Lumos et Nox
Shadow had been all-too-happy to lend Hannah some of her wardrobe, even some of her favorite pairs of jeans. They were just the right on size on the chubby blonde girl, as neither Shadow nor Hannah were exactly what one would call thin. Well, then again thin wasn't exactly the right word to describe Shadow at the moment. Yet, even a few months ago she wasn't very skinny either. Shadow took a soft brush through her brown/golden tresses, resting her left hand on her swollen belly.
"What are the newbies like?" she asked Jewlz in her soft-spoken voice, very quietly and calmly. Jewlz was lying on Talon's bed, which was next to Shadow's, snitching candy from a bag under his pillow. The black and purple haired girl made a face and started pulling at her hair gently to arrange it into the ponytails at the nape of her neck.
"Well Harry hates me- he's the adorable one who looks like he should be twelve and not fifteen, Herm-whatever-her-name-is is nice, but…" Juliana made a face and looked Shadow in the eye, "I get this feeling she's going to be competition in the grades department. Hannah- she's the one you're lending your clothes to for now, she's a little angel. I rather do think that she'll be a fun one to corrupt," Juliana said mischievously, causing Shadow to giggle softly. "And Draco…" she said softly, pausing as she tried to figure out how to best describe him. "He… well as far as I can tell he's sort of like a mix between Hot-Mike and Lex I guess," she said with a shrug. "Ah! Talon has so been holding out on me!" she shrieked, holding up a clear bag full of Life Savers. Shadow snorted, lifting up a bagel with maple syrup and Reese's Pieces up off of her vanity and took a bite with relish as she set down her hair brush.
"Eww Shadow! That's it! I'm never, ever, going to watch you eat again! Pregnant women, sheesh," Juliana said, slightly nauseous and making a face. She grimaced, throwing a white Life Saver at Shadow, causing her to stick her tongue out at Jewlz. Jewlz giggled, and looked up at the clock and scowled.
"Damn. I gotta book," she sat up with a groan. "We wouldn't want out newbies getting lost on the way to the cafeteria, now would we?" she said sarcastically, cracking a smile and started to head out.
"Can you let Talon know I'm going to be late for dinner? I don't want him to worry," Shadow asked, taking another large bite from the bagel.
"Sure," Juliana nodded, then looked serious a moment. "Why?"
"I need to finish up my Herbology report," she said with a disgusted look on her face. Jewlz cracked a smile and nodded as she turned and left.
As she walked up the staircases and along the B-Dorm Corridor, she bumped into a very pale and very blonde friend of hers. Samantha Moore, known to her friends as Buffy, was a pretty little blonde thing that screamed 'sunshine', except when she was kicking your ass and shoving your face into the concrete. She never let anyone shove her around; not even when she was really sick.
"Hey Buffy," Jewlz said dully with a wave, now realizing just how depressing it was for essentially all of her friends to have that special someone who was a best friend, but you were close enough to actually have a chance at that moment of bliss where the rules of friendship just don't apply and you can get lost into their eyes and…. Buffy frowned and asked her what was the matter. "Oh nothing. Just remembering how pathetic I am and how easy it is to bring out that whole self-pitying thing. Really. I'm on my way to rounding up the newbies for dinner. Wanna' come with?" she asked hopefully.
"Oh… I'd love to babe, but I was just on my way down to the Nurse," Buffy smiled apologetically as Jewlz nodded and waved. The two started to continue in their separate ways, but Buffy paused and turned to face her friend.
"Hey Jewlz? Non illigitimus carborundum, babe," were Buffy's parting words as she tackled the staircase, running down. Juliana shook her head, giggling, and continued down the hallway, standing in front of 88B. Without bothering to knock, Jewlz swung the door open and spread her arms wide in a big show. [Don't let the bastards grind you down.]
"Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!" she said grandly with a sh**-eating grin stuck on her face. [Stand aside little people! I am here on official business!]
"Oh real cute," Lex said from his bed, not looking up from the History essay he was writing. "Sed re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert," he said with a smirk, causing Jewlz to pick up a dirty sock off of the floor and chuck it at him. [But frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.]
Queenie growled under his breath, shooting a basket into his trash can with a crumbled ball of parchment paper.
"Will you two nerds lay off the Latin?" he said, frustrated and a bit pissed off. Lex, glad to have touched a nerve, sniggered at Queenie's misfortune of not understanding a damn word they said.
"Vah! Denuone latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur," Jewlz said, pretending to look distraught. "It certainly isn't my fault you didn't sign up for Latin classes. How do you think you're going to manage to function properly in American Wizarding Society? Get a job in Muggle Relations? No, wait- even there you need Latin. Maybe play basketball on a muggle team?" Juliana sniggered. [Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just slips out.]
"Watch it Black- I have paper balls and I know how to use them," Queenie threatened with a sinister look, holding up said object and aiming at the girl.
"Your balls are made from paper? How embarrassing," Lex remarked dryly, flipping his paper over casually.
"Eff off Duff!" Queenie scowled bitterly, not finding him amusing in the least. Juliana blinked blankly, and shook her head to clear it.
"Well I'm here for the newbie, not for a lengthy discussion on Queenie Charles' genitals." Hermione had been listening the entire time in morbid fascination, but laughed softly at the remark, shutting her book with a resounding 'thud'. Hermione, personally, felt these kids were just a tad more than odd.
"I do have a name, you realize," Hermione said good-naturedly. Lex cracked a smile, a rare sight indeed, and sat up.
"Mya has a name?!" he shouted in mock-astonishment. Jewlz caught on momentarily after, accompanied by a 100-watt smile.
"I had no idea that Mya had a name! What is it?" she asked incredulously.
"… I'm not sure Jewlz. What do you think your name is, Mya?" Queenie added, eliciting a straight out giggle from Hermione.
"Yayz! Newbie's been accepted! I dub thee, Mya, no longer a Brit-y newbie!" Jewlz shouted. Mya shook her head with a grin. She was clearly quite overjoyed to be accepted with them. Jewlz sighed.
"We better get on down to the caf'. But first we find your friends! Newbies, ahoy!" Jewlz exclaimed. "… Queenie? Aren't you supposed to be at basketball practice?" Jewlz asked, confused, pausing a moment. He shifted uncomfortably and nodded.
"Technically? Yeah, I am. But I was just hanging out with Buffy and-" but the boy was silenced by a hand in front of his mouth, palm facing him.
"Say no more," she said. "She said she's on her way to the Nurse's. Will we be seeing you at dinner or are you going to stay locked up with her in Sanitaryville?"
"I'll probably swing by," Queenie said with a nod and a quirky half-smile.
"'Kay, ciao." Jewlz said, tugging on Mya's arm. "We are amscray."
"Huh?" was all that Mya could get out.
"Never mind it, hun," Jewlz muttered, dragging her down the hall.