Chapter 2

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Casey flipped her hair irritably over her shoulder. That Draco boy was trying to claim her attention and explain something about inter-House hate. What the bloody hell was the purpose of inter-House hate? They should all just get along. After starting a conversation with Kelsea and still not managing to shake him, she glared at him with real irritation.
"Look, Draco, you seem like a really nice boy," she said, "but I'm trying to have a conversation with my bestest friend in the whole world. Butt the hell out."
He looked astonished at her response to his attempts to explain the Slytherin House to her. She turned back to Kelsea and all he caught was "...to clean the entire house in 20 minutes and she dared me to..."
He stopped listening after that. He really didn't want to know what they spent their spare time daring each other to do. The Americans were making a name for themselves as weird already. It probably wasn't a good idea for a person of his status to be caught talking to them, but he couldn't help himself. That Casey McKenzie girl was just so damned interesting and she was kinda cute too, in his opinion, no matter what Blaise said. He decided to give it one last shot. If she blew him off again, he'd just leave her be for a few days.
"Hey Casey." he said.
"Okay Malfoy," Kelsea sneered. "Let's get something straight right now..."

"So, Justin, what's Hufflepuff like?" Rachel asked Justin, the boy she was talking to.
"It's alright. We're all good people in here. We're sort of the 'everybody and anybody' House and we're not all that picky about who we get, unlike Slytherin.
"One of my best friends is in Slytherin." Rachel said coldly.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you." Justin apologized.
"It's alright, you probably don't know how close we all are." Karel said lazily as he strutted past them, still sporting his ever-famous sir guitar.
"How close are you?" asked Hannah Abbott.
"We could all be blood relatives." Jaclyn said. "To insult one of us it to insult all of us. Be prepared for the wrath of 25 people if you hurt one of us."

"I give, I give!" whimpered Ben after Cheyenne and Tiana had finished beating the crud out of him. The two girls smiled in satisfaction and slapped each other a high five. Never mind the fact that not even 30 minutes ago, their target had been each other. Female bonding could do a lot in 30 minutes. Now, Ben had not only somehow lost 3 rounds of Duck Duck Goose, but he'd also been pulverized by two chicks hell-bent on revenge for something he didn't know he'd done. Okay, well he might have known, he just didn't care to think about it at that moment.
"Good." Tiana said and stalked away, going to sit next to Melanie. Amanda just looked deeply uncomfortable with the violence just displayed and Erica was giggling madly.
"You got your ass handed to you!" she giggled. Ben shot her a dirty look.
"Shut up you stupid sophomore." he growled. Erica's jaw dropped in indignation.
"TAKE IT BACK!" she screamed. "I"M A JUNIOR NOW YOU DUMBASS!" She looked on the verge of tackling Ben again and beating him herself, but Luna intervened.
"Guys, what will fighting really accomplish?" she asked peacefully in her dreamy voice.
The Americans all exchanged a look. "Uh, our right as the female dominance of the group and the fact that the males had better bow to our rule or get slaughtered?" Cheyenne offered and the girls nodded. Ben, the only male American to be Sorted into Ravenclaw, scowled and then Tiana demanded "Problem with that Ben?" Sullenly, he shook his head and the girls exchanged victorious stares with each other.

"Bryant, give it back! Syphillis doesn't like you!" wailed Miranda.
"What?" demanded an incredulous Pansy Parkinson.
"Syphillis." Miranda said. "My stuffed STD." The girl pointed a black fingernail to the fluffy pink figure that was curled into a spiral and Bryant was clutching. "You can buy them online." Pansy eyed the dark-clothed girl with incredible distaste. Stuffed STD's? Why would a person want a stuffed STD? That just sounded wrong.
"Give me back my gonorrhea and you can have your syphillis back." Bryant taunted, shaking the figure above her head. Miranda narrowed her eyes and then tackled Bryant to the ground and clawed at his face until he released the fluffy creature. Miranda scooped it up and then retreated behind Casey and Kelsea, stroking the furry creature and muttering mutinously about oaths of revenge for her dear syphillis. Pansy could already tell the girl was wacked in the head. All four of the Americans were.

"Thomas, nobody gives a damn about the freaking game! Get over it already!" Alice shrieked. Although she hated to agree with Sierra on this one, they were being annoying. The stupid Smash Bros. game was over and done with and they needed to get over it. Seriously. With the way they were all talking, she'd be lucky to get anything done this school year. Tyler snickered, but Alice silenced him with a glare. Besides. They were interrupting her talk with the incredibly sexy redhead she'd met at dinner.
"So, Ron, you were saying?" she asked.
"I was just going to ask how you all knew each other so well." Ron replied.
"Pft, that?" she said with a wave of her hand. "We've known each other for years. We started pre-K together and then we just added to the group. I've known Austin since he was like what, 7?" Alice looked at him for confirmation.
He shrugged. "Something like that."
"So how about the other Americans that came here?" Ron asked. "Do you know them?"
"Oh hells yes! Almost all of my closest friends that are in my grade are in those other Houses. Like Casey and Kelsea are in Slytherin, Rachel's in Hufflepuff, and I'm sort of friends with Tiana and Cheyenne."
"Oh," Ron looked astounded.
"Where are you guys from?" Harry asked.
"Your pants." Thomas replied, straight-faced.