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Summary:They managed to break free. Now what will they do when somene plots to break them up? Find out as we join Ariella and Lucas for another adventure. This time they are joined by their friends and we'll follow them as they learn to trust their friends and more importantly each other.
Um what happened to the reviews? I need reviews. My workload has become considerably lighter now as I have had my birthday party and now have a laptop so I have the internet in my bedroom via a wireless connection. I apologise for the length of time between the updates so I'm going to post 2 chapters for you all.
Chapter Three – The Revelation Of A Secret.
Later that evening, after the students had dined, Ariella, Lucas, Boo, Ryan, Shelley, Zac and Dawn were sat in the library doing their homework. Shelley was sat next to Boo while Zac was sat across from her. Zac had Shelley's notes so she stood up and reached across the table to get them back. As she did this Boo looked at her back and saw something that hadn't been there before the Easter holidays. Boo gasped when she realised what it was and watched as Shelley sat back down.
"Um Shells, may I talk to you for a quick second?" Boo asked.
Shells looked at Boo and nodded. She then followed her as Boo led her into one of the rows of books. Once Boo was certain that their friends couldn't see them she put her hands on her hips and stared at Shells.
"Is there something that you wish to tell me?" Boo asked.
"Like what?" Shells replied nonchalantly.
Boo sighed and glared at the person stood in front of her.
"That thing on your back! When did you get that done and what on earth possessed you to do it?"
"Oh my tattoo. I got that done over the Easter break and I got it done because I wanted to have it done. What's wrong with it? I think it looks pretty."
"A whopping great star on your back is not pretty! I don't care if it's pink or not! You're not even of age yet! How could you have gotten it done when you're not of age?"
"Being as tall as I am has its advantages you know. They didn't even batter an eyelid about it but please don't tell anyone. No one knows about it not even Rye knows and I tell him everything and Zac would hit the roof," Shells told Boo.
"I am not keeping that thing a secret for you. You can tell them all now!" Boo retorted.
"Fine but I am not telling Zac. I will tell him in my own time. Now isn't the right time. Not after what happened during the holidays."
"What happened? You haven't told any of us about what happened during the holidays!" Boo exclaimed quietly.
"Nothing big happened."
"Tell me. You can't keep secrets to yourself around us."
"No I'm not telling you. It's for Zac and me to divulge whenever we see fit to. Let's just say that we might not have stayed together."
"Tell us all in a minute! We need to know!" Boo told her.
Shells sighed and grabbed Boo by her arm and led her back to the table. When they sat back down both girls noticed that Zac wasn't at the table and everyone else was looking at them with suspicious looks on their faces. Boo looked at Shells then sighed.
"She has a tattoo on her back!" Boo told them quietly.
Everyone gasped as they looked at Shells who grinned sheepishly at them. Ryan got up and walked round the table and pulled his sister up into standing position. Once she was standing her lift up her Gryffindor jumper and looked at her back. When he couldn't see the offending item he pulled the waistband of her skirt down and saw that she did indeed have a tattoo on her back.
"It's true. There's a pink star there. Whatever possessed you sis?" he said quietly.
"I wanted it done and I was having a midlife crisis at the time. It was purely spur of the moment. Don't be mad at me Rye," Shells replied.
"Don't Rye me. You're seventeen, you can't have a midlife crisis and even if you did I would like to know what said crisis was. Did it have anything to do with that argument you and Zac had in your bedroom the day after we got home?"
Shells nodded her head and looked at Zac who was approaching their table. Ryan stalked over to him and grabbed hold of him by the scruff of his neck.
"I want to know what that argument was about!" Ryan told him angrily.
"Let me go and we'll tell you," Zac replied.
Ryan let go of him and watched as he sat next to Shells.
"Well we thought that we were going to become parents but luckily we're not," Zac explained.
"The argument that you heard Rye was us discussing what we would do if I was pregnant. When it went quiet we were doing the test in my bathroom and then when we started up again we were blaming each other. To cut the story short I told Zac that I never wanted to see him again and that's why he didn't come round ours for the rest of that week."
Ryan nodded while the others just looked at Zac and Shells with their mouths wide open. They couldn't believe that something like that had happened. Shells saw the looks that everyone was giving her and Zac and decided to change the subject quickly.
"Boo, how's it going with the team?" she asked.
"Alright I suppose. They still won't talk to us and quite often they steal our clothes so we have to traipse through the castle with mud on us and get detentions. They seem to enjoy making us do that. The only time they talk to us is to abuse us," Boo replied.
Shells nodded and watched as two Slytherin girls tapped on Boo's shoulder. Boo turned round and sighed at them.
"You don't deserve to have that tie around your neck Brittney Malfoy!" one of the girls told her.
Both girls then walked away laughing. Boo looked at Shells and shrugged her shoulders.
"See what I mean? We have to sleep in the common room because no one will let us into our dormitories so all in all the Slytherin's are still the same nasty people they always were."
Shells nodded and looked at Lucas who was looking at the floor because he hadn't told Ariella anything about what was happening in his common room. Ariella looked at him and grabbed hold of his hand to get his attention. Lucas looked up at her and listened while she spoke.
"Can't you ask McGonagall if you can change houses or something? I'd let you sleep in my dormitory but you'd get attacked because the girls in there apart from Dawn and Shells are saying that they love you all the time. None of them are talking to me because they believe that I drugged you with a love potion."
"We tried that. McGonagall says that we have to stay where the Sorting Hat put us. The only way we can get out of it is if one of us becomes Head Girl or Head Boy because then we could stay in the private dormitory that they get," Lucas told her.
"It's so annoying because they see us as complete outcasts. We're the same people we always were except for the friends that we have. They should get over it. The houses have been divided since our dad was here and even before that. I think it's time that people had some sense knocked into them!" Boo exclaimed.
"I can do that! I'll happily knock some sense into those Slytherin's!" Shells replied.
Boo laughed and grinned at Shells because this was her usual behaviour. Shells got very defensive if someone insulted either her, her family or her friends and she believed that knocking sense into people was the right way to go about it. She was also known for having very public arguments in the hallways. Zac looked at his girlfriend and glared at her because he didn't approve of her going around knocking sense into people.
"Okay then maybe I won't knock some sense into them," she said glumly when she saw the look on Zac's face.
Boo looked at Ariella and smiled.
"How's everything in Gryffindor?" she asked.
"It's okay. The house seems to have laid off me now, it's just the girls in our dormitory and the girls in Gryffindor who seem to think that they're in love with my boyfriend."
Everyone nodded sympathetically along with her while Lucas hugged her.
"Don't worry about them Ari. They need to get a life because I only have eyes for one person and her last name is Potter."
Ariella looked at Lucas and gasped.
"You mean you don't love me? You love Ember? How long have you had these feelings Lucas?"
Lucas looked confused at Ariella's statement until Boo shouted something at him.
"She's joking you dope!"
Lucas nodded and kissed Ariella on her cheek. The librarian had heard Boo shout and came over to their table.
"Be quiet or leave!"
Boo looked up at her and said, "Okay, we're going! We were getting bored because it was so quiet in here anyways!"
Everyone then gathered up their things and left the library making as much noise as they possibly could just to annoy the librarian who was a bit of a broken record.
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