Disclaimer: Elle here! I know you are totally excited right? Wasn't Kenn just the worst person ever in the last chapter??? I thought she was. The person I'm based off of totally yelled at Brittany for that. Hehehe. That was funny. You should have seen Brittany. She had this priceless look on her face. (Brittany puts duct tape on Elle's mouth) (Elle mumbles)
Brittany: She can't do the disclaimer now. (kicks Elle into a closet) I don't and never will own this story. Thanks! bye bye! (leaves Elle in closet and mumblesshe wasn't that important anways..)
Welcome Back Ball:
"Are you ready fair maiden?" Draco Malfoy asked his girlfriend. She was ready for the ball, her hair loose and falling just past her shoulders. Her pale yellow silk dress dragged slightly on the floor, giving her a very stately air.
"Yes, and would you please stop acting so weird," Kennedy replied, hooking her arm through his. The left the common room and headed towards the Great Hall for the Welcome Back Ball.
"Weird? Weird? How is it weird that I'm trying to act like a gentleman for once?" Draco said, mocking outrage. Kennedy stuck her tongue out at him and he grinned. Draco slipped his arm around her waist, forcing her arm that was through his to wrap around him. She glanced at him sidelong but said nothing.
The couple walked into the Great Hall and walked out onto the packed dance floor. They danced for a few songs before Kennedy decided she wanted to take a break and sit down. Kennedy plopped down in a chair and sighed, "Phew! You certainly know how to waltz dear Draco."
"Remember how we took dancing lessons together all those years ago?" Draco questioned.
"Ugh. Yes I do. That was probably the worse experience of my life," Kennedy put her head in her hands, remembering the time she had fallen right on her face and torn her dress. She's almost died from the shame.
Draco laughed, "Remember that one time- ouch" he was cut off by Kennedy kicking him rather hardly under the table. "What was that for?"
"I don't really want to be reminded of that time, thanks," Kennedy said flatly.
"Okay, but anyways after those lessons my mother made me take private lessons, didn't your mother too?" Draco asked, taking a sip of the pumpkin juice he'd just poured for himself.
Kennedy glared at the wall and said bitterly, "Yes. Yes, she did. Oh, my god was that a disaster. It might have been worse than at classes. I nearly broke my back and guess what?"
"What?"
"I tore yet another dress. Aren't I graceful?" Kennedy pursed her lips and tried to banish the redness from her cheeks as Draco's eyes watered from his laughter. "Yeah, it's real funny."
Draco nodded, "Yeah, it is actually."
Kennedy turned her glare on him, "You suck."
"Thank you. That is quite a compliment," Draco attempted a bow from the sitting position and smirked on his way up. She shoved his shoulder playfully causing him to smile more. Kennedy pouted. He was leaning in when a noise erupted from the corner of the room, where the people drinking fire whiskey and alcoholic butterbeer were. Kenn and Draco turned to look at the exact same time. "Idiots," was all Draco said. Kennedy gasped and the color left her face as the drunks laughed at what had just come out of one of their wands.
A large creature, the size of a muggle semi-truck thick and the length of the twenty horses- nose to end, had spurted from the end of one of the wands of the drunkards. Kennedy didn't know what to do. A giant snake was coiled, poised to strike, in the middle of the Hogwarts students. The room was silent from shock. Then, as if it had registered to them all at once, the pupils ran out into the Entrance Hall, getting out of harm's way, but still seeing the action. Kennedy and Draco stood to do the same when Kennedy heard a feminine scream from the corner of the Great Hall.
The snake had cornered someone.
Kenn stopped and looked back, Draco trying to pull her along. She pulled her arm away from him and looked around the snake. If there was any color left in Kennedy's face, it left immediately. Elle...
Kennedy stared and didn't know what to do, she felt helpless. Her mind was battling with her. Save her, no don't she deserves this. She's your best friend! Not anymore. She'd still be there for you if hadn't overreacted. I didn't overreact, they betrayed me. No they didn't; Did you ever stop to consider the situation? Maybe Rook didn't do anything wrong. Yes he DID!
The day her friends had told her that they hadn't thought Rook had done anything wrong, all the times her friends had tried to talk to her, the fight from yesterday... It all flashed back in her brain. She had screamed and never stopped to think. They weren't right; of course they weren't.
She was shaken from the instant of thoughts that she had been flooded with by Elle's scream. The snake was getting closer and lowering its head. The pupils out in the Entrance Hall were all watching as Kenn just stood there and Elle screamed. The professor's attempts to stop the animal were just failing. Its head nearly down to Elle, the snake hissed. Kennedy didn't care if it was her best friend or her arch enemy in that corner, she had to save them.
"Stop! Don't touch her!" Kennedy cried, throwing out her arm. The snake didn't listen so she repeated herself. "Stop! Don't touch her!"
The snake looked at her and responded, "Why not?"
"Don't. Please don't touch her. Please, please, even if this is my last request, let her live and let the teacher's shrink you down," Kennedy pleaded. She had to convince the snake to leave its victim be.
The Hall was deadly quiet, not daring to move. What in God's name was she doing. That snake was really very big. No joke. No one wanted to think about what could be going on... Kennedy O'Riley, pure-blood Slytherin, was hissing very animatedly at the gargantuan snake. Of course not a soul stopped to think that the snake had actually looked up, but that didn't matter because Kennedy was making funny noises.
Elle, too, was staring at Kennedy once the hissing started. She knew Kenn was a Parselmouth but she'd never heard her speak it before. It scared Elle to know that they had fought just the day before; Kennedy could be saying anything to that snake. She could be giving it long instructions of how to torture her by ripping her limbs apart very slowly then making her watch itself eat them, or possibly making her eat her own body parts. This was, of course, something Elle did not want to think about, but other thoughts of torture and murder raced through her mind as she half-listened to the supposed conversation between Kennedy and the snake. Elektra Conyers began to shake in fear. The fear resonated throughout her whole being. Merlin let me live through this, Elle prayed to no one in particular. Curling up in a ball, she kept repeating her last statement in her head.
"STOP! STOP THIS." Kennedy cried, hopelessly it seemed.
The snake turned back to Elle, who began visibly shaking, "She does smell kind of funny, but I like that she is scared."
"I can get you as much food as you want, that smell so good. All you have to do is let the professors shrink you and pick you up, without biting them," Kennedy cajoled. "Accio lamb chops." She summoned the meat from the table. Holding it out she said, "see? It's better! You really do want to eat this instead."
"But I like things that are alive."
Kennedy stood there, meat in hand, not knowing what to say," Well... I guess the teachers could do that..., but you'll have to let her go. And let the teacher's shrink you before you get fed." The snake slithered away from Elle and went towards the professors. Kennedy walked over next to it. "You have to shrink the snake then give it something live to eat. Hey, doesn't the Care of Magical Creatures second year class need a snake? I know they normally deal with the more exotic, but maybe they could use it for something," She looked up at the snake, "would you mind doing that? It would mean lots of live food for you." The snake nodded.
The teachers went to work at making the giant snake smaller. When that was done all of the professors went with Dumbledore out to Hagrid's hut to drop of the snake, just in case something went awry and it grew again. The pupil's split for the teachers but once they left their attention was on Kennedy, standing in the middle of the room looking at Elle, who was being helped up. She looked back at the mass of students standing in the door way. The room was silent once Elle had joined them. They were staring at her like she was an alien, foreign and weird.
"WHAT?" With that she ran out the hall, through the crowd, which split for her. She ran blindly down a hall way. I shouldn't have done that. Shoulda figured that kinda thing would happen. I'll never be able to face anyone ever again. The only people who knew were... No don't think about that. They don't want you back. Plus you can't possibly go back to them; they're still friends with Rook. She thought to herself and sighed, she slide down a wall.
Dissolving into tears she cried for all the things that would never be the same: Her friendships, her school life, herself mostly likely... Kennedy kept saying things that only made her feel worse. She thought back to that day she'd walked in on Rook... This started a fresh round of tears. Kenn knew she could never trust him, even if really deep down she wanted to. She wanted to forget all that had happened, but knew she couldn't. Never again would she trust anybody. Reclusion was what she sensed for herself in the near future. Only talking to people during class would suit her just fine.
The thoughts were formulating perfectly in her mind- they would work perfectly, she just knew they would- when she heard soft footsteps off in the distance. Immediately Kenn looked up, but she couldn't see who was coming towards her. Kennedy scrunched up her eyes, and then her eyes grew wide when she saw who was in front of her. The figure stopped about three feet away from her outstretched feet. The two just looked at each other, unmoving. Neither tried to speak. Kennedy sat there looking into blue eyes whose shade was rapidly changing.
Rook...
Wasn't that simply dreadful? I thought it was, but I wrote it... SO!! sorry this took so long, I'm not sure how long it took me to write this... but I'm sure it was toooooo long!!!! I tend to be slow... so bare with me. I'm really sorry about the chapter before this one. The one were Kenn freaks out, but as you can see it kind of had it's place in making this chapter more... dramatic!! YAY!!!! DRAMA!!!!!! sorry. I'm okay. And if you have a heart or a soul please please please review!!!!! Wuv you all!! Brittany!!!