a/n guess who started school? Yeah so I'm going to try and update as much as I can. I hope you enjoy this chapter I wasn't so proud of the last one. Cursed Child comes out in tomorrow. Enjoy! excuse all errors
Annabelle pushed the food on her plate around. She was too nervous to eat. Albus seemed to be the same way. He was looking down at his plate like he was trying to burn a hole into it. Scorpius and Belle acted as they were perfectly fine. Like they weren't even nervous. Annabelle had guessed that Belle had calmed down after she got to know them all a little better.
Every once and while, people would walk and give them looks which just made Albus worse and Scorpius just ignored them but Annabelle gave them a mean look back. Scorpius nudged her in the side as he saw her. "What are doing?" He asked. "Nothing." She said but Scorpius knew that wasn't true. "Anna." He muttered. Annabelle looked at him and his eyes narrow. "You don't have to do that." He told her. Annabelle shrugged her shoulders, "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Annabelle you really don't have to do it." Albus said. "It's fine." Annabelle took a bite of her food and slammed her fork down. "I don't understand why I can't do? People are walking by walking giving us judgmental looks or are just laughing." Annabelle sighed, "I just don't think it's fair." Scorpius grabbed her hand and she looked him in the eyes. "It doesn't matter what any of them think. It only matters that we show that it doesn't get to us."
"Then that shows we're weak." Anna replied.
"No it shows they don't care." Belle said. Annabelle gritted her teeth and sighed. Maybe they're right, she thought.
But we shouldn't just be pushed around. We're more then what people think we are. We are just kids with different ways and minds then the people. Annabelle didn't agree with thought the more it continued but she couldn't tell them that. "Fine." She said and they all went back to the breakfast.
They all had the same class, which was Transfiguration, and they had with the Gryffindors. Which meant that with luck, Annabelle could be sitting next Rose. Annabelle was relieved to see that Rose was sitting next to one of the blonde girls that was on the train, whose name she couldn't remember. Scorpius and Albus found a sit and she gave him a look 'seriously' and he just shrugged his shoulders. Belle was sitting nervously next to one of Antoinette's brother. She was guessing it was the one named Bryson since the other with the easier name was in Hufflepuff and he was in Ravenclaw. Annabelle found a seat next to the little blonde girl who was much taller then and who tripped at the sorting ceremony.
"Hello," Annabelle said, giving the girl her cheeriest attitude. "I'm Annabelle Strange."
The girl smiled, "I'm Augusta Longbottom." Annabelle knew that name and if she was correct then this was the daughter of Neville Longbottom, the man who fascinated Annabelle. She was going to ask but before she could, Augusta stopped her. "I know what you're going to ask so I'm just going to answer right now. Yes my father is Neville Longbottom. Yes, I know the Potters and the Weasleys. No I won't introduce you."
Annabelle was silent. "Um…I was just going to ask about your dad. I've read most of his books." Augusta looked at Annabelle like she was crazy.
"How old are you?"
"I'm eleven."
"You like Herbology?"
"I find it interesting."
"You don't want to met the Potters or Weasleys?"
"Well I've already met them so I think I'm good on that part."
"So you are just sitting, listening to me ask you a lot of question?"
"Basically." The two girls went silent and didn't talk about anything. Class began and Annabelle felt very confident. She knew most of the questions asked and every time Rose also raised her hand, Annabelle was called first and would get the question right. She could feel Rose death glare burning on the back of her neck but she didn't care.
Annabelle was on a roll until she saw the one person she thought wasn't ever going to see.
It was Margret. The girl from her dream the one who was dragged away. She was staring right back at Anna. It made her stomach turn. She could have been sick right there. Just calm down, Annabelle thought, it still could have just been a dream.
But she couldn't ignore this.
"Hey." A voice said. Annabelle looked over to see Augusta looking at her. Annabelle saw that kids were getting up from they're. "Class is over?" She asked and Augusta nodded her head. "Are you okay?" She asked her.
Annabelle wanted to give her the real answer which was I have no idea but she just nodded her and began packing up her stuff. "Is it because what I said?" Augusta asked. Annabelle just nodded her head no in response. "I only said that because that's just want everyone always asks me and I get tired of it so I just started doing that." Augusta continued rambling on as the two walked out of the class. "Augusta! I'm not mad at you because of what you said. You shouldn't have to apologize for that. I'm just going though some stuff right now." Augusta didn't say anything else and Annabelle bit her lip, scared that she had just made the girl upset.
"Hey guys." Albus and Scorpius walked up next to the two and Annabelle looked over to see that Augusta face had turned red. "Hi Albus." She muttered quietly. Albus gave her a giant smiled and Annabelle hadn't seen smile that wasn't nervous. "Where is Belle?" She asked. "Oh she went off with one of Throne brothers. The Ravenclaw one." Scorpius explained. "Hi I'm Scorpius Malfoy." He held out his hand for Augusta to shake but she didn't shake it. Augusta just smiled and said, "That's nice."
Annabelle, Scorpius, and Albus just all looked at each. Clearly Augusta was different from everyone but not that different when it came to some things. "Augusta!" A voice said. "Are you coming?" They turned around to see a girl older then them with black hair. Annabelle saw Rose and James standing by her. Rose looked over to Anna before whispered something some thing into James' ear and he laughed. "Coming, Alice." Augusta called back. "I'll see you guys later."
"Well she seems nice." Scorpius said as they walked away. "I promise she's a nice person." Albus said. "I've known the girl since I was little and she always been a great friend. I don't know why- well I know why but she always seemed like someone who wouldn't act like that."
"We can't always expect everyone to act how we think they'll act." Annabelle said. "Are some of the things you say quotes or do you just have great knowledge for a eleven year old?" Albus asked. Annabelle laughed, "Are some of the things you say quotes or are you two just very sarcastic for eleven year-olds?"
"Both questions are very important." Scorpius said. "And that both hold have very great points but Annabelle is right."
"Maybe it was because Alice, James, and Rose were there." Albus said. "Who is Alice anyway?" She asked, trying to ignore the fact that he said that James might have been the reason she acted like that to Scorpius. Annabelle wouldn't have thought that he would have done something like that but she barely knew him and according to what she just said, James could be different from what she expected him to be. "Alice and Frank are Augusta's older brother and sister." He explained.
"Why would you think that they would have any input on Augusta's actions?" Scorpius asked.
"Well James and Rose love using our parents stardom as a way to get people to like them and Frank is James' best friend and Alice has this giant crush on him so they kind of just follow their lead." Albus said, not sounding really proud of his family members.
"That's kind of self center, don't you think?"
"Believe it or not most of my cousins acted like that." Albus said. "Which is probably why they haven't talked to me that much since I was sorted into Slytherin." Annabelle and Scorpius gave him a sad look.
"How come you don't act like that?" Scorpius asked.
"I want to be more then that. I love my family but I want to more the son of Harry Potter or James' little brother. I want people to know me as just Albus." Albus sighed. "I'd like that so much." Annabelle smiled at her friend and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "You're one of the goods one, Albus Potter." She told him. "Yeah, the world is an idiot if they don't see you as you. It doesn't matter if you were sorted in Slytherin, you are a great person." Scorpius agreed.
They walked to class and before they could walk in they were stop by a short, red head thing, that Anna could only describe as an atomic bomb of anger and jealousy but others would describe as Rose Weasley. "Hello Albus." Rose said and that made Annabelle - even though she only said hi – want to punch her. "Malfoy. Star-head." The two girls that had been with Rose on train giggled but Augusta had stayed silent.
"Hello Red." She said. Rose probably thought that Annabelle had called her red because of her hair but she really said because of the hate and fire that reminder her of Rose. "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be hanging upside down in midair until your face turns purple?"
"No."
"I have. Would you like to test it out?" Annabelle asked, pulling out her wand showing this girl that she would be willing to do it. "Or I could try blondie and brunette back there?" The girls looked scared and Rose just rolled her eyes. "Their names are Dominique and Molly." Annabelle just shrugged, "I've never met them before."
"Hey why don't we all just go to class?" Augusta said but the only one who seemed to be listening was Albus who agreed. "You know it must be hard putting up with all the looks and comments that people are giving you, Malfoy." Rose said.
"No, it's just been hard keeping my cousin for killing everyone who has been doing that. But I'm starting to think that maybe I should reconsidered that." He said. Annabelle gave herself a mental reminder to high five her cousin later. "How that make you look?" Rose asked stepping closer to them. "How it look if a Malfoy attacked a Weasley?" Rose's face was inches away from his. "People would rejoice in the fact that there would be one less brat in the world." He said with a smile. "Don't worry, love, I'll remember this when years ago by and I've made something of myself while you still live off your parents fame."
Rose only said one thing, which was, "Don't call me love."
"Sure thing, Red." Annabelle replied. "Now please move aside or we're going to be late for class." They pushed a now silent Rose and went to class. Annabelle didn't see Rose or any of her friends for the rest of the day or mainly because she spent most of the avoiding her. Annabelle had loved her classes and her, Scorpius, and Albus were happy. Annabelle ran into Belle, who she felt like she hadn't seen all day. "I've been hanging out with Antoinette's brother, Bryson." Belle explained. "He's nice. I don't know why she send all that stuff about him."
"Cool maybe, I'll have to met him one day." Annabelle said. The two girls parted ways again and on her way to her next class, Anna bumped into someone. "Hey." She said. "Watch where you are going!"
"I'm sorry." A cold voice said. Annabelle looked up to see Margret was the person she had run into and now she had a perfect view of her face, which on the side of her face had giant scratch mark. "It's fine." Annabelle said. Fear went through her like a lighting strike. She want to run but that would just make her look weird. Margret hadn't hurt her but the dream that had been haunting Anna had this girl being hurt and dragged away. "I have to go. I don't want to be late for class." Annabelle told her calmly.
"That's fine." Margret said with a smile. "Have a great day."
Annabelle was basically running away but she couldn't help it she was scared. The question that she had asked earlier about whether or not the dream had been real wasn't really a question anymore. The answer was the clear. Something had happened to Margret and chances that matter was going to get worse for her.
a/n so I know that most characters that I have made the mean kids are usually the good but I imagine them like this so sorry not sorry.
