A/N: Hey people, a bit more confusion for the foggy plot! Next chapter might clear it up a bit, keyword: might! Thanks for all the reviews, this is more than I've gotten for any story I've written I'm coming close to double digits! YEAH! Oh yeah rach! I'm ahead of you! Two chapters in the span of a week and a half! LOL! I'm winning! POST SOON! Luv Yah B.Vs.
Chapter 6
Life's Not Fair
"Detention, that sucks BV!" Andrea said as they sat down to dinner.
"Yeah, well too bad!" BV said shrugging.
"You don't seem to upset about it, BV." Rhonda said as she grabbed a plate and helped herself to the stew sitting on the table.
"It's not that bad, come on, cleaning up to potions classroom! How hard can it be?" BV said slightly laughing.
"It's not as easy as you think," A voice said. BV turned around and was looking into the eyes of Roger Davies.
"Oh, really?" BV challenged.
Davies looked at her rather confused, "Yeah, it is, he'll have you down there for hours!" He said looking at BV as though she had grown another head.
"I'll be sure to care, Roger." BV said smirking.
"I wouldn't take it so lightly BV." He said in a firm tone of voice.
"I said okay, Davies, now... back off!" BV snarled at him.
Davies looked at her awkwardly and said, "Fine... " Then changing his attitude completely he said to Cho, "Hey Chang, practice is tomorrow night, alright. I just hope you can make the season, cuz I gotta know now!"
"Yeah whatever, Roger. Here's what'll happen, I'll try my hardest and if I absolutely suck you can replace me, sound good?" Cho asked with a look of death in her eyes.
"Okay, thanks Chang, see you on the pitch at seven then?" Roger asked.
"Seven?" Cho said perplexed.
"Yeah, late night, Angie Johnson has called the field for Gryffindor tryouts. Remember, Wood left two years ago?" Roger said in an annoyed tone.
"I'm not an idiot Roger I know that! You normally just don't have them late that's all!" Cho snarled at him. Roger shrugged his shoulders and walked away.
"Idgit," Said Rhonda quietly as the girls burst into laughter.
"A little full of himself, isn't he?" BV asked laughing.
"Yeah, he thinks he's all that cuz he's sleeping with so many girls." Said Cho with a look of disgust on her face. "He's trying to be the next Oliver Wood, yeah rumor said he slept with each one of his chasers. Rumor says he was the father in the Ravenclaw Controversy..."
"Ravenclaw Controversy?" BV asked looking up from her stew.
"It happened a few years ago, what during our third year wasn't it?" Cho started.
"Fourth Chang, remember Ravenclaws got nailed two years in a row?" Andrea said.
"Oh yeah, well, anyway, the story goes Oliver slept with this Ravenclaw girl, rumor says she was a prefect, we highly doubt that because the sixth year prefect was Penny Clearwater, she's a good girl, she was dating Weasly anyway!"
"So!" Said Andrea irritated with Cho's side commentary, "Yeah well the girl and Wood got nailed passing notes in Mc Gonagall's and had detention together, they made-out on the floor of the trophy room. She got pregnant, didn't know whether her boyfriend or Oliver was the father. She knew according to the rules here at school she needed both of her parents signatures for her to have an abortion. Her father was either, see no one is sure on this part, a minister or pro-life official or something of the sort. She didn't want her name ruined. So she snuck into the library and learned how to perform Avada Kedavra so if she discovered the baby was her boyfriend's and she killed it she would kill herself."
"Pleasant." BV said with a grimace on her face.
"I know," said Andrea, "So a few weeks later she went to the library found the spell she could use to perform an abortion on herself."
"Isn't that really risky?" BV asked.
"Yeah, people said her reason just left her and she didn't care anymore."
"I Bet!" Marietta said.
"Yeah, so, she found the spell, she performed it and lived to tell the tale. But then she had to perform a paternity test on the dead child so she could find out whether she had to kill herself. So she performed it and it was Oliver's child not her boyfriends. Yeah this is where it gets weird, Rhon, wanna take over." Andrea asked.
"I guess, but see this is the only thing I ask, BV. I discovered the Ravenclaw, I know who she is, but I am not allowed to say anything about it, Dumbledore's word. So no questions, alright?" Rhonda asked staring into BV's eyes.
"Alright, but oh my god, that had to have been scary." BV said.
"It was, okay so the girl carried the dead baby up into her dorm. We were all worried about her so several of her friends and I went up to check on her. We walked in and she was lying there asleep with the dead baby in her arms. There was blood all over her white blouse, all over the sheets, she couldn't stop bleeding from the abortion delivery. We woke her up and she seemed like it was a dream. She had no idea what was going on until she looked down at that little baby. She held him close to her and cried bitterly screaming what an awful person she was. She pleaded with us to kill her. We didn't know what to do so we got the professors and that's about it. She was never expelled, she went on graduated and I think she's now married and pregnant with her second child, even though her husband thinks it's her first." Rhonda said, "Sad, story, should have never ended like that."
"WHAT WAS SHE THINKING!" BV Shouted as several heads turned to look at her.
"What's wrong BV, try to keep it down." Cho whispered.
"Why did she do that?" BV asked, "She should have been a woman and taken care of that child, it was her mistake! She should have paid for it!"
"BV she never saw it thata way. She was a smart girl who made a stupid mistake." Rhonda said gently patting BV's hand.
Bridgette yanked it away, "I don't care how smart she was, it was a mistake, okay we steal 50,000 dollars from the bank and everyone's suppose to be okay with that? Oh they're a bunch of smart girls who made a stupid mistake, we'll let them go this time. The world doesn't work that way Rhonda."
"I know that, BV, but this was just one of those cases." Rhonda said shaking her head. Dinner went by and BV ate quickly so she could get away from the tense conditions set by herself and Rhonda. Afterwards she ran up to her room and flung herself upon her bed. She began to cry.
"How can that be right? Nothing can justify that!" BV cried out loud to the nothingness surrounding her . She pulled out the pictures of her little angle and her mother's letter and Stacey's letter. She opened the letter and looked at pictures of Noel Leigh-Anna and reread her mother's letter:
Hello, honey. We hope you've had a great first few days, Noel has been making so much progress. She's getting so much bigger. She grasped my finger yesterday, quite a grasp she has on Grammy! As you've probably seen I've enclosed a few pictures of your little angel ( Your only one!) We miss you so much enjoy your new start and grasp it well! No more asking if you're living it right!'
Love Your Mother and Noel Leigh- Anna.
This started a new wave of BV's tears as Andrea entered the room.
"BV?" Andrea asked sitting down next to her, "You alright? If it makes you feel any better I don't agree with the controversy's outcome, nothing justifies abortion." Andrea began to stroke BV's long blonde locks.
"It's not fair! Look how precious life is! And some teenage girl was willing to say no I don't want that! It's not fair! She took the easiest way out, it's a challenge to raise a child." BV said sobbing.
Andrea whispered, "But your brother would have been proud of you helping your mom to raise Noel when he couldn't be there."
BV asked, "How did you find out?"
Turning red Andrea said, "I heard you and Cho talking about your brother, I'm sorry."
"That's why you said something when I said it was my mothers." BV sniffled.
"Yeah, so which is truth?" Andrea asked pulling BV up into a decent hug.
"What I told you. It was late when Chang asked me, I was thinking about tragedies. My mom had a still born baby boy a week before Noel Leigh- Anna."
"I'm sorry," Andrea said as tears fell from her eyes and mingled with BV's hair.
"That's alright, it's just been a hard year for us, that's all." BV said reaching to hug Andrea harder. Neither of the girls said anything for a moment.
"Hey BV, you got another letter." Andrea said pointing down at Stacey's letter.
"Yeah my sister-in-law wrote to me." BV said as the last tear fell from her eyes.
"Go ahead re-read it, it'll make you feel better. I'm just gonna start on that essay from Snape." Andrea said walking over to the desk and pulling out parchment and a silver quill. BV sat on her bed re-reading Stacey's letter:
Hey girl!
Hey BV, it's been along time! I hope your taking it easy on Hogwarts, remember they're not use to independent girls who are them no matter what. Keep staying true to the real BV. I bet your wondering what I wrote for. I have to tell you something very important, you may start hearing rumors about me, DO NOT listen to them! They are lies set up to ruin my reputation. People will try to convince you they're right and you're wrong, DON' T PUT UP WITH IT! Hope the Pierre's little angel's alright, your mum says she's doing good! Can't wait to see you at Christmas!
Lots of love, Stacey
The more BV read the letter the more she became confused. Was Stacey really trustworthy? Around the time of the wedding rumors were flying that Stacey only wanted the Reinheart's money. BV and her mother really though they were false rumors, but her father always hinted that maybe they were true. Mr. Reinheart never liked Stacey much, he thought she was only after the money and not Pierre. The more BV thought about it the more the idea made sense. Stacey always was concerned about how much money was left after bills and how much money the two of them brought into the house. If there was a shortage, Stacey was up in arms about it. 'maybe, just maybe, Stace isn't as honest as I think she is. Well let's see what Snape and Dumbledore want to tell me...' BV thought silently as she got up to get ready for the fake detention. Marietta and Rhonda were now in the dormitories too. BV pulled her swimming hoodie over her blouse. Her Ravenclaw sweater was disregarded on the floor beside her bed. She started pulling her hair back.
"Well good luck BV." Andrea said as she looked up from her potions essay.
"You too! You'll need it, that's a killer essay." BV said pulling her ponytail tight.
"Looking good girl!" Rhonda said as she emerged from the showers.
"Thanks." Said BV who was straightening her school skirt.
"See now that would be a comfortable uniform." Said Marietta looking up from the book she was reading on her bed.
"Yeah I love this kinda uniform." Said BV, "It's just like we wore at Vincentian. We only wore the robes for some classes, like potions, history of magic, but that was really pointless. And we wore them for... hmm.. which one was it?" BV pondered aloud. "That's it! Dark Arts!" There was a loud thud as Cho dropped all her books, a softer clink as Andrea's silver quill hit the desk a swish of robes as Rhonda turned around in her dressing gown.
"You had Dark Arts?" Marietta said softly.
"Yeah?" Said BV a little cautious of where this was going. "So?"
"So?" Asked Rhonda breathlessly, "It's not common to be taught in most schools. There's only one that does over here, and that's Durmstrang."
"Yeah, I know." BV said, "So you guys act like I'm going to perform an unforgivable curse on one of you at any moment!" BV laughed.
"Do you... umm.. know them?" Cho asked her voice trembling.
"Sure I do! So?" BV said.
"You don't want a lot of people to know that then!" Said Andrea, her hands trembling trying to pick up her quill.
"You guys still haven't told me why, yet!" BV said irritated.
"Most people here associate Dark Arts with, you-know-who." Cho whispered.
"Aw come on guys so now you think I'm like a death eater or something?" BV said smiling.
"BV, forgive us, we really don't know enough about you to take your word for it." Rhonda said shaking.
"So you guys actually believe, me, a normal 15 year old going on 16 is a death eater to you-know-who?" BV said in disbelief.
"We can't put it past you." Marietta said, "There's a lot of evidence against you! That potion you told Snape only death eaters know. The unforgivable curses? BV, they're all pointing against you." Marietta said trembling.
BV said angry, "That potion, Marietta, is know among the well educated and death eaters. My potions teacher was a death eater, I took dark arts, I'm well educated." Stressed BV.
"BV," Cho started quietly, "It might be best for you to get off to detention, here I'll walk you out." Cho said guiding BV to the door. She reached it and opened it. The girls went down the ladder and when they were outside the common room BV asked:
"Cho, you can't believe that insane remark, can you?" BV asked praying her new best friend would side with her.
"I'm not sure BV, I don't think you're a death eater, but then again, like Marietta said, there's a lot of evidence against you." Cho said.
"Cho!" BV whined, "You can't does that make every Durmstrang student a death eater just cuz they took a class on dark arts? Is every Vincentian student a death eater because of their teacher being a death eater? Because it's a mandate that all students take Dark Arts?" BV finished strongly.
Cho looked troubled and looked as though she was considering BV's response, "No, your past has nothing to do with you now. Besides if you were they would have sent you to kill your father and they wouldn't have threatened to kill one of their own."
"Exactly." Said BV breathing in a sigh of relief.
"Good luck, BV." Said Cho as they reached the entrance to the potions classroom. BV walked into the dark room and sat down. Lights flickered on as she sat down.
"Hello, Miss Reinheart, I sense some trouble in your face." Snape said mockingly.
"Yeah, well, you can't do anything for it so, can it! You mind hurrying, I got some work to do." Snarled BV.
"I'm fully aware of that since I am one of those who gave you that work to do." Snape said smoothly. "Now, if you don't mind, some ground rules before we go to Professor Dumbledore..." Snape started.
"Yeah, Yeah, I know... Be a good little girl, don't hide the truth, you'll get in more trouble not telling that you will if you tell. Yeah already heard it!" BV said cracking her knuckles.
"Yes, and one more thing, be respectful, if you treat Professor Dumbledore the way you treat me... I will make sure the rest of this year is a living hell for you Miss Reinheart." Snape threatened.
"Okay, got it, can we go now?" asked Bridgette as impatient as a child.
"Yes, we can go, but one more thing, quit the I-Know-Everything gig, it's getting old, I can promise you that you don't know everything! And remember, 'Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do!'." Snape said with a smirk.
