Chapter 8: Morning Rituals

Angelina walked out of the bathroom, a towel in her hand, drying her hair. She didn't bother standing in there long, it would be only moments after the shower was turned off that Alicia would come pounding on the door.

"Thank you!" Alicia said, before scurrying into the bathroom. Typical Alicia.

"You should let me braid your hair Ang...elina." Kori said, yawning. She wouldn't get to go in the shower until Alicia finished. It was that way every morning. Unless the younger girls finished first, then Kori would use one of theirs. It was an agreement the younger girls and the older girls had been making since...well, probably since the school started. If a shower was open in a younger girl's room and an older girl was still waiting for another older girl to get out, they were to come and tell said older girl so that she could use their shower. In return, the older girls helped the younger girls with their problems, like teachers, homework, pretty much anything.

"Why? Can't I just throw it up in a ponytail?" Angelina replied with a shrug.

"No, now get over here." Angelina obliged. Kori, apparently, didn't want to braid Angelina's hair as she had said. Angelina could feel the hard pulling of corn rolls going on on top of her head. Kori constantly said that Angelina looked beautiful with corn rolls, ever since she had gotten them done in second year. Kori had learned to do them after that, and was always playing with Angelina's locks.

"Yeah, braiding my hair alright." Angelina laughed.

"Be quiet, Kalypso's still asleep!" Kori giggled.

"Not anymore, she isn't!" Kalypso said, groggily. She sat up.

"Umm, we umm finished with our shower if you umm want to umm use it." a small girl, a first year, stuttered.

"Take it Kalypso, I'm doing Angelina's hair." Kori told Kalypso.

"Alright, thanks Kor. Thanks Kathryn, lead the way." Kalypso said, following the nervous first year girl.

"So, you're not mad at us anymore. Right?" Kori asked after a few moments.

"No, I'm not." Angelina replied. Kori sighed, happily.

"Good, cause you know I hate it when you're mad at us, girl. What do you want to do today, anyway?"

"I dunno. Where did the week go? I could've sworn it was just yesterday that we were at Hogsmeade." Angelina sighed. "Ouch, watch it, Kor!"

"Sorry! What's going on with Fred anyway?" Kori asked, being more careful. Angelina blushed a deep crimson.

"Well, er, nothing different from yesterday." she said, quickly.

"Oh, really? I'm not as stupid as I look, Ang. I know you go out and watch the squid pretty much every night. You were out there thinking about him and about what we said, weren't you?"

"How'd you know?" Angelina asked, surprised.

"I followed you one time, of course." Kori laughed at Angelina's surprise.

"You followed me just to see where I went?" Angelina laughed. "You're crazy, Kori! Why didn't you just watch from the window?"

"Well, smart one, I didn't know you went outside where I could see you from the window. I thought maybe you went off to meet some secret Slytherin boyfriend or something juicy like that. The squid isn't your secret boyfriend, I presume?" The topic of Fred was forgotten, much to Angelina's approval.

"Yes, but don't tell anyone, Koriana! They might try and keep us apart!" Angelina cried out dramatically. Kori and Angelina burst out into a fit of giggles.

"Alright, alright. Keep still, now." Kori finished Angelina's hair with the two quiet the rest of the time. It was perfect timing, Alicia jumped out of the shower at the same time that Kori finished Angelina's hair.

"Kalypso using a different shower?" Alicia asked, taking out her wand.

"Yeah." Kori replied, walking into the shower. It wouldn't be long now, Kori didn't take half as long as Alicia did in the shower.

"Mimenchuo" Alicia muttered, pointing at her hair. "Gets it dry everytime." Alicia grinned. She'd spent hours in the library looking for a spell to use to dry her hair. It probably wouldn't have taken so long if Alexa Hannet hadn't had it checked out for the three hours she'd been looking. Angelina had laughed then, and she laughed now.

"You make it seem like you're doing a cheesy commercial for the stupid spell!" Alicia looked puzzled. "Muggle thing, don't worry about it." Angelina supplied, and Alicia shrugged.

"So, I take it you're not mad at us for telling you the truth anymore?" Alicia asked.

"No, I just got done telling Kori that." Angelina replied.

"Phew, good! You're the best at the cold shoulder, and you know it, Ice Queen." Katie laughed as she walked in.

"Ice Queen Angelina Johnson, you must admit, it has a nice ring to it." Alicia said.

"Hey, I'm no Ice Queen." Angelina said, turning her head and thrusting her nose in the air snootily. Everyone laughed.

"Nice hair, Angelina. You should let Kori do it more often." Katie said, sitting down on Kori's bed next to Angelina.

"So, Ice Queen, do you finally believe us?" Alicia asked, styling her hair in front of a mirror hanging next to her bed.

"Well, I guess Ice Queen Angelina has a nice ring to it." Angelina shrugged.

"Not about that, about Fred, silly!" Katie whacked Angelina's shoulder.

"Hey, don't whack me!" Angelina grabbed Kori's pillow of off her bed and whacked Katie with it. This erupted into a full-fledge pillow fight.

"So, Frederick, where did you go yesterday?" George asked, waiting for Lee who was waiting for Jamie to get out of the shower. The boys didn't have a clever agreement like the girls did. They just dealt with waiting.

"Yes, where did you go? And when did you come back? We waited up for you, mate." Lee put in.

"I was just outside. I came back late. By the way, I have detention with Snape tonight, he caught me out late." Fred yawned. He'd lost alot of sleep last night by walking with Angelina. But, it had all been worth it, Fred thought.

"Oh. Look, we're sorry mate. We didn't mean to make you mad, alright? We were just fooling around with you." George said.

"Yeah, even if we do think you fancy Angelina." Lee added, grinning. He knew it was a prize grin, it always worked with Katie.

"It's alright, I guess." a noise that sounded much like the roar from Gryffindor's house animal came from the area of Fred's stomach. "Well, I'm gonna head down to breakfast before my stomach wakes up anyone that isn't awake, see you later." Fred said, heading out of the room and down the stairs.

A/N: I like this chapter, as useless as it may seem(and probably is, lol). I dunno, I just like having more of Angie and her friends without Fred, it seems nessacary. And besides, then I can keep Fred all to myself huggles a red-headed twin

You all like me, you really like me! Alright, yes, I'm over-reacting. But, eight chapters is a record for me! This is how far I am with my book, too. Lol. I finished chapter 8 for that today too. If you all are bored, waiting for my next chapter, I've got plenty of other things to keep you occupied , I've got two one-shots and two other fanfics I'm working on(I think I updated them this week too, I'm on a roll!), so feel free to read and review those too! ;)

KitKat001- Heya! Glad you decided to read this! Wow, that's one long review! Lol. I haven't written any George/Alicia, but stay tuned with this. My crazy head has a few ideas for upcoming events, even if I write as I go. Lol. Who knows what chapter 9 will bring...LOL. You're right about the George-Fred thing in chapter three, I hadn't realized that at all! But, it seems I made up for it in chapter five, lol. I got an all caps 'this chapter was so good' from you, so I'm guessing it made up for it...? Lol. You liked the jacket part? Good! I have no idea where I got that idea, but it came and I went with it! Lol. And, I loved your idea(UPDATE!) so much I decided to go with it. Lol. Thanks for the wonderful compliments and I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as you enjoyed the other ones! Lol, you and the red-haired twin(who isn't George), the author(who most definately would never be Jo), and all of the other "reviewers". Haha. And, thanks! I take such great pride in my spelling(watch, I'll have spelled things wrong now), I'm so haughty like that. LOL! I take it as a big compliment, since I want to be an English teacher and all(I mean, who's heard of an English teacher who spells every other word wrong? It's quite contradictory)! By the way, UPDATE YOUR STORY SOON!

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