Party hard, I'm updating from school. I'm dedicating this chapter to my friend, Elisa because I know she's reading this.
I do not own any characters except for Susana and future/current oc's that will make an appearance.
Chapter 10: Angry Confessions
It seemed like just yesterday, Susana had gotten off the train and went home to be greeted by her friends. But it hadn't been yesterday because at this moment, she would be out with Kate, Leah and Summer. Leah would be filling her in with what happened while Susana was at school while Kate curiously asked her questions about Susana's school. Instead, Susana stood in front of the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross Station. Summer and her little sister, Brooke, were behind her looking utterly confused. Susana's parents and Summer's father were loading their trunks onto two separate carts.
Susana step-sided and turned so her back was facing platform 9. "When no one's looking, just run at the barrier." They both looked flabbergasted at the instructions given to them. Susana sighed, her eyes flickering to her parents running to catch up with them. "I'll demonstrate." Susana walked towards the barrier and pretended to lean on it. She turned her head from side to side and slowly tilted backwards into it. One moment, she saw Summer and her sister staring back at her and the next, Susana was staring at a blank wall.
It took about two minutes before Summer joined Susana with her sister, her father and Susana's parents. Susana's parents left the trunks with the girls as they went to show Summer's father around. Susana smiled, amused by the looks on Summer's and Brooke's faces. "Welcome to Platform 9 ¾!" She exclaimed, "Let me show you around and maybe, if you're lucky, we'll run into a few friends of mine."
The girls wandered around the platform and after much begging, Susana led both onto the train to find a compartment. Once they found an empty one, Susana placed their trunks inside and shut the door. "Let's go. By the way, Brooke, I might not be with you for most of the ride there. I have to go into the prefect carriage first." The small girl nodded as they strode back from where they came. As soon as they reached the door, their parents came walking on by. They hopped off and Susana quickly exchanged a hug with her parents and Summer before getting back on, closely followed by Brooke. The train started moving as the two girls waved goodbye and walked back to their compartment.
On the way there however, Susana, distracted by some first years, bumped into someone. "Oh, sorry." She looked up to see who it was only to meet eyes with George Weasley. He stared at her for a moment then just stalked off, ignoring her completely. When she saw Fred and Lee, she immediately raised an eyebrow. "Did I do something wrong?" Fred laughed, patting her on the shoulder. "No, you did something right." Then he followed his brother down the hall. Although Susana was slightly confused, Brooke was the one who truly didn't understand what just happened.
Susana led Brooke back to their compartment and went off to the prefect carriage. She caught sight of Fred and George with Lee Jordan but didn't bother waving. She had done something wrong and she didn't want to further upset George. When she arrived at the prefect carriage, she took a seat nearest to the window and completely ignored everyone. She wanted to know what she had done wrong and that was all she could think of. Her mind went back to the letters she exchanged with the twins during the summer. That's when it clicked. George was jealous, but Susana didn't see why. He never expressed any real interest in her. At least, not that she had noticed. Unless you counted that moment at the Yule Ball, that that stupid blond girl interrupted, but other than that, Susana had not noticed any moment which may have given her any hope. Besides, Fred hadn't told her anything or maybe she had this all wrong. What if Fred had told George that she liked him and he was avoiding her for it? Despite her calm appearance, she was freaking out on the inside. She would have to ask Fred before she jumped to any conclusions. But what if the truth was that George was jealous? Susana was with Campbell.
The new Head Girl and Boy spoke on and on. They finally dismissed the prefects, telling them finally to patrol the train. Susana sighed in relief but soon remembered the problem at hand and set off to find the compartment she had seen Fred and George in.
She found the compartment she had been looking for. For a moment, she hesitated at the door. She could walk away right now but she came here for a reason. She knocked on the door. The three boys had been in deep conversation and were clearly surprised when they heard her knock. They all looked in her direction. George turned away immediately while Lee, who was closest to the door, slid it open. "Something you need?" Susana heard a distinct bitterness in his voice that told her she wasn't welcome but she stayed still. "I need to talk to Fred." She said firmly. Fred stood up and walked to the door before Lee had the chance to protest. "Don't worry about it."
Once Fred slid the door shut, Susana put her hands on her hips. "I have a bone to pick with you." She said. Fred laughed at her display of anger. "Don't laugh!" She demanded, "Did you tell George I liked him?" She added, lowering her voice. Fred laughed again, poking her forehead. "Is that what your funny little brain came up with?" Feeling rather embarrassed, Susana shrugged. "No… but you never told me anything to confirm what I was thinking! Besides I'm with someone now!"
Fred shrugged. "He's my brother. Its betrayal if I told you anything."
Susana sighed. "Fine but could you at least get him to talk to me or something? It makes me feel like he hates me."
"If there's one thing you can be certain about, it's that he doesn't hate you but I will try and talk to him."
Susana's eyes flickered to George. He was staring at them but when he saw Susana looking, he looked down at his feet. "Thanks Fred. Well I got to go before the Head Girl comes and bites my head off." Susana walked pasted Fred and down the hall, not hearing George's eagerness to know what they had been talking about.
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Towards the last hour before the train would stop at Hogsmeade Station, Susana returned to find that Brooke had made friends with two girls. The two girls stopped talking at once, obviously frightened by Susana. "Hello." Susana said pleasantly. "Don't worry; I'm not going to hurt you. I'm a friend of Brooke's sister. What are your names?" Seeing as the girls were still a little scared, Brooke quickly answered, introducing the smaller of the two as Carter and the other one as Spencer. Susana sat down next to Brooke and before she could even breathe, Carter and Spencer were asking her question after question. Brooke interrupted though with a question of her own. "Who was that red-haired boy with the twin earlier?"
"That was George and his twin is named Fred. I'm sure you will hear a lot about them through the year. They have a thing for causing trouble." Susana answered.
"What do you think is the best house to be sorted into?" Carter asked sheepishly.
"There's no best house but I would hope none of you end up in Slytherin. Well, I think it's time to change into our school robes. We should be arriving any minute now."
About fifteen minutes later, the train slowed to a stop and Susana led the three girls off the train. "What are those?" Carter said, pointing to the carriages for the older students, but she wasn't exactly pointing at the carriages. She was pointing at the things that would pull the carriages. Susana was slightly taken aback by this. The only way to see the creatures was to have witnessed death and accepted it. "Those are Thestrals. Not everyone can see them though."
"You can see them then?" Carter asked, briefly peering at the surrounding students. Susana nodded. "Yup, now hurry on before they leave without you."
Carter smiled and hurried off to join the others in a boat. Susana went off as well, finding some of her friends along the way. The carriage she was in started moving almost the moment she sat down and it stopped just as quickly as it had started. Susana hopped out and strode inside the castle. She took a seat at the Ravenclaw table, next to her friend Gabriella, who sat stiffly, staring up at the long table of teachers at the front. Gabriella was quiet and curious and she had habit of keeping her emotions bottled up. There had been only two times when she let out her anger or sadness and both times were not pretty to see. One kid who got in her way ended up with a broken nose and another had to listen to her rant for over an hour.
The two spoke quietly, Susana's eyes flickering over to the Gryffindor table every now and then. In the middle of Gabriella's sentence, the doors to the Great Hall opened and McGonagall strode in, followed by anxious first years. Susana caught sight of Brooke, Carter and Spencer walking together and smiled. McGonagall placed the Sorting Hat on a stool at the front and everyone listened as the Sorting Hat sang its song. The moment the hat stopped singing; McGonagall began to read out the list of students in alphabetical order.
"Brooke Felgreen." She called out. Brooke smiled and walked confidently to the stool and sat. Almost the moment the hat touched her head, it yelled out, "GRYFFINDOR!"
Brooke smiled triumphantly and walked over to the table of cheering Gryffindors. Susana followed her with her eyes, clapping softly for the small girl.
A few more students went until McGonagall called out, "Spencer Laralean!" Spencer nervously speed walked to the stool as though she wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. Unlike Brooke, it took a much longer time before the hat spoke, "GRYFFINDOR!" Spencer's face lit up as she ran to join Brooke at the Gryffindor table.
"Carter Pandora!" McGonagall shouted after some time. Carter, unlike Brooke or Spencer, stood still for a moment before plucking up the courage to go up there. She took small steps, trying her best to take her time. Once she reached the stool, Carter sat nervously, gripping the edges of the stool. Sitting there, Carter looked so fragile and small, her brown wavy hair covering her eyes. McGonagall placed the Sorting Hat on Carter's head and within the first thirty seconds, the hat yelled, "RAVENCLAW!" Carter smiled and made her way to the Ravenclaw table. Susana didn't cheer like the others however, she simply issued for Carter to come sit with her, since the little girl looked confused at where she should sit.
"Welcome to the best house in this school!" Susana exclaimed.
"I thought you said there was no best house?" Carter asked, eying the table and everyone around it curiously.
"Don't tell the others, but I lied."
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Everything for the remainder of the first week went swimmingly. Susana was a little behind on homework already but nothing a late night of sitting at a table with a quill couldn't fix. The only problem that seemed to have yet to be solved or at least have a solution formulated for was the fact that Fred still hadn't persuaded George to talk to Susana yet. She was starting to believe it wouldn't happen at all. Anytime she tried to talk to him, he was whisked away by someone else. Maybe she was that horrible...
Not today though. It was Saturday and she wouldn't let any chances go. She was going to get him to talk to her whether he liked it or not.
Susana sat near the lake, reading the latest installment in a Muggle series she had been quite interested in for the past year or so. She turned the page, only to be interrupted by two smiling faces and one nervous looking one.
"Oh, Brooke, Spencer, Carter." She said a little surprised but still happy all the same. "To what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Carter was talking non-stop about these things called Tretals and said that Spencer and I probably couldn't see them. She said that's what you said. Why is that?" Brooke asked, crossing her arms and pouting. Looking at her, Susana couldn't help but be reminded of Summer; very direct and honest.
Susana coughed and stood, closing her book. "Thestrals." She corrected. "Thestrals can only be seen by people have who have witnessed death and understood it. Like me, for example, I have been able to see them ever since I came to Hogwarts because I saw someone die when I was very young."
Still not pleased by this answer, Brooke put her hands on her hip. "Why can Carter see them?"
"That's not for me to answer." Susana smiled gently, taking notice of Carter's discomfort with the whole conversation. Susana opened her mouth to say something but was quickly stopped when something hit her on the back and knocked her to the ground.
Carter was the first of the three girls to see if Susana was alright. Susana thanked her and stood up, grabbing her book, which had slipped out of hand when she fell and turned to see what had just hit her. She didn't expect to see Brooke angrily stomp her foot, yelling at George and Fred Weasley. "Apologize, misters! You made Sus fall with that stupid thingy!"
They both looked amused by Brooke. Susana gripped Brooke's shoulder and pulled her back. "Don't even bother, Brooke."
"Why? Are they jerk-faces? Do you want me to knock some sense into them?"
"Brooke, go." Susana said, laughing a bit at the small girl's eagerness. Brooke, reluctantly, walked back to Carter and Spencer, who both looked terrified by George and Fred. Susana smiled at Fred but didn't make eye contact with George. "George has something to say." Fred beamed, as though he had accomplished something wonderful.
Susana listened attentively but only heard George mumble.
"What?" Susana asked.
"Hi..." He muttered a little louder.
"Oh, so you completely ignore me and now, all you have to say to me is hi?" She folded her arms over her chest. Yes, she was bitter. She didn't like being ignored, not by her friends anyways.
George shrugged. "Yup, pretty much, besides why should I bother? You're with that git. Cameron, was it?"
Fred, who was all too amused, took a seat on the grass and watched the argument unfold.
"It's Campbell and what does he have anything to do with this?" She could feel her face turn red from anger. The logical part of her brain was telling her to walk away and find Gabriella or someone else but the other side, the irrational side was screaming and boiling from rage. Rage because she knew exactly where this was going and it would not end well.
"He has everything to do with this!" George exploded. He looked like he wanted to hit Susana but he didn't. Even though he hadn't laid a hand on her, she felt like he did emotionally. His eyes showed nothing but hatred and it really did scare her. Her eyes watered then she glared back with as much intensity as George.
"You remember that guy I told you about last year? The one I was head over heels for? That was you, you blind git! It was always you! I have had a crush on you for four years and you never even so much as glanced at me." She said through gritted teeth. "I always thought that I, a stupid Ravenclaw prat of a prefect, would never get the oh-so-cool Gryffindor, George Weasley, to notice me. Until last year, when you came running down that damned corridor, asking me to keep quiet. Why do you think I didn't rat you out?" Tears were now starting to stream down her face and George seemed thoroughly shocked but Susana didn't let him talk. "Then you asked me to the Yule Ball and I thought I might actually have a chance. Fred even offered to help me out a bit but the year went by and over the summer, I found someone who finally noticed me as something more than just a girl. But you are still my problem! Just because you didn't pluck up the courage to ask me out, doesn't mean you have to treat me like I don't even exist! You had your chance and now it's gone and it's never coming back, George Weasley."
Susana wiped her tear-stained cheeks with the palm of her hand and walked right past George, bumping him on the shoulder. Immediate regret sunk in as she relayed all she had just said. Maybe she should go back and apologize? She was the Ravenclaw; she should have figured it all out. Then again, he was the Gryffindor; he should have had the courage to say something. No matter how guilty she felt, the deed was done. She couldn't take back what she said. Susana lowered her head and let the tears fall down after she was a good distance away.
"Susana!" She heard someone call. Quickly, she used her sleeve to clear away her tears and looked up to see who had called her. There was Gabriella and Azula, another friend of hers, walking towards her. As they drew closer, they picked up their pace, obviously noticing that something was wrong.
"What happened?" Azula asked, coming to a halt in front of her. Susana tried her best to smile but evidently, she just started crying again, explaining in broken sentences what had just happened. Much like how her sentence came out, her heart was feeble and broken and most of all, completely and utterly confusing. Always having been the go-to person when someone else was sad and always having suppressed her emotions in front of others, completely opening up to her friends and crying her heart out, where everyone could see her, was strange and alien to Susana.
I feel good about this chapter :3
Future Story hint: In a room full of frozen faces,
and a moment of fractured time,
we eclipse in a conversation,
as the words, they pass us by.
With you, we could be the only ones here. (Represents a chapter that will take place on Fred & George's birthday)
One line in the next chapter: "I knew you were too good to be a Prefect."
Remember, if you read it, review it so I can make improvements :3
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