Chapter seven...
Roxanne's pov
I'm sneaking through the honeydukes secret passage way back to hogwarts levitating two boxes of butterbeer and firewhiskey and two boxes of various sweets. Today is Serena and Daryl's birthday and we're throwing them a party. This morning I said I would go to hogsmeade to get the stuff even though Serena and I are still arguing. We haven't spoken for weeks and it hasn't been very fun.
At first she was ignoring me and I don't even know why, then she goes and hits one of my best friends in the head, almost killing him and for what? Jealousy? I know my best friend and I know that look on her face, I just don't understand what she's thinking? I know she likes Mikey, it's obvious to me but if she didn't like that I was spending so much time with him she should have said.
I got to the end of the passageway and put the boxes down, I then took out my wand and levitated them out. Ever since what I call 'the incident' when I was younger, I've been really powerful and to me wandless magic is as easy as breathing.
I managed to get back go the common room without getting caught, stepping inside I saw there were a few extra tables by the walls for the food and drinks. We don't usually decorate the place with balloons and other party decorations, Slytherin parties don't work that way. I saw that nobody was in the room so I put my wand away and put all the things on the tables with a swish of my hand.
"You should be more careful with that you know." I jumped and turned to see Mikey leaning against the entry way to the boys stairway.
I sighed. "Ever since it happened I've felt more comfortable using wandless." I looked away. "Why couldn't he just leave me alone?" I mumbled to myself but he heard me and pulled me into a hug. "That assholes gone Rox, he did a horrible thing and paid the price. Come on, let's go fly for a while."
We went outside and did just that, we talked and laughed and it was just like the old times. After a couple of hours we went back inside so we wouldn't miss the party. Everyone was in the common room so Mikey and I went and joined our friends. Not five minutes later the assigned person bolted in the door telling us they were coming, everyone got ready and when the door opened we screamed. "SURPRISE."
I could tell something was wrong, something happened, I could see the signs that most wouldn't see. Growing up with these guys I knew them pretty well and by the looks of it it was bad. Serena has been crying, though she covers it well and Daryl was wearing his fake 'public' smile he plasters on when he's pissed. What the fuck happened?
Everyone was going up to them and saying happy birthday but with everything going on with Serena and I, I stayed back and Mikey stayed with me.
"What's Daryl's surname?" He asked me, I looked at him, bemused.
"Winters."
"What's Serena's surname?"
"Winters, obviously." I rolled my eyes at him, he can be so stupid sometimes.
"And why is that obvious?" He asked me.
"Because they're brother and sister. Twins. You know?" I said in exasperation.
"Well son of a bitch." He muttered.
I turned to him, noting the tone in his voice. "You didn't know? You actually didn't know? Dude, they look so alike." I laughed, his stupidity is always so hilarious.
He grumbled out a 'whatever' and walked away. I shook my head, he's so weird.
I looked up to see Daryl going to get a drink and I quickly walked over to him.
"What happened? And don't try lie to me, you know I don't like that." I said, with both sternness and concern in my voice.
He sighed. "Well since Serena and I were late this morning we got detention. In detention she had to crucio me, she didn't want to but you know the type of things they do to girls here." I nodded, remembering when he and Draco came back from that horrible detention and told me about it.
"That must have been horrible." He nodded and downed his whole drink. "What's going on with you and Serena?" He asked. I told him the story and he listened intently the whole way through, not even interrupting during the quiddich accident.
"Well you know how she gets sometimes." He shook his head. "I know you two will sort it out." I don't know if it was the fact that I was upset about the whole situation with Serena or the fact that Daryl was being sweet and not his usual 'joke about everything' self but my emotions suddenly caught up to me and I hugged him fiercely, burying my head in his neck. I smiled when he hugged me back, Daryl isn't an emotional kind of person but I've grown up with him and he's always been like a brother to me.
I pulled back and kissed him on the cheek. "Enjoy your party." I said and walked away. I joined the girls and we talked for a few hours. When there was only our big group of friends left Daryl's voice rang through the room. "Truth or Dare!" He shouted. We all cheered and got in a circle.
We all waited for someone to speak first. I rolled my eyes. "Fine, I'll go first." Everyone cheered and I shook my head. "Ash, truth or dare?" After a moment of consideration he went with dare and everyone feigned shock. "I dare you to kiss Sarah Carmody." Everyone chuckled, obviously I'm not the only one sensing those two liking each other. They kissed, I think it was only supposed to me a small kiss but then Ash pulled her up against him and after a minute they were practically making out only to break apart when Daryl wolf whistled. They looked at each other for a second and then blushed Weasley red, they then looked away and quickly sat in their seats, avoiding eye contact for the rest of the evening.
Ashton asked Joseph who picked truth. "Have you and Sofia done anything yet." I grinned, every time someone asks Sofia we never get a straight answer. They both blushed and he nodded but didn't specify because he didn't have to.
The game went on, Daryl dared Draco to wear a Gryffindor tie for two days, Ginny dared Luna not to wear any of her strange things for a week, to which she was very upset by. Sarah dared Daryl to wear Luna's things for a day, because any longer is just mean and then he dared me to take veriteserum 'to make things interesting.' I rolled my eyes but took the offered potion.
I asked Serena who had been quiet the whole time, everyone looked at me in shock, knowing that we aren't talking, Serena picked truth and my inner Slytherin suddenly smirked. "Who do you like?" I asked her, she paled and looked around the circle, her eyes lingering on Mikey which only he and I noticed. Her eyes rested on me again and I knew before she said it that she was going to lie. "Um.. Draco." She blurted out, probably because he was beside me.
He turned to me as I turned to him and I winked hoping he got what I meant. Beside me I felt Mikey tense and looked at him. His eye twitched and his jaw set, this confirmed my suspicions of why he was being weird about her a while ago. I grabbed his hand and squeezed it, already feeling his tension ebb away. I looked back up to see Serena glaring at our locked hands, she suddenly looked up at me.
"Roxanne, truth or dare?" I contained my shock, she very rarely calls me by my full name, I looked to see I wasn't the only one.
"Truth." As soon as I said it I immediately regret it, I took veriteserum and she is pissed at me so whatever she asks me I have to answer and have to do it honestly.
She smirked. "What did your father do that had your mom force him to leave." I felt the blood leave my face and my stomach drop. I cannot believe she just did that to me.
"SERENA!" Both Daryl and Michael shouted but before anything could be done I was talking, I looked at Serena the while I spoke. "When I was twelve years old my father tried to do a dark ritual on me. He brought me down to the basement and tied me to a table." I tried to stop talking but I couldn't, I closed my eyes, not being able to bear the looks on my friends faces. "He removed all my clothes so he could carve the runes into my stomach but decided he had to taunt me first, he kept going for a half an hour, switching between teasing and torturing. He started carving the runes, taking his time so he could tell me all the horrible things that would happen, he was almost finished when Daryl and Serena burst in, they were supposed to be coming over and obviously heard my screams. They stunned my father and called my mom. I was in st mungos for weeks after that but there will always be dark magic inside me." I finally finished and opened my eyes, blinking a few times to see through the tears that were pouring down my cheeks.
Looking around I saw everyone looking at me in horror, I didn't dare turn to Draco for fear I saw the same look. Daryl and Michael had looks of anger on their faces and Serena was silently crying, when she saw me looking at her she spoke. "Rox, I'm so sorry, I don't know why I asked that." And as she said that I felt a spark of anger, I shot to my feet and even I felt my magic spark about me, the couches flew back against the wall and the room shook.
"You know exactly why you did that and so do I. You did it out of spite, you did it because you decided to jump to conclusions instead of talking to me first. You know how much that night affected me, how even now I'm still not okay and you made me bring it up again, not only that but you made me tell everyone, knowing I couldn't lie about it." I shook my head. "What kind of best friend does that." I know I hit her where it hurt with the last comment but after what she just did, I couldn't care less.
I turned and ran out of the common room, not wanting to see my friends looks of pity and disgust or listen to Serena's pathetic apologies and I went to the room of requirement.
