Hi! I'm back with (drum roll) Chapter 10! Enjoy!
"Tiffany?" Hermione asked as she shook me awake. I opened my eyes slowly. "Huh?" I muttered. "Are you alright?" My best friend asked. My cheek was planted in a pillow and I laid on my stomach. "You haven't heard? I had a vision in divination, and Dumbledore excused me from my classes. Don't even ask. I don't want to talk about them." I closed my eyes. "Oh, well do you feel up to going to supper?" I peeled my eyes opened again. "When is it?"
"Thirty minutes." I sat up slowly and reached for my tie. Hermione brushed out my long hair as I did my tie. I stood up quickly and found my legs were weak. I held onto the bed post as I regained my balance. I walked slowly down the stairs and into the hall. I followed her to the table with wobbly legs.
"Bad one?" Harry asked. I nodded. "The whole school knows?" Harry smiled. "Naturally." I gave a small smile. I looked around and my eyes fell on the Slytherin table. I looked up and down until I found my blond boyfriend. He was looking straight at me. I smiled. He returned it. I liked his smile. I was so dizzy, the tonic must have been taking affected. I giggled. "Oh no. Tiffany is tipsy." I glared at Harry, or tried to. Hermione tried to hide a smile as I started to babble. "You know, you're not very nice, Harry. Ron isn't either…" I placed my elbow on the table and pointed my finger at him. "Ron is ruthless, and evil, and is in love with Hermione Granger, my best friend."
I moved my finger to Harry. "And you may not see it, but you are in love to. Not with Cho-but with Ginny. I can see it in your eyes. I wonder if that's how I look at Draco. Hermione? When did you dye your hair red?" I said. My friend spun my shoulder around so I saw her again. I laughed. "And you." I pointed at her. "You are in love to, with Ron. You just act like you don't care." I yawned and laid my head down on the table, not realizing I was doddering off to sleep. I said one more thing without a filter. "And as for me, I'm in love with Draco Malfoy." I said as my eyes slip closed.
Hermione shook me awake after supper and I had a splitting head ache. "Please tell me I didn't say anything stupid." I said as she pulled me out of the hall with the others. She looped her arm through mine a pulled me away. "I'll tell you later. Hey, tomorrow's a Saturday. What are you doing?" I shrugged as we walked up the steps, or Hermione walked, I was half pulled, half dragged up the stairs. "Well, Draco and I are going to Hogsmead the first part of the day, but after that I have to study. And I absolutely have to get on my potions essay, and my divination homework."
We entered the portrait and went to our dorm. I plopped onto the bed and took off my tie. "Okay, what did I say?" Hermione told me and I almost fainted. "I said that I…was…in love…with…" Hermione finished my sentence. "Draco Malfoy."
I fell back onto the bed and stared at the canopy. "Tell no one. Tell the boys to forget it. Oh God. I wouldn't stand it if they told him!" I rolled over into my pillow. I groaned. Hermione was laughing. I tried to through a pillow at her. She laughed more. I laid there or I don't know how long I was there but soon I fell asleep.
I was woken by Hermione at half past eight. I dressed in jeans and a sweater with some booties. We were supposed to meet at bottom of the stairs. Hermione brushed my hair out and let the long waves hang down. I walked down to common room and as I was stepping out of the portrait I heard Lavender Brown start to mutter "…traitor." I dismissed it, used to the whispers. I found Draco at the bottom of the staircase, waiting in his usual black attire.
He smiled at me as I walked down with my hand skimming the railing. "You look as if the whole world has turned against you." He said hugging me tightly. I shook my head and smiled, while I let out a lie. "No, just thinking of all that homework I have to do when I get back." He laughed and took my hand. "Well, I'm sorry, but maybe we can work together. We have the same classes, so we have the same homework. What do you say?" We walked down to first floor. "Meet you in the library at two?" I asked as we exited through the doors and started down the path with other students doddering along. "I can't wait."
I looked down at my feet crunching along the gravel pathway. Our hands swung slightly between us. "Oh, Draco!" I heard the squeal of Pansy Parkinson behind us. I tried to hold in a groan. Draco moved to my other side so that his arm was draped around my shoulders as Pansy's shoes scraped the ground as she ran towards us. She came to a halt beside of Draco and took up our pace. "Still hanging out with that Gryffindor I see." She said in her high voice.
I glared at her and I thought I saw her flinch. I gave a sly smile. "Of course I am, Pansy. Tiffany is my girlfriend." Draco said with a smile as we turned to follow the path. Pansy glared down at me and I just smiled. She stomped her foot and started to hurry away. "Okay, tell me truth, have your friends been treating you badly?" He asked me. "No, I mean, it's only the second day of school! I mean they aren't too keen on my dating you, Ron hasn't spoken to me since the first night. Hermione seems alright with it, and Harry..." I trailed off as my head began to ache. I stopped and out my free hand on my forehead, blinking rapidly. My vison was plagued with black, I knew what it meant, a small vision.
It was the same as last time, I stood sobbing with my wand out. Then I collapsed, but this time I could tell who stood beside me…Draco. The vision kept me longer. I study myself that lay on the ground. She was paler that normal, her brown waves were messy, her cheeks sunken in. She looked as if she was dying. Purple half-moons were under her closed eyes. Then I was released.
Two visions in two days, at least this time I hadn't fainted. I took a deep breath. "Tiffany?" Draco stood in front of me worried. "Are you okay?" I nodded, breathlessly. "Yeah, yeah." He looked like he didn't believe me. "Do you need to go back to the castle?" I shook my head. "No. I'm fine. Let's just go." I took his hand and off we went.
We walked back to the castle at eleven. Draco hadn't let me out of his sight as if I could collapse at any moment. I told him I'd meet him at the library at two and went to get my things. I collapsed onto the bed, tired as though I hadn't had sleep for three days. "Tiffany?" Hermione asked from her desk. "Wake me up before two." I mumbled as I fell asleep.
Hermione woke me up thirty minutes till two. I ran to the bathroom to dress in my uniform and braid my hair. I gathered my quills, ink, bottles, and parchment. It was ten minutes till two. I told Hermione I'd see her later and started to walk down to the library. Halfway there that twins joined me. "Hey, Tiff!" They said. "Hi. What do you need?" I asked. "Well, George and I think we finally perfected the fire work 'W' canister." Fred said. "And we want you to look at it." George said. I saw that they had a roll of parchment in their hand. "Okay." I said as I walked into the library.
I sat my things on my regular table and took the parchment. The model looked very nice, perfectly done. I smiled. "Perfect." The twins looked over my head smiling at each other. "Okay, now I need to study so can you both please start working on the item and I'll help you later." I said. "Four? In the Common Room." They said in unison. I nodded and sat in the chair, opening my ink bottle. The twins disappeared and I sighed, shaking my head.
"How did I ever make it through third year without being expelled?" I muttered to no one in particular. "I don't know. Maybe because Dumbledore thought your pranks were genius?" Draco said as he pulled out the chair in front of me. I smiled at him. "Thanks. Did you think they were genius?" He shrugged. "I thought they were nice. Especially the one you played on me." He said in accusingly, but had a smile on his face. I gasped in mock hurt. "It wasn't my fault! The boys planned it! I was simply an accomplice in making the ink of every third year Slytherin explode in their face, even though I planted the spell." I said with a smirk.
Draco arranged his things. "Sure." I shook my head and bent over my divination homework, five symbols that can be found in tea leaves. I scrawled on my parchment with my quill in a hurry. I knew everything. I helped Draco along the way. Hermione had come back with my homework from our other classes I had missed. By three thirty I had finished everything but my transfiguration homework. Draco and I had helped each other out. At a quarter to four we were both finished. I went to put a book back I had and went I turned around Draco was smirking behind me. He grabbed my hand and dragged me out the door.
We hurried down a corridor with our robes trailing behind us. He pulled me into a small alcove and started to kiss me. It shocked me first, but then my eyes fluttered closed and I kissed him back. He wove his arms around my waist and lifted me up onto the tips of my toes and I put my arms around his neck. When we broke apart I was smiling. Draco was too, but he looked a little shocked. "I wanted to do that since we've got here." He said.
I giggled. "Me too." He leaned back down and gave me a light peck. I tried not to sigh. "We should go, before Filch catches us." Draco said. We began our walk back down the hall. I stopped at the bottom of the marble staircase that led to the tower. Draco gave must a light kiss on my forehead. "See you later." He walked off, leaving me there smiling like an idiot. I turned back around and walked up the stair, entered the common room and sat down by Hermione on a couch. "Tiffany?" Harry questioned. "Where are the twins?" They pointed to a table and I went to join the twins. I hardly payed any attention to them, only helping them in planning a very good trick on Snape.
Monday:
I walked with my gang to DADA. I sat with Hermione and the pink toad came up to me. "Miss?" She asked. "Finnegan, ma'am." She didn't lessen her scowl. "Yes. Well here is your book." She walked off. I did not like this. She went into a lecture on…ON HOW TO HOLD WAND!? I raised my hand. "Professor, we all know how to hold a wand. We need to learn spells, we learned this"-I gestured to the book-"in our first year!"
"Miss. Finnegan. This is a Ministry approved course." I gave a short laugh. "For what? First Years?" Her face turned pinker. "Stop." I frowned. This was stupid. Why should I learn this?" I did stop, only because Harry had given me a look. I listened to her boring lecture, until finally I could finally do back to my dorm. I hurried along quickly. I was going to hate this year!
Sorry for the wait! I just wanted to let you guys know that next week I will be on a road trip and most likely won't have wifi to post, but I will be writing like crazy! Thanks! TTYL! ~ a hunter of artemis here
