at him and bent her head down over her work, he watched as her golden blonde hair fell into her eyes. Aurora seemed to become increasingly aggravated as her hair kept falling into her sapphire eyes after she'd pushed it back. She angrily tugged her hair behind her ear.
Tom was amused to see that her ears weren't at all big, even so he chose to say, "Ew, wow what an eye sore!"
Aurora looked up at him questioningly, "What is?"
Tom had raised a hand to his mouth and lifted another hand shakily to point at her exposed ear. "It's so…so…big!"
She let out a gasp covered up her ears as fast as she could.
"How can you move with those things flapping around on your head?" he asked with mock horror that she didn't seem to pick up on.
"I know," she whispered, "they're horrible but I don't know how to make them shrink without blowing up my head!"
Tom stared at her, 'she really does have problems.' He thought. Aurora fidgeted under his gaze but he just continued to stare at her with a look of complete astonishment.
"Okay, I know my ears are…huge," she whispered the last word, glancing around the classroom consciously, "but please stop staring its quite unnerving!"
Tom just shook his head and turned back to his work.
It was dinner and Aurora was sitting at the Slytherin table with Lucrieta, Cassie and Druella who were all talking about the up coming Hogsmeade weekend while Aurora was just looking around the Slytherin table watching people having their various conversations. Her eyes fell upon Tom who was talking in hushed voices to the other sixth year Slytherin boys; Abraxas Malfoy, Sandoz Lestrange, Emmett Rosier and Ignatius who were all hanging off his every word.
Tom must have felt someone's eyes on him for he turned his head slightly and saw Aurora staring at him. She turned away quickly and started talking randomly with the other girls.
"So what are you girls wearing tomorrow?"
"Well," started Cassie, "I don't know because I want to look good for Emmett, but I don't want to look like I've tried to hard, you know?"
"Wait, you're going with Emmett?" Cassie nodded happily, "and you don't mind?" she asked slowly.
She glanced at Druella who shrugged, "It was inevitable I guess! Plus Cassie has finally decided to let me go with Ethan!" she exclaimed
"Umm, Ethan?"
"You know, Ethan Mulciber?"
"…"
"Cassie's cousin?"
"…"
"Ringing any bells at all?"
"Nope the bells are completely rusty and moth eaten!"
"How can moths eat bells?"
"They're probably Sabre-toothed moths!" came another voice.
Aurora looked up to see Sandoz Lestrange grinning at her, "How do you know about that?"
He raised his eyebrows, "I expect the whole school knows about that little incident by now! Anyway, what are you doing tomorrow?"
Aurora stared up at him with probably the same kind of look of astonishment as Tom had given her earlier that day. "Uh, well its Hogsmeade weekend, so I guess I'm just going to go to Hogsmeade…" she trailed off not really knowing what to say.
"Well that's good!"
"Err, it is?"
"Why yes of course. I would be honored if you would accompany me to Hogsmeade tomorrow! So, what do you say?"
Aurora didn't say anything; she had a bit of a habit of doing that.
Sandoz played with his hands awkwardly, looking at the floor, probably fearing rejection. Suddenly seeing how rude she must've seen, she forced her face into a smile saying, "Okay."
He looked up, "What?"
"Yes, I would love to go to Hogsmeade with you." It was hard but she knew she had to do it.
"Excellent! Well then I'll meet you at ten o'clock in the Entrance Hall?"
"Err, yes…yes I'll see you there!"
"Great! Well, bye!" He said and planted a kiss on her cheek; he then walked briskly from the Great Hall.
Aurora watched him leave, then the smile faded and she turned to Lucrieta, "Why didn't you warn me that he was gonna do that?"
Lucrieta scowled and crossed her arms over her chest, "It's not like I didn't try to tell you, you just refused to listen and instead went off into the land of the bloody Sabre-toothed Panda!"
Aurora looked sheepish for a moment, then turned away. Her eyes fell upon Tom again who was looking at her with an unreadable expression. She just smirked and shrugged; it had been a weird day. Full of Sabre-toothed Panda's and Elephant Ears! Maybe tomorrow would bring more sense with it.
A.N: Hey everyone! I've done a new story, finally!! So please report back, tell me what you think and I'll see how I can improve! Also, if there's anything you might want to happen later on in the story, I'm open to ideas! I've already got about halfway through the next chapter so that will probably be up tomorrow!! Happy Holidays!
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