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"The whisking away by a light summer's breeze, the crashing of waves upon shore. The light of the morning, the darkness of midnight, that is where I belong." I repeated in a monotone-like voice. Apparently, along with learning the magical history of wizards and witches, we also had to learn about poetry. Muggle, twentieth-century poetry in more specific terms, if you really want to know.
Actually, in my opinion, the Elisa H.G.'s poems weren't very good. But it wasn't like I could do anything about it.
"WHAT the bloody hell, are you doing?????" Ron cried, scaring me to death and almost blowing him to itty-bitty little Ronnie pieces with my wand.
"What do you mean?? I'm memorizing a poem for class!!!" I barked, matching his tone.
He snatched the paper out of my grasp and held it above my reach. This was one of the times when I wished I wasn't so vertically challenged. "It's the weekend for Merlin's sake!!! And your muggle friends are coming over in an hour!! Shouldn't you be jumping for joy like every other NORMAL human being??" He cried, looking miraculously abashed.
"Well... I'm nervous about seeing Anna and them again. Studying helps me forget about my nervousness." I grumbled, seizing my piece of parchment as he lowered his arm to scratch his nose.
I glared at him just for measure, and continued reading. Within each heart of an innocent child, within each soul of aged old wisdom. The recklessness of a fiery spirit, the serene peace of above..
I didn't stop there because I wanted to. OH NO... It was because of RON and his SNATCHING again. "RON!!" I whined.
He rolled his eyes at me. HE rolled his eyes at ME. "C'mon, lighten up. Let's go outside." Before I even got the chance to protest, he grabbed me by my elbow and practically dragged me out the front entrance.
"Mate!!" He called as soon as we reached the outskirts of the lake, seeing our emerald-eyed friend. Harry jogged up to us, as I folded my arms across my chest and pouted. I mean really pouted. Not like a flirty, making your lips look bigger than they actually were, pouting. Very Unhermione-ish of me, eh?
"Hey," He said greeting us, giving me a strange look. "What irked her?" He asked Ron gesturing to me. Oh yes, just ignore the girl and talk about her in third person, why don't you?
"She's mad at me I think, because I forced her to get some healthy fresh air and take a break from her studies." He said, grinning at me. I scowled at the both of them, and gave them a little push. "Your lucky you two are my best friends. If anybody else did that to me, I would've done a Fred and George Weasley on them." With that, I walked toward the nearest vacant tree and sat down beneath it. God, I looked like I belonged in one of those cheesy college campus brochures.
I took out a book from inside my pocket. Think shrinking charm. They came over and looked at each other. "She's hopeless." Five minutes later, they were playing catch with a random quaffle nicked from the quidditch field.
Now don't get me wrong, reading in this peaceful environment certainly did not almost make me break down. No, actually it was my nerves that did it. I actually managed to get through the rest of the half hour until a loud maniacal beep sounded nearly scaring all the occupants of the grass, which were not many, since it was a Hogsmeade weekend. I practically flew all the way across half the length of the castle before I got to the front entrance and spotted Evan stepping out of the cab first. Rather clumsily may I add? "EVAN!!" I cried, wrapping him up in one of the largest hugs I could manage. His shoulder length black hair tickled the top of my head as always.
"Hey, watch it girl, that's my boyfriend your showing your intimate feelings too." A familiar blonde stepped out next and grinned at me, opening up her arms in a welcoming gesture. We started laughing hysterically together and hugged. "Oh my freakin' god, you have got to give me details later." I whispered into her ear. She smiled and broke away, so I could see Anna climb out. Her hair was piled up into an elegant chiffon bun and she had on catty Gucci sunglasses. She lowered her sunglasses revealing two twinkling hazel colored eyes. "Daahhh-ling, is that YOU?" She asked putting a hand to her mouth as she said the word 'you.'
"Anna!" I shrieked and nearly knocked her over as I squeezed her as tightly as my hug would let me. By now, Draco had already strolled into the area and being bombarded by Larissa's hugs and kisses. In a friendly way, of course. I whirled around as I heard harsh breathing, as two males came running up. "Is something wrong?? We heard a shriek!!" Harry gasped with his hands on his knees.
I smiled at my two best friends. "You remember Evan, Larissa, and Anna." They rolled their eyes. "Oh, no wonder. I told you not to worry mate." Ron advised. After that, they all seemingly smiled, hugged, shook hands, etc, with each other. Anna loosened her bun as all her auburn red hair fell past her shoulders and she took off her sunglasses and stuck them in her back pocket. "Hey... I remember you... you're the one who looked like me!!" Ron exclaimed in a childish way.
It was true now that I examined them more closely. They both had the red hair, although Ron's was lighter and looked like it had dark orange streaks, while Anna's had dark red streaks. They're eyes were not the exact same shade, but it was close. And their facial structure was a bit similar, so I guess they could pass for siblings. I sincerely hoped they would never do it though.
"Well! Now that we're all done with this, come see Hoo.. er, I mean, my boarding school!" I said quickly covering up. Not very well, but they seemed to believe me. "That is ONE impressive boarding school..." Evan commented looking skyward at the astronomy tower.
Dumbledore had explained to me what would happen when they came. He said he had put a charm on the school so they would see it in a wizard or witch's point of view, and he had frozen the staircases and portraits. Plus, he whisked Mr. Filch and his cat away temporarily. He didn't seem to want to tell me where. He also made it a Hogsmeade weekend, so most of the students were out and away in the village, leaving us with plenty of time before they came rushing back. Now, the only students in the building were a few second and first years, Ron and Harry, Ginny, Draco, and a seventh year who was kept in to make up a Transfiguration test. They were all instructed to wear muggle clothes.
EVEN the professors had to look like they belonged. I was eternally grateful for all this trouble Dumbledore was going through to let Draco and I see our friends again. "You didn't have lunch yet, did you?" I asked them. They shook their heads vaguely as they glanced curiously at the large hall and floor length windows. I led them to the entrance to the dining area and pushed open the two oak double doors and walked towards the Gryffindor table. Only a second year and a first year were occupying the room as they sat quietly at the Hufflepuff table.
"Where is everyone?" Anna asked as we sat down in our seats. I glanced at the rows and rows of chairs and responded, "Oh, we're supposed to have an outing today, but some people decided not to go." Ron ignored our conversation, as he was the first to reach out and grab a pastrami sandwich in the middle of the table. After that, it was all grab and eat and grab some more.
"Ginny!" Harry cried through a mouthful of food.
She approached the table looking at Harry in a reprimanding way. "I ALWAYS tell my brothers to not talk with their mouths full. Are they finally rubbing off on you??" He gave her an abashed grin and swallowed down the rest of his food.
Ginny slid into one of the chairs next to her brother. "Hi! You remember me, don't you?"
"Oh course, you're the one who Jarvis told me was bloody sexy." Evan exclaimed. I did not look at Ron. Instead I turned to Ginny to see her blush madly. "He said that?" She was suddenly grinning like an idiot. It took a lot of things to make her look as ditzy as that. Evan nodded and looked suspiciously at Ron and Harry.
Harry's eyebrows were creased and he was now picking at his food in a distracted way. More like see no evil; hear no evil. It was probably because he was overly jealous. Ron's eyebrows flew all the way up touching his hairline and he froze mid-bite. There was still food in his mouth, by the way. It was kind of disgusting. Ginny pushed her brother's mouth in place again and she hit both of them on their heads. "Wake up! You're acting so overprotective you two!!" She hissed at them as I distracted my friends with my amazing social skills.
Finally, the whole lunch deal was over with. We walked up the stairs to the Gryffindor dormitories. I whispered the password, Lima Bean, to the portrait and it swung open. The portrait might've been frozen, but that didn't mean is wouldn't respond. "Wow, that's brilliant, disguising a portrait as a doorway." Larissa said as we went inside. The fireplace was lit and glowing cheerfully even though it was the middle of May. There were throw pillows adjusted neatly on the couch and a beige blanket was thrown over it carelessly, in a homey sort of way. "Wow." Someone said behind me. I was starting to hear that a lot. "Living in the lap of luxury, eh?" Anna asked as she elbowed me playfully and flopped down in front of the fireplace.
Ginny suddenly looked at her watch. "Whoops, got to go meet Jarvis at the new café, I'm already late. Well, it was nice meeting all of you." She scrambled up and gave each of them a hug. With that, she crawled out the portrait and soon after I could hear her sneakers scuffing on the hallway floor as she made her way out.
I stood up and grabbed Anna and Larissa each by the elbow. "Come on, we have so much to talk about!!" I cried. They nodded in agreement. I turned to the male occupants and said, "Well, you lot can do whatever, we're going to be up in my dormitories. Call if it's an emergency, but if I find out that it's not, I'll sic the Weasley twins on you." Evan was the only one who didn't shudder. I turned around laughing and led my girl friends into my shared room.
Immediately after we had flopped down on the couch, my bed, or the floor, we rushed into conversation. "OH MY GOD LARISSA!!" I cried, the first one to talk. Or scream, for that matter. "TELL ME ABOUT EVAN AND YOU TWO!!"
She smiled dreamily. I would find it a bit disconcerting about my two friends having intimate feelings about each other if I hadn't been so curious. "Well, it all started when we three were walking in the park. Anna wanted to get some ice cream and she left us alone when she walked to the store. AFTER THAT, we started flirting in a friendly way. Only because he was so funny!! I don't know why I never noticed it! Soon, we were sitting on the bench and we KISSED!! And then from there... you get the picture." She sighed.
Anna rolled her eyes. "There are times when I wish I hadn't had that craving for some ice cream." She grumbled. She continued on my look, "I mean, it's not like I don't want you two to be together!! It's more like me feeling revolted whenever I happen to catch you two looking at each other like... THAT." We laughed at her definitions.
"What do you like most about him?" I asked.
"His eyes." She said simply. I had to agree with that. Evan really had these gorgeous blue eyes.
She suddenly turned to me. "What do YOU like most about Draco?"
I shrugged absentmindedly. "His eyes too, I guess."
"Really?? You know his butt isn't bad either." Anna said calmly, looking at me with a serious expression. "Not that I'm saying I'm attracted to him, because I'm really not." She made this 'ew' face. "But you have to admit, those jeans he usually wears really hug in certain places!" I never really noticed that, but it was something I most definitely would look up in the future. We all collapsed laughing in our places. Conversations similar to this continued on for about two hours, before we giggled ourselves to death.
I finally got up and stretched. "What do you think the guys are doing right now?"
"How about we go and find out." Anna said as she led the way with us following her down the stairs. It happened that they were outside playing soccer with two, second year girls and the seventh year boy, as we soon found out. "Hey." Draco said as he jogged up to me. He was all sweaty in his gray t-shirt and jeans... JEANS. I suddenly remembered what Anna said. "Draco, turn around." I said. He looked at me strangely but obeyed just the same.
"Oh my god!! Anna's bloody right!!!" Larissa shrieked into my ear. It was true. He DID have a fairly, no, very nice, toned, erm... butt. I started laughing hysterically at my own thoughts with Larissa joining in. Draco twisted around to look at me like I was insane. "What??" He cried in a panicked voice. "Is there something on my back??" He hurriedly TOOK HIS SHIRT OFF and searched the fabric. Okay, so his butt wasn't the only nice thing. Harry actually whistled. "Malfoy, you don't need to show off your body. It's gross enough to look at as it is, even WITH a shirt on."
"Shut up Potter." He replied simply as he looked searchingly at me for what I was laughing so hysterically at. The two, second year girls seemed to agree as they stared at his toned upper body. It was Anna who finally righted the poor confused boy.
"They're staring at your BUTT." She said it and rolled her eyes as if it was the most obvious and natural thing in the world. Draco finally snapped out of his confused reverie and grinned cheekily at us. "Ten pounds to look at it up close, but for Hermione it's free." With that, he winked at us and threw on his shirt and left to continue with the soccer game. We rolled our eyes but giggled nonetheless. "Come on, we have only two more hours to spend before your cab comes." We walked back inside, to surprisingly encounter Professor Snape. And may I add, wearing MUGGLE CLOTHES!!!! I had to fake a coughing fit to keep from laughing.
"Laugh at me Granger, and you get ten points off your next Po... er, Science test." He growled folding his arms across his chest in a severe way that shut me up. Still, I had to keep taking in big breaths whenever I felt the urge to laugh, which was constantly. Larissa and Anna kept looking at me strangely. They obviously didn't know what Snape usually wore or how he acted which made it particularly funny. He was wearing black jeans. BLACK JEANS that almost made me start laughing uncontrollably yet again. And he wore a WHITE t-shirt with SNEAKERS. This time I really couldn't hold it in anymore. It didn't seem to matter that I would be getting less on a test because I erupted. Seriously. PICTURE THE IMAGE IN YOUR HEAD AND YOU ALSO WILL GET GIGGLING FITS.
His eyes burned a great fury as he whisked away sharply not even bothering to respond from his anger. This was even MORE funny. Think about this. When he had that black cloak he always wore, it billowed out behind him when he 'whisked' giving people the impression of sharpness or superiority. But NOW when he did it, with JEANS, he looked like he was turning awkwardly on one foot and stomping away like a madman. IT WAS HILARIOUS. Too bad my friends didn't see the hilarity in the situation and they probably dubbed me as a bit mad at that moment.
Thank god I didn't see any more professors that night or else I might've not been able to breathe from laughing too much.
We were lounging around in the common room snacking on chips and reading some muggle novels when the Evan, Draco, Ron, and Harry barged in. Evan and Ron lay down beside Larissa and Anna on the floor, while Harry and Draco slumped on each side of me on the couch. Having two smelly, sweaty guys sitting in very close parameters to you was NOT a cup of tea. Ginny suddenly walked in, probably finished walking around Hogsmeade with Jarvis and exclaimed, "Eeew, you people!! Go take a freakin' shower!!" I pushed them with my book, enunciating her blunt wording.
Finally, everybody was all done (and clean, thank god) and we tramped downstairs and out the front entrance to wait for their cab to come again to take them home. We were all silent. It was kind of nice there watching the sun go down by the lake while we leaned against the building or sat on the hard stone steps. The peaceful silence was suddenly interrupted by a maniacal beep similar to one I had heard early this afternoon. It hugged each one of my friends. We had a silent understanding that we would write and keep in touch. I waved longingly at them and their retreating cab until it was no longer visible. At the end, I really don't think they suspected a thing.
Just then, the entire student body started to come walking back. Perfect timing. I sighed and turned around walking back towards the castle. Draco slipped an arm around my waist and nuzzled his face into my hair.
Ginny, Ron, and Harry wordlessly slipped around and in front of us and walked up to the dormitories. We continued at a slower pace. "I'm going to miss them." I muttered.
"Maybe you can invite them again next week?" Draco offered.
"I doubt he'll go through all that trouble again soon. And even if he does, Snape would probably rebel and throw a hissy fit." He laughed.
I suddenly spotted two first years arguing on the side of the hallway. As a prefect, one of my duties was to prevent civil fights, since one of the first years, a girl, looked ready to strike the other student, a boy.
I broke away from Draco and started toward them although I couldn't help but eavesdrop on their conversation. One was a Gryffindor as I noted on her robe, had long white-blonde hair and clear blue eyes. The other was a Slytherin as I had also noted on his robe, had curly brown hair, brown eyes, and especially defining features. For a first year, that was. Wow... talk about déjà vu.
I heard snatches of "Mudblood" and "Bastard" and "Freaking Arse". Except the owner of the voice didn't say freaking OR arse, if you catch my drift. It was amazing the language kids used these days. I cleared my throat. The girl looked at me in an embarrassed way, while the boy just glared.
"Your not allowed fighting in the hallways OR using that kind of language." I scolded. One looked like she was about to die in embarrassment, and the other looked like he was about to KILL in embarrassment. "What are your names?" I asked.
The girl looked scared and particularly worried. "Your not going to write us up, are you?" She whispered. I sighed. "No, I just want to know for future references."
She finally answered, "Fiona."
"And you?" I turned to the boy, not the least forgetting him. "Sebastian." He answered grumpily.
"Okay, you can go now. But don't let me catch you doing anything like this in the future." They turned around to stomp off in separate directions. But just as they were taking their second steps, I called out, "Oh yeah, and remember that love doesn't come easy and it might be hard first to get along, but at the end, it'll be worth it." They both looked at me like I might be touched in the head, but right then after that, they shared a look.
I flounced my way back to Draco. He gaped at the two figures that were retreating In opposite directions. "D-Did you SEE that???" He cried. "They looked like... like... US." I smiled serenely and led him away past the hoards of students.
You know what they say. History rewrites itself.
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A/N: The End. Literally. Well they didn't DIE, but it's the end of the story. Hoped you liked it... I spent months fretting over it! LOL, anyways, hope to have a new story out soon, and please review!!! Ciao until next time! (God I sound perky)
(Drum Roll) Heeeeeeere it ISSSSS!!! **********************************************************
"The whisking away by a light summer's breeze, the crashing of waves upon shore. The light of the morning, the darkness of midnight, that is where I belong." I repeated in a monotone-like voice. Apparently, along with learning the magical history of wizards and witches, we also had to learn about poetry. Muggle, twentieth-century poetry in more specific terms, if you really want to know.
Actually, in my opinion, the Elisa H.G.'s poems weren't very good. But it wasn't like I could do anything about it.
"WHAT the bloody hell, are you doing?????" Ron cried, scaring me to death and almost blowing him to itty-bitty little Ronnie pieces with my wand.
"What do you mean?? I'm memorizing a poem for class!!!" I barked, matching his tone.
He snatched the paper out of my grasp and held it above my reach. This was one of the times when I wished I wasn't so vertically challenged. "It's the weekend for Merlin's sake!!! And your muggle friends are coming over in an hour!! Shouldn't you be jumping for joy like every other NORMAL human being??" He cried, looking miraculously abashed.
"Well... I'm nervous about seeing Anna and them again. Studying helps me forget about my nervousness." I grumbled, seizing my piece of parchment as he lowered his arm to scratch his nose.
I glared at him just for measure, and continued reading. Within each heart of an innocent child, within each soul of aged old wisdom. The recklessness of a fiery spirit, the serene peace of above..
I didn't stop there because I wanted to. OH NO... It was because of RON and his SNATCHING again. "RON!!" I whined.
He rolled his eyes at me. HE rolled his eyes at ME. "C'mon, lighten up. Let's go outside." Before I even got the chance to protest, he grabbed me by my elbow and practically dragged me out the front entrance.
"Mate!!" He called as soon as we reached the outskirts of the lake, seeing our emerald-eyed friend. Harry jogged up to us, as I folded my arms across my chest and pouted. I mean really pouted. Not like a flirty, making your lips look bigger than they actually were, pouting. Very Unhermione-ish of me, eh?
"Hey," He said greeting us, giving me a strange look. "What irked her?" He asked Ron gesturing to me. Oh yes, just ignore the girl and talk about her in third person, why don't you?
"She's mad at me I think, because I forced her to get some healthy fresh air and take a break from her studies." He said, grinning at me. I scowled at the both of them, and gave them a little push. "Your lucky you two are my best friends. If anybody else did that to me, I would've done a Fred and George Weasley on them." With that, I walked toward the nearest vacant tree and sat down beneath it. God, I looked like I belonged in one of those cheesy college campus brochures.
I took out a book from inside my pocket. Think shrinking charm. They came over and looked at each other. "She's hopeless." Five minutes later, they were playing catch with a random quaffle nicked from the quidditch field.
Now don't get me wrong, reading in this peaceful environment certainly did not almost make me break down. No, actually it was my nerves that did it. I actually managed to get through the rest of the half hour until a loud maniacal beep sounded nearly scaring all the occupants of the grass, which were not many, since it was a Hogsmeade weekend. I practically flew all the way across half the length of the castle before I got to the front entrance and spotted Evan stepping out of the cab first. Rather clumsily may I add? "EVAN!!" I cried, wrapping him up in one of the largest hugs I could manage. His shoulder length black hair tickled the top of my head as always.
"Hey, watch it girl, that's my boyfriend your showing your intimate feelings too." A familiar blonde stepped out next and grinned at me, opening up her arms in a welcoming gesture. We started laughing hysterically together and hugged. "Oh my freakin' god, you have got to give me details later." I whispered into her ear. She smiled and broke away, so I could see Anna climb out. Her hair was piled up into an elegant chiffon bun and she had on catty Gucci sunglasses. She lowered her sunglasses revealing two twinkling hazel colored eyes. "Daahhh-ling, is that YOU?" She asked putting a hand to her mouth as she said the word 'you.'
"Anna!" I shrieked and nearly knocked her over as I squeezed her as tightly as my hug would let me. By now, Draco had already strolled into the area and being bombarded by Larissa's hugs and kisses. In a friendly way, of course. I whirled around as I heard harsh breathing, as two males came running up. "Is something wrong?? We heard a shriek!!" Harry gasped with his hands on his knees.
I smiled at my two best friends. "You remember Evan, Larissa, and Anna." They rolled their eyes. "Oh, no wonder. I told you not to worry mate." Ron advised. After that, they all seemingly smiled, hugged, shook hands, etc, with each other. Anna loosened her bun as all her auburn red hair fell past her shoulders and she took off her sunglasses and stuck them in her back pocket. "Hey... I remember you... you're the one who looked like me!!" Ron exclaimed in a childish way.
It was true now that I examined them more closely. They both had the red hair, although Ron's was lighter and looked like it had dark orange streaks, while Anna's had dark red streaks. They're eyes were not the exact same shade, but it was close. And their facial structure was a bit similar, so I guess they could pass for siblings. I sincerely hoped they would never do it though.
"Well! Now that we're all done with this, come see Hoo.. er, I mean, my boarding school!" I said quickly covering up. Not very well, but they seemed to believe me. "That is ONE impressive boarding school..." Evan commented looking skyward at the astronomy tower.
Dumbledore had explained to me what would happen when they came. He said he had put a charm on the school so they would see it in a wizard or witch's point of view, and he had frozen the staircases and portraits. Plus, he whisked Mr. Filch and his cat away temporarily. He didn't seem to want to tell me where. He also made it a Hogsmeade weekend, so most of the students were out and away in the village, leaving us with plenty of time before they came rushing back. Now, the only students in the building were a few second and first years, Ron and Harry, Ginny, Draco, and a seventh year who was kept in to make up a Transfiguration test. They were all instructed to wear muggle clothes.
EVEN the professors had to look like they belonged. I was eternally grateful for all this trouble Dumbledore was going through to let Draco and I see our friends again. "You didn't have lunch yet, did you?" I asked them. They shook their heads vaguely as they glanced curiously at the large hall and floor length windows. I led them to the entrance to the dining area and pushed open the two oak double doors and walked towards the Gryffindor table. Only a second year and a first year were occupying the room as they sat quietly at the Hufflepuff table.
"Where is everyone?" Anna asked as we sat down in our seats. I glanced at the rows and rows of chairs and responded, "Oh, we're supposed to have an outing today, but some people decided not to go." Ron ignored our conversation, as he was the first to reach out and grab a pastrami sandwich in the middle of the table. After that, it was all grab and eat and grab some more.
"Ginny!" Harry cried through a mouthful of food.
She approached the table looking at Harry in a reprimanding way. "I ALWAYS tell my brothers to not talk with their mouths full. Are they finally rubbing off on you??" He gave her an abashed grin and swallowed down the rest of his food.
Ginny slid into one of the chairs next to her brother. "Hi! You remember me, don't you?"
"Oh course, you're the one who Jarvis told me was bloody sexy." Evan exclaimed. I did not look at Ron. Instead I turned to Ginny to see her blush madly. "He said that?" She was suddenly grinning like an idiot. It took a lot of things to make her look as ditzy as that. Evan nodded and looked suspiciously at Ron and Harry.
Harry's eyebrows were creased and he was now picking at his food in a distracted way. More like see no evil; hear no evil. It was probably because he was overly jealous. Ron's eyebrows flew all the way up touching his hairline and he froze mid-bite. There was still food in his mouth, by the way. It was kind of disgusting. Ginny pushed her brother's mouth in place again and she hit both of them on their heads. "Wake up! You're acting so overprotective you two!!" She hissed at them as I distracted my friends with my amazing social skills.
Finally, the whole lunch deal was over with. We walked up the stairs to the Gryffindor dormitories. I whispered the password, Lima Bean, to the portrait and it swung open. The portrait might've been frozen, but that didn't mean is wouldn't respond. "Wow, that's brilliant, disguising a portrait as a doorway." Larissa said as we went inside. The fireplace was lit and glowing cheerfully even though it was the middle of May. There were throw pillows adjusted neatly on the couch and a beige blanket was thrown over it carelessly, in a homey sort of way. "Wow." Someone said behind me. I was starting to hear that a lot. "Living in the lap of luxury, eh?" Anna asked as she elbowed me playfully and flopped down in front of the fireplace.
Ginny suddenly looked at her watch. "Whoops, got to go meet Jarvis at the new café, I'm already late. Well, it was nice meeting all of you." She scrambled up and gave each of them a hug. With that, she crawled out the portrait and soon after I could hear her sneakers scuffing on the hallway floor as she made her way out.
I stood up and grabbed Anna and Larissa each by the elbow. "Come on, we have so much to talk about!!" I cried. They nodded in agreement. I turned to the male occupants and said, "Well, you lot can do whatever, we're going to be up in my dormitories. Call if it's an emergency, but if I find out that it's not, I'll sic the Weasley twins on you." Evan was the only one who didn't shudder. I turned around laughing and led my girl friends into my shared room.
Immediately after we had flopped down on the couch, my bed, or the floor, we rushed into conversation. "OH MY GOD LARISSA!!" I cried, the first one to talk. Or scream, for that matter. "TELL ME ABOUT EVAN AND YOU TWO!!"
She smiled dreamily. I would find it a bit disconcerting about my two friends having intimate feelings about each other if I hadn't been so curious. "Well, it all started when we three were walking in the park. Anna wanted to get some ice cream and she left us alone when she walked to the store. AFTER THAT, we started flirting in a friendly way. Only because he was so funny!! I don't know why I never noticed it! Soon, we were sitting on the bench and we KISSED!! And then from there... you get the picture." She sighed.
Anna rolled her eyes. "There are times when I wish I hadn't had that craving for some ice cream." She grumbled. She continued on my look, "I mean, it's not like I don't want you two to be together!! It's more like me feeling revolted whenever I happen to catch you two looking at each other like... THAT." We laughed at her definitions.
"What do you like most about him?" I asked.
"His eyes." She said simply. I had to agree with that. Evan really had these gorgeous blue eyes.
She suddenly turned to me. "What do YOU like most about Draco?"
I shrugged absentmindedly. "His eyes too, I guess."
"Really?? You know his butt isn't bad either." Anna said calmly, looking at me with a serious expression. "Not that I'm saying I'm attracted to him, because I'm really not." She made this 'ew' face. "But you have to admit, those jeans he usually wears really hug in certain places!" I never really noticed that, but it was something I most definitely would look up in the future. We all collapsed laughing in our places. Conversations similar to this continued on for about two hours, before we giggled ourselves to death.
I finally got up and stretched. "What do you think the guys are doing right now?"
"How about we go and find out." Anna said as she led the way with us following her down the stairs. It happened that they were outside playing soccer with two, second year girls and the seventh year boy, as we soon found out. "Hey." Draco said as he jogged up to me. He was all sweaty in his gray t-shirt and jeans... JEANS. I suddenly remembered what Anna said. "Draco, turn around." I said. He looked at me strangely but obeyed just the same.
"Oh my god!! Anna's bloody right!!!" Larissa shrieked into my ear. It was true. He DID have a fairly, no, very nice, toned, erm... butt. I started laughing hysterically at my own thoughts with Larissa joining in. Draco twisted around to look at me like I was insane. "What??" He cried in a panicked voice. "Is there something on my back??" He hurriedly TOOK HIS SHIRT OFF and searched the fabric. Okay, so his butt wasn't the only nice thing. Harry actually whistled. "Malfoy, you don't need to show off your body. It's gross enough to look at as it is, even WITH a shirt on."
"Shut up Potter." He replied simply as he looked searchingly at me for what I was laughing so hysterically at. The two, second year girls seemed to agree as they stared at his toned upper body. It was Anna who finally righted the poor confused boy.
"They're staring at your BUTT." She said it and rolled her eyes as if it was the most obvious and natural thing in the world. Draco finally snapped out of his confused reverie and grinned cheekily at us. "Ten pounds to look at it up close, but for Hermione it's free." With that, he winked at us and threw on his shirt and left to continue with the soccer game. We rolled our eyes but giggled nonetheless. "Come on, we have only two more hours to spend before your cab comes." We walked back inside, to surprisingly encounter Professor Snape. And may I add, wearing MUGGLE CLOTHES!!!! I had to fake a coughing fit to keep from laughing.
"Laugh at me Granger, and you get ten points off your next Po... er, Science test." He growled folding his arms across his chest in a severe way that shut me up. Still, I had to keep taking in big breaths whenever I felt the urge to laugh, which was constantly. Larissa and Anna kept looking at me strangely. They obviously didn't know what Snape usually wore or how he acted which made it particularly funny. He was wearing black jeans. BLACK JEANS that almost made me start laughing uncontrollably yet again. And he wore a WHITE t-shirt with SNEAKERS. This time I really couldn't hold it in anymore. It didn't seem to matter that I would be getting less on a test because I erupted. Seriously. PICTURE THE IMAGE IN YOUR HEAD AND YOU ALSO WILL GET GIGGLING FITS.
His eyes burned a great fury as he whisked away sharply not even bothering to respond from his anger. This was even MORE funny. Think about this. When he had that black cloak he always wore, it billowed out behind him when he 'whisked' giving people the impression of sharpness or superiority. But NOW when he did it, with JEANS, he looked like he was turning awkwardly on one foot and stomping away like a madman. IT WAS HILARIOUS. Too bad my friends didn't see the hilarity in the situation and they probably dubbed me as a bit mad at that moment.
Thank god I didn't see any more professors that night or else I might've not been able to breathe from laughing too much.
We were lounging around in the common room snacking on chips and reading some muggle novels when the Evan, Draco, Ron, and Harry barged in. Evan and Ron lay down beside Larissa and Anna on the floor, while Harry and Draco slumped on each side of me on the couch. Having two smelly, sweaty guys sitting in very close parameters to you was NOT a cup of tea. Ginny suddenly walked in, probably finished walking around Hogsmeade with Jarvis and exclaimed, "Eeew, you people!! Go take a freakin' shower!!" I pushed them with my book, enunciating her blunt wording.
Finally, everybody was all done (and clean, thank god) and we tramped downstairs and out the front entrance to wait for their cab to come again to take them home. We were all silent. It was kind of nice there watching the sun go down by the lake while we leaned against the building or sat on the hard stone steps. The peaceful silence was suddenly interrupted by a maniacal beep similar to one I had heard early this afternoon. It hugged each one of my friends. We had a silent understanding that we would write and keep in touch. I waved longingly at them and their retreating cab until it was no longer visible. At the end, I really don't think they suspected a thing.
Just then, the entire student body started to come walking back. Perfect timing. I sighed and turned around walking back towards the castle. Draco slipped an arm around my waist and nuzzled his face into my hair.
Ginny, Ron, and Harry wordlessly slipped around and in front of us and walked up to the dormitories. We continued at a slower pace. "I'm going to miss them." I muttered.
"Maybe you can invite them again next week?" Draco offered.
"I doubt he'll go through all that trouble again soon. And even if he does, Snape would probably rebel and throw a hissy fit." He laughed.
I suddenly spotted two first years arguing on the side of the hallway. As a prefect, one of my duties was to prevent civil fights, since one of the first years, a girl, looked ready to strike the other student, a boy.
I broke away from Draco and started toward them although I couldn't help but eavesdrop on their conversation. One was a Gryffindor as I noted on her robe, had long white-blonde hair and clear blue eyes. The other was a Slytherin as I had also noted on his robe, had curly brown hair, brown eyes, and especially defining features. For a first year, that was. Wow... talk about déjà vu.
I heard snatches of "Mudblood" and "Bastard" and "Freaking Arse". Except the owner of the voice didn't say freaking OR arse, if you catch my drift. It was amazing the language kids used these days. I cleared my throat. The girl looked at me in an embarrassed way, while the boy just glared.
"Your not allowed fighting in the hallways OR using that kind of language." I scolded. One looked like she was about to die in embarrassment, and the other looked like he was about to KILL in embarrassment. "What are your names?" I asked.
The girl looked scared and particularly worried. "Your not going to write us up, are you?" She whispered. I sighed. "No, I just want to know for future references."
She finally answered, "Fiona."
"And you?" I turned to the boy, not the least forgetting him. "Sebastian." He answered grumpily.
"Okay, you can go now. But don't let me catch you doing anything like this in the future." They turned around to stomp off in separate directions. But just as they were taking their second steps, I called out, "Oh yeah, and remember that love doesn't come easy and it might be hard first to get along, but at the end, it'll be worth it." They both looked at me like I might be touched in the head, but right then after that, they shared a look.
I flounced my way back to Draco. He gaped at the two figures that were retreating In opposite directions. "D-Did you SEE that???" He cried. "They looked like... like... US." I smiled serenely and led him away past the hoards of students.
You know what they say. History rewrites itself.
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A/N: The End. Literally. Well they didn't DIE, but it's the end of the story. Hoped you liked it... I spent months fretting over it! LOL, anyways, hope to have a new story out soon, and please review!!! Ciao until next time! (God I sound perky)