Chapter 6: Already Struck
"Wake up! You don't want to be late on your first day!" someone was shaking Kayla roughly on the shoulder. Being used to this from her foster parents, she just groaned and rolled over. Laughter was heard from the background, along with a sigh. "You brought this upon yourself." Mutters followed this statement and Kayla felt the solidity disappear from under her. Her eyes opened with a snap.
She found herself floating three feet above her bed and her heart seemed to stop. To her left Kiirby stood laughing, her wand out and pointing at Kayla, to her right, two girls she didn't know. "So, you awake now Kayla?"
"Yes! Now put me down!" Kiirby pulled away her wand and Kayla fell onto her bed, bounced twice and then fell off. She heard Kiirby laugh again but she was followed by two others. She stood up all three girls were bent over laughing. Kayla frowned and put her hands to her hips. "It's not that funny you know." She pulled on some clothes while they were still laughing and then put her robes over them.
Kiirby decided she should do the honors of introducing the girls after finally composing herself. "Oh Kayla, let me introduce you to your fellow first year females!" she pointed to a shorter girl. "This is Tasie, and this," she pointed to the tall girl, "is Ceres."
"Nice to meet you both." They nodded in agreement and Kiirby looked down at her watch.
"We better get going, breakfast will start soon."
"Kk!" Kayla quickly brushed out her hair and met the girls downstairs in the common room.
They walked into the great hall with a group of sixth year guys. The leaders of the gang seemed to be two identical twins named Kage and Gage. Kage kept running his fingers through his white hair, which Kayla found oddly mesmerizing.
As they walked ahead, Ceres whispered excitedly that she couldn't believe the cutest six years in the school had talked to them. Obviously neither could a group of Slytherin girls who were looking angrily and disbelievingly in their direction.
Kayla and Kiirby checked out the guys and pointed out the ones Kiirby had listed last night. Sitting down at the Gryffindor table, they were joined by Vash Nolte and his friend Zeus Walker.
"Hey Kiirby!" said Vash, hugging her. Zeus turned to look at Kayla.
"Good job for getting into Gryffindor and welcome to Hogwarts."
"Uh...thanks." Kiirby was right; Hogwarts was the keeper of cute guys. Vash's spiked brown hair fit him well and Zeus' long brown hair was really cute too and she whispered so to Kiirby.
Soon after her conversation with Vash and Zeus, Kayla remembered she hadn't eaten any dinner last night and became ravishingly hungry. Looking around at the table she saw many breakfast foods she knew and many she didn't. Deciding to be cautious, Kayla choose a couple pieces of cinnamon toast. It was delicious! Only through her second slice though, she was ushered by Kiirby, Vash and Zeus to her first class, which happened to be Herbology. According to Zeus and Vash it was going horrible because they had to deal with the Slytherins.
"Can you believe it? We get to deal with the Slytherins in the first AND last classes of the day?! What luck..." a boy named Brian complain halfway to class.
"They can't be that bad, can they?"
"They're worse than you could imagine Kayla."
She grinned. "You sure? I have a pretty big imagination." They group of Gryffindors chuckled the rest of the way down to the greenhouses, where they stopped abruptly because of the group of first year Slytherins gathered there.
Kayla quickly scanned through them and figured Regulus Black and another boy were the leaders of the group, just as Regulus turned around.
"Well, well, well...the group of sissy's and the new girl." He smiled.
"Back off Regulus," growled Zeus, glaring at him. He and Vash stepped in front of Kayla and the other girls.
"What's this? Don't you know that wimps don't really protect other wimps well, Vash?"
"Excuse me? I'm not a wimp for your information, Black!" Kayla snarled at him. "Plus, we're not the one who's surrounded by a bunch of bodyguards."
"Oh yeah, prove your better then me Riddle. Or are you to scared to do anything?"
"I would enjoy nothing more then turning you brain in to frog guts, but I'm afraid there's nothing there to change..." Kayla watched as he started to pull out his wand and she readied hers as well but another voice cut in.
"Ah, hello class!" Professor Sprout beamed a smile at them. "Welcome back! I do hope you all had a good holiday?" Kayla slipped her wand silently back into her robes, frowned and walked into class. Maybe the Slytherins were that bad!
Herbology went pretty smoothly. They were planting baby snapdragons and a surprising number of students were bitten. Only 1 Gryffindor (Ceres) but four Slytherins! Cyenie Noble and her friend Mikayla were the first to be bit. But soon after her Men'you Chang was also bitten. All three were bleeding; Ceres was smart enough to get a band-aide.
The fourth person whom was bit, Kayla was sure she was the only who saw it. It was Regulus' friend, the one Kiirby feared. He was leaning against the table near the end of the period, back towards her, talking to Black. His now potted snapdragon was placed right next to his hand she watched as if slow motion, the flower monster drew back to strike. Its large fangs sunk deep into his skin before she even had time to warn him. She winced in guild and surprise even though he himself moved not an inch. Kayla watched as he turned slowly around and moved the plant gently away, surprising her.
But his kindness to the vicious plant was not all that had startled her. His hair, which Kayla already knew, was a very dark and soft looking brown and his eyes were a beautiful, piercing, ice blue. "Kiirby was right," she thought, "his eyes do seem to look into you... wait a minute...if I can see his eyes, he can see me looking at him!" Kayla blushed and quickly turned around.
The rest of the day Kayla thought of nothing but the boy. She didn't know why she seemed so infatuated with him, but she was. In potions she asked Kiirby what his name was...Alex Storm was the reply. Then in History of Magic, she made her and Kiirby sit behind him and Regulus so that when everyone else was staring off into space, she wouldn't be noticed staring at him.
At dinner she decided to sit with her back to him because she noticed that people were starting notice her interest. It seemed though, that Kiirby already knew this tactic.
"Kayla, what's with you?" Or maybe she didn't have a clue... Kayla grinned.
"What do you mean Kiirby?" she took a deep breath to stifle her laughter.
"I mean how you've been acting! What's got you so interested in the Slytherins?"
Kayla thought quickly and came up with a stupid idea that she knew would never work. She was ashamed she couldn't come up with better. "I'm attempting to spy on them Kiirb. They're Slytherins. Us two are obviously mortal enemies. You never know what they're planning against us!"
She watched nervously as Kiirby pondered it over and when she finally looked at Kayla with a big smiles plastered on her face, Kayla prepared for the worst. "Kayla," she said slowly, "that's a GREAT idea!" With a sigh of relief and surprise, she looked over at her strange crush and gasped slightly. Alex was leaving! She watched as he walked to the doors of the great hall.
The doors closed and Kayla looked hurriedly at Kiirby. "Good, she hadn't noticed a thing," grinned Kayla.
Kiirby looked at her, her eyes wide with excitement. "Kayla, we have to tell the others!"
"Err...you tell the others, I have to...use the restroom. Meet you back at the common room?" She stood up.
"Sure!" Kiirby got up and ran to where Vash and the others were sitting as Kayla walked quickly out.
Kayla walked into the Entrance Hall, meaning to go straight through. She new Alex wouldn't be in here because he was ahead of her so she didn't bother to look around at her surroundings. After awhile though, Kayla noticed the noise or what was more of no noise. She couldn't even hear the students behind her in the Great Hall. This gave her goose bumps. She decided that maybe stalking people wasn't the best of ideas. She turned left and headed towards the common room. As soon as she left the hall, Alex Storm walked out from behind a pillar, his ice blue eyes lowered into a glare of anger and curiosity.
"Wake up! You don't want to be late on your first day!" someone was shaking Kayla roughly on the shoulder. Being used to this from her foster parents, she just groaned and rolled over. Laughter was heard from the background, along with a sigh. "You brought this upon yourself." Mutters followed this statement and Kayla felt the solidity disappear from under her. Her eyes opened with a snap.
She found herself floating three feet above her bed and her heart seemed to stop. To her left Kiirby stood laughing, her wand out and pointing at Kayla, to her right, two girls she didn't know. "So, you awake now Kayla?"
"Yes! Now put me down!" Kiirby pulled away her wand and Kayla fell onto her bed, bounced twice and then fell off. She heard Kiirby laugh again but she was followed by two others. She stood up all three girls were bent over laughing. Kayla frowned and put her hands to her hips. "It's not that funny you know." She pulled on some clothes while they were still laughing and then put her robes over them.
Kiirby decided she should do the honors of introducing the girls after finally composing herself. "Oh Kayla, let me introduce you to your fellow first year females!" she pointed to a shorter girl. "This is Tasie, and this," she pointed to the tall girl, "is Ceres."
"Nice to meet you both." They nodded in agreement and Kiirby looked down at her watch.
"We better get going, breakfast will start soon."
"Kk!" Kayla quickly brushed out her hair and met the girls downstairs in the common room.
They walked into the great hall with a group of sixth year guys. The leaders of the gang seemed to be two identical twins named Kage and Gage. Kage kept running his fingers through his white hair, which Kayla found oddly mesmerizing.
As they walked ahead, Ceres whispered excitedly that she couldn't believe the cutest six years in the school had talked to them. Obviously neither could a group of Slytherin girls who were looking angrily and disbelievingly in their direction.
Kayla and Kiirby checked out the guys and pointed out the ones Kiirby had listed last night. Sitting down at the Gryffindor table, they were joined by Vash Nolte and his friend Zeus Walker.
"Hey Kiirby!" said Vash, hugging her. Zeus turned to look at Kayla.
"Good job for getting into Gryffindor and welcome to Hogwarts."
"Uh...thanks." Kiirby was right; Hogwarts was the keeper of cute guys. Vash's spiked brown hair fit him well and Zeus' long brown hair was really cute too and she whispered so to Kiirby.
Soon after her conversation with Vash and Zeus, Kayla remembered she hadn't eaten any dinner last night and became ravishingly hungry. Looking around at the table she saw many breakfast foods she knew and many she didn't. Deciding to be cautious, Kayla choose a couple pieces of cinnamon toast. It was delicious! Only through her second slice though, she was ushered by Kiirby, Vash and Zeus to her first class, which happened to be Herbology. According to Zeus and Vash it was going horrible because they had to deal with the Slytherins.
"Can you believe it? We get to deal with the Slytherins in the first AND last classes of the day?! What luck..." a boy named Brian complain halfway to class.
"They can't be that bad, can they?"
"They're worse than you could imagine Kayla."
She grinned. "You sure? I have a pretty big imagination." They group of Gryffindors chuckled the rest of the way down to the greenhouses, where they stopped abruptly because of the group of first year Slytherins gathered there.
Kayla quickly scanned through them and figured Regulus Black and another boy were the leaders of the group, just as Regulus turned around.
"Well, well, well...the group of sissy's and the new girl." He smiled.
"Back off Regulus," growled Zeus, glaring at him. He and Vash stepped in front of Kayla and the other girls.
"What's this? Don't you know that wimps don't really protect other wimps well, Vash?"
"Excuse me? I'm not a wimp for your information, Black!" Kayla snarled at him. "Plus, we're not the one who's surrounded by a bunch of bodyguards."
"Oh yeah, prove your better then me Riddle. Or are you to scared to do anything?"
"I would enjoy nothing more then turning you brain in to frog guts, but I'm afraid there's nothing there to change..." Kayla watched as he started to pull out his wand and she readied hers as well but another voice cut in.
"Ah, hello class!" Professor Sprout beamed a smile at them. "Welcome back! I do hope you all had a good holiday?" Kayla slipped her wand silently back into her robes, frowned and walked into class. Maybe the Slytherins were that bad!
Herbology went pretty smoothly. They were planting baby snapdragons and a surprising number of students were bitten. Only 1 Gryffindor (Ceres) but four Slytherins! Cyenie Noble and her friend Mikayla were the first to be bit. But soon after her Men'you Chang was also bitten. All three were bleeding; Ceres was smart enough to get a band-aide.
The fourth person whom was bit, Kayla was sure she was the only who saw it. It was Regulus' friend, the one Kiirby feared. He was leaning against the table near the end of the period, back towards her, talking to Black. His now potted snapdragon was placed right next to his hand she watched as if slow motion, the flower monster drew back to strike. Its large fangs sunk deep into his skin before she even had time to warn him. She winced in guild and surprise even though he himself moved not an inch. Kayla watched as he turned slowly around and moved the plant gently away, surprising her.
But his kindness to the vicious plant was not all that had startled her. His hair, which Kayla already knew, was a very dark and soft looking brown and his eyes were a beautiful, piercing, ice blue. "Kiirby was right," she thought, "his eyes do seem to look into you... wait a minute...if I can see his eyes, he can see me looking at him!" Kayla blushed and quickly turned around.
The rest of the day Kayla thought of nothing but the boy. She didn't know why she seemed so infatuated with him, but she was. In potions she asked Kiirby what his name was...Alex Storm was the reply. Then in History of Magic, she made her and Kiirby sit behind him and Regulus so that when everyone else was staring off into space, she wouldn't be noticed staring at him.
At dinner she decided to sit with her back to him because she noticed that people were starting notice her interest. It seemed though, that Kiirby already knew this tactic.
"Kayla, what's with you?" Or maybe she didn't have a clue... Kayla grinned.
"What do you mean Kiirby?" she took a deep breath to stifle her laughter.
"I mean how you've been acting! What's got you so interested in the Slytherins?"
Kayla thought quickly and came up with a stupid idea that she knew would never work. She was ashamed she couldn't come up with better. "I'm attempting to spy on them Kiirb. They're Slytherins. Us two are obviously mortal enemies. You never know what they're planning against us!"
She watched nervously as Kiirby pondered it over and when she finally looked at Kayla with a big smiles plastered on her face, Kayla prepared for the worst. "Kayla," she said slowly, "that's a GREAT idea!" With a sigh of relief and surprise, she looked over at her strange crush and gasped slightly. Alex was leaving! She watched as he walked to the doors of the great hall.
The doors closed and Kayla looked hurriedly at Kiirby. "Good, she hadn't noticed a thing," grinned Kayla.
Kiirby looked at her, her eyes wide with excitement. "Kayla, we have to tell the others!"
"Err...you tell the others, I have to...use the restroom. Meet you back at the common room?" She stood up.
"Sure!" Kiirby got up and ran to where Vash and the others were sitting as Kayla walked quickly out.
Kayla walked into the Entrance Hall, meaning to go straight through. She new Alex wouldn't be in here because he was ahead of her so she didn't bother to look around at her surroundings. After awhile though, Kayla noticed the noise or what was more of no noise. She couldn't even hear the students behind her in the Great Hall. This gave her goose bumps. She decided that maybe stalking people wasn't the best of ideas. She turned left and headed towards the common room. As soon as she left the hall, Alex Storm walked out from behind a pillar, his ice blue eyes lowered into a glare of anger and curiosity.
