SCARLET BLAIR WAS ONE OF THOSE girls you never notice. She was invisible to almost everyone and when Natalie Potter asked her to hang out with her friends ,Scarlet was surprised. Socializing wasn't her thing not because she doesn't know how to but because she has a deep secret that she doesn't want anyone to find out but seeing Natalie's smile made her rethink everything. Maybe she didn't have to hide hence she decided to her fellow housemate Leo McDonald to join Natalie in the courtyard after class and to say she was nervous was an understatement. She was terrified.
Nat was done with classes for the day and had about an hour before she meet's her friends in the courtyard. With the time she had in hand she decided to go to the Gryffindor tower to meet her brother. She knew the location of the Gryffindor common room courtesy to Moony but she didn't know the password and as she was standing in front of the portrait of the Fat Lady did she see a girl with bushy brown hair an huge front teeth (She looked pretty to Nat) walk up from behind her.
"What are you doing here? Slytherins aren't allowed in the Gryffindor tower." the girl told her with a bit of a bossy voice.
Laughing at the girl Nat told her politely "Actually, Can you do me a favor? And I know the rules thanks."
The girl looked shocked seeing a Slytherin girl asking her 'politely' for a favor nonetheless the girl agreed.
"Can you tell Harry Potter his sister Natalie want's to see him?"
Hearing her question the girl's eyes went wide as saucers and let out a gasp.
"I am so sorry, I didn't know Harry Potter had a sister." she apologized.
"That's okay. Many people are still getting to it. What's your name by the way." Nat asked the girl.
"I am Hermione Granger. Muggle-born." she introduced herself and Nat had no idea why she stated her blood status.
"Nice to meet you Hermione. How was your first day of class?" Nat asked her with a smile.
"Amazing. I want to learn everything I can about magic and I know almost all my textbooks by-heart but I don't know if I can score well." She told her to which Nat offered "Well, if you have any doubts don't be afraid to ask me. I'll be glad to help.". Hermione gave a huge grin and thanked her before going to the portrait hole to call for Harry. Within seconds a skinny, messy-haired spectacled boy climbed out with a huge grin on his face as he ran over to hug his sister.
"Someone's happy. Love it here?" Nat asked laughing at her brother's actions.
"Are you kidding? This place is amazing! Although I did get lost a lot of times." he told her.
Chuckling at him Nat replied "Don't worry, it took me a whole year to learn my way to classes properly. You'll get used to it. So How was your first day of class?"
"It's cool. There is so much to learn but I am happy I'm not the only one new to all this." Harry exclaimed with a beaming face.
"Oh yeah. Don't worry about not knowing anything about the wizarding world. You'll figure it all out eventually!" Nat told him leading the way outside.
Walking and talking, the siblings caught up on a few things right from class to his scar hurting during the feast but Harry had a nagging thought in his mind but he wasn't sure whether he should tell his sister but Nat understood her brother wanted to say something so she asked him "It's okay Harry. Ask. What's the matter?".
Harry was startled when she said those words. 'How did she even understand so quickly?' he thought.
"Well.. you see... It's just … Ron told me something on the train." he stammered but Nat urged him to go on but she had a hunch what Ron would have told her brother.
"He told me that Slytherin was the house that Voldermort was in and then when I saw you …. "He told her trailing the last part but she understood what Harry meant.
Sighing at her brother she then said "Harry listen to me. I agree that Slytherin has a horrible reputation and most witches or wizards go bad but doesn't mean all of us bad. Some of them choose their own path and I promise you I would never join the side that ruined ours and so many other people's lives."
"You know that wanted to put me Slytherin , told me it would make me great. But I don't want to be great." he told her afraid of her reaction but Nat just laughed at her brother and said "Really! Merlin. The hat told me that I have qualities of all the houses but it said I'll make good friends here in Slytherin and now I really don't mind it's choice. Slytherin is actually nice if you break their hard shell's trust me although people like Malfoy are prats."
Harry felt a huge had been heaved off his chest. His sister was still the same and loving person he met a few months back and he loved her nonetheless. He felt happy hearing what his sister said.
"And besides, Mom and Dad would be so proud of you, They were in Gryffindor too!" Nat told him.
Harry's face burst to a huge grin, his green eyes shining with happiness and his face beaming hearing that his parents were in Gryffindor. He couldn't be more happy.
The siblings talked for some more time until Nat to bid her brother goodbye and walked up to meet her friends. By the time she arrived almost everyone had arrived except Cedric. Scarlet was there with Leo and the rest of her Slytherin mates (Cat, Rora, Adrian, Michael and Terrance) and she looked genuinely happy as she had a huge smile with her brown orbs shining. Nat couldn't help but smile as well as she sat down.
"Finally! Now where's Ced?" Rora asked her but Nat just shrugged in response stating that she didn't know.
"Never mind, so Leo here was telling us about your summer in Ced's place and the fact that Dumbledore is his grand-uncle." Terrance told her.
"I still cant believe you didn't tell us that! Like how cool is it to have the headmaster as your uncle!" Cat exclaimed. Leo just laughed and shrugged at his friends.
"So beautiful. Tell us a bit more about yourself." Michael asked turning towards Scarlet who had turned red on his comment.
Nat laughed at her friend's extremely failed attempt to flirt but it seemed to be working on Scarlet. Dibs on them getting together soon!
Scarlet told them a bit about herself like favourite book, colour, quidditch team etc. and by the time they were finished they were joined by the blonde Hufflepuff who seemed exhausted.
"Rough day?" Rora asked him.
"You have no idea." Ced exclaimed sighing.
"And who are you beautiful?" he asked looking at Scarlet smiling.
Scarlet blushed again because never as she been called beautiful before, so being called one three times in a single day made her heart leap. "Scarlet Blair." she introduced herself.
"Want to play truth or dare?" Cat asked trying to snap everyone out of the awkward situation which Scarlet was thankful for. Cat got a bunch of enthusiastic yes's and smiles.
With that they started the game.
"Rora truth or dare?" Michael asked.
"Dare."
"I dare you to allow one us to cut a strand of your hair."
Anyone who knows Rora knows no one messes with her hair and the dare was a rare opportunity for them to absolutely anything to her hair without her going mad .
"NO WAY!" Rora yelled grabbing her hair protectively.
"You chose dare. Now you must finish it." Adrian sand tauntingly.
"What are you going to do if I don't complete the dare?" she retorted back.
"How about a nice swim on the Back lake and a hug from the giant squid?" Terrence told her with a smirk.
"You wouldn't dare Higgs." she growled.
"Oh yeah because eight against one is going to be hard. Face it Longbottom." Ced told her smirking.
Sighing in defeat she nodded at Michael who took out a pair of scissors to chop her hair off.
"Why do have a pair of scissors with you?" Scarlet asked him.
"I have been waiting for this moment since first year." He told her laughing at Rora's pissed face. With that he scooted closer to her with waiting eagerly and took out a pretty thick strand of hair , cut it off and handed to Rora. She looked shocked at the amount of hair he had cut and growled "I'm going to get you back for that Travers." She mumbled a bunch of curse words under her breath as well but everyone was too busy laughing at the situation.
"Okay beautiful, your turn." Michael said with a flirty smile. Boy! Travers was catching feelings for the new girl and his friends couldn't help but smirk at his actions as Scar turned red at his comment. Someone is crushing big time.
"Okay, Catherine " "Call me Cat please. Catherine sounds a mouthful".
"Right sorry, so Cat truth or dare." Scarlet asked her.
"Dare!"
"Okay, who's the guy you hate the most?" Scarlet asked her.
"Huh? I chose dare?"
"Answer this. The dare depends on that."
"Okay, Ummm… George Weasley." she told her with a huge scowl.
"You mean that redhead over there with another one?" Scarlet asked her pointing behind her and Nat. They turned and only then did Nat notice the twins, Lee and Angelina Johnson a girl in their year (and her replacement) were sitting not that farther from them. Seeing them the girls scowled and huffed.
"The very same Blair." Cat told her with the scowl still there on her face.
"I dare you to kiss him!" she told her with a huge smirk.
"YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT!?" Cat screeched so loudly that the students who were passing by were startled by her sudden outburst but their friends were just laughing so hard.
"Kiss him, just a peck. I'll give you three galleons if you do." Scarlet told her still smirking.
Cat looked gobsmacked by the task she had to do but she doesn't back down from a dare otherwise people will think she was scared of George Weasley which she wasn't . It was someone had high-fived her face with a chair. She got up muttering a whole new bunch of curse words, some Nat had never heard and walked over to the twins.
"You are something else Blair." Michael told her still laughing.
"Yeah girl. Where have you been all this time?" Rora told her with a huge grin , her hair forgotten because this is even more fun to watch.
"Should have met you earlier. Your awesome!" Leo said.
"Show time!" Nat told them looking at her bestfriend marching up to her archenemy fuming.
Cat marched up to George Weasley, that one person she hated with her guts more than anything except maybe Evelyn but that's besides the point. She can't believe her first kiss is going to be with the last person she wanted to because she always wanted her first kiss to be special but seems like life decided to play with her. She'd rather anything or anyone else than George Pathetic Weasley but nope, Scarlet had to pick him. With her thoughts going haywire and her mind furious she walked up to the Gryffindor's. At first she thought that she could just grab Fred and peck him because no one can tell them apart except for Nat anyway, but she knew that even if Nat hated Fred now deep doesn't she still has feelings for him, so she dropped the idea of kissing the other twin. What's even more frustrating is that her crush was with them and she had to make him see her kiss one of his best-friend and she had no choice but to do the dare otherwise she'll have to take a swim in the Black Lake which didn't sound so bad either but she didn't want to back down from the dare either. Ugh! Everything is a mess!
As she reached them, Lee gave her his famous toothy grins and said "Hey Cat! What's up with you?"
"Gotta do a stupid dare apparently for three galleons." she told him with a fake sweet smile because she was still angry.
"Which is?" Angelina asked her.
"This." she told them and with that grabbed George by his robe and gave him a peck on his lips.
Lee was shocked to see Cat kiss his bestfriend. He felt something against George and he knew that feeling. It was jealousy but was scared to admit his feelings for Cat.
George was appalled by Cat's actions. He just froze in shock as she grabbed his robes and kissed him even if it was for a second. He couldn't believe that the girl he hated so much kissed him infront of his friends (as well as hers). His shock was then replaced by anger. His blood began to boil and he yelled "WHAT THE HELL TONKS!" to which she calmly replied "Yeah, I didn't want to either but it was a dare." .
"I need to wash my mouth a hundred times because you kissed me!" he exclaimed furiously.
"Only hundred? I didn't know you raised your standards. I have to wash mine a million times because of those germs you carry." she retorted back.
George was furious that he just got tricked into kissing the last person he wanted to kiss because not only did she steal his first kiss , she also gets three galleons.
"You make me love Argus Filch with that stupid attitude of yours." He told her.
"Eww. You love Filch? That's so low even for you Weasley." she retorted back but before he could reply she waked back to her friends who were also shocked that she actually kissed George Freaking Weasley! With a smirk on her face she held out her hand and said "Done! Hand over the money Blair." Sighing in defeat Scarlet handed her three galleons from her purse.
Nat must admit that was actually pretty awesome for Cat to kiss George and she couldn't believe that George didn't react half as much as she had expected. Maybe the ice king is slowly melting, who knows.
Little did Nat know she was right.
"Okay Nat. Your turn." Rora told her.
"Mikey! Truth or dare?" Nat asked Michael.
"Truth." he said.
"Have you ever had a crush on someone older than you?"
"Shit." Michael said turning red as he nodded in response.
"Who?" Ced asked eagerly.
"Hey. I finished my turn. Cat its your turn." he retorted.
"Got to get back at you Scarlet. Truth or dare?" Cat asked Scarlet with a huge smirk on her face.
"Umm... Dare." Scarlet stammered a bit.
"Write your name on the dirt with your tongue. If you don't then I'll tie you by the ankle from a tree for ten minutes and if you do I'll give you your three galleons back." Cat said with a huge smirk.
Scarlet looked mortified with her dare. She sat there with a mouth agape trying to sink in what Cat had told her to do. She didn't know Cat came up with the worst dares! She saw Nat give her a 'I'm sorry' look but she didn't bother because it was a game after all. She didn't want her new friends think she was coward but Ced stepped forward and told her "You don't have to, We can always change the game." understanding her thought but she just shook her head and gave Cat a smile and nodded.
"Deal".
With that she bent down and with the tip of her tongue wrote her name in the dirt cringing the whole time but she didn't give up. It took about 20 seconds because Cat hadn't told her how big the size should be which she was thankful for. So by the time she was done , her tongue was very dirty and her face had a horrible expression.
"Blah! That was disgusting." she said spitting out the mud from her mouth.
Cat took out a hanky from her bag wet it with her powers and gave it to Scarlet who gratefully took it and wiped her mouth for three minutes straight. The rest just laughed at her reactions as Cat handed her three galleons for her dare. Boy! They sure did have fun.
"Ced go ahead." Terrance said.
"Nat truth or dare?"
"Dare duh." Nat told him like it was the most oblivious thing.
"I dare you to sing whatever you say in the tune of Happy birthday for next two minutes.!"
"What?"
"You heard me."
"You want me to sing?"
"Yep, your time starts now." Ced told her.
Nat didn't say anything but kept her mouth shut for around 45 seconds until the group declared that the dare was boring so Adrian told Nat "Your turn Nat. Sing it and ask."
"Leo truth or dare?" she sang.
"Truth."
"Who among us has the worst dressing sense?" she sang again.
"Adrian." he said without hesitation.
"Hey!" Adrian exclaimed.
"Face it. You're style is terrible right guys?" Leo told him asking his friends.
"Leo's right about that bro." Mikey told him laughing at his bestfriends pouting face.
"Meanies."
"And you say I'm the girl." Ced asked Leo with a 'Are you kidding me right now.' look.
"Oh you are still the girl Ced." Leo taunted with a smirk on his face.
"Why am I still friends with you." Ced asked fake sighing.
"Because you love us." they all sang and burst out laughing.
To anyone it might seem weird that six Slytherins, two Ravenclaws and a Hufflepuff are all sitting in the courtyard laughing but this is just them and they loved every second of it , even Scarlet who had just been introduced to the group was having the time of her life. She finally felt happy and loved by people of her age something she hasn't't felt in ages but she wonder's how long will this last because she was if anyone find's about her she'll be resented by her friends.
The day went great for the group as they sat in the courtyard laughing and playing for abut an hour when they all headed off their respective dorms to finish homework.
They headed out for dinner but halfway through their walk to the Great Hall they bumped into the Weasley twins, Lee , Angelina and Alicia. The girls were chasers on the Gryffindor team along with the twins who were beaters and Lee was the commentator which Nat believed was one of the best ones in Hogwarts . She liked Lee and she knew he'd be perfect of the job.
"Hey Lee." Cat chirped with a huge smile that she always has when Lee is around which Nat knew too well but he just ignored her and walked forward with the twins and the two girls trailing behind to avoid any conversations with the Slytherins. Nat was shocked at Lee's behaviour. She always thought Lee was the sensible one of the group but apparently that's not the situation now which made Nat wonder why as he was perfectly fine to talk yo them before. Nothing could beat Cat's face who looked hurt. It seemed as someone had slapped her straight on the face. Her hair turned a bit blue as her eyes became dull which pained Nat. She decided to confront Lee about it later but now she just grabbed Cat's hand and thought to her 'It's okay Cat. We'll figure it out later. Forget it now ok?' to which Cat simply nodded and continued walking without saying another word.