Hey there! not my characters, except for Em, Bec and Chlo- they are mine!!
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{{{Yes I know they are not all in the same year, but just pretend they had to repeat or something like that. You'll know what I mean when you get up to it, }}}
Chlo POV
It was a hot day, the first day back at school. Especially for March. But it was probably going to be expected as it was a really hot summer. The ever-constant drought was just as annoying. Em, Bec and Me walked into Jamii's bar. He was the owner of the small tavern that led into Wombat Ally.
Not very magical, but a wombat found a large set of caves just below us which is now where the Australian branch of Gringots is. We have been best friends since the start of our Second year at Woolshidtons. The Australian school of magic, similar to Hogwarts, but in Australia. All the students and a fair few of the staff just call it the woolshed, or just the shed. They are much easier to remember then our founders ridiculous name.
Whatever we call it, it certainly isn't any shed, although, to any Muggles who come up to it I think it actually looks like one. That's one of the way's our castle is protected. There are a whole bunch of other protections and stuff like that.
The shed is a huge castle that is perched on the top of a hill. Around it there are a few sheep and cattle that have escaped from other farms closer then other, there are also the ever-present kangaroos and other native wildlife. According to the brochure that Em, Bec and I were just looking at it is about twice the size of the British school Hogwarts and the grounds are also bigger. It is close to the coast, and we have the small wizarding community of Woolsburg just a kilometre or so down one of the well worn track. Just across the railway track is a beautiful little beach. It has great waves for surfing, boogie boarding and swimming and along the cove there are heaps of rock pools.
Ok, I think I have told you most of what you'll need to know. Just a review, I'm Chloe and the two best friends that also made it to the shed are Emily and Rebecca. But most of us here have nicknames, so I'm Chlo, Emily is Em and Rebecca is just Bec. Way, way easier!
Em is tall, slim, blonde and tanned with a good complexion, about an inch taller then me.
Bec is the shortest by about an inch, standing 5 foot 5, slim, has dirty blonde hair, freckles and has a pale complexion that suits her well.
I am about an inch taller then Bec, slim, more tanned then Em, brunet and always have a big smile. We are a good group.
At the shed we are allowed to have animals if we want. But only one each. Between us we have a small enchanted sugar glider (it's a type of possum, it's is enchanted to fly,, or glide a long way) called Ki-ko and three miniature dingo's names Megs (becs one), Badger (Em's one) and Lilly (mine.). All the other kids have animals like this too, so we're not out of the ordinary. They are allowed to roam the large green hills on the grounds.
One thing I don't think I've mentioned, Em is head girl and Bec and I are both prefects. This is our seventh and last year here at the shed, and we wont be spending nearly any of the year here except for a few days. Well, today, tomorrow and the day after. Us three are doing a student exchange program between magical schools world-wide. We are all going to go to Hogwarts which is over in Europe. Yay!! We are here for the next two days so we can collect anything we left here and so the heads of each of the four houses, head boy and girl and then the principal. Or headmaster as they call it.
As soon as we arrive at school we run up to our room with our bags floating behind us. We throw everything we need that we haven't packed (broomsick, other clothes, ect.). After only a minute we get bored and pull out our swimmers. Em is wearing a white bikini with a rainbow heart on the front, Bec is wearing a blue bikini and I am wearing a green bikini.
We all pull on short board shorts and grab our towels before climbing out the open window like we do most nights and slide down a random pole. We never actually got to figure out what it was for. When we hit the soft grass we look at eachother and grin at eachother before jogging down the path to the beach. We stop after we get to the actual beach and take our secret path that leads to a small ledge above a really deep part of water. We had ditched our towels at the beach. Now we all walk to the ledge and take eachothers hands. We jump and all squeal. When we hit the water we squeal even more at the freezing water. It is cold in winter, and this mut only be a few degrees warmer now then it was then!
We swim towards the beach and still don't notice multiple pairs of eyes watching us. When, after a minute we drag ourselves out of the water, still laughing, we finally notice the group of people dressed in hot looking clothes. They were in jumpers although many had taked theirs off, long skirts, long pants and even blazers in some case.
We stop in our tracks and all wrap our towels in one quick, syncronised motion. Bec was already blushing. I look along the group of people who are watching with intrest but don't do anything. Emily sighs and I can just imagine her rolling her eyes. She steps forward and starts to speak.
"Hi! I'm Em and this is Bec and Chlo. Now, I don't mean to be rude, but who are you all and what are you doing here, on our beach?" she questions politely but bluntly in a sweetish voice. For a moment none of them move and Em makes a rolling motion with her hands, as if telling them to hurry up. Finally, one of the boys step forward. He is alright looking, but fairly short.
"I'm Harry, Harry Potter. This is, Blaise Zambini, Cedric Diggory, Cho Chang and these are the head boy and girl Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy." He practically spat the last name and gestured to them all while introducing us. Em grins in recognition and I see a sly and excited look in her eyes. I look worriedly at Bec but see she has the same sort of look.
"G'day mates! Why didn't ya jus say sa?" she says loudly putting on an expesially fake and over-the-top Australian accent. Bec and I almost double over laughing but manage to cover it up.
The other group look amused and relieved to the fact that she knew who they were.
"We'll show ya's to the shed. Come on girls!" We run to catch up to Em while the others follow us. I could see the Cho Chang girls look very disgruntled. Probably at the fact they will have to stay at a 'shed'.
We lead them up the path. By the time that us three girls reached the top of the hill, where the whole castle could be seen, the group of Hogwartians where a fair distance behind us. We look at eachother and jog back to them. I think that them wearing all the clothes for cold weather probably wore them out pretty quickly.
We each grabbed two of their hands and started pulling. I pull Draco and Harry, Bec pulls Hermione and Cedric and Em pulls Blaise and Cho. They all seem very surprised at us and after a moment we stop at the front doors.
While they lean over catching their breath they must also have been taking in the sight of the huge castle.
"Nice ~pant~ place you've got 'ere" comments Draco. We all smile.
"I know. How about the view!" I comment looking out at the sun setting over the sea.
"Well, I know I'm rather enjoying it." He replies, smirking. I smile at him then realise he's looking at the three of us. Harry starts glaring daggers when I blush and we laugh at his comment. Em leans over to him where he's still catching his breath.
"There there, don't worry. Just 'cuz he likes us more then you. It's nothing to worry about."
We all turn to look at her and she shrugs and defensively folds her arms.
"Isn't that what he's angry about?" Cho and Hermione are giggling hysterically. Harry is blushing a little and Blaise looks like he's trying not to make some rude comment. To break the tension and the silence Bec jumps up.
"Well, now you're all here, how about we show you to your rooms. Is there anywhere particular you lot would like to stay. We have four houses like you lot so you could stay in the same house or different ones. Your pick!"
They look at eachother and all say they want to stay in the same house. We walk through the doors and head straight up to our house dorm. We tell the painting of the founder of our house, Shylia Horenzor, the password and lead the Hogwarts kids into our common room.
I wave over some of the guys in our year. Bec's boyfriend Josh, my boyfriend Jacob and a few of their friends, Kia, Dewey and Steve walk over. They shake they Hogwarts boys hands and get a hug from Cho and Hermione. Em instructs them to show Draco, Blaise, Harry and Cedric where they will be sleeping, in the room that has been set up for them.
I lead the way up to the girls dormitories. Bec grabs Hermione's hand and leads her up while Em pushes Cho up behind her. Because there are only two girls we will share the one room. They adjust their school uniforms while we have showers and get changed into ours.
Our uniform isn't too different to theirs. We have two uniforms. The summer one and the winter one. The summer uniform is the one that we wear over spring and summer. It is a blue button up top with a tie in our house colours- ours is purple and white, and a skirt that comes down to a few inches above our knee. The winter uniform is a knee length skirt, same t-shirt with a jumper. This is the required uniform, but in many subjects us girls just wear jeans or shorts. It's much more convenient.
After we are all dressed we all put on the simple daily make up- foundation (Em doesn't use it,, ever. Lucky) mascara, maybe a little eye liner and then eye shadow. We all walk out of the room in single file with Bec leading the way and me me in between Cho and Hermione.
We lead them down to the eatery, well really the dining hall, but that's what we call it. The food is already laid out on the multiple tables and many eyes turn our way. We grin and sit down. We're home!
Well, Hope it wasn't as bad as you first thought it would be! Please Review.
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