Just in case you've been wondering, yes I have been dead... a truck ran over me and I died. But now I'm back, hopefully for a while hehe ^^;;
Before we begin... thank you Americanbrowneyes for reminding me that I had to correct the last chapter... and to PandaExpressG for showing me where to look so that I could change it... ^_^
DISCLAIMER: I own HP... yes I do... ^_^ *wakes up* huh? What's going on?
Hidden Life
By: hikari
Chapter 4 – First Day
Draco sat down next to her as he noticed another person sitting on the other side. Draco stared at the boy, who didn't look up. 'What? Scared?'
"Oh yeah, this is Neville Longbottom." She indicated toward the plump boy. Draco grinned at his name. "Neville, this is... er, what's your name? I don't think you've told me yet." Hermione blushed, embarrassed. Draco shook his head. "Um, that's alright. I'm Draco." He put out his hand again, and Neville was about to take it when a toad jumped out. "T-Trevor!!" Neville rushed out of their car.
"Is THAT his pet?" Draco couldn't keep the disgust out of his voice. He loathed toads. Toads with their nasty bumps all over their puke-colored rough skin...
"Well, maybe some people can't afford owls or cats, DRACO." Hermione's voice broke through his thoughts. He looked at her, startled. She looked as if he had insulted HER and not Neville. He blinked, confused. "Uh... okay..." She stood up and opened their car door. "Hey where are you going?"
Hermione looked back. "To look for Neville's toad."
"Oh..."
Draco looked out the window. The green pasture was really just a green blur and the sky patches of blue and white. He pursed his lips. He stood up deliberately and walked out. In the hallway he heard a nervous voice on one side and a loud rambunctious yelling on the other. He paused for a bit then looked at the side with the nervous voice, meaning to go that way, but thought better of it when he saw the two ogres on that side. He wasn't looking in front of him and bumped into someone.
"Watch where you're going!"
"Excuse me?"
'Oops...' Draco felt something... different inside of him when he saw the look that Hermione was giving him. A look of... animosity... the kind of look that... he gives... It made him feel a little different being on this side.
"What did you say to me Draco Malfoy?" Hermione demanded. Her eyes became more bearable to look at but it still held something.
"N-nothing." Draco looked away from those brown eyes.
"You shouldn't just yell at someone just because you bumped them a little. Anyway, I don't think you got hurt at all." Hermione's voice started scaling up. It became an octave higher very quickly. "Do you know what? You made me waste time yelling when I could be looking for Neville's toad!" Hermione spun on her heel and walked the other way.
"Um... okay..." Draco didn't know what to say. He walked back slowly toward the car when he heard laughing. It sounded vaguely familiar. He opened the door. "Harry..."
"Hi Draco! Wanna sit?" Harry motioned to a space next to him.
"No that's okay..." Draco said slowly as he looked at the person sitting across from Harry who was apparently a Weasley. "We're almost there anyway." Draco left quickly and closed the door just as quickly.
Inside, Harry looked at the closed door. "What happened to him?" Ron looked at Harry. "You KNOW a MALFOY??" Harry blinked. "Er, I guess. Why, is that bad?" Ron leaned in. He whispered, "Malfoys..." He paused. "What? They're what?" Harry asked impatiently. "They're... EVIL." Ron leaned back. Harry stared. "What is that supposed to mean?" Ron looked outside. "Doesn't matter, just forget it." "But... oh fine." Harry let it go and joined Ron at staring at the green, the darkening blue and the disappearing of white fluff.
Suddenly a mass of brown curls, or tangles at the moment, rushed in, dragging along a little plump boy. Ron and Harry stared. "Hey have you seen a toad around here?" the brown tangles yelled, hurting their ears. Ron covered his. "What did you say?" he yelled. It yelled back, "Neville lost his toad!" Then a hand appeared and pushed back the tangles to reveal a girl. Harry, personally, was a bit surprised that something could survive under that mass but he didn't say anything.
"NO WE HAVEN'T!" Ron yelled. "GO AWAY, YOU'RE HURTING MY EARS!"
"I'M HURTING YOUR EARS!! YOU'RE HURTING MY EARS!!! Hmph!" Hermione went, still dragging Neville. Harry rubbed his ears. "Frankly, you BOTH hurt MY ears."
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Draco sat down with emphasis. He crossed his arms and stared out the window. A short while later, Hermione came back in. Neville was right behind her holding something that looked suspiciously like a toad. Draco looked at it and narrowed his eyes. Neville was about to sit next to Draco when he saw what Draco was looking at. He sat down on the other side, his hands shaking a bit. Hermione didn't sit down but announced, "We're almost there! Whee!" She spun then declared that she was going to change and that they had to leave. Grumbling, Draco and Neville went out.
The door opened soon and Hermione twirled out and ran to every door yelling that they were almost at Hogwarts. Draco stared at her. "Strange." He shook his head but followed Neville into their car to change.
Everyone felt the train slowing down and even Draco started to feel the excitement that Hermione felt a long time ago. Of course, he didn't let it show. He looked down disdainfully at everyone who started chattering and yelling to everyone else. He thought about what his dad said. "Stupid dad..." he muttered. "Doesn't know anything. Just makes me work and he just sits his lazy fat ass on the sofa..."
"We're at Hogwarts." People started passing the news. Hermione ran into the car and pulled Draco's arm shrieking, "Come on come on, we can't be late!" His mind was rudely awakened from his wonderful dream of what he was going to do to his dad. "Hey what the hell do you think you're doing???" he demanded. Hermione spun around and Draco was forced to look at those eyes again. "I just don't want us to be late." This was the part Draco knew he would probably regret but he that didn't stop his mouth. "We're not going to be late, Hermione. You don't have to be Little Miss Perfect all the time. Look-"
"First years! Come on, come on, we'll be late if you don't hurry up!"
Hermione flashed a look and ran to the boats. Harry tapped Draco's shoulder. "Want to-"
"NO."
"..."
Ron whispered in Harry's ear and Harry nodded in agreement. They went in a boat. Draco looked around. There were no more boats left. Then he turned around and faced Hagrid. "Come on, you don't want to be late for your first day, do you?" Draco shook his head. "Good boy." Hagrid picked Draco up and dropped him into a boat. Then he sat down and rowed with everyone else.
An almost short lady with gray hair and piercing black eyes met them at the door. "Good evening. You will all come with me to take the test." That made everyone panic. Draco could hear Hermione a little ahead of him muttering to herself. "Oh no, a test already? What should I do??" Draco pushed the protesting people aside until he reached her. He tapped her shoulder, meaning to tell her that it wasn't really a test. His father told him that it was just a battered old hat that told you which House you belonged to because, "If I tell you, then you won't look like the big sissy you are." He remembered his father's exact words. He cursed under his breath. Hermione looked over her shoulder and when she saw who it was she narrowed her eyes. She put her hands on her hips. "What do YOU want?" Draco raised an eyebrow. Then he turned away. "Just thought you would want to know something." He started walking back. Hermione yelled, "I don't need help from you!" She lifted her chin.
This time, he didn't even apologize to the people that he pushed aside. "Move it. Move you horse. I have to go back, dammit. Cow." People started muttering to each other about him but he didn't care. Then he was stopped by someone. "What do you want, move it, I gotta get through."
"You can stay here." "HARRY! But he's *whisper whisper*" "Shut up, Ron, he might hear you."
"Fine." Draco turned around. The lady stepped up to a stool with a hat on it. The hat started singing. Draco didn't really pay attention to it. He yawned very audibly and people hushed him angrily. More whispering.
Finally, the lady started calling off names. More yawning. More hushing. Even more whispering. Then, "Draco Malfoy." He strutted up to the stool. He looked around before sitting. His eye caught a tall, thin man with a big nose. His black eyes glittered and he grinned. Draco turned away, disturbed by the image. He took up the hat and sat on the stool, placing the hat on his head.
'Hmm... I think that you should be in...' the hat thought for a while. Draco thought, 'Be in...?? Be in what?' The hat chuckled. 'I'm thinking about it.' Then suddenly, "HUFFLEPUFF!!"
Everything was quiet. Draco put the hat back on the stool and looked around. He walked toward the Hufflepuff table. The first years that also got Hufflepuff started boo-ing him. Draco rose an eyebrow and sat down at an empty chair, apart from everyone else. He put his arms on the table and his head on his arms. Later, he faintly heard a man yell, "Let's eat!" and he opened his eyes. Lots of delicious foods greeted him. He packed his plate full of food and gobbled them down greedily.
After dinner, an older student led them to the Hufflepuff Room. "Try not to forget the password okay? It's 'Lucky Charm.'" The portrait swung open. Draco was so stuffed that he felt sleepy so he didn't really pay attention to what the student was saying. The only real words he heard was, "First years, you guys go that way." He followed the general crowd of people who didn't seem like they knew their way around. He collapsed on a vacant bed and slept.
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wow... maybe I shouldn't have taken that long "break" from this... psh man I wish it was a break... hey have any of you guys heard Koizumi Kohei sing? Oh my god if you haven't you should... so... amazingly weird... well actually I like his singing... but... ah for you guys who haven't heard him, I'll leave it as a surprise ^_^ (or at least this certain song he sings in...)
oh my god I just realized how random that was... haha sorry... back to what I was originally gonna say... read and review please ^_^