Life Between Hogwarts Walls
Chapter 1
Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson and Katie Bell shared a room in the top floor of the Gryffindor girls dormitories and on this crisp December afternoon the latter arched her back and punched at the ceiling of her bed.
"Fucking menstrual pains. You'd think of all the genius witches there've been, of all the years we've been making spells and potions no one ever bothered of looking into a cure for menstrual pains!"
From across the room Angelina, who was messing with her hair in front of the mirror, pulled a face.
"Katie, I think this might be your time to shine, so if you feel inspired, please do go on ahead and rid the rest of us poor females from the curse."
"You know sarcasm is just a shield right,' Katie answered as she got up and rested her back against her pillow. "and anyway, I'm in way too much pain to do magic. I'll ask Alby next time I see him though. He's the alleged miracle worker."
While Angeline laughed, Alicia came in with a towel wrapped around her wet hair, and she wrinkled her nose.
"I can't believe you call professor Dumbledore Alby, that's nasty. And when do you ever even get to talk to him?"
"He's a sexy old man Ally, and I'm sure that if I were to whip by for a chat we'd have so much in common he'd promote me to replacing principle over McGonagall in a second." Katie answered as she stretched her arms and then winced at the ache in her belly.
Angelina sighed in at the hopeless mess of curls on her head and dropped her hands to her sides in defeated manner. "There comes a point, Katie dear, when delusional becomes a synonym for danger. I think you may have passed it."
"I know, Alby's completely smitten with McGonagall, I'm no competition." Katie wined, her mouth an adorable pout.
Alicia, despite having known the girl since puberty had never really got used to the ease with which Katie said the most brazen things, so after managing to get the look of sheer shock off her face, she asked "Are we still going tonight?"
"We would if Katie wasn't being such a wuss."
Alice, bent on going because Dean Thomas was going to be there, offered: "I've some aspirin if you want? It always helps a little."
Katie jumped up in a split-second momentarily immune to the pain she must be in, and clutched a surprised Alicia to her ample chest.
"Thank you, thank you! God bless you and your muggle-cures. Bring on that Aspenin or whatever you call it."
"Get your tits off her Katie, she can't breathe."
Katie let go of a red-faced, puffy-cheeked Alice who corrected her with a moody 'aspirin' which was lost in Angelina's loud laughing. Katie took the pill with a conjured glass of water. Then she shook her hair and, relieved already with a fresh sparkle in her cheeky blue eyes resumed:
"So, what are you guys wearing?"
"Katie, it's a pool party, everyone'll be there in swimsuit.' Alice replied puzzled but Katie looked at her with a knowing smile.
"Preparation is key my dear. It's not so much about the swimsuit as the clothes you'll pull off to reveal the swimsuit."
"Wise words," Angelina interjected "but what am I going to do about my hair?"
"Easy, keep it down, you look hot like this."
Angelina looked back into the mirror and smiled, suddenly pleased at herself.
"Who's coming anyway?"
Alicia had this one, she was always the most sensible and orderly of the three. Also she'd been looking forward to this pool party for days. Even though it wasn't really a pool-party, more like a gathering in the prefects bathroom.
"Dean, maybe Leo, Fred and George. Ernie and Justin from Huffelpuff, and I think Justin's bringing this girl Hannah." She said, and then ended on a rather disappointed note "Also I guess Ginny's going to be there."
Katie smiled sadly and put her arm around the girl's shoulder. Alicia had a major crush on Dean, completely understandable. Dean was sweet, funny, a good dresser and totally gorgeous, a bit dense maybe but she figured that was totally hot about him. She was always pining after him when he sat in front of her in potions, wondering whether she should send him anonymous love notes or not. It turned put the sensible girl wasn't so sensible anymore when she was within ten meters of Dean and his sexy brown eyes.
Katie, although one may not have thought so at first glance, was actually a lot more level-headed when it came to love. She'd had boyfriends before, but she never let it get out of hand. She enjoyed herself with their company, but if she discovered that she was getting jealous, paranoid, or too excited to go school and share classes with her crush, she broke off with them ruthlessly.
Angelina was the sarcastic one, and although she was very beautiful, boys were a little intimidated by her, and anyway, she would never hook up with a man who didn't have the guts to contradict her when he thought she was wrong. So it took a special sort of man to gain her interest and that man hadn't passed her yet.
How was she to know that maybe, tonight, she might get twice as lucky.
