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Chapter Seven: House of Jealousy

Nina's POV:

Fabian and I sat on one of the comfortable, squashy couches in front of the fire in the silent common room. But who knew silence could be so loud?

"This is amazing," I breathed, staring at the dancing flames in front of us, our hands intertwined.

"I know," he replied, kissing my cheek. I scooted closer to him and rested my head on his chest, feeling his arm snake around me.

"So… What do we have first tomorrow? Charms?"

"Let's see." Fabian reached into his messenger bag with his free arm and produced the parchment with his timetable on it. "Tomorrow… Wednesday… Yep, Charms first. Then we have History of Magic, and double Potions is after lunch."

"Double Potions?" The thought of that made me cringe a little. "Ew."

"Well, we have Slughorn, so that's alright. At least we don't have Snape."

"True." We laughed for a minute, then I got lost in his beautiful blue eyes.

"What're you staring at?" he asked, giving a cute little laugh.

It took me a minute to realize I was spacing out pretty badly. "Uh…" I averted my gaze to my hands, blushing.

"Nina…" I looked back up at him, and I noticed we were both smiling brightly. Slowly, our faces were being drawn to each other, as if by a magnetic force. We kissed, obviously.

Did I mention how kissing Fabian was complete and utter bliss? Well, if I didn't, then I have now.

Of course, we were interrupted by people entering the portrait hole, wolf-whistling and cheering at us. It turned out to be a lot of the lower years, Alfie and Jerome of course, and some Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Years. Rose just stood there, trying to get everyone to settle down. We broke apart instantly.

"Adorable," Albus muttered, stomping up the stairs and slamming the door to his room. I stared after him, wide-eyed, then changed my line of sight to Rose and everyone else.

"Well everyone, there's nothing more to see here. You all have homework to do," she told them. Everyone in the common room went off to do their own things and conversations started, making the room loud.

"Oh, if it isn't the two lovebirds!" Alfie exclaimed, walking over to us and putting a hand on each of our shoulders, shaking us slightly.

"Alfie, are you upset because of Jerome not being in the same House as you?" I asked. He grimaced.

He took a seat on the other side of me. "Maybe Nina… I don't know. It's just that, I've known Jerome since we were eleven, like Patricia and Amber. Not being in the same room as him, let alone the same House, well… it's saddening."

"I know what you mean mate," Mick interrupted.

"No you don't! You're still roommates with Fabian, and Nina's with Amber. Jerome and I aren't even in the same House!"

"And what's worse, Mara's in the same House as him."

"Aww I'm sorry Alfie! I'm sure Jerome's equally as upset as you are to not be in the same House as him. He doesn't have anyone to pull pranks with." That's Amber. So incredibly delusional most of the time.

"Of course, Amber," I said, subtly using a drip of sarcasm.

"Well, I'm getting kind of tired. It's not that late I know, but I need my beauty sleep. Goodnight guys." She kissed Alfie on the cheek and walked upstairs to our room. I sighed.

"I'm gonna head upstairs and see why Albus left in a huff. I might be back, might not. Night." Then Alfie went up the staircase.

Mick, Fabian and I were left staring at each other while everyone else talked and did homework.

"So," Mick started off, looking around at everyone in the room. He rubbed the back of his neck and looked at the floor awkwardly. "What are our classes tomorrow?"

"Charms, History of Magic, and then Double Potions after lunch," Fabian told him.

"Great. Double Potions."

"That's exactly what I said!" I exclaimed.

Mick took out his wand and began fiddling with it. I mimicked him, taking mine out as well. I began twirling it around between my fingers.

"Expelliarmus!" I shouted, pointing my wand inadvertently at Mick. His flew out of his grasp, landing on the floor a few feet away from us. Fabian applauded me.

"Hey, I was having fun with that!" Mick exclaimed, going over to retrieve it.

"Too bad mate," Fabian said, putting his arm around me. "She ended it. Maybe you could-"

"Expelliarmus!" Mick pointed his wand at me, and mine flew out of my hand. Weirdly enough, when Fabian put his hand up to catch it, it landed in his grasp perfectly. He handed it back. "How did you - You're not good at sport!"

"Don't have to be," he replied, a smirk present on his face. "It's just my amazing cat-like reflexes."

After about an hour of them arguing over whether or not Fabian catching my wand was fair, Mick finally grumbled something under his breath and stomped upstairs, mimicking what Albus had done earlier. He headed in the direction of his dormitory. Fabian and I, as well as a few others siting near us, ended up laughing at him.

"Well that was quite hilarious," a brunette boy sitting in an armchair nearby said. He had an Irish accent. "I'm Sean Finnigan. Nice to meet you." He held out his hand for us to shake. We did.

"I'm Fabian Rutter, and this is Nina Martin," Fabian introduced us. Sean nodded.

"You're Fabian and Nina?" Sean asked. He got up from his armchair and went over to sit in Alfie's spot.

"Yeah," I answered. "Why?"

"You're The Chosen One, aren't you Nina?"

"How do you know that?"

"The Wizarding world… We've known you were coming ever since I was a first-year. You just had to fulfill your duties and make the Cup of Ankh, defeat Rufus Zeno and Victor Rodenmaar, and then you'd be sent here."

"Okay…" I was getting kind of weirded out by this. "Um, how do you know this?"

"It's a prophecy Professor Trelawney mentioned in Divination back when I was a Third Year. Sorry - am I creeping you out?"

I guess he could tell by the expression on my face. "Yeah, kinda."

"Sorry," he fidgeted. "Hey Fabian, aren't you in my dormitory with Albus and I? And your friends Mick and Alfie - they're there too, yeah?"

"Yep. That's what Albus said. We were wondering were you were at dinner when he mentioned you were the fifth roommate. Where were you, anyways?"

"I had to go to the hospital wing and have Madam Pomfrey mend a broken wrist. I was tripped by a Slytherin before supper and landed funny."

"Weird, cause we didn't see you when I went up to get my black eye fixed," I chimed in.

"I'd already gone down to dinner. By the time I was there, Albus had said you two went to the hospital wing with James. We must've just missed each other. I did meet the others though - Mick, Alfie and Amber. They said your House at your other school - Anubis House? - was split up because of the Sorting, and now these people Mara, Jerome and Patricia are in Ravenclaw and a girl named Joy is in Slytherin. Was that the one flirting with Scorpius Malfoy?"

"Yeah, that was her. I hate that witch," I said. Immediately, the three of us chuckled. I never thought I'd call Joy a witch and it would actually be true.

"Well, I'm tired. I think I'll head to bed. It's around nine anyways, and we've had a long day. Night Sean, nice to meet you." I said, getting up quietly.

"Goodnight Nina, have a nice rest."

"Night Fabes. I love you." I kissed Fabian's cheek and left, swiftly gathering my messenger bag and wand, flouncing up the stairs to my dormitory. I vaguely heard him say goodnight to me before I reached the door.