Mate
Chapter 4: School
Derisa Phoenix Potter POV:
"Aunt Petunia, can I please but that guitar. I'll pay for it with my own money, promise." a 6 year old Derisa asked her Aunt. The said Aunt scrunched up her face like she just ate a lemon and was about to saw no, but then she saw red hair. It reminded her of her sister and she said yes. The minute the word was out of her mouth, she knew she could not take it back, she was shocked to say the least.
The little girl grinned and went into the shop, she brought the acoustic guitar to the counter and paid for it with the pocket money she had saved up for 5 years straight without spending a dime. She bought it and took it outside with her, back to where her Aunt was waiting for her, impatiently.
They walked back home after, Petunia had to tell the girl to be quite 5 times before Derisa stopped thanking her Aunt. She was too happy to even worry about what her Uncle would say to her when she came home with an expensive guitar in her hand.
As soon as they got home, Vernon Dursley was waiting for them in front of the cupboard under the stairs. He saw the guitar in her hand and threw it in the cupboard. He advanced on his niece and threw her to the floor.
"Where did you steel the money to get that?" he spat at her. The poor girl was cowering and trembling on the floor.
"N-n-nowhere. I-I-I-I saved up m-m-my pocket m-m-money and bou-bought it. I s-s-swear. It-it's the truth." She stuttered, suddenly a belt was brought down upon her face and she screamed as she felt the hot liquid run down her face from her forehead. Dudley and Aunt Petunia stood, watching her get punished. She was punished with a belt and cane for an hour before she was thrown into the same cupboard, this was where she lived; she didn't have a room, or parents. She was alone and all she had where Dudley's hand me down cloths, a guitar and hateful relatives.
Risa woke up screaming; she looked around and noticed she was in Mystic Falls and not her relative's house. She calmed down a bit but was still panting. Some curls that had fallen from her tied up hair so she reached up and tucked them behind her ear. After a minute or two, she completely calm but she had sweat a lot from that nightmare, so decided to have a shower to get rid of the disgusting feeling. She put her sweaty cloths on the counter.
Ris washed her highlighted hair with strawberry scented shampoo and washed her body and the remains of her dream with vanilla fragrant body wash. After her morning shower, Ris dried herself with a fluffy towel and wrapper it around herself. The raven head walked to her dresser to get a turquoise lace bra and panties.
She walked to her closet and opted to wear turquoise one shoulder top, light blue skinny jeans, lace up black suede ankle boots, her normal goblin made locket and a Caribbean cool bracelet stack; she removed her phone case from yesterday and put on the same type but in the same colour as her cloths, Ris removed the nail polish she had and put on turquoise, and the same sunglasses from yesterday on top of her head. The teen let her hair loose like she did every day, grabbed her bag, had an apple for breakfast and drove to school.
She parked her car next to an empty spot, right in front of the school building. She grabbed her timetable and saw she had History, first lesson and Gym at the end of the day. She loved gym and was really good at it too; she had to be since the war required her to fight off people physically, even before that, with people harassing her every day of her life.
The pale beauty strolled down the hallways, swaying her hips and smirking. When she entered the class she saw all her friends sitting down already, she sat down on the same seat as yesterday.
"Hey Risa." Bonnie beamed at her new raven head friend. Said girl greeted all her friends and took out her notebook and pen. She started drawing waiting for the teacher to come in so she could start tormenting him. The teen thought it was the only part of muggle school that was good. He came in and immediately started the lesson, not that Ris was listening; everything he said went into one ear and out the other. The poor girl was reminded of Professor Bins.
"Potter!" Mr. Tanner barked at the girl
"What?!" the teen groaned, not looking up from her drawing, many students snickered at this and recorded it.
"What year was the Great Fire-" Mr. Tanner was interrupted.
"1864." Ris cut in smoothly, still drawing in her notebook, the class openly laughed, smiled at this and sent her winks. She started to pack away; everyone looked at her confused and just then the bell rung signalling the end of class. They all walked outside.
"Honestly, I thought he was going to slap you when you interrupted him." Elena said to everyone.
"Me too." Caroline and Bonnie giggled. Ris smirked as they walked to English together. The bell for lunch rang and Ris dropped down on the bench out in the courtyard in between Bonnie and Caroline, Elena and Stefan opposite them. The brunette looked behind her three friends and saw someone coming towards them, eyeing the raven head beauty, ignoring his friend calling him back.
"Don't hit him, no matter what." Elena whispered. Stefan was holding in a laugh. Bonnie and Caroline looked confused.
"No, Tyler Lockwood, I will not go the party with you, thanks for the welcome, now shoo, of you go." Ris smirked without turning around. Tyler was just behind her and about to speak when she said that; he openly gaped at her as the rest of the table, even Matt and Stefan, the most controlled people there, besides Ris herself.
The jock huffed and stormed off. The rest of the table grinned at Risa.
"That was awesome." the girls and Matt said. Stefan just winked at Ris. The said girl ate half her sandwich for lunch and left the rest.
"Aren't you going to finish your lunch?" Caroline asked, concerned for her new friend.
"My appetites not big, that's all." Derisa replied. The others looked worried but didn't push it, clearly seeing that the feisty raven head didn't want to talk about it.
"So are you guys going to come to the party this Friday?" Bonnie asked the new comers. Ris smirked even wider and nodded her head vigorously, her black ink curls bobbing up and down all over the place.
"Hell Yes! I live for a good party." Ris announced. Sirius, her godfather, had found joy in that particular quality Derisa had shared with him and her father. The rest of the table laughed at her enthusiasm for something school related.
"You know this is school related right. And I thought you lived for making teacher's lives miserable." Elena teased.
"Yes, I know, and that to obviously. Who doesn't?" The excited teen rolled her eyes and retorted in a 'duh' tone. The rest of the table laughed even more and turned to Stefan, who nodded still snickering at Ris's reaction. They would not have expected anything less from the British teen.
At the end of the day, Ris went home and pulled the key out of the ignition, turning the car off. She climbed out and headed to the front porch; it had a porch swing on it. She rummaged through her bag looking for her keys.
The teen went inside and looked at the time. It was 4 o'clock; Ris made her way to her bedroom, changed into a pair of white short shorts and a baby pink tank top. She put her bag on the bed and went downstairs to make something to eat. She decided on a sandwich since she wasn't really hungry.
Years of cooking for the Dursley's meant that she knew how to cook and frankly, she enjoyed it as it kept her mind and hands busy.
She ate the sandwich and washed the plate. Ris headed up to her bedroom and got started on her homework; she had nothing else to do at home since she lived alone and the cleaning did it's self-thanks to a spell she cast. Mrs. Weasly had taught it to her before she left, saying that good cleaning was always necessary, even in a small house. Though Derisa's house was anything but small, the teenager had thought since she had so much money why not spend a little. She got started on the English essay due in two days, looking through books to find quotes while listening to music.
After finishing her essay, the time was ten thirty so she went to bed after checking all the doors and windows were locked.