We assembled outside the castle to await the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students. The teachers were going spastic with stress, and professor McGonagall was marching up and down the assembled lines of students, making sure everyone was absolutely perfect. I had my camera ready. I was a sucker for nostalgia, and there was no way I was going to miss this.
Autumn was beginning to set in, and it was cold. I pulled my cloak around myself, wishing I'd worn my thicker tights — although stockings looked so much sexier, my legs were freezing.
Pansy was thinking along the same lines. "Geez, are they fucking coming already?" she wrapped her arms around herself and shivered.
Beauxbatons came first, in a massive flying carriage. Their headmistress came out and I blinked. She was massive, she looked part-giant. She greeted our headmaster, and her students came out, all senior girls in floaty pale blue dresses and matching strappy heels, their hair done immaculately and their faces painted to almost but not quite overkill. I thought they looked like a bunch of bitches and smirked when I saw a lot of them shivering. I glanced at Draco; his face was carefully blank, which meant he was trying to hide something. I narrowed my eyes at him.
Blaise nudged him and said something I couldn't hear. They both laughed quietly as they watched the girls flounce into rows to wait for the Durmstrang students. Draco turned to me and saw my expression. He went a bit pink and smiled sheepishly. I punched him and McGonagall gave a pointed cough, glaring in our direction. We turned back to the front.
"There!" Someone yelled. I followed where they were pointing and saw a couple of ripples on the lake...
Then water flew upwards like a bomb had been set off under it, and there was the ship.
"Wow."
"Yeah."
A goateed man with greying hair disembarked from the ship. He looked around, then strode up to Dumbledore and shook his hand. He said something that we couldn't hear, smiling as though he was greeting an old friend. Then the Durmstrang guys got off the ship.
It was my turn to keep a blank face as I looked at them. They got into rows. They were all dressed in black with fur coats. A few of them were plain, but most of them were fucking hawt — then I saw Draco's expression, felt the heat rise in my cheeks and grinned sheepishly. He rolled his eyes.
The headmaster invited the two schools inside.
"Come, Viktor," called the Durmstrang Headmaster, and one of the guys came up to stand just behind him, walking into the school before all the others. Whispers erupted throughout both Hogwarts and Beauxbatons students.
"Is that...?"
"No way!"
"Viktor Krum!"
All organization was abandoned as we crowded into the great hall, and I saw Ron and Harry.
"Lauren! Did you see?"
"Of course I saw! I'm not blind, everyone saw that, Ron."
He completely ignored me. "It was Viktor Krum! The seeker for Bulgaria! In the flesh! I'm going to get his autograph, what about you, Harry? Oh fuck... I don't have any quills on me... Seamus, do you have—?" I wandered towards the Slytherin table as we got inside, and sat down next to Draco as usual. The visiting schools hesitated for a moment, before The Beauxbatons sat at Ravenclaw's table and the Durmstrang guys sat down at ours. Draco smirked at Ron across the hall, who was gazing almost hungrily at Krum.
The food appeared, and conversations started all over the hall.
After a while, one of the Beauxbatons Bitches — as I found myself thinking of them — stood up and went over to the Gryffindor table. Most people seemed to be looking at her, and I studied her as she took a dish from the Gryffindors and pranced back to the Ravenclaw table. She had long blonde hair, down to her waist, and the most beautiful face... I felt a pang of jealousy and a deep, dark dislike of the girl immediately, which was only strengthened when I noticed Draco following her progress across the hall, his mouth hanging open. I stared at him, but he didn't seem to notice. I waved a hand in front of his face and he went back to eating, avoiding my eye.
Okay... short chapter, but I'm not that great at writing long chapters. Be more soon...ish... whenever I get around to writing more...
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