A/N: I thank Good Start for the review! =D As for your question, no, Diana Appleton doesn't know Britney so yeah, even if they do know each other, I would just make them acquaintances but since I can't remember how Britney acts or who Britney due to my bad memory, I will not make them know each other. Sorry if you've been expecting that ^^"
Oh and I thank Some Moron for the review as well! *happy dance*
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy reading! :)
Disclaimer: No, I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does. My Immortal is Tara's, not mine. I only remember owning Helen and the Appleton twins.
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Diana Appleton – Ravenclaw
Okay, for starters, my name is Diana Appleton and I have a brother named Apollo and he is the stupidest guy I've ever met. I can't even believe I'm related to him, he even bothered waking Helen up in Old English but do you think it worked? No. It didn't work. Anyway, I think everything is starting to get strange. First off, I saw this girl wearing oh-so revealing clothes, making me think that she's a prostitute without any time to change back to casual clothes and ended up wearing those to the carriages. I never even saw her in my life! Maybe she's a transfer student? No, scratch that, Hogwarts doesn't accept transfer students so that option is out. Oh who cares… anyway, there's more strange things such as Hagrid, the usual joyous gamekeeper we've known is now looking too… depressed. I wonder why.
I kept my eyes on Hagrid worriedly when Malfoy 'bumped' me. Or he did in accident. He never does that on accident, always on purpose and not just that… he looked like as if he's from a Halloween party!
He didn't say anything at all when he bumped me. No 'Watch where you're going Appleton' or 'Away from me Mudblood!' No, nothing at all… it's now scaring me.
"Di, are you okay?" Apollo asked me worriedly
"Yes, I'm fine, I'm fine…" I responded dryly "By the way, have you seen Helen?"
"No, not since she went to change into her uniform, why?" he answered
"I don't know… I have a feeling I need to warn her about… about this prostitute I saw in the compartment." I told him nervously and you know what he just did? He laughed as if I just told him a very funny joke.
"A prostitute was in the train? Impossible!" Apollo laughed and I glared at him
"I'm being serious here, Apollo, there's this girl who is dressed up like a slut and we have no sure evidence that she could be a prostitute or something." I hissed, how could he judge the poor girl? What if she's just dressed up like that as a dare? What if she's just innocent? Until we get full evidence, we can't judge anyone just because of their looks, right? Right…
Apollo was about to argue when we heard a scream from the other carriage that was about to leave and then we looked out of the carriage then we saw Helen fall out of it and shut the door of the carriage tightly and she looked like as if she's struggling to keep it close and when it did close she ran as fast as she can to our carriage and decided to join me and Apollo when the carriage began to move.
"Hey" Helen said, panting as if she just ran a kilometer "What's up?"
"What's up? Why did you scream?" I asked her
"You don't want to know…" Helen replied miserably
"Come on, tell us." Apollo insisted and Helen hesitated
"Uh…" muttered Helen
"Please?" Apollo insisted weakly
"No." Helen objected, going pale every second
"Please?" Now it's my turn to insist, complete with puppy-dog eyes and I know Helen can't resist it because she's now fidgeting on her seat before finally giving in
"Fine, fine, you two win." Helen grumbled in annoyance that she, of course, never win against my puppy-eyes
"Now spit it out Blondie." I teased and Helen mock-glared at us before she told us what happened
Apparently, she was harassed out of the carriage by a girl who is wearing revealing clothes and kept on saying that Helen is 'Stealing her Draco' and all Apollo and I could do is gawk at every word she's saying, especially when she came to the part where she said that Malfoy just joined her in the carriage on purpose and didn't fire any insult at her, which made everything scarier than usual. Then when she finished, Apollo and I stared at her as if she just grew a new head.
"Are you serious?" I asked her incredulously
"No, no I'm just joking" Helen sarcastically answered "Well of course I'm serious!"
I looked at Apollo, who just seemed as shocked as I am
"Err… what does this girl look like?" Apollo asked nervously
"She… has long ebony black hair with purple streaks and red tips that reached her mid-back." Helen responded, shuddering at the image of that girl in her mind "She also has a very pale complexion. As if she's dead and resurrected without any blood…"
"Is she a vampire?" Apollo pressed on and Helen and I looked at him incredulously "What? She said the girl's pale!"
Helen shook her head "I wonder how you came to think of that." She mumbled under her breath "She threatened that she'll drink my blood until I die if I kept on 'flirting' with Malfoy, which I'm not, and I thought she was just joking about the threat because she claims that she is his boyfriend but- OH!" she then face-palmed in realization "Why haven't I realized that? I'm so thick!" then she went on rambling about how thick she had been
"So you mean this 'vampire' knows Malfoy?" I asked "And she claims that he's her boyfriend?"
Helen nodded furiously and Apollo scoffed "As if Malfoy will have a girlfriend like that."
"And since when did you try defending Malfoy?" I demanded incredulously
"Come on, sis, he may hate us but he doesn't deserve it!" Apollo replied exasperatedly
"You, Apollo Mars Appleton, a Gryffindor and Muggleborn, cares for Draco Malfoy, a Slytherin, Pureblood and every Gryffindor minus the First Years' enemy?" I countered, completely ignoring Helen's attempts to say something
"Well he's still human!" Apollo retorted but before I could even say something, Helen shrieked "STOP IT YOU TWO! WE'RE HERE AT HOGWARTS!"
I looked down to the floor and began playing with my fingers when we stepped out of the carriage as Apollo looked anywhere but me and Helen. The encounter she had earlier must've traumatized her.
"I'm sorry, Helen!" I blurted out before I knew it
Helen sighed "It's not your fault, Diana. It's just that…" she said but her voice trailed off before saying "Never mind…"
I know she's now scared, after her encounter with a vampire and a threat, I don't think she'll be okay for a while.
I felt worried about her as we made our way to the Great Hall for the Welcoming Feast. Hogwarts still looked the same as ever! When we arrived in the Great Hall, we separated from each other and joined then our Housemates at our table. Helen went to the Hufflepuff table, Apollo to the Gryffindor table and I went to the Ravenclaw table. We were all noisy and my voice trailed off when I saw that vampire-girl. She was walking-err… swaggering to the Slytherin table. Since she's not wearing her robes (which most of us felt confused why) and still wore those same revealing clothes shamelessly. I mean come on! Everyone's staring at her as if she's a mad lady! And on second thought, she is a mad lady, showing off all her curves which, by the way, made the girls (except me, of course) go green in envy and the boys drool, as if thinking 'She's so hot!'
I rolled my eyes as the girl flirtatiously wink and flip her colorful (yes, it's colorful) hair towards Malfoy… to get the poor guy's attention but to my relief, Malfoy didn't respond at all. He just blankly stared at into open space as the girl tried to flirt more.
I tried to get Helen's attention but then, I heard Dumbledore's voice.
"So" he said "Whoever I think looks like a good guy is in Gryffindor and whoever looks like a bad guy is in Slytherin. The two other Houses can go wherever the hell they want!" then he sat down, rubbing his forehead as if it's sore
We Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuffs gasped in shock at the statement, all thinking of the same thing: When did Dumbledore learn to curse? Verbally, not magically but… well this is confusing! Here I am, sitting at the Ravenclaw table, gaping with the Hufflepuffs and my fellow Ravenclaws at Dumbledore. Trust me, even the Gryffindors looked surprised and the Slytherins were huffing in irritation or smiling smugly.
"What did he mean about that?" a second year girl beside me asked an older student
"I don't know… perhaps he's just ill or something…" the older student replied uncertainly and all I could do is eating the food slowly when it appeared on my plate.
I took a small glance at the Slytherin table and saw that the girl is not eating the food we eat. Yeah, she is eating chicken or something but the mushroom soup in her bowl is definitely not mushroom soup… instead, it's blood. And Malfoy doesn't seem to be disgusted!
Then after what seemed like a millennium, dinner over and then Dumbledore told us to 'tuck in.'
I saw Helen and Apollo walking towards me with a nervous or distracted look on their faces.
"So… what do you think about that… that vampire?" Helen asked softly after she and Apollo dragged me to an empty corner
"I think she's a slut." I answered flatly while Apollo nodded in agreement
"Then, what will we do about her?" Apollo asked next
"Uh… avoid her as much as possible?" I suggested
Helen and Apollo looked at each other for a moment then nodded their heads solemnly
"We will talk about this tomorrow." Helen said before joining her fellow Hufflepuffs and Apollo did the same but he joined his fellow Gryffindors.
Oh how this day disturbed me. I already can't take it wearing miniskirts and such then I see someone wearing something more revealing than most people could take!
When I arrived at the Ravenclaw common room, I couldn't see any fifth year prefect greeting any first years like usual… seems like Dumbledore is serious about what he said before the sorting began. On the other hand, I went up to my dorm room and get dressed for sleeping. I suddenly felt very sleepy when my head hit the pillow and drifted to sleep in a matter of seconds.
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A/N: Dang, the last parts are rushed because I wanna finish this as soon as possible. Oh well, tell me what you think by reviewing please? =3
Just so you know, the first four or five chapters will be set before the first chapter of My Immortal and since the internet doesn't say anything about the timeline except that it's starting sometime between November and February 1997-1998, I think it would take a while before the real horror begins. So yeah, that's all.
Thanks for reading!