Chapter 8
Tyler's Day
Tyler woke up at the usual 6:30 and hopped out of bed. She hadn't used an alarm clock for years; if she ever overslept Laticia would tickle her feat and make her get up.
She walked over and stroked Laticia for a second before dressing quickly and moving over to the mirror to look at her blonde tresses currently in braided pigtails. She sighed heavily. Unlike Silver her hair was a mess in the morning if she didn't braid it at night.
She was getting tired of her look, tired of guys assuming that because she was blonde she had nothing better to do than flirt outrageously with every one of them, not that she didn't enjoy it, she just preferred intelligent conversation every once in awhile.
She picked up her beauty charm book and leafed through it while unbraiding her hair, finding the page she wanted. She lifted her wand and muttered a few incantations, just enough to darken her hair and give it a trim, her braids had left it wavy and it looked, in a word, perfect.
Smiling she finished off with a few make-up charms and waited for her mirror's approval.
"Just lovely darling, like a picture."
"Thanks," she replied and walked over to pick up Laticia and wrap her around her shoulders.
"Come on girl, let's go down to common room for a little while," cooed Tyler softly.
Tyler walked down into the common room and found no one else awake. Sighing she picked up a novel she had recently purchased curled into a chair to read.
About halfway through the first chapter Tyler was interrupted by a delighted shriek and looked up to see Pansy rushing towards her.
"Oh my goodness Tyler, I absolutely love it!"
"Thanks Pansy, do you think it looks better than before?"
"I loved your hair before but now it matches your eyebrows and you look older, the guys are really going to follow you now."
"Like they didn't already?" She asked laughing with her friend. "There's something else I want to do will you help me with it?"
"Sure no problem."
Tyler, can you hear me, Tyler this is an emergency!
Startled she quickly responded.
What it is Silver? What happened?
Tyler, bring your beauty charm book to the Gryffindor tower ASAP. The entrance is the fat lady in the pink dress and the password is equality. The girls dorms are upstairs on the right now hurry!
"Oh Pansy, I'll be right back I have to go see what's wrong with Silver."
"Alright I'll help you when you're finished."
"Thanks I don't think it will take long, can you take Laticia back upstairs for me?"
"Yea I can do that."
After accio'ing her beauty charm book Tyler hurried along the corridors until she came across the portrait of the fat lady. She managed to get out "equality" between breaths. It turns out that it's a bit of a run between the Slytherin Dungeons and the Gryffindor Tower, and it's upstairs the whole bloody way.
Ok Silver I'm here, how do you get your room?
The door on the right leads to the girls' dorms; my room is the 4th on the left.
All right I'll be right there.
Tyler hurried up the stairs, yes more bloody stairs, and found the door to Silver's room. She rushed in and saw Silver standing in front of the mirror looking very much like Medusa with her hair in complete tangles, and she couldn't stop herself from laughing.
After Silver had apologized for scaring her she told Tyler she wanted to layer it and agreed to her idea for the coloring. So Tyler went to work.
Tyler was always more careful when she did someone else's hair; she didn't want to be blamed if they didn't like it. So she only did what she was asked and a few simple make-up charms.
When she was finished she stood back to examine her work.
"You look ravishing darling," commented Tyler. "I've wanted to do that for years but you never let me."
"Well thanks Tyler, you saved me," Silver responded laughing.
Then they both decided that they should go down for something to eat.
Tyler spotted Pansy right away and left Silver to fend for herself.
"Ok you ready Tyler?"
"Yea, lets do this in the bathroom though ok?"
"Well yea, people would look at us weird otherwise, you still got your book?"
"Of course, now lets hurry."
Both girls rushed off to the bathroom and Tyler removed her robes so that she was standing in a pair of lace-up jeans of a half shirt.
"I didn't know you wore muggle clothing."
"Yea I love it."
"Me too, it's great!"
"Ok just do it quick cause I know it will hurt, even with magic."
"Alright do you have the ring you want?"
"Yea I picked one out earlier," answered Tyler handing her the ring.
"Ok than close your eyes."
Tyler closed her eyes tight while Pansy muttered an incantation and then she felt the sharp, and very acute, pain.
"Oh that did hurt, can you imagine doing it the muggle way?"
"Nope, I had mine done a few years ago. Do you like it?"
Tyler looked down at her naval, a silver ring with a small, light green peridot stone (her birth stone) and a circle of diamonds, now decorated her belly button.
"I love it, now lets get to the great hall, I'm starving."
After Tyler had replaced her robe the girls walked into the great hall. As soon as she entered she felt Silver watching her and looked up.
Just so you know Tyler I have noticed that something is different, I just can't figure out what it is yet, or why you would want to change anything
You're not the only person who gets tired of your look Silver, let me know when you've figured it out, and later I'll show you the other thing I did.
Amused that Silver couldn't figure it out Tyler sat down next to Draco and Pansy and received many quite a bit of fuss over her hair, and later good news about the Ron/Pansy plan.
(.)(=^.^=)(.)
The rest of the day was somewhat un-eventful. She found she enjoyed having all her classes with Draco and sat with him and Pansy during most of them. She was however surprised when she had Draco in her last class, Arithmancy.
Since Arithmancy is a voluntary subject all four of the houses were in the class. Ravenclaw made up the majority of the class while Gryffindor and Slytherin were about equal and Hufflepuff made up the remaining students.
Realizing she forgot to ask her previous teacher something Tyler told Draco to run along ahead of her and was, herself, very nearly late for class. When she arrived she took the remaining seat next to a Ravenclaw by the name of David Stocker.
She hadn't had time to get to know any Ravenclaws yet and really enjoyed working with David. They had some free time at the end of the lesson so they just sat back and chatted for the remaining 15 minutes, while Tyler took in her partner with a little more leisure.
David was fairly tall, she guessed about 5'11", and he had a nice slender athletic build that was revealed by his lounging leisurely in his chair with his robes open to give him some air (it was quite warm). He was, being muggle-born, wearing muggle clothing, a simple black t-shirt and a pair of black slightly baggy jeans and to her amusement Scooby-doo boxers. His brown hair was frosted and spiked and his intelligent crystal blue eyes (gawd did she love blue eyes) were warmly lit with enjoyment against his very nice, slightly tanned complexion.
"So have you ever been over to America?" Asked Tyler after she finished copying down the homework assignment.
"Yes actually, my family has a summer house over in Northern California and we visit every year, my family is in love with the redwoods."
"Yea they're beautiful, we live up in Oregon which is less than a day's drive from the redwoods. We usually use Floo Powder but my dad spent some time studding muggles and absolutely loves their cars, so occasionally we drive down and enjoy the view."
"Sounds like a blast, have you had anytime to travel around the united- kingdom?"
"Yep, a lot of my heritage comes from England and Scotland so we visit all the time, plus my mother loves to travel."
"So, what subject do you enjoy most?"
"I'm actually really looking forward to Astrology tomorrow night, it was my best class at Avalon, that and divination, but I heard the divination teacher here is a joke."
"She is, but the Astrology teacher is great, really knows what he's talking about. You do know that the class is at 10 o'clock right?"
"Yea, and it goes until midnight because they only have it one day a week, I love the later classes, 10 o'clock is one of the best times to look at the stars, plus midnight is the hour of lovers." She replied giving him one of her 'sure to swoon' dazzling smiles.
"Hey, we'll have that class together, would you like to be my partner?" David asked rewarding her with an equally stunning smile.
"Yea I'd love to." She answered still grinning. "Hey we're being assigned partners for our next assignment in here right?"
"Yea, I believe so."
"Great I'll be right back."
Tyler jumped up quickly and walked over to her teacher's desk.
"Excuse me, Professor?"
"Yes miss Michaels?"
"I couldn't help noticing that Draco Malfoy is having a little trouble with the calculus spell and has mastered the trig segment while Hermione Granger has mastered the calculus spell and is having trouble with the trig."
"And you think that I should pair the two of them up next week correct."
"Exactly."
"Well, I think that's a great idea, I was going to pair David with Hermione and you with Draco, but seeing as how you and David seem to work well enough together I could change it around, but only just this once."
"Thanks Professor."
The Professor shook his head and mumbled, "I'll have to tell Dumbledore how quickly his nieces have decided to get down to business."
"What was that Professor?"
"Nothing miss Michaels"
Tyler pondered this momentarily and walked back over to sit with David.
"Sorry about that, I was just putting a plan into action. Oh and I managed to make us partners on the next assignment at the same time."
"Wicked."
Tyler chuckled at this. "I love that word."
"Well good, I'll keep using it then."
"You do that."
The bell rang and they left the classroom. David walked with her until their paths parted.
"See you in astrology Tyler," David stated as he started to turn the corner.
"It's a date," winked Tyler.
Draco caught up with her about then. "Forgetting about me already are you Tyler?"
"Nope, how could anyone ever forget you?"
"Aww, how sentimental."
"Hey have I shown you my belly button ring yet?" Asked Tyler changing the subject.
"Nope lets see it."
Tyler stopped to unbutton her robes showing off her lace-up jeans and teddy bear half shirt and, of course, her naval.
"Wicked."
Tyler just laughed and buttoned her robes back up and allowed Draco to escort her to the Slytherin Dungeons.
Tyler's Day
Tyler woke up at the usual 6:30 and hopped out of bed. She hadn't used an alarm clock for years; if she ever overslept Laticia would tickle her feat and make her get up.
She walked over and stroked Laticia for a second before dressing quickly and moving over to the mirror to look at her blonde tresses currently in braided pigtails. She sighed heavily. Unlike Silver her hair was a mess in the morning if she didn't braid it at night.
She was getting tired of her look, tired of guys assuming that because she was blonde she had nothing better to do than flirt outrageously with every one of them, not that she didn't enjoy it, she just preferred intelligent conversation every once in awhile.
She picked up her beauty charm book and leafed through it while unbraiding her hair, finding the page she wanted. She lifted her wand and muttered a few incantations, just enough to darken her hair and give it a trim, her braids had left it wavy and it looked, in a word, perfect.
Smiling she finished off with a few make-up charms and waited for her mirror's approval.
"Just lovely darling, like a picture."
"Thanks," she replied and walked over to pick up Laticia and wrap her around her shoulders.
"Come on girl, let's go down to common room for a little while," cooed Tyler softly.
Tyler walked down into the common room and found no one else awake. Sighing she picked up a novel she had recently purchased curled into a chair to read.
About halfway through the first chapter Tyler was interrupted by a delighted shriek and looked up to see Pansy rushing towards her.
"Oh my goodness Tyler, I absolutely love it!"
"Thanks Pansy, do you think it looks better than before?"
"I loved your hair before but now it matches your eyebrows and you look older, the guys are really going to follow you now."
"Like they didn't already?" She asked laughing with her friend. "There's something else I want to do will you help me with it?"
"Sure no problem."
Tyler, can you hear me, Tyler this is an emergency!
Startled she quickly responded.
What it is Silver? What happened?
Tyler, bring your beauty charm book to the Gryffindor tower ASAP. The entrance is the fat lady in the pink dress and the password is equality. The girls dorms are upstairs on the right now hurry!
"Oh Pansy, I'll be right back I have to go see what's wrong with Silver."
"Alright I'll help you when you're finished."
"Thanks I don't think it will take long, can you take Laticia back upstairs for me?"
"Yea I can do that."
After accio'ing her beauty charm book Tyler hurried along the corridors until she came across the portrait of the fat lady. She managed to get out "equality" between breaths. It turns out that it's a bit of a run between the Slytherin Dungeons and the Gryffindor Tower, and it's upstairs the whole bloody way.
Ok Silver I'm here, how do you get your room?
The door on the right leads to the girls' dorms; my room is the 4th on the left.
All right I'll be right there.
Tyler hurried up the stairs, yes more bloody stairs, and found the door to Silver's room. She rushed in and saw Silver standing in front of the mirror looking very much like Medusa with her hair in complete tangles, and she couldn't stop herself from laughing.
After Silver had apologized for scaring her she told Tyler she wanted to layer it and agreed to her idea for the coloring. So Tyler went to work.
Tyler was always more careful when she did someone else's hair; she didn't want to be blamed if they didn't like it. So she only did what she was asked and a few simple make-up charms.
When she was finished she stood back to examine her work.
"You look ravishing darling," commented Tyler. "I've wanted to do that for years but you never let me."
"Well thanks Tyler, you saved me," Silver responded laughing.
Then they both decided that they should go down for something to eat.
Tyler spotted Pansy right away and left Silver to fend for herself.
"Ok you ready Tyler?"
"Yea, lets do this in the bathroom though ok?"
"Well yea, people would look at us weird otherwise, you still got your book?"
"Of course, now lets hurry."
Both girls rushed off to the bathroom and Tyler removed her robes so that she was standing in a pair of lace-up jeans of a half shirt.
"I didn't know you wore muggle clothing."
"Yea I love it."
"Me too, it's great!"
"Ok just do it quick cause I know it will hurt, even with magic."
"Alright do you have the ring you want?"
"Yea I picked one out earlier," answered Tyler handing her the ring.
"Ok than close your eyes."
Tyler closed her eyes tight while Pansy muttered an incantation and then she felt the sharp, and very acute, pain.
"Oh that did hurt, can you imagine doing it the muggle way?"
"Nope, I had mine done a few years ago. Do you like it?"
Tyler looked down at her naval, a silver ring with a small, light green peridot stone (her birth stone) and a circle of diamonds, now decorated her belly button.
"I love it, now lets get to the great hall, I'm starving."
After Tyler had replaced her robe the girls walked into the great hall. As soon as she entered she felt Silver watching her and looked up.
Just so you know Tyler I have noticed that something is different, I just can't figure out what it is yet, or why you would want to change anything
You're not the only person who gets tired of your look Silver, let me know when you've figured it out, and later I'll show you the other thing I did.
Amused that Silver couldn't figure it out Tyler sat down next to Draco and Pansy and received many quite a bit of fuss over her hair, and later good news about the Ron/Pansy plan.
(.)(=^.^=)(.)
The rest of the day was somewhat un-eventful. She found she enjoyed having all her classes with Draco and sat with him and Pansy during most of them. She was however surprised when she had Draco in her last class, Arithmancy.
Since Arithmancy is a voluntary subject all four of the houses were in the class. Ravenclaw made up the majority of the class while Gryffindor and Slytherin were about equal and Hufflepuff made up the remaining students.
Realizing she forgot to ask her previous teacher something Tyler told Draco to run along ahead of her and was, herself, very nearly late for class. When she arrived she took the remaining seat next to a Ravenclaw by the name of David Stocker.
She hadn't had time to get to know any Ravenclaws yet and really enjoyed working with David. They had some free time at the end of the lesson so they just sat back and chatted for the remaining 15 minutes, while Tyler took in her partner with a little more leisure.
David was fairly tall, she guessed about 5'11", and he had a nice slender athletic build that was revealed by his lounging leisurely in his chair with his robes open to give him some air (it was quite warm). He was, being muggle-born, wearing muggle clothing, a simple black t-shirt and a pair of black slightly baggy jeans and to her amusement Scooby-doo boxers. His brown hair was frosted and spiked and his intelligent crystal blue eyes (gawd did she love blue eyes) were warmly lit with enjoyment against his very nice, slightly tanned complexion.
"So have you ever been over to America?" Asked Tyler after she finished copying down the homework assignment.
"Yes actually, my family has a summer house over in Northern California and we visit every year, my family is in love with the redwoods."
"Yea they're beautiful, we live up in Oregon which is less than a day's drive from the redwoods. We usually use Floo Powder but my dad spent some time studding muggles and absolutely loves their cars, so occasionally we drive down and enjoy the view."
"Sounds like a blast, have you had anytime to travel around the united- kingdom?"
"Yep, a lot of my heritage comes from England and Scotland so we visit all the time, plus my mother loves to travel."
"So, what subject do you enjoy most?"
"I'm actually really looking forward to Astrology tomorrow night, it was my best class at Avalon, that and divination, but I heard the divination teacher here is a joke."
"She is, but the Astrology teacher is great, really knows what he's talking about. You do know that the class is at 10 o'clock right?"
"Yea, and it goes until midnight because they only have it one day a week, I love the later classes, 10 o'clock is one of the best times to look at the stars, plus midnight is the hour of lovers." She replied giving him one of her 'sure to swoon' dazzling smiles.
"Hey, we'll have that class together, would you like to be my partner?" David asked rewarding her with an equally stunning smile.
"Yea I'd love to." She answered still grinning. "Hey we're being assigned partners for our next assignment in here right?"
"Yea, I believe so."
"Great I'll be right back."
Tyler jumped up quickly and walked over to her teacher's desk.
"Excuse me, Professor?"
"Yes miss Michaels?"
"I couldn't help noticing that Draco Malfoy is having a little trouble with the calculus spell and has mastered the trig segment while Hermione Granger has mastered the calculus spell and is having trouble with the trig."
"And you think that I should pair the two of them up next week correct."
"Exactly."
"Well, I think that's a great idea, I was going to pair David with Hermione and you with Draco, but seeing as how you and David seem to work well enough together I could change it around, but only just this once."
"Thanks Professor."
The Professor shook his head and mumbled, "I'll have to tell Dumbledore how quickly his nieces have decided to get down to business."
"What was that Professor?"
"Nothing miss Michaels"
Tyler pondered this momentarily and walked back over to sit with David.
"Sorry about that, I was just putting a plan into action. Oh and I managed to make us partners on the next assignment at the same time."
"Wicked."
Tyler chuckled at this. "I love that word."
"Well good, I'll keep using it then."
"You do that."
The bell rang and they left the classroom. David walked with her until their paths parted.
"See you in astrology Tyler," David stated as he started to turn the corner.
"It's a date," winked Tyler.
Draco caught up with her about then. "Forgetting about me already are you Tyler?"
"Nope, how could anyone ever forget you?"
"Aww, how sentimental."
"Hey have I shown you my belly button ring yet?" Asked Tyler changing the subject.
"Nope lets see it."
Tyler stopped to unbutton her robes showing off her lace-up jeans and teddy bear half shirt and, of course, her naval.
"Wicked."
Tyler just laughed and buttoned her robes back up and allowed Draco to escort her to the Slytherin Dungeons.