Chapter 12: Night Before
"Chanse wake up," Cho shook Chanse, "If you don't get up you'll be late." Chanse pulled the covers over her head and made a grunting noise. "Fine, be late to school." Cho said and walked down to brush her hair.
She started to brush her hair and watched Chanse through the mirror, and Chanse didn't move. Cho set down her brush and walked up to Chanse's bed. "Chanse?" she hit Chanse, and there was no response. "Chanse?!" Cho yelled and shook Chanse even harder. Cho got really scared and pulled all of Chanse's covers.
"AHHHHH! What the hell Cho?" Chanse screamed as she tried to reach for the covers.
Cho sighed, "Wow, sorry. You just weren't moving and I hit you and you didn't wake up. So...I don't know what I thought...Sorry."
Chanse grabbed the covers and pulled them back over her, "Its ok."
"Chanse, you need to get out of bed, or you're going to be late to class."
"What's our first class?"
"Charms."
"That's good." Chanse rolled back over and closed her eyes.
"What?" Cho sat down on Chanse's bed, "What's wrong, girl, you sick?"
Chanse rolled back over, "No, I just have a meeting with Dumbledore, today."
"Oh..."Cho rolled her eyes, "What'd you do?"
"Nothing..."She sat up, "He just needs to talk to me, and I need to talk to him, ok?!" Chanse rolled back over.
"O...k, sorry I asked." Cho said and started to walk away.
Chanse grabbed Cho's wrist, "Wait, Cho. I'm sorry I'm just a little touchy today, because I miss my family. I have this Blaise girl threatening me because I'm hanging out with her ex-boyfriend, and he seems to show interest in me, and I...and I just am having issues with things right now, nothing big, but some small meaningful stuff."
"Wait go back to the whole Oliver thing, you stopped saying something. What was it?" Chanse smiled and rolled over, "NO! Don't roll back over." Cho grabbed Chanse's shoulder, and pulled her back over. "Come back here."
"Cho, come on you're going to be late for my class," Professor Flitwick said. Cho looked over at Chanse, who rolled back over and lay back down.
"O...k, I'll talk to later bout that one, missy." Cho nudged Chanse and walked over and grabbed her books, and followed Professor out of the room.
As soon as Chanse heard the door shut she turned her head to the side and took a deep breath. She sat up in her bed and looked around her room. She sighed and slowly removed her covers ad walked over to Cho's dresser, which Chanse's CD player was lying on. She picked it up and walked back to her bed and sat down in the middle of it and turned on her CD player.
She closed her eyes and thought about the night before. Lying in bed with Oliver holding her and understanding her, or at least trying, honestly caring about her. She squinted her eyes and quickly opened them and looked down at her bed. "Why am I thinking about Oliver?" she thought, "Why am I thinking about Oliver in that way?" She sat on her bed a little longer and tried to figure out the reason why she was thinking about how much Oliver seemed to care about her the night before.
A few minutes later she picked up her CD player and rolled over to the side of her bed, and set it down on her side table. When she did that she saw that she had set it down on the pile of letters that she had received. She slid them out from underneath the CD player and laid back in her bed and began to read them.
Dear Chanse
Hey, how's England? Hawaii's just not the same without a Chanse in it anymore. So is there any cute English guy's you want to hook me up with? Because you know there are really no good guys here in Hawaii, I mean there was Tony, but you know we broke up. I still like him, but I know I can do better, or at least I'm trying to! But you know since I've become a surfer I've decided I would like to try to find surfer, but hey you know Tony was a skater, so I really have a wide range of guys.
Anyways maybe I can come visit you or something, oh wait, once again, Eve, is a broke-ass! Hey when you get time from your busy life, in England, with hot guys, write me.
~EVE~
Dear Eve,
Hey girl, yeah there is a couple of cute, no wait hot guys up here. But there are no surfers, but hey you know it's not that bad, because they make up for it with their looks.
But I don't think you can come visit. But you know I still got love for ya. Keep on surfer I know when I left you, you were kicking twelve year olds asses, so keep it up, and maybe you'll move up to thirteen year olds.
I'm joking, I have all love for you, babe.
I'll write you when I get more time, but hey we both know I've have way too much time on my hands.
~Chanse~
Chanse called Geno over, "Hey Geno, sit here and then deliver these to my parents so that they can deliver it to my friends." Geno quickly flew over and sat on Chanse's pillow and waited for her to finish.
Dear Chanse,
Hey, Chanse. What's up? How's England, man I think England would be pretty fun to go to, but I'd rather go other places. But you know, if you like it then that's cool.
Well, I don't know what to say, I just really miss you, and there's really nothing new going on back here. Well I mean of coarse Amber is still acting like a poser but hey, she's getting better I think. Some day she's good other days she's not.
Well, I miss you; I love ya.
~NiKkI~
Dear Nikki,
Hey, I miss and, of course, love you lots. England's nice, I mean, there's some hot guys. Of course I have a super close guy-friend Oliver. Oh he's super hot, like if I brought him to Hawaii everyone would eat him up. But I don't like him like that.
Ok well I have to go, now but I love ya and maybe later I'll write again
~ChAsNe~
Dear Chanse,
Hey Honey. How's Hogwarts? We miss you so much. We hope you're trying your hardest, because that's all that really matters, you know that.
Well, this winter break you, Hagrid, and us are going to your mom's ranch and stay there for the break.
Won't that be fun? Well we love you so much and are very proud you.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Dear Mom and Dad,
Hey, I miss you to soooooo much, too. Well, I'm trying my hardest, but of coarse the only reason I'm keeping my grade extra high is because oh sports.
OH YEAH! Guess what? Yeah that's right your little girl is the proud Keeper for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team!
We played our first game against Gryffindor and they're the ruling quidditch house, and we beat them. I've made a lot of friends here, like:
Angelina, She's in my grade, and the Chaser of the Gryffindor team. She real cool and down to earth. Next there's Hermione: She in second year, and her two best friends are Ron Weasley, and Harry Potter. She's super smart and she has a great sense of humor, but when its time to be serious, she can be. (I've stayed away from Harry by the way, no worries)
Then there's Oliver: He's the Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team, and the Keeper of the team. He's really cool, and very confident, and he's always there for me.
But I'm having a blast here, and I can't wait to go to the ranch. I'll talk to you sometime.
Your Baby Girl,
Chanse.
PS
I'm meeting with Dumbledore today. I don't know what about but he jut said I wasn't in trouble, but that he needs to talk to me.
Chanse placed the letter in an envelope and set it a side. Then she picked up a letter from her boyfriend back home, Milo:
Dear Chanse,
Hey, how's school? How's England, I bet there's a lot of guys there that you've thought about dating, or I mean mess around with. Well ok I guess you know where I'm going with this one...I was thinking that since you're living in England now, and the only way we would be able to talk is through mail, and if our parents wanted to pay for a long distance call. So I think you and I should break up, I still love you and I always will but I think this is for the better. I'm sorry Chanse.
Love,
Milo
Chanse slowly pulled the letter to her chest and stared at Geno. "What's wrong?" Geno asked.
"He broke up with me." Chanse whispered.
"What?"
"He broke up with me." Chanse said a little louder.
"Who?"
"He broke up with me." She said louder, and stood up and walked over to her closet and walked into it.
'Chanse, who broke up with you?' Geno asked, 'Milo?' Chanse walked back out in her robe.smiling. 'Chanse?'
"He broke up with me!" She jumped up and down yelling, "He broke up with me!"
'Chanse are you ok?' Chanse ran up to Geno,
"Well, sort of, I mean I want to be single, but still I dated him for seven months. But you know it doesn't matter, I'm at a new school on the other side of the world. Single would be nice." Geno nodded, "Ok Geno take these letters back to my parents." Geno grabbed the letters and took off.
Chanse walked out of the Ravenclaw house, and headed to Dumbledore office.
When she reached Dumbledore's office she said, "Lemon Drop." The knight stepped out of the way.
"I've been waiting."
"I'm sorry sir, I had to..."
"I'm joking, I don't care. But I called you in to talk to you about your mother and father. I know that you don't know that much about them and I was wondering if you wanted to know about them?"
"Well...I mean it would be nice, but I've always believed in not living in the past because if you do you'll miss something in the present," Dumbledore nodded, "thank you for the offer though, sir."
"Your welcome. But if you ever want to know anything about them, please just come to me and I'll tell you everything you want to know."
"Thank you."
"You're free to leave now, here's your pass." Chanse stood up and took the pass from Dumbledore and started out the door, "I liked that little stunt you pulled in quidditch yesterday."
Chanse looked down at her arms, which had a couple of bad bruises on them, turned around and looked at him and smiled, "It was no stunt." Chanse turned back around and left his office.
"Just like her mother, let pray she doesn't turn into her mother though, right Fawkes?" Dumbledore looked over at his golden phoenix.
Chanse started down the hallway to potions, when she saw Blaise walking towards her. Chanse kept walking with her held up high.
Chanse started to walk by her when Blaise turned to her and pushed her up against the wall, "What are you doing still hanging around Oliver?"
"I'm allowed to hang around whom ever the hell I want Blaise." She started to push Blaise off her, when Blaise through her harder into the wall.
"Not when that someone's taken!"
"I don't think Oliver's taken, and even if he was I don't think he'd be taken by you." Chanse pushed Blaise off her and started to walk to potions, when Blaise stuck out her foot and tripped Chanse.
Chanse went sliding across the floor. She looked back at Blaise who was laughing at her. Chanse stood up and ran over to Blaise, and made a fist to punch her, but she just turned and walked away.
"What you scared that I'll beat you?" Blaise smirked, but all Chanse did was turn around and smiled at her, "What?"
"Oh I'm just thinking how much that something going to hurt."
"Huh?" Chanse turned back around and started walking again.
"Orine Cortumos." Chanse whispered.
"Hey I'm talking to you. Come back here, don't walk away when I'm talking to you." Blaise started to walk after Chanse. "AHHHHH!" Chanse started to laugh and turned around.
"Oh Blaise, are you ok? Looks like you took a small spill." Chanse walked over to her and bent down next to her, and looked at Blaise's cheek, "Well that looks like it's going to bruise. Oh to bad, I don't think Oliver's going to like that one." She smiled cocky and got up and walked down the hall.
"I'll get you back." Chanse waved her hand in the air and kept walking.
Chanse walked into potions, and Professor Snape said, "Ah, Miss. Jackson so nice of you to join us. Where have you been?"
"Well..." Right as she said that Blaise walked in holding the potions that Snape asked for.
"Ah, Miss. Zabini you decide to actually come back."
"I'm sorry Professor; Chanse tripped me, on my way back here."
"Is this true Chanse?"
"No, I was with Professor Dumbledore. Here's my pass." Snape grabbed the pass and looked it over and then looked down at Chanse.
"Ok." Snape looked over at Blaise, "Miss. Zabini you're going to have to do better then that."
"But...but..."
"Anyways, Miss. Jackson we've been working on a potion that is a truth potion."
"Oh ok, thank you." Snape went back to teaching the class. And Oliver leaned over to Chanse.
"Where were you?"
"Like I told Snape with Dumbledore."
"Were you in trouble?"
"No he wanted to know if, I wanted to know, bout my parents."
"Oh." Oliver whispered. Chanse went back to watching Snape teach them about the truth potion. "You ready for the Yule Ball?" Oliver asked with a smile.
"Yeah. You want me to meet you outside the Great Hall?"
"Sure."
"I'm I interrupting you two?" Snape snapped.
"Oh sorry." Snape looked at them and then turned around and went on teaching the class. Chanse and Oliver laughed and quickly went back to pay attention.
The day went on and many guys asked Chanse out to the ball. Chanse turned them all down and didn't tell them or anyone else why.
By the end of the day Chanse was so tired, she went straight up to her room and sat down on her bed. "Oh thank god for Fridays...I should get my homework out of the way so I don't have any while I'm on the ranch."
She sighed and pulled her books up on the bed and began to work on her homework. But she couldn't concentrate all she could think about was Oliver. 'STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM CHANSE!' She screamed at herself in her head.
A few minutes later Cho came bursting through their door, "Chanse you got a big package, but it's really light." She tossed the package up to Chanse and sat down next to her. "Open it, open it!" Cho yelled with a big smile on her face. Chanse rolled her eyes and began to open it.
When she finished unwrapping it Chanse eyes grew large, and Cho's mouth dropped. "Oh my!" Cho gasped.
Chanse rolled off her bed, stood up, and dug her hands into the box and slowly lifted a long, silk, black dress robe out and held it in front of her. "Oh my is a understatement" Chanse gasped.
"There's a card, Chanse." Chanse looked around the room for somewhere to lay the robe down on. She saw her chair with her mother's diary on it, and she quickly ran over and laid the robe down. She ran back over to the bed and jumped on it and grabbed the card and ripped it open:
To Our Baby Girl:
You're growing up so fast and we thought a special girl deserves a special dress robe.
That robe was your mother's...
Chanse stopped reading and looked over at the dress. "What's wrong Chanse?" Cho asked.
"That robe was my mother's." She whispered.
"What? Wow your mom has good taste...if I had a robe like that I wouldn't send it to my daughter."
"What? My mom's...never mind." Chanse continued to read.
...And I thought that you should have it for the Yule Ball.
Your father thought it would be nice for you to have it but he also thought it would make you sad. So he told me not to send it, but like I listened.
Inside the box are four cameras that you can give some close friends and they can take pictures for you and then you can send the film back I'll develop them and send them back.
Love,
Mom
PS
That Oliver boy, seems really nice, do you like him? Cause he really seems like your type. I have a sneaking suspicion that - One. He likes you. Two. He's taking you to the ball
I love you Honey see you in three days. Hugs and Kisses.
Chanse smiled and walked over to the dress robe and held it up to her. "Wow, it's not even on you and you look great." Cho said. Chanse smiled.
"Thanks."
Chanse slowly let down the robe on the chairs and let her fingers slide down it. Then she looked at it for a while.
"Hey there's something else in here." Chanse turned around and walked back to the bed, and pulled out four cameras. "Oh they packed you cameras."
"Oh," Chanse started to walk back to the bed, "wait...How do you know what these are, they're a Muggle thing?"
"I've visited the Muggle world before." Cho shrugged. Chanse smiled.
"Ever seen Hawaii?"
"Nope. What's it like there?"
"It has the best waves you've ever seen. And it's always nice, and..." Chanse looked down.
"Hey sorry I asked, I know it was your home and all." Cho said and put her hand up on Chanse's shoulder.
"It's ok."
Chanse moved the box off her bed and put the cameras over by the dress and went back to her homework.
When she was finished, it was time for bed, so she crawled into bed and couldn't sleep, but either could Cho. "Can you sleep?" Cho whispered.
"I'm still up, aren't I?" Chanse laughed
"I'm so excited, and nervous, about the ball."
"Don't be. Who are you going with?"
"Roger..."
"Our Quidditch captain?"
Cho blushed, "Yeah, he asked me two days ago."
"That's awesome. See you have nothing to be nervous about. You have a great dress, and date."
"Who you going with? Cause I know you have to have a date, seeing how all those guys were asking you like crazy." Chanse looked down at her bed, and scratched her head. "You're going with Oliver, aren't you?" Cho sat up and smiled.
"Yeah." Chanse whispered with a smile.
"OH MERLIN!" Cho screamed.
"Cho!" Chanse said. They both quickly threw the covers on them and pretended to be asleep.
The Grey Lady came in. "Issss everything ok in herrrrrre?"
Cho sat up, "Yes, I'm sorry Grey Lady, I had a bad dream, I guess before ball gitters." The Grey Lady nodded and left the room.
Cho laid back down and went to bed, as did Chanse.
"Chanse wake up," Cho shook Chanse, "If you don't get up you'll be late." Chanse pulled the covers over her head and made a grunting noise. "Fine, be late to school." Cho said and walked down to brush her hair.
She started to brush her hair and watched Chanse through the mirror, and Chanse didn't move. Cho set down her brush and walked up to Chanse's bed. "Chanse?" she hit Chanse, and there was no response. "Chanse?!" Cho yelled and shook Chanse even harder. Cho got really scared and pulled all of Chanse's covers.
"AHHHHH! What the hell Cho?" Chanse screamed as she tried to reach for the covers.
Cho sighed, "Wow, sorry. You just weren't moving and I hit you and you didn't wake up. So...I don't know what I thought...Sorry."
Chanse grabbed the covers and pulled them back over her, "Its ok."
"Chanse, you need to get out of bed, or you're going to be late to class."
"What's our first class?"
"Charms."
"That's good." Chanse rolled back over and closed her eyes.
"What?" Cho sat down on Chanse's bed, "What's wrong, girl, you sick?"
Chanse rolled back over, "No, I just have a meeting with Dumbledore, today."
"Oh..."Cho rolled her eyes, "What'd you do?"
"Nothing..."She sat up, "He just needs to talk to me, and I need to talk to him, ok?!" Chanse rolled back over.
"O...k, sorry I asked." Cho said and started to walk away.
Chanse grabbed Cho's wrist, "Wait, Cho. I'm sorry I'm just a little touchy today, because I miss my family. I have this Blaise girl threatening me because I'm hanging out with her ex-boyfriend, and he seems to show interest in me, and I...and I just am having issues with things right now, nothing big, but some small meaningful stuff."
"Wait go back to the whole Oliver thing, you stopped saying something. What was it?" Chanse smiled and rolled over, "NO! Don't roll back over." Cho grabbed Chanse's shoulder, and pulled her back over. "Come back here."
"Cho, come on you're going to be late for my class," Professor Flitwick said. Cho looked over at Chanse, who rolled back over and lay back down.
"O...k, I'll talk to later bout that one, missy." Cho nudged Chanse and walked over and grabbed her books, and followed Professor out of the room.
As soon as Chanse heard the door shut she turned her head to the side and took a deep breath. She sat up in her bed and looked around her room. She sighed and slowly removed her covers ad walked over to Cho's dresser, which Chanse's CD player was lying on. She picked it up and walked back to her bed and sat down in the middle of it and turned on her CD player.
She closed her eyes and thought about the night before. Lying in bed with Oliver holding her and understanding her, or at least trying, honestly caring about her. She squinted her eyes and quickly opened them and looked down at her bed. "Why am I thinking about Oliver?" she thought, "Why am I thinking about Oliver in that way?" She sat on her bed a little longer and tried to figure out the reason why she was thinking about how much Oliver seemed to care about her the night before.
A few minutes later she picked up her CD player and rolled over to the side of her bed, and set it down on her side table. When she did that she saw that she had set it down on the pile of letters that she had received. She slid them out from underneath the CD player and laid back in her bed and began to read them.
Dear Chanse
Hey, how's England? Hawaii's just not the same without a Chanse in it anymore. So is there any cute English guy's you want to hook me up with? Because you know there are really no good guys here in Hawaii, I mean there was Tony, but you know we broke up. I still like him, but I know I can do better, or at least I'm trying to! But you know since I've become a surfer I've decided I would like to try to find surfer, but hey you know Tony was a skater, so I really have a wide range of guys.
Anyways maybe I can come visit you or something, oh wait, once again, Eve, is a broke-ass! Hey when you get time from your busy life, in England, with hot guys, write me.
~EVE~
Dear Eve,
Hey girl, yeah there is a couple of cute, no wait hot guys up here. But there are no surfers, but hey you know it's not that bad, because they make up for it with their looks.
But I don't think you can come visit. But you know I still got love for ya. Keep on surfer I know when I left you, you were kicking twelve year olds asses, so keep it up, and maybe you'll move up to thirteen year olds.
I'm joking, I have all love for you, babe.
I'll write you when I get more time, but hey we both know I've have way too much time on my hands.
~Chanse~
Chanse called Geno over, "Hey Geno, sit here and then deliver these to my parents so that they can deliver it to my friends." Geno quickly flew over and sat on Chanse's pillow and waited for her to finish.
Dear Chanse,
Hey, Chanse. What's up? How's England, man I think England would be pretty fun to go to, but I'd rather go other places. But you know, if you like it then that's cool.
Well, I don't know what to say, I just really miss you, and there's really nothing new going on back here. Well I mean of coarse Amber is still acting like a poser but hey, she's getting better I think. Some day she's good other days she's not.
Well, I miss you; I love ya.
~NiKkI~
Dear Nikki,
Hey, I miss and, of course, love you lots. England's nice, I mean, there's some hot guys. Of course I have a super close guy-friend Oliver. Oh he's super hot, like if I brought him to Hawaii everyone would eat him up. But I don't like him like that.
Ok well I have to go, now but I love ya and maybe later I'll write again
~ChAsNe~
Dear Chanse,
Hey Honey. How's Hogwarts? We miss you so much. We hope you're trying your hardest, because that's all that really matters, you know that.
Well, this winter break you, Hagrid, and us are going to your mom's ranch and stay there for the break.
Won't that be fun? Well we love you so much and are very proud you.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Dear Mom and Dad,
Hey, I miss you to soooooo much, too. Well, I'm trying my hardest, but of coarse the only reason I'm keeping my grade extra high is because oh sports.
OH YEAH! Guess what? Yeah that's right your little girl is the proud Keeper for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team!
We played our first game against Gryffindor and they're the ruling quidditch house, and we beat them. I've made a lot of friends here, like:
Angelina, She's in my grade, and the Chaser of the Gryffindor team. She real cool and down to earth. Next there's Hermione: She in second year, and her two best friends are Ron Weasley, and Harry Potter. She's super smart and she has a great sense of humor, but when its time to be serious, she can be. (I've stayed away from Harry by the way, no worries)
Then there's Oliver: He's the Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team, and the Keeper of the team. He's really cool, and very confident, and he's always there for me.
But I'm having a blast here, and I can't wait to go to the ranch. I'll talk to you sometime.
Your Baby Girl,
Chanse.
PS
I'm meeting with Dumbledore today. I don't know what about but he jut said I wasn't in trouble, but that he needs to talk to me.
Chanse placed the letter in an envelope and set it a side. Then she picked up a letter from her boyfriend back home, Milo:
Dear Chanse,
Hey, how's school? How's England, I bet there's a lot of guys there that you've thought about dating, or I mean mess around with. Well ok I guess you know where I'm going with this one...I was thinking that since you're living in England now, and the only way we would be able to talk is through mail, and if our parents wanted to pay for a long distance call. So I think you and I should break up, I still love you and I always will but I think this is for the better. I'm sorry Chanse.
Love,
Milo
Chanse slowly pulled the letter to her chest and stared at Geno. "What's wrong?" Geno asked.
"He broke up with me." Chanse whispered.
"What?"
"He broke up with me." Chanse said a little louder.
"Who?"
"He broke up with me." She said louder, and stood up and walked over to her closet and walked into it.
'Chanse, who broke up with you?' Geno asked, 'Milo?' Chanse walked back out in her robe.smiling. 'Chanse?'
"He broke up with me!" She jumped up and down yelling, "He broke up with me!"
'Chanse are you ok?' Chanse ran up to Geno,
"Well, sort of, I mean I want to be single, but still I dated him for seven months. But you know it doesn't matter, I'm at a new school on the other side of the world. Single would be nice." Geno nodded, "Ok Geno take these letters back to my parents." Geno grabbed the letters and took off.
Chanse walked out of the Ravenclaw house, and headed to Dumbledore office.
When she reached Dumbledore's office she said, "Lemon Drop." The knight stepped out of the way.
"I've been waiting."
"I'm sorry sir, I had to..."
"I'm joking, I don't care. But I called you in to talk to you about your mother and father. I know that you don't know that much about them and I was wondering if you wanted to know about them?"
"Well...I mean it would be nice, but I've always believed in not living in the past because if you do you'll miss something in the present," Dumbledore nodded, "thank you for the offer though, sir."
"Your welcome. But if you ever want to know anything about them, please just come to me and I'll tell you everything you want to know."
"Thank you."
"You're free to leave now, here's your pass." Chanse stood up and took the pass from Dumbledore and started out the door, "I liked that little stunt you pulled in quidditch yesterday."
Chanse looked down at her arms, which had a couple of bad bruises on them, turned around and looked at him and smiled, "It was no stunt." Chanse turned back around and left his office.
"Just like her mother, let pray she doesn't turn into her mother though, right Fawkes?" Dumbledore looked over at his golden phoenix.
Chanse started down the hallway to potions, when she saw Blaise walking towards her. Chanse kept walking with her held up high.
Chanse started to walk by her when Blaise turned to her and pushed her up against the wall, "What are you doing still hanging around Oliver?"
"I'm allowed to hang around whom ever the hell I want Blaise." She started to push Blaise off her, when Blaise through her harder into the wall.
"Not when that someone's taken!"
"I don't think Oliver's taken, and even if he was I don't think he'd be taken by you." Chanse pushed Blaise off her and started to walk to potions, when Blaise stuck out her foot and tripped Chanse.
Chanse went sliding across the floor. She looked back at Blaise who was laughing at her. Chanse stood up and ran over to Blaise, and made a fist to punch her, but she just turned and walked away.
"What you scared that I'll beat you?" Blaise smirked, but all Chanse did was turn around and smiled at her, "What?"
"Oh I'm just thinking how much that something going to hurt."
"Huh?" Chanse turned back around and started walking again.
"Orine Cortumos." Chanse whispered.
"Hey I'm talking to you. Come back here, don't walk away when I'm talking to you." Blaise started to walk after Chanse. "AHHHHH!" Chanse started to laugh and turned around.
"Oh Blaise, are you ok? Looks like you took a small spill." Chanse walked over to her and bent down next to her, and looked at Blaise's cheek, "Well that looks like it's going to bruise. Oh to bad, I don't think Oliver's going to like that one." She smiled cocky and got up and walked down the hall.
"I'll get you back." Chanse waved her hand in the air and kept walking.
Chanse walked into potions, and Professor Snape said, "Ah, Miss. Jackson so nice of you to join us. Where have you been?"
"Well..." Right as she said that Blaise walked in holding the potions that Snape asked for.
"Ah, Miss. Zabini you decide to actually come back."
"I'm sorry Professor; Chanse tripped me, on my way back here."
"Is this true Chanse?"
"No, I was with Professor Dumbledore. Here's my pass." Snape grabbed the pass and looked it over and then looked down at Chanse.
"Ok." Snape looked over at Blaise, "Miss. Zabini you're going to have to do better then that."
"But...but..."
"Anyways, Miss. Jackson we've been working on a potion that is a truth potion."
"Oh ok, thank you." Snape went back to teaching the class. And Oliver leaned over to Chanse.
"Where were you?"
"Like I told Snape with Dumbledore."
"Were you in trouble?"
"No he wanted to know if, I wanted to know, bout my parents."
"Oh." Oliver whispered. Chanse went back to watching Snape teach them about the truth potion. "You ready for the Yule Ball?" Oliver asked with a smile.
"Yeah. You want me to meet you outside the Great Hall?"
"Sure."
"I'm I interrupting you two?" Snape snapped.
"Oh sorry." Snape looked at them and then turned around and went on teaching the class. Chanse and Oliver laughed and quickly went back to pay attention.
The day went on and many guys asked Chanse out to the ball. Chanse turned them all down and didn't tell them or anyone else why.
By the end of the day Chanse was so tired, she went straight up to her room and sat down on her bed. "Oh thank god for Fridays...I should get my homework out of the way so I don't have any while I'm on the ranch."
She sighed and pulled her books up on the bed and began to work on her homework. But she couldn't concentrate all she could think about was Oliver. 'STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM CHANSE!' She screamed at herself in her head.
A few minutes later Cho came bursting through their door, "Chanse you got a big package, but it's really light." She tossed the package up to Chanse and sat down next to her. "Open it, open it!" Cho yelled with a big smile on her face. Chanse rolled her eyes and began to open it.
When she finished unwrapping it Chanse eyes grew large, and Cho's mouth dropped. "Oh my!" Cho gasped.
Chanse rolled off her bed, stood up, and dug her hands into the box and slowly lifted a long, silk, black dress robe out and held it in front of her. "Oh my is a understatement" Chanse gasped.
"There's a card, Chanse." Chanse looked around the room for somewhere to lay the robe down on. She saw her chair with her mother's diary on it, and she quickly ran over and laid the robe down. She ran back over to the bed and jumped on it and grabbed the card and ripped it open:
To Our Baby Girl:
You're growing up so fast and we thought a special girl deserves a special dress robe.
That robe was your mother's...
Chanse stopped reading and looked over at the dress. "What's wrong Chanse?" Cho asked.
"That robe was my mother's." She whispered.
"What? Wow your mom has good taste...if I had a robe like that I wouldn't send it to my daughter."
"What? My mom's...never mind." Chanse continued to read.
...And I thought that you should have it for the Yule Ball.
Your father thought it would be nice for you to have it but he also thought it would make you sad. So he told me not to send it, but like I listened.
Inside the box are four cameras that you can give some close friends and they can take pictures for you and then you can send the film back I'll develop them and send them back.
Love,
Mom
PS
That Oliver boy, seems really nice, do you like him? Cause he really seems like your type. I have a sneaking suspicion that - One. He likes you. Two. He's taking you to the ball
I love you Honey see you in three days. Hugs and Kisses.
Chanse smiled and walked over to the dress robe and held it up to her. "Wow, it's not even on you and you look great." Cho said. Chanse smiled.
"Thanks."
Chanse slowly let down the robe on the chairs and let her fingers slide down it. Then she looked at it for a while.
"Hey there's something else in here." Chanse turned around and walked back to the bed, and pulled out four cameras. "Oh they packed you cameras."
"Oh," Chanse started to walk back to the bed, "wait...How do you know what these are, they're a Muggle thing?"
"I've visited the Muggle world before." Cho shrugged. Chanse smiled.
"Ever seen Hawaii?"
"Nope. What's it like there?"
"It has the best waves you've ever seen. And it's always nice, and..." Chanse looked down.
"Hey sorry I asked, I know it was your home and all." Cho said and put her hand up on Chanse's shoulder.
"It's ok."
Chanse moved the box off her bed and put the cameras over by the dress and went back to her homework.
When she was finished, it was time for bed, so she crawled into bed and couldn't sleep, but either could Cho. "Can you sleep?" Cho whispered.
"I'm still up, aren't I?" Chanse laughed
"I'm so excited, and nervous, about the ball."
"Don't be. Who are you going with?"
"Roger..."
"Our Quidditch captain?"
Cho blushed, "Yeah, he asked me two days ago."
"That's awesome. See you have nothing to be nervous about. You have a great dress, and date."
"Who you going with? Cause I know you have to have a date, seeing how all those guys were asking you like crazy." Chanse looked down at her bed, and scratched her head. "You're going with Oliver, aren't you?" Cho sat up and smiled.
"Yeah." Chanse whispered with a smile.
"OH MERLIN!" Cho screamed.
"Cho!" Chanse said. They both quickly threw the covers on them and pretended to be asleep.
The Grey Lady came in. "Issss everything ok in herrrrrre?"
Cho sat up, "Yes, I'm sorry Grey Lady, I had a bad dream, I guess before ball gitters." The Grey Lady nodded and left the room.
Cho laid back down and went to bed, as did Chanse.