Kayla sat in Gryffindor Common room, drumming her fingers on a study table. She glanced down at the book in front of her. When she had been talking to Hermione about this whole tutoring thing, this was the book she was given. She licked her lips cautiously, reaching for it before the repulsiveness of reading about the past hundred years about the Wizard world made her decide against it. She began to wonder where Maya had gone. She didn't see Maya much anymore, and it bothered her. Something seemed wrong with her friend, she was… well she was there but in a way not. She answered questions but never had anything to say. She was like the walking dead.
'And I should know.' She thought, remembering her first encounter with Peeves. She suddenly pulled on her skates and decided to go out for a little while in the halls to waste time. She hoped to find Peeves or anyone just to take away the boring air around the school. Of course Kayla had yet to learn that the school was never boring, even if the students wanted it to be.
Maya was far away, dressed down. With the help of Hagrid, she was setting up a small greenhouse hidden away from the premises the students were allowed on. Maya had insisted she didn't want the other students to find it in case they wrecked it. Hagrid had done most of the building on the outside with the wire frame and Maya was assisting whenever she could. She could only do small things, which didn't bother her that much.
"So Dumbledore said you needed a bit of home?"he said in a heavy accent. His breath was quick as he began to put magic covering over top of the wire work. It was difficult for Hagrid without a wand, because the covering did all the things normal covering did but it also became reflective, hiding it from any prying students.
"Yes." Maya said simply. She was wearing a broad brimmed hat and her long chestnut hair was tied up in a bun on the top of her head so it was covered by the hat. Her jean overalls had mud on the cuffs around her ankles, but she didn't seem to mind.
"Why can't yeh use yer wand then?" he asked, wiping his forehead. She laughed so quietly that Hagrid questioned his own hearing for a moment.
"Because then it wouldn't remind me of home. Something made by hand is so endearing while I'm here." She said, smiling brightly up at the half-giant. Hagrid returned the smile before shaking his head to himself.
"You'll always be a strange one, even fer Hogwarts." He said, getting back to work. It was nearly covered over, so Maya began to move the pieces for the table in. Once inside, she sat in a covered corner and began to screw it all together. When she had one table put together, she glanced up and saw that Hagrid had finished and was peering in curiously through the large door. It was made large enough for Hagrid to fit inside, and Maya planned to use most of the space inside.
"You can come in." she said, curious as to why he was staying outside. He entered slowly, and looked at it.
"Yah could cement the ground if you wanted to, yeh know." He said, looking at the muddy ground. They had dug out all the snow earlier, and what was left looked like a mess. She shook her head.
"I just want a walkway. I'm going to use some of the soil for the flowers native to England. It would only make sense." She responded. Her fondness for the living things here betrayed her emotionless state. He sighed inwardly to himself. She was wearing a pendant with the Malfoy family symbol and it shone against the navy blue sweatshirt under her jean overalls. It caught Hagrid's eye, now that they were out of the snow and he didn't recognize the emblem.
"Where did yeh get that necklace? It's pretty." He said, though he felt a somewhat cold feeling looking at it. The mention of it made her look down and glance at it herself.
"My fiancée gave it to me." She responded dully. She had been more alive since Dumbledore had granted her request early that morning before the students were awake but when Hagrid mentioned the pendant it was if all life drained from her very being. He scoffed, and she looked up in surprise. "What?".
"Yer too young to be engaged. Arranged marriage?" he asked, wondering himself. Maya was about to shake her head when she stopped.
"I suppose you could put it that way." She said. Afterall, Malfoy had arranged it and that was no lie. She couldn't remember ever really saying "yes" but it was hard to think about telling him this for some reason. It made her head hurt and she didn't know why. So she decided to just let it go and forget about that thinking. She rather liked the absence of pain.
"Well how do you feel about the lad?" Hagrid asked, shifting his weight so he could stand comfortably. She looked up at him with blank hazel eyes.
"How do I feel about him..?" she repeated. She began to think about it herself. Looking down at what she was doing her eyes narrowed in what seemed to be sadness. "I'm not sure."
Snape grinned at his class in a frightening way. He seemed annoyed by all the clicking noises and it was getting to him.
"Ms. Granger, you can sit with…" he said, looking around the room cautiously.
Ron and Harry were interrupted by Snape's interference between the very people they were speaking about. Ron finished his questions there. He was determined. Harry couldn't have Hermione. He shouldn't have her when he was so uncertain.
"If you don't make up your mind soon, Harry… I'll take her while you're deciding." Ron said, standing from his seat. He looked at Snape, and the room was silent as Snape also looked at him.
"I'll be Hermione's lab partner." He spoke clearly. Snape's eyes between Harry, Ron, Hermione and Malfoy. On one hand, this could end very disastrous but on the other hand it could take the attention and amusement of the class away from those clicking things and onto the two. He smiled calmly, his oily hair almost covering his eyes in an ominous movement of his head.
"Very well. Weasley, go sit with Granger. Malfoy, go sit with Potter." Snape said, and sure enough he had the whole class' attention. They watched as Ron gathered his things and walked casually to the other side of the room as though it were nothing out of the ordinary.
Malfoy and Harry were having a bit more of a problem about it though. After a moment, Malfoy brushed it off distantly and stood collecting his things. He then walked to the desk that Ron had been sitting at moments before and settled himself in.
"I expect us to finish this period writing down the potion and its uses on the board. We'll be experimenting tomorrow." Snape said. And sure enough, the room was silent, everyone glancing at the archenemies once in a while expecting something to occur. It was silent, and the clicks were gone which was a great relief to Snape who felt his sanity slowly regaining.
Just as Harry figured nothing would pass between the two, Malfoy looked at him and Harry returned the glare. Only Malfoy looked pleased with himself as if he had something up his sleeve. And Harry had no doubt the snake did.
"I'm going to win, Potter." He said, his ice blue eyes burning into Harry's. Before Harry could say a word, the bell sounded and Malfoy was gathering his things. Harry was forced to not retort out of being unprepared for the comment. The students left then, and Snape thanked whatever higher power that could hear him.
A/N
Hey look! I'm updating! Now you're wondering why, right? Well besides wanting to keep my head I've also joined a writing group online that will tazer me if I don't update this more often. Also I have new music to work from and I figure I should write while I can. Afterall, these thoughts and ideas could suddenly disappear. Plus I write my best at this time of night when I'm procrastinating something else. Sadly enough, tonight it is practicing guitar for my lesson on Tuesday but oh well. I usually procrastinate writing by practicing guitar so it all works out in the end. And since no one has had a chance to review since I last posted, there's nothing here at the bottom for you like the other times. Though you should be happy. This chapter is kind of long! I mean it's up to three pages on a pt.12 font! I've never really had pages to work with before so I'm not sure how long it will look on Fanfiction.
