Chapter 21 The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth, Please Help Us God

A/N: please note the God I am referring to includes God, Yahweh, Allah, Mother Nature, Spirits, Gods, Science and any one else you would like to include ; )

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Scorpius's POV

I looked around

what were we going to do?

Mai had tea leaves in her hair

Rose was attempting to get egg ut of her skirt

Nat was surprisingly clean, despite the fact she couldn't hit the broad side of Jupiter (A/N: that is my favorite phrase ever) she was surprisingly good at dodging

Slyvia and Maggie were a mess

Hugo was covered in jam

Albus had bits of molasses and eggs in his hair

I was covered in everything of the above

I looked at all of them

"I think it my fault?" I said

"No it not Scorpius if you say that you be expelled" said Rose

"Well you did start the thing with Marcus." said Hugo

"Come on Hugo we're as much to blame for that as he is." said Albus

"What about Marcus" said Mai "He can't just get off scotch free"

"Why don't we just try telling the truth" said Nat

everyone stared at her

after a while Albus shrugged and said

"I agree with Nat"

"I do too I" said "If we tell her what really happened maybe Marcus will get what he deserves"

"So when do we tell her" said Albus

"How about at lunch said Rose?"

"Better yet" said Hugo "What are we going to tell her? What if we all get expelled?"

"Don't say that, Hugo" said Mai

"It could happen" said Hugo

"It better not" said Rose

I got a sinking feeling in my stomach

Lunch

We went to Headmistress McGonagall's office where several students were already lined up outside at the top of the line of chairs sat Olivia and Amber Zabini

Oliva looked at us "What are all of you doing here?" she asked

"Where here to tell the truth, Liv!" said Mai " You should probably come with us" mai said glaring at Amber

Headmistress McGonagall's office was very bright not as scary as I had imagined

She looked over our group i thought for a moment i saw her mouth turn up at the corner fighting a smile

"And what do you have to say?" she looked at us

"We'd like to tell you the truth" I said

"Well that's always a good place to start" she said

"Well what happened..." said Olivia "Is my brother was bullying Scorpius"

"Then I was mad at Marcus" I said

"So I told Scorpius that we should put spiders in Olivia's bed to get back at Marcus" said Albus

"Then I told Mai to act nice towards Olivia so she could get in her room and put the spiders there" said Hugo

"But I thought Olivia was really nice and didn't want to do it" said Mai

"Then they asked me, if I wanted to get back at Marcus. Which I did because Marcus is always really mean to me." said Olivia

"Then Liv said 'yes' and she became Nat's and my friend." said Mai

"So I helped them play the first prank" said Olivia

"Which I planned" said Albus dishearteningly

"Then Marcus played a prank to get back at us" said Hugo angrily

"After which we played a prank back at them" I said

"And Marcus slipped me vertiserum as well as Liv, Rose, and Mai" said Natalie

"And the asked us embarrassing questions." said Rose

"And they made Nat cry." said Albus

'So we slipped them a kissing potion" said Hugo

"And then Amber and the mirror" said Olivia

"I helped with that" said Mai

"And the Amber having cat ears" said Rose surprisingly

"Bubble pens." said Hugo

"Gum that make people speak in rhymes" said Albus (when did that happen)

"Pulling Amber's hair" said Olivia

"Throwing eggs at Slyvia" said Rose

"Throwing grapes at Mai" said Hugo

"Hey! That was you?" said Mai

"No." said Hugo sheepishly

"And it all my fault!" we said together

The Headmistress was quiet for a bit then she said very calmly

"You've given me a lot to consider Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, Miss Zhang, Miss James, Miss Goyle, and Miss Weasley." she name each of us

"I don't belive I'll be able think of an appropriate punishment to give you just yet thought it obvious you are not the only people involved. I will tell you what shall happen as a consequence after Holiday. I will seen you all back in my office then." she turned to Olivia "I would advise you to tell you brother and his pose to be here as well"

We left unsure whether we were in trouble or not.

Her mention of Christmas Holiday reminded me that I would have a week or so spent at Hogwarts basically alone and I probably would see Headmistress McGonagall at meals and that would be punishment enough.

"I wonder if well get detention" said Rose

"Maybe" I said thinking about Christmas made my previous thoughts on my parents resurface if they weren't proud of me then ill be lucky if i don't have to camp out at Kings Cross Station for the summer.

"Your not allowed to talk in detention, are you?" asked Mai

"Probably not, Mai." said Hugo

"So your staying here for Christmas Holiday I guess?" said Albus changing the subject

"I supose so, I wouldn't want to go home, even if I was allowed to." I said

"My Dad said flat out 'NO' to you staying with us" said Rose "Sorry!"

"I even asked Hugo to send Dad a letter; I hoped that he would be more accepting of you, as one of Hugo's friends" she continued

Hugo looked confused "You did?"

"YES! last week... you forgot!"

"Sort of... well... yes."

"Hugo!"

"Sorry!" he said to both Rose and I

"Don't mind it " I said. I was more surprised Rose had trusted him to do that. He barely got his schoolwork done on time. He had a planner. His mother gave t to him, but it sang about schoolwork; so it stayed buried at the bottom of his trunk. not very useful

"You could stay over my house" said Albus "I have to ask my parents but I'm sure they won't mind"

"Thanks Albus!" I said cheering up instantly

Albus turned to Natalie

"What are you Holiday plans, Natalie?" he asked

"Oh, Mum likes up to have a quiet Holiday just me, and her, and Father" said said her voice dropping off at the last word

"Maybe you could visit I'll owl your mother and ask" said Albus cheerily

Everyone began disscussing thier plans for Holiday

Mai was going to China to visit with relatives. She would visit her family but she would miss spending New Year's (Chinese) with them

Olivia was going to spend all break with her family and Marcus and Amber. Mai told her she had saved some hair changing roses from earlier and she could have some fun with them over break. Olivia refused she said she had had enough of pranks for awhile.

Eventually the girls broke of and began discussing Christmas shopping and I tuned out after a bit

Albus was pretty excited about me coming over. Finally he would have a friend over instead of James's friends coming over, he said.

Hugo was coming over too but he said it wasn't the same hugo being his cousin and all.

Albus, Hugo, and I talked and planned about what we would do over break and about the over Holiday assignment we had been given.

and the whole time I couldn't stop thinking

So this is what it means to have friends

not having to be left on your own.

A/N: So Christmas will come late this year, Do read. After Christmas will be two summaries, one of the rest of the year and one of the summer . I'll put up the Second year chapters soon after. Review ; )

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