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Only two days until Christmas. Hogwarts was full of Christmas spirit. You couldn't go anywhere without being wished 'Merry Christmas' by a ghost or walk down a corridor without being sung cheesy Christmas carols by a suit of armour, that didn't know all the words.
Everyone was in high spirits, and you couldn't start a conversation without it turning to the upcoming Christmas Ball. Girls were swapping hair styles, make-up tips and clothes where ever you went.
Students were passing the hours outside in the white, winter weather, having snowball fights, and making snowmen or angels in the 5 inch snow covered grounds. If they weren't outside, students were wrapping presents, playing chess, gobstones or other wizard games in their common room.
Each and every student in the 4th year and above occupied the Hogwarts castle that Christmas. (that was the ages allowed to go to the ball.)
Cho, Samiha and Serena, were sitting in the Ravenclaw common room, talking excitedly. No-one, not even Cho, could stay miserable, when the rest of the school was this animated.
"So what did you get me?" Samiha asked Cho for the millionth time that day. She'd been trying to catch Cho and Serena off guard, and startle them into telling her what they'd bought her.
"I'm not telling you," Cho said, smiling in an exasperated way. Samiha smiled too.
"Damn it!" she said as she tore the wrapping paper she was using to wrap up a large box, containing a mini broomstick, for her 2 year old brother. Cho and Serena rolled their eyes at her.
"I give up with this muggle way of wrapping presents," Samiha said, standing up. She took out her wand. (13 inch unicorn hair) and flicked it at the wrapping paper and presents. The wrapping was done for her within minutes.
"There we go, it's so much easier like that," she said sitting back down. Cho and Serena decided this was definitely the best way a followed suit. With that done, what else could the three girls do but immediately start talking about the Ball.
"I can't believe you got the best looking guy in Ravenclaw!" Serena said enviously to Cho. Cho grinned, sheepishly.
"Well I couldn't turn him down, there was a rumour he was gonna ask Marietta if I didn't say yes," Cho replied, looking scornfully, over to the table where Marietta was sitting with a group of 5 or 6 girls, who used to be Cho's friends.
"Who would wanna go with that up tight bitch?" Samiha said a bit too loudly. A couple of people looked at her.
"Exactly, better you than her," Serena agreed. Cho had had just about enough of Marietta's behaviour, towards her recently. She made bitchy comments about her behind her back, purposely knocked into in the corridors and tried her hardest to get Cho into trouble in class.
"Why can't she just leave people alone," Cho said hatefully. "I dunno what people like about her," Serena and Samiha nodded, throwing disgusted looks at Marietta and the gang of girls.
"They only hang around her 'cos her dad works in the department of mysteries, and he's like a millionaire," Serena said. There was a moment of silence, where all three girls lingered in their own hate for Marietta.
"You know we shouldn't let her get to us so much," Serena said, breaking the silence,
"Yeh, that's exactly what she wants, why should we care about some one so immature and sad," continued Samiha nodding.
"But if she does one more thing to me, crack a joke, push me, anything like that, and I swear I'll slap her," Cho said venomously. Samiha and Serena both knew they had to change the subject now, or Cho would do something drastic.
"er…………why don't we go up to our dormitory," aid Serena tentatively. Cho looked at her.
"Yeh we can talk without so many people around then," Samiha added.
"No, I'm fine here," Cho said firmly. "I'll stop going on about Marietta." She said realising it was a touchy subject.
So they went back to talking about the ball for a while until Cho saw Marietta stand up and head towards the dormitories. Cho knew Marietta would have to pass her, Samiha and Serena to get to the dormitories.
Cho's insides were still swirling with anger at her former best friend, a half wished she would do something to give Cho an excuse for yell at her and hit her.
Marietta glanced fleetingly at Cho before walking towards her, and the stairs. Cho pretended she hadn't seen Marietta, and carried on the conversation with Samiha and Serena. But as Marietta reached the chair where she was sitting, Cho saw Marietta whisper something to another of Cho's ex-friends, which looked a lot like 'Bitch'.
Cho clenched her teeth, 'don't do anything, just ignore her,' she said to herself. She didn't want to start a fight in the common, she'd been slipping away from her good girl attitude enough this year already.
Marietta looked like she was going to walk straight past. But at the last second she looked back at Cho smiled horribly and mouthed the word 'slut' very obviously. Cho couldn't do it. She couldn't hold back her anger anymore. She stood up, months of hatred burning inside her. Fury rushing around her entire body. She couldn't watch as Marietta, taunted her all the way through her last year at Hogwarts.
"What did you say?" said Cho, giving Marietta an insufferable look. Marietta, turned to look at Cho slowly. There was a look of surprise on her face, Cho had always ignored Marietta's hateful comments and teasing.
"What?" Marietta, as if she didn't believe what she was hearing.
"What did you say to me?" Cho repeated, her voice was cold and harsh, Marietta didn't know what to say.
"I didn't say anything," Marietta said firmly, but Cho heard the waver in her voice, which showed she was uncomfortable, this gave Cho glimmer of satisfaction.
"Yes you did," Cho said, keeping her voice cool, trying not to show too much emotion.
"No I didn't," Marietta insisted unconvincingly. Cho knew Samiha and Serena were watching her and Marietta unsure of what to do.
"Yes you did, I saw you." Marietta paused, she evidently couldn't think of anything to say. People were starting to look at them. Marietta, looked around desperately for something to do or say. She wasn't used to this from Cho, she could normally walk all over her.
"So what did you say?" Cho persisted. Marietta turned sharply towards the stair and walked away with as much dignity as she could muster.
Cho half wanted to call after her, to call her back, to run after her and hit her. But knowing that finally Marietta was the one walking away defeated was just enough to keep Cho standing there with a slight smile playing on her lips. She'd got one over on Marietta, that gave her an amazing feeling of power.
"I'm going to bed," Cho said and went up the staircase to her dormitory. She knew Samiha and Serena would be talking about her, everyone in the common room had seen what happened, they would be muttering about she behind her back for ages now. That's what you got for standing up for yourself.
Cho sighed as she climbed into her four-poster. She was glad she'd done that to Marietta, but her life still looked pretty black. Harry was with her Hermione and her family had too many tradgedies for it ever to be how it used to be.
The only thing she had to look forward to was the Ball, but even then she was only going with Roger Davis. Why couldn't her life be simple. An ordinary family, and no obsessions over famous guys who she could never have.
Cho sighed again and stared up at the dark ceiling, surely it couldn't get any worse, maybe she could escape from all her dark thoughts at the Ball, but somehow Cho felt like she could never be truly happy again.
She turned over and closed her eyes, the only thought that helped her sleep that evening was the memory of Marietta's desperate face as she was lost for words. at the mercy of Cho. Maybe, just maybe, things might pick up for Cho in two days when Christmas day came.
I dunno if that chapter was any good, I'm trying to make my chapters interesting with at least a plot, but I dunno if you think it's any good. Please review! I need loads of support and I wanna try and get more reviews on this fic than on my other hp fic which had about 130-140, something like that.
P.S The next chapter will skip Christmas Eve and go straight to Christmas day, just in case anyone gets confused.