Draco sighed as he pulled on his school robes and left his dormitory with
Terence Higgs. He hadn't slept much last night, and he was exceptionally
tired.
"Woah," said Terence, as they got to the stairs. Draco realised they'd nearly been knocked over by Blaise Zabini, and that new girl, what was her name again? That's right, Jenna Potter.
Blaise skidded to a stop when she and Jenna reached the first fireplace, and Draco groaned quietly. That meant he'd have to walk the entire way to breakfast with Blaise drooling all over him.
"Hey," said Draco, Terence smiling widely behind him.
"Hi!" said Blaise, whose eyelashes began to flutter like she had something in her eye.
The redheaded new girl, Jenna, was beginning to look impatient. "Can we go now?" she said, Draco could hear the slight annoyance in her voice.
Draco gave her a smirk, feeling exactly the same annoyance with Blaise. Walking over to the opening in the far wall, he went through, closely trailed by Blaise, Terence and Jenna following behind together.
"You look great, today, Draco," said Blaise, blinking her big purple eyes at him. She really was very pretty, Draco just couldn't stand her silly flirting.
"You look nice, too."
"Wow, I think we've got the first class together today," she said, walking just that little bit closer to him.
"Great," he said, and glanced behind him to see where Terence had got to. He spotted him close behind, talking animatedly to Jenna, who had a huge smile on her face.
"Oh no, I've got Ancient Runes first lesson," said Blaise sorrowfully, "and YOU have Divination, oh dear."
"Mmmm hmm."
"Jenna has Divination with you though," Blaise said, pointing in Jenna's direction. She was still smiling happily, she looked like she was enjoying herself immensely, and Terence looked even more so. Draco turned back around in time to hear Blaise start on the topic of Jenna.
"She's new. She's REALLY nice, and gosh, she's pretty, and she's in our dorm, and she's got good taste in clothes and good makeup.."
Draco tuned out Blaise's ranting as he focused on [url=http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/999683]Jenna[/url] for the first time, he watched her as she laughed at something Terence had said, she looked quite pretty when she laughed.
Shaking his head, Draco walked into the Great Hall with Blaise close behind, following him like a lost puppy dog that had found her master at last.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jenna nearly jumped in surprise as a silver ladder descended from the roof of the small corridor that her and some other Slytherins were standing in. Terence nodded at the ladder as the other students began to climb up the ladder.
Eventually, there was only Jenna and Terence left standing at the bottom of the ladder, Jenna looking at it apprehensively.
"Go on, go up," said Terence, raising his eyebrows suspiciously. Jenna crossed her arms in front of her chest stubbornly.
"You'll look up my skirt."
"I would never!" Jenna stood completely still at the bottom of the ladder, eyes daring him to try and make her move. Terence sighed and crawled up first, Jenna following behind.
Terence stopped halfway up and looked down at Jenna. "How do I know you're not checking out my ass?"
"I am," said Jenna, giving him a wickedly irresistible grin and the thumbs- up signal. Terence let out and uncontrollable laugh and nearly fell off the ladder, and would have if Jenna had not started going up the ladder also.
Entering the room, Jenna could smell a faint perfume coming from over where a small fire was lit and burning away merrily. Terence led her over to one of the back tables, there were big armchairs and the like sitting around the circular tables.
Jenna collapsed on a red squishy loveseat and began to unpack her Divination books. A figure emerged from the shadows, and Jenna jumped. The woman who appeared had large glasses on, and was draped in all kinds of shimmery wraps.
"There is a new student among us," she said, before she looked up at the class to lay her eyes directly on Jenna. Terence snorted. "Wonder how she knew THAT?" he said quietly to Jenna, who smiled.
The teacher wandered over towards where Jenna, Terence, and another student Jenna didn't know were sitting. "Hello, my dear, my name is Professor Trelawney," she said dreamily to Jenna, looking at her through her large glasses. "May I have a look at the pendant around your neck?"
Jenna started in surprise, how could anyone have spotted the silver chain hidden around her neck? She took the pendant out from under her jumper, undid the clasp, and handed it to the professor. She took it, and rolled the teardrop-shaped pendant between her fingers, looking into its clear, glittery depths.
"That is a very special pendant, you have there," said Professor Trelawney, her eyes larger than usual through the glasses. "Tell me, how did you manage to get your hands on one of those?
"I've had it since I could remember," said Jenna, a confused look settling in on her face.
"Do you know what it is, my dear?"
"No," said Jenna, her big, acid green eyes showing her puzzlement.
"It's a seeing stone, my dear," said the professor, swaying side to side slightly. "When you concentrate hard on a person, linking them to your mind, you can see their current actions through the stone. Are you able to use it?"
"I wouldn't know."
"Yes, yes, my dear. I shall pick you a student in this class, you concentrate on them, and maybe you will be able to see them. Try it with." Professor Trelawney looked around at the expectant class. "Draco Malfoy, yes, he'll do. Concentrate, now, dear."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jenna looked up at Draco for a few seconds; he could feel her sharp green gaze penetrating his mind, somehow, it felt strange. As she looked back down at the stone, Draco felt a strange sensation coursing through his body. He noticed the stunned look on her face, figuring it must be working.
He looked down at the table and smirked. Looking back up, he saw a triumphant smile on her face as she consulted the professor quietly. Professor Trelawney straightened up and drifted back to the front of the classroom.
"Class, today we will be concentrating on mind contact. I will put you into groups of two or three, depending on the numbers of the class. Once in the groups, I will explain to you what you need to do."
Draco yawned and stretched his arms back, listening to the people at his table talk. Professor Trelawney floated over and began to split up his table.
"Draco, maybe you should go over there where the new girl and Terence are sitting, since you bonded so well in the last exercise."
Draco picked up his bag and his books and walked over to the table at the back where Jenna and Terence were having a very giggly game of Mercy.
"Ow!" said Terence, pretending his arm was broken, and falling off the loveseat he and Jenna were sitting on. "This girl is stronger than she looks," he said, looking over at Jenna who was shaking her hands and had a pained look on her face.
"Young love," said Draco to Terence. "How sweet." Terence hit Draco playfully on the shoulder and cleared his throat.
"Ahem."
"What?"
"I have an announcement to make," said Terence, trying to look important with his hair falling in his eyes. "We're getting married."
"To him or to me?" said Jenna skeptically.
"Him, of course. I'd be completely crazy to even DATE you, let alone MARRY you."
"Who said I'd go out with you anyway?"
"I did."
Draco shook his head. "You two seem to have made friends pretty fast," he remarked.
"Mmmm. Want a statistical introduction?" said Terence, raising his eyebrows at Draco.
"Sure," he said, leaning back into his chair and making himself comfortable.
"Right," said Terence, putting on a game-show-host voice. "Ahem. Miss Jenna Potter, 17 years old, dark red curly hair, bright green eyes, completely crazy, has a strange pendant which enable her to check out anyone at any given time, likes a good, slow, comfortable screw."
"WHAT?!"
"It's a drink, you silly bitch. Draco Malfoy, 17years old, has blonde wavy hair, gels it back so tight it's barely on his head, has weird silver eyes, is less crazy, does not have strange pendant, but has a large.ego. would like a slow comfortable screw with Jenna."
"This is going a strange way," said Jenna, who had an apprehensive look on her face.
"I told you, it's a drink."
"I wouldn't mind at all," said Draco, winking at Terence, who got a mischievous smile on his face.
"You are a nasty piece of work," said Jenna, shaking her head at both of them as the professor came over to them to explain their task.
"Okay. You will need to go two at a time. Jenna and Terence, you may go first. What you need to do it try and read their mind, just simple, like what colour are they thinking of and such. Just concentrate. After you master that, we'll build onto their memories, okay, dears?"
Jenna turned to Terence and stared into his bright blue eyes. "Here we go, I'll try and read your mind."
"What colour satin sheets am I thinking of?" Jenna's eyes suddenly sparked up, and after a few moments she smiled.
"Black, with your name on them," she said without hesitation. Terence's eyes bugged out.
"W. W. What? How'd you know?" Jenna tapped the side of her nose.
"I've got the power."
Terence nodded and tried to read Jenna's mind. "What colour am I thinking of?" she asked, and his face screwed up with concentration.
"Violet," he said uncertainly. She grinned and nodded. Terence jumped out of his seat and started to dance.
"Your turn Draco, I'm sick of all this concentrating, it's giving me a headache."
Draco turned to face Jenna. "Read my mind then," he invited, giving her a devilish smirk. "What situation am I thinking of?"
She smiled and narrowed her green eyes slightly as she looked into his silver ones. "You're out drinking at the Bottle and Sword, with seven of your friends, me, Lexa, and Pansy," she said unblinkingly. He started at the perfect recollection of what he was thinking.
"Right," he said, sighing. "You're next." He looked into her eyes and concentrated hard.
"What number am I thinking of?"
"657," he said, slightly uncertain, until she nodded and he gave her his trademark twisted smile.
Jenna couldn't help but smiling as Professor Trelawney clapped her hands to signal the end of the lesson.
"Your homework is to read the chapter on mind reading and mind bending, and write a me a foot-long description on the art of mind bending," she said, eyeing each student sitting around the room. "You are dismissed to the next class."
Draco's silver eyes followed Terence and Jenna and they raced to get down the ladder first. He shook his head as he watched them wrestle each other to get down. Jenna won, and slid down the ladder using the sleeves of her jumper to cover her hands so they didn't get hurt.
"Nifty trick," said Draco to Jenna as he finally got down the ladder and walked over to where Terence was waiting with Jenna forcibly held by the collar.
"Thanks," she said, flashing him a cute grin. "What subject have you got next?" she asked them both.
"Us. We both have Muggle Studies. What about you?" said Draco. Jenna laughed happily.
"I have a free," she said, smiling in delight at the looks on their faces.
"You're not serious?" asked Terence, mouth hanging open.
"Shut your mouth before I feel the urge to shove something into it. Yes, true, and how the hell do I get to the library?"
"The library?"
"I want to do my homework."
"No one does homework in a free. Well, except the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws. Usually people use it for a good make-out session."
"There isn't anyone to make out WITH," Jenna said, one hand on her hip, the other swinging by her side.
"Ummm. go find the girls you share your dormitory with."
"You're not serious? They'll give me a makeover, or take me somewhere girly!"
"You ARE a girl."
"That doesn't mean I have to behave like one."
"Okay, okay, I give in," said Terence, putting both hands up in a gesture of surrender. "The library is straight down this hall, turn to the left twice, down two flights of stairs, and to the right. Got that?"
"Right," said Jenna, slinging her bag over her bag and hurrying away down the corridor. Terence grabbed Draco by the arm and yanked him the opposite way.
"No one touches me and gets away with it," Draco said, coming to a stop and raising his eyebrows at Terence.
"You'd let Blaise touch you like that," Terence teased, knowing full well Draco couldn't stand the sight of her. Draco shuddered playfully and pushed him down the corridor.
They got into the classroom and took their usual seats at the back. The teacher, Professor Migglesworth, dropped all her books on the desk in front of her. "Today, class, we'll be looking at the way Muggles dress and act. Take out your books and open them to page 45, please."
Draco found the page and leaned back into his chair, while Terence didn't bother to get the books out of his bag, and just put his feet up on the desk. "Why don't you like Blaise? She's pretty hot," said Terence, giving Draco a questioning look.
"So what? If she didn't slime all over me, it would be much easier to stand the sight of her."
"I'd love a girl to run around me like that," said Terence, a puzzled look on his face.
"It's disgusting."
"You like a challenge," said Terence knowingly.
"How clever you are, for I'd never have worked it out for myself." said Draco sarcastically.
"How about Pansy, or maybe Lexa?" suggested Terence, ticking them off on his fingers.
"Maybe Lexa. What about that other girl, Jenna? Pansy.No way."
"Lexa, hmmm. You don't like blonde girls. Jenna? Way out of your league. Not your type."
"What exactly IS my type?"
"Not her. Like I said, she's completely out of your league."
"No girl is out of MY league," said Draco egocentrically.
"Jenna is," said Terence smartly. He sighed. "Alright, I'll make you a deal. If you can get two successful dates with Jenna, I'll give you whatever you want."
"Anything?"
"Anything. If you don't get two, or you're a complete blowout, you give me whatever I want."
"Done." Draco and Terence shook on the deal, and turned back to the professor, who was now talking exuberantly about Muggle clothing. Draco smiled inwardly.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jenna skidded to a halt in front of yet another set of large wooden doors. She tried to catch her breath as she pushed the door open. Jenna sighed in relief as she spotted the huge shelves full of books, and realised she had finally found the library.
Throwing her bag on a spare table in the corner of the room, she sat down and pulled out her Divination book. As she began to write, a movement from in between the bookshelves caught her eye. She looked up and spotted the shine of something, maybe someone's glasses in the dark, looking for books.
"Hi," she said, wondering who it was. The dark figure jumped and a couple of books fell to the ground. Jenna got up and helped the figure put them back. Looking up into their face, Jenna noticed it was the same messy haired boy whom she had met when Adrian was showing her around.
"Er. Hi," he said, fidgeting with his jumper sleeves. He seemed surprised, but it could have been because she had startled him, Jenna thought.
"I met you before. What's your name again?"
"Er. Harry."
"That's right," said Jenna, nodding her head and returning to her seat, Harry standing where he was. "Why don't you join me?"
"Why?" inquired Harry suspiciously. Jenna's face took on a confused look.
"Why not?" she answered.
"Well. You ARE a Slytherin, and Slytherins don't socialise with Gryffindors for no reason," he explained hurriedly. He seemed to not want to talk to her long, so she shrugged and went back to doing her homework.
"So what if I'm a Slytherin? What is it with you people and what house you're in? All the Slytherins are just weird about all you Gryffindors, and not really about the other houses! I just don't get what's going on there."
"Er. Actually. I don't know. I think it's just because all of Slytherin are evil bastards." Harry went red at the look on Jenna's face. "Er, what I meant was, MOST of Slytherin are evil, um, I didn't mean that."
Jenna's face took on a huge smile when Harry had finished stammering out an apology. A shout from behind Jenna made her start, and Harry looked over her shoulder to see who it was and groaned. "Oh no, please not Mistene."
"JENNA! IS THAT YOU?" Jenna swung around confusedly, her lips spreading into another smile as she saw a Gryffindor girl with curly black hair dashing towards her, being glared at by the librarian, Madame Pince.
"Does it look like me?" she said as she got up and gave the girl a hug. Harry looked from curly headed girl to the other in complete bafflement. Mistene glared at him.
"What are you looking at, Harry?" she said, placing her hands on her hips.
"Nothing. I mean, how do you know her?" said Harry, indicating Jenna.
"It was part of my Muggle Studies class. I was allowed to write to a Muggle- raised witch or wizard, and I decided to write to her out of class, because she was. and IS. just COOL."
"Ah."
Mistene turned and looked at Jenna, looking at her up and down. "You're even prettier in real life! We're going to have so much fun, why didn't you come up to the common room last night, did you only get here this morning or what? And... Oh my God! Is that green and silver?"
Jenna looked down at her uniform, which had green and silver stripes around the collar, hem, and sleeves of her jumper where Mistene and Harry's were red and gold. The twisting snake Slytherin house crest was emblazoned on her robes. "Yes," she said, looking at Mistene as if she were stupid.
"I thought you were in Gryffindor! Oh woe! Oh hell! Oh spite! Oh my god, is he hot or what." Mistene was distracted as a particularly handsome boy wearing the blue and bronze uniform strolled by. Harry shook his head and sighed.
"Hello Jackson," said Harry walking up to the boy and clapping him on the shoulder.
"Harry! How are you doing? Have your team started training yet?"
"Not yet, I haven't finished the team list yet! When I'm done, I'll get them all together and begin training."
"That's a great idea, I might get the team together tonight, get them training. Do you know who the first match is?"
"Yes, Hufflepuff vs. Slytherin, should be a good match, Hufflepuff have a great team this year, Slytherin are beginning to lack."
"Bloody Quidditch," said Mistene exasperatedly. "Do they EVER talk about anything else?"
Jenna nodded. "Someone really needs to explain the finer points of Quidditch to me. Adrian Pucey said I could be on the Slytherin Quidditch team. I think they needed a Chaser or something."
"Brilliant! Now I'll have a reason to go to Slytherin matches!" said Mistene excitedly. Jenna shook her head.
"What house is that boy. Jackson. in?"
"Ravenclaw. Why?"
"Just wondering. I just can't figure out what house has what colour, what uniform, all that."
"Oh, you'll work it out. You obviously have a free this period?" asked Mistene. "What have you got next?"
"Er. Herbology, with the Ravenclaws," said Jenna, who was trying to memorise her table.
"Fabulous," said Mistene, flicked her hair over her shoulder and turned to go. "I'd better be off. We have Potions with you before lunch. Bye!"
"Bye," said Jenna, sighing and going back to her homework.
"Woah," said Terence, as they got to the stairs. Draco realised they'd nearly been knocked over by Blaise Zabini, and that new girl, what was her name again? That's right, Jenna Potter.
Blaise skidded to a stop when she and Jenna reached the first fireplace, and Draco groaned quietly. That meant he'd have to walk the entire way to breakfast with Blaise drooling all over him.
"Hey," said Draco, Terence smiling widely behind him.
"Hi!" said Blaise, whose eyelashes began to flutter like she had something in her eye.
The redheaded new girl, Jenna, was beginning to look impatient. "Can we go now?" she said, Draco could hear the slight annoyance in her voice.
Draco gave her a smirk, feeling exactly the same annoyance with Blaise. Walking over to the opening in the far wall, he went through, closely trailed by Blaise, Terence and Jenna following behind together.
"You look great, today, Draco," said Blaise, blinking her big purple eyes at him. She really was very pretty, Draco just couldn't stand her silly flirting.
"You look nice, too."
"Wow, I think we've got the first class together today," she said, walking just that little bit closer to him.
"Great," he said, and glanced behind him to see where Terence had got to. He spotted him close behind, talking animatedly to Jenna, who had a huge smile on her face.
"Oh no, I've got Ancient Runes first lesson," said Blaise sorrowfully, "and YOU have Divination, oh dear."
"Mmmm hmm."
"Jenna has Divination with you though," Blaise said, pointing in Jenna's direction. She was still smiling happily, she looked like she was enjoying herself immensely, and Terence looked even more so. Draco turned back around in time to hear Blaise start on the topic of Jenna.
"She's new. She's REALLY nice, and gosh, she's pretty, and she's in our dorm, and she's got good taste in clothes and good makeup.."
Draco tuned out Blaise's ranting as he focused on [url=http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/999683]Jenna[/url] for the first time, he watched her as she laughed at something Terence had said, she looked quite pretty when she laughed.
Shaking his head, Draco walked into the Great Hall with Blaise close behind, following him like a lost puppy dog that had found her master at last.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jenna nearly jumped in surprise as a silver ladder descended from the roof of the small corridor that her and some other Slytherins were standing in. Terence nodded at the ladder as the other students began to climb up the ladder.
Eventually, there was only Jenna and Terence left standing at the bottom of the ladder, Jenna looking at it apprehensively.
"Go on, go up," said Terence, raising his eyebrows suspiciously. Jenna crossed her arms in front of her chest stubbornly.
"You'll look up my skirt."
"I would never!" Jenna stood completely still at the bottom of the ladder, eyes daring him to try and make her move. Terence sighed and crawled up first, Jenna following behind.
Terence stopped halfway up and looked down at Jenna. "How do I know you're not checking out my ass?"
"I am," said Jenna, giving him a wickedly irresistible grin and the thumbs- up signal. Terence let out and uncontrollable laugh and nearly fell off the ladder, and would have if Jenna had not started going up the ladder also.
Entering the room, Jenna could smell a faint perfume coming from over where a small fire was lit and burning away merrily. Terence led her over to one of the back tables, there were big armchairs and the like sitting around the circular tables.
Jenna collapsed on a red squishy loveseat and began to unpack her Divination books. A figure emerged from the shadows, and Jenna jumped. The woman who appeared had large glasses on, and was draped in all kinds of shimmery wraps.
"There is a new student among us," she said, before she looked up at the class to lay her eyes directly on Jenna. Terence snorted. "Wonder how she knew THAT?" he said quietly to Jenna, who smiled.
The teacher wandered over towards where Jenna, Terence, and another student Jenna didn't know were sitting. "Hello, my dear, my name is Professor Trelawney," she said dreamily to Jenna, looking at her through her large glasses. "May I have a look at the pendant around your neck?"
Jenna started in surprise, how could anyone have spotted the silver chain hidden around her neck? She took the pendant out from under her jumper, undid the clasp, and handed it to the professor. She took it, and rolled the teardrop-shaped pendant between her fingers, looking into its clear, glittery depths.
"That is a very special pendant, you have there," said Professor Trelawney, her eyes larger than usual through the glasses. "Tell me, how did you manage to get your hands on one of those?
"I've had it since I could remember," said Jenna, a confused look settling in on her face.
"Do you know what it is, my dear?"
"No," said Jenna, her big, acid green eyes showing her puzzlement.
"It's a seeing stone, my dear," said the professor, swaying side to side slightly. "When you concentrate hard on a person, linking them to your mind, you can see their current actions through the stone. Are you able to use it?"
"I wouldn't know."
"Yes, yes, my dear. I shall pick you a student in this class, you concentrate on them, and maybe you will be able to see them. Try it with." Professor Trelawney looked around at the expectant class. "Draco Malfoy, yes, he'll do. Concentrate, now, dear."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jenna looked up at Draco for a few seconds; he could feel her sharp green gaze penetrating his mind, somehow, it felt strange. As she looked back down at the stone, Draco felt a strange sensation coursing through his body. He noticed the stunned look on her face, figuring it must be working.
He looked down at the table and smirked. Looking back up, he saw a triumphant smile on her face as she consulted the professor quietly. Professor Trelawney straightened up and drifted back to the front of the classroom.
"Class, today we will be concentrating on mind contact. I will put you into groups of two or three, depending on the numbers of the class. Once in the groups, I will explain to you what you need to do."
Draco yawned and stretched his arms back, listening to the people at his table talk. Professor Trelawney floated over and began to split up his table.
"Draco, maybe you should go over there where the new girl and Terence are sitting, since you bonded so well in the last exercise."
Draco picked up his bag and his books and walked over to the table at the back where Jenna and Terence were having a very giggly game of Mercy.
"Ow!" said Terence, pretending his arm was broken, and falling off the loveseat he and Jenna were sitting on. "This girl is stronger than she looks," he said, looking over at Jenna who was shaking her hands and had a pained look on her face.
"Young love," said Draco to Terence. "How sweet." Terence hit Draco playfully on the shoulder and cleared his throat.
"Ahem."
"What?"
"I have an announcement to make," said Terence, trying to look important with his hair falling in his eyes. "We're getting married."
"To him or to me?" said Jenna skeptically.
"Him, of course. I'd be completely crazy to even DATE you, let alone MARRY you."
"Who said I'd go out with you anyway?"
"I did."
Draco shook his head. "You two seem to have made friends pretty fast," he remarked.
"Mmmm. Want a statistical introduction?" said Terence, raising his eyebrows at Draco.
"Sure," he said, leaning back into his chair and making himself comfortable.
"Right," said Terence, putting on a game-show-host voice. "Ahem. Miss Jenna Potter, 17 years old, dark red curly hair, bright green eyes, completely crazy, has a strange pendant which enable her to check out anyone at any given time, likes a good, slow, comfortable screw."
"WHAT?!"
"It's a drink, you silly bitch. Draco Malfoy, 17years old, has blonde wavy hair, gels it back so tight it's barely on his head, has weird silver eyes, is less crazy, does not have strange pendant, but has a large.ego. would like a slow comfortable screw with Jenna."
"This is going a strange way," said Jenna, who had an apprehensive look on her face.
"I told you, it's a drink."
"I wouldn't mind at all," said Draco, winking at Terence, who got a mischievous smile on his face.
"You are a nasty piece of work," said Jenna, shaking her head at both of them as the professor came over to them to explain their task.
"Okay. You will need to go two at a time. Jenna and Terence, you may go first. What you need to do it try and read their mind, just simple, like what colour are they thinking of and such. Just concentrate. After you master that, we'll build onto their memories, okay, dears?"
Jenna turned to Terence and stared into his bright blue eyes. "Here we go, I'll try and read your mind."
"What colour satin sheets am I thinking of?" Jenna's eyes suddenly sparked up, and after a few moments she smiled.
"Black, with your name on them," she said without hesitation. Terence's eyes bugged out.
"W. W. What? How'd you know?" Jenna tapped the side of her nose.
"I've got the power."
Terence nodded and tried to read Jenna's mind. "What colour am I thinking of?" she asked, and his face screwed up with concentration.
"Violet," he said uncertainly. She grinned and nodded. Terence jumped out of his seat and started to dance.
"Your turn Draco, I'm sick of all this concentrating, it's giving me a headache."
Draco turned to face Jenna. "Read my mind then," he invited, giving her a devilish smirk. "What situation am I thinking of?"
She smiled and narrowed her green eyes slightly as she looked into his silver ones. "You're out drinking at the Bottle and Sword, with seven of your friends, me, Lexa, and Pansy," she said unblinkingly. He started at the perfect recollection of what he was thinking.
"Right," he said, sighing. "You're next." He looked into her eyes and concentrated hard.
"What number am I thinking of?"
"657," he said, slightly uncertain, until she nodded and he gave her his trademark twisted smile.
Jenna couldn't help but smiling as Professor Trelawney clapped her hands to signal the end of the lesson.
"Your homework is to read the chapter on mind reading and mind bending, and write a me a foot-long description on the art of mind bending," she said, eyeing each student sitting around the room. "You are dismissed to the next class."
Draco's silver eyes followed Terence and Jenna and they raced to get down the ladder first. He shook his head as he watched them wrestle each other to get down. Jenna won, and slid down the ladder using the sleeves of her jumper to cover her hands so they didn't get hurt.
"Nifty trick," said Draco to Jenna as he finally got down the ladder and walked over to where Terence was waiting with Jenna forcibly held by the collar.
"Thanks," she said, flashing him a cute grin. "What subject have you got next?" she asked them both.
"Us. We both have Muggle Studies. What about you?" said Draco. Jenna laughed happily.
"I have a free," she said, smiling in delight at the looks on their faces.
"You're not serious?" asked Terence, mouth hanging open.
"Shut your mouth before I feel the urge to shove something into it. Yes, true, and how the hell do I get to the library?"
"The library?"
"I want to do my homework."
"No one does homework in a free. Well, except the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws. Usually people use it for a good make-out session."
"There isn't anyone to make out WITH," Jenna said, one hand on her hip, the other swinging by her side.
"Ummm. go find the girls you share your dormitory with."
"You're not serious? They'll give me a makeover, or take me somewhere girly!"
"You ARE a girl."
"That doesn't mean I have to behave like one."
"Okay, okay, I give in," said Terence, putting both hands up in a gesture of surrender. "The library is straight down this hall, turn to the left twice, down two flights of stairs, and to the right. Got that?"
"Right," said Jenna, slinging her bag over her bag and hurrying away down the corridor. Terence grabbed Draco by the arm and yanked him the opposite way.
"No one touches me and gets away with it," Draco said, coming to a stop and raising his eyebrows at Terence.
"You'd let Blaise touch you like that," Terence teased, knowing full well Draco couldn't stand the sight of her. Draco shuddered playfully and pushed him down the corridor.
They got into the classroom and took their usual seats at the back. The teacher, Professor Migglesworth, dropped all her books on the desk in front of her. "Today, class, we'll be looking at the way Muggles dress and act. Take out your books and open them to page 45, please."
Draco found the page and leaned back into his chair, while Terence didn't bother to get the books out of his bag, and just put his feet up on the desk. "Why don't you like Blaise? She's pretty hot," said Terence, giving Draco a questioning look.
"So what? If she didn't slime all over me, it would be much easier to stand the sight of her."
"I'd love a girl to run around me like that," said Terence, a puzzled look on his face.
"It's disgusting."
"You like a challenge," said Terence knowingly.
"How clever you are, for I'd never have worked it out for myself." said Draco sarcastically.
"How about Pansy, or maybe Lexa?" suggested Terence, ticking them off on his fingers.
"Maybe Lexa. What about that other girl, Jenna? Pansy.No way."
"Lexa, hmmm. You don't like blonde girls. Jenna? Way out of your league. Not your type."
"What exactly IS my type?"
"Not her. Like I said, she's completely out of your league."
"No girl is out of MY league," said Draco egocentrically.
"Jenna is," said Terence smartly. He sighed. "Alright, I'll make you a deal. If you can get two successful dates with Jenna, I'll give you whatever you want."
"Anything?"
"Anything. If you don't get two, or you're a complete blowout, you give me whatever I want."
"Done." Draco and Terence shook on the deal, and turned back to the professor, who was now talking exuberantly about Muggle clothing. Draco smiled inwardly.
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Jenna skidded to a halt in front of yet another set of large wooden doors. She tried to catch her breath as she pushed the door open. Jenna sighed in relief as she spotted the huge shelves full of books, and realised she had finally found the library.
Throwing her bag on a spare table in the corner of the room, she sat down and pulled out her Divination book. As she began to write, a movement from in between the bookshelves caught her eye. She looked up and spotted the shine of something, maybe someone's glasses in the dark, looking for books.
"Hi," she said, wondering who it was. The dark figure jumped and a couple of books fell to the ground. Jenna got up and helped the figure put them back. Looking up into their face, Jenna noticed it was the same messy haired boy whom she had met when Adrian was showing her around.
"Er. Hi," he said, fidgeting with his jumper sleeves. He seemed surprised, but it could have been because she had startled him, Jenna thought.
"I met you before. What's your name again?"
"Er. Harry."
"That's right," said Jenna, nodding her head and returning to her seat, Harry standing where he was. "Why don't you join me?"
"Why?" inquired Harry suspiciously. Jenna's face took on a confused look.
"Why not?" she answered.
"Well. You ARE a Slytherin, and Slytherins don't socialise with Gryffindors for no reason," he explained hurriedly. He seemed to not want to talk to her long, so she shrugged and went back to doing her homework.
"So what if I'm a Slytherin? What is it with you people and what house you're in? All the Slytherins are just weird about all you Gryffindors, and not really about the other houses! I just don't get what's going on there."
"Er. Actually. I don't know. I think it's just because all of Slytherin are evil bastards." Harry went red at the look on Jenna's face. "Er, what I meant was, MOST of Slytherin are evil, um, I didn't mean that."
Jenna's face took on a huge smile when Harry had finished stammering out an apology. A shout from behind Jenna made her start, and Harry looked over her shoulder to see who it was and groaned. "Oh no, please not Mistene."
"JENNA! IS THAT YOU?" Jenna swung around confusedly, her lips spreading into another smile as she saw a Gryffindor girl with curly black hair dashing towards her, being glared at by the librarian, Madame Pince.
"Does it look like me?" she said as she got up and gave the girl a hug. Harry looked from curly headed girl to the other in complete bafflement. Mistene glared at him.
"What are you looking at, Harry?" she said, placing her hands on her hips.
"Nothing. I mean, how do you know her?" said Harry, indicating Jenna.
"It was part of my Muggle Studies class. I was allowed to write to a Muggle- raised witch or wizard, and I decided to write to her out of class, because she was. and IS. just COOL."
"Ah."
Mistene turned and looked at Jenna, looking at her up and down. "You're even prettier in real life! We're going to have so much fun, why didn't you come up to the common room last night, did you only get here this morning or what? And... Oh my God! Is that green and silver?"
Jenna looked down at her uniform, which had green and silver stripes around the collar, hem, and sleeves of her jumper where Mistene and Harry's were red and gold. The twisting snake Slytherin house crest was emblazoned on her robes. "Yes," she said, looking at Mistene as if she were stupid.
"I thought you were in Gryffindor! Oh woe! Oh hell! Oh spite! Oh my god, is he hot or what." Mistene was distracted as a particularly handsome boy wearing the blue and bronze uniform strolled by. Harry shook his head and sighed.
"Hello Jackson," said Harry walking up to the boy and clapping him on the shoulder.
"Harry! How are you doing? Have your team started training yet?"
"Not yet, I haven't finished the team list yet! When I'm done, I'll get them all together and begin training."
"That's a great idea, I might get the team together tonight, get them training. Do you know who the first match is?"
"Yes, Hufflepuff vs. Slytherin, should be a good match, Hufflepuff have a great team this year, Slytherin are beginning to lack."
"Bloody Quidditch," said Mistene exasperatedly. "Do they EVER talk about anything else?"
Jenna nodded. "Someone really needs to explain the finer points of Quidditch to me. Adrian Pucey said I could be on the Slytherin Quidditch team. I think they needed a Chaser or something."
"Brilliant! Now I'll have a reason to go to Slytherin matches!" said Mistene excitedly. Jenna shook her head.
"What house is that boy. Jackson. in?"
"Ravenclaw. Why?"
"Just wondering. I just can't figure out what house has what colour, what uniform, all that."
"Oh, you'll work it out. You obviously have a free this period?" asked Mistene. "What have you got next?"
"Er. Herbology, with the Ravenclaws," said Jenna, who was trying to memorise her table.
"Fabulous," said Mistene, flicked her hair over her shoulder and turned to go. "I'd better be off. We have Potions with you before lunch. Bye!"
"Bye," said Jenna, sighing and going back to her homework.