Lumos et Nox
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LAST CHAPTER:
"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.
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"We pretty much just need to go save Draco from the evil clutches of the Preppy Queen and King, and then drop by my dormy for Hannah," Juliana said distractedly to Mya, pulling her scrunchies from the ponytails and throwing her hair into a sloppy ponytail. "Harry is being dragged around the east Quidditch Pitch by Hot-Mike, so he said he'd drag the newbie over to the caf' too." Mya raised an eyebrow at the mention of the Quidditch Pitch.
"East Quidditch Pitch?" she asked. If Jewlz meant what she thought she meant, then Harry was going to have a ball here. Jewlz nodded, brushing back a loose lock of hair behind her ear.
"Yeah. As in not the North South or West Quidditch Pitch," Jewlz said flippantly, ignoring her confusion. "Now, rescuing Draco from Student Council president and Broom Squad Captain," Juliana said with a disgusted face, rapping on the door of 24B. "Jason Forbes and Michelle Richards are Satan reincarnates," she turned to look at Mya. "And this is a big thing because I don't even believe in the devil," she spoke straight faced and stonily as the door opened. The dyed-redhead made a disgusted face, and placed a hand on her hip, tugging down her baby-blue T-shirt so it wasn't riding up her chest. The shirt was two sizes too small and now revealed most of her stomach instead of all of it.
"What do you want?" she asked with a sneer, her lip curling. Her skin had a soft tanned look to it, and natural-looking red hair, and not a single blemish nor freckle on her face.
"I'm here to rescue Draco from your evil, bitchy clutches, O' Great One," Juliana said in a seemingly innocent tone, being serious and trying not to laugh at the outraged look on Michelle's face. "Why else would I knock on your door? Ask you on a date? Don't think so," Juliana said with a cruel smile.
"God you're such a dyke. Fine, wait a minute," she growled, slamming the door in her face. Mya gasped, covering her mouth with her hand.
"I can't believe she called you that!" she said in surprised and outrage. Jewlz shrugged, making a face.
"I've been called worse. It's no big deal. You need to have a tough skin to survive this pla-" she was cut off as Draco ran out of the room, slamming the door behind him, looking wide eyed.
"Please tell me all you American girls aren't like her!" he pleaded, frantic.
"Hardly," Jewlz drawled, slightly amused, "It would totally be hazardous to the mental health of the world in general. You hungry?" she asked Draco, whose stomach, at that moment, growled noisily.
"Yeah… a bit." Draco's hand was grabbed, dragging him down the hall.
"Good." They went back downstairs, to the C corridor rooms, when Mya gave Jewlz a puzzled look.
"Why are the rooms on the C floor the same size as the ones on the B floor, but with more people?" she asked as Jewlz opened the door to her room, seeing Hannah inside.
"Well," she started, waving a 'hello' to Hannah, and going to her bed and rummaging through a bag that hung from the bedpost, "it really depends on your scholarship. People like Queenie pay for most of it, but he has a part scholarship. Guys like Lex pay for the whole thing. Normally he'd have his own room on the 'A' level, but his Dad's a real bastard and decided he didn't send Lex to a boarding school to escape from people, so he's stuck with a 'B' level room with Queenie. The more you pay, the better your room. I was going to be in a 'B' level room, but I wanted to room with Missie." She looked around the room and grinned at Hannah who was playing with her gold necklace shyly. "Let's go."
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Harry let out a loud laugh and said, "You're joking, right?" he asked incredulously, his emerald eyes twinkling with amusement.
"No way man, I swear it. Chocolate pudding went everywhere," Hot-Mike said straight-faced. Harry grinned and sat down in front of Hot-Mike at a long rectangular table. He had been telling Harry what his friends affectionately called the 'Pudding Incident'. "It's a real shame we're both Seekers though, we won't even be able to be on the same team now. Missie's uncle is always talking about what a great flyer you are, even Jewlz's uncle agrees to that too." Hot-Mike said casually, giving a high-five to Tony as he sat down next to him. Harry looked at Hot-Mike, confused
"Who's their uncles?" he asked, surprised and a bit weirded-out at the same time.
"You don't know? Oh, yeah… Never mind it Harry," Hot-Mike said quickly, ever the worst person to try and change a subject.
"Where are the girls?" Tony asked blankly, his eyes bloodshot as he patted his pant pockets looking for his eye drops.
"Man, are you stoned?" Hot-Mike asked with a snort, pulling the eye drops from Tony's breast pocket, and slapping the bottle into his hand.
"Uhhh… yeah," he said with a dopey grin. Harry looked on, horrified by the fact that he was face to face with a drugged-up friend of Mike's. Tony slammed his hand on the table.
"You got a problem with it, Newbie?" Tony asked Harry with a straight face, eyeing him carefully through his red eyes and then burst into laughter at the scared look on Harry's face. "You are such a wuss," he sniggered carelessly, standing up slowly.
"Hey Tony!" Missie yelled, Talon walking next to her slowly. His black shaggy hair shrouded his eyes and his most of the piercings on his face, but no one could ignore the nipple rings that were attached to each other by a chain underneath his black mesh shirt, which, oddly, had solid midnight blue sleeves.
"Hi…" Tony said through his haze, hugging the mousy haired girl, with a pat on her back. Missie sniggered and smacked his arm.
"I thought I took your pot away after last time!" she said only half upset. Tony made a face, sitting down again with them.
"You did. I found some," he said shortly, evading the inevitable questioning. Talon shook his head and shot a thumb at Harry. "Is this the newbie Missie was talking about?" he asked slowly, his voice clipped but clear.
"What's with all the calling me a… a newbie? It sounds insulting!" Harry said, having had enough.
"Well, uh. It is insulting," Tony said with a snort. "You're the new kid and not a part of our group yet. You gotta prove yourself somehow or something like that. I think." He was really confused now. Harry growled to himself, and then smiled as Jewlz came in with Mya, Hannah and Draco. Well, he only really smiled because Hermione was there, but hey.
"Hey Talon! I haven't seen you all day! Were you skippin' Potions again?" she asked with a smirk.
"Yeah, I didn't feel like going. It's a boring class," he said noncommittally. Jewlz stuck her tongue out at him.
"Tell that to my uncle," she said, pretending to choke herself. "Ooh! How rude of me. Guys, this is Hannah Abbott, Draco Malfoy, and Hermione "Mya" Granger!" she said with a big grin.
"Already?" Talon said dubiously, unsure of Hermione being Mya and not a newbie.
"Let me put it this way, both Queenie and Lex agreed on it. She's Lex's You have a problem with it, talk to him. I guess he got a good impression from her already."
"Lex's?!" Hermione said, somewhat annoyed. Jewlz couldn't help but grin and chuckle.
"He accepted you into the fold and gave you your name. Like Silver was brought in by Buffy. No big deal, really," she said with a smile.
A loud bell rang overhead and food appeared on the tables.
"Food!" Missie said loudly, loading food onto her plate as a few people trickled in slowly.
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"What are we doing tonight after Queenie's game?" Talon asked the group, shoveling more food onto the overly-protesting Shadow's plate. His jet black hair shrouded his soft blue eyes, concealing them effectively, much to the dismay of many of the girls in school. Queenie shrugged, nicking a french-fry from Silver's plate.
"How about 'I never'?" Shadow suggested. Missie mock-glared at the girl, then cracked into a full-blown grin.
"You only want to play that because you know you'll win!" Silver said with a frown, stealing a sip from Queenie's soda.
"And you nearly always lose. Remember that time you and Tony were going at it for like a good half hour until you finally passed out, even though Tony had drank more than you?" Lex said, his eyes aglow.
"How could I forget?" she groaned. "Hey, where's Brandon? I heard he was back from home now," she said through a mouthful of food.
Jewlz shrugged. "Probably in the showers, he had basketball practice. Game tonight, although Queenie didn't go," she said with a frown. Hot-Mike slapped Queenie on the shoulder.
"He doesn't need the practice, he's good enough as he is." He said encouragingly. Missie stopped her fork halfway to her mouth.
"No need to swell Queenie's ego even more, he might try taking on the whole team against himself," she said with a smirk, getting thwapped by her friend.
"Yaww, shut u- Hey Brandon!" he said halfway through his sentence.
"Heya," the brunette said sweetly, hugging Jewlz from behind. "Sorry I'm so late," he said, ruffling his hair, getting Queenie splattered with a few drops of water. "The hot shower just felt so good."
"Scooch over, Queenie?" Jewlz asked with a pouty lip, causing the basketball player to sigh and moved over to accommodate Brandon. "Thank you," she said ever-so-sweetly. "Eat up, hun," she said sternly, handing over a bowl of fried chicken to Brandon, trying to speak up over the loud noise of the crowd in the cafeteria.
"Are you two… dating or something?" Harry asked wonderingly. He never saw any boys act so weird before, unless to their girlfriends. Brandon burst out into laughter, as did Missie and Lex.
"No sweetheart, but I'll date you if you want. You have the cutest eyes," he said in his deep voice with a pearly white smile. Harry's eyes widened in horror as he blushed in embarrassment. "I'm gay."
"Oh, sorry about that. I just sort of thought…." Harry stammered, doing a Ron, his entire face and ears turning bright red. Jewlz grinned.
"Don't sweat yourself about it Harry. People who don't know that about Brandon think that all of the time," she said, lifting her cup of milk to her lips and took a sip. "After the game, wanna have a round of 'I never'?" she asked Brandon.
"Sounds like fun, and a good idea to get to know just how innocent our newbies are," Brandon grinned, giving Harry a large wink, laughing when Harry gasped and blushed again, looking down at his plate. "Relax, I was just teasing. You're not really my type," he said with a shrug, stealing Jewlz's milk and gulping down half of the glass.
"'I never…' it is!" Shadow said with a smile, and Queenie stood up.
"I'm going to go to the Nurse's to check up on Buffy. See you all after the game. Go M.A.!"
"Go M.A.!" most of the table shouted, pumping their fists in the air.
Spooning green beans into her mouth, Silver said to Brandon, "You guys are going to kick some serious ass tonight," she grinned.