A/N - Well, I sound like a hypocrite now haha. I've uploaded the first chapter of my sequel to my Lily/Scorpius fic, Getting What You Deserve, but I said I've had witers block for this story, as soon as it uploads I get an idea! Well, my plan worked (upload that chapter hoping my writers block goes away)
To be honest though, I'm not overly happy with this chapter, it seems forced, but it will do I suppose.
Tell me what you think? I think I might have to put this story on an hiatus :/
Disclaimer - I do not own Harry Potter.
The sound of somebody being sick woke me up the next day, I just lay in my bed for a couple of minutes, thinking over everything that happened the night before, the dancing, drinks, fighting...the kiss.
Scorpius kissed me, even when I had blood in my mouth and all down my face. He kissed me! Scorpius Malfoy kissed me!
The sound of somebody being sick again knocked me out of my own thoughts and back to reality, it apparently woke the other girls too because along with vomiting, I heard groaning.
"What time is it?" Erin mumbled, poking her head out of her curtains around her bed, she had her make-up all smudged around her face and her hair was crazy.
"Good afternoon girls!" Larnie's chipper voice made Erin and I wince and glare at her. "It is now two o'clock, you've missed breakfast and lunch. Mia's still sleeping and Rose is throwing everything she had to drink last night up." Larnie giggled, nodding to the bathroom door I saw Rose slowly step out of the room, extremely pale, hair shot up in a messy bun and her make-up even worse than Erin's was.
"I. Am. Never. Drinking. Again." She managed to choke out in a whisper; she stumbled over to her bed and fell on it, not even bothering to climb under the covers.
"I feel fine." I smirked, getting out of bed and stretching.
"My head is pounding, but that's it." Erin shrugged, opening her curtains and getting out of her own bed.
"Good night?" Larnie asked, she was sat on her bed looking at her Herbology book, parchment laid out in front of her.
"It was alright." Erin shrugged again, this time with a smirk on her face. "We drank in Chris's shop for a bit, he is really cool by the way, Rose got a date with him, we went to a club, danced, drank some more, danced again, drank a hell of a lot more and then Dominique fought with two girls, we got chucked out of the club and went back to Chris's and drank some more." She listed, she started changing out of her dress which she obviously fell asleep in and put a pair of pyjama's on.
"You had a fight?" Larnie looked at me with wide eyes before she gasped. "Your face, what happened?"
I frowned and picked up a mirror from my bedside table and then understood the gasp. My lip was swollen, slightly blood stained and the top of my cheek was a little bruised. "I've had worse. This woman was absolutely blind drunk, walked into me and then demanded I apologize. She then insulted us all and slapped me so I hit her back; her friend dived on me and sent me to the floor so I hit her back." I shrugged, putting the mirror down and slipping on a pair of shoes. I let Erin fill Larnie in on what happened from her point of view, Emily was nowhere to be seen, Mia hadn't woke up yet and Rose had apparently gone back to sleep so I took advantage of the empty bathroom.
I looked in front of the large mirror that hung above the sink basins and sighed; my face looked rough, bruised and a little swollen now I could see it all at once. The bruises didn't hurt much though so I didn't bother with the bruise-removing paste that Uncle George sold, instead I just covered the worst of the bruising up with a small amount of make-up.
"You kissed Scorpius!" Larnie's loud voice carried through to the bathroom, making Rose or Mia groan and Erin to laugh. I rolled my eyes and ignored the sound of chatter coming from the two of them, letting them gossip about me.
"I'd put your hair up." Larnie commented when I walked out of the bathroom a couple of minutes later. "It looks all tangled and I'm guessing you just want to eat and relax all day?" She guessed with a smile, I nodded and tied my hair up with the hair-band she gave me.
"You coming for some food Erin?" I asked, she shook her head and lay back down on her bed.
"I'm not hungry, think I'm going to go back to sleep for a little bit." She yawned, getting under her covers.
"You all really need to get more practice in." I laughed, looking from the sleeping Rose, the comatose Mia and the lazy Erin, the latter just shrugged and closed her eyes, and she started snoring lightly a couple of minutes later.
"I already ate. I came up here about ten minutes before you woke up, Al and Porter said Scorpius was showering and they were going down to the kitchens to get something to eat. You'll catch them if you hurry." Larnie told me when I asked her if she'd join me; I nodded once and practically ran from the dorm, ignoring her laugh.
Considering it was a Sunday, day of relaxation, a lot of students were up in the common room, in Beauxbatons on a Sunday most of the students stayed in bed all day or lazed around in the sun if the weather was decent enough; here practically all of Gryffindor were awake and in the common room, making a lot of noise.
"Dominique!" Albus' voice carried over the noise though, he, Porter, Liam, Ashley, Amelia, Selena and Fred were sat in front of the fire place, all of them looking extremely rough. "You're finally awake!" He joked when I joined them.
"How is everybody feeling?" I laughed, sitting on the arm of Liam's chair, the boys just looked a little tired, though Albus looked a little buzzed, and the girls looked pale and grumpy, except Selena who oddly looked quite happy.
"Starving, feel like I haven't eaten in weeks." Fred muttered.
"Well we can finally go now." Liam stood up and nodded towards the stair case; Scorpius and James walked down at the same time, both obviously freshly showered. James rushed straight over to Selena and took her hand, leading the group out of the common room; I hung back and waited for Scorpius who didn't walk as quickly.
"Afternoon." He smirked at me. "Are you hurting?" He asked me, he noticed my bruised cheek and swollen lip and gently traced a finger along the bruise.
"Nah, its fine. I'm starving though and I have no idea where the kitchens are." I hinted, the others had practically run from the room so it was up to him to take me.
"Well what sort of gentleman would I be if I let you starve?" He teased; he led me out of the portrait hole and into the corridor. "I know a short-cut that the others don't, come on." He took my wrist and hurried down the hallway; I ignored the fluttering in my stomach and hurried after him.
When we reached a corridor that seemed to have a dead end I expected him to slow down, but he walked straight through the wall and dragged me through with him, he slowed down once we were both through the wall though.
"There's a staircase at the end of this corridor, it'll lead us into the dungeons straight away." He told me, waving to the long corridor in front of us; I nodded and let my eyes trail down to his hand, which was still holding my wrist. Scorpius didn't seem to understand my message though and dropped it; he even took a step away from me.
"Sorry I -" He tried to tell me before I cut him off by taking his hand and entwining our fingers.
"It's fine. So last night..." I smirked up at him, hating and loving at the same time how now I didn't have heels on I was even smaller than him. He smirked back down at me and nodded slowly.
"We kissed." He said simply.
"That we did." I laughed slightly. "So, what now?" I added a couple of seconds later.
"Well I, if it's alright with you, I want to kiss you again." He admitted a bit sheepishly, looking at me out of the corner of his eye. I stopped walking and turned so I was facing him.
"That is fine by me." I grinned, reaching up on my tiptoes to kiss him, slowly at first before it built up, getting a bit passionate after a couple of minutes.
Eventually he pulled away, laughing when I tutted. "Come on, you're a Weasley and I know that your stomach will be empty; really bad combination." He teased me; he dropped my hand and instead draped an arm across my shoulders.
"There's a Hogsmeade visit scheduled for weekend after next." He stated as we walked in silence. I didn't say anything, just nodded. "Fine, I'll do it your way then. Dominique? Will you please come to Hogsmeade with me?" Scorpius rolled his eyes and asked me in a mock-serious voice.
"Is that your attempt to ask me out on a date?" I teased him with a smile. He rolled his eyes again and arched an eyebrow.
"Yes Scorpius, I will go on a date with you." I laughed, reaching up to kiss his cheek quickly when we reached the staircase, it looked extremely long and was so narrow the only way more than one person could walk down it would be in single-file. Scorpius grinned and dropped his arm, taking my hand again and leading the way down, letting his arm trail back slightly because he wouldn't let go off my hand.
"Dom?" Scorpius muttered, we were sat at dinner with Al, a still hung-over Rose, Liam, Larnie, Sean and a fresh Erin; the others had either smirked or laughed when they saw Scorpius and I holding hands when we joined them in the kitchens and all the others seemed genuinely pleased when we started snogging in the middle of the common room.
"Yeah?" I looked up from my plate and at Scorpius who nodded to the other side of the table; behind Sean, Erin and Albus stood a furious Louis.
"What's up Lou?" I smiled at my brother, curious about his mood. "What's happened?" I asked him, glancing over at the Slytherin table; I saw the Nott twins and Adams but I couldn't see Goyle and Avery.
"You. You are what happened!" Louis spat at me, Albus and Rose glanced at each other and my friends looked shocked.
"What? What have I done?"
"You came here. You, you, you messed in my business. In my life! You made everything ten times worse than what it was." He was struggling to contain his temper, it was obvious because he kept clenching his fists and taking deep breaths. "You know what? Vic was right; you are bad news, you're not worth it. You are a jinx. Just hurry and mess your life up again so I can be rid of you." He spat at me, he shot me one last glare before he stormed away, ignoring Albus and Rose shouting after him.
What on earth has happened? Goyle and Avery must have done or said something to him yesterday when I wasn't here.
And Victoire? What has she said about me? Bad news? A jinx?
Why did Louis say that? Why did he say I've made it ten times worse; Goyle and Avery have had to have done something or said something while I wasn't in the castle, knowing I'd react to it.
"Dominique? What is going on?" Rose hissed I snapped back to reality and focused on Rose and Albus sat opposite me; the others had all moved further down the table, giving us some privacy. The pair of them were leaning in close to me looking completely confused.
"Muffliato." I muttered, getting my wand from my sleeve. Looking at Scorpius who nodded at me I took a deep breath and let it out before I answered Rose. "Goyle and Avery have been bullying Louis. A group of kids, including those three I asked Fred about the other night, cornered him on Thursday, asking about me. Louis never said anything but it was obvious, I warned Avery and I warned Goyle and now they've done something to him or said something to him." I told them quietly, they both looked even more confused.
"No. Louis? He's a Weasley. Lauren and Amanda are afraid of our family. We'd have known." Rose shook her head.
"Yeah, Lily, Lucy and Hugo are in his year -" Albus started.
"But not his house." I shook my head. "Listen, if it was Lily or Hugo you'd know straight away? Exactly, and if it was Lucy or Roxanne, Fred and Molly would know straight away, right?" I asked them, they both nodded slowly.
"Louis had nobody; Saint Vic was long gone by the time he got here and I was in France, you lot were in a different house. I know Goyle and Avery; they're smart, they're exactly like Lottie and I were in Beauxbatons." I shook my head and sighed. Scorpius took my hand and squeezed it gently, smiling when I looked at him, Albus and Rose still looked confused.
"So Lauren and Amanda have been bullying Louis?" Rose asked me slowly. "Since his first year?" She guessed.
"I reckon so, yeah. Not just them, their entire group. The other night when they cornered him, there were students from every house, including his own." I told them, remembering Louis looking at certain people and looking hurt at different members of the group.
"So what are we going to do about it?" Albus asked me, turning in his seat to glance over at the Slytherin table. "We can't let them get away with this. They know not to mess with a Weasley." He hissed, turning back round and looking furious.
"We aren't doing anything. I am going to sort this out." I spotted Avery and Goyle walking into the hall together, both of them looking right at me and smiling innocently, a precaution in case any teachers or prefects were looking. I grinned, meeting Goyles eye, I turned my head to kiss Scorpius quickly. "I am going to show them what happens when they don't listen to me." Goyle looked furious, standing openly glaring at me she began to attract attention. Avery noticed and looked around before she whispered in her ear, making her walk quickly towards the Slytherin table.
"And I am promising you guys; they will regret it." I followed Goyle and Avery right until they sat down, noticing that Avery sat near the girl with the long brown hair, the one who Louis liked. Really looking at the girl I noticed how she looked quite familiar, something about her face, her hair, even the way she was sat reminded me of somebody.
When the girl handed Avery an envelope and said something I obviously couldn't hear, making Avery smile, the same smile the younger girl had on her face, it hit me.
What Amelia said about her sister the first time I met her sprung to my mind. "That little bitch is all her mother. I am nothing like her." She said she wasn't anything like Amanda, she didn't say anything about her other sister, Anna though. Amelia and Anna clearly look like each other, even though her hair is a different colour to Amelia's, the way Anna styled it and had it shaped around her face made her look like a younger version of Amelia.
"Louis, what have you done?" I sighed to myself, Anna looked away from Amanda and somehow managed to meet my eye. She smiled at me and looked away, most likely not even noticing what had happened seconds ago with me and her sister.
Rose tutted and rolled her eyes for the second time as I slid a note across the table in class. Scorpius and I were childishly passing notes to each other since Longbottom told the class to work in silence.
I'm bored.
What do you want me to do about it?
Entertain me.
We're in Herbology Dominique; what do you want me to do?
Well, a repeat of last night wouldn't be so bad.
It had been five days since the night out, since Scorpius and I became sort of a couple. Every night since then we were either in the common room sat together, most likely in the same chair, kissing and laughing, or up in his dormitory snogging.
The others either tried to ignore it or teased us, except Molly who gave us a lecture about setting an example to the younger students. "As an older student, and as a Weasley it is your duty to show the first and second years how to behave in a proper manner!" She told me when she caught me coming out of Scorpius's dormitory. She turned bright red and hurried away when I loudly told her to go and misbehave in an improper manner and then see if she still lectured me, that made several people snicker.
Surprisingly Albus was alright with Scorpius and I; I half expected him to be slightly mad, according to Rose he flipped out when she got with Scorpius and I've seen his reaction to Lily dating Lysander, but it was Rose who seemed annoyed, and that was only when we behaved like we do now.
Scorpius coughed loudly, covering a laugh, bringing me back down to earth, Albus looked up from his book, glanced at the note and rolled his eyes while Rose glared at the pair of us before she returned to her own book, I smirked when she dotted an 'i' so ferociously she put a hole in her parchment.
Surely you wouldn't want me doing that right in the middle of the Greenhouse? Scorpius wrote back, I had to put a hand over my mouth to stifle a giggle at the thought of Scorpius slipping his hand up my skirt in Longbottom's greenhouse in front of the Hufflepuffs.
"Miss Weasley? Something funny?" Longbottom snapped from his desk, obviously my giggle wasn't stifled enough. The rest of the class looked up eagerly, the students who weren't there had all heard by now about me arguing with Smail and skipping her detention last week and according to Larnie, were all eager to see me argue with another teacher.
"Not really." I shrugged, trying not to smile when I saw Scorpius smirk, even Albus and Rose were trying not to laugh.
"Try me." Longbottom shrugged, walking up to our table, he was stood so Scorpius and Albus had their backs to him so the two of them openly smirked now.
"Seriously, nothing's funny." I shrugged, flipping the page in my book, covering the note up. Longbottom didn't seem to notice. "I just remembered something from a while ago." I lied easily.
"Oh right, well if you're not focusing on your work here perhaps sitting with different people might make you focus a bit more?" He raised an eyebrow at me and looked to another table. "Miss Goldstein, please swap seats with Miss Weasley." I looked at the table, the smirk fell from my face. The Goldstein girl was sat at a table with two other girls. And Lorcan. I looked at Scorpius and saw him glare at the table, hands in fists.
"Miss Weasley, collect your stuff." Longbottom told me, I didn't bother arguing, just picked my books and bag up and walked away from the table, the Goldstein girl sort of glared at me and purposefully rammed my shoulder as she passed me but I ignored her and sat in her seat, cringing when I realised it was right beside Lorcan.
"Carry on working." Longbottom barked to the rest of the class, I rolled my eyes and flipped the book back open, tucking the note into the pocket of my robes. The other two girls seemed to ignore me and started a whispered conversation, I tried to ignore Lorcan and actually began to read my book, until he stabbed my leg with his quill.
"Damn it!" I hissed quite loudly. "Paper cut." I looked at Longbottom who narrowed his eyes at me before looking back at the plant on his desk, I looked over at Scorpius to see him glaring at Lorcan, Albus was obviously trying not to laugh, Rose was doing her work and the Goldstein girl was glaring at me.
"What was that for?" I whispered to Lorcan who just shrugged. "You don't know why you stabbed me?" He rolled his eyes and leant in close.
"It got your attention. What's going on with us? I heard you and Scorpius hooked up? According to a few of my friends from Gryffindor you're always snogging? What about us?" He asked me a curious glance. I felt my mouth open and my eyes widen. He thought we were a couple?
"Lorcan, you do know what happened was a one time thing?" I asked him, I looked back at Scorpius who was still glaring at Lorcan. "Me and you? Never going to happen. Again." I added as an after-thought. I noticed the other two girls weren't whispering any more so I looked at them, they were both looking at Lorcan and I, clearly having heard what I just said. "It was fun, but that's it. Besides, Scorpius and I are...together." I looked over at Scorpius and looked back at Lorcan, not really knowing what Scorpius and I were I decided to play safe.
He looked at me and turned bright red when I finished talking, before he shot a dark look at Scorpius, clearly hurt. I felt a little bad, even more so when he never even answered me and just looked at his work.
"We can still be friends though." I muttered, he never said anything though and when I glanced up at the two girls it seemed as if they were trying not to laugh.
Scorpius walked me to Professor Chang's office for my detention, he'd actually been asked to escort me there because I tried to skip my detention on Monday with Longbottom and since Scorpius was the prefect on patrol it was his job to make sure I showed up for it. For the first time since Sunday though he didn't hold my hand, not that it bothered me, it just annoyed me because he was clearly annoyed over Lorcan.
He wouldn't say anything though, he just stayed in a mood all day and only spoke to me if I spoke to him. Albus shrugged when I asked him about it and Rose just raised an eyebrow at me and put it bluntly, "Scorpius has issues with trust. He knows you and Lorcan have a, albeit brief, history and he doesn't like it. Even more so since Lorcan seems to have a thing for Scorpius's ex girlfriends." she returned to her homework after that and Scorpius told me to get ready for the detention so I didn't have time to ask her anymore. All I knew was that Scorpius was brooding and it was pissing me off.
Finally we reached the Transfiguration corridor, I stopped at the top of it and turned to face him. "I'm not stupid enough to walk all the way here and then not show up for the detention." I told him, pointing to the door of Chang's classroom where she told me to go. "What is up with you?" I asked him when he didn't reply.
"Nothing." Scorpius shrugged, not meeting my eye.
"You know what? Pout, brood, pine whatever, just don't do it round me because it is pissing me off." I snapped at him, he looked at me finally. "Lorcan asked me what was happening with me and him. I shot him down, in front of his friends, told him me and you were together." His eyes turned dark and he scowled when I mentioned Lorcan's name. Hit the nail on the head.
"What did he say when you told him that?" Scorpius asked me quietly. "When you said we were together?"
I sighed and rolled my eyes. "He didn't say anything, just gave you a dark look. Stop mulling things over? Lorcan and I aren't involved." I stepped closer to him and took his hand, smiling up at him slightly. "I may think jealousy is pretty hot, but being sulky? Not so much." I teased him, stretching my neck so I could kiss him lightly.
"I have to meet Imogen in the entrance hall and you need to go to your detention." He murmured, pulling away after a couple of seconds..
"Fine." I sighed, dropping his hand and stepping away from him. "Go on, don't want to be late for patrol." I nodded to the corridor and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Oh don't do this." He chuckled, he stepped towards me and kissed my cheek. "I'll see you in the common room tonight." He told me before he smirked, shook his head and walked away.
I sighed and walked to the classroom, wondering what pointless task Chang would have me doing tonight. Inside the classroom every desk had an animals cage on it, except they didn't have animals in them. "Ah, Dominique! You're the first to arrive. Pick a side." Chang was stood at her desk and turned when she heard me come in.
"What do you mean?" I asked her, frowning at the nearest cage. I looked to the front of the classrooms and saw two buckets, two sets of sponges and two pairs of rubber gloves. "Surely you don't expect me to clean all of these?" I glared at her.
"Of course not." Chang chuckled quietly before she nodded behind me. "I expect both of you too clean these. Dominique, Lauren, pick a side and hand your wands over." I turned to see who she nodded too. Lauren Goyle was stood in the doorway, glaring at me, I smirked at her and turned back to Professor Chang.
"I pick this side." I told Chang, I walked over to her desk and put my wand on it, and then walked to the left side of the room, rolling my sleeves up. After a couple of seconds, Goyle did the same.
"Obviously you're to clean these cages for me but I have career advice to give out to my Ravenclaw's so I'll be in my office down the corridor. Any problems come and get me, I'm trusting the two of you to do your jobs and stay here. If either of you choose to ditch, there will be severe punishments. Am I understood?" Chang asked, she looked at both of us and when her back was turned while she pocketed our wands from the desk, Goyle and I both smirked at each other.
"Yes ma'am." We both said in unison, I turned away and started cleaning out the first cage. I heard Goyle do the same and then heard Chang walk out of the classroom, leaving the door open. I wasn't stupid though, I kept on cleaning quietly, ignoring Goyle; sure enough a couple of minutes later Chang came back into the room, walked upto her desk and picked something up, looked at the pair of us and walked out the room, I actually heard her footsteps fade away this time.
Looking over at Goyle I waited for her to say something. She was looking at me like she was trying to work something out. After a couple of minutes she looked away from me and carried on cleaning out her cage, I rolled my eyes and silently put my hand in my robe pocket, taking my real wand out, I learned to carry one of Uncle George's fake wands with me during detentions in my first year at Beauxbatons.
"Evanesco." I whispered, pointing it at the cage which cleaned itself straight away. I carried on doing that, walking round my cages and magically cleaning them, not really caring if Goyle saw or heard me. By the time I was half-way through, she was only on her third cage.
"I think you and I got off on the wrong foot Weasley." Goyle's voice was closer than I expected it too be, turning round I saw her sat on a desk on her side of the room, legs dangling of the edge.
"Why do you think that Goyle?" I asked, not taking my eyes of her.
"Just do. I think we could be friends, given the chance." She shrugged, cocking her head to the side. "We're the same you know." She added quietly.
"Is that according to you?" I asked her, smirking at her. "Or Peyton Demyer?" She didn't say anything, didn't react at all for a few seconds really. She smiled, either to herself or to me, and put her hand in the pocket of her robe, getting something out.
"Here, read it." She held the parchment out to me, curious I walked over to her and took it out of her hands.
Dear Paige,
Have to say I was surprised to hear from you, it's been like a year or something. Anyway, I'm fine, so is my mother, father and sisters. How are your parents? Brothers and sister?
Moving on too what you really want to know though; Dominique Weasley?
I take it the rumors are true then, she got sent to Hogwarts? That school better watch out, she's different to her family, I'm guessing you know at least one member of the Weasley family? I'm sure she mentioned once that they were all around the same age.
I don't really know why you want to know why she left Beauxbatons and what she was like here but I'll tell you anyway.
Dominique is a really cool person, she's always up for a laugh and always likes to have a good time, she's the life and soul of any party she goes to, which has been a lot!
I've known her for years, we are in the same year afterall, we've not exactly been really close, but we're friends, good friends I'd say. Her best friend is/was Lottie Parker, we were in the same 'gang' here but those two were sort of the leaders. They're not afraid of anything or anyone P; do not get on the wrong side of Dominique. She will take you down and not think twice about it. Seriously, that girl can flip like a coin when pushed. I've seen her fight loads of times, not just fight as in arguing, physically fighting with boys and girls and she always comes out on top. She doesn't care about anything, other than her friends and - while she was here - her cousin Miquel, I'm certain somebody told me before she doesn't get on with her cousins in England. She'd do anything for the people she cares about though.
I've also seen and heard Dominique do some pretty bad things, she does what she wants when she wants, she doesn't really care for rules. Grandmother Lynne said that you're a pretty good student; good grades, a prefect? I can't see you being one of Dom's friends if I'm honest, she normally hangs out with people like me and her; not really caring about school, what people think and I'm certain the only prefect she really knows would be her ex-boyfriend, Nate Gunner.
Another thing about Dom, she's popular with the boys; not in a slutty, common little witch sort of way, she just likes company of boys. Don't be surprised if she's snagged somebody in the first few days, regardless of whether they've got a boyfriend or not.
Which leads me onto why Dominique is at Hogwarts.
She put a boy in hospital. First the hospital wing and then the actual hospital. Broke a few bones, shattered a few bones, basically beat the shit out of him.
Rumor round here is that Dominique and the boy, Peter Daveson, were going at it behind his girlfriends back for a while, apparently Peter got guilty and changed his mind, Dominique refused to stop and stripped in the bathroom for him; when he still turned her down she attacked him. She's always had a temper and problems with her anger though, I mean it Paige, stay away from her when she's in one of her 'episodes.' Peter is huge and she managed to put him in hospital.
She can be dangerous, really dangerous Paige; be careful. Bobby told me that you're in with a certain 'group' of people? I know what that means and so do you; Dominique won't care how many people are against her, I meant it when I said she doesn't care and she's not scared of anything, she will take all of you down one by one if she has too, by any means necessary. By the time she was in her third year here, she was already popular with the older students because she was known to not take crap from anybody.
I know what you're like P, you think you're untouchable because you hang around with a group of students who have reputations, you think they'll save you? DON'T MESS WITH DOMINIQUE, she won't care how many of your 'friends' have reputations, she's not afraid of anybody. She had the worst reputation in our school for violence and getting people back, nobody got one over on her, nobody. Look what happened to Peter.
I'm not saying you have to keep clear of her, because if you're her friend then great she really is a great friend to have; just don't mess her about because she'll make you regret it.
Just be careful Paige, good luck with your exams, stick in! I failed all mine last year but you're smart! Use your brains!
Love,
Peyton.
When I finished reading the letter I didn't look up, I took a minute to think things over; the rumors round school were that Peter and I were seeing each other secretly? Behind Maggie's back? How can people believe that? They knew me! They knew I wouldn't do that to a friend!
"Did you really put a boy in hospital?" Goyle asked me curiously, I looked up at her, she was still stood in front of me, looking at my face for my reaction. I nodded once and handed the letter back to her. "Wow, I thought you were a fighter but I didn't think you were that badass." She muttered, smirking slightly. I looked back at her and glared.
"Don't you talk to me like that." I hissed at her, stepping close so our noses were nearly touching. "Don't you talk to me like we're friends. Do you have any idea how much I want to kill you? Do you have any idea how easy it would be for me to kill you?"
I heard her gulp a little bit but then she seemed to swallow her fear, she smirked and stood straight. "Try it." Goyle sneered at me. "Go on I dare you." She pushed me away from her, making me stumble a little bit. I straightened myself up a little bit and smiled at her.
"Tell me what you said to Louis."
"I never said anything, I just made sure he got the message that I think it's sweet he got his older sister to fight battles for him. He mustn't be like the rest of the Weasley's, they at least stand up for themselves." She shrugged, nodding to me. I narrowed my eyes took a deep breath.
"Look Goyle, you've asked about me and got what you wanted to know. I've told you myself that you don't want to mess with me; now I'm not warning you, I'm telling you." I spoke slowly, in a calm voice. "You and your friends stay the hell away from my brother, I don't care if he likes me or not, I don't care if wants me to stay out of his business, you keep away from him." I looked her in the eye and made sure she understood what I was saying. After a full minute and she still didn't say anything I turned away and waved my wand over the closest cage to me, intending on hurrying to clean them all so I could go find Scorpius and persuade him to skip his prefect patrols.
Goyle apparently had other ideas. "And what if I don't stay away from Louis?" She asked me, I sighed before I turned back round.
"If you don't stay away from Louis?" I stepped closer to her, so close she had to step back, making her press against the desk. "If you don't stay away from my brother Lauren, I'll rip every strand of your scraggy hair from your pretty little head, pull every one of your perfect little teeth out of your mouth and then drop you of the Astronomy tower." I spat through clenched teeth, glaring at her. She didn't do or say anything for a while but I wasn't going to turn away from her again, I wasn't that stupid.
"Weasley! Goyle! What are you two doing?" Chang's voice made us both jump. "I asked you two a question." She barked, she was stood in the door way glaring at the pair of us.
"I wasn't feeling well Professor, Dominique just came to see if I was alright." Goyle lied, I never said anything, just walked back over to my part of the classroom, quite thankful Chang couldn't see my wand. I slipped it back in my pocket before she did see it.
"Right, well carry on cleaning. As soon as you're finished you can leave." Chang told us, obviously not believing a word she said. Chang walked up to her desk and sat at it, watching us. I didn't bother getting my wand out again because I only had two more left to do so I did them manually.
When I finished and walked up to the desk to get my fake wand from Professor Chang, I looked over at Goyle to see her smirking at me. When I walked past her on my way out of the classroom I looked at her again.
"You don't scare me." She muttered, loud enough for me to hear her but not loud enough for Chang to hear. I didn't reply, just raised an eyebrow and nodded at her, smirking back before I walked out of the classroom.