Chapter 4

"Crap," I said under my breath. Tia heard and laughed as she helped me up.

"What do you want, Malfoy?" Seamus asked from behind us. Draco smirked and crossed his arms.

"What, I can't visit with my friends?" He looked me up and down and I think I actually blushed as I crossed my arms over my chest and rolled my eyes.

"If you use the term 'friend' loosely, Draco," I said, stepping backwards. "I tend not to hang out with snotty assholes who think they own everyone and everything." I could practically hear Seamus and Dean's jaws dropping and the girls grinning insanely.

Enter: The Big Brother

I saw Casey through the corner of the window where his head was showing. Oh, thank God. At the same time, Draco and the cronies turned around and saw him. Casey stood up all the way and crossed his arms.

"Is there a problem here," he asked. Draco looked up at him with a hint of, was that fear? Tia, Em and I suppressed giggles. Draco didn't even bother answering, he just slowly walked to the side and around Casey, back to his cabin with the cronies, I assumed. Casey looked back at us, grinning. Tia was the first to talk.

"Well that was entertaining." I smacked Tia on the arm and looked over at the guys. They still seemed a bit shell shocked.

"Is something the matter?" I asked. Seamus shook his head and seemed to come too a bit.

"No, nothing…it's just…most people are too scared to deal with Malfoy. They just back down and don't retaliate." I raised an eyebrow.

"Uhm….well I'm not one to put up with that BS. We got enough of it from the girls at our last school. Not dealing with it here." No kidding. Back at my old school….well I may have been Cupid, but in no way was the favor ever returned. Casey cleared his throat loudly. "What?"

"Are you planning on introducing me to your friends?" He gestured to Seamus and Dean, and I laughed.

"Oh yeah. Um..this is Seamus and Dean. Both our year. Seamus and Dean, this is my older brother, Casey." Case shook their hands, and Seamus looked at me.

"So this is the infamous Casey I've been hearing about since second year?" I nodded, and Casey looked at Seamus, wide-eyed.

"Wait a sec, this is IrishBoy?" I laughed and nodded again.

"Irishboy and friend." He shook his head and leaned against the door. "So, Case, you make any new friends?" He grinned and nodded.

"Some other Quidditch players. Gryffindor, I think. One named Oliver Wood."

"Wood?" Dean repeated, coming out of a conversation with Tia. Does everyone know everyone here? Casey nodded again.

"Wood's pretty cool," Seamus said. "Seventh year, I think. Been captain since his fifth, I think." And that's when I hear shattering glass down the hall. All of us head outside quickly, and Seamus and I, both of us being the nosy idiots we are, poke our heads into the same cabin that the girls and I had passed, to see the glass flying back into place, a girl with bushy brown hair putting away her wand. On the other seat were two boys, both looked our age. One had black hair and glasses, the other with almost the exact same color hair as me, but a bit lanky and skinnier than the other boy.

"What's going on in here?" Seamus asked, standing up all the way and pulling me with him into the cabin. Emily and Tia were standing behind me with Casey, I noticed.

"Run in with Malfoy," the black haired boy said. I rolled my eyes.

"You guys too?" All of them raised their eyes simultaneously, and Seamus pushed me forwards a bit.

"Hermione, Harry, Ron, this is my friend from the America's, Holly." He gestured back to everyone else in turn. "These are her friends Tia and Emily, and her older brother Casey." We all shook hands

"Holly, I swear you could be Ginny's double," Harry said, sitting back down. I leaned against the door frame with Seamus, and everyone else had gone back to their cabins. Blinking, I looked back in the hall as a lady with a cart walked up.

"Anything off the trolly, dears?" She seemed so sweet. I pulled out some of my money.

"Pumpkin pasty." I laughed as Seamus and I spoke at the same time. Harry and Ron stood up and went to get something as I paid.

"Hey Holly," someone said. I looked up, and Cho was standing there, paying for the same thing Seamus and I were having.

"Hey Cho!" I smiled and waved as she and her friends walked away giggling. Harry was staring after her, and I rolled my eyes. [i]Boys,[/i] I thought. "So who is this Ginny chick?" I asked, taking a bite of my pasty.

"That Ginny chick," Ron said, mocking my American accent (well, non accent), "is my little sister. A year below us."

"The only thing that sets you two apart is the glasses," Hermione said. I laughed.

"But is she a total book worm with a weird obsession for playing cupid?" Seamus asked. I looked at him with wide eyes and smacked his arm.

"Seamus!" Of course, the others laughed.

"Playing Cupid?" Hermione asked, confused. I rolled my eyes and took another bite.

"Cupid, you know. Little kid in the diaper with an arrow. That's me back at Elysa Monroe's. I knew all the townie guys, so I was usually the one setting people up on weekends."

"Her old school."

"Thanks for explaining, Seamus."

"Welcome." I could already tell that this was going to be an interesting year.