A/N: Wow guys, really sorry this chapter took so long to get up. I'm trying
to collect all my thoughts. I have so many ideas, and since I'm running
this story till' the 7th year, I want to space out some of the things.
Also, I've been working on a WWE story. This is one of the longer chapters,
hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own any HP characters or any movie or book lines... blah, blah, blah... you know the drill.
Chapter 11
"Cara, stop sleeping with your fucking headphones on!" Jess yelled, after she'd had to wake Cara up. "I can't sleep in silence. I'll go crazy. I need the music on," Cara replied, as she began to get dressed. "Well, you can't hear the alarm go off. I'm not going to battle with you to try and wake you up every morning!" Jess exclaimed. "Okay. No battles, I promise," Cara said, but Jess knew that was a bold-faced lie. "Hey, these uniforms are boring as hell. And if they expect me to wear these shoes, they are crazy!" Cara said, holding up the pair of black loafers. "I'm wearing my boots," Cara finished, after discarding the shoes onto the floor. Cara had already tried to 'spice up' her uniform. She had safety pins clipped to the shirt and her white button up shirt was half tucked in and half untucked and the first two buttons weren't buttoned. Her tie was also loose around her neck, Avril Lavigne style. She plastered on her dark eyeliner, as usual, and put on some silver eye shadow. Her hair was up in two pigtails, and she had put on her combat boots, that went up to her knees and had multicolored shoelaces in them. Jess had her shirt and tie the same way as Cara, but she had the whole shirt untucked instead of half of it. She didn't mind the shoes, so she just wore them. On her skirt however, she had put little pins with Spongebob and the Happy Bunny and things like that all over. She had silver sparkles on as eye shadow, thin blue eyeliner, and silverish lip- gloss on. Her hair was down, but it was curled.
The two girls walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast after they were done dressing. Dumbledore smiled when he saw how they had modified their uniforms. Obviously, he didn't really care. "Those boots are wicked!" Blair said when she saw Cara's boots. "Thanks," she said back, and took the seat across from Blair, which was unfortunately right next to Draco Malfoy. As Cara sat, Draco gave her a questioning look, but surprisingly said nothing. Pansy was furious when she saw who was sitting next to Draco. She stormed over to Mil, and started to whisper things to her about Cara. Cara noticed this, but just rolled her eyes. To tell you the truth, she really didn't care what Pansy said to her prissy little friends about her. It was the things she said to other people that pissed her off. The seating arrangement was as follows:
KrystaBlairMarcusMillicentPansy ==================== JessCaraDracoCrabbeGoyle
"So, either of you girls interested in Quidditch?" Marcus asked, trying to make conversation. "You know, I'm the captain for the Slytherin team," he said proudly. "Actually, I have no clue what Quidditch is," Cara responded. Marcus and Draco both stared open mouthed at her. They both started explaining the game to her. "Sounds confusing to me," Cara said, after about a 15-minute explanation from the two. "Well, it would, wouldn't it?" Draco said, with a smirk. "Hey! Are you implying something Malfoy?" Cara retorted. "No. Nothing at all," he lied. Cara rolled her eyes and said, "I think I'll just stick to wrestling," Both boys gave her a 'what the hell are you talking about look.' "You're kidding! You don't know what wrestling is? You know, WWE?" she asked. Both boys shook their heads no. "Well, it's a lot less confusing than quidditch. It's basically just a bunch of guys beating the shit out of each other, except it's not real, but it looks real," she tried to explain. She sighed when she saw the confused expressions on their faces hadn't left and said, "I'll send my mom a letter and tell her to owl me a magazine." The boys nodded, still confused, and went back to eating.
Jess had completely tuned everyone out at the mention of quidditch. Her thoughts strayed to Oliver Wood after that. She had forgotten about their 'date' after classes today. She smiled when she thought about it. She was going to get to hang out with possibly, the hottest guy in school. 'Is it a date?' she thought to herself. 'What should I wear. I hope I don't say anything retarded,' "Earth to Jess," she heard someone say. It was Cara. "Huh?" she asked, after coming back to reality. "I said, we're gonna have to take Flint and Malfoy here to a wrestling show sometime, right?" she repeated. "Oh, yeah sure," Cara smiled at her friends spaciness. The mail came then, nothing interesting though. Cara had her mom send her a book, Tuck Everlasting, which she had left at home. "God, you're reading that frickin' book again?!" Jess exclaimed. "Yeah. I can't help it. It's my favorite," Cara said, as she flipped through the book. "What is this, the fourth time you've read it this year?" Jess asked, as she laughed. "Hmm... I'm not sure. Something like that," Cara replied. "Well, you know, just because you read the same book four times, it doesn't count as reading four books," Jess informed Cara. "Shut up! It does for me. I'm not much of a reader if you haven't noticed. The end of this book still makes me cry every time I read it," Cara said. "You mean miss hard-ass bitch cries at the end of a stupid book? That's very unexpected," Draco butt in. "Hey. Get off my case. It's really sad. You probably haven't even read it." "And why, may I ask, is it so sad?" Draco asked. Cara handed him the book. "Read it, and you tell me," she said, as she smiled and she, Jess, Blair, and Krysta got up to get their schedules from Snape. Draco just looked at the book for a minute. 'Who is she to tell me to read this book?' he thought. He then sighed, put it in his robe pocket, and went to get his schedule as well.
"We have Herbology with the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors first," Krysta said. The four girls walked to the greenhouse, where Professor Sprout greeted them. "Oh, you must be the new students. I'm Professor Sprout. Well, I know Ms. Granger has been helping you catch up, so you'll be able to do the activity today with us. And, please stay after class so I can assign you some extra work," she said. The class filled, and Professor Sprout started to explain about Mandrakes. Everyone put on yellow smocks, so their robes didn't get dirty, gloves, and earmuffs. "An adult Mandrake's cry can kill you if you are unprotected. These are not full-grown, so they would only make you pass out. Mandrakes are used for releasing a person fro a petrified state. Now, if you'll all make sure your earmuffs are on securely, and pull your Mandrakes from their pot, and switch them into the other pot in front of you," she directed the class. Everyone did so, and the squeals were ear piercing. Jess and Cara were surprised at the fact that Mandrake seedlings resembled babies. They were difficult to get into the other pot. A Gryffindor boy named Neville Longbottom passed out, which sent the Slytherins into a fit of laughter, along with a few of the Hufflepuffs. After class was dismissed, Cara and Jess stayed to get their work, and then met up with Krysta and Blair in the courtyard.
"What do we have now?" Blair asked. "Umm... History of Magic with Ravenclaw," Krysta responded. "Ugh... History?" Cara said. "Damn, I was hoping I'd escape that class when we came here. I suck at History." The four girls walked into the classroom, and when they did, Cara noticed a very good-looking Ravenclaw boy, sitting in the middle of the room. He looked a lot like Jesse McCartney, from Summerland. 'Not bad' she thought, as she walked pat him to take a seat in the far corner of the class. When the four girls sat down, Cara asked Krysta who he was. "That's Blake Marsten. Why? Do you fancy him?" she asked with a smirk. "No! I don't even know him. But he is very hot. That's why I asked," Cara retorted. Her view of the boy was blocked when Pansy Parkinson sat right in her line of vision. 'Damn,' Cara thought.
As expected, History of Magic was BORING! But it wasn't as hard as Cara had expected. The teacher was a ghost, which surprised the girls. His name was Professor Binns. They received extra work from him as well. Next, Cara and Jess had flying lessons with Madam Hooch. Krysta and Blair showed them where to go, and Cara and Jess were taught how to call your broom, kick off, and hover. She didn't assign them any extra work, obviously, since they only had to take 1 year of flying. After flying, they met up with Krysta and Blair again and went to Defense Against the Dark Arts, which was with Gryffindor. The Gryffindors sat on the left side of the room and the Slytherins on the right. There were numerous moving pictures of Gilderoy Lockhart around the room. When everyone arrived, Gilderoy Lockhart walked down the small staircase that led to his office. "Ah, I see you've all purchased the complete set of my books," he said as he flashed a toothy smile. All the girls swooned, except Cara and Jess.
"He's gorgeous," Blair said. "Ew!" Cara exclaimed, but quiet enough so that Lockhart didn't hear. Krysta looked at her and said, "Are you crazy? Lockhart is dreamy!" Cara looked over at Jess, and Jess replied with a disgusted face. The two girls giggled. Then they had to be quiet because Lockhart was starting his lesson. "I understand there are two American exchange students in this class. Please stand up," Jess rolled her eyes, and Cara muttered, "Oh God." They stood up and both blushed a bit. "Ah, Slytherins I see. What are your names?" Lockhart asked. They told them and then he let them sit back down. He explained to them how he knew Hermione was tutoring them and how they needed to stay for extra work and blah, blah, blah. They he finally started today's lesson. He handed out a questioner to everyone. "I would like to see how much knowledge you have so far of this class. Start now!" Lockhart exclaimed. The questions were ridiculous. It was all stupid things like, 'What is Lockehart's favorite color?' and other absurd questions. Cara just wrote her name on the piece of parchment with her raven feather quill and passed it in blank, while Jess took wild guesses at everything. Cara had never really cared too much about her grades. Jess didn't care all that much either, but didn't want to start off the school year with a zero. "Times up!" Lockhart said after about 15 minutes. He collected all the pieces of parchment. He looked at Cara's and said, "Tisk, tisk Ms. Copeland. I'm afraid I'll have to give you a zero." Cara rolled her eyes and put on a pretend frightened face. "Oh no!" she said sarcastically. "Ms Copeland, are you going to take this class seriously?" he asked her. "Are you? I mean, seriously. Is knowing your favorite color actually going to help us against the dark arts?" she replied in an aggravated tone. This made Jess, Draco and a few boys snicker. They, like Cara, didn't like Lockhart. The girls however stared at Cara open mouthed, not believing that she just said that to the famous Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart, however, just brushed it off and said to watch her tone or she'd have detention. Then he started the actual lesson. After a bit of talking, he walked over to a sheet that was draped over something. He unveiled it and after he finished making a speech about how foul the creature was. There were little blue bug things inside. Cara and Jess both raised their eyebrows, partially because they had never seen anything that looked like this before, and partially because these little creatures didn't look very intimidating. "Cornish pixies?" Seamus asked, questioning the danger of these tiny beings. He and another Gryffindor boy named Dean Thomas both started laughing. Lockhart then released the pixies. They filled the room, and started destroying everything. When Lockhart tried to stop them, they grabbed his wand and he yelled, "Well, I'll let you handle the rest. Class Dismissed." He then ran into his office and shut the door. The students started to run out of the classroom. Cara and Jess met up with Krysta and Blair in the hallway.
"I can see he's gonna be a great teacher," Jess said, sarcastically. Cara nodded in agreement. "No kidding. What a baby," she said. "So much for our extra work." Jess said, not sounding to upset about it though. "Hey, it's not our problem," Cara said. "What do we have now?" she continued. "Lunch." Blair said. "Yeah, and then we have Potions, Transfiguration and Charms," Krysta informed everyone. "Lockhart let us out early though, so we still have 10 minutes to blow," Blair said. They went to the common room and got their books for the next three classes. Then they headed down to the Great Hall. When they sat down at the Slytherin table, Cara and Jess could not escape the death glares Pansy and Mil were giving them. After lunch was a little more than half way over, Cara was done eating and fidgeting with her fingernails. She glanced up and saw Pansy glaring at her. Cara sighed and slammed her fist on the table, making Jess, Blair, Krysta, Draco, Flint, Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy, and Mil jump and stare at her. "Listen you pug-faced ditz! If I catch you staring at me one more time, I'll rip your eyes out and make you swallow them!" she snarled at Pansy. Pansy's mouth dropped open slightly, and Draco and Flint burst into laughter. Jess snickered, and Mil shot her a look of hatred. Cara turned her attention back to her fingernails, and for the rest of lunch, talked to Flint. Pansy however, for a change, was silent for the rest of lunch. She was obviously scared of Cara. And that's exactly how Cara wanted it.
After lunch, Cara, Blair, Krysta, and Jess headed to Potions, with the Gryffindors. "Hey!" they heard from behind them. The four turned around and saw Hermione, Harry and Ron coming towards them. Blair and Krysta felt a little uncomfortable when they saw this. Jess and Cara however, greeted their Gryffindor friends warmly. The seven of them walked to the dungeons, talking about this and that and Cara received many compliments from Ron about how she talked back to Lockhart. They entered the Potions classroom early, so Cara and Jess kept talking to the Gryffindor trio. Krysta and Blair took seats on the right side of the room, and sat in silence. They didn't really hate Hermione, Harry and Ron, they just didn't want the other Slytherins to be mad of they got caught conversing with them. The classroom started to fill, and Cara and Jess took their seats at the table in front of Krysta and Blair. Snape walked in and the whole room grew silent. He walked right over to Jess and Cara's table. "Essays please," he said and held out his hand. Cara rummaged through her messenger bag that said 'Murderdolls' across the front, and handed him a piece of parchment that was folded up about four times. He cocked an eyebrow at her and she just gave him a sweet smile. Jess handed him a much neater piece of paper from her 'Blink 182' bag. He then stormed up to the front of the classroom. Potions was deathly boring. Snape obviously favored the Slytherins, Draco in particular, and gave them house points every chance he got. Jess felt this was a little unfair, but Cara didn't really care. Hermione knew almost every question Snape asked, and Jess noticed he hardly ever called on her. He would usually call on poor Harry, obviously trying to embarrass him.
"Ugh. Well that was the single most boring and confusing class ever!" Cara exclaimed after they left the classroom. "You two have to go get your cats for Transfiguration," Blair told Cara and Jess. They looked a bit confused, but didn't ask any questions and followed Blair and Krysta to their dorm to get their animals. "Why do we need them?" Cara asked Krysta. "Because you'll have to transform your cat into something else. Hence the name Transfiguration," she replied. "Ah I see," Cara said. They walked into Charms, which they had with the Ravenclaws, and sat at two tables in the back of the classroom. The two classes weren't separated like they had been when they had class with Gryffindor. Evidently, Ravenclaw and Slytherin got along and as a result, to Cara's pleasure, Blake Marsten sat right in front of her. She nudged Jess and whispered, "He is wicked hot." Jess nodded in agreement as Professor McGonagall took her place at the head of the classroom. "Settle down please," she ordered.
Transfiguration passed quickly. It was a pretty interesting class. Jess liked it a lot. Cara hadn't paid all that much attention to it though. She was staring at Blake almost the whole class. She couldn't help it. He was so cute! At the end of class, Jess and Cara headed towards the Charms classroom with Krysta and Blair. The teacher was a little dwarf! His name was Professor Flitwick. Jess didn't really like charms, but Cara did. She thought it was the easiest class because they didn't have to write anything. Finally, classes were over and the girls headed back to the common room. Jess was so excited. She was babbling to Cara about how she had to go meet Wood in a few minutes while they changed out of their uniforms. Cara put on a black fishnet shirt that hooked around her thumbs, a red tank top with Jack Sparrow on it, and a pair of black pipes (Pipes are baggy capri's in case you don't know. Well, they're actually a bit longer than capri's, but whatever). She also put on a pair of black flip- flops with spiked on the thong of them. Jess had on happy bunny tank top that said 'I'll be nicer when you get smarter' on it, a pair of black flares, and sneakers. She put her hair up in a high ponytail and started to re-apply her make-up. Cara rolled her eyes and grabbed her book bag and headed downstairs to the common room to do some homework. She sat at the table facing the window and put her headphones on. She looked at her books, trying to decide which boring class she wanted to do first. She finally decided on Potions first to get it out of the way. She saw Jess emerge out of the girl's dorm after a minute or two and hop out of the common room, a smile plastered across her face.
After Cara finished her potions work, she stared out the window. She started to sing along with her music. "Talking bout payback, those pussy mother fuckers wanna talk that shit fuck that! Talking bout the- Hey!" (Freak of Nature by Sinister) she said as someone pulled the headphones off her head from behind. She turned to see none other than Draco, holding the blaring headphones and looking at them questionably. "Bloody hell woman! You think there were enough swears in that one verse?" he said, still staring at the headphones. "No I don't," she replied, trying to snatch them from his hands. He pulled them away and smirked. She rolled her eyes and said, "Don't even start Malfoy. I'll kick your ass." He scoffed and said, "You wish." She gave him a cocky smirk, stood up, and grabbed the headphones from his hand. He frowned and said, "Damn.' Cara sat back down at the table and started to rummage through her bag. She pulled out her Transfiguration book and started to flip through it. Draco took the seat next to her and looked at the parchment on the table that had her extra assignment written on it. "Psh. That's so easy," he said to Cara. She looked at him and smiled. "Well then," she said. "You won't mind helping me then." He shrugged and started instructing her on what to do. She got finished very quickly with his help, and by then, it was dinnertime. She put her stuff away and thanked Draco. "So, where's your other half?" he asked Cara. She shrugged and said, "Learning to play quidditch or something stupid like that." Draco frowned. "Quidditch is not stupid!" he said. "Whatever," Cara said, slightly amused by his defensive reaction. They walked down to the Great Hall, arguing about which teachers were better. Draco liked Snape and Cara liked Flitwick best. But they both agreed that Lockhart was a complete joke. "I'm surprised you don't faun over him like all the other girls," he commented. "Eww! No way! He's old and not cute," she exclaimed as they walked towards the Great Hall entrance. Draco laughed at this, but then stopped and gave a disgusted look at something in front of the two of them. Cara looked up and saw Jess talking, and flirting with Wood. "Something wrong?" Cara asked him. "Why is your friend drooling over a Gryffindor? Doesn't she know that Slytherins and Gryffindors going together is frowned upon by both houses?" he asked her with an arrogant voice. She just rolled her eyes and said, "You're pathetic," and then walked into the Great Hall.
Rewind Jess walked down to the entrance hall with her Nimbus 2001 in her hand. Oliver Wood was waiting by the door. 'He's so cute,' she thought. He gave her a gorgeous smile that almost made her collapse when she approached him. "Ready?" he asked. Jess nodded and he led her to the grounds. "You have a Nimbus 2001? That's the fastest model out right now," he said trying to make conversation. They talked about stupid, insignificant things until the got to the quidditch field. Oliver opened a suitcase that had balls in it. He explained how the game was played to Jess. "This is gonna be fun!" Jess said after he'd finished explaining it. "Let me see you fly," wood said. Jess flew around the field perfectly. "Wow! That's only the second time you've flown?" he asked. "Yeah," Jess replied. "That was really good. I better hope Flint doesn't recruit you," he said with a chuckle. The fooled around with the quaffle for a while; stealing it from each other and shooting it into the goals. When they had finished and dismounted their brooms, Wood said, "You'd make a fine chaser." Jess smiled and replied with, "Maybe I'll try out." They began to walk back to the castle for dinner. "I can't believe you're in Slytherin. You're too nice to be in that house," Wood said. "Thanks... I think," Jess said. The got into the entrance hall and Oliver was asking her about America. They parted ways and Jess walked into the Great Hall and took her seat next to Cara, who had a devilish grin on her face. "What?" Jess asked. "You like him," Cara stated factually. "No... okay, yeah. Can you blame me?" Jess said. Cara just chuckled and shook her head.
A/N: Sorry this chapter is so damn boring. That's why it took me forever to write it.
Disclaimer: I don't own any HP characters or any movie or book lines... blah, blah, blah... you know the drill.
Chapter 11
"Cara, stop sleeping with your fucking headphones on!" Jess yelled, after she'd had to wake Cara up. "I can't sleep in silence. I'll go crazy. I need the music on," Cara replied, as she began to get dressed. "Well, you can't hear the alarm go off. I'm not going to battle with you to try and wake you up every morning!" Jess exclaimed. "Okay. No battles, I promise," Cara said, but Jess knew that was a bold-faced lie. "Hey, these uniforms are boring as hell. And if they expect me to wear these shoes, they are crazy!" Cara said, holding up the pair of black loafers. "I'm wearing my boots," Cara finished, after discarding the shoes onto the floor. Cara had already tried to 'spice up' her uniform. She had safety pins clipped to the shirt and her white button up shirt was half tucked in and half untucked and the first two buttons weren't buttoned. Her tie was also loose around her neck, Avril Lavigne style. She plastered on her dark eyeliner, as usual, and put on some silver eye shadow. Her hair was up in two pigtails, and she had put on her combat boots, that went up to her knees and had multicolored shoelaces in them. Jess had her shirt and tie the same way as Cara, but she had the whole shirt untucked instead of half of it. She didn't mind the shoes, so she just wore them. On her skirt however, she had put little pins with Spongebob and the Happy Bunny and things like that all over. She had silver sparkles on as eye shadow, thin blue eyeliner, and silverish lip- gloss on. Her hair was down, but it was curled.
The two girls walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast after they were done dressing. Dumbledore smiled when he saw how they had modified their uniforms. Obviously, he didn't really care. "Those boots are wicked!" Blair said when she saw Cara's boots. "Thanks," she said back, and took the seat across from Blair, which was unfortunately right next to Draco Malfoy. As Cara sat, Draco gave her a questioning look, but surprisingly said nothing. Pansy was furious when she saw who was sitting next to Draco. She stormed over to Mil, and started to whisper things to her about Cara. Cara noticed this, but just rolled her eyes. To tell you the truth, she really didn't care what Pansy said to her prissy little friends about her. It was the things she said to other people that pissed her off. The seating arrangement was as follows:
KrystaBlairMarcusMillicentPansy ==================== JessCaraDracoCrabbeGoyle
"So, either of you girls interested in Quidditch?" Marcus asked, trying to make conversation. "You know, I'm the captain for the Slytherin team," he said proudly. "Actually, I have no clue what Quidditch is," Cara responded. Marcus and Draco both stared open mouthed at her. They both started explaining the game to her. "Sounds confusing to me," Cara said, after about a 15-minute explanation from the two. "Well, it would, wouldn't it?" Draco said, with a smirk. "Hey! Are you implying something Malfoy?" Cara retorted. "No. Nothing at all," he lied. Cara rolled her eyes and said, "I think I'll just stick to wrestling," Both boys gave her a 'what the hell are you talking about look.' "You're kidding! You don't know what wrestling is? You know, WWE?" she asked. Both boys shook their heads no. "Well, it's a lot less confusing than quidditch. It's basically just a bunch of guys beating the shit out of each other, except it's not real, but it looks real," she tried to explain. She sighed when she saw the confused expressions on their faces hadn't left and said, "I'll send my mom a letter and tell her to owl me a magazine." The boys nodded, still confused, and went back to eating.
Jess had completely tuned everyone out at the mention of quidditch. Her thoughts strayed to Oliver Wood after that. She had forgotten about their 'date' after classes today. She smiled when she thought about it. She was going to get to hang out with possibly, the hottest guy in school. 'Is it a date?' she thought to herself. 'What should I wear. I hope I don't say anything retarded,' "Earth to Jess," she heard someone say. It was Cara. "Huh?" she asked, after coming back to reality. "I said, we're gonna have to take Flint and Malfoy here to a wrestling show sometime, right?" she repeated. "Oh, yeah sure," Cara smiled at her friends spaciness. The mail came then, nothing interesting though. Cara had her mom send her a book, Tuck Everlasting, which she had left at home. "God, you're reading that frickin' book again?!" Jess exclaimed. "Yeah. I can't help it. It's my favorite," Cara said, as she flipped through the book. "What is this, the fourth time you've read it this year?" Jess asked, as she laughed. "Hmm... I'm not sure. Something like that," Cara replied. "Well, you know, just because you read the same book four times, it doesn't count as reading four books," Jess informed Cara. "Shut up! It does for me. I'm not much of a reader if you haven't noticed. The end of this book still makes me cry every time I read it," Cara said. "You mean miss hard-ass bitch cries at the end of a stupid book? That's very unexpected," Draco butt in. "Hey. Get off my case. It's really sad. You probably haven't even read it." "And why, may I ask, is it so sad?" Draco asked. Cara handed him the book. "Read it, and you tell me," she said, as she smiled and she, Jess, Blair, and Krysta got up to get their schedules from Snape. Draco just looked at the book for a minute. 'Who is she to tell me to read this book?' he thought. He then sighed, put it in his robe pocket, and went to get his schedule as well.
"We have Herbology with the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors first," Krysta said. The four girls walked to the greenhouse, where Professor Sprout greeted them. "Oh, you must be the new students. I'm Professor Sprout. Well, I know Ms. Granger has been helping you catch up, so you'll be able to do the activity today with us. And, please stay after class so I can assign you some extra work," she said. The class filled, and Professor Sprout started to explain about Mandrakes. Everyone put on yellow smocks, so their robes didn't get dirty, gloves, and earmuffs. "An adult Mandrake's cry can kill you if you are unprotected. These are not full-grown, so they would only make you pass out. Mandrakes are used for releasing a person fro a petrified state. Now, if you'll all make sure your earmuffs are on securely, and pull your Mandrakes from their pot, and switch them into the other pot in front of you," she directed the class. Everyone did so, and the squeals were ear piercing. Jess and Cara were surprised at the fact that Mandrake seedlings resembled babies. They were difficult to get into the other pot. A Gryffindor boy named Neville Longbottom passed out, which sent the Slytherins into a fit of laughter, along with a few of the Hufflepuffs. After class was dismissed, Cara and Jess stayed to get their work, and then met up with Krysta and Blair in the courtyard.
"What do we have now?" Blair asked. "Umm... History of Magic with Ravenclaw," Krysta responded. "Ugh... History?" Cara said. "Damn, I was hoping I'd escape that class when we came here. I suck at History." The four girls walked into the classroom, and when they did, Cara noticed a very good-looking Ravenclaw boy, sitting in the middle of the room. He looked a lot like Jesse McCartney, from Summerland. 'Not bad' she thought, as she walked pat him to take a seat in the far corner of the class. When the four girls sat down, Cara asked Krysta who he was. "That's Blake Marsten. Why? Do you fancy him?" she asked with a smirk. "No! I don't even know him. But he is very hot. That's why I asked," Cara retorted. Her view of the boy was blocked when Pansy Parkinson sat right in her line of vision. 'Damn,' Cara thought.
As expected, History of Magic was BORING! But it wasn't as hard as Cara had expected. The teacher was a ghost, which surprised the girls. His name was Professor Binns. They received extra work from him as well. Next, Cara and Jess had flying lessons with Madam Hooch. Krysta and Blair showed them where to go, and Cara and Jess were taught how to call your broom, kick off, and hover. She didn't assign them any extra work, obviously, since they only had to take 1 year of flying. After flying, they met up with Krysta and Blair again and went to Defense Against the Dark Arts, which was with Gryffindor. The Gryffindors sat on the left side of the room and the Slytherins on the right. There were numerous moving pictures of Gilderoy Lockhart around the room. When everyone arrived, Gilderoy Lockhart walked down the small staircase that led to his office. "Ah, I see you've all purchased the complete set of my books," he said as he flashed a toothy smile. All the girls swooned, except Cara and Jess.
"He's gorgeous," Blair said. "Ew!" Cara exclaimed, but quiet enough so that Lockhart didn't hear. Krysta looked at her and said, "Are you crazy? Lockhart is dreamy!" Cara looked over at Jess, and Jess replied with a disgusted face. The two girls giggled. Then they had to be quiet because Lockhart was starting his lesson. "I understand there are two American exchange students in this class. Please stand up," Jess rolled her eyes, and Cara muttered, "Oh God." They stood up and both blushed a bit. "Ah, Slytherins I see. What are your names?" Lockhart asked. They told them and then he let them sit back down. He explained to them how he knew Hermione was tutoring them and how they needed to stay for extra work and blah, blah, blah. They he finally started today's lesson. He handed out a questioner to everyone. "I would like to see how much knowledge you have so far of this class. Start now!" Lockhart exclaimed. The questions were ridiculous. It was all stupid things like, 'What is Lockehart's favorite color?' and other absurd questions. Cara just wrote her name on the piece of parchment with her raven feather quill and passed it in blank, while Jess took wild guesses at everything. Cara had never really cared too much about her grades. Jess didn't care all that much either, but didn't want to start off the school year with a zero. "Times up!" Lockhart said after about 15 minutes. He collected all the pieces of parchment. He looked at Cara's and said, "Tisk, tisk Ms. Copeland. I'm afraid I'll have to give you a zero." Cara rolled her eyes and put on a pretend frightened face. "Oh no!" she said sarcastically. "Ms Copeland, are you going to take this class seriously?" he asked her. "Are you? I mean, seriously. Is knowing your favorite color actually going to help us against the dark arts?" she replied in an aggravated tone. This made Jess, Draco and a few boys snicker. They, like Cara, didn't like Lockhart. The girls however stared at Cara open mouthed, not believing that she just said that to the famous Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart, however, just brushed it off and said to watch her tone or she'd have detention. Then he started the actual lesson. After a bit of talking, he walked over to a sheet that was draped over something. He unveiled it and after he finished making a speech about how foul the creature was. There were little blue bug things inside. Cara and Jess both raised their eyebrows, partially because they had never seen anything that looked like this before, and partially because these little creatures didn't look very intimidating. "Cornish pixies?" Seamus asked, questioning the danger of these tiny beings. He and another Gryffindor boy named Dean Thomas both started laughing. Lockhart then released the pixies. They filled the room, and started destroying everything. When Lockhart tried to stop them, they grabbed his wand and he yelled, "Well, I'll let you handle the rest. Class Dismissed." He then ran into his office and shut the door. The students started to run out of the classroom. Cara and Jess met up with Krysta and Blair in the hallway.
"I can see he's gonna be a great teacher," Jess said, sarcastically. Cara nodded in agreement. "No kidding. What a baby," she said. "So much for our extra work." Jess said, not sounding to upset about it though. "Hey, it's not our problem," Cara said. "What do we have now?" she continued. "Lunch." Blair said. "Yeah, and then we have Potions, Transfiguration and Charms," Krysta informed everyone. "Lockhart let us out early though, so we still have 10 minutes to blow," Blair said. They went to the common room and got their books for the next three classes. Then they headed down to the Great Hall. When they sat down at the Slytherin table, Cara and Jess could not escape the death glares Pansy and Mil were giving them. After lunch was a little more than half way over, Cara was done eating and fidgeting with her fingernails. She glanced up and saw Pansy glaring at her. Cara sighed and slammed her fist on the table, making Jess, Blair, Krysta, Draco, Flint, Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy, and Mil jump and stare at her. "Listen you pug-faced ditz! If I catch you staring at me one more time, I'll rip your eyes out and make you swallow them!" she snarled at Pansy. Pansy's mouth dropped open slightly, and Draco and Flint burst into laughter. Jess snickered, and Mil shot her a look of hatred. Cara turned her attention back to her fingernails, and for the rest of lunch, talked to Flint. Pansy however, for a change, was silent for the rest of lunch. She was obviously scared of Cara. And that's exactly how Cara wanted it.
After lunch, Cara, Blair, Krysta, and Jess headed to Potions, with the Gryffindors. "Hey!" they heard from behind them. The four turned around and saw Hermione, Harry and Ron coming towards them. Blair and Krysta felt a little uncomfortable when they saw this. Jess and Cara however, greeted their Gryffindor friends warmly. The seven of them walked to the dungeons, talking about this and that and Cara received many compliments from Ron about how she talked back to Lockhart. They entered the Potions classroom early, so Cara and Jess kept talking to the Gryffindor trio. Krysta and Blair took seats on the right side of the room, and sat in silence. They didn't really hate Hermione, Harry and Ron, they just didn't want the other Slytherins to be mad of they got caught conversing with them. The classroom started to fill, and Cara and Jess took their seats at the table in front of Krysta and Blair. Snape walked in and the whole room grew silent. He walked right over to Jess and Cara's table. "Essays please," he said and held out his hand. Cara rummaged through her messenger bag that said 'Murderdolls' across the front, and handed him a piece of parchment that was folded up about four times. He cocked an eyebrow at her and she just gave him a sweet smile. Jess handed him a much neater piece of paper from her 'Blink 182' bag. He then stormed up to the front of the classroom. Potions was deathly boring. Snape obviously favored the Slytherins, Draco in particular, and gave them house points every chance he got. Jess felt this was a little unfair, but Cara didn't really care. Hermione knew almost every question Snape asked, and Jess noticed he hardly ever called on her. He would usually call on poor Harry, obviously trying to embarrass him.
"Ugh. Well that was the single most boring and confusing class ever!" Cara exclaimed after they left the classroom. "You two have to go get your cats for Transfiguration," Blair told Cara and Jess. They looked a bit confused, but didn't ask any questions and followed Blair and Krysta to their dorm to get their animals. "Why do we need them?" Cara asked Krysta. "Because you'll have to transform your cat into something else. Hence the name Transfiguration," she replied. "Ah I see," Cara said. They walked into Charms, which they had with the Ravenclaws, and sat at two tables in the back of the classroom. The two classes weren't separated like they had been when they had class with Gryffindor. Evidently, Ravenclaw and Slytherin got along and as a result, to Cara's pleasure, Blake Marsten sat right in front of her. She nudged Jess and whispered, "He is wicked hot." Jess nodded in agreement as Professor McGonagall took her place at the head of the classroom. "Settle down please," she ordered.
Transfiguration passed quickly. It was a pretty interesting class. Jess liked it a lot. Cara hadn't paid all that much attention to it though. She was staring at Blake almost the whole class. She couldn't help it. He was so cute! At the end of class, Jess and Cara headed towards the Charms classroom with Krysta and Blair. The teacher was a little dwarf! His name was Professor Flitwick. Jess didn't really like charms, but Cara did. She thought it was the easiest class because they didn't have to write anything. Finally, classes were over and the girls headed back to the common room. Jess was so excited. She was babbling to Cara about how she had to go meet Wood in a few minutes while they changed out of their uniforms. Cara put on a black fishnet shirt that hooked around her thumbs, a red tank top with Jack Sparrow on it, and a pair of black pipes (Pipes are baggy capri's in case you don't know. Well, they're actually a bit longer than capri's, but whatever). She also put on a pair of black flip- flops with spiked on the thong of them. Jess had on happy bunny tank top that said 'I'll be nicer when you get smarter' on it, a pair of black flares, and sneakers. She put her hair up in a high ponytail and started to re-apply her make-up. Cara rolled her eyes and grabbed her book bag and headed downstairs to the common room to do some homework. She sat at the table facing the window and put her headphones on. She looked at her books, trying to decide which boring class she wanted to do first. She finally decided on Potions first to get it out of the way. She saw Jess emerge out of the girl's dorm after a minute or two and hop out of the common room, a smile plastered across her face.
After Cara finished her potions work, she stared out the window. She started to sing along with her music. "Talking bout payback, those pussy mother fuckers wanna talk that shit fuck that! Talking bout the- Hey!" (Freak of Nature by Sinister) she said as someone pulled the headphones off her head from behind. She turned to see none other than Draco, holding the blaring headphones and looking at them questionably. "Bloody hell woman! You think there were enough swears in that one verse?" he said, still staring at the headphones. "No I don't," she replied, trying to snatch them from his hands. He pulled them away and smirked. She rolled her eyes and said, "Don't even start Malfoy. I'll kick your ass." He scoffed and said, "You wish." She gave him a cocky smirk, stood up, and grabbed the headphones from his hand. He frowned and said, "Damn.' Cara sat back down at the table and started to rummage through her bag. She pulled out her Transfiguration book and started to flip through it. Draco took the seat next to her and looked at the parchment on the table that had her extra assignment written on it. "Psh. That's so easy," he said to Cara. She looked at him and smiled. "Well then," she said. "You won't mind helping me then." He shrugged and started instructing her on what to do. She got finished very quickly with his help, and by then, it was dinnertime. She put her stuff away and thanked Draco. "So, where's your other half?" he asked Cara. She shrugged and said, "Learning to play quidditch or something stupid like that." Draco frowned. "Quidditch is not stupid!" he said. "Whatever," Cara said, slightly amused by his defensive reaction. They walked down to the Great Hall, arguing about which teachers were better. Draco liked Snape and Cara liked Flitwick best. But they both agreed that Lockhart was a complete joke. "I'm surprised you don't faun over him like all the other girls," he commented. "Eww! No way! He's old and not cute," she exclaimed as they walked towards the Great Hall entrance. Draco laughed at this, but then stopped and gave a disgusted look at something in front of the two of them. Cara looked up and saw Jess talking, and flirting with Wood. "Something wrong?" Cara asked him. "Why is your friend drooling over a Gryffindor? Doesn't she know that Slytherins and Gryffindors going together is frowned upon by both houses?" he asked her with an arrogant voice. She just rolled her eyes and said, "You're pathetic," and then walked into the Great Hall.
Rewind Jess walked down to the entrance hall with her Nimbus 2001 in her hand. Oliver Wood was waiting by the door. 'He's so cute,' she thought. He gave her a gorgeous smile that almost made her collapse when she approached him. "Ready?" he asked. Jess nodded and he led her to the grounds. "You have a Nimbus 2001? That's the fastest model out right now," he said trying to make conversation. They talked about stupid, insignificant things until the got to the quidditch field. Oliver opened a suitcase that had balls in it. He explained how the game was played to Jess. "This is gonna be fun!" Jess said after he'd finished explaining it. "Let me see you fly," wood said. Jess flew around the field perfectly. "Wow! That's only the second time you've flown?" he asked. "Yeah," Jess replied. "That was really good. I better hope Flint doesn't recruit you," he said with a chuckle. The fooled around with the quaffle for a while; stealing it from each other and shooting it into the goals. When they had finished and dismounted their brooms, Wood said, "You'd make a fine chaser." Jess smiled and replied with, "Maybe I'll try out." They began to walk back to the castle for dinner. "I can't believe you're in Slytherin. You're too nice to be in that house," Wood said. "Thanks... I think," Jess said. The got into the entrance hall and Oliver was asking her about America. They parted ways and Jess walked into the Great Hall and took her seat next to Cara, who had a devilish grin on her face. "What?" Jess asked. "You like him," Cara stated factually. "No... okay, yeah. Can you blame me?" Jess said. Cara just chuckled and shook her head.
A/N: Sorry this chapter is so damn boring. That's why it took me forever to write it.