Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, J.K Rowling does, but I really wish I did.
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It was a new year at Hogwarts. Though all the students who were friends were glad to see each other, there was still much tension in the air because of how the previous year had ended with the death of one of the students. His name was Cedric Diggory, son of Amos Diggory who works for the Ministry of Magic in the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures department, and he had been killed at the end of the Triwizard tournament by Lord Voldemort. Lord Voldemort had been revived using an ancient ceremony that used the bones of his father, and the blood of Harry Potter, the one who was the cause of his downfall, to bring him back his strength. Everyone was afraid of Lord Voldemort. Most people didn't even dare to speak against him for fear that one of his followers heard him and he would come home from work one day and find a Dark Mark hovering over his house. There had already been a couple muggle murders that the muggle police just couldn't solve. The Ministry had to alter their memories. The Ministry of magic had been very preoccupied with memory charms because the Death Eaters would always leave plenty of muggles around the scene of a crime in order to cause panic in the minds of many. Nobody traveled much either, for fear of being ambushed. So it came as a surprise when there was a new student arriving at Hogwarts that year. Headmaster Dumbledore invited the girl and her parents to arrive at the school a couple days before the school started so that they could find out what house she was to be put in and give her a tour of where all her classes will be. She had moved to England from Canada about a month earlier because of the increasing danger, her adopted parents had thought it be safer if she were to be going to one of the best and safest wizarding schools in the world. So, after a day at Hogwarts, the family returned home for the few remaining days they had together before school started. To the girl, those couple days flew by like a drop of rain in a storm. She found herself standing on platform 9 ¾ saying goodbye, promising to write everyday. She got on the train and found an empty room to sit in. She waved to her parents as they went back through the doorway of the magical world, back to the world of muggles.
A couple of minutes went by. She had found herself thinking about if she would make friends easy or not. She started worrying about if the students in her year wouldn't like her. She decided not to think about it and took out one of the textbooks she was to be using this year. The first book she started reading was The Standard Book Of Spells: Grade 5. It was sort of interesting she thought. She heard yelling coming from the hallway, and then laughter. A girl with bushy brown hair and brown eyes came into the room.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't know anyone else would be in here." She gave a smile. "There's no where else to sit, would you mind if me and my friends sat in here with you?" The girl returned the smile.
"Sure, I wouldn't mind the company. How long is the trip to Hogwarts?" she asked a bit timidly.
"It takes until nightfall before we arrive there. It goes by rather quickly for me when I read. So what's your name? I'm pretty sure you're new here."
"My name is Alexis Silverstone, well that's my real name, but my adopted family's last name is Fenel." Alexis smiled. She enjoyed telling people that she had two last names. "What's your name?"
"My name is Hermione Granger. You know, I think I've heard of the Silverstone family in a some history book."
"I don't know anything about the lives of my parents, just their last name. So what year are you? I'm in my fifth year."
"I'm also in my fifth year, and so are my friends when they finally get here." Just then, two boys walked into the room talking about quidditch. Alexis had heard of the sport before, but didn't know much about it. When the two boys noticed her they stopped talking and starred at her, but they still had smiles on their faces, though they were awkward ones. Alexis noticed that one of the two was just a little taller than her, and she was 5"10'. He had bright red hair and was slim, but not skinny. He had bright blue eyes that were quite nice to look into. The other boy was about the same height as the first one, same build, but he had messy black hair and striking green eyes. She decided that both were quite handsome. After five seconds of staring, Hermione finally introduced her. "Ron, Harry, I'd like you to meet Alexis er…" she turned to Alexis, "which name do you prefer to use?" Alexis stood up and smiled at the two guys who were just standing there staring at her, like they just had to know the answer of what her name was or it would kill them. She offered her hand to the boy with the red hair first, who took it a bit timidly. It was quite a funny sight to see his face match his hair as he blushed furiously.
"My name is Alexis Silverstone." She also offered her hand to the black haired boy, who also blushed slightly. Hermione noticed her two friends were a bit too nervous to say their names, she thought it best to introduce them.
"The one with the red hair's name is Ronald Weasley, Ron for short, and the one with black hair is Harry Potter." Hermione smiled a bit, as she loved to see the reaction on people's faces when they found out that they were talking to the Boy-Who-Lived.
Meanwhile, Harry was just waiting for Alexis's eyes to move to the scar on his head, as everybody he's met so far has done, but she didn't. She kept eye contact with him and Ron, not at the same time though, that would have been rather hard to do. 'Well… I guess there's a first time for everything,' he thought, but was kind of relieved that she hadn't looked at his scar, it always made him self-conscious. He was mad at himself for not being able to say anything to her though. Why did he have to get that way around girls? When she had turned around to go back to her seat, he took the time to carefully look her over. He agreed to himself that she was pretty, in fact, quite pretty. 'It's a good thing I got over my crush on Cho this summer' he thought with a grin. She had long strawberry blonde hair that was put in a French braid that stopped right below her shoulder blades, blue eyes that looked like sapphires, pale and delicate looking skin, and she was thin, not scrawny thin, but in-shape thin. She was wearing dark blue jeans, where the top only came to her hips, and the bottom of the legs flared out over her shoes. She was also wearing a black shirt with ¾ length sleeves and a v-neck. Both articles of clothing seemed to fit her just right. He looked at Ron and from the look on his face, he also liked what he saw. He took a seat on the opposite side of the compartment. Hermione started talking to Alexis about where she had come from.
"Well, I've lived in Canada my whole life, but I have visited England before." She stopped talking to pull a small book from her bag that had the title of An Atlas of Canada and its Provinces. She turned it to a certain page and pointed to a spot. "I was born here, in Vancouver, British Columbia. When I was eight or nine, I moved here." She again indicated the spot with her finger. "And then a month ago, I moved to England." He could see that Hermione was curious, as always, to know more about Canada, so while she was asking her questions, Harry decided to ask Ron what he thought about Alexis. He looked over and found that Ron was still staring at her. He gave Ron a little punch in the arm to get his attention.
"Ouch! What did you do that for?" He didn't say it very loud though, Harry guessed it was so that he didn't draw Alexis's attention towards him. In a whisper only Ron could hear he said,
"So what do you think of her?" He looked back at Alexis, as Ron whispered back to him.
"She's gorgeous. And did you see? She looked at me before she looked at you. Ha! I think that's about the first time any girl has ever done that, unless it was an accident," he said mockingly with a big grin on his face.
After Hermione had asked all the questions she could think of about Canada, she decided to get Ron and Harry talking.
"So how did your summers go?" she asked them both.
"Er… Not bad I guess. The Dursleys decided they didn't want to pay much attention to me this summer after what happened last summer," said Harry. He looked at Ron and the two of them started laughing. Hermione sighed.
"That wasn't a very nice thing for Fred and George to have done last year," said Hermione in her matter-of-factly voice.
"If only you could have been there 'Mione," said Ron who was trying to contain his laughter. Alexis, who was a bit lost, decided to ask about what had happened last summer that had been so funny. "Well, you see, my two older brothers, Fred and George, love to play pranks on people, and Harry's cousin was one of their victims last year. Me and my family…"
"My family and I, Ron," interrupted Ron about his bad grammar. He just rolled his eyes and continued.
"Well anyway, my family and I, went to get Harry so that he could stay with us for the last part of summer and also come to see the Quidditch World Cup. Well, you see, Dudley, his cousin, was on a small diet."
"Which meant that he couldn't eat anything unless it was fruit or veggies," said Harry with a grin.
"So my brothers took this opportunity to "accidentally" drop some toffees on the floor. The little porker just couldn't help himself and ate one of them. To his shock, they were Ton Tongue Toffees, a little creation of my brother's, and his tongue grew to be, what was it, three feet or four feet long? Well anyway, it was one of the most hilarious things." Hermione just rolled her eyes, while Alexis giggled. Harry noted that it wasn't one of those really girly giggles that Lavender Brown or Pavarti Pavil would use. He couldn't really determine what it sounded like to him, but it was nice to hear.
"What was the reaction of Dudley's parents?" Alexis asked with a smile on her face.
"I think Ron's dad said that it took him awhile in order to calm them down enough so that he could reverse the effects. My aunt and uncle don't like magic. I guess you could say that they really hated it. They're muggles you see and they're just afraid of what they don't understand I guess." Harry was calming down his laughter now.
"My adopted parents are muggles too, so I know what you mean," said Alexis with a sympathetic smile. Just then, someone Harry was hopping he didn't have to see for a while opened the compartment door with his two henchmen in check.
"Did I just hear that we have a new student going to Hogwarts?" He looked at Alexis with a strange look in his steely blue eyes, and he stared at her for a couple of seconds, and then snapped out of it when he realized what he was doing. He blushed a bit as he caught himself and then began talking again. "She's probably a Mudblood. No point in having her here." Alexis noted that Ron was starting to get out of his seat with his fists clenched so tight his knuckles were white. She guessed that Mudblood wasn't really a nice term to call another wizard or witch during conversation. The boy who had just walked in had bleach-blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. He would have been quite handsome if he didn't have that sneer on his face. He had the same sort of build as Ron and Harry, although he was a bit taller.
"Get out of here Malfoy!" yelled Harry. "Or do you need help getting out?" Ron and Harry's faces were both red with fury. She heard Hermione start talking.
"Ron, Harry, go sit down. You don't want to have a detention for fighting on your first night back do you?" They both looked at each other, and a bit reluctantly, they sat back down. "Get out of here Malfoy," said Hermione in her you-better-listen-or-else voice. The one they called Malfoy gave one last sneer in Alexis's direction and then left.
"Who was that?" asked Alexis softly.
"His name is Draco Malfoy, the most annoying git in the school. If I were you, I'd stay away from him. I heard his dad's a Death Eater, and the two goons behind him were Crabbe and Goyle," said Ron.
"What was it he called me?" This time it was Hermione who answered her question.
"He called you a Mudblood. It's the foulest thing you could call someone who was born a wizard, but have muggle parents. Both my parents are muggle, so he takes great enjoyment in calling me that. You see, the Malfoys, they think that only purebloods should be allowed to learn magic, and that's the same way You-Know-Who thinks, so that's why we believe that his father is a Death Eater, plus there was quite a few rumors about him." Hermione gave a small smile that looked quite sad. Then she got a look on her face that looked as if she had just suddenly remembered something. "Oh! I forgot to ask you, which house are you in?"
"I'm in Gryffindor, what about you?"
"We all are too," said Harry with a smile on his face, glad that they had changed the topic.
After about an hour, they had all become comfortable with Alexis and had happily made her one of them. Harry and Ron were busy explaining to Alexis about quidditch, amid plenty of blushing from Ron as he talked to her, and Hermione was re-reading her textbooks.
From the way the two boys put it, the game sounded very interesting and she wanted to learn more and more about it. There was a quiet knock on the door and boy that was shorter than her came in. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, but he was a bit chubby. He had a sad look on his face.
"Have you seen Trevor?" he asked.
"Sorry Neville," said Hermione in a sympathetic voice, "but do you want me to help you look for him?" his eyes brightened up at her offer.
"Thanks Hermione!" he said with a smile on his face. He looked over at Alexis.
"Neville, this is Alexis Silverstone. She came here from Canada." She turned to Alexis who was smiling sweetly at Neville. "And Alexis, this is Neville Longbottom."
"It's nice to meet you," said Alexis in a voice that went with her smile. They shook hands and he smiled back at her, blushing.
"It's nice to meet you too," he said warmly.
"Come on Neville," said Hermione, "Let's go find Trevor before someone like Malfoy does." And they both left together.
"Who's Trevor?" asked Alexis curiously. Harry and Ron started laughing.
"Don't get us wrong or anything, Neville is our friend, but he's also one of the most forgetful people in the school. Trevor is his toad that he seems to lose all the time," said Harry, who could was trying to calm down.
"So what was your old school like?" asked Ron, with his face surpassing the redness of his hair, if that was possible.
"Well, it was in a small city, where my parents and I had lived. It wasn't the biggest school around, but all the wizards and witches from around the area went there. The good thing about living close to your school is that you could either go home or stay in the school. I liked it better at home though. There were about five hundred students. The Muggle School was out of town. They had about the same number, if not more students that went there. The school I went to was camouflaged using magic. It looked like an ordinary school to any muggle on the outside, and if they looked in the windows, it would still look normal. But when you went inside, it was chaos. There were all sorts of strange creatures inside. One of our teachers was even an animagus who loved to teach his class in his animal form, which was a griffin. It was the type of school where everyone knew everybody else's name, no matter if you were the quietest or the meanest kid in school. It was a nice place to be, but I'm sure I'll enjoy Hogwarts." Alexis smiled at Ron who had to look away or he would have to go wash his face with cold water because it nearly felt like it was on fire. "I did get a small tour from Headmaster Dumbledore, but it was still rather confusing with the moving stairs and all. I don't even think I remember how to get to the common room from the Great Hall. You two and Hermione will have to help me out a bit to get to all my classes."
"What's your favorite class?" asked Harry, since it didn't look like Ron would be saying anything until the colour of his face returned to normal.
"Well, back in my old school my favorite class was potions, I guess." Ron and Harry just stared at her.
"You mean you actually like potions? Well, wait until you meet the teacher, then you might not be so sure about that," said Harry with a disbelieving look on his face.
"The potions teacher's name is Severus Snape, and he's the meanest and rottenest teacher in the whole school. If you still like potions after his first class, then I'll eat my shoe!" exclaimed Ron.
Alexis had asked more questions about the other teachers she had, when the trolley lady came by selling sweets. Harry and Ron bought themselves some chocolate frogs, while Alexis had bought a banana cream lollipop. As they ate their chocolate frogs, they both noticed Alexis sucking on the lollipop while reading another book. She didn't even realize that they were staring at her. The only thing that broke their trance was when Hermione finally returned and walked in front of them to get back to her seat. They had both noticed that Hermione had seen them staring and they both turned red.
It was starting to get dark, so they all got their school robes on. Both Ron and Harry were a bit sad about not being able to see her figure because of the baggy robes, but they figured it was for the better if they actually wanted to get work done.
Now it was dark and the train was starting to slow down. When it had finally stopped, the four of them got their carry-on bags and stood outside. It was raining. To Harry, it seemed as if it rained every year on the first day. Through the darkness and rain, Harry was able to make out Hagrid's large frame in the crowd of students around him. They went up to him, with Alexis following the three, and said hello.
"How you doing today? Hope your staying out of trouble," said Hagrid in his deep, heavily accented voice. "It seems you have a new friend?" He turned to Alexis and said, "What's your name?"
"My name's Alexis Silverstone," she said with a smile on her face. It felt like she had said those words about a hundred times today, but she had figured that she was going to have to. "You must be the Care of Magical Creatures teacher, Harry and Ron were telling me about you on the train. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"And a pleasure to meet you too." He turned to the others. "Well, I'll see you lot back at the castle, but right now you better get out of the rain before you get yourselves sick." So they said they're good byes and went off to find a carriage that was empty. They could hear Hagrid bellowing in the background for the first years to go to him.
They arrived at the castle and were led into the Great Hall. She was looking at the ceiling. It was black, but there was rain coming down, but just before it reached where the students were sitting, it vanished. She sat down between Hermione and Neville. She was also introduced to some more of the students in her house. She met Ron's brothers, Fred and George, who were in their final year in Hogwarts and identical twins, Ron's younger and only sister Ginny, and not very surprisingly they all had red hair, she also met Seamus Finnigan, who had light green eyes and sandy blonde hair, and Dean Thomas, who was black and seemed to say cool every time he got the chance. Hermione had warned her while they were in the carriage about Lavender Brown and Pavarti Patil, and she was glad she had received that warning because they had come up behind and asking her how she kept her hair looking so shiny, how did she get the braid to look so perfect, and even more questions about stuff like that until Hermione shooed them away with the excuse that Dumbledore was going to start talking any time now. And about a minute later, he did. With his slow, but steady voice he addressed the students.
"Welcome back everyone. I hope you all enjoyed your summer. Even in a bleak time like this, it's not good for a person to always be serious." His eyes were sparkling like those of a child listening to a story. He talked more about the current situation, and then finally arrived to the point about the first years. He sat back down again as the sorting hat began its song. Then first student came out and sat down. The hat was put on his head and it pondered about which house to put him in. He seemed to have made up his mind and yelled "Gryffindor!" The whole Gryffindor table started cheering and clapping. When all the first years had been sorted, Dumbledore stood up again. "Alright then, now on to the changes of the school. First off, I'd like to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Mr. Willowburn." The crowd clapped, but everyone knew that the Defense Against the Dark Arts position was cursed. There had been a new one every year Harry, Ron, and Hermione had been there, and only two of them had actually taught them anything, and one of those two had been working for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. "Settle down, settle down. We also have a new student in our midst. Alexis, will you please stand up?" Alexis swallowed, took a deep breath, and stood up. She was rather nervous about all the people staring at her. "Ah yes, there you are, everyone, this Alexis Silverstone. She's moved here from Canada. She's a fifth year and has been placed in Gryffindor." With that there was a loud cheer from the Gryffindor table. Alexis sat down embarrassed, but still smiling. "Alright, well I think I've talked enough, so let's start the feast." He snapped his fingers and food and drinks magically appeared on the tables.
When they had all finished eating, the prefects led them up to their houses. They had stopped in front of a portrait with a rather large woman in a pink dress. The prefect told to the portrait the password to get in to the common room. The portrait swung open.
"Did everyone hear that? The password is Spooky Paws. If you didn't hear it, I'm not going to repeat it again, you'll just have to ask someone else." They all walked into the room, Alexis saw that there were squashy armchairs, a warm fireplace, and tables placed around the room. "The stair case over there leads to the dorms, girls on the right, boys on the left. Go up the stairs and the doors are labeled according to what year you are. And remember, no boys in the girl's dorm, and likewise for the girls. That's about all. Breakfast starts at six thirty and continues until classes start. Your luggage is already in your dorms in front of your beds. Now go to sleep, tomorrow will be a long day." He left to go up to his bed and sleep, and everyone followed. Hermione and Alexis said goodnight to Ron and Harry, with more blushing from the two, and went up to their dorms. Alexis noted that the stairs wound around the tower. All the first year Gryffindors left, then the second years, third years, fourth years, and finally she, Hermione, Lavender, and Pavarti went into their room. They talked a bit and then went to sleep.
In the morning, Hermione and Alexis came down, prepared for class, and joined Harry and Ron for breakfast. They were given their timetables.
"Oh no…" moaned Ron, "stuck with Slytherin for Potions and Herbology again." Alexis had read about the different houses in the book Hogwarts: A History, and she knew what kind of wizards came out of Slytherin. "And even worse, we're stuck with them for two hours after lunch, in Potions class." Ron moaned again and put his head in his arms on the table.
They had just finished up their breakfast when it was time to go to their first class, which was Care of Magical Creatures. Hagrid came up to them as they were walking across the grounds over to his hut.
"Welcome to your first class of the year!" bellowed Hagrid. "Today we'll be learning about a very special type of dragon. They're called Midgee Dragons. You'll see why they get their name." He turned around and brought out a small bronze lizard that looked like a miniature dragon. It perched on Hagrid's arm like some sort of bird. It was only about the size of an adult's head. "This here is the biggest they get. Little Flamer here is an adult. He can breathe small amounts of fire, but only for protection. Quite a few people keep them as pets." He turned around and brought out another Midgee, this one was a deep red. This is a female Midgee, and her names Scarlet. As you can see, she's a bit smaller than Flamer, but the females can breathe fire longer than the males can. They only breathe fire to protect their young." Hagrid's eyes flashed and he grinned towards his friends who were in the front of the crowd. Instantly they knew what was coming. "You'll be taking care of some for the next couple of weeks. Follow me and I'll take you to them." He moved them towards a large metal box that appeared to be heating on hot coals. They could see that inside the box was a whole bunch of eggs. "Get into a group of four and then I'll give your group an egg. They've been heated long enough so that when I take the egg out of the box, the eggs will hatch in a couple of minutes." Everyone paired up into groups of four and then Hagrid handed out the eggs. "Oh, and I forgot to mention, the Midgees won't be able to breathe fire until they're at least a year old." Everyone sighed in relief. The egg that Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Alexis received was a golden colour. It was quite beautiful to look at. They waited for six minutes before the egg started rocking and then cracked open. Out popped a golden head from the broken shell. Other groups' eggs started hatching as well. There were quite a few "Ohhh's" and "Ahhhh's". The four looked around and found that they were the only one who had a golden dragon. "Alright now, it's time for you to feed them." He handed out buckets of chopped up raw meat. They had just finished feeding the Midgees when Hagrid came over to see their Midgee. "You know, the golden ones are the rarest. You're lucky to have gotten one. The golden ones are considered to be the queens, just like with large dragons." He gave them a wink and walked off to look at the other groups' Midgees. The bell rang and they were off to the next class.
Finally it was lunch. The four of them had had a good first day back to school. But then when they were eating, a shadow fell upon them. They turned around to see who it was. It was Malfoy.
"Well, if it isn't Potty, Weasley, Granger, and the new girl," he turned to Crabbe and Goyle, "what was her name again?"
"Get lost Malfoy. We already have to see you for two hours in potions today, we really don't want to see your ugly mug at the moment," said Harry.
"Well, well, if I didn't know better, I'd say that Potter was sticking up for his new girlfriend." Malfoy sneer became even larger. Both Harry and Alexis blushed, but the comment hadn't bothered them too much. He started walking away after that remark. "See you in Potions class." And he waved back at them, that stupid sneer still on his face.
"I'd like to tear him limb from limb," said Ron as he wrung his napkin in his hands.
"Don't we all," replied Harry in an exasperated voice. Just then the bell for class rang. Ron, Harry, and Hermione sighed. It was quite obvious they didn't want to go. They headed downstairs to the dungeons. They walked into a classroom that had jars of strange things all along the shelves on the walls. At the front of the room there was a desk where the teacher was sitting. He had black greasy hair, and black eyes to match. Alexis figured that he didn't smile much.
"Hurry up and sit down!" he yelled as everyone found their seats. "Today we will begin learning how to make a Copy Cat potion. Can anyone tell me what his does?" Only one person in the class raised their hand. Snape looked right past Hermione. "Didn't anyone read about the Copy Cat potion like I asked you to?" His gaze searched around the room and his eyes fell on Alexis. "Why don't you tell me what the Copy Cat potion does miss Silverstone?" She jumped a bit. Ron and Harry were right, even if he just looked at you, you got nervous.
"The Copy Cat potion is used so that a person who drinks it creates a copy of himself or herself so that they could do twice as much work. The potion lasts for half an hour. After that, the copy just disappears." She took a deep breath to calm her nerves.
"Very good miss Silverstone, but why didn't you just raise your hand when I asked the question the first time? Five points from Gryffindor." He turned around with a swish of his black robes. The Gryffindors grimaced. They didn't blame Alexis, he probably would have taken five points off anyway. Meanwhile the Slytherins were grinning. Finally, class was over, with ten more points taken away from Gryffindor because Neville had accidentally made his potion catch on fire. The four tried their best to avoid Malfoy, and succeeded. Since classes were now over for the day, they decided to just hang out in the common room until supper. They all flopped down in a chair and started to relax.
"I bet Potions would be much better for everyone if Snape didn't always have a stick up his ass," said Ron. The other three gave a small laugh.
"I don't think he really expected Alexis to answer is question. Did you see the look on his face?" said Harry and they started laughing again. They all returned to the common room to do the homework that Snape had assigned for them before they went down for supper. Tonight, supper was a little different. They were given spaghetti to eat. It was quite amusing to Alexis, Harry, and Hermione because most of the wizards and witches at Hogwarts had never eaten spaghetti before and were having a hard time learning. Hermione helped Ron by showing him how to spin the noodles around his fork with the help of his spoon. Harry and Alexis showed anyone else who was having trouble. After an eventful meal, the four decided to go back to the common room to play some games. Alexis and Ron played wizard's chess while Harry and Hermione watched. Ron had won the first game, but it had been close. Next it was Harry and Hermione's turn. Hermione won when Harry had gone offensive and forgot about defense. After that, they play exploding snap. When they were done playing games, they sat in front of the fireplace and talked until ten o'clock, and then they went to bed.
While Alexis was still half awake, she remembered the comment Ron had made earlier. 'Maybe I should get him some salt to put on his shoe' she laughed to herself before she fell asleep.
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Wow! This is the first fanfic I've ever written, before it was just original stuff. I started this fanfic about two weeks before yesterday at eight o'clock at night and continued on it until one o'clock in the morning. Then I got writer's block and I just finished it today. I really tried to keep the character's personalities with them and not give them ones that help my purpose (Muahaha!). I don't have a clue when I'll add the next chapter because I've done a really stupid thing for this story, I haven't thought of a good plot yet (what? You didn't think the whole thing would be about the new girl did you? Silly person), so I'll try and think of a good one (if I'm lucky, it might not be one that's already been used!) I'm not sure, but there might be romance in this story (I haven't decided yet), but there will definitely be some crushes on different characters *cough*new girl*cough*. I'll love any feedback and if you have any suggestions, don't be afraid to share them (unless you have some sort of phobia where you can't share ideas without having a nervous breakdown), because it might help me to get the next chapter up faster. All right, enough of my wild and incoherent ramblings, I'm going to shut up now. Remember to take a look at my other story Light of the Dark, it's my pride and joy. (Shut up already!) All right, all right I'll shut up now, but that means you do to! (I do?) Yes (Well… I guess it's ok if you talk for a little longer) No way! I'm going to go read now (No! Keep talking!) No! (Yes!) No! And you can't make me *sticks out tongue to herself in a mirror, quickly saves story and closes Microsoft Word before her alter ego can protest*