The next day the whole school was excited about the first quidditch match
to the year. It was going to be Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff. All the anxiety
for the first match made it hard for every student even the first years
from Muggle families to concentrate on the schoolwork that need to be done
Friday.
Everyone was glad for dinner time since it meant that the weekend started. Rebecca was thankful when dinner was over with and they headed to the common rooms, because she had a pretty bad headache from classes.
Up in the common room, Rebecca plopped down in a chair and closed her eyes and propped up her head with her left hand. She sat there for a while when she heard one of the girl say, "You know Rebecca if you want to sleep your bed is probably a better place."
Rebecca opened her eyes to see Cathrine, Sara, and Jacquelyn looking at her. Sara gave Rebecca a concerned look and asked, "Are you okay?"
Lauren was walking by with Aisha and her other friend, Carolyn, and looked over to see what was going on. "You don't look to good," she said.
Rebecca looked at them all with their wide eyes. "I. I just have a headache," she stuttered.
Charlie, Greg, Colin, and James came in the room and headed to the girls. "Hey, what is going on?" asked Greg walking over to Sara and put his arms around her.
Cathrine piped up and said, "Rebecca doesn't look to good," as Colin came over to her.
James stopped next to Jacquelyn, looked at Rebecca, and said, "She doesn't look that good?!" as if he didn't believe that Cathrine had said the right thing.
"Are you okay?" Charlie said as he knelt down to get a better look at her.
"It is just a headache. That's all it is," Rebecca said trying to calm everyone down.
"I think you should go to the infirmary and see Madame Pomfrey," said Charlie.
"No, I don't need to see anyone. I had these headaches before and magic can't do anything for them. In fact, I have medicine up stairs in my trunk that will take care of it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah I'll go get it right now."
Rebecca got up and walked up to her room and got her medicine. She walked back down stairs to get a glass of water and then take a pill. Everyone was sort of hanging around her, which made her feel little nervous about what she was doing. As she went to put the cap back on the medicine bottle, she tipped it over and the pills fell on to the table she was at. She start to pick the pills up and putting them back into the bottle. Charlie came over to start to help her and the rest of the group pitched in to make sure that all the pills were found.
Once all the pills were back in the bottle, Rebecca put the cap back on, said, "Thanks everyone," and headed up stairs to put it away. When she got up stairs, she put the bottle on her night stand. Rebecca was going to go back down stairs, but her head really hurt and she passed out on to her bed.
Rebecca woke up the next morning to find the room was empty. She checked her watch and got up to get dressed. Then, she headed down stairs to get breakfast. She sat down at the almost empty Gryffindor table and ate.
It was about half an hour before the quidditch match when Rebecca got up from the table to head to the stands. As Rebecca approached the door she noticed that a lot of people were milling around in the hall.
She walked through the crowd and saw Ryan with Cassie, Russel, Kirsta, Sam, Hans, Dan, and some other Slytherin students. Ryan started towards her and the rest of his group followed.
However, Rebecca didn't notice Ryan coming towards her, because someone shouted her name. She turned around to see who it was.
It was Sara and she was making a beeline to Rebecca. James and Jacquelyn were walking over as well. Lauren was close behind the older students too.
"Hey, what happened to you last night?" asked Sara when she finally made it to Rebecca. "You disappeared last night and we all were worried about you." James added, "Yeah, Charlie was really concerned. I thought that he was going to go up the stairs and break down the door. Never seen him like that before." He was trying to hold a straight face but could not help but smile as he remembered Charlie's actions.
"Yeah all of us girls had to go up and check on you. In fact I think it took Lauren, Carolyn, and Aisha going up together and coming back with the same report before he was satisfied," laughed Jacquelyn. "He started to imply that Colin and Cathrine set up some prank on you. They kept saying that they wouldn't have done anything to you because you helped them pull a prank, something about you distracting some body as they were about to get caught. . Now, come on girl, tells us what happened to cause all that drama last night."
Rebecca's jaw dropped as she heard what the others were saying. "Oh guys," she started. "I am so sorry I went up stairs to up the medicine away and the next thing I knew it was morning. I must have passed out or something."
"What?!" the girls gasped.
James jumped in and said, "As much as I would love to hear all of this right here, I have to start you all moving towards the stands or else we are not going to get good seats for the game." And with that, the group turned towards the door.
"Rebecca, are you okay?" Lauren asked truly worried. Rebecca felt that the whole group was looking at her for the answer.
"Guys, I am fine. My head doesn't hurt any more, so life is good. Okay?" Rebecca said as she stopped and turned around to look around at their faces. As Rebecca looked, she was a little surprised that Ryan was standing close by.
"But you passed out," Sara stated walking up to her and taking her by the arm to lead her towards the field.
"Yeah, but at least the bed caught me," Rebecca said as the whole group walked out the door past Russel.
"So the bed caught you?" asked James with a smirk on his face. He took Rebecca by her left arm as they all walked.
"Yeah the bed caught me, do you have a problem with that?" laughed Rebecca. "Um, are you guys trying to keep me from falling?" Rebecca looked at how Sara and James had her arms.
"Well you know since your bed isn't here to catch you, we better keep an eye and a hand on you," said Jacquelyn as she linked arms with James as they all started to laugh.
Lauren ran ahead of the group to scout out seats and the fifth years continued their way unaware that Ryan and his Slytherin group were close enough to hear everything that they were saying.
They got to the stands and found Lauren. "Hey kid, these are awesome seats!" James said as he surveyed the view from the spot Lauren picked.
"Yeah, Lauren, these are great seats," Jacquelyn said as she sat down next to James."
"Thanks," Lauren said as her cheeks went pink. "Can I ask you guys something?"
"Sure, anything," Rebecca said getting settled in her seat next to James.
"Well as you all know I am from a Muggle family and most of my friends here aren't," started Lauren looking at all of them.
"Oh, I think I know where this is going," Jacquelyn said.
"I think we all know where this is going," Sara said as she and Rebecca scooted down to make room for Lauren next to James.
"Come on kid, you found the spot so I will explain to you the rules of quidditch. I'll even take any questions during the game," James told Lauren as she took her seat.
Lauren was grinning from ear to ear as James went into his explanation of quidditch. Rebecca looked around the field and chit-chatted with Sara.
Aisha, Carolyn, Percy, Oliver, and some other first years and second years came up. They sat in front of Rebecca talking excitedly about the game and joined into James and Lauren's conversation.
The game was about to begin when Rebecca and the rest of the fifth years heard a boy say, "Look how stupid the little Mudblood is. She doesn't even know what quidditch is."
At the word Mudblood, Rebecca, James, Jacquelyn, and Sara stood up and turned around to see who said it. They saw a group of Slytherin behind them. Unfortunately they didn't turn around fast enough to see who said it, so they just stood there staring at the Slytherin group and the Slytherin group staring back. Rebecca scanned the group and her jaw dropped when she set her eyes on Ryan.
"Ryan Malfoy, you didn't dare say that vile word did you?" she shouted at him. Ryan looked at her shocked that she could even think that.
He was about to say something to protest her accusation, when Russel started to speak. "It wasn't Ryan. It was Harvey," he said pointing to towards the boy that wouldn't give the map back. The boy turned towards Russel and gave him a dirty look. "And if he is smart he will apologize for it and not say it again," Russel said staring Harvey down.
After about a minute, the boy broke down and turned towards Lauren.
Looking at his shoes he managed to say, "I'm sorry I called you a mudblood."
Lauren just stood there. She didn't know what to say, because she didn't know what the word meant. Lauren looked at Rebecca for some guidance.
Unfortunately Rebecca didn't know what to do either. She didn't know whether Harvey was being sincere or whether he was just to get out of trouble with Russel.
Lauren turned back towards Harvey looked at him and said, "Its okay, but only if you never use that term again." With that she turned around and sat down. Harvey had a stunned look on his face as the rest of the Gryffindor students turned around and took their seats.
James leaned over and whispered to Lauren, "Good Job, you did the right thing."
Rebecca leaned over too and said, "You should be proud of yourself for not sinking to his level."
"Yeah, but I don't know what the word meant so how could I be offended by it?" whispered Lauren soberly staring at the field.
Sara leaned in and said, "We know. But you handled the situation right and you have to remember that."
"Yeah," added Jacquelyn, "and we're proud of you, even if you don't think you have anything to be proud of."
"Now, come on girl. Where's that smile, we all love?" said Sara giving Lauren a big smile. The first and second years joined in on cheering Lauren up. Lauren smiled at them.
They all sat huddled up in the stands whispering and laughing until the Colin's voice announcing the beginning of the match. James went back into teaching mode. "Okay now, Charlie is the seeker. The chasers are Greg, Anna, and Cathrine. Angel and Heath are the beaters. Gryffindor's keeper is Aaron who is captain of the team. ."
As he told Lauren who played what position and then what each position did, Rebecca silently paid attention too. She wasn't about to admitted that even though she was from a wizard family she didn't feel like she understood that much about the game.
As the game wore on, Gryffindor had pulled ahead of Hufflepuff, and Lauren was getting some of the rules of the game down. Rebecca understood more of the game so she could pay more attention to the field than what James was saying. She watched as Dark sending bludgers towards the Hufflepuffs at the right angle that they were distracted while Gryffindor stole the quaff.
After Cathrine scored again for Gryffindor, Hufflepuff had the quaffle and tried to score, but Greg stole it and scored.
"Yeah! Away to go to Greg! That's my guy! OH! YEAH!!" screamed Sara as the rest of the Gryffindor cheered.
'Charlie was right she is there biggest cheerleader. I bet they could hear that out on the field as clear as a bell. I wonder if anyone could hear Colin announce Greg's score," Rebecca thought to herself looking up to see Charlie.
Just then he began speeding down towards the field. "Charlie sees the snitch," she said poking Sara to get her attention.
Charlie swooped and swerved with such speed following the golden snitch everywhere it went. The Hufflepuff seeker was close behind, but Charlie then went into a dive.
Everyone watched Charlie as he pulled up out of the dive with something in his fist. He landed and showed that he indeed had the snitch.
Everyone broke into a loud roar as Colin announced "GRYFFINDOR WON!!!!!!!!!!"
After celebrating at the stadium, the students disbursed and headed back to the castle. Rebecca and Lauren headed back together talking about the game with the other first years that sat by them. James and the other girls waited for Colin and headed back leaving Charlie, Greg, and Cathrine to walk back to the common room with the rest of the team.
When the team made it back to the common room, everyone cheered. Cathrine bowed and everyone laughed hard. The students finally settled down and spent the rest of the day relaxing.
Rebecca sat down by the fire and started working on some homework for the coming week. Charlie was walking over to his friends when he leaned over and whispered into Rebecca's ear, "Glad to see you woke up." Rebecca smiled at him and continued her work.
As she breezed through it with her prep work at hand, James, Colin, A.J., Greg and Charlie sat around talking about the game. Sara, Jacquelyn, and Cathrine sat with the guys until they decided that they were tired of hearing about the game and moved to the fire with their homework with Rebecca.
The girls all worked on their homework together and eventually the guys started theirs.
Even with all of her prep work, it took Rebecca until late Sunday afternoon to finish up everything that was due the next day. She was relieved to find the end of her to do list and started stacking up all of her books to take them up stairs and sort them.
Up stairs on her bed, Rebecca made a pile of text books and another pile of library books. While she was putting her text books away, Lauren came in the room.
"Hey, what's up?" Rebecca asked her.
"I was wondering if you could help me with some potions homework?" asked Lauren.
"Sure, I am done with mine."
"Thanks!"
"No problem." Rebecca followed Lauren downstairs and started on Lauren's potion homework.
Eventually, Rebecca was helping most of the first years with positions and Aisha and some other second years came up to ask for help as well. It wasn't until late that night when Rebecca finally made it back up stair to clean off the library books from her bed. When she looked at the books, she found a letter on top of it.
Rebecca,
Hey Girl! How is everything going? Everyone loved you last letter. We all sit around and read them the night that we get them. It is becoming a weekly event. I have to say that I am very curious about Charlie. He always seems to show up in your letters.
Anyways, I think you would like to know that Scott finally asked Gwen out. (I can hear you saying about time, already. We all were excited when we found out, too.) Colleen seems to be hanging out more and more with Kevin. (You remember him. He was the prefect in our house. I think you and him use to compete on who knew more in defense class.) I have a new crush! He is a new student from Durmstang. His name is Ty. I could go on forever about how great he is and how cute he is, but for the sake of time lets just say he is tall dark and handsome and incredibly polite. If you were here, even you would be head over heals for him, but enough of my crush. Well I got to go to class now. Write when you can.
Later,
Stacy
Rebecca smiled as she folded the letter up and stuck it with the other ones she had received. She then turned towards her books on her bed to distract herself from writing a long letter right then and there.
As she took the books off, she realized that she missed the book on Magical beasts. Rebecca looked around the room and decided that she must have left it down stairs.
She walked down the stairs into an almost empty common room. Charlie, who was one of the few students there, looked up when Rebecca walked in. Rebecca looked around for the book as soon as she had in the room.
After a minute or two, Charlie asked, "Are you looking for something?"
Rebecca looked at him and softly said, "Yeah, I left one of the books I got from the library somewhere around here."
"You mean this book," Charlie said holding up exact book Rebecca was looking for. Rebecca nodded as she walked towards Charlie. "And here I thought I some how magically made the book appear without knowing the spell."
"Sorry to disappoint you, but it was my forgetfulness."
"Oh, I don't think that it was forgetfulness."
"Really?" Rebecca contorted her face showing she was curious on what Charlie thought it was.
"Yeah, you unconsciously did it on purpose."
"Huh?"
"You noticed that I was working really hard on my homework and that I need a reward when I got it done."
Rebecca laughed and Charlie joined in. "Nice theory. . I can't believe you think it is a reward to read that book."
"Well it is one of my favorite subjects. . I can't believe you were willing to help on any potion homework that wasn't your own. That would be torture to me, but you looked like you were having fun, or maybe you were faking it so the kids didn't feel bad for asking you to do something that horrid." Rebecca smiled slightly blushing, said, "It's not that bad," and softly laughed. Charlie chuckled as well and handed back the book.
"Thanks. Well, I'm going to go to bed. Good night," Rebecca said as she turned towards the stairs.
"Night, Becca," Charlie called after her.
Everyone was glad for dinner time since it meant that the weekend started. Rebecca was thankful when dinner was over with and they headed to the common rooms, because she had a pretty bad headache from classes.
Up in the common room, Rebecca plopped down in a chair and closed her eyes and propped up her head with her left hand. She sat there for a while when she heard one of the girl say, "You know Rebecca if you want to sleep your bed is probably a better place."
Rebecca opened her eyes to see Cathrine, Sara, and Jacquelyn looking at her. Sara gave Rebecca a concerned look and asked, "Are you okay?"
Lauren was walking by with Aisha and her other friend, Carolyn, and looked over to see what was going on. "You don't look to good," she said.
Rebecca looked at them all with their wide eyes. "I. I just have a headache," she stuttered.
Charlie, Greg, Colin, and James came in the room and headed to the girls. "Hey, what is going on?" asked Greg walking over to Sara and put his arms around her.
Cathrine piped up and said, "Rebecca doesn't look to good," as Colin came over to her.
James stopped next to Jacquelyn, looked at Rebecca, and said, "She doesn't look that good?!" as if he didn't believe that Cathrine had said the right thing.
"Are you okay?" Charlie said as he knelt down to get a better look at her.
"It is just a headache. That's all it is," Rebecca said trying to calm everyone down.
"I think you should go to the infirmary and see Madame Pomfrey," said Charlie.
"No, I don't need to see anyone. I had these headaches before and magic can't do anything for them. In fact, I have medicine up stairs in my trunk that will take care of it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah I'll go get it right now."
Rebecca got up and walked up to her room and got her medicine. She walked back down stairs to get a glass of water and then take a pill. Everyone was sort of hanging around her, which made her feel little nervous about what she was doing. As she went to put the cap back on the medicine bottle, she tipped it over and the pills fell on to the table she was at. She start to pick the pills up and putting them back into the bottle. Charlie came over to start to help her and the rest of the group pitched in to make sure that all the pills were found.
Once all the pills were back in the bottle, Rebecca put the cap back on, said, "Thanks everyone," and headed up stairs to put it away. When she got up stairs, she put the bottle on her night stand. Rebecca was going to go back down stairs, but her head really hurt and she passed out on to her bed.
Rebecca woke up the next morning to find the room was empty. She checked her watch and got up to get dressed. Then, she headed down stairs to get breakfast. She sat down at the almost empty Gryffindor table and ate.
It was about half an hour before the quidditch match when Rebecca got up from the table to head to the stands. As Rebecca approached the door she noticed that a lot of people were milling around in the hall.
She walked through the crowd and saw Ryan with Cassie, Russel, Kirsta, Sam, Hans, Dan, and some other Slytherin students. Ryan started towards her and the rest of his group followed.
However, Rebecca didn't notice Ryan coming towards her, because someone shouted her name. She turned around to see who it was.
It was Sara and she was making a beeline to Rebecca. James and Jacquelyn were walking over as well. Lauren was close behind the older students too.
"Hey, what happened to you last night?" asked Sara when she finally made it to Rebecca. "You disappeared last night and we all were worried about you." James added, "Yeah, Charlie was really concerned. I thought that he was going to go up the stairs and break down the door. Never seen him like that before." He was trying to hold a straight face but could not help but smile as he remembered Charlie's actions.
"Yeah all of us girls had to go up and check on you. In fact I think it took Lauren, Carolyn, and Aisha going up together and coming back with the same report before he was satisfied," laughed Jacquelyn. "He started to imply that Colin and Cathrine set up some prank on you. They kept saying that they wouldn't have done anything to you because you helped them pull a prank, something about you distracting some body as they were about to get caught. . Now, come on girl, tells us what happened to cause all that drama last night."
Rebecca's jaw dropped as she heard what the others were saying. "Oh guys," she started. "I am so sorry I went up stairs to up the medicine away and the next thing I knew it was morning. I must have passed out or something."
"What?!" the girls gasped.
James jumped in and said, "As much as I would love to hear all of this right here, I have to start you all moving towards the stands or else we are not going to get good seats for the game." And with that, the group turned towards the door.
"Rebecca, are you okay?" Lauren asked truly worried. Rebecca felt that the whole group was looking at her for the answer.
"Guys, I am fine. My head doesn't hurt any more, so life is good. Okay?" Rebecca said as she stopped and turned around to look around at their faces. As Rebecca looked, she was a little surprised that Ryan was standing close by.
"But you passed out," Sara stated walking up to her and taking her by the arm to lead her towards the field.
"Yeah, but at least the bed caught me," Rebecca said as the whole group walked out the door past Russel.
"So the bed caught you?" asked James with a smirk on his face. He took Rebecca by her left arm as they all walked.
"Yeah the bed caught me, do you have a problem with that?" laughed Rebecca. "Um, are you guys trying to keep me from falling?" Rebecca looked at how Sara and James had her arms.
"Well you know since your bed isn't here to catch you, we better keep an eye and a hand on you," said Jacquelyn as she linked arms with James as they all started to laugh.
Lauren ran ahead of the group to scout out seats and the fifth years continued their way unaware that Ryan and his Slytherin group were close enough to hear everything that they were saying.
They got to the stands and found Lauren. "Hey kid, these are awesome seats!" James said as he surveyed the view from the spot Lauren picked.
"Yeah, Lauren, these are great seats," Jacquelyn said as she sat down next to James."
"Thanks," Lauren said as her cheeks went pink. "Can I ask you guys something?"
"Sure, anything," Rebecca said getting settled in her seat next to James.
"Well as you all know I am from a Muggle family and most of my friends here aren't," started Lauren looking at all of them.
"Oh, I think I know where this is going," Jacquelyn said.
"I think we all know where this is going," Sara said as she and Rebecca scooted down to make room for Lauren next to James.
"Come on kid, you found the spot so I will explain to you the rules of quidditch. I'll even take any questions during the game," James told Lauren as she took her seat.
Lauren was grinning from ear to ear as James went into his explanation of quidditch. Rebecca looked around the field and chit-chatted with Sara.
Aisha, Carolyn, Percy, Oliver, and some other first years and second years came up. They sat in front of Rebecca talking excitedly about the game and joined into James and Lauren's conversation.
The game was about to begin when Rebecca and the rest of the fifth years heard a boy say, "Look how stupid the little Mudblood is. She doesn't even know what quidditch is."
At the word Mudblood, Rebecca, James, Jacquelyn, and Sara stood up and turned around to see who said it. They saw a group of Slytherin behind them. Unfortunately they didn't turn around fast enough to see who said it, so they just stood there staring at the Slytherin group and the Slytherin group staring back. Rebecca scanned the group and her jaw dropped when she set her eyes on Ryan.
"Ryan Malfoy, you didn't dare say that vile word did you?" she shouted at him. Ryan looked at her shocked that she could even think that.
He was about to say something to protest her accusation, when Russel started to speak. "It wasn't Ryan. It was Harvey," he said pointing to towards the boy that wouldn't give the map back. The boy turned towards Russel and gave him a dirty look. "And if he is smart he will apologize for it and not say it again," Russel said staring Harvey down.
After about a minute, the boy broke down and turned towards Lauren.
Looking at his shoes he managed to say, "I'm sorry I called you a mudblood."
Lauren just stood there. She didn't know what to say, because she didn't know what the word meant. Lauren looked at Rebecca for some guidance.
Unfortunately Rebecca didn't know what to do either. She didn't know whether Harvey was being sincere or whether he was just to get out of trouble with Russel.
Lauren turned back towards Harvey looked at him and said, "Its okay, but only if you never use that term again." With that she turned around and sat down. Harvey had a stunned look on his face as the rest of the Gryffindor students turned around and took their seats.
James leaned over and whispered to Lauren, "Good Job, you did the right thing."
Rebecca leaned over too and said, "You should be proud of yourself for not sinking to his level."
"Yeah, but I don't know what the word meant so how could I be offended by it?" whispered Lauren soberly staring at the field.
Sara leaned in and said, "We know. But you handled the situation right and you have to remember that."
"Yeah," added Jacquelyn, "and we're proud of you, even if you don't think you have anything to be proud of."
"Now, come on girl. Where's that smile, we all love?" said Sara giving Lauren a big smile. The first and second years joined in on cheering Lauren up. Lauren smiled at them.
They all sat huddled up in the stands whispering and laughing until the Colin's voice announcing the beginning of the match. James went back into teaching mode. "Okay now, Charlie is the seeker. The chasers are Greg, Anna, and Cathrine. Angel and Heath are the beaters. Gryffindor's keeper is Aaron who is captain of the team. ."
As he told Lauren who played what position and then what each position did, Rebecca silently paid attention too. She wasn't about to admitted that even though she was from a wizard family she didn't feel like she understood that much about the game.
As the game wore on, Gryffindor had pulled ahead of Hufflepuff, and Lauren was getting some of the rules of the game down. Rebecca understood more of the game so she could pay more attention to the field than what James was saying. She watched as Dark sending bludgers towards the Hufflepuffs at the right angle that they were distracted while Gryffindor stole the quaff.
After Cathrine scored again for Gryffindor, Hufflepuff had the quaffle and tried to score, but Greg stole it and scored.
"Yeah! Away to go to Greg! That's my guy! OH! YEAH!!" screamed Sara as the rest of the Gryffindor cheered.
'Charlie was right she is there biggest cheerleader. I bet they could hear that out on the field as clear as a bell. I wonder if anyone could hear Colin announce Greg's score," Rebecca thought to herself looking up to see Charlie.
Just then he began speeding down towards the field. "Charlie sees the snitch," she said poking Sara to get her attention.
Charlie swooped and swerved with such speed following the golden snitch everywhere it went. The Hufflepuff seeker was close behind, but Charlie then went into a dive.
Everyone watched Charlie as he pulled up out of the dive with something in his fist. He landed and showed that he indeed had the snitch.
Everyone broke into a loud roar as Colin announced "GRYFFINDOR WON!!!!!!!!!!"
After celebrating at the stadium, the students disbursed and headed back to the castle. Rebecca and Lauren headed back together talking about the game with the other first years that sat by them. James and the other girls waited for Colin and headed back leaving Charlie, Greg, and Cathrine to walk back to the common room with the rest of the team.
When the team made it back to the common room, everyone cheered. Cathrine bowed and everyone laughed hard. The students finally settled down and spent the rest of the day relaxing.
Rebecca sat down by the fire and started working on some homework for the coming week. Charlie was walking over to his friends when he leaned over and whispered into Rebecca's ear, "Glad to see you woke up." Rebecca smiled at him and continued her work.
As she breezed through it with her prep work at hand, James, Colin, A.J., Greg and Charlie sat around talking about the game. Sara, Jacquelyn, and Cathrine sat with the guys until they decided that they were tired of hearing about the game and moved to the fire with their homework with Rebecca.
The girls all worked on their homework together and eventually the guys started theirs.
Even with all of her prep work, it took Rebecca until late Sunday afternoon to finish up everything that was due the next day. She was relieved to find the end of her to do list and started stacking up all of her books to take them up stairs and sort them.
Up stairs on her bed, Rebecca made a pile of text books and another pile of library books. While she was putting her text books away, Lauren came in the room.
"Hey, what's up?" Rebecca asked her.
"I was wondering if you could help me with some potions homework?" asked Lauren.
"Sure, I am done with mine."
"Thanks!"
"No problem." Rebecca followed Lauren downstairs and started on Lauren's potion homework.
Eventually, Rebecca was helping most of the first years with positions and Aisha and some other second years came up to ask for help as well. It wasn't until late that night when Rebecca finally made it back up stair to clean off the library books from her bed. When she looked at the books, she found a letter on top of it.
Rebecca,
Hey Girl! How is everything going? Everyone loved you last letter. We all sit around and read them the night that we get them. It is becoming a weekly event. I have to say that I am very curious about Charlie. He always seems to show up in your letters.
Anyways, I think you would like to know that Scott finally asked Gwen out. (I can hear you saying about time, already. We all were excited when we found out, too.) Colleen seems to be hanging out more and more with Kevin. (You remember him. He was the prefect in our house. I think you and him use to compete on who knew more in defense class.) I have a new crush! He is a new student from Durmstang. His name is Ty. I could go on forever about how great he is and how cute he is, but for the sake of time lets just say he is tall dark and handsome and incredibly polite. If you were here, even you would be head over heals for him, but enough of my crush. Well I got to go to class now. Write when you can.
Later,
Stacy
Rebecca smiled as she folded the letter up and stuck it with the other ones she had received. She then turned towards her books on her bed to distract herself from writing a long letter right then and there.
As she took the books off, she realized that she missed the book on Magical beasts. Rebecca looked around the room and decided that she must have left it down stairs.
She walked down the stairs into an almost empty common room. Charlie, who was one of the few students there, looked up when Rebecca walked in. Rebecca looked around for the book as soon as she had in the room.
After a minute or two, Charlie asked, "Are you looking for something?"
Rebecca looked at him and softly said, "Yeah, I left one of the books I got from the library somewhere around here."
"You mean this book," Charlie said holding up exact book Rebecca was looking for. Rebecca nodded as she walked towards Charlie. "And here I thought I some how magically made the book appear without knowing the spell."
"Sorry to disappoint you, but it was my forgetfulness."
"Oh, I don't think that it was forgetfulness."
"Really?" Rebecca contorted her face showing she was curious on what Charlie thought it was.
"Yeah, you unconsciously did it on purpose."
"Huh?"
"You noticed that I was working really hard on my homework and that I need a reward when I got it done."
Rebecca laughed and Charlie joined in. "Nice theory. . I can't believe you think it is a reward to read that book."
"Well it is one of my favorite subjects. . I can't believe you were willing to help on any potion homework that wasn't your own. That would be torture to me, but you looked like you were having fun, or maybe you were faking it so the kids didn't feel bad for asking you to do something that horrid." Rebecca smiled slightly blushing, said, "It's not that bad," and softly laughed. Charlie chuckled as well and handed back the book.
"Thanks. Well, I'm going to go to bed. Good night," Rebecca said as she turned towards the stairs.
"Night, Becca," Charlie called after her.