Chapter 2
"Oh look at what the cat dragged in guys!" I whirled around to see Rose Weasely closely followed by her cousin Lily and a red haired guy whom I didn't recognize but who did resemble her a lot. Scorpius and Rosetta who had gone aside to discuss quidditch tactics with our co-captain for the year, Marcus Goyle, couldn't hear anything that we were saying. "Looks like someone didn't learn their lesson from the last time their hair 'accidentally' caught fire during Potions last year." I said with a smirk and felt quite smug about the fact that Rose's hair had still not grown out completely- you see she had had to go almost bald after that little incident. I purposely flipped my long glossy curls off my shoulder and said just to rub it in her face. "You know your new look really does wonders for that face of yours, let us just say that it brings out the manliness in you" I said with a cruel smile on my face. That did it for Rose, she pounced on me her wand drawn and aimed a jelly leg charm at me. I narrowly dodged it and sent a well aimed charm her way – it hit her right in the face and caused her entire face to erupt into ugly painful looking boils. I smiled at that delightful sight, Rose may be better than me at the theory work but everyone knew that I was one of the best duelers in school. I had been feeling pretty good about myself till a curse hit me from behind that turned my skin a vivid green. I whirled around to see the redhead holding a wand in his hand with a fierce expression on his face. By now all the prefects had gathered around to see what exactly was happening. There was a shout of anger as Scorpius saw me and launched himself on the poor boy. Meanwhile Rose had managed to get up and was advancing towards me with a frightful look on her face. I frantically looked around for my wand but realized too late that it had rolled away when that blasted curse hit me. Rose realized it too and raised her arm to curse me and I braced myself for the impact but nothing came. "What in the WORLD do you think you people are doing?" I looked up to see Rose frozen stiff in front of me her wand floating in mid-air. I looked around and realized that the situation had really gotten out of hand. All the Gryffindors and Slytherins in the room had started fighting along with the two of us and pretty soon I guess the Ravenclaws had decided join in too. The treacherous Hufflepuff prefects must have been the ones who called Albus in, I really don't know why people thought that house was kind and caring, personally its members always rubbed me the wrong way. "50 points from Slytherin, Gryffindoor and Ravenclaw for participating in this and ten points for Hufflepuff who participated in this." Albus almost hollered. Indignation rose within me as I stood up straighter. "This is completely unfair!" I said, walking up to him. "Gryffindor started the fight!". " I don't care who started this," Albus said. "Fine then," I replied. "Twenty five points from Gryffindor for bullying," I said and cheers rang out from the Slytherins in the crowd. Albus's green eyes narrowed as he walked closer. Just to show that I was not scared of some uppity Gryffindor who just happened to be a Head Boy I closed the distance between us so that we were almost chin to chin, the only problem being that I really just reached his chest, no more. "And who do you think you are?" he asked with a slight edge to his voice. Truth was I was kind of shocked at how good he really looked, with his chiseled features and emerald green eyes. However, I didn't allow that to faze me. I smirked at that statement, really I had just been waiting for him to ask me that. "I am the Head Girl for the year, Arabella Rosier," I said, the smirk still pasted on my face.
