Chapter 1 – The Story of My Angel
I have an angel, her name is Pippa Cummings. She even looks like an angel, with long blonde hair and pale skin. Her eyes twinkle in the sunlight, a light blue, like water. Everyone thinks my angel is okay, but she isn't, she's broken… and it's my cousins' fault.
Enter Pippa Cummings, 7th year, who walks down the hall in her short school skirt and tight blouse, knee high white socks and polished black school shoes; she sits at the Hufflepuff table, furthest away from the teachers.
Enter me, Dominique Weasley, 7th year, who walks down the hall in matching school skirt and blouse, knee high white socks and scuffed black school shoes; I sit at the Hufflepuff table across from Pippa.
"Hey Pip." I say grabbing a piece of toast and begin to butter it.
"Hey Dom." she replies sipping her water.
"How are you?" I ask and take a bite of my toast.
"Fine," she replies with a small smile
"Pip, it's been a month, it's okay now to admit you're not fine."
"No, really Dom, I'm fine." she checks her watch that sits limply on her thin wrist. "Shit! Its 7:30, I've gotta go. See you later?"
"Yeah see you in potions." I say as she walks out of the Great Hall and towards our common room.
It's been like this since three months ago when she found out about James, and as they say speak of the devil and thou shall appear, in walked in my cousin, James Sirius Potter, lady's man, prankster, and ex-boyfriend of my best friend.
"Hey Dom!" he says cheerily to me as he sits down across from me where Pippa had previously sat.
"James." I say finishing off my toast.
"What's up?" he says casually expecting a civil response but he doesn't get that from me, not after what he's done.
"What's up?" I laugh hysterically, gathering a few peoples' attention. "What's up, James, is that my best friend went away a month ago and left a shell of nothing!" I scream and I storm out of the Great Hall, keeping my head high as the whispers start.
It's true.
I'm glad I yelled because that is all Pippa's been since January, an empty shell.
And all she does is run. I'm not sure if she's running to get away or if she's running towards something else, but whatever it is it's all she does. Run.
Pippa's Point of View
Run. Just keep running. Maybe try sleep a little. But don't eat. Just run. You have to get rid of whatever that made him do it.
::Fat/Ugly/Bitch/Fat/
Lazy/Fat/Bitch/Ugly::
I run for an hour, until the clock strikes 8:30 and head back to my common room. It's full of people bustling around trying to get to their friends before class starts in a half hour. I go upstairs to the dorm and grab my uniform. I had thrown it on my bed before I went running. I strip in the bathroom and switch on the tap. I grab my wand and transfigure a hair tie into scales. I step on it and read the dreaded number – 99.4lbs – or fat, no matter how you fancy reading it; so close to my first goal, 94lbs. I get into the shower and blast the hot water to warm up my constantly cold body.
Getting out of the shower, I dry my body, chuck on my school uniform and dry my hair. Walking out of the bathroom I grab my wand and transfigure the scales back into a hair tie. I grab my book bag and shove the needed books for my first period, Divination.
"Hey you ready for class?" Dom asks as I come down the stairs to the packed common room.
"Yep, got my Divination books right here." I say smiling and holding up my bag.
"I still can't believe you took divination for another year." she says laughing to herself
"Well what do you have?" I ask trying to see the books in her bag.
"I have Ancient runes" she stands straight.
"Wow." I say sarcastically "Won't you have loads of fun."
"I could say the same thing too you." she smiles pointedly back at me
"Except that I took brilliant classes this year. Divination, Charms, Astronomy, Transfiguration, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, and Potions." I say ticking them off my fingers.
"Yeah, sure. Well we'd better get going everyone has already started to go." and with that we left the common room and said our goodbyes as I headed off to the tower and her to wherever her class was.
"Okay children, we are going to start learning about dreams. What your dreams mean, and what you should do." said Professor Trelawney in her unnaturally creepy voice. "I want everyone to write down a dream they remember having recently-," she stops abruptly, waiting for us to write it down. Whilst everyone mumbles to each other and writes down their decided dream she rummages through her bag and pulls out her own dream dictionary book. "Okay, turn to your partner!" I look across my table and see none other than Carmen Bitch-face Jones, oh the unfortunate consequence of being early and having no friends in your class, and then for the stupid whore of the school to come late and have to sit next to you. Hmph. Next time I'm sitting next to someone I choose "-And I want you to work together to solve both dreams, start with the person on the right!" she says and people set to work. "Right well I'm on the right so here's my dream." I say as I put my sheet of paper with my dream on it in the middle. "Well, you dreamt about cheeks… so cheeks." Carmen says as she thumbs through her book for 'cheeks'. "Aha found it! And they were sunken cheeks?" she checks looking back at the paper.
"Yeah and they were bleeding." I reply nodding my head.
"Well sunken cheeks symbolise sadness, hunger, poverty and/or struggles. And the emphasis on the cheeks could point to health issues. And bleeding means that you are suffering from exhaustion or you are feeling emotionally drained." She finishes reading from the book and looks up expectantly.
"Okay yours is that you were riding a butterfly, were you riding away from something?" I ask. "Uhh" she's mumbles twirling a strand of hair between her fingers "No. But I was riding towards the sun."
"Umm. Well… riding towards something means that you are following someone else's plan and the sun symbolises radiant energy and divine power. A butterfly is symbolic of longevity. So what I got from that is that you are following someone else's plan to achieve divine power that will last a long time." I say.
Walking towards the Great Hall from Care of Magical Creatures, Dom runs to catch up to me, she doesn't take Care of Magical Creatures but Arithmacy at that time.
"Hey how was Divination and Magical Creatures?" she asks.
"Pretty good, I had to decipher what Carmen the Slut's dream was about. Oh, and we learnt some about Unicorns cause next lesson we get to see one!" I say the last part with excitement "How was Runes and Arithmacy?"
"Oh you know…" she trails off. "Hey you know how that dance is coming up in a few weeks, I was thinking that next Hogsmede is this coming weekend we could go dress shopping? What do you say?" I have been dreading the dance, chances are Dom will get asked and I'll be stuck by myself for the night.
"I don't know if I want to go Dom–," I start.
"No Pip, you have to go! I don't want to be a loner!"
"You won't be. I bet Liam Wood asks you to go with him!"
"Nope, we are going together! Even if Liam Wood asks me!" she says, I pull a shocked face 'cause Dom's been after Wood for months
"Sure Dom, whatever you say, just wait 'till Wood asks you and you'll come begging me to let you say yes!" I start to walk away "Trust me, I take Divination, I can tell the future!" I shout and laugh to myself as I disappear up the stairs towards the common room.
I walk through the hallway thinking to myself, I really don't want to go to the dance. I will end up wearing some hideous dress that makes me look like a whale and then I will be the laughing stock. There won't even be awkward fourth years there because it's a fifth, sixth, and seventh years dance only.
Or even worse the only dress that fits me will be some horrendous pink feathery thing, which you'd expect someone blind to choose.
I'm pulled from my thoughts by the sound of laughter emanating off the walls of the, what I thought to be empty, hallway. I slow down and glance up through my hair, using it as a shield.
Around the corner I see Liam Wood, James Potter, Freddie Weasley and Mitch Gallagher.
"Fuck." I whisper to myself and continue quietly hoping they don't notice me.
"-Anyway mate, I told him 'if you don't fucking back off I'll'-" James was saying but stopped as he caught my eye. I stood still and held his eye.
"Yeah, or you'll what?" asked Mitch, hoping to hear something exciting, he seemed to be the only one not to realise why James had stopped mid-sentence.
"Mate, shut up." Freddie whispered, elbowing Mitch in the ribs.
"Hey, Freddie, Mitch come on, we have that… thing we need to do. Remember." Liam said and dragged the others away so it was just James and I in the hallway.
I break my eyes away from him and find my foot suddenly unstuck from the ground, gee thanks. Couldn't have done that a minute ago when James' friends were still here? I walk quickly away.
"Hey Pippa, wait up!" James calls out, jogging after me. He grabs my arm and I twist around. "What do you want James?" I mumble looking at my feet. "Look at me Pip." he says careful, pleading. I look up at his face, his brown eyes, scruffy black hair. "What do you want James?" I ask again stronger this time. "Are you okay? You don't look too good." He says looking at my face.
"I'm fine, what do you care anyway?" I ask venomously.
"Hey, I care." He says his hand still enclosed around my wrist, he looks down at it.
"You've gotten so thin, are you sure you're okay?"
"James, you don't care, just leave me alone." I say and rip my wrist from his grasp and stalk off to the common room. Exhausted I lay down on one of the couches and rest my eyes for a few moments.
"Hey!" Someone says.
"Hey!" I squint open one eye and come face to face with Dom's eyeball. I squeal and jump up
"DOM! Oh my gosh! You nearly gave me a heart attack!" I say pulling my legs to my chest so I'm now sitting up on the couch.
"I gave you a heart attack? You nearly gave me one. You walked off to the common room and never came back. I asked Liam if he saw you and he said that you were talking with James, I came up here and found you on the couch asleep and you weren't breathing!" she says in one breath, gasping at the end from lack of oxygen.
"Hey, wow calm down Dom, I'm fine." I say.
"Okay, just don't do that ever again, I thought you were dead!" she says. "But come on, we have class together now!" and she runs off to the portrait hole.
"I'll beat you there!" she screams and she throws open the door laughing. I get up and start to chase after her.
"I don't think so Dominique Weasley!" I shout after her as I follow her through the portrait hole.
The week passes by quickly and soon it's the weekend and time for Hogsmede.
"Hey Pip, you ready to go dress shopping?" Dom asks smiling at me at the breakfast table.
"Ugh, fine, I'll go with you and we will get the best dresses in the entire world!" I say as I giggle and take a sip of my black coffee.
"Okay lets go I'm done." Dom says as she stands up, grabs my gloved hand over the table with her own gloved hand and pulls me out of the Great Hall and into the blistering winds of the Hogwarts' grounds. We had rugged up luckily though, I was wearing grey tights and a red knit dress, a black coat and black boots, my favourite gloves which were black hobo gloves, also a black beanie. Dom was wearing black skinny jeans, a white coat, black boots and blue gloves the same as mine.
We walked to Dom's favourite Boutique which few knew even existed in Hogsmede and started to look through dresses. I was shuffling through a rack of dresses, not really paying attention, when I heard a changing room door open; I turned around and saw Dom walk out. She was wearing a cream dress that was mesh from the waist to mid-thigh, and the top had lace a sequin sort of tree around the middle, it was a sweetheart cut and looked absolutely gorgeous on her.
"Oh my gosh Dommy, that looks amazing! Liam will be tripping over himself when he sees you in that!" I say as she twirls over to me, her waist length strawberry blonde hair swirling outwards and then settling over her shoulders
"Yay!" she squeals back "Okay, now to find you one." she says as she butts me out of the way to get to the rack I was standing in front of. I go to the other side and we talk about random things, nothing of importance so I zone out, and I think about the dance, it's only two weeks from Saturday so there will probably be a party afterwards which Dom and I will definitely be attending.
"…Definitely the one." Dom says as I snap out of my thoughts.
"Hmm?" I ask looking up, she's holding a mid-thigh length silver dress, which sparkles in the sun and is tight around the top but flows out from the waist down "oh it's gorgeous, is there another size though? It might be a bit small for me." I walk around the rack and stand with Dom she hands me the dress.
"Oh, it will fit fine don't be silly, now go try it on!" she says and shoves me towards the change rooms. Standing in the change room, I slip off my coat, gloves, dress, tights, and boots and slip into the silver dress, standing in front of the mirror I look like a disco ball because of the light shining off. I walk out and Dom turns around "Oh, it's just beautiful, and it fits you perfectly!" she says "Come closer and do a turn." so I walk closer and do a spin, I feel like a princess in it, but it's probably too expensive.
"Check the price tag will you?" I ask and turn, I feel her grab it out and she reads it.
"It's 56 Galleons, so it's not too bad." she says.
"56 okay, well I have 100 with me so I can get the dress and some shoes," I say "And if I'm lucky some jewellery as well!" we go back to the change rooms and change back into our clothes, then grab our items and pay for them at the counter. As we leave we see another little store, but this one sells shoes
"Just our luck." Dom says and she drags me to the store.
When we leave Hogsmede we both have bags full of items. The lady at the dress store wrapped our dresses in boxes, we both bought shoes, mine were cream heels and Dom's were white heels, we both had a bag for jewellery, I got earrings which were tiny silver birds, a ring that was a skeleton hand wrapped around my finger, and a new belly button ring, which was plain silver as well. Dom got a bracelet that was silver and a ring that was leaves wrapped around her finger and touching. They were all also in a box each of their own, I think the ladies at the counters got a bit excited.
"That was fun," Dom said as we walked back to the castle "a girls day out" we linked hands and trudged up the hill.
A/N: Once again beta'ed by MaryOlivia who write really good stories : ) annd yes, this is probably crap but please review so i can know what you think and what i should change, and if i should even keep writing it. Also i am sorry if i am one of the annoying people that seem like they are begging for reviews, it would just be nice : ) Thanks for reading though
~ Nicola xx