A/n: here's the next ch.!!!! I'm quite satisfied with it, and I hope you like it too!
Disclaimer: I own Alicia, Jennifer, Lori, Megan, Morgan, Joseph, James, Michael, Kevin, George, Karrots, Ivory, Ebony, Chrystal, Aristotle, and Scere. Just about everything else is J.K.'s
Two of the five girls awoke the next morning to a chorus of not-so-lovely voices singing a made-up song. It went along the lines of "GET UP! It's time for school" with no tune. Lori and Alicia were the two who awoke to that sound, Megan, Morgan, and Jennifer supplied it. They stopped their supplies, however, when Lori woke up enough to throw a shoe at them.
After they had showered and dressed and all that other good stuff, they headed down to the common room, where, upon not meeting Joseph, they headed to the Great Hall. It took them several minutes to actually start out for the Great Hall because they had to continue to turn back to get a forgotten item. As soon as they got to the hall they went to the Gryffindor table where they had no trouble at all spotting Joseph.
He was sitting with four other boys who must have been in his dorm.
"Oh look! Joseph's made some cute little friends!" Lori said as she sat down.
"What are their names?" Alicia asked.
"Oh my gosh! They're boys!" Jennifer cried out as she took her seat beside Morgan.
"Nice deduction, Sherlock," Megan commented.
"Oh my gosh! I'm Sherlock Holmes! I get to solve mysteries! Wait! Can I be Sherlockia Holmes instead?" Jennifer asked excitedly.
"Shut-up," Megan replied.
"Guys, these are my friends from the States," Joseph tried introducing the girls, but they took over.
"Alicia."
"Lori."
"Megan."
"Morgan."
"Jennifer, a.k.a. Jennifer, a.k.a Jennifer!"
"Really, all you have to do is pretend that she's slightly normal and you'll be just fine," Joseph explained to them.
"That is not a nice way to talk to your girlfriend," Morgan advised.
"Yeah, I feel so disrespected," Jennifer said.
"You should break-up with him," Lori told her. Jennifer shrugged.
"Ok. Joseph, I'm no longer in relationship with you," Jennifer informed him.
"Ok," he said.
"I'll have Morgan draw up the engagement papers," Jennifer said. In fourth grade they had been married by Callie, who you met in the last chapter.
"Alright," Joseph said.
"I wasn't serious," Lori said. Jennifer rolled her eyes.
"Of course you're not, you're Lori," she explained.
"Wow, you guys aren't going out anymore," Morgan said. Megan nodded.
"I guess not, as I did just break-up with him," Jennifer said rationally.
"Anyway," Joseph changed the subject, "These guys names are Michael Childress, Kevin Herington, George Bennett, and James James." He pointed to them each in turn.
"Your name is James James?" Alicia asked. James James shook his head.
"No, James is my last name Kyle is my first name, and I don't have a middle name, so we substitute it for James. I like going by James James," he explained.
"James James! That is like the coolest name!" Jennifer said.
"Can we call you Jesse James?" Morgan asked.
"No."
"Can we call you Frank James?" Megan asked.
"No."
"Can we call you Colin Farrell?" Jennifer asked.
"What?"
"Nobody understands," Jennifer exclaimed.
"Ok then…" Lori said slowly.
"It's nice to meet you," Alicia said politely.
"Right, so when do we go to classes?" Megan questioned no one in particular. They didn't have time to answer because just then the times tables were passed around.
"It happened again!" Jennifer said.
"What happened?" Michael asked.
"Megan asked a question, and, get this, it was answered!" Jennifer tried to explain, but it didn't work very well.
"What she meant was," Megan explained for her, "every time one of us asks a question, whatever we're asking seems to happen."
"Ok…" Kevin commented then the boys started talking about Quidditch and the girls about their lessons.
"We've got Charms first," Morgan said peering at the slip of paper.
"And then Transfiguration," Megan said.
"And then Herbology," Jennifer said.
"There are only three subjects?" Lori asked.
"No, the rest are tomorrow," Alicia said.
"We'd better get to Charms," Jennifer said looking at her watch.
"But classes don't start until 8:30," Lori protested.
"Yeah, and it is now 8:15," Jennifer defended.
"Do you really think it will take us fifteen minutes to get to Charms?" Alicia asked.
"It might, and I really don't wan to be late for our first day of classes," Morgan pointed out, so they finished breakfast and headed for Charms.
They got directions from Nearly Headless Nick, after he had shown why he was nearly headless, and tried to follow them. However, they were very vague.
Twice they took a wrong turn, three times they had to stop because Jennifer kept talking to the pictures, once Megan got caught in a trick stair, and, being as short as she was, had her entire leg stuck in the stair. It took all four of them to pull her out, and when they finally did Alicia pointed out that they had five minutes to get there. They went as fast as they could, and made it, just in time, after trying to open a door that was really a wall.
"Finally," Morgan sighed as she sat down. They were the first ones there, being two minutes early. Soon students began to fill in, and when it seemed like all of the class had settled in the professor appeared. Well not technically appeared, he just popped up from under his desk. The lecture that followed his popping up was, to say the least, very boring. However, he soon got to the point and told them that they would be working on a very simple charm today.
"Wingardium Leviosa," is what he called it, and then told them to partner up. Jennifer and Lori ended up being partners. The ones who knew them knew this was not good. It proved to be true.
After he put the feathers on their desks he went back to his and disappeared again. Megan and Morgan were working together and succeeded, on their first try, to get the feather about two centimeters off the ground. Alicia and Joseph, who were working together, didn't get it to move at all. Lori and Jennifer, well they weren't really trying to get it to float considering they were having a yelling match.
"NO, L ORI! YOU HAVE TO SAY THE SPELL WHILE PUTTING YOUR WAND OUT!" Jennifer screamed at the top of her lungs. They had been arguing about, well neither of them, or anyone else for that matter, knew what they were arguing about, they merely knew that they were.
"CHICKENS WILL NOT FLOAT IF YOU DO THAT!" Lori screamed. No one knew why she said chickens, except for her and Jennifer.
"YES THEY WILL! AND COWS TOO," once again you would have had to have been there from the beginning.
Lori, lowering her voice, calmly dared, "Then prove it."
"I will," Jennifer returned. Pointing her wand at the feather she said the spell and watched it float in the air.
"Ok, so the feather floats, we already knew that would happen, do something else," Lori demanded. Jennifer shrugged, pointed her wand at Lori, and before Lori knew what was happening, she was at the ceiling.
"JENNIFER! I DID NOT MEAN ME!" she cried. Jennifer, looking up, replied,
"Well, it worked didn't it?"
"Wingardium Leviosa!" Lori said waving her wand around at Jennifer. Soon they both sat at the top of the ceiling.
"Wow, look, I can swim in the air," Jennifer said doing breast stroke around the room.
"You are such an idiot," was Lori's comment. Below them a few students clapped as Jennifer completed a summersault.
"That was a lovely demonstration of how powerful this Charm can be, however, you've taken this too far," the professor reprimanded them from his position behind his desk, "I would assign you detention, but, as it is the first day of school, and since that was a wonderful show, I will not." He then brought them back to the ground and soon afterwards the bell rang. They hurried to try and find Transfiguration. Before it had only been the girls, this time the boys were with them as well, which made it even harder because they all swore they knew the way. In the end, however, it was Alicia who got them there, just in time too.
Professor McGonnagall gave them a really long lecture. Much longer than Professor Flitwick's, and somewhere in the middle Lori fell asleep, Jennifer tuned out, Megan and Morgan had a pencil fight, and Alicia made up a song. When she finally finished, and Lori woke up, after a warning from McGonnagall, she passed out the matches they were supposed to turn into needles. None of the other girls thought it safe to 1) give Lori a match to 2) turn into a needle. Alicia and Joseph were again partners, but Megan became Jennifer's partner and Morgan Lori's to avoid further arguments.
The trouble began when Joseph accidentally missed the match and hit Alicia's quill, which turned into a small snake. It completely freaked Alicia out, and she was so angry she turned Joseph's quill into a rabbit. It was very good Transfiguration, which was the only reason both of them didn't get a detention.
After that excitement it was time for lunch. Jennifer had discovered a new word from some girls who were talking in front of them as they made their way to lunch: ravished. So now she was "ravished", and "ravishly" starved, and "ravishly purple". Don't ask about that last one.
They were getting used to the halls so it didn't take them that long to get to the Great Hall. All the Gryffindor first years sat at the end of the table. Of course there were only ten of them, so they didn't occupy that much space.
"So Jennifer, what's it like to be magicked to the top of a classroom ceiling?" Michael asked her.
"Well," she said slowly, "it was fun, and refreshing. Plus it reminded me of Mary Poppins when they all float to the ceiling to have tea because they laughed so much."
"What about you, Lori?" Megan asked.
"I thought it was really cool, until she," pointing at Jennifer, "joined me." Jennifer stuck her tongue out.
"How did you turn Alicia's quill into a snake?" James asked Joseph. He shrugged.
"I really don't know, it was kinda weird," he answered.
"Well I know how I turned Joseph's quill into a rabbit, but I'm not going to tell you," Alicia said.
"Do you think you could turn all the guys into some type of animal?" Morgan asked her. Alicia smiled.
"Maybe," she answered. They continued to chat all through lunch, and when the bell rang made their way back to the Transfiguration room. When they got there they continued to try turning their matches into needles.
Alicia and Joseph had succeeded awhile ago and were currently trying to change their parcels into something or other. Megan and Jennifer had finished as well and were just talking. Morgan and Lori finally completed when they got back. Idle hands are a devil's workshop.
"What do you want to do?" Lori asked Morgan.
"I guess we should change it back." Lori agreed, and so they did. It was a lot easier than changing it to a needle. They found it perfect, but they still had to see if it would light. Morgan struck it against her jeans that were under her robes and was watching the flame when Megan, who had been acting something out while in her chair fell off and hit Morgan. McGonnagall was going down the rows to make sure no one was goofing off. The match flew out of Morgan's hand and landed on the professor's hat. It caught fire.
"Whoops," Morgan said. McGonnagall was trying to get the flame out. When she did she looked about ready to kill.
"Det-" she began, but never finished because Jennifer, who had been looking out the window said,
"Look professor, some kid is falling from five stories up…" she said. Professor McGonnagall hurried to the window, paled, and then ran out of the classroom. As soon as she was gone all the kids turned to look at Jennifer.
"Thanks, Jenn," Morgan said.
"Yeah, we almost got detention on our first day," Megan said.
"Nice lie," Lori complimented.
"Yes, it would have been wouldn't it?" Jennifer said, she was still watching the window, "Except there really is a kid falling out of the window five stories up."
*~!~*
Professor McGonnagall had still not returned by the time the bell rang, so the kids picked up their stuff and went on to Herbology.
When they arrived at green house one, Professor Sprout told them to all come in and find a partner. This time Morgan and Jennifer worked together, Lori and Alicia worked together, and Joseph and Megan worked together. Joseph would have worked with one of the guys every time they were suppose to get a partner, but they all seemed to know each other fairly well, and he didn't want to intrude.
"Herbology is," the professor started, and that's where most of the class tuned out. They could already tell that it was to be another boring lecture. Gryffindors had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, but they seemed to have made boundaries where each house was allowed to wander.
After completing her speech Professor Sprout passed out the plants they were to be working with, and then proceeded to walk up and down the rows.
Everything was going very well, too well. Everyone was talking quietly or not at all. No spills, no outbursts, a perfectly normal class period. The professor was becoming suspicious. From what she heard of some of the students from the other professors she figured something would have happened by now. She began to let down her guard. That was a big mistake.
It's not like Lori looked for trouble, trouble just happen to find her. She was carrying some water back to the work table, tripped, and spilled the water all over Megan. Megan screamed and poured her water down Lori's back. Then Jennifer decided it would be so awesome to have a water fight, so she threw water at Morgan, who ducked making it hit Joseph, etc.
And so began the first water war Professor Sprout had seen in quite awhile. She was so shocked she couldn't even assign anyone a detention before the bell rang when they all ran out of the green house, soaking wet. It had been a very fun lesson.
*~!~*
"It was not MY fault," Megan argued with Morgan. It was after dinner and Alicia, Lori, Jennifer, Joseph, Michael, James, Kevin, and George were all watching the two girls going at it in the girls' dorm.
"It was so! If you hadn't have knocked me over then the match would not have left my hand," Morgan stated.
"If you hadn't lit the match, it wouldn't matter if the match went flying or not," Megan pointed out.
"Isn't the important thing here that you didn't get a detention?" Jennifer asked them.
"I suppose, but then what are we suppose to argue about?" Morgan asked.
"What are we going to do tonight?" Alicia asked.
"I want to go to bed," Megan said. The other girls nodded, so the boys left and they all climbed into bed.
"I hope every day is like that," Lori said. Then they all fell asleep.
Well, all of them except Morgan. She kept hearing these voices inside her head. No, she was not mental, she really did hear voices. They were thoughts, and feelings. She wasn't sure what to make of them. Most of them were beginning to stop, but some were still going. After awhile she fell asleep, but as soon as she was asleep, Alicia awoke. She had just had the worst dream. All her friends were mad at each other; even she was mad at someone; only Jennifer was neutral. Then one of them had almost died, she couldn't remember who, but she did remember that horrible scream that had frightened her out of her sleep.
A/n: well hope you enjoyed the ch.!!!!!! So I finally got a plot for this thing, I'm really happy about that, and sorry bout the ending, it's a bit, well, weird…n e way REVIEW!!!!!
