"So Jenette you think your the best and you've had the best and worst of the crop don't you?" It was a challenge, Jenette Beiling was never known to back down to a challenge. With her short black hair, curly and volumed but flattened, her green eyes that glowed in the darkness. her white porcelain skin brought eyes to her body, formed and sought after. She was a wild character inside and out.
"Of course I am and I can prove it to you ten times over. Remember Jimmy?" It was safe to talk about the other girls friend simply because there was no one else in the empty corridor.
"That is besides the point," poor Terra she never had a chance, after all it was a challenge. Jenette was all to happy to comply to it. Jimmy had been putty in Jenettes capable hands. "The point is I have one of the most challenging challenges ever for you."
"Oh really and just what might that be?" Jenette was already smiling. Her sly evil yet all too ready to comply smile. It got to people, made them nervous and drove them only farther into what she wanted. What she would always go through with. A challenge.
"You have to seduce professor Snape." She didn't expect that, but he was pretty mysterious, this would be interesting and challenging.
"You mean mister depressing?"
"Um... yeah him?" Terra didn't quite understand Jenette sometimes but whatever got her expelled was okay with her. Ever since the Jimmy thing Terra wanted revenge, and the perfect way was to make it so she would never see Jenette ever again. After all aren't all blonde and popular girls supposed to want revenge? With her shiny purple eyes and almost platinum hair she was the perfect miss popular. She was absolutely fake, but everybody knew it. They just didn't care.
"Deal... this should be fun." Terra was disturbed, Jenette was excited. "Haven't had a challenge this hard in a long time."
"Well fine, whatever just get proof I won't believe you until there has been proof."
"Sure so what is my time limit?"
"Two months enough?" Terra offered, it wasn't really an offer though it was a command.
"I don't know this is a teacher we are talking about, not sure he will want to waste his job." She was already thinking out a plan. "But I'll take your challenge, and I won't fail."
"Of course you won't, but since winter break is coming up i suggest we start the two months after the break," Terra was trying to look like the good person in this. "Even if you stay during winter break, I feel generous, call it the christmas season."
"You know I honestly don't care, as long as there is a bet I am all fine."
***
"You did WHAT?!" That was Shelby all right. An overbearing, overcareful and over caring know it all. With her thin rimmed glasses and perfectly straight brown hair surrounding her icy blue eyes. She always kept her hair in place, and her friends in line. Except for Jenette that is, no one could control that girl. Not even with her bets. The first challenge she got was where her loyalty lay.
"You know this shouldn't come as a shock to you," Jenette turned to her best friend and smiled. "A challenge like this was bound to come along eventually. In fact I'm shocked it didn't come along sooner."
"But still! I don't think you'll be able to follow with this challenge and even if you did finish the challenge you do understand the consequences. Don't you?"
Jenette was quiet.
"He could be fired and you'd be expelled." Shelby looked her friend in the eyes and gave her the challenging look she was waiting for. "Who gave you this challenge?"
"Terra," Jenette mirrored Shelby's look. "Why?"
"You know she has been trying to get back at you since the whole Jimmy Benson thing."
"Since when do you add your brothers last name when talking about him?" Jenette gave Shelby a very stern look, very unlike her and Shelby sighed.
"Since he slept with my best friend."
"Touche" Shelby laughed, a very rare occurrence. Jenette smiled, she wasn't in trouble.
"You know I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at my brother. I mean he cheated on his girlfriend. I heard he was the one that started the challenge."
"That explains why it was so easy," Jenette said. Shelby was starting to feel awkward.
"Alright enough talk about you and my brother, or I might actually start to blame you."
"You wouldn't," yet another challenge from Jenette, with her raised eyebrow and warning eyes. Luckily Shelby knew when to back down.
"We are getting off topic." Shelby looked through her many books searching for her advanced charms book for the next class. After all Ravenclaws did wonderful in charms. "Lets get to class, we don't wanna be late."
"If you want," Jenette snickered. They walked down the hallway, ignoring the curious looks and stares coming from all the other students. It was like always. Never was there any peace with them, Jenette was too much for these students. She was the perfect target for rumors. Shelby was her right hand girl, always there on the side of the action. She knew EVERYTHING.
There were whispers. Classes were passed by. Walls long forgotten in their hurry for charms. On the way they came across Bridget. The red head with sparkly glazed over green eyes. She was the kind of person who loved to hear the rumors from the source but never passed it on. Thats why she was such a good friend. She was always interested with their problems but kept it to herself.
"Hey girls," she ran up to the centers of everyones attention and smiled. "What's up?"
"Let's get to class and talk about it later okay Bee?" Jenette said.
"Sure?" Curiosity was rimmed in Bridget's voice.
"Alright lets go already I don't wanna be late." Shelby replied.
***
"Wow that is some bet..."
"Some bet? Its more than just some bet!" Shelby yelled. "If Jenette goes through with this then there is a chance that she will be expelled. No, more than just a chance; it will happen!"
"Well if she is careful I don't think that will happen."
"I understand that you don't know everything about magic because you didn't grow up with it but if it comes to it they will use anything at their disposal to prove what happened."
"Like?"
"Like the Veritaserum potion."
"Oh I forgot about that." She scratched her head and turned to her very impulsive friend. "Maybe Shelby is right Jen. You could get in severe trouble for this and I'm sure that little miss jealous planned all this only to get you expelled."
"You guys don't understand do you?" Jenette, who will from now on be known as Jen, pulled out a little vial from her pocket. It had a clear appearance and bubbles were foaming around inside. "Do you know what this is?"
"No," Shelby replied with a curious gaze. "What is it? Is it some sort of potion that at least has something to do with what we are talking about, or is it just a distraction?"
"It's an antidote," Jen gave an aren't you supposed to be smart kind of look to shelby who, in return, simply glared at her. "For the Veritaserum potion, you have to take it within 12 hours prior to being given the Veritaserum potion. It was very complicated in making and took me over a year."
"YOU MADE WHAT?!"
"Keep it down Shelby, we don't want too much attention." She looked to the door of the common room and made sure to put a silencing charm onto it. Making it so that they could hear people coming but the people couldn't hear them.
"How could you possibly make an antidote to something like that?" her face was contorted and anxious. "And why didn't you think of silencing the door in the first place?"
"Your yelling made me think about it and it was hard but I prevailed."
"You prevailed did you? Well if it was up to me and you weren't my best friend, you would be in so much trouble. If anyone finds out they will wipe your memory of magic, turn you into a muggle, and erase all evidence of there ever being an antidote."
"That won't happen," Jen countered while poor Bridget just watched in dismay. "I'll make sure of it, and who would possibly know what it does? They are so comfortable with their little Veritaserum potion that they won't even think about the possibility of there being an antidote, not to mention you two are the only ones other than myself that even know about it. As long as you don't tell anyone we are all clear."
"I am not going to lose you Jen, you are one of my best and truest friends. If you were gone then I don't know what me and Bee would do without you."
"If worst comes about and I am turned into a muggle you two won't even remember me, my existence will be nothing more than any other muggle's life in your point of view. I will be nothing."
"I'll still feel it, like something is missing, and you know it. I am sure Bee will feel it too. You are just as much a part of this group as me and her."
"WILL YOU GUYS JUST SHUT UP?!" They both turned to their previously quiet friend in shock. "I am so tired of you two always fighting, I have stood idly by for too long. Shelby you will never control and have never in the past controlled Jen. Jen, Shelby is only trying to protect you, so make up and start this conversation over the nice way."
"Fine. Shelby Im sorry but I have this all under control, I've never gotten in trouble before and I am not going to start now." Shelby looked at Jen and judged just how worthy that promise was and knew what she had to do.
"You better because I'm challenging you on it."
"What?" This was a first, Shelby wasn't using challenges to stop Jen from going through with another one, she is the first to challenge her on something this time.
"I said-"
"I know what you said what I want to know is why are you challenging me?" Jen started to look hurt. "Don't you trust me?"
"Of course I trust you," Shelby looked away. "But I trust in your bets more than you, it will make me more relaxed knowing that if I challenge you there is no chance of you failing."
"Oh," Jen looked to Bee. "Is this what you wanted?"
"Yes," Bee was so happy that she was in tears. "Remember you guys are friends to the end. Just remember that next time okay?"
"Of course Bee," the other two friends went and hugged the emotional bystander. "You're our friend too!"