A/N: Again I'm so sorry that it took me so long to finish chapter 10, it wasn't my fault but I still feel bad lol. I hope you guys liked what I did with it, I'm rather happy with it. J A few days ago I got my first flame, it was for my Pansy Parkinson to the Rescue? Story, which was my first try at lesbian smut and 'Vamp1res Suck' said I had no right writing about gays because I didn't know what it was like to be gay, bi, or lesbian lol. Everyone else seemed to enjoy it but still, I don't like the fact that I got a flame but oh well. At least I got a review that told me what somebody thought lol. Anyways on to chapter 11 of this story.
Chapter:11 First Day of Term.
Claryssa woke up feeling nervous about her first lessons, what if she ended up being no good? What if they told her there was a mistake in inviting her to attend and she had to go back to living as a muggle knowing about this wonderful world that she didn't actually belong to. Worry set in and she ran to the bathroom across the room and vomited, she felt someone come up behind her and grab her hair to keep it from getting into the toilet as she emptied what little was left of last night's feast and stomach acid out of her stomach.
When she finished, she smiled weakly at her hair's savior, "Thanks Jasmine," she said softly and then going back to grab her bathroom bag.
When she returned Jasmine was waiting for her, "Your welcome, I hope you would do the same for me if it was ever needed," Jasmine replied with a smile since Claryssa had left before she could answer.
They both showered quickly and then got ready for the day, Claryssa's school uniform fit her perfectly and she was glad she didn't have to wear Dudley's old clothes died gray like she would've if she had gone to Stonewall. This outfit was gray also but it had yellow and black around the neck and bottom of the shirt and around the bottom of her skirt, she had her black robes on that magically had a Hufflepuff house patch on the left side of her chest now that she hadn't noticed last night and her tie had also turned yellow and black. She brushed her teeth and used mouthwash to get all traces of the scent of puke out of her mouth before instantly drying her hair. She brushed her hair and put half of it up, half down and put in her Lily clip on the ponytail like she always did. She decided to apply makeup for the first time since Minerva had bought it for her. She smiled at her reflection when she was done and made her way to her bed to grab her Lily bag.
"I like your bag Claryssa," Jasmine smiled at her sweetly. Jasmine had straight golden brown hair that went half way down her back, beautiful chocolate brown eyes, and a very sweet smile. Jasmine had her hair down except for two little braids that started right next to her face that she had wrapped around her head and clipped it in the back of her head with a little black burette. She seemed to Claryssa like one of those sweet, shy girls that everyone loved and it was impossible to hate them because they were so nice to everyone no matter who they were.
"Thanks Jasmine, I like the way you put your hair," Claryssa replied trying to be as nice.
"Oh thanks," Jasmine giggled and they walked out the doors into the common room.
There wasn't a fire in the fireplace now and sunshine flew in through the windows on either side of the fireplace and t was a bright morning. The sunlight seemed to dance with the material of the couches making them shine a little, it was a very appealing affect. Claryssa wanted to see if she would find other pretty and magical things around Hogwarts that she hadn't seen yet that would make great projects for her art and she made her way towards the entrance of the common room on her way to the Great Hall.
"So Jasmine is this all new to you too or did you grow up in the magical world?" Claryssa asked trying to get to know her roommate.
"Oh my family are purebloods, the Moons have been around for over a century so I grew up in the magical world but still Hogwarts is something else isn't it?" Jasmine said dreamily.
"Yes it is! I love it here, it's wonderful and beautiful and I can't wait to learn more about it and the magical world," Claryssa said excitedly.
"I just can't wait to learn some magic, I'm super excited," Jasmine said.
"Oh me too but I'm really nervous, what if I'm not any good or they tell me I don't belong here or something?" Claryssa said worriedly.
"Oh Claryssa you'll be wonderful, you destroyed the most powerful dark wizard of all time when you were a baby, you've gotta be strong and powerful," Jasmine said trying to console her.
"I don't know how I did it though so I don't know if that proves anything or not, that's why I threw up this morning, I'm just so nervous," Claryssa told her honestly.
"I'm nervous too Claryssa but I'm sure we'll be great," Jasmine said sweetly as they walked into the Great Hall together.
"Thanks Jasmine," Claryssa said feeling a little better and she could see why Jasmine was sorted into Hufflepuff, she was very sweet and encouraging, she could see that they'd be good friends.
"Oh no problem," Jasmine waved it off as they sat down next to Cedric who was waiting there patiently for Claryssa.
"I'm Cedric Diggory, what's your name?" he asked Jasmine politely and she blushed at the thought that someone so sweet and handsome was talking to her.
"I'm Jasmine Moon, I'm Claryssa's roommate," Jasmine said quickly.
"Nice to meet you, I hope you'll watch over her when I can't," Cedric said.
"Nice to meet you too and I'll try but I don't see why she needs to be watched over," Jasmine said with a little laugh. Cedric just smiled at her and helped himself to some sausage, biscuits, and gravy.
"I had a troublesome childhood," Claryssa said and left it at that not wanting to indulge too much about herself yet. She also grabbed some sausage, biscuits, and gravy and began eating slowly hoping her nerves wouldn't kick back up and she'd toss it all.
"Oh ok then well I'll try to watch over you as best I can," Jasmine said politely and turned to her breakfast.
"Hi Claryssa, I'm Susan Bones," Susan said as she and Hannah sat down across from them.
"Oh hi, sorry I didn't introduce myself last night I was very tired," Claryssa said with a laugh shaking her hand.
"Oh so was I so don't worry about it," Susan said with a laugh. Susan had silky red hair that was right below her shoulders, dark blue eyes, and a beautiful Ivory complexion. She seemed nice and Claryssa really wanted some friends so she decided to get to know all of her roommates.
"What about you?" Claryssa asked looking at her third roommate.
"Oh I'm Hannah Abbott," she said quietly and shook Claryssa's had. Claryssa looked at her and remembered she was the first to get called to be sorted. She was pink-faced, with blonde, wavy hair that went halfway down her shoulder blades, baby blue eyes, and a very soft voice. She was incredibly shy but seemed like a very nice girl.
"Well nice to meet you both, this is Jasmine Moon," Claryssa said pointing out Jasmine.
"Nice to meet you all," Jasmine said sweetly and they continued on with breakfast.
Minerva had been watching the scene play out and she was happy that Claryssa was trying to make friends with her housemates, she knew the girl needed more friends after what she had gone through. She smiled to see them all getting along and went back to her food.
"Time Tables are here!" Professor Sprout, Head of Hufflepuff house, said loudly for the whole table to hear and began passing them out quickly. Their first class was Herbology with Professor Sprout and the Ravenclaws. Then it'd be History of Magic with the Gryffindors, then lunch. After lunch it'd be double Defense Against the Dark Arts with Ravenclaw and then dinner. They finished their lunch quickly and then headed towards the grounds.
"Talk to you later Cedric," Claryssa said with a smile and a wave.
"Ok see you at lunch, have fun!" he replied with a smile and wave of his own.
"He's so cute, how do you know him?" Susan asked excitedly.
"Oh he lives near my aunt's house, he was my very first friend," Claryssa said with a smile.
"So you've known him for years?" Hannah asked.
"Oh no we just met at the beginning of the summer at the park near our houses, well my aunt's and his," Claryssa said.
"And he was your first friend? What about before that?" Jasmine asked curiously.
"My cousin Dudley was a bully so he kept everyone away from me," Claryssa said sadly as they walked into the Greenhouse.
"Oh that sucks!" Jasmine said sympathetically.
"Yeah it did but things are better now," Claryssa said with a smile.
"So is Cedric seeing anyone?" Susan asked with a wink towards Claryssa.
"Uh…no he's not, Cedric and I are just friends, I don't know if we'll ever be more than that though," Claryssa said.
"Are you kidding? He totally seems into you?" Hannah said smiling.
"You think? Claryssa asked, "I hope so but I really shouldn't be thinking about relationships anytime soon," she said with a laugh.
"That's true we are only eleven, but we can dream" Susan said with a laugh.
"Attention first years, I am Professor Sprout, your Herbology teacher and the Hufflepuff Head of House but that doesn't mean I'm unfair to the other students," she said looking at the Ravenclaws to make sure they knew she would treat everyone equally. Claryssa focused all her attention on her Head of House because she knew she'd be interested in the class.
"There is a lot more to Herbology than planting things, you must know about the different plants and fungi, what they can do, be used for, and anything of the like. It's a very fascinating subjects for those who like me are very in tune with the Earth," Professor Sprout continued. Claryssa was hanging on to her every words not wanting to wait to start learning.
"I need you all to take out your books and read the introduction and then we will start with the lesson for today," she said and everyone made a mad dash to complete their instructions. Claryssa started reading as soon as she opened the book and finished before the others so she just sat there watching the teacher waiting for her to continue.
When everyone finished Prof. Sprout asked, "Can anyone give me a brief summary of the introduction?"
"It basically said we are about to start a journey on learning how to identify plants and fungi, what they can be used for, if they are dangerous or not, what to do if attacked by a live plant such as a Tentacula for instance, how to take care of any plant of fungi, and any and all basics of Herbology," Claryssa said bravely.
"Very good Miss Potter, 5 points to Hufflepuff!" Prof. Sprout said with a smile making Claryssa beam. Claryssa was already off to a good start in what she figured would be her favorite class and waited to get more chances to prove she wasn't a mistake in this world like she had feared earlier that morning.
"Today we are as Claryssa said starting to learn the basics of Herbology, which can sometimes be boring as the basics of most classes are but once you learn them and get past it you will find Herbology a very interesting subject," Prof. Sprout said. "Now we are going to start with flowers because most are easily recognizable and some are actually used for special things."
"Professor, are we talking about regular flowers or magical flowers?" a Ravenclaw girl asked shyly.
"We are talking about both Miss Perks, some normal flowers can be used for things just as some magical flowers can be," Prof. Sprout answered with a smile.
"Does anyone know a type of flower that can be used for something special?" she asked the class.
Again that same Ravenclaw girl raised her hand, "I heard Roses can," she said.
"Right you are Sally-Anne Roses can be used, 5 points to Ravenclaw," Prof. Sprout said and Sally-Anne beamed happy she wasn't wrong in front of the whole class.
"Roses petals can be crushed and the liquid that comes from them can be used in perfumes, other female products and dyes. In fact when you crush up the petals it gives a light pink liquid and they use that to color Rosewood wands pink and can be used in stains to stain other pieces of wood furniture," Prof. Sprout explained and Claryssa was writing down everything she said, she wanted to know all the professor could teach her about Herbology. The rest of the class the teacher explained the uses for different regular flowers had and what they could be used for, next class was to be about the uses of Magical flowers and all the information she told them and more was in their books and their homework was to read chapter 1 by the next lesson and then they were dismissed.
"Wow Herbology is so interesting!" Claryssa said excitedly to her roommates as they walked back up to the castle.
"I agree," Jasmine said with a smile, her favorite part about the lesson was when Prof. Sprout went over the Jasmine flower and she found out it could be used as a potion ingredient, a dye when crushed up, for things like perfumes and other female products and a few other things and loved that she was named after such a pretty flower.
"It seems pretty cool but I doubt we'll be going over flowers for the whole seven years," Susan said, "We're bound to come across some plats or fungi that are gross and we don't wanna mess with."
"That's true but the idea itself that there are plants and things that could be used for so many things to help the world and could possibly cure diseases is so amazing!" Hannah said with a big smile.
"I know! I'm so excited to learn all this stuff, I can't wait 'til next class," Claryssa said happily as they walked up the first flight of stairs.
"Yeah me too," Jasmine said, "So what do think our next class is gonna be like?"
"I heard History of Magic is really boring from my older brother Kevin, he graduated at the end of last year," Hannah said.
"Yeah it sounds boring, I mean magic's been around for over 1000 years, the history of it is gonna be long and exhausting to learn about," Susan said as they walked through the door into the History of Magic classroom.
The Gryffindors were already there in their seats since Transfiguration was on the first floor and History of Magic was on the 4th, the Hufflepuffs had a longer distance to travel. Hermione was sitting at the very front of class with parchment for note taking already out while Ron sat a row back looking like he was already about to doze off. Claryssa went and sat next to him while Jasmine went and sat next to Hermione while Hannah and Susan sat at the table next to Ron and Claryssa.
"Good morning Ron," Claryssa said as she sat down quietly making him jump at the sudden noise.
"Oh- Claryssa you scared me, good morning," he said stifling a yawn.
"Sorry I guess I should've made my presence known before speaking," Claryssa said with a laugh and pulled out her parchment to take notes. She pulled back out her eagle quill and ink and readied herself to write everything down.
"It's ok, so when do you think the professor's going to show up?" Ron asked with another yawn.
"I don't know," Claryssa said but then gasped as a ghost of an old man floated through the front of the classroom.
"Welcome to History of Magic students, I am Professor Binns and I'll be teaching you about the interesting history of our world," Professor Binns said in a boring monotone voice. Claryssa couldn't help but think this was going to be the longest, most boring class if she had to listen to that voice through it all. Still throughout the lecture she took notes and managed to stay awake to her amazement by concentrating really hard on what she was writing. Claryssa wasn't sure on if she actually took any of the information in but she wrote it all down for later reading. She noticed Prof. Binns had a knack for mixing up Emeric the Evil and Uric the Oddball, which only confused the students worse. Ron slept throughout the entire lesson even though Claryssa kept nudging him trying to keep him awake. Jasmine had just wrote down the key points in the lecture and Susan and Hannah had switched off sleeping, Hannah had stayed up the first half taking notes and then halfway through the class woke up Susan who took notes for the second half of the class while Hannah slept. Claryssa thought that it was a great idea and funny but didn't think she could get away with it with Ron being her partner.
They all made their way to the Great Hall as quickly as they could. "That class was definitely the most boring class in the world," Jasmine said and they all shook their head in agreement.
Let's hope Defense Against the Dark Arts is better," Claryssa said.
"I heard it's a very interesting subject from my brother," Hannah said happily.
"Well he was right about the last class, he'll probably be right about this class," Susan said with a laugh.
"We can only hope," Jasmine said and they made their way to the bottom of the last flight of stairs.
When they walked in Cedric already had the seats around him saved for them and Claryssa hurriedly sat next to him. "Hi Cedric how's your first lessons so far?"
"Pretty good, how about yours?" he asked her politely.
"Herbology is SO fascinating! I can't wait to learn more it's almost like gardening but so much better!" She said excitedly. "History of Magic is extremely boring though, I'm surprised I managed to stay awake the entire lesson to take notes but I concentrated really hard on writing down everything he said and it seemed to work."
"Yeah History of Magic doesn't get any less boring with Prof. Binns as a teacher but your other classes will get more interesting as you progress," he said with a smile.
"That's good to know," Claryssa said smiling back and serving herself a Bacon Cheeseburger with French fries and decided to go with a Strawberry milkshake instead of pumpkin juice.
"How do you get something other than pumpkin juice?" Hannah asked confused.
"Oh just simply grab the glass, think of what you want instead, and it'll take away the pumpkin juice and replace it with whatever you want, just don't tell anyone because technically no one's supposed to know but the professors taught me that," Claryssa said quietly.
"Why did they teach you and not anyone else about it?" Susan asked.
"Oh I live here now," Claryssa said trying to leave it at that.
"Why? I thought you lived at your aunt's house," Susan pried.
"I had a troublesome childhood and the professors took me in to try to give me a real childhood," Claryssa said and then went back to her burger. No one else asked about it because they could tell it wasn't a subject she wanted to talk about much.
"So the drink could become anything?" Susan asked slyly.
"Anything but alcohol because this is a school," Claryssa laughed.
Susan grabbed her goblet and scrunched her face up and concentration and then finally smiled and opened her eyes, her glass was replaced with a purple liquid.
"What's that?" Jasmine asked trying to see what it could be.
"Grape juice, I couldn't decide between that, a Dr. Pepper, or tea," Susan said with a shrug.
"Ok my turn," Hannah grabbed the glass and sat there thinking for a minute before the glass turned into orange soda. "It's my favorite," Hannah said with a laugh.
"Alrighty, how about this," Jasmine said, grabbing the glass and looking dreamily up to the enchanted ceiling. A few minutes later her goblet filled with a thick buttery colored liquid and she smirked happily and took a large gulp.
"What was that?" Claryssa asked.
"Butterbeer," Jasmine said happily and took a large bite of burger.
"So what about you Cedric, are you gonna change what you are drinking?" Susan asked.
"No I'm content with my pumpkin juice," he said with a smile and went back to his food.
Lunch went by quicker than they thought it would and soon they had to get to their next lessons. When Claryssa and the girls stood up Cedric followed them, walking them to the double doors and then stopped Claryssa before she got too far, he whispered into her ear, "Wanna meet up after dinner and talk?" Claryssa got goose bumps as she felt his breath on her neck and she shivered and nodded to him before walking to the stairs and her waiting friends and Cedric made his way out the front double doors towards Herbology.
"What was that about?" Susan asked wagging her eyebrows.
Claryssa laughed and her new friend, "He wants to meet up later and talk."
"Ooh go Claryssa," Hannah joked and laughed along with the others.
"Guys it's not like that, he's just a really good friend and he's a great listener," Claryssa said as they walked up second pair of stairs.
"Ok but you gotta tell us all about it before bed time," Jasmine said smiling as they walked through the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom door.
"Um ok then," Claryssa laughed and her and Jasmine sat in the seats at the front of the class in the middle while Susan and Hannah sat at the table to their left. Sally-Anne Perks was sitting at the table to her right with a girl she was pretty sure was Lisa Turpin. They seemed to have clicked well because they were chatting animatedly about their last class, while Padma Patil and Mandy Brocklehurst were sitting at the table behind them talking quietly amongst themselves, seeming like they were trying to get to know each other.
"G-Good A-Aftern-noon Ch-children, I- I a- am Pr-Professor Q-Quirrell a-and t-this is D-Defense A-Against t-the D-Dark Ar-Arts," Quirrell's stutters came from behind them and they all turned around to see him walking up the aisle.
"T-Take ou-out y-your b-books a-and r-read t-the in-introd-duction a-and t-then w-we w-will pr-proceed t-to y-your l-lesson f-for t-today," he continued and everyone did as told. Claryssa again was done before everyone else and waited with her quill above her paper to start taking notes as soon as the lesson began.
"Th-thank y-you n-now w-we w-will s-start w-with s-small c-creatures a-and m-move o-on t-to m-more in-interesting th-things a-as y-you pr-progress th-through y-your sc-schooling. T-Today w-we a-are s-starting w-with p-poison-nous re-reptiles," Quirrell began and Claryssa wrote Poisonous Reptiles at the top of her parchment.
"T-the v-venom o-of s-some p-poison-nous re-reptiles c-can b-be u-used in a v-variety o-of d-differ-rent p-potions I-includ-ding a-antidotes f-for o-other p-poisons," Quirrell began and Claryssa copied every word, minus the stutters until the end of the class.
"Wow that class sounds interesting but I hope we have another teacher next year, the stutters are giving me a headache already and it's only been one class!" Susan said as they walked out the door."
"Oh come on Susan it's not his fault, he had a traumatic experience when he met up with that vampire and he hasn't been the same since," Claryssa said trying to be nice even though the stutters were hurting her head too.
"I know but come one listening to that for seven years will give us a permanent headache while thinking about that subject," Susan said with a laugh.
"We should just try to be nice though," Hannah said.
"Yeah or else he could like purposely flunk us," Jasmine said as they walked down the stairs.
"I don't think he would but alright we'll be nice," Susan said. "So Claryssa excited to go on your date with Cedric?"
"Oh jeez Susan it isn't a date, we are just gonna talk," Claryssa said laughing.
"Whatever you wanna call it," Susan laughed and Claryssa blushed.
"Oh Susan you're embarrassing her," Hannah said nudging her friend.
"Sorry Claryssa, I'm just playing with you," Susan said with a wink.
"Well you still better tell us all about your talk before bed then," Jasmine said laughing.
"I'll tell you guys, don't worry about it but I doubt it's gonna be anything significant, Cedric and I just love talking to each other," Claryssa said with a shrug as they made their way through the doors into the Great Hall.
Cedric again had saved them all seats and they sat down smiling their thanks to him.
"So how was DADA?" Cedric asked them at large.
"It sounds very interesting but all of us agree that the stutters are gonna give us headaches BUT we are going to be nice anyway since he is our professor," Claryssa said summing up their earlier conversation.
"Yeah I thought so, he didn't always stutter. It only started after my first year since he went on Holiday and ran into that vampire during the summer but I've learned to tune out the stuttering part and just focus on the content of the lesson, it's much easier that way," Cedric said smiling.
"Yeah I bet it is, I hope we learn to do that soon," Jasmine said with a laugh.
"You just really got to try to do it and you can, you guys will be experts at it like me soon enough," he said with a smile.
"Yeah I hope so," Hannah said with a smile back. Claryssa could tell they all thought Cedric was as handsome as she did.
"So Cedric if we ever have any issues with our lessons would you help us?" Susan said as they all grabbed some Chicken and dumplings from the platters of food in front of them.
"Of course, as long as I'm not too busy with my studies, I'll be happy to help. Any friend of Claryssa's is a friend of mine," he smiled warmly making Susan blush a little.
Susan cleared her throat, "Well that's good to know," and smiled back sweetly at him. Dinner went by quickly and Claryssa's roommates went upstairs after waving to Claryssa and Cedric and in Susan's case she added a wink making Claryssa laugh and roll her eyes.
"So they seem nice," Cedric said as they walked through the double doors to the grounds.
"Oh yeah they are, Hannah is really shy and quiet but she's very nice. Jasmine's very sweet and caring and I can see her being my female best friend," Claryssa laughed, "Susan is funny, she's probably the boldest out of the four of us, and she's still really nice."
"Yeah that's good to know you have some more friends, so who's gonna be your male best friend since Jasmine's your female best friend?" he asked.
"You are silly and Ron will probably be close behind you," Claryssa laughed, "But you'll always be number one." Claryssa smiled at him.
"I'm glad I'm always going to be your first friend," Cedric smiled warmly back at her making her heart melt.
"Of course you will be," she said as they made it to the edge of the Great lake.
"Other than reading do you have any other hobbies or talents?" Cedric asked.
"I told you I love drawings and painting, those are pretty much my only hobbies and talents I have at the moment," Claryssa said.
"Yes but you've never actually shown me a drawing you've made, is there any particular reason why?" he pried.
"I-uh I don't know if I'm good enough to show anyone," she said blushing, no one had specifically asked to see her drawings before.
"Oh I'm sure you are, can I see one please?" he asked.
"Uh alright," she said biting her lip, she went into her Lily bag and pulled out The Witches, she kept it with her everywhere since it was her first gift from a friend. She opened the cover and pulled out the drawing of Cedric she had made in the hospital and showed it to him blushing deeply. She didn't think she'd ever show him but the look he gave her when asking to see it made her want to, she just hoped he liked it.
"This-this is beautiful Claryssa! I love it, and it's extremely good!" he said exuberantly.
"Really you think so?" Claryssa asked ecstatically.
"Yes it's wonderful, I just wish it was on something better than a napkin so it'd be less likely to tear," he said.
"I could redraw it on a piece of paper for you if you want?" Claryssa suggested.
"Would you? I'd love a copy," Cedric asked as he passed her drawing back and placed it back in the cover of her book and back into the Lily bag.
"Of course I will," Claryssa said smiling brightly and Cedric faltered while staring at her. "What?" Claryssa asked worriedly.
"Your smile is so beautiful when you genuinely smile like that," he said quietly and a cute little blush appeared on his cheeks.
"Oh…" she laughed blushing as well, "Thank you Cedric, you're always so sweet!"
"Your welcome and you deserve it all," he said smiling.
"You deserve it too for always being such a sweet, caring, and overall good friend and listener," Claryssa replied smiling back
"Well thank you but I think you deserve it more than I do, you've been through more than I have," he retorted back.
"You still deserve a lot more Cedric," as they finished their walk around the lake.
"We should get back, it's getting late," he said as they walked towards to double doors.
"Yeah and I'm tired after my first day of lessons," Claryssa agreed.
They walked quietly towards their dorm just enjoying each other's presence and when they got to the portrait of Helga Hufflepuff he grabbed her hand and kissed it tenderly, her face lit up with a deep blush as she looked up into his gray eyes. "Thanks for walking with me Claryssa, have a good night," Cedric said with a smile and a slight blush of his own.
"Your welcome thanks for inviting me, have a good night" she replied with a large smile. "Gaudium," and the portrait swung open to allow them into the dorm. Claryssa walked quickly into her room and almost ran to her bed to start changing seeing as her roommates were all already in their PJ's waiting for her.
"Well how did it go?" Susan asked once Claryssa had finally gotten her pink cotton PJ's form the night before on and sat down on her bed.
"Well he said you guys seem nice once we said goodnight after dinner and I told him what I like about you girls," Claryssa started.
"Well what is it you like about us than?" Jasmine asked intrigued.
Claryssa repeated to them about what she had said, excluding the part about the female best friend and the talk about Ron and stuff.
"Aw you really think I'm bolder than you guys?" Susan asked, "I don't know if that's true or if you are bolder than me Claryssa."
"I don't know if I am or not either," Claryssa asked.
"Ok so what else?" Hannah piped up.
"Well he asked what I liked to do other than reading and I told him I loved to draw and paint and I think I'm pretty good at it, so he asked to see something I've drawn and I showed him one and he though it was awesome and so I'm making him a copy of it on paper since my first sketch was on a napkin," Claryssa laughed.
"Can we see it?" Hannah asked excitedly. Claryssa nodded and bit her lip again as she pulled back out her drawing and they all crowded onto Claryssa's bed to look at it. "Oh Claryssa, it's beautiful!" Hannah said patting her back.
"It has amazing likeness to him," Susan said with a big smile and a little elbow to Claryssa.
"Oh it's lovely, I wish I could draw like that," Jasmine said excitedly.
"Thanks guys!" Claryssa said blushing at the compliments and then putting it back into her hiding place in The Witches.
So anything else?" Jasmine asked expectantly.
"Oh no that was about it, just a little complimenting each other like usual and then walking back up to the castle," Claryssa said as the girl all went back to their respective beds.
"Well what did he say?" Susan asked wanting to know every detail.
"I was smiling very brightly because I was excited that he liked my drawing and he told I had such a beautiful smile when I smiled so genuinely, it made me blush so bad!" Claryssa explained.
"Aw that was so sweet of him," Jasmine said with a big smile.
"That's what I told him and he said that I deserved it and so much more," Claryssa said all giddy like.
"Aw he's SO sweet and handsome, gosh Claryssa you're so lucky!" Hannah said excitedly.
"Yeah I bet you two will eventually date and probably get married or something," Susan said.
"Oh jeez I don't know about all that but I know we'll stay friends for the rest of our lives for sure," Claryssa said not mentioning the little leap in her stomach at Susan's statement, she wished it could be true.
"Yeah it's obvious you guys are into each other Claryssa, I think Susan's right," Jasmine said with a big smile.
"Well we'll see then," Claryssa said smiling back, "But it's time for bed good night!"
The girls all chorused good night and the lights went out, Claryssa snuggled into her blankets and fell into a sweet dream of Cedric and marriage.