Alina was studying for Charms during lunch, since she had it next, though she knew the effort was in vain. No matter how hard she tried, she was never even half as good as she was in Potions and Muggle Studies.
She was terrible at Charms, and knew that she was probably going to end up failing the class. Her friends were lucky enough to be naturals at Charms, and passed with decent grades.
She headed to the Charms classroom, dreading the fact she was going to be making a fool out of herself. Again. When she got there, she learned they would be learning the Summoning Charm, and knew she would suck at it.
The next month passed quickly, and Christmas was almost upon them. They had started reviewing all they had learned in the past year in Charms, and Alina was still terrible at most of the things.
She knew this would not be good.
"Miss Jones, please see me after class," Flitwick called out when he saw Alina having trouble with the review of the Cheering Charms they had learned the year before.
Alina groaned inwardly, and got a sympathetic look from Jez. Alina responded with a glare, since she was fond of the fact that Jezebel was better then her in Charms.
At least she was better in Potions. She noticed that Lily, who say in front of her, by herself, had already moved on to tonight's homework assignment. At least there was only one more lesson until Christmas holidays.
"Miss Jones, since I have noticed how poorly you are doing in this class, I decided to offer to get one of the best in the classes to tutor you."
"That sounds great!" Alina said, happy that she'd be getting help in this class. "Good. I will make a point to ask her on Friday. If all goes well, the tutoring should begin after Christmas."
Alina left the classroom feeling happy. She was most likely not going to fail!
Later that day
"So, who's going to have the unfortunate luck to tutor you?" Sirius teased, while trying not to keep glancing at Jez. Alina couldn't help but think about how they should just go out already.
Then again, she shouldn't talk, since Remus still didn't know how she felt.
"I don't know. He just said he'd talk to her about it on Friday. He didn't mention a name."
The others just shrugged, and continued what they were doing. Remus, like Alina was reading, while Sirius and Jezebel kept glancing at each other, not knowing the other was doing the same thing. James and Peter (A/N DIE PETER!! GO BURN IN HELL!! Oh, wait, Hell's too good for you.) were playing chess.
Alina saw out of the corner of her eyes, Lily Evans, sitting on a chair that was separated from the rest of the chairs. Lily had never seemed to like company. Or mail, for that matter.
Once she had actually cried when she got mail. Okay, it had been more then once, Alina thought to herself. She knew how Lily felt, because before school had started up when she was eleven, she hadn't had any friends.
It wasn't her fault the girl that insulted her started growing a mustache. Or that the guy that called her a geek ended up in a pink tutu for a week. And that that girl who had pretended to be her friend ended up peeing her pants whenever someone said Alina's name for a month.
It wasn't her fault those things happened. Her magic was the reason behind all those incidents. She hadn't had complete control of it yet, and it tended to get away from her. She remembered what happened to one of them best off all.
"You told them?" an eight year old Alina said, tears of fury in her eyes. "Well, yeah. Why would I ever be friends with you?" Alexandra answered. Alina didn't get it. She had told everyone in the school what Alina was afraid of: spiders, snakes, tiny rat dogs (A/N I'm making these up as I go along. But you have to admit those rat dogs are vicious!), snapping turtles, and people who looked the same as when they were really young.
(A/N admit it, those people are weird! Take my friend Jacob for instance…)
Alina could feel her temper rising. She tried to keep the magic inside her, but it didn't work. "Aww, is wittle Awina gonna cwy?" Alex asked, and everyone started to laugh and point at her. She looked down, and tried to cover her front. There was a big stain that plainly said that someone had had a little accident. "Alina, what did you do?" she asked angrily.
Alina didn't say anything, but started to laugh as the stain grew bigger. And bigger. And bigger.
Alina laughed at the memory that had started off so sad. Alex really deserved what had happened, though. Alina had always hated fakes. (A/N Who doesn't hate fakes? Do you know how many posers I have to put up with?)
She picked up her stuff, and headed for dinner, shocked at how much time had passed. It seemed that she had just been teased by Sirius, and now the day was almost over. Time sure does fly.
Friday. (The day that Alina finds out who her tutor is. Hmm, who could it ever be? I know!)
Alina watched Flitwick, to see who he talked to, since she was anxious to find out who her tutor was. I mean, since she shared this class with Slytherins, do you really blame her?
The only two he seemed to talk to more then normal was Lily and Henrietta Limned, a Slytherin. Alina was hoping it was Lily, since she didn't want to be stuck with Limned. They might have gotten into a fight last year from the results of a Quidditch match. Alina's a Beater; she can't help it if she's a bit violent. (A/N Sorry if you're not violent. There's nothing wrong with that. Half my friends are violent, though.)
When class was over, Alina once again headed up to the professor's desk. She was thankful to see that Lily was the one that was there, instead of Limned. "Miss Evans, you will be tutoring Miss Jones. If her grades improve enough, you will be excused from you exams at the end of the year, and will get the highest mark."
Lily nodded; her face expressionless. "The tutoring will begin once the Christmas holidays are over."
A/N
How many Author's Notes did I put in this chapter? Like, six?
Oh well.
I only got one review last time, but since Alina wants the next chapter…..
So, how about ten reviews before I update? Now, review or I won't update. And I don't think Alina would be happy, since she wants to know what will happen next.
Really, only I do, so HA!
Though Alina does know something that will happen way later on.
But you don't. HA!!
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