Mystery Song

SHINeeWhiteRose

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AN: Sorry for the long wait, I've been really preoccupied with both school and other stories that my friends want me working on but as this one is already posted I promise to commit to updating at least once every other week! If I fail to keep this promise then feel free to yell at me cuz I'll deserve it! On with the story then, so I can get to working on the next chapter. Thank you to Black-Rose-Marley (I love you my mi amor), Phelpsie-x2 (I promise I'll keep going, I posted this so I'm going to commit to it), and omniscientoctober (your guess is really good but to be honest I have a few ideas for Corrie's mom and I'm not exactly sure which route I want to go yet) for their reviews!

"Hermione this is truly ingenious… how did you come up with this?" I asked in wonder, looking at the four creations hidden within the stalls. "I didn't even know that a spell like this existed!"

"I was looking in the restricted section for a book to help me in Herbology. I must have gone to the wrong section though because I found myself looking in a book with this spell. I copied it down and quickly found the book I was looking for then I left." She said sheepishly, standing over by Ginny who was waiting for our approval.

Alina smirked. "I take it you had permission to be there, then?" Hermione blushed deep red and we both laughed. "Right, you're one third of the Golden Trio. What a stupid question." Turning serious she warily looked between the three of us and the four doll-like things sitting in midair in one of the stalls. "Do you guys actually think that we can pull this off with the Pink Toad around? Dumbledore's holding her off the best that he can but with the way that she is hovering over everything this could get dangerous. We could get expelled."

Hermione seemed a bit stressed about that, which I could understand. As a muggle-born she was proud of her achievement of being here and it would be horrible to lose it. "I'm willing to do it if you all are." She said decisively with a nod. The only way to get my feelings for Ron out without ruining our friendship is to do this."

I looked at her oddly. Didn't she know that he was totally head over heels for her? It was totally obvious… and sort of cute in a way. It wasn't my place to meddle though so I just nodded in understanding. "The guy I am doing this for can't know that I feel this way for him or bad things could happen."

Ginny smirked in amusement. "We all know that it's Fred." I looked at her in shock but Hermione and Alina seemed unsurprised by her statement. "I've seen the way you look at him when no one's watching… especially after whatever happened between you two last year." I flushed deep crimson at that. This girl was too observant for my own good. "Ever since I got here I saw it and knew it was a matter of time before he did something stupid."

"She then told me and I agreed with her." Hermione added helpfully, and I turned to Alina expectantly.

"Took me till third year to notice." She shrugged and I hid my face behind my hands. "If it makes you feel better it was only because we were such good friends that I noticed. I'm pretty sure no other Slytherins have any idea."

I peeked between my fingers. "Not really. No one was supposed to know… you guys won't tell him right?" I asked worriedly, looking between the three girls. "He can't find out!"

"Why can't you just be with him? Your dad wouldn't flip out too much would he?" Ginny asked. "If you're worried about the other Slytherin's I'm sure that as Snape's daughter they fear you at least enough not to do anything too stupid right?"

"It's not them I'm worried about." I muttered, but as I was the only one that said anything they heard me and urged me to explain. "Look, it's complicated. I can't explain to you why, so just accept that it couldn't work out between the two of us." I turned to Alina with a Cheshire grin. "On the other hand, you have absolutely no reason not to go for George."

She blushed. "W-well neither do Hermione and Ginny! We are all just doing this to avoid getting hurt or rejected…" She said with a pout and I sighed as the three then started arguing about it.

This was getting us nowhere. "Okay girls focus!" I said loudly, making them hesitate. "So are we all willing to go through with this, whatever the consequences are?" We all looked at each other hesitantly before we all eventually nodded. "Okay, so we've got to practice if we want to get anywhere with this." They eventually all nodded in agreement and I turned to face Hermione directly. "How do we do this?"

Immediately she slipped into lecture mode and started excitedly explaining. "Well, they are basically like puppets just a lot more realistic. A lot." To demonstrate, she picked up the bracelet with blue spade charms and put it on. The doll with electric blue hair stood up and as Hermione moved, so did the doll. "You don't have to move, but the book said that it'll take some practice before you can only control it with your mind."

"Well," I said with a sigh, picking up the necklace with a red heart pendent hanging off of it. "Let's get to work then." Once the necklace was clasped there was a feeling of being cramped, but in my head. The doll was now standing up like me and had a puzzled and amazed look on its—her?—face. "One step at a time." I muttered.

From the corner of my eye I noticed Alina grab the silver ring with a yellow diamond shaped gem and slip it on her finger, making the yellow haired doll stand up and Ginny grabbed the green club shaped earrings and used one of the mirrors to put them in. Now that all the dolls were standing at attention we could start practicing.

AN: Just in case you couldn't tell, they each have one of the symbols from a deck of cards. :3

Weeks of frustration flew by. Between trying to control the 'Starcards' as we came to call them and keeping up with schoolwork we were a mess. Poor Hermione had it the worst; she was always getting roped into doing most of Ron's homework for him and had doubled the load. Alina and I helped when we could, and Ginny tried to but since she was a year younger than the 'Golden Trio' she didn't know anything about most of the stuff that Hermione had to do. We had almost no social lives outside of each other at this point, and because of this we fought a bit. We kept at it though, and after we could move them without even looking at them and not faltering we worked on being able to move them in their practiced choreography while we moved as well.

"This is impossible! We'll never get this." Alina whined. It had been three months since we formed our 'Starcard' alliance and we were having trouble making the final leap into perfection. She was having the most trouble, but we were all struggling in different ways. "We won't get this before the end of the year feast!"

While she plopped on the ground in frustration Ginny patted her on her back consolingly. "We'll get it. We've come too far not too." When Ginny looked at Hermione and me and saw that we looked just as defeated she got a determined look on her face. "Oh come on guys; once we figure this little bit out we're in the clear to do it. Then we have all summer to perfect our puppeteer skills." Behind her, her puppet mimed her movements and Hermione let out a weak chuckle.

With a sigh I nodded my head. "Ginny's right, come on girls lets get it done." With a roll of her eyes Alina stood up and silently went back to practicing as did the rest of us.

I embraced the feeling of being able to take off my necklace for the night a few hours later, as now my head once again felt solely like my own. Passion, as I had come to nickname my Starcard, took up space in my brain so I almost felt squished when I had the necklace on. It was weird too, because I heard and saw whatever she does, but yet I am fully aware of what I myself am seeing and hearing. I hated to imagine what it would be like if I kept my necklace on all the time.

"After Ginny's not-so-inspiring speech we made a bit of progress, huh?" Alina said, snapping me out of my thoughts. We were on our way to the Great Hall for dinner, and very few people were around us. This might have been because we were late, but we had left separately from Hermione and Ginny who would have arrived not even two minutes ago I'd wager.

Suddenly, I ran into a wall and fell back on my arse. "Um, ow?" I said, looking up at the 'wall' only to see that it wasn't a wall at all. Fred looked down at me like he was just as flabbergasted at seeing me as I was with him. "Oh… hi?"

"Clever." His twin snorted, and Fred's confused face faded to match the mischievous one of George. "Watch yourself Snape; we wouldn't want anyone to step on you now would we?" George sneered, and then they both walked away.

"Sometimes, I wonder what I see in someone as immature as him." Alina said with her head tilted to the side cutely in thought. "And then he turns around and I remember what a nice arse he has." She laughed when I just grimaced and helped me up. "I suppose that is what you get for not watching your step."

I rolled my eyes and walked into the Great Hall doors, walking to the Slytherin table. I got a few discreet nods of recognition from the more accepting Slytherins and I few glares from others, but mostly I was just ignored. "I'm just surprised that Fred didn't say anything before they left. Maybe he's grown up a bit?"

We sat down and looked over to the Gryffindor table, almost immediately finding the twin troublemakers slipping hot sauce into a first year's goblet. "Or not?" Alina offered and we snickered at their antics.

It was three days later when I finally managed to move Passion without making her copy the movements I did and by the day of the end of the year feast everyone else could too. That last mental block had thrown us a bit off, but now that we had it we could barely contain our excitement. Who could blame us? We had managed to do something that most people our age didn't even know about yet and we had it nearly perfected. Talk about bragging rights; except that we couldn't actually brag about it to anyone but still.

"So we're really doing this?" Hermione asked, and we nodded. "This has got to be against some number of school rules."

"Yes, but that's the thrill of it isn't it?" Alina said in excitement and Hermione nodded eagerly. "Are you guys ready to kick some arse?"

We all nodded and put our jewelry in our pockets. "Good. Okay, so after Dumbledore gives his speech and the desserts are set on the table we wait five minutes then put on our jewelry to signal that we're ready." Ginny stated, and we all nodded in agreement. "This is just the preview guys; next year is where the real fun begins."

"We'll just take it 'One Step at a Time'." I said, and laughing we left the bathroom, heading to dinner together since no one came around here anyway when it was all sunny outside.

This would be the second step of something that would define the rest of our lives, not that we knew that then. We just took everything one single step at a time.

AN: I would like to apologize for the major laziness that is called my inspiration. It kind of has a mind of it's own ^-^" I know that this is short but I promise that I will update more frequently though, because I am asking my dear friend and mi amor Black-Rose-Marley to threaten me in any way except physical (so threaten to not write about Bex and Vix, or that someone else is going to marry Joe Walker, etc.) to get me writing and updating because I have a nasty habit of getting into a story for a couple chapters then getting lazy and wanting someone else to write it so I can just read. So inspire me people! What do you think will happen at the feast? Will they chicken out? Will they do superbly well? Will someone fall on their face? Tell me your thoughts and concerns if you want in a review. You don't even have to login if you're too lazy. Just leave a name so you can be recognized in my thank you's xP

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