Emily woke up, being whacked in the face by her kitten's tail. Emily sighed and sat up, noticing the wet spot on her pillow.
"You really need a name," Emily said, scooping up her kitten and setting it down on the floor. She opened her curtains to find the other girl's still sleeping with their curtains shut. Emily put on a clean pair of robes, and putting her wrinkled robes in a basket by the door, where the house elves would come in and collect their laundry to wash. The kitten meowed at Emily and jumped back on the bead. "I wish I could speak cat, because then you could tell me what you'd like to be called."
"Emily, you're up already?" Rosie asked, opening her curtains and looking at her watch. "It's only 6:30."
"Then why are you up?" Emily asked.
"Because I'm an early bird," Rosie replied.
"Oh, I see. Do you think breakfast is opened yet?" Emily questioned.
"Dunno, let me change and we'll go find out," Rosie said, shutting her curtains once again. A few minutes later Rosie emerged, to find Emily holding a toy mouse in front of her kitten. The cat was trying to hit it and finally got it from Emily's grasp and ran under the bed with it. Emily laughed.
"You're easily amused," Rosie said, starting to laugh.
"Come on, we don't want to wake everyone else up," Emily said, opening the door and heading out. The common room was empty except for a few other early birds. Aaron was sitting in front of the fire with Paul. Emily glared at him and headed through the portrait hole with Rosie. They passed Penny coming out of the great hall.
"Good morning! You ready to start your lessons?" Penny asked.
"No, we're ready to eat breakfast," Rosie said, rolling her eyes.
"Then why'd you get up early, if you didn't want extra study time?" Penny asked, obviously shocked.
"We haven't even started classes yet!" Emily said, looking at Penny like she was crazy.
"It never hurts to be ahead," Penny replied and stormed off.
"Who is she? She has red hair like Parker," Rosie asked.
"She's Parker's older and annoying cousin, Penny," Emily said, sitting down at the Gryffindor table. There were a few students from other houses eating breakfast at their tables, but Emily and Rosie were the only one's at the Gryffindor table. At around seven Andrew came down with Grant asking him a million questions.
"Make him go away," Andrew pleaded, when Grant headed back to Gryffindor tower for his camera. Rosie started laughing.
"Oh, poor Andrew is tired of his little fan," Emily joked.
"No, I'm sick of him. All he does is ask questions. Sure he might be a nice guy, but I mean come on! He asks way to many questions and repeats himself over and over again," Andrew complained. Rosie began to laugh harder. Parker joined them a few minutes later; Grant was following him this time. Emily glared at him and looked down at her plate of food.
"Here's your schedule's," Mandy said handing them each a schedule.
"Thanks Mandy," Emily said, looking up at Parker's cousin.
"Your welcome, have a good day!" She said and headed off down the table.
"Potions first! I hear Snape favors the Slytherins," Parker said annoyed.
"Snape is biast! That shouldn't be allowed at any school!" Emily said, speaking to Parker for the first time that day.
"What do you mean biast?" Parker asked.
"She means he favors the Slytherins," Rosie explained.
"That's what I said!" Parker exclaimed. Rosie shrugged.
"Why didn't you guys wake me when you left?" Kelly demanded, sitting down next to Rosie.
"Sorry, we thought you'd like to get some sleep," Emily replied.
"Well next time wake me, what class do we have first?" Kelly asked.
"Potions," Andrew replied.
"Oh that could be fun," Kelly said.
"Don't count on it," Zach and Angie said, joining them at the table.
"Are you sure you guys aren't brother or sister or boyfriend and girlfriend?" Rosie asked.
"I'm sure. We've just known each other for ever!" Angie replied. "Why you ask?"
"Because you two are always together," Rosie said.
"Oh, well Snape hates Gryffindor's, but he might like you guys, since Emily's Dad did save him from Voldemort a few times over the past couple of years. You know he was a death eater," Zach said.
"Yeah I know," Emily said.
"What's a death eater?" Kelly asked. Zach started to explain to her about Death Eaters and good ole Voldie. Paul and Aaron came in and sat down on the other side of Zach and Angie. Emily glared at Aaron and turned towards Rosie.
"Should we go get our things for potions?" She suggested.
"No way! The mail hasn't even arrived yet!" Rosie replied. Emily nodded and continued to stare at her plate.
"Mails here!" Andrew announced, pointing towards the ceiling were many owls were flying down with packages for their owners. Hedwig who was getting on in her years landed next to Emily and nipped her affectionately on the ear. Emily took the package from Hedwig and gave her the rest of her breakfast. Emily opened a book of Hogwarts a History and read the note from her father.
Dear Emily,
Your Grandparents thought you would like this for school. I know your mother loved this book and found it to be very handy. I hope you enjoy. I miss you already. Would you like to come to Gina and my wedding? It's in October, two weeks before Halloween. Aaron and Josh aren't coming because they don't want to miss school, but you may come if you'd like. I would love it if you come. Please send me your answer ASAP.
Love,
Daddy
Emily crumpled up the letter and threw it on the floor. Rosie and Kelly stared at her oddly but didn't say anything. Emily petted Hedwig, took out a quill and a paper napkin, wrote no on it and tied it around Hedwig's foot.
"Bring that to Dad!" Emily said, angrily and stomped out of the Great Hall. She passed Josh coming down the stairs and ignored him, forgetting to jump over the trap step. "My leg is stuck!"
"Here let me help you," Josh said, coming over and pulling Emily's leg out of the step. "You gotta watch out for that step."
"I know that!" Emily snapped.
"Geeze! Sorry, just trying to help," Josh said, turning around and heading towards the Great Hall.
"Sorry, I'm just having a bad morning," Emily replied.
"Oh did you get a note from you Dad?" Josh asked. Emily nodded.
"Yeah, I got one from Mom. Your Dad's a great guy and I'm glad Mom is finally going to be happy. Just think Emily, your Dad won't be so lonely any more," Josh said.
"So I wasn't making my Dad happy! I knew he never liked me!" Emily yelled and headed back up the stairs, almost forgetting to jump over the trick step.
" I never said that. Emily you really have an attitude problem!" Josh yelled up the stairs. Emily ignored him and ran back up to the common room passing Mallory and Lauren in front of the Portrait hole.
"Hi Emily…ok I guess not," Lauren said as Emily ran through the Portrait hole and up to her room. She ran into John on the stairway.
"Whoa Emily slow down!" John said, grabbing Emily's shoulders. Emily looked down at the ground and a single tear fell to the floor.
"You guys go ahead, I'll catch up with you later," John yelled to his friends. They nodded and left the common room. "Now what's wrong Emily? You've been so different since the party."
"Nothing, I need to get ready for Potions," Emily said, trying to get free from John's grasp.
"Ok, fine Emily, but if you ever need to talk, I'm willing to listen," John said, and walked down the stairs. Emily sunk down against the wall wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Emily, who was that?" Rosie asked, sitting down next to Emily.
"Yeah, he was gorgeous!" Kelly said, joining them.
"That's John. He's Parker's cousin," Emily replied.
"How many cousin's does Parker have?" Kelly asked.
"Lots. His grandparents had seven kids and they are all married," Emily explained.
"Oh, that would explain why we're always passing red-haired people in the hall," Rosie said. Emily nodded.
"Let's get ready for potions," Kelly suggested. They stood up and grabbed their bags and headed down to the dungeons, barely making it in time for class. They chose three seats in a row in front. It turned out to be Gryffindor's on the left and Slytherin's on the right. The Slytherin's scowled at them and one girl even through a fish spleen in their direction. When Kelly went to throw it back, Snape walked in and glared menacingly at Kelly. Kelly dropped the fish spleen on the table and shrunk down into her chair. Snape went over all the rules and began to take roll. When he got to Emily's name he looked up and scowled again.
"Ah, if it isn't Miss Potter. I don't want you to think you will be getting any special privileges just because your father is famous," Snape replied. Emily looked at him like he was crazy. "And don't give me that look or you will receive a detention!" Emily nodded.
"He's crazy," Rosie whispered. Emily and Kelly nodded. They continued with their lesson, learning about different types of potions and how they will be making them during this year. Towards the end of the class Grant slipped Emily a book.
"You left this at the table this morning," Grant whispered.
"Thanks," Emily said, taking the book and starting to put it in her bag.
"No talking! And I'll take this!" Snape said, whisking the book out of her hand.
"That's mine!" Emily exclaimed.
"You'll get it back, when you can be quiet for the hole hour and a half you are in here," Snape replied, with an evil grin on his face. Emily glared at him and stormed out of the room when the bell rang.
"That's all he did! He must have gone soft!" Zach exclaimed when Parker told them at lunch about their day during Potions.
"You mean he can be worse?" Parker asked in disbelief.
"Oh yeah, loads worse," Zach replied. "Now if you'll excuse me I have to go find someone."
"Who?" Andrew asked with interest.
"No one," Zach said and hurried off.
"Where'd Zach go?" Angie asked joining them at the table.
"No clue," Parker replied.
"Oh he's probably off to meet her," Angie said, helping herself to some stew.
"Who is she?" Emily asked.
"Oh Zach will tell you eventually," Angie said. "Now I better go."
"Those two get weirder and weirder," Parker said.
"You don't think they are going out, do you?" Andrew asked.
"No way! That'd be gross. No I think they have boy friends and girlfriends," Parker said.
"Yeah, knowing them they'll probably sneak out at night to see them or something," Emily said. She had decided to stop being mad at Parker.
"Yeah," Parker replied. They continued with small talk during the rest of lunch and headed to the rest of their classes for that day. That night in the common room, the six of them (They were unable to get Grant away) sat in front of the fire, playing exploding snap. Emily's hand blew up and so she sat back on the couch watching her friends play. She caught Josh staring at her across the room. Emily sighed and got up to talk with him. Josh was sitting with a bunch of his friends, working on homework.
"I'm sorry about earlier, Josh," Emily said, ignoring the curious stares from his friends.
"Sure you are, the next think I say, you'll blow back up at me, right?" Josh asked, not looking up from his homework.
"I was just having a bad morning, and I'm not sure I like the idea of getting brothers," Emily said quietly.
"Well there's nothing I can do about that," Josh said and grabbed his homework and walked away. Emily quickly left, because she was receiving glares from his friends.
"Where'd you go?" Rosie asked, when Emily sat back down next to her.
"I was trying to make amends with someone," Emily replied.
"Oh with who?" Kelly asked.
"My step-brother to be," Emily said.
"Oh is it that cute brown haired boy in second year?" Kelly asked.
"Is that all you think about?" Rosie asked. Kelly nodded and began to laugh.
"Have you thought of a name for my kitten yet?" Emily asked.
"We're working on it. We have some ideas, but can't decide which name is better," Rosie replied.
"Well hurry up! I think she's starting to think her name is kitten," Emily said.
"We're trying," Kelly said. Emily smiled.
"So, Emily, you still mad at your Dad?" Andrew asked.
"What do you think?" Emily asked, and left the room.
"She really needs to work on her temper," Grant said, watching Emily head up the stairs to her dormitory.
A/N: This was a little longer. I hope you enjoy! I still can't think of a name for the cat. Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm getting really good ones, but I still can't decided! AH! I don't know what to do. In the next chapter I'll pick my favorite top four or five and you guys can vote on the one you like the best and then I'll choose that one. Keep the reviews coming!