Disclaimer: Never thought you would see me again, did you? Idea of the Parenting class goes to IcyPanther and some of the characters go to JK Rowling.
Jessica 3:
"Betony!" I yelled. I was worried about my siblings. The door to my room opened and it revealed Betony with dark circles under her eyes.
"Where are my brothers and sisters?" I asked her again.
She sat down in front of me and clasped her hands.
"They are home and you were sent here for a trip." Betony replied.
"Why?" I prompted. Betony just sighed and kissed my head before she walked out of the room.
"Scorpius! Go pick out some of Jessica's clothes." I heard Betony call.
The door cracked open and Scorpius peeked in.
"Jess? Can you please pick out your own clothes today, i have to go talk to someone." Scorpius asked and I agreed.
I opened the latch and the trunk opened. I saw a purple tutu skirt and and a orange dress and put them on top of another then skipped out.
"Noo!" Betony wailed as soon as she saw me. She rushed into my room and came back out with a black top. She tugged the orange dress of despite my protests.
"If you want to eat this morning, please cooperate with me." Betony begged and I narrowed my eyes put stretched my arms up as Betony managed to take the pretty orange dress off.
I pouted but let her squeeze me into the soft black shirt.
"We. Are. Done. Come on." Betony said as she picked me up and put me on her hip as we walked to the Great Hall. She put me down on the bench and sat down on the next seat over.
I grabbed a hot chocolate and started sipping it carefully.
"Hi, Audrey!" I said, seeing my friend coming in. It had been just over a week since Audrey came for a sleepover.
Audrey gave a small wave and then looked at her feet as she trailed after Nicki. I frowned. Nicki treated my friend like a bug and I didn't like it.
I took another sip of the delicious currently warm chocolate.
Then I took a bite of a cheese and ham sandwich. I licked my lips and I saw Betony getting up. I sighed but walked over to Betony who tickled me under my chin and then, noticing something, asked, "Where is Scorpius?"
I shrugged and started running ahead of Betony. Sadly, I didn't get far before she caught up to me and led me into a classroom I had passed by a door.
"Tables into tame horses." I heard a teacher with dark hair tell the class.
"Watch. Quondam a traba , iam a equus." The teacher bellowed and the brown table became a brown stallion who was just watching us.
He gave a soft neigh and then the professor gave another wave of his wand and the horse was a table again.
Betony tugged on my hand gently and I lurched forward and fell against her thigh. She picked lifted me up and put me down on the just conjured chair. I crossed my arms and watched tables turn into horses and I heard their low neigh.
My mouth twitched when I saw Audrey turn the childrens' chair into various animals. I jumped off the chair and went to watch her.
After a big set of animals, she left it into a chair and came to talk to me.
"Can you tell me what happened last week?" I asked. It had been the first time I had gotten to talk to her since she was out being a werewolf in the night.
"Teddy and I talked until I shifted and we spent the night doing I don't know what. I cant remember." Audrey responded a bit sadly.
I glanced at her and she was shuffling her feet.
"I have to get back to Nicki." Muttered Audrey. I nodded and wandered around the classroom, watching for a couple moments the other children.
I still missed Fred. I still wanted to see him.
I rushed to Betony to ask her.
"Betony? Can I go see Fred?" I asked excitedly. Betony lifted her head and looked around the classroom, then she nodded.
I walked over and when I saw someone who resembled Fred, I wanted to make sure. I had heard Betony talk with Scorpius about me actually being older than I was now so there is only one way to check. I tickled a certain place on his thighs. He jumped a foot in the air and I had my arms crossed and I was glaring at him.
"Hi Fred." I said with a dangerous edge in my voice.
"I'm not Fred." Fred squeaked.
"Nice try. Think I don't know my brother?" I shot.
Fred sighed. "How'd you find out?"
Now I put my hands on my hips. "Doing what I do best. Eavesdropping." I replied haughtily.
Fred nodded. "Can you not tell anyone?"
I raised my eyebrows but agreed, standing next to Delany, Fred and someone who he told me was named Kira.
I just watched them and every couple minutes glanced over at Scorpius and Betony who were intent on making the table a stallion.
I smirked slightly when I saw how close they were. However much they insisted that they were not a couple, they would make a perfect one. So I decided to take matters into my own hands.
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Delany was in on the plan. She was quite sneaky and I needed her help for 'Plan Scorptony'. Delany and I had formulated the plan during Transfiguration when Betony, Scorpius, Kira and Fred were busy with trying to get their neighing table to change into a horse. By the time the class was over, the shape was a like a deformed mule.
I walked into our common room and sat down, watching the fire.
I waited for step one to take place.
A smile crossed my face when I heard the mermaid, Syreen, say that Delany was here for the play date.
Betony and Scorpius walk out of their own bedrooms and they asked Syreen to open the portrait. And she did.
Delany was carrying a bag of 'fun' things, or better known as: objects needed for the plan.
"Hello Betony and Scorpius. Thanks for having me." Delany said sweetly, blinking her adorable blue eyes up at them.
"We're glad your here." Betony replied and I stifled a laugh at how easily people gave in to Delany's charms.
"Can we go into Jessica's room?" Delany asked, her sweet face never wavering.
Betony nodded as she and Scorpius sat on the couch and Delany and I went in my bedroom.
I was just about to close the door when I heard Scorpius murmur "It's her last day and our first is tomorrow."
I shut the door quietly and turned to face Delany.
"Melts like butter that one." Delany laughed. I nodded and she opened the zipper.
"Voodoo dolls." I breathed and Delany shrugged.
"Do you have their hair?" She asked quickly and I went to my bookshelf and took out a strand of silver hair and a strand of brown hair.
Delany took it with a smile and pressed the hair to the dolls. Robes immediately appeared on the dolls and I gave Delany a high five. I opened my door so I could look at what was happening while Delany was playing puppet master.
I saw Delany moved the dolls to be right next to each other and Betony and Scorpius slid from opposite ends on the large couch into each other.
"Oww!" They moaned and rubbed their arms.
I gave Delany a thumbs up and then she made Betony sit on Scorpius's lap. I looked back out the door and that was exactly what was happening. Betony was trying to get off.
"Can't get off, can you Betony?" Scorpius smirked. Betony rolled her eyes and pushed on his chest to try get off. Scorpius tried to left her up from her waist and I gave Delany a gesture and then Scorpius's arms were stuck to Betony's hips.
Suddenly, Delany broke them apart and then lay Scorpius lying down. Looked back out the door and thats what he was doing with a very confused Betony watching him.
"Last step of the voodoo doll side of the plan." I whispered and Delany beamed as she plopped Betony back on Scorpius with their mouths on each other. Delany left the dolls there and we took the bag and walked out my bedroom.
"What are you doing?" I asked Betony and Scorpius who were insistently trying to get off each other. They were still kissing.
Step one was finished and step two was due….now.
And Syreen asked if we could let Audrey in. Audrey only knew of the plan but Delany and I had decided to bring her in it once step one was over.
I told Syreen she could come in and the portrait opened as Delany immediately lifted a thick, hard pillow and threw it in between the portrait and the frame so it couldn't close.
I glanced at Scorpius and Betony who just seemed to realize who's plan this was. They tried to argue but their mouths were blocked.
Delany and I giggled as we stepped through and Audrey was just making a deal with Syreen.
"I'll get you a shell from the pond if you promise not to let anyone or anything know what happened here and then you'll let us back in?" Audrey reasoned.
"Fine. But I wont let anyone in either cause then I am in big trouble." Syreen answered.
"Perfect." Delany and I chorused and I pushed the pillow in. Syreen shut the entrance and then Delany, Audrey and I walked outside.
"It's almost two weeks since we arrived in the common room." I hinted.
"I know." Delany replied while Audrey seemed to have gotten something.
"Okay guys. I need to tell you something." I said, feeling plain annoyed that I was the only child who didn't know.
"Spill." Audrey said, her face having cleared up.
"We are actually fifteen and we drunk a potion to make ourselves five and we cant remember what happened after." I rushed. They were quiet.
"That would actually explain a lot. Like why Nicki and Dorian hate me. Maybe they hate me then too." Audrey said finally.
"It's our last day of being five and their first is tomorrow." I looked at the nearing pond. We were covering a big distance and we had just gotten out of the castle. Led by Audrey, of course.
"Can you promise me that we'll still be friends after we're back? I really care about you two." said Delany. Audrey and I nodded and we stopped at the shore. Audrey sat on her heels as she dug through the sand and grass around it.
"What's step two?" Audrey finally asked.
"Fred is in my group and Jessica can talk to them to develop the voodoo dolls into feeling and saying things." Delany responded proudly.
"I found the shell so lets go." Audrey stood up and plunged her hands into the water lapping up onto the shore to clean the sand off.
This time, we ran as far as our short legs could carry us.
"Wait. Let's fly." Audrey said with her eyes shining.
She lifted a wand and at my surprised face explained, "It's a child wand. It's rare and it can only spells that were approved by a teacher beforehand."
"Accio three child brooms." Audrey said clearly with a wave of her wand and it took about five seconds for three brooms to appear. We climbed on and followed Audrey go to where Delany had said that her common room was. We flew to a portrait of a woman with mewling kittens clambering on top of her.
"If you let us in, i'll give you a cat treat" and the woman agreed instantly.
"Cattus tract per obey" Audrey muttered and she reached into her brown boot and lifted a cat treat. She threw it into the portrait and the kittens went running after the treat. The woman thanked Audrey and the portrait swung open and we flew in.
"Oh brother." I called in a sing-song voice. Fred walked out from his room.
"What now, Jess?" He complained.
"You know enough tricks to help us. So help us." I smirked as Delany told him about what we did.
"Only because that was genius, I will help. Now get off your broom and let me give you a couple things that my dad gave me." Fred praised.
We jumped off our brooms that could only hover a foot or two over the ground. The brooms fell to the floor and we ignored them as we walked into Fred's room and he opened his trunk.
"Jess, please tell me how you found out." Fred begged as his head disappeared because it was searching inside the large wooden trunk.
"I heard Betony say 'Scorpius, i cant believe it has been almost two weeks since Jessica became five.' then Scorpius said 'I just hope she wont hate us when she becomes fifteen again. She didn't have a choice to hate us because her memory had been modified. I don't want that to happen though I know it will because that is what the stupid potion does.' Thats how I know." I replied triumphantly as Fred reappeared with a small parcel in his hand.
"For the feeling, there is a hearts of many various colors. Doubles for the two dolls. They each label on them what feeling they make. For the saying side, you need to whisper into their ears what they should say and they will say it exactly a minute later to who they were holding hands at the moment whispered. Done. Here take the hearts." Fred explained as he handed them to me.
"Not real ones. Ones for toys." Fred reassured when he saw my expression.
"Thanks, Freddie." I called as we got back on our brooms and flew out.
We chatted all the way back to my portrait where Audrey said a similar spell to the one with Delany's portrait.
"Crusta per obex."
Syreen smiled and opened the portrait and we saw Betony and Scorpius actually enjoying themselves now.
I cleared my throat and Betony's and Scorpius's eyes flew open. They narrowed their eyes at me.
Audrey, Delany and I skipped into my bedroom, laughing like mad.
"Please lock the door cause we need to break them apart and we don't want them to kill us." I said, clutching my sides from laughing so hard.
Audrey said through peals of laughter, "obfirmo… ianua in… alius… pars… immune ut… alica in ut… pars"
Delany held her breath to try stop laughing as she broke them apart. She took their hairs and placed them aside for a moment as we heard them get up angrily and ran toward the door to open it and when they realized it was locked, they said "Alohamora" but the door remained locked.
"Latin spells are the strongest." Audrey whispered. I smiled because we had just managed to stop laughing even though it was because we were scared that Scorpius and Betony would get in.
"Put the hairs back on." I said urgently and Delany pressed the hair back onto the dolls and the dolls took the shape of Betony and Scorpius.
We opened the parcel quickly and we lifted two red hearts that each said hearts on them.
Delany put the two red hearts on Betony and Scorpius. The knocking stopped and Delany picked up the Scorpius doll and Audrey picked up the Betony doll. The two dolls held hands and I made Delany say "I love you, Betony" into Scorpius's ear and Audrey say something a tad more romantic "I think since the beginning of this project, I've loved you. I still do, Scorpius" in Betony's ear a couple seconds later. We stayed there, listening at the door with the two dolls holding hands.
My heart swelled with happiness that we made them admit it when I heard Scorpius say "I love you, Betony."
On cue, Betony replied "I think since the beginning of this project, I've loved you. I still do, Scorpius."
Then we removed the heart and the hair and set the dolls back into the bag that I just noticed that Delany had been carrying the whole time.
"We have three little children inside a room that we cannot go in to. What can we do?" I heard Scorpius say.
Then we heard the portrait swing open.
"Here is the potion for Jessica, Delany and Audrey. Do you need help with the spell?" I heard a older voice say.
"Hi, Minerva." Audrey called.
"Audrey? What did you do?" McGonagall asked.
"Used a spell that only unlocks from the inside. Alohamora doesn't work on the outside. We are only going to get out if they promise not to kill us." Audrey said, looking at the two of us who nodded our agreement.
"We aren't going to kill you." Betony reassured.
"Promise?" I yelled.
"Promise," Scorpius and Betony answered back.
"Alohamora." Audrey whispered and the second the door opened, McGonagall whisked Delany and Audrey out the portrait and Scorpius and Betony rushed in and pushed me on the bed.
"Here. Drink this. It's pumpkin juice." Betony said, handing me a juice when Syreen closed.
"Okay. I will but I just wanted to tell you something first." I said, knowing this was the right time to tell them.
They nodded and sat down on the bed. Tears seemed to threaten to leak out of their eyes.
"I know. I know I am actually fifteen. I don't remember anything after but I heard you talking about it last week when Audrey and Teddy were outside. I am not sorry for what I did. You two love each other. I will be ashamed but I wont regret it. Thank you for being my parents for these two weeks." I said and drank the potion as tears poured out of their eyes
Almost immediately, the goblet fell out of my hand and I fell asleep.
The Parenting class thing only lasts for four chapters but I need it to be there for certain memories, characteristics and other things to come out. Again, people who really like Nicki, sorry but next chapter...THINGS WILL COME OUT OF THE CLOSET. And she is straight. Just thought you should know and if you got the wrong jist of what I was trying to say.
Something super dramatic is going to happen at the end of chapter twelve. This is chapter ten.
I am sooooo glad that so many of you liked this and everything. I know this took a long time to upload but our school stopped any chance of typing during lunch and break. Evil. I have been making a couple outfits for the story that either was going to go in but I realized too late that I couldn't or is going to go in on Polyvore under the Audrey name and my friend's last name. MIXMATCHING!
Thank you to all that reviewed. I owe you so much. Let's just cheer that with this chapter we reached ten! HOLY MOTHER OF HAPPINESS! I AM ECSTATIC!
Thank you again for everything,
November
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