I headed into Divination and sat with Jane, the girl who sat across from me the day before and got to work.
"So... do you think we can get by without doing any actual work?" I asked, Jane raising her eyebrows.
"Is that even a question? Just come up with something random and she'll think you have a true power." She joked. I laughed.
"Well then, let's get to work. In three days you'll have a tragic accident involving a marshmallow and a toad." I said, flipping to random pages.
"Sounds horrifying. In the near future, you'll be attacked by a hyena while hopping on one foot." Jane said.
"That's pretty specific." I said, Jane nodded.
"Not sure how a hyena's gonna get into Hogwarts but good luck." She said.
"Doubt I'll need it." I said, smiling. Jane and I continued like this for the rest of class.
"See you later!" Jane called out as she went off to her next class. I smiled. Guess I made a new, Slytherin, friend.
Other than Snape claiming I made my potion entirely wrong and dumping it on the floor, nothing interesting happened in Potions.
Transfiguration came next, the class I always got my highest marks in. We did the same old stuff, I got it first(as always) and McGonagall gave points to Slytherin and the next class came along.
I walked into Charms, Kiana glaring at me and whispering to the girl next to her.
"Well, well. Look who it is. The traitor." Kiana said as soon as I was close enough to hear her. I scoffed.
"Aren't you mature? Do your friends know about that little moment in second year?" I asked, her eyes widening.
"I'll take that as a no. I'll leave you to tell them, or get it pried out of you." I said, smirking and walking away.
I heard Kiana's friends bothering her all of Charms and smiled at her as I walked out to my next class.
Herbology was the same old stuff. Next came DADA, which would never be boring or normal considering I sat next to Fred Weasley.
"Hey." He said as I sat down. I ignored him. I didn't want to make anything any worse. Kiana had friends in this class, and I could feel their stares on me.
"Um... hello?" He said, waving his hand in front of my face. I just rolled my eyes and continued to look forward.
"The silent treatment, huh? Well two can play at that game." He said, staring straight ahead.
"Okay class, today we are going to start learning about casting a patronus." He said, everyone started chatting about what they thought their patronus would be.
"Fred's got his down, don't you?" Lee said. Fred laughed.
"Not quite Lee, not the patronus anyway. I can produce a light, but not a patronus. Though I've got a few ideas of what mine would be." He said.
"I'm guessing a baboon." I said.
"What happened to the silent treatment?" He asked teasingly, winking at me. I just sighed and rolled my eyes.
"I'll take that as it's back on." He said. My lack of response answered his question.
"Okay, settle down! We aren't going to be casting them yet. We'll start attempting to cast tomorrow, and we'll be switching between working on boggarts and patronuses. I know it seems weird, but O.W.L.s are this year for you all, so we need to get through everything before that time comes." Lupin said. I mentally groaned and started taking notes as Lupin started to write on the board.
"I know I said two can play at this game, but I don't wanna play." Fred whispered over to me. I ignored him.
"You know, two really could play. As long as one of the two aren't me it should work." He whispered, I managed to stop myself from smiling and continued to take notes.
"You have really nice handwriting, what's your secret?" He whispered. I scoffed because my handwriting was far from nice.
"I'm slowly break your walls, aren't I?" He said. I saw him smirking out of the corner of my eye.
"I can see you glancing at me. If I didn't know better, I'd think you fancied me." He said. I kicked him under the table.
"You've got a strong kick." He said.
"Would you stop, I'm trying to pay attention!" I whisper shouted back.
"Miss Hollis, is there something you would like to share with the class?" Lupin asked, raising an eyebrow.
"But-" I started.
"No buts, pay attention." He said. I took a deep breath and glared at Fred who just smiled back at me.
With a few more kicks and glares, Fred left me alone for the rest of class.
Class ended and I got up and tripped over the leg of my chair as a tried to leave.
Fred caught me, and helped me up. But he didn't let go of my arms.
"Um... can you let go?" I asked.
"Well, I could. But there's something you haven't said yet." He said. I sighed.
"Thank you, now let go." I demanded. He chuckled.
"That's not what I meant but you're welcome." He said. I rolled my eyes.
"Then what did you mean?" I asked.
"Well, you never replied to my greeting at the beginning of class." He said.
"What? Oh, hi." I said. He smiled and released me.
"Kiana will love to hear that we saw her cuddling with a Gryffindor." One of Kiana's friends said as she passed by us. I felt tears prick my eyes, but I blinked them back.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-" Fred started.
"Just stop! Stop everything! Stop talking to me, stop looking at me, stop everything!" I shouted, storming out of the room.
I didn't look back, I just ran.