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Crystal's PoV:
Today I was having a bad day, nothing was going right. Firstly, I overslept and missed breakfast and secondly, I forgot we had a test in potions which I probably failed. I can't believe I forgot we had a test… get your head out of the clouds Crystal-Frost!
To make matters worse I got a really bad mark back in Transfiguration. Now that I actually worked really hard for and I nearly failed just because of silly mistakes… wake up Crystal-Frost!
In Arithmancy, someone spilled ink on me and everyone laughed. I wanted to cry and scream like a little girl, instead I just stood frozen to the spot. Luckily Roxanne gave everyone a glare that made them stop immediately and Emily helped cleaned my skirt, but the damage was done. To add salt to my wounds, on my way to Care of Magical creatures, I tripped and fell into a path of dirt.
People blocking my path to Defence against the dark arts, is not helping. The whole narrow corridor was jammed with people, everyone pushing everyone else.
There where screams of laughter coming from the front in waves. The high-pitch noise, along with the moaning of the irritating fifth year next to me, resulted in one thing…
SNAP went my patience and all sense of rational thinking went out the window. I step forward and force my way to the front, it helps if you're small enough to squeeze past people. What could possibly be causing all this traffic?
I get to the front, only to see Gemma and her friends giggling about something.
Really? I think, you are blocking the path to giggle about some superfluous matter?
They giggle again and I flinch at the horribly pitched sound. And the last bit of sanity I was holding onto went swimming in the lake.
"MOVE!" I say, loudly. I almost jump in shock never having heard that sear volume coming from me in my life. I didn't know my vocal cords were able to produce such a loud sound. I did not even scream or yell, but somehow the whole hallway goes quiet.
I think it was because I said something audible, very audible, or the fact that Gemma had stopped talking in shock at the sound of it. Gemma, who had her back to me, turns around.
"Excuse me?" she asks, looking shocked and angry. Suddenly Roxy is next to me and says, "She said, move!" I love how I can always count on her to back me up.
Gemma turns to Roxy, completely ignoring me as I am unimportant.
"You listen here you little slut-"
CRACK… I completely lose control.
"Roxanne is not a slut and if you insult any one of my friends again, then I will personally hex you into oblivion!" I say, and she turns to me, her eyes wide… she opens her mouth to say something, probably to start insulting me, but I interrupted her again.
"We are late for class and you want to have a stupid bitch fight where we yell insulting and pointless things at each other? Not a chance. Now, move before I make you!" I push past her and walk down the corridor towards my class. I yank the door open and enter.
As soon as I walk in, everyone turns to look at me. For the first time in my life, I do not blush or flinch. I just walk ahead with my head held high, my ears buzzing. When I reach my chair I yank it away from the desk, much like I did with the door, and sit down.
Seconds later, before anyone can say anything about my lateness, the door opens again and a third of the class that was stuck in the hall way walks in. This bunch includes Roxanne and Emily, who looked torn between a mixture of shock and glee.
Seems like Roxy could not contain herself any longer as she yelled out to me,
"You have a voice! Which you used to tell Gemma off! It's the end of the world!" she said the last bit to our teacher, a young man about 27 years old.
I stand up, feeling like I am having an out-of-body experience, and I walk over to her. I grab her shoulder and lead her to her chair.
"Sit," I command and she does so, looking at me in shock, probably because I am ordering her with a clear voice. I sit down next to her, pulling out a piece of parchment to write down notes with and look up expectantly at my professor, who was staring at me in shock. He snapped out of it pretty quickly and continued with the lesson.
I really do not know what came over me…
Xxx
"I am so proud of you!" Is the first thing I here as I walk out of the classroom,
I awkwardly pat Roxanne's back as she hugs me tightly.
"Merlin, you were fantastic! Who knew you could be so loud and strong and so…"
"Gryffindor," says a smooth voice behind us. I turn around and see Louis smirking at us; I look down and bite my lip.
"Yes, exactly like that!" says Roxanne, before pushing me away to the Great Hall. I feel Louis' eyes follow me as we go.
Louis' PoV:
Merlin, you think you understand someone and then they go off doing something that just throws you off course.
Who knew she had such a pair of lungs on her, I actually doubted that she could speak louder than a mumble. Boy was I proven wrong. She could have been a Hufflepuff, the way she's loyal to Roxanne, sticking up for her and all that.
It was very impressive how she put that girl into place, though there was a reason why no one else did. The reason is something that naïve little girl did not know, Gemma always got payback in style. I'll better have to keep an eye on her. Merlin knows what sort of thing Gemma would do.
Another thing she misses, Crystal that is, is that she is beautiful and the object of my affection… damn, I think I just admitted it to myself.
No going back now…
Crystal's Pov:
Now that the shock has worn off, I realise what I did. I feel embarrassed that I had spoken up and said those words, I feel uncomfortable at how everyone was looking at me. I feel guilty for snapping at her. But most of all, I felt powerful and proud for all those reasons.
I don't feel like all my shyness had disappeared, that suddenly I'll be a bubbly extrovert. I just feel a little bit more lenient in the way that I handle such matters. I feel like I am coming out of my shell, but the end result won't be the opposite of what I am.
I chuckle to myself, how sentimental I have become.
The bell rings and I get up, walking to the Great Hall for dinner. When I get there, I see Emily and Jared, laughing and talking at the Ravenclaw table.
Jared was facing me, and when he saw me he motioned me over. I slowly walked over, despising the looks that I know I will get from his fellow house-mates. I was right, as soon as I came over, questioning glances where shot my way.
I flinch and look up at Jared, hoping that he will hurry up with whatever he wants to ask me.
"Chrissie, what is this that I hear about you and a motorbike?" he asks playfully, poking my side and I grimace.
"Nothing, just fooling around," I say casually, glancing over at Emily, trying, but failing, to glare at her. She always turned to Jared-mush when my brother was around, anyway.
"And you are standing up for your friends? What a day you're having!" he exclaimed,
"You have no idea," is all I say. As Emily shows no sign of returning to our table, I give in and start eating. Luckily Jared moves on from interrogating me when Roxanne approached the table.
"Hey," says Roxy as she sits down next to us. I don't look up, just mutter a greeting.
"Do you know what's weird? The fact that they call this the Great Hall, I mean really, what made it so Great?"
I heard this argument from Roxy a lot last year, she tends to pick at the same bone until she gets an answer, so last summer I devised a clever response.
"Great did not originally mean 'awesome' or 'fantastic' it meant 'big' or 'huge.' The Hall is incredible big, so thus it was named the Great Hall."
"An answer worthy of Ravenclaw," says a voice behind me and I blush.
I'd recognize that voice anywhere…HalHa