As I said in the previous chapter, It get's better. This chapter is kind of a digression, admittedly, but I do like the third chapter. It's kind of a switch. My, my teasing the readers, how impolite of me! (Hah the readers, all TWO of you... thanks for reading though.)
Part 2-
Ragen pulled her jeans up her legs and buttoned them around her waist. She grabbed her robe and flung it over her shoulders. She admired herself in the mirror and then decided she needed a belt. She walked to her trunk and started digging through it for her brown belt. Ragen realized she couldn't find it.
"Lil, have you seen my belt?" She asked, still looking into the trunk with her hands on her hips. When there was no response except the drone of Trina Oliver complaining about how she wished she was in Ravenclaw with her boyfriend. Ragen looked up without moving her head and shifted her eyes over to the bed next to hers. Lily was sprawled out on her bed with her clothes rumpled and her sheet covering up her body, the comforter laying in it's usual position, in a pile on the floor. "Lil, come on, get up." She said and poked her in the side.
"No Mommy, I don't want to dance in the rain with you my Karma's fine." She mumbled in a half-dream state. Ragen raised and eyebrow and shook her head. She picked up her pillow off the floor and raised it above her head. She beat Lily in the head with it and Lily swat at her with her hands.
"You and your Karma are going to be late for breakfast." She said and Lily grabbed the pillow from her and mashed it on her face.
"Ragen, all Mudbloods are that lazy." Said a cruel voice of Vanessa Malfoy. She stood by her bed twirling a string of pearls around her index finger and staring at them spacily. Lily stopped putting pressure on the pillow and sighed into it. Ragen turned around abruptly and squinted at her.
"Vanessa, you are the only person in the entire House to think like that. The only person to be that closed minded, that inconsiderate, that..."
"Someone has to be outspoken here." She said and dropped the pearls on the top of her robes. "If I'm going to have to be a Gryffin-dork, I'm not going to be nice to the scum that's in here."
"If ANYONE, anyone at all is scum, it's you and your bigot attitude!" Trina said. Vanessa looked at her menacingly and headed towards the door.
"You know, you really don't have room to talk, Oliver. All you go on about day and night is Westly Longbottom, Mr. King Ravenclaw." She said. Trina glared at her but then smiled.
"Go eat with your lover, I mean brother..." She said, still smiling.
"Disgusting." She mumbled and left. Vanessa was put in the Gryffindor house in their first year by the Sorting Hat, much to the disgust to everyone involved. Lucius Malfoy, her older brother was always trying to contest the decision made four years prior. She was always giving Lily a hard time because of her lineage. Lily looked into the darkness behind her pillow and then felt the air rush behind her ears as Ragen pulled the pillow away from her face. She looked at her sympathetically. Ragen pulled up on Lily's wrists and sat her up on the edge of her bed.
Ragen seemed like she was about to say something comforting to Lily but, then the toilet flushed and Ruth came out of the bathroom. She was always very chipper in the mornings and came skipping into the bedroom. Lily followed her with her eyes disgustingly.
"Do you know to what extent I hate you?" Lily growled at Ruth as she put her shoes on. Ruth crossed her eyes and stuck out her tongue at Lily's comment and started jumping on the bed. Trina laughed at them and headed out the door to the Great Hall.
"I'll go get Sharon." Ruth said and bounded off the bed when no laughs were received from Lily and Ragen. She walked out the door and left the two girls alone to discuss what ever boring news they always had to discuss.
She passed the Head Girl, Emily Adams who grabbed her at the shoulder and told her that she needed to be at breakfast in ten minutes and she didn't have her robes on. Ruth also made a point to note that Emily's tie was uneven. She knocked on the sixth year girls dorm and then made her way inside to find Sharon. Whitney Harrison smiled jovially at her as she came in and Ruth asked where Sharon was. Whitney informed her that she was still getting ready. Ruth went into the bathroom and saw Sharon messing with her short blonde hair and staring right into the mirror with anguish.
"I still don't know how you can take so long to get ready when your hair is so frieken short." Ruth said and stood next to her in front of the mirror. She tugged at the loose, light brown, hair at the end of her twin braids on either sides of her face. Sharon sighed and flattened the tops of her hair and wiped the excess eye makeup out from under her eyes.
"The reason," Sharon began "I cut my hair this short was so I didn't have to do anything with it and then this whole long hair trend came about and I'm stuck like this." She said and stuck out her tongue and bit it as a sign of her disgust. Ruth jumped on the counter and swung her feet, kicking the cabinets below. Sharon grumbled and headed out of the bathroom. The two of them went towards the fifth year dormitory to get Ragen and Lily and passed Emily. She was looking down at her watch impatiently and when the two of them came in sight she raised her flat hand and still looked at her watch.
"Eight minuets until breakfast and you are still not in your robes, Ruth." She said and looked down her sharp, pale nose at her. Her waist length blonde hair was down and had two semi-thick twists at her temples. She always looked like that, angry with a twist in her hair.
"Em, you've been Head Girl, what, a month and you're already trying to be a dictator?" Sharon said and threw an arm over her shoulder. The two walked a few feet and then Emily stopped in her tracks and wheeled on her heels to Ruth. Sharon put her hands on her hips and looked at Emily irritably.
"Seven minuets, and it takes at least that to get down there!" Emily warned.
"Then you better get going, huh?" Ruth said with a smirk and jogged to the dormitory. Sharon rolled her eyes with a shrug and followed suit. Lily and Ragen were already in the Common Room when Ruth and Sharon realized they weren't in the dorm. Marcus was almost sleeping in an armchair in front of a chess game between James and Sirius. Sirius was winning as he usually did. Sirius looked up when Sharon came in the room and knocked over a pawn. James dropped his shoulders and looked at him with his head tilted. He attempted to get his friend's attention but he was up and over to Sharon very quickly.
"Hey, how's it hangin?" He asked and hooked arms with her. She looked down at his arm in the crook of her elbow and then at his face. He got the hint and took it out. "I guess it's a little low..."
"Shut up, you perv." She said and rolled her eyes. "Come on, Emily is gonna have a conniption if we don't get to breakfast on time. What will Dumbledore think of her leadership skills? Gasp!" She said sarcastically and raised a hand to her lips. "James who are we playing Saturday?" She asked. He looked over at Reumus and then back at Sharon.
"Hufflepuff." He said haughtily. Sharon smiled, content with that information and they all went towards the portrait hole.
After breakfast they went their separate ways. Lily, Ruth, James, Sirius, Reumus, and Peter heading to Defense Against the Dark Arts, Sharon to Care of Magical Creatures, and Ragen and Marcus to Muggle Studies. Lily and Ruth entered in the classroom chattering ferociously but were interrupted by a loud, high-pitched squeal from the front of the room. The whole classroom looked to the desk and followed the new Professor in the shimmery blue robes with their eyes to the doorway where Lily and Ruth stood. She squeezed Ruth in a big, happy hug and let go with a beaming smile.
"Ruthie, I'm so excited about this arrangement! I think we'll have a super time!" She said and scrunched her shoulders up to her neck in happiness.
"Super." Ruth said with an unconvincing smile that her aunt didn't take as a hint of her distaste. She headed to their seats at the desks in the second row and folded one leg under the other as they sat down. "Lily, I'm going to die a slow, painful, lonely death of embarrassment because of this woman!" She said and opened up her book with her lips sticking out and her eyebrows dropped.
"If the death is lonely, how embarrassing can it really be, Ruth?" Lily pointed out and looked over at her.
"Point taken, BUT the fact still remains that the woman is going to make this year hell for me." Ruth said and shook her head. Suddenly, Sirius came running up to his seat in the raised level behind her. He tapped on Ruth's shoulder almost violently. "What, what! Oh, Jesus Sirius what do you need!"
"How do you know the Professor?" He asked intently, crossing his hands in and leaning on his arms. His neck, almost resting on her shoulder.
"She's my aunt, sad to say." She said. Sirius seemed in a state of happiness after hearing this. Sylvia knocked on the pedestal she stood at with her wand and smiled at Ruth while the class came to attention.
"Oh, goodness! How are you all? I'm Professor Perkins." She said with a small, wiggly wave. "I'm so excited to be teaching at Hogwarts, I went here myself in my youth. I think it's just so special! Now, we're already a month behind so let's get started! Um, yes?" She said when a hand raised on the Slytherin side of the room. It was Narcissa Walters, Vanessa's best friend.
"We've already completed the first three chapters of the book, Professor." She pointed out. Professor Perkins made an 'O' with her lips and then morphed it back into the bright smile. It was almost painful to watch her smile that much.
Part 2-
Ragen pulled her jeans up her legs and buttoned them around her waist. She grabbed her robe and flung it over her shoulders. She admired herself in the mirror and then decided she needed a belt. She walked to her trunk and started digging through it for her brown belt. Ragen realized she couldn't find it.
"Lil, have you seen my belt?" She asked, still looking into the trunk with her hands on her hips. When there was no response except the drone of Trina Oliver complaining about how she wished she was in Ravenclaw with her boyfriend. Ragen looked up without moving her head and shifted her eyes over to the bed next to hers. Lily was sprawled out on her bed with her clothes rumpled and her sheet covering up her body, the comforter laying in it's usual position, in a pile on the floor. "Lil, come on, get up." She said and poked her in the side.
"No Mommy, I don't want to dance in the rain with you my Karma's fine." She mumbled in a half-dream state. Ragen raised and eyebrow and shook her head. She picked up her pillow off the floor and raised it above her head. She beat Lily in the head with it and Lily swat at her with her hands.
"You and your Karma are going to be late for breakfast." She said and Lily grabbed the pillow from her and mashed it on her face.
"Ragen, all Mudbloods are that lazy." Said a cruel voice of Vanessa Malfoy. She stood by her bed twirling a string of pearls around her index finger and staring at them spacily. Lily stopped putting pressure on the pillow and sighed into it. Ragen turned around abruptly and squinted at her.
"Vanessa, you are the only person in the entire House to think like that. The only person to be that closed minded, that inconsiderate, that..."
"Someone has to be outspoken here." She said and dropped the pearls on the top of her robes. "If I'm going to have to be a Gryffin-dork, I'm not going to be nice to the scum that's in here."
"If ANYONE, anyone at all is scum, it's you and your bigot attitude!" Trina said. Vanessa looked at her menacingly and headed towards the door.
"You know, you really don't have room to talk, Oliver. All you go on about day and night is Westly Longbottom, Mr. King Ravenclaw." She said. Trina glared at her but then smiled.
"Go eat with your lover, I mean brother..." She said, still smiling.
"Disgusting." She mumbled and left. Vanessa was put in the Gryffindor house in their first year by the Sorting Hat, much to the disgust to everyone involved. Lucius Malfoy, her older brother was always trying to contest the decision made four years prior. She was always giving Lily a hard time because of her lineage. Lily looked into the darkness behind her pillow and then felt the air rush behind her ears as Ragen pulled the pillow away from her face. She looked at her sympathetically. Ragen pulled up on Lily's wrists and sat her up on the edge of her bed.
Ragen seemed like she was about to say something comforting to Lily but, then the toilet flushed and Ruth came out of the bathroom. She was always very chipper in the mornings and came skipping into the bedroom. Lily followed her with her eyes disgustingly.
"Do you know to what extent I hate you?" Lily growled at Ruth as she put her shoes on. Ruth crossed her eyes and stuck out her tongue at Lily's comment and started jumping on the bed. Trina laughed at them and headed out the door to the Great Hall.
"I'll go get Sharon." Ruth said and bounded off the bed when no laughs were received from Lily and Ragen. She walked out the door and left the two girls alone to discuss what ever boring news they always had to discuss.
She passed the Head Girl, Emily Adams who grabbed her at the shoulder and told her that she needed to be at breakfast in ten minutes and she didn't have her robes on. Ruth also made a point to note that Emily's tie was uneven. She knocked on the sixth year girls dorm and then made her way inside to find Sharon. Whitney Harrison smiled jovially at her as she came in and Ruth asked where Sharon was. Whitney informed her that she was still getting ready. Ruth went into the bathroom and saw Sharon messing with her short blonde hair and staring right into the mirror with anguish.
"I still don't know how you can take so long to get ready when your hair is so frieken short." Ruth said and stood next to her in front of the mirror. She tugged at the loose, light brown, hair at the end of her twin braids on either sides of her face. Sharon sighed and flattened the tops of her hair and wiped the excess eye makeup out from under her eyes.
"The reason," Sharon began "I cut my hair this short was so I didn't have to do anything with it and then this whole long hair trend came about and I'm stuck like this." She said and stuck out her tongue and bit it as a sign of her disgust. Ruth jumped on the counter and swung her feet, kicking the cabinets below. Sharon grumbled and headed out of the bathroom. The two of them went towards the fifth year dormitory to get Ragen and Lily and passed Emily. She was looking down at her watch impatiently and when the two of them came in sight she raised her flat hand and still looked at her watch.
"Eight minuets until breakfast and you are still not in your robes, Ruth." She said and looked down her sharp, pale nose at her. Her waist length blonde hair was down and had two semi-thick twists at her temples. She always looked like that, angry with a twist in her hair.
"Em, you've been Head Girl, what, a month and you're already trying to be a dictator?" Sharon said and threw an arm over her shoulder. The two walked a few feet and then Emily stopped in her tracks and wheeled on her heels to Ruth. Sharon put her hands on her hips and looked at Emily irritably.
"Seven minuets, and it takes at least that to get down there!" Emily warned.
"Then you better get going, huh?" Ruth said with a smirk and jogged to the dormitory. Sharon rolled her eyes with a shrug and followed suit. Lily and Ragen were already in the Common Room when Ruth and Sharon realized they weren't in the dorm. Marcus was almost sleeping in an armchair in front of a chess game between James and Sirius. Sirius was winning as he usually did. Sirius looked up when Sharon came in the room and knocked over a pawn. James dropped his shoulders and looked at him with his head tilted. He attempted to get his friend's attention but he was up and over to Sharon very quickly.
"Hey, how's it hangin?" He asked and hooked arms with her. She looked down at his arm in the crook of her elbow and then at his face. He got the hint and took it out. "I guess it's a little low..."
"Shut up, you perv." She said and rolled her eyes. "Come on, Emily is gonna have a conniption if we don't get to breakfast on time. What will Dumbledore think of her leadership skills? Gasp!" She said sarcastically and raised a hand to her lips. "James who are we playing Saturday?" She asked. He looked over at Reumus and then back at Sharon.
"Hufflepuff." He said haughtily. Sharon smiled, content with that information and they all went towards the portrait hole.
After breakfast they went their separate ways. Lily, Ruth, James, Sirius, Reumus, and Peter heading to Defense Against the Dark Arts, Sharon to Care of Magical Creatures, and Ragen and Marcus to Muggle Studies. Lily and Ruth entered in the classroom chattering ferociously but were interrupted by a loud, high-pitched squeal from the front of the room. The whole classroom looked to the desk and followed the new Professor in the shimmery blue robes with their eyes to the doorway where Lily and Ruth stood. She squeezed Ruth in a big, happy hug and let go with a beaming smile.
"Ruthie, I'm so excited about this arrangement! I think we'll have a super time!" She said and scrunched her shoulders up to her neck in happiness.
"Super." Ruth said with an unconvincing smile that her aunt didn't take as a hint of her distaste. She headed to their seats at the desks in the second row and folded one leg under the other as they sat down. "Lily, I'm going to die a slow, painful, lonely death of embarrassment because of this woman!" She said and opened up her book with her lips sticking out and her eyebrows dropped.
"If the death is lonely, how embarrassing can it really be, Ruth?" Lily pointed out and looked over at her.
"Point taken, BUT the fact still remains that the woman is going to make this year hell for me." Ruth said and shook her head. Suddenly, Sirius came running up to his seat in the raised level behind her. He tapped on Ruth's shoulder almost violently. "What, what! Oh, Jesus Sirius what do you need!"
"How do you know the Professor?" He asked intently, crossing his hands in and leaning on his arms. His neck, almost resting on her shoulder.
"She's my aunt, sad to say." She said. Sirius seemed in a state of happiness after hearing this. Sylvia knocked on the pedestal she stood at with her wand and smiled at Ruth while the class came to attention.
"Oh, goodness! How are you all? I'm Professor Perkins." She said with a small, wiggly wave. "I'm so excited to be teaching at Hogwarts, I went here myself in my youth. I think it's just so special! Now, we're already a month behind so let's get started! Um, yes?" She said when a hand raised on the Slytherin side of the room. It was Narcissa Walters, Vanessa's best friend.
"We've already completed the first three chapters of the book, Professor." She pointed out. Professor Perkins made an 'O' with her lips and then morphed it back into the bright smile. It was almost painful to watch her smile that much.
