I headed into Divination and sat with Jane, the girl who had sat across from me the day before, and got to work.
"Do you think we can get by without doing and actual work?" I asked, Jane raising her eyebrows.
"Is that even a question? Just come up with something random and soon enough, she'll be convinced you have a gift," Jane 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 declared, 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 entirely sure that a hyena could get into Hogwarts, but good luck," she said.
"Doubt I'll need it," I replied, smiling. Jane and I continued like this for the rest of the class.
"See you later!" Jane called out as she left class. I smiled and waved goodbye. Looks like I made a new friend. A Hufflepuff, I wonder what Kiana would think. I felt myself frown as I thought about Kiana, wishing I could stop worrying about her.
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. It also happened to be the class I had with Fred and George. I managed to avoid them even though I felt Fred staring at me the entire class.
I couldn't bring myself to look at him after what happened yesterday. I felt humiliated, even though I was the one that pulled away and nothing actually happened.
But class was the same old stuff, I got the spells down first, 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. I scoffed.
"Real mature. I'm just wondering, do your new friends know about that little moment you had in second year?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. Her eyes widened a little and her nostrils flared.
"I'll take that as a no. Don't worry, I'll give you a chance to tell them. But just so you know, if you don't, I will," I said, smirking and walking to a desk in the front of the room.
I heard Kiana's friends bothering her all of Charms and gave her a smile as I left at the end of class.
Herbology was a boring old blur. Next came DADA, which would never be normal or boring considering I was sat next to Fred.
"Hey," he said as I sat down. I considered responding. Doing something in return to Kiana had felt really nice. However, I still felt like I needed to patch things up with her and she had friends in this class. So I ignored him.
"Um… hello?" He repeated, waving his hand in 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, crossing his arms and staring straight ahead.
"Okay class, today we are going to start learning about casting a patronus," Lupin said. Everyone started discussing what they thought their patronus would be.
"Fred's got his down, what about you?" Lee said from the table behind us. Fred laughed.
"Not quite Lee, haven't gotten the patronus fully anyway. I can produce light, but not a patronus. Though I've got a few ideas of what mine could be," Fred responded.
"I'm guessing a baboon," I said.
"What happened to the silent treatment?" He asked teasingly, winking at me. I felt myself blush but once again tried to hide it by sighing and rolling 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 cast them quite yet. We'll start attempting tomorrow. We're going to be jumping around topics a little and going back to old topics throughout the semester in order to prepare you all for your O.W.L.s this year," Lupin said. An audible groan came from the class and I started taking notes as Lupin began writing on the board.
"I know I said two can play at this game, but I don't wanna play," Fred whispered to me. I ignored him, willing myself not to look at the puppy eyes he was surely giving me.
"You know, two really could play at this game. As long as one of the two aren't me, it should work," he whispered. I felt the corners of my mouth twitch but managed to not smile, and continued to take notes.
"I'm slowly breaking your walls, aren't I?" He said. I could see 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," Fred said, wiggling his eyebrows. I did my best to cover my face so he couldn't see how red my face was getting and kicked him under the table.
"You've got a strong kick," he commented.
"Would you stop, I'm trying to pay attention!" I whisper shouted in return.
"Miss Hollis, is there something you'd like to share with the class?" Lupin asked, raising an eyebrow. I looked up at Professor Lupin.
"But I-"
"No buts, pay attention," he said. I took a deep breath and glared at Fred who just smiled back at me.
Fred bothered me a few more times but eventually got bored at my lack of reaction.
Class ended and I got up to leave. Me being the clumsy mess that I am, tripped over the leg of my chair.
Fred caught me and helped me up, but didn't let go of my arms.
"Uh, can you let go?" I asked, trying to tug myself free of his grip.
"I could. However, 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," Fred responded. I rolled my eyes.
"Then what did you mean?" I asked, getting impatient.
"You never responded to my greeting at the beginning of this class period," He said.
"Are you serious?" I asked. Fred just stared, waiting for me to say it.
"Fine, hello," I grumbled reluctantly. He smiled and released me.
"Kiana will love to hear Jennifer was holding hands with a Weasley," one of Kiana's friends said as she walked past.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-" Fred started.
"No, it's fine. I'm only trying to mend my friendship with Kiana by all means, continue making it worse," I seethed, storming away from him. I looked back at Fred to see him just staring at the ground with a pitiful look on his face. Lee walked up to him and started talking and Fred snapped out of it and glanced over at me. I turned away quickly and went back to my dorm.
Time for me to start adding on to the story! Ahhh! I hope you guys have enjoyed the rewrite so far! :)