Votes so far:
AirheadxHarry: 2
AirheadxDraco: 2
AirheadxFred: 1
AirheadxGeorge: 1
AirheadxFredxGeorge: 2
Disclaimer:
Airhead: Hey, guys! I captured a new victim!…I mean…disclaimer person…yes, that's it.
Authoress+Harry: Really, who was stupid enough to let you do that?
Airhead: (Dragging Draco in behind her…quite forcefully I might add) Him.
Harry: Ah, seeing you drag him in here makes me think he didn't come willingly.
Airhead+Authoress: (looking at him as if he were stupid) When does anyone do anything that involves us willingly?
Harry: (peering around the room at the random anime characters that lay strewn about on the ground…tied up)…true, very true.
Authoress: What can I say? I love anime guys, but they seem to want to run away from me for some reason. (trying to feign innocence)
Harry: Possibly because they know how you are and are scared that you might rape them in their sleep.
Authoress: Oh, really? Wow! Mind readers much?
Gaara (one of the Authoress' favorites): Well, at least I don't feel like a monster anymore, monsters don't feel fear.
Authoress: What are you saying? You hate me? (starts crying)
Airhead+Harry: (glares at Gaara evilly)
Gaara: says nothing
Authoress: (though still crying) Since Draco is (sniff) unconscious….seeing my room scared him…I own nothing. Enjoy the story (cries)
Recap:
"Thank you so much, I never would have found a place to wash up if not for you…but then again, I wouldn't have needed to wash if not for you, so I guess we're even," her ranting was interrupted when her stomach made a loud growling sound. Arlina's face turned bright red and she laughed. "Could I ask you another favor? Would you please bring me to the Great Hall for breakfast?" Laughter ensued.
Story:
The twins just laughed some more and turned to start walking in the direction of the Great Hall. Airhead followed them like a duckling after its mother. The only difference was that when she walked, she felt out her new ears. She tried out the new muscles she could feel in her head, to see what they would do. The furry appendages twitched and moved in accordance to the muscle exercises. The two red headed twins simply watched her with amusement.
They soon arrived at the Great Hall. Airhead ignored the stares and whispers, and walked to her House table. She reached over Malfoy's shoulder and grabbed a piece of toast from the table. After successfully retrieving the toast, she looked around for the twins and saw that they were gone. She shrugged and walked over to her usual spot, i.e. the spot empty of Slytherins. Arlina was about to sit down when she saw Harry in his spot at the Gryffindor table. She smiled and waved excitedly. Then she changed her course of action from sitting down to walking over to him. She took a bite of the toast as she strutted, twitching and moving her cat ears as she went to show them off. She finally arrived at Harry's side.
"Hiya Riri!" she waved again.
"Um… Airhead?" Harry managed, staring unabashedly. Then he gesticulated wildly at her head. "You have-"
"Cat ears? Yeah, I know, and better yet, they're real, not like those fake-y ones I wore to school," she stated, calmly munching away at her toast, as if people randomly acquiring cat ears was a completely normal occurrence. Then she looked at the boy sitting next to Harry. "Um…excuse me, may I sit there please?" she said , giving the boy her kitty-eyed-begging technique. The boy flushed as red as his hair and scooted over. "Thankies!" Airhead crowed and plopped down in the now empty space…or, at least, that's what she tried to do, but the second her bum hit the seat, she cried out in pain and surprise and leapt right back onto her feet.
"Ouchie! What was that?" She looked at the seat and seeing nothing that seemed suspicious or hurtful, turned for a look at her own bottom for the culprit. There was a lump in the back of her jeans. "What the…?" confusion was evident on her face as she reached her hand down the back of her pants and grabbed the thing causing the lump. It was furry. She pulled it out and gasped. "Dude! I has a tail!" she squealed with bad grammar. Harry and all nearby stared in shock as she squeaked and squealed in delight over her newly discovered tail. Airhead then noticed two red-headed boys sitting not too far away laughing and leaned toward them happily. "Oh! It's you two!" Airhead grinned. Harry looked between the twins and Arlina.
"You have met?" Harry asked.
"Well duh," the twin on the left stated. Harry looked confused and Arlina laughed. Then suddenly Harry's face brightened as if he had had an idea.
"Ohhh," Harry indicated the ears, "so they were the cause."
"Yup!" Arlina cried happily. Then she looked at the twins indignantly. "Hey wait, you two never told me your names!"
"Oh," the twins looked at each other.
"I guess we didn't," the one on the left looked back at Airhead, "I'm Fred," he said.
"And I'm George," said the other one with a wink.
"Ah, okie-dokie! Well, thank you so much for the ears and tail!" Airhead's eyes got sparkly as she thanked them. Then she leaned forward and hugged them both fiercely.
"Well, I'm guessing they weren't trying for that reaction," a male voice chuckled next to Arlina. She let the twins go to turn to the one who spoke, and it was the boy who let her sit in his place.
"Whatcha mean?" Arlina asked, a confused look on her face. The boy blushed again.
"Well, they're big-time pranksters, they were probably hoping to upset you," he explained. Arlina just laughed.
"Ha! Good luck! Not many people here know yet, but I'm sure Riri could tell you how difficult that task is." She looked at him. "Right?"
"Yeah," Harry sighed. "It's so troublesome sometimes," he said dramatically, obviously joking. Arlina laughed, but then she turned to the red-headed boy that knew Fred and George's plot to upset her.
"Oh, by the way, I'm Airhead. Who are you?" The boy gawked for a second, at least, until Harry bonked her on the head.
"Her name's Arlina Honda, but she insists that people call her Airhead. It does describe her pretty well though," an evil grin spread across his face when he said so. Arlina grinned too and wrapped her arms around Harry in a hug. The Gryffindors nearby whistled or cat called. Harry was used to her clingy nature though, and he directed Arlina's short attention span back to the other boy. "And this is Ron," he said.
"Oh, hello Ron," Arlina let go of Harry and shook Ron's hand. Then as she caught sight of the twins, she was distracted once again. "Oh hey, guys? Mesa has a question," Arlina declared. Letting go of Ron's hand she went closer to the twins and looked up at them, as she was now sitting on the floor below them. Her eyes were large with curiosity and very… green?
"Ask away, but first, weren't your eyes brown a little bit ago?" asked Fred.
"Oh, they do that, but only with variations of brown and green. Anyways, my question is this: Is there a way to tell you two apart?" she questioned. Everyone laughed, well everyone who could hear her.
"That's right, you have always had a problem telling twins apart." Harry was laughing so hard that tears formed in the corners of his eyes, he wiped them away as he asked, "You probably didn't even realize that Ron is Fred and George's brother, did you?" Arlina then looked between the three mentioned, then smiled, as if knowing something.
"Nope, not at all!" People fell from their chairs. She laughed and scratched her head. Then a loud rumble was heard. "Oh, gosh, all I've eaten so far was that piece of toast I'm still so hungry! I guess I've gotta go back to my table to finish my breakfast, huh?" For a second she looked like a kid who just found out Santa wasn't real, but the image was quickly erased as she smiled brightly. "Wait, I've got an idea!" She crowed, then bounded off in the direction of the teachers' table.
People stared at her again so she let her tail do the moving this time, as they had already gotten a good look at her ears.
"How in the bloody hell did that girl end up in Slytherin?" asked Fred and George together as everyone watched her bounce goofily to the teachers. Laughter could be heard again. By the time she had arrived at the teachers' table, she had attracted the attention of everyone in the Great Hall, even Crabbe and Goyle tore themselves away from their eating, curious of her next move.
"Hiya Professors!" she shouted out cheerily, though there was really no need to shout because the hall had gone quiet. "I was just wondering: Do I have to sit at the Slytherin table?" she inquired, her eyes big and almost watery. "I mean, I know I'm in the Slytherin House and all, but they don't seem to like me very much," her mind wandered back to when some of her housemates had beat her up just the other day, "and truthfully, I don't like them either. The Gryffindors have been much nicer to me than those stuck up Slythies," Arlina stated bluntly, jabbing her thumb in the direction of her House's table. Many of the students fell out of their seats in shock. The teachers merely stared at her, wondering if she maybe needed to go back to the hospital wing.
Most who had heard her talk for any length of time, mainly the ones that were in her potions class were thinking, "Is she so lazy that even talking properly is too much of a bother? She nicknames everything, or shortens half the words she uses."
Well in any case, mostly everyone was thinking she was loony, except for Dumbledore of course! His eyes glittered with amusement and he smiled and nodded wisely.
"Alright, Miss Honda, you may sit with the Gryffindors, but take care not to disturb the students too much," he said, still smiling. Arlina's eyes shined brightly and her furry cat ears twitched with excitement, she bowed gratefully. Then after the bow, she rushed up to Dumbledore and hugged him.
"Thank you so much Professor Dumbledore!" she squealed and then ran back over to the Gryffindors. There was applause from some of the Gryffindors, the ones that knew her were happy that she could sit with them, others were just happy because the "Slythies" had lost one of their own to their enemy. The Slytherins looked as if they had been slapped in the face with a glove. (AN: I love doing that when I wear my gloves sometimes I take them off and smack random people with them, simply because I can!) Airhead sat down in the spot she had vacated earlier, and then immediately started chowing down until she was so full she couldn't eat anymore.
"Nice, Airhead, very attractive eating skills," Harry chuckled. Airhead, knowing he was joking, returned the laugh with a grin.
"Yeah, I know," she winked, "Ain't I just so sexy?" She made a fist with her hand and put it in front of her mouth. Some of the students nearby looked confused, Harry seemed amused. Arlina licked the fist and began grooming her cheeks and hair like a cat.
"Huh?" Fred make a questioning sound.
"Is that a side affect of the potion?" George put Fred's sound into words, but neither of them knew that one. Harry just shook his head.
"Nope, she's done this before you guys came along. Actually, she was very cat like anyways and even wore cat ears to school almost every day, though those were always fake," he explained. Then Arlina's grooming stopped and her head and cat ears perked up.
"Ne, I've gots ta go guys," she stated, "It was nice meeting you!" she got up quickly and walked off. Harry and company looked in the direction she was going to see what caused the sudden change. Then Harry noticed that Malfoy and his group were leaving and that's where she was headed.
"Where is she going?" Ron asked Harry.
"She gets lost easily," Harry replied, the twins laughed to themselves, already knowing that. "She's probably gonna follow Malfoy around for a bit to get the lay of the land until she can remember how to get around."
"Ah, I feel sorry for her, having to rely on a guy like that," Seamus said, shaking his head.
"No, I actually feel a bit sorry for Malfoy. I think he's used to people caring, or at least reacting, to what he says. Boy this would be funny to see," Harry sniggered.
AN: Now come on, vote! It's still a tie people! So if you don't vote then I'll make some really creepy pairing… like AirheadxDumbledore…ew, ok so maybe I wouldn't but still!(Dragon'sHost came up with another creepy pairing: SnapexAirhead! She was being all pervy with it…and she calls me a pedophile for the next chapter, feh.)