Life is a hereditary disease.
-Anonymous
Chapter Four
When I had woken up in the morning, my bed sheets were on the floor, and Giovanni was asleep on the pile of robes I had left on the floor. I yawned, shifted onto my side, stretched, and then hopped out of bed. I glanced around the room, and to my surprise, everyone was gone. I sighed, I was late for breakfast, and I could already feel my stomach protesting to so little food.
I quickly brushed my hair, pulled on my uniform, and snatched my books for my first class, shoving them in my bag along with a quill and ink bottle. I slipped on my shoes, and then ran out of the door of the dormitory.
The common room was deserted, and I ran through quickly, shoved open the portrait. The fat lady didn't like being shoved around so early in the morning, but I didn't stay to listen to her complain. I was really late for breakfast, and my stomach would murder me later in the day.
When I got down it took me a while to find a seat, but it just so happened that there was an empty seat next to my own dear sister. I sat down, ignoring her immediately. I shoveled eggs onto my plate, and poured orange juice into my goblet. I then proceeded to the sausages and other tidbits, plopping them onto my plate. I was about to take a bite when a cold voice interrupted my eating.
"Why, hello, Daisy." I glared over to my right at Lily.
"Nice to see you this morning, Lillian." She scowled at me.
"Whoa, sibling rivalry this early in the morning is just not healthy." I turned my gaze over towards the boy in front of me. Sirius Black, ugh, I had always been right about him being a huge bastard, even if back then I hadn't used that particular word.
"You know what.. I'm not quite sure, but I don't think I was even talking to you, so could you please bugger off?" I snapped.
He held his hands in front of him, mocking me as he said in a high pitched voice, "Oh no! Please don't hurt me, miss!"
I butchered the rest of my meal, a headache forming in the back of my head. I listened to Lily talk to me, at least I think I listened to most of it, but I definitely spaced out towards the end.
"Dai, come on, you're being pretty bratty. What's up with you lately?" I turned my shoulder towards her, and continued eating.
James, who had been sitting to Lily's own right, then said, "Man, she's even more cold-hearted than you, Lily." He nudged her playfully, and even though I wasn't facing her, I knew she had shot him a cold stare.
"I would appreciate if you two would not comment on our conversation, we did not speak to you, so why should you speak back on a matter that does not even involve you?" She sounded ticked off, and I smirked.
"You sound like you're having just a dandy day today, Lillian." I taunted.
"What's your problem, Daisy?" I had already grown annoyed at the usage of both of our full names. It ticked me off perhaps more than it did Lily.
"Okay, that's it, I'm tired of this nonsense." I turned to stare at Remus Lupin. "Why the bloody hell are you two doing this?"
Lily immediately answered, "Why do you think? Sibling rivalry. Daisy just can't be a cool sister, I always have been."
"Liar, Lily, liar." I snapped back at her. "Do you remember when you got your Hogwarts letter?" She had given me the biggest blank stare in the world. "Do you remember how excited I was for you? I swear it was everyday that we both were jumping on your bed, screaming about how cool it was you were going to a magical school. I didn't know at the time that after you went to this school, Hogwarts, that you would become so wrapped up in your little world. I— "
"Dai, you do know that right now you're so wrapped up in yourself also."
"It's kind of hard to when the only friend I've had for the two years you were gone, and at this moment, is Giovanni."
"Giovanni?"
"Oh, isn't that sad? I remember actually showing you him before school started." I gave her a cold stare.
"Oh, the cat."
"Come on, you two, I mean, can't we all get along? All of the things that Lily's done are pretty petty, once you think about them, right, Daisy?"
I turned towards Sirius. "Have you heard about Petunia?"
"Yeah."
"Do you know that I had to spend a whole year ALONE with her?"
He and the three other boys all had taken a huge intake of air through their teeth. "Oh, now that does sound bad." Remus commented.
"Bloody hell, it does, but worse than bad, most likely." James said.
"You think so?" I muttered at the both of them.
"Okay, fine, Dai, I'm stupid for not realizing how miserable I've made you. I wasn't thinking at the time, and I'm sorry I got sort of jealous when you got your letter, I didn't want anyone else sharing Hogwarts, it didn't seem like it would be as special with a sibling here. Everything cool between us?"
I sighed. "Okay."
From that moment on, we had decided it was best to forget about the whole thing. We were sisters again, sisters who did not fight. I hadn't ever finished breakfast, and I had to get up quickly, I had to get to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom quickly, and it would be hard to find it. I left early, and headed in the direction that Lily and her friends and given me. I was the first one in the classroom and I took a seat in the back, I didn't feel too social that day. I looked around, the teacher wasn't even in the classroom, and the desks were covered in dust. And at that moment I realized that on the first day there was an empty seat at the professors table.
Damn, I cursed my luck, is there actually going to be a professor for this class?
Other students began to enter the classroom, also noticing the dusty desks and the empty shelves. I sighed, and laid my head down on my books. It was completely pointless to look around the room for a professor who just wasn't going to come, but everyone kept on looking. The door swung back open, banging against the wall. I smirked as everyone in the classroom jumped.
"Everyone, please get a partner and sit at a table." I guess my first impression of the Defense professor would be friendly, but it didn't turn out the way I wished for it. She was tall and her blonde hair long and greasy. Her skin had an unhealthy look to it, pale and lifeless, in a way. Her fingernails, I swear, were an inch long, and painted red. On that first day, she had worn midnight blue robes. Her heels clicked against the stonework.
"Hurry, I don't have all day." She said, irritated. The sound of wood scraping against stone sounded as everyone sat down, except for me, since I was already sitting. I turned to look at the person next to me. I wrinkled my nose. It was the boy who dribbled food down his chin, and I could see that food had already stained his uniform and there was a piece of egg clinging onto his robes for dear life. He had tiny eyes for his fat face, a squashed nose, and short blonde hair. Ugh, he disgusted me. I looked down on the crest of his robes, and it turned out that he was in Hufflepuff. Just what I deserved.
"Ah, we have an extra student." I looked towards the professor, as she waved her wand and conjured up another chair, which appeared next to me. I gaped, but then shut my mouth quickly. A girl sat down next to me. She was on the larger side, or maybe it was just that I was on the smaller side, I don't know. Her brown hair had reached down to her lower back, or perhaps further, and I wondered how she got it clean. She wore glasses, and she had a blank look on her face. "There. Now, let me introduce myself." She swirled her wand around, writing in the air. Professor Dybbuk. I controlled my snickering, but a few others in the class couldn't.
She turned around to face the class. "Ms. Hawkins, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Smith, and Ms. Walker, detention this afternoon." The giggling immediately stopped. "Now that you all know my name, let's get started. Open your textbooks to page thirty-eight. We'll be studying how to handle yourself in a tricky situation, mainly the basic spells to keep on an enemy or to keep yourself safe. Ms. Reynolds, would you please begin reading?"
The rest of the class went well, and all we had to do was take notes and then summarize the chapter. It was quite simple, even if the dimwitted fat boy couldn't do any of it. The dimwitted fat boy being Jonathon Williams. The other girl was Katie Carringway, and I disliked her as much as the fat boy. She, too, was slow in the head. I did most of the work.
None of my other teachers were too bad for the rest of the morning. I just had to wait until lunch. I swear, my stomach wouldn't take this malnutrition too much longer.
31Enrose36: Wee! Fourth chapter done. I'm so happy. More to come soon, as usual.
