Guess who's back, back again. Helloooo dere, I hath returned, as promptly as promised with a new chapter to bestow upon thou. I've given some of the Ravenclaw girls nicknames Katherine= Kathy and Natalie= Nassi or Nat. It should be pretty clear but just in case. Happy reading!
Disclaimer: You never know, maybe I'm JK Rowling ( Spoiler: I'm not)
Alice POV
Up until that moment I'd pretty much forgotten Halloween and I'm ashamed to say that when I saw the leaflet my first my first though was on my costume. Don't you dare judge me, it's hard to pick a costume when your hair changes colour every two weeks (That's right, it's fallen into a pattern now) I needn't have cared, as always, Victorie has us covered. Her fleet of owls descend on Hogwarts that night with costumes for the entire Weasley-Potter brood, and me of course. I open the creamy coloured box and pull back the layers of tissue to reveal a note
Dear Lissy
I checked with Rose about what colour your hair was this fortnight, I hope you like it.
Love Vicky
I stroke my shortish golden locks. But when I say golden I mean literally gold, it sparkles. I pull out a gorgeous gold sleeveless bodycon. It has a turtle neck and stops at around mid-thigh but with translucent, gossamer train thing that looks about shin length. In the box is a sash, like the kind in beauty pageants. On it are two words that make me smile a little; "Felix Felicis". Vicky is truly a genius, first Ravenclaw Weasley and I can see why.
"Rose!" I can't find that bloody woman anywhere and I need to borrow the gold top hat she used for some Muggle play she did over summer. "Rosie?" She's not in anywhere Ravenclaw tower so I run down to the library. Nope. Great Hall; Nada. I'm on the verge of giving up when a familiar red head zooms past the window. I look out and see Rose flying neat loops on her broom round the castle, she look really happy and I almost call out to her when I realise she isn't alone. Clinging on to her for dear life is Honey, she looks happy enough, if a little terrified and I almost scream out at her there and then but I'm not a Gryffindor, I know when to hold my temper. I step back from the window, take a deep breath and go back to the dormy to start getting ready. As I calmly stalk down the hallways I bump into Scorp. He looks a little afraid of me at first, which is fair enough, I was giving him pretty bad evils across the transfiguration classroom. Right now however, all my anger is focused on the traitorous Ginger little fucki-
"Hi Scorp" I say, as Lovegood-ish as I can manage "Are you exited for the Party tonight?" He looks totally taken aback by my sudden forgiveness of him
"Uh, yeah." He manages to regain some composure "What are you going as?" I smile to myself and then at him, a little crazily
"Good Luck" I say, before skipping down the corridor
Back in the Dorm sit Katherine, Aisha and Natalie. Kathy's twisting her long, chocolaty locks into a complicated looking updo. Aisha is slipping on a black bobbed wig with a box fringe and fixing her purple strapless dress. But Natalie doesn't seem to be getting ready, her hair is back in its normal ponytail, her face free of make-up and she's wearing a plain looking black dress.
"Nassi, are you not going?"
"I don't really feel like showing my face" She says, getting off the bed and going over to the wardrobe"
"But you'll miss us taking down the bitches, you'll miss the Halloween fireworks you'll miss" Natalie cuts me off
"I have no intention of missing anything" She calmly replies, pulling a grey-ish black tattered cloak from the wardrobe
"Yes, I know we can see the fireworks for here but it's not the same" Kathy wheedles "You've got to come, who cares if someone dumb makes a stupid comment, who cares if you get recognised" While Kathy was talking Nassi has slipped on the cloak and put up the hood. A weird black mist appears and the mouth of the hood, utterly obscuring Natalie's face, the mist pours out the sleeves and hem of the cloak too making her look like a really pretty Dementor
"Don't you see?" She says, in a voice quite unlike her own "I have no intention of being recognised"
"Nassi, you're brilliant!" I say, admiring her incredibly creepy outfit. Her weird, echoing voice replies
"I know, right?"
One flick of the gold Liquid eyeliner and I'm done, I get up and admire my ensemble. I borrowed gold Docs from Aisha (Who may have the Wizarding World's largest collection of Doc Martins) and a pair of gold elbow gloves from Kathy (I've no idea why she had them either). I look pretty good, I mean I've no boobs or any curves at all to brag about but you know what? I'm ok with that. Kathy has got more curves than she knows what to do with; she's in a white skirt and a leathery bodice thing. She has a leather headband in her cool, really tall hair.
"You make one fine Amazon Warrior my dear" I note just a Rose bursts in, panting
"You guys, I need help, I was out with Honey and I lost track of-" She doesn't get to finish
"You what?" Says Natalie's creepy echo, Rose jumps back in fright when she sees the Dementor in the corner. Natalie takes down the hood
"Holy hell, you scared the shit out of me!" she says, laughing now. None of us join her
"You were out with Honey?" Kathy asks, looking totally heart broken. Rose looks up without guilt
"Of course I was, I had to make up with her!"
"Why on earth would you do that?" Aisha asks
"Well I-" she begins
"Oh save it" Natalie snaps "You want back in her good books so she doesn't come after you"
"No, Nat, of course not!" She pleads
"Then what eh?" I ask, almost shouting "To get back in Scorp's good books? To prove your loyalty to him Rosie?" She looks physically wounded at that remark
"Guys please, I swear I can explain"
"We thought you were our mate Rose, we thought we were a team" Aisha says softly, before picking up her blue and purple hologram cape and leaving the dorm. Natalie and Kathy follow but I just stare at Rose
"Alice, Lissy, Please" She tries one last time
"Don't" I say, close to tears "Just don't Rose" And I leave the Dorm. As I jog to catch up with the others I can hear Rose crying through the wooden door.
Dun dun duuun! What! Rose! A traitor? How can that be? Tune in next update to find out. Aisha is meant to be Mystic Meg, the woman who does the horoscopes in our Muggle newspapers in London. Other than that, bye!
