Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns all the Hogwarts' stuff as well as some of the character appearing here. The rest is mine!
A/N: Well, after reading a lot of fanfic on this site (and I mean A LOT!) I finally decided to get all the ideas out my head and into the pc! . . .Read at your own risk though, because I can't assure you it won't be bad !
This and the folowing chapter have been re-written so I hope they're better now
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New at Hogwarts
Chapter 1
School-break
The bell rang. It was a surprisingly hot day for the time of the year but that didn't seem to bother the students, who left their classes as soon as they heard the awaited ring of the bell.Well, all except four girls, all dressed with the same green and blue uniform.
"Happy holidays every one!" Mrs. Reny said with enthusiasm, getting almost no answer except for a few mumbles and a very cheery "Happy holidays Mrs. Renty" coming from Samy, Joana and Eliza and then, she was gone, just like the rest.
"What are you doing tomorrow Samy?" Eliza asked her dark haired friend.
"Nothing, I guess.Why d'you ask?"
"Well, Joana" she pointed to the girl putting away her things behind her "and I thought we could go buy Alex's present since we have nothing else to do and her birthday is next week" Eliza explained.
Samy looked at her friends and made a gesture telling them to shut up.
"Don't speak so loud, she might hear us and then our surprise would be ruined!".
Samy was always a bit paranoic about things but she was also right. Alexandra Levingston might be a clumsy, quiet and unaware-of-her-sorroundings girl but she was also exceptionally clever and intuitive, appart from having a good hearing. She smiled at her friend's attempts to get her a suprise birthday present. Well, she could alwas pretend she hadn't heard a thing . . .which was what she did on most occasion, just to be on the safe side.
Just then something, well actually someone caught her eye.
'Hmm . . .I wonder what he wants now. Probably needs to ask Samy what there is for homework. Uh... nu-uh, he's coming this way so he must want my homework. I just don't understand what's wrong with teachers, I mean, there are only two days left of classes until September school-break and they give us homework! Man, that's MEAN'
A tall, blond boy approached her. Alexandra just smiled kindly (and fakely). She sighed.
"Alexandra, do you know where I can find Joana?" Joseph asked Alex, whose smile crumbled to the floor as her honey-coloured eyes became a bit colder.
'Oh, that' she thought and smiled sourly 'of course'. "She's at the lockers" Alex replied, supressing a wave of dissapointment. It was always the same. Why did she have to get all worked-up about him when she knew he didn't feel a thing for her . . . that or 'he's got a terrible shyness problem . . .yeah, right! And I'm about to become the first sixteen-year-old president!'
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Back at her house, Alex's mind came wandering back to Joseph. 'Why do I always have to fall for the ones that will only use me (ha-ha, they can try!), ignore me (like I care!) or humilliate me (I have no comeback to that )? And why do I keep talking to myself with this other voice in my head? (Dunno) . . .Okay, I, as the ruler in this body, proclaim that I am oficially insane.'
Alex's ramblings were brought to an end when Mrs. Levington called her from the kitchen.
" Aleeeeex! Dinner's ready!"
" Coming mum!" and with that, she dissapeared downstairs into the kitchen, where her meal sat waiting for her. 'Just two more days and it'll be school-break for me' She thought happily as she toyed around with her steak.
What she didn't know, was that her school-break would deffinitely not be what she had imagined it to be. Far from her home, an old man with long white silvery hair and matching beard sat behind his desk and watched her from his castle hidden somewhere in England. Oh, he had different plans for her all right! . . .
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Alexandra awoke the next morning with a feeling too well known to her
"Muuuuum! I'm hungry!" She yelled from her bed, though it hadn't been necessary. Her mother was already climbing up the stairs to her room.
"I see you're awake, Alexandra. Then you can go make breakfast yourself- That's what I gave you two hands for, actually" Mrs. Anna Levington jokingly told her daughter.
"Geez, mum! Go on spoiling me like this and I'll grow roots!". Sarcasm. It was always like that between her mum and herself.
"All right, all right! I'll bring you breakfast to bed! What do you want to eat?"
"How about . . . baconandeggs?" She asked fast, big puppy eyes matching her huge cat-grin
Anna let out a sigh."Ah, I should have seen that one coming!" and with that, she left for the kitchen, to get her daughter's breakfast.
As she waited for her mother to bring her breakfast Alex slowly got dressed, her dark brown hair, a complete mess from having slept with her hair wet. 'Damn! Where did I put those socks? Oh, sooocks . . . Ah! Here you are!' She tugged hard on the sock that was trapped under one of her bed's leg and with a loud thump . . .
'Ouchie, that hurt!'.
Alex was lying flat on her bottom. 'Why, why do these things happen to me?' Grabbing on to the desk for support, Alex got to her feet again. "AHHHHHHHH!" Lucky she did so - She got up just in time to see a large barn owl sweep through her open window to land softly on her bed..
The owl stood still, a roll of partchment hanging from its outstretched leg. Alex was trembling in the middle of her room. She carefully got near the owl and very, very slowly took the parchment with shaking hands. . .
To be continued . . .
Review . . . .please? (Huge puppy eyes) please? (Now REALLY huge puppy eyes) pleasepleaseplease? C'mon I know you want to!
Catgirl89