(A/n: So sorry to my readers—I have been totally obsessed with Virtual Hogwarts and have neglected my poor little fic! Here we go though!)
Rachel froze, still half out of the water.
"Let it be a blind person, or a ghost," she though silently, and slipped down into the embarrassingly transparent bath.
A tall read-headed boy (to her horror) marched right inside like he owned the place and threw his cloak on the poolside bench. He was whistling loudly and had absolutely no idea what he had just walked in on.
"Um, Sirius? It's my night for the bathroom."
The poor guy jumped nearly out of his skin, and quickly went from pale to red and back again.
"Well, gee Rachel if I'd known you felt that way about me I never would'a…"
"GET OUT OF HERE YOU PERVERT! YOU'RE NOT EVEN A PREFECT!!" She interrupted, going furiously red.
"You thought Paul would have kept something like this from his best pal? Gosh it's getting to where a guy can't even take a bath without being nagged by some chick…." He picked up his cloak.
"Maybe we can pick this up later, if you change your…" he stopped when he saw her contemptuous look, and flashed a cheesy grin. "See ya when I see ya. Oh, and nice tan line."
"I'LL KNOCK YOUR TEETH OUT WEASLEY!!" she bellowed, noticing that the Mermaid had returned. As soon Sirius disappeared behind the door, she jumped out and grabbed a towel. With it securely wrapped around her, she hurried to the door and clicked the lock, promising to sock Paul as soon as she saw him.
She stayed in fifteen more minutes, waiting until her fingers were nice and wrinkly. Changing quickly, she picked up her shower bag, waved goodbye to the strange mermaid, blew out the torch next to the door and closed it behind her. On the way down the hall, she noticed a group of about ten 3rd year boys holding small colorful balls and talking excitedly. (a/n: c'mon now, let's not even go there)
Rachel heard a particulary strange looking one whisper, "You know that friend of Henry's, Sireus or Sirius or something? He said if we go in a room down this hall we could see a naked girl!!" They all looked at this boy with awe and embarrassment; as if he had said a particularly bad swear word. Rachel was reminded of a scene from the muggle movie "Sixteen Candles", and narrowed her eyes. She would sock Sirius too. Guys suck.
The next morning, Rachel was furiously trying to finish some History of Magic homework that she had forgotten about, and scarfing down a bagel at the same time. She had not seen Sirius or Paul since "the incident", but had paid a 3rd year boy a sickle to put a dead spider in their beds.
"Hey Jac, do you know when the third Goblin Rebellion was?" she asked, furiously searching through her textbook.
"You got me. Binn's gave us a different assignment." Jackie gave her friend an apologetic look, and leaned over.
"By the way, yesterday I heard Angelina crying in the bathroom. It's been really rough on her, ya'll not talking and everything. I know it was horrible what she did, but maybe you can talk to her about it? I dunno…just a thought." She thwomped Will on the back of the head and waved, leaving the Great Hall.
Cathy was down the table a little bit, chatting animatedly with some other Huffle's. Feeling a little strange to be sitting at the Hufflepuff table without her friends, Rachel moved her stuff to Ravenclaw's. Shelooked up and down the long table; still no Paul or Sirius. They were probably up to something.
She put it out of her mind, focused on finishing this paper before Professor Binn's found out….
Later that day, Rachel was walking down the Second Floor Corridor when she heard crying coming from a bathroom down the hall.
Now, this wasn't a rare event, it was Moaning Myrtle's bathroom…and the poor ghost was always freaking out about something. Rachel considered continuing to the Great Hall, but her small Hufflepuffy side got the better of her, and she opened the creaky door.
To her shock, it was Angelina, sitting one of the sinks facing the window. Myrtle was hovering nearby, obviously not used to being the one not upset. She gave Rachel a quizzical look, and floated over to her normal post in the broken stall.
Rachel sat down her bag near the door, and sat down quietly next to Angelina. They both sat there in silence for a minute, staring at the clouds floating by.
"I broke up with Henry." Angelina muttered, wiping her eyes. "It wasn't worth losing all of ya'll." She looked cautiously over at Rachel, who was still staring out the window.
To Angelina's astonishment, Rachel smiled.
"It's not like he's even hot." She said, making them both laugh. "I mean, hello, President of the Gobstones club?" She hugged her brown-eyed friend.
"No more sneaking around though, capishe?" Rachel asked, a slight scowl on her face. Angelina nodded. "You'll know all about my broom-closet lovers. Promise."
Rachel made a sickened face and stuck out her tongue.
"Let's get some lunch, shall we?" She grabbed her bag, and the two girls marched off to the Great Hall.
By the time they met up with their friends, everyone in school knew of the breakup. It had been rather public as Rachel came to find out; Henry had been flirting with some Slytherin from the club and when Angelina saw them, he had blown it off as nothing. Shortly after, he must have insulted her because she had apparently socked him the face, screamed, "It's over!" and run from the corridor.
"Um…Rachel? It's 11:30…are you even awake?"
The voice was slightly hazy….Rachel waved it away absently.
"You should probably get up to bed….if Rowena catches you she might dock points…"
There it was…that blasted voice again. She might have just turned over had it not JABBED her in the side!!!
"WHAT?" she yelled, jumping up. It was Paul.
"I just thought you might like to know, you fell asleep doing homework here again." He stuck out his tongue at her and trudged back up to the boy's dorm, giving her a nice view of his Jack-O-Lantern pj's.
She rubbed her tired head, and picked up the scattered books and parchment. With a yawn, she vowed to study earlier tomorrow and went to bed.
(a/n: Sorry its so short, but It may take forever to finish it so here's what I've got so far----more to come later----oh and sorry too about the going to sleep thing---maybe it'll be an every-other chap tradition!! So, what do you think?)