(Pretty neat, huh?) Said Haylie inwardly, not wanting to break the soft, sleepy silence of the castle.
(Oh, my God, totally! Thanks a ton for inviting me.)
(No problem. There's no one else I'd rather have taken. Left here.) Haylie said as they came to a corner.
(I feel so special.)
(Thanks. I try. Hey, did you see that really cute guy?)
Lexie looked over at Haylie, dumbstruck. (Are you kidding? How could I NOT see him? And guess where his dorm is? It's the-)
"Same as ours!" The girls squealed in unison.
"Name, please?" Said the Fat Lady in the Pink Dress.
"Haylie Lovett." Haylie said, awestruck by the reality of the moving portrait.
"And you?" She said, looking at Lexie with a definite air of suspicion.
"Oh, um…Alexis Lee." Said Lexie, a little disconcerted by the Gryffindor guardian.
The Lady's look changed at once when she heard the name. With a warm smile, she swung open, leaving the portrait hole open to climb through. They climbed in and entered the common room. There were only a few people there so far. Haylie supposed they had gotten stuck on trick steps.
"So we're up the stairs and to the…left, right?"
"Oxymoron. I think so…we'll ask somebody."
"And hope we get it right…" Haylie smirked.
"Well, we'll know if we see that really hot curly-haired guy, right?"
"Um…Lexie…look behind you." Haylie was barely able to control her giggles.
(Oh, crap. He's right behind me, isn't he?)
(Listening to every word you say.) Said a strange, definitely male thought. "I'm Jeremy." Said the voice, aloud this time.
Lexie turned around slowly, her eyes wide as dinner plates. For a while, she seemed unable to find her voice. "H-H-H-Hi. I'm A-Alexis. Lexie." She stuttered finally.
Haylie was in about as much shock, but she could at least speak normally. Almost.
"I-I'm…Haylie."
"You sure about that?" Jeremy asked, his smile laced with sarcasm.
"Last time I checked." She answered, a little more confidently.
Jeremy looked at the two of them curiously. "So, what are you?"
"Um…rarely ever quiet? Or in any way reasonable?" Lexie piped up. Jeremy chuckled. "That's not exactly what I meant."
"Oh! Now I know what you mean." Said Lexie, in mock realization. "Yeah, of course we're American." She smirked at Haylie, who smiled back and winked slightly. "But if you mean Dumbledore or Timeheart, we're neither."
"Neither? How?" He asked, confused.
"Special invitation from Dumbledore. What about you?"
"Timeheart. So, what state are you guys from?" Asked Jeremy, interested.
"California, and proud of it!" Stated Haylie.
"What about you, New Yorker-boy?" Queried Lexie.
"I was born in-" He interrupted himself. "How did you know?" He looked at Lexie suspiciously.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention-I've been hired by the Secret Service to track your every move since birth, never mind the fact that I'm, say, about a year and a half younger than you." Said Lexie, sarcasm etched in every line on her face. "What do you think, I noticed your accent!"
"Oh." Jeremy was at a loss for words, something that didn't happen very often, if ever.
"She recognizes New York and Spanish accents like I recognize almost anything from the British Isles." Haylie informed Jeremy. "Even more so now, because we came a couple weeks early and spent some time with friends of the family."
"British accents, huh-like this?" And went into a flawless imitation of a Cockney accent.
"Exactly." She answered, also in Cockney. Then she looked at Lexie, who had been out of the conversation for a while. She was doing something on a sketchpad, her body completely relaxed, yet motionless and focused, except for occasional rapid glances upward.
"Almost done…" She was muttering. "What do you think?" She shoved the paper under Haylie's nose. "Oh, my God…" she breathed, looking up at Jeremy and back again to the picture. "What a resemblance. That's scarily impossible."
"What the hell are you looking at?" Lots of finesse in that statement.
Lexie looked up. "You," she said placidly.
For the second time in 5 minutes, Jeremy had no answer. "What the hell are you looking at?" he said again, for lack of anything else to say. Haylie and Lexie exchanged a glance.
"I need to do the eyes." She said quietly, as a wordless understanding passed between them.
"You're not serious. NO." Haylie replied, "Ok. Maybe you are." She finished, seeing her friend's expression.
"Jeremy?" Lexie said, breathing deeply.
"What?"
"I need…I need to look into your eyes."
"Say WHAT?"
"Just look at her, and hold still. It won't take long." Haylie smiled. "And it's completely painless. I promise."
"Fine, whatever…" As he looked into her eyes, he noticed that the rest of the world, except for the three of them, seemed to be dissolving away. He tried to look away, and realized he couldn't. And he didn't want to. Suddenly, he felt a shoulder brush his. Haylie's. She was coming, too. But where? And suddenly he was somewhere else…
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