AN: Mk, let's see how long it takes me to type dis chapter…
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A week had gone by since my private lessons with Jackie started. I still hadn't been able to take off. Jackie even gave me different concentration exercises to do, but I had no progress.
On many days, I had headaches in classes because of how hard I had to concentrate with my broom. When I had classes with Jackie, he would let me lie my head on his shoulder as he rubbed one of my temples. I found that soothing being that he had softer hands than I expected.
It was now Saturday. I actually slept in, being that I was in my new Head room! Me and Draco moved in the previous night. We couldn't move in right away because of maintenance problems or something like that…
My room was huge! It was at least the size of the kitchen in my house at home. I changed the room by summoning up a couple of things that made it look homey. I added a couple of bean-bag chairs and a desk with a computer on it.
I also added a flat big screen T.V. and a love seat in front of it, just in case I have company… I changed the color of my wall from a boring white to a dark red. I know, dark of me. I just love dark colors.
My bed matched my dark red and white room. It was a huge queen sized bed with at least 10 small pillows and 3 big fluffy pillows that I sleep on. The sheets were white and the bedspread was dark red. It was a canopy bed, but without the curtains. That would be a little too much…
I was now putting on my clothes after taking a hot shower in my, I mean our, bathroom. Yes, I did share a bathroom with Draco. Did I mention I was sharing it with a boy? I smirked. 'This is going to be so interesting…'
I put on a black t-shirt that said, 'This is a plain shirt…', on it and some black jogging pants. I dried my hair with a spell and left it straight down. I put on some black socks, being that it had gotten colder since yesterday. I exited my awesome room to go down to the kitchen!
Indeed we had a kitchen. It had a muggle refrigerator that I summoned, which had food in it of course. The counters were similar to the counters in our bathroom, a tan marble color with beige colored wood.
There was a coffee pot that already had coffee in it, meaning someone was up already up, a modern stove, a blender, and I summoned a microwave. "Good morning Hermione." Draco said in a manly voice. I smiled at him but immediately dropped my jaw.
He had gray jogging pants and no shirt. It was absolutely gorgeous! He was a little thick and had a noticeable 6-pack! He was even paler there than his face, which got a tan from our summer break.
"See something you like?" he said smirking. I smirked back. "Nope." I said. "I doubt that. Are you still learnin- I mean 'refreshing your memory' of flying?" I nodded and looked over sadly. "Oh Hermione, you can do it! You'll get it no time, I promise. You're smart.-" "Obviously not…" I muttered getting out a bowl.
He smiled. "I'm going to help Jackie help you. Surely with my help, you'll be able to accomplish something." "So you're going to help a Quidditch player help me?" I said grinning. He chuckled. "I guess so." "Well, thank you Draco, but I'm sure I only need one tutor." "You just wanna be alone with him, right?"
I smiled. "Yep." I said before putting a mouthful of cereal in my mouth. He rolled his eyes. "Well, good luck. You could've had the best, but whatever…" he said disappearing into the living room. "Whatever…" I mumbled
It was almost 1:00pm. I was heading to another private lesson with Jackie. 'I am going to get it right today!' I opened the entrance of the castle to walk out into the bitter cold. Jackie was standing in our usual meeting spot. He had a scarf wrapped around his mouth and nose, his eyes cringed.
I waved at him with a gloved hand. He greeted me by jerking his head back. He told me that meant, 'What's up?'. "You ready?" "Yep. I will get it today!" "Alright, let's see whatcha got man." he said standing back. I mounted my broom. I inhaled and then exhaled. 'I can do this, I can do this.'
I closed my eyes and concentrated yet again. This time, I felt something lift me up. I opened my eyes to see if that wasn't Jackie, and it wasn't! The broom was flying! I concentrated some more to make it go a little higher than the 15 feet I was above ground.
"Yeah!! You did it baby!! Datz what I'm talkin' 'bout!" he said clapping for me. I smiled and rose my hands in the air. "Yes!! I did it!!!" I screamed into the air. I lost my balance for a few seconds but regained it quickly. "Ok now, fly forward. Juss steer the broom straight ahead of you and do whatever you did to take off." he yelled from the ground.
I did what I was told. It was working! I wasn't going that fast but I was going! "If you want to go a lil' fasta, lean forward. Don't do it too abrupt. You'll go too fast and 'nen you gon' get whiplash." he yelled following me.
I leaned forward a little to go a little faster. I was now going a little faster. This was just like driving! I can't believe I was missing this! The view is amazing from up hear!
After awhile, I wanted to land. "Jackie, how do I land?" " Point the handle down to get closa' to da ground. When you get close enough, put a little weight to make it go down to the ground." I pointed the handle carefully to the ground.
It slowly made its way towards the ground. I applied some weight to it to make it land. As soon as my foot touched the ground, I immediately became dizzy. I dropped the broom and put my hand over my forehead. Jackie ran towards me.
"You ok babe?" he said putting his arm around my waist, so that I was against him. I shook my head slowly, still a little dizzy. "When you first start flyin', you get dizzy like dat. But you flew, n' natz what mattas, right?" I shook my head and smiled at him, or them…
"Thank you so much!" I said hugging him tightly. "Ya welcome. It's a lil' late let's go tell everyone 'bout the new Quidditch star." I laughed. "I don't see how you guys can do that for several hours." "We juss got use to it. You gon' love flyin' one day…" "I'm sure I will…"
"You are lookin' at da next American Air- Hawk!!" Jackie announced to our friends in the Great Hall. They clapped and cheered for me. "Congratulations Hermione!" Yalonda said. "Yeah, congrats." Alex said smiling. "Thank you! I'm just so happy that I can finally fly a broom!"
"She was lookin' good up there too, although she look's good anywhere…" I giggled. "Oh whatever. I really couldn't have done without Jackie. So he really needs an applause." "He sure does! He taught a dummy how to fly…" "Shut up Alex!" I said sticking out my tongue playfully.
She put her hand over her chest, as to act like she was hurt. "Hermione! I didn't know you could be so… ugly!" she said and laughed. I smirked and rolled my eyes as everyone laughed. "What's so funny?" someone behind me said.
Alex rolled her eyes and sighed. "None of ya business! Go bother someone else Alana." Alana was a little skinnier than Alex but bigger than Mariah and Yalonda. She was African- American like Alex and had long dark brown hair with burgundy streaks.
She was built like an hourglass. She was skinny in the middle and filled out in the right places, not to sound, well you know… She wore a gold shirt that had a black and gold Baby Phat short jacket over it. She wore dark blue tight jeans with a gold belt and black slides. She had gold bangle thingies on her wrists and gold Baby Phat earrings.
She smacked her lips. "Why you gotta be so mean? I juss asked a question… Hey guys!" She said waving to the rest of the Air- Hawks. They greeted her but didn't look like they wanted to.
"Yeah, yeah, now get outta here." "Oh I'm sorry! My name's Alana. I'm Alex's couzin. You wouldn't think so, huh? I look way betta' than ha'!" she said blowing a kiss to Ron. Now Alex was mad. "Say, you need to go somewhere! And I mean quick…" Alex said getting up. They were an inch apart, looking at each other with a death glare. "Alright, alright. We'll see you later Alana." Jacob said pulling Alex away from Alana.
Alana rolled her eyes. "Bye, nice meetin' yall." she said to me and my friends. Alex was now sitting in her chair with her head in her hands. "Ooo I can't stand dat bitch bro!" "We know Alex, we can't stand her either. Juss chill out." Mariah said patting her on the back.
"What's so bad about her." Pansy asked. "She's juss so… outspoken. She juss talks aaaaalllll the time and she's a slut." Jacob said. I laughed. "Wow, that sounds like how Pansy use to be." My friends laughed while she pouted. "Shut up…" she said lookin away.
"Anywho, unfortunately, she is my couzin. Her parents died when me and her were 5 years old. So, she lives with my other aunt and uncle." "Who killed her parents?" I asked. Alex paused. "I think Harry knows…" Harry frowned but slowly opened his mouth. "Voldemort…" Ron, Blaise, Pansy, and Millicent jumped.
Alex nodded. "Yep. I was there when he did. Me and Alana were playin' in ha room when we heard glasses breakin' n' screams. We looked at each other. I heard ma aunt screamin'; he had juss killed my uncle.." Alex paused and sighed.
"We heard her runnin' up the stairs and she ran in Alana's room. She slammed the door shut and locked it. She ran over to us and squeezed us tightly…" Alex stopped to clear her throat. Her eyes were watery now but she shook her head. "So anyway, he blasted the door open and walked in slowly.
We didn't say anything, we juss looked at his pale white face and those glassy eyes. 'You all shall perish…' he told us. 'You can't kill my babies!' ma aunt screamed. She jumped in front of us and as soon as she did, she was killed by the Avada Kraveda killin' curse, instantly.
So all that was left was me n' Alana. 'Your weak father brought this upon you…' he said and pointed his wand at me. Juss then, my daddy and my otha uncles showed up n' they had a battle. Somehow, my uncles made him vanish and asked my daddy asked us if we were ok. I didn't say nothin', I was juss so…" Alex looked away while she was biting her lip. She inhaled sharply.
"So yeah… Now Voldemort is afta me because he couldn't kill me the first time." "That's exactly what he's doing with me! He actually killed my parents that same way…" Alex nodded slowly. "So how does Alana cope with this?" Millicent asked.
Alex shrugged. "She copes with it fine. But she juss like me; she bottles up her feelins and doesn't show them to anybody." "That's exactly how you ack…" Jackie said. She shrugged again and smirked. "It juss runs in na' family…"
After awhile, we were on a normal conversation. Harry looked like he was thinking to himself. "Harry? You ok?" Mariah asked. He nodded and smiled. I think I know how that would end up… "Oh, I'm tired children! Ron, come n' walk me to the door, will ya?"
"Sure…" Ron said getting up along with Alex. "Night er'one!" she said waving at us. We said our goodbyes and watched them leave out the hall. "She was 'bout to cry man!" Allic said. "She sho' was. I knew she wa'nt gon' do it in front of us dough…" Fernando added.
"One day she's juss gonna bust all of a sudden, I told her that before." Yalonda said shaking her head. "Why does she keep her feelings to herself?" I asked. Jackie shrugged. "I think it's because she tryin na' make us think that she got er'thang unda control, like she don't need no help. But she really needs someone to console her…"
That's where Ron comes in…
Alex's POV
"Well night." I said tryin' na' hurry up so I wouldn't have to answer any questions. "Wait!" Dang! I turned around and rose my eyebrows. "Yeah?" He looked around nervously, like he wanted to say something, but couldn't. I walked up to him and put my hands on the back of his arms.
He looked at me wit' dose' cute blue eyes before sayin', "If you ever want to talk more about, well, problems, or anything, I'm here…" he said lookin' off. Aw!! I smiled and slid my hands so that they were in his. "Thanks, I'll keep dat in mind." I said before huggin' him.
He didn't hug me at first, but eventually came back to reality. We let go, still starin' in each other's eyes. "Well, night, again…" I said laughin'. He chuckled and smiled. "Goodnight Alex." he said wavin' at me as I exited. I winked and turn to my destination.
I loved how he said my name! Aw-lex… He made me feel so much betta! He's such a sweetheart! Maybe I will take up his offer. I haven't told that story, well the whole story to anyone, like I did tonight. I even felt myself tearin' up.
I refuse to show them how I felt though. It's juss how I am. "Alex!" That was my daddy's voice. "Yeah?" "Whatchu doin' out here alone? I told you I don't want you out here alone." "Oh, sorry, I forgot." I said vaguely.
He looked at me and then held out his arms. I looked at him with teary eyes and walked to him to hug him. "You're gonna be ok baby. I won't let nothin' happen to you, I promise." he whispered in my hair. I finally let all my tears flow.
"Why does all lis' have to happen to me?" "I don't know baby. Ima make sure you're safe baby, ok?" I nodded. I truly thought I was gonna die this year. Voldemort was after me and I only had magic to defend me. This was all too much for me. I know exactly how Harry feels now…
"You're gonna be ok baby, ok? Who loves you?" I looked up at him with a watery smile. "You…" I whispered. He shook his head and smile. "I love you too daddy." I said huggin' him tighter. I definitely need to get myself together…
AN: Hey, dat didn't take dat long! Itz kinda long too… I'm pretty awsum… Oh well, chapter 15 next……. JussMee