All these years I was forced to be friends with such a vile and loathsome individual. Most people would be so ecstatic to be the confidant and best friend of him. But no, I wasn't amused by him at all. He always seemed to get under my skin. However, I had to stay friend with that blasted Draco Malfoy. Not because I feared him, or the fact that one of my great friends Raven Williams was one of his good friends, it was because I, Mercedes Phoenix Valentine, was told to by my own parents. They told me some rubbish line that I would understand later. Oh I would understand. I would understand SQUAT. He was an egotistical jerk face. Regardless, I tried to hold my patience and tenacity in my fifth year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I would definitely need it for what the year had in store for us all.
I took a last breathe as I got out of the car carrying Raven and myself. It was going to be like all the previous years that we were in Hogwarts. The same song and dance. Well, sort of. I stepped out of the car with Raven. We had exchanged several words. I rolled my brown eyes as Raven raises his eyebrow.
" Okay, Rav, I have the stupid meeting with the prefects and one of the professors," I said matter of factly.
It was no surprise that I was going to be Headgirl, even if I was two years early for the position. Hogwarts seemed to always surprise Raven and I. He received his letter when he was ten and I was eleven. I was made a prefect last year. Raven rolled his eyes as he turned his nose up at the muggles around us.
"Haha, 'Cedes you will have fun with those wonderfully intriguing losers," Raven snorted.
I shoulder barged him as I rolled out my stuff to the cart. He put all his stuff on his cart. He brought his cat, Fluffy like every year. I, on the other hand, brought a disgusting owl named Killer. My owl squeaked angrily at everyone that passed our carts. Finally, we got to Platform 9 ¾ by going through that magical wall like every year. I rolled my eyes at the fact of all these first years walking around with their parents crying their little eyes out. I looked over to Raven Williams who looked over to me. We smirked as he let out red sparks of his wand causing an image of a bear to growl at them. Several kids cried as we laughed. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be just the two of us for long. Draco was right behind us with his two goons Goyle and Crabbe. I tried to smile pleasantly but I just scrunched up my face. Williams elbowed me in the gut as he acknowledged Malfoy with a nod. He locked eyes with Goyle and Crabbe. In contrast, I decided it was best that I smiled and spoke.
"Hey Drake. Goyle. Crabbe," I politely spoke as I observed the surroundings.
Draco let out a laugh as he sneered at several crybaby first years. He looked over to myself as I just flicked my hair. I locked eyes with Raven, but he just inwardly chuckled. Malfoy ran his fingers through his blonde hair.
"Hello Phoenix. Good summer?" Draco questioned us. Therefore, I nodded and Raven answered that it was. Draco proceeded to tell us he had a boring summer as usual. He had invited us to his manor, but we couldn't make an appearance. I cleared my throat as Killer squawked. He wildly flew around his cage trying to bite random people. Therefore, Williams had done some sort of silencing spell to my damn owl. Since the racket was over with, I flicked my hair back and spoke to my "friends".
"Soo," I looked around with a smirk, "I heard that you were made prefect this year, Malfoy." I looked at Draco, who smirked, taking out his shiny new prefect badge.
With that, Raven took a step forward to look at the badge. He returned a smirk to Draco as he congratulated him. "Good job mate. It's time the Hogwarts fungus did something right," Williams spoke. He then chuckled, "All this summer I heard about you becoming a prefect. 'Cedes seemed to not speak of anything else."
Draco raised his eyebrow questioningly as Goyle and Crabbe grunted. I nearly lost my eyesight from my eyes bulging out of my head. I let out a small growl as I turned red from anger. I could not believe that RAVEN WILLIAMS would do that to me. He knew how much I loathed Draco. So I stomped up the steps as my luggage was magically following after me. Next thing I knew I felt someone breathing on me, so I turned around to smack someone. However, it was a smirking Draco. I grumbled a bit as I calmed down a bit. We found our compartment; we only had to kick out some losers. Draco sat on the opposite side with his henchmen, and Raven and I were on the other side.
I crossed my arms as Raven and Draco spoke about ways to annoy the Golden Trio. I simply kept picking "lint" off of my clothes. Draco finally let out a cough, as Raven nudged me. I looked up and shrugged my shoulders.
"What do yous want?" I exclaimed. Raven snickered as Draco motioned for Crabbe and Goyle to get out of the compartment.
"Filthy oafs. If they get any dumber, Longbottom will be smarter," Draco snickered.
So of course, I busted out laughing so did Raven. After several minutes went by, Williams noticed that Malfoy and I were discussing something about the meeting that was going to occur in about twenty minutes. Raven again did the unthinkable. He decided to make a "kissy face" at us. So there I was sitting mortified across from my "best friend" Draco. However, Malfoy found this a wonderfully opportunity. He got up from his seat and sat down next to me. Malfoy slung his arm around my shoulder and raised his eyebrow.
"So about that kiss? Do you want it now?" Draco said as he puckered up his lips. I instantly got up as Raven was laughing his feet off. I stepped on William's feet.
" Erm, my face fell off. I gotta get dress for the um… meeting… bye", I quickly spoke as I ran out of the compartment. I had gotten dressed rather quickly and went to the first car to get the compartment ready for the Prefect and Headboy meeting.
