A/N: I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry for the delay! I've been living a soap opera for the last little while and haven't found so much time for writing... I sincerely hope it's changed! Anyway, here's the next chapter!

The next morning was utterly insane. Hermione and I had become fast friends, and as far as I could tell, so had Kavie and Ginny. As I followed the famous trio into the Great Hall for breakfast, I noticed the two laughing at something.

"They seem to be getting along well," Harry said. I smiled.

"Yeah." We sat down next to them, and started to eat. Well, they started to eat. I sort of just stared at the food, scared that if I ate, I would throw up. My stomach was doing summersaults, and I was so far beyond the point of being nervous, it was merely a speck on the horizon.

"Nervous?" Ron asked, halfway through a mouthful of food.

"Is it that obvious? It also doesn't help that everyone's staring at me." I noted the thousands of students gawking at me and Kavie. Even the first years seemed to be able to tell we were new. Ron looked around.

"Dun' mind 'em," He said, shoving another forkfull of scrambled eggs down his throat.

"It's that one, you've got to keep an eye on," Hermione stated, glaring at the platinum-haired boy who had just walked in. He spotted us, and walked over.

"Who are you?" He spat at me. He was right behind Harry, and I suspected that if there weren't teachers around, he would be regretting it.

"Why don't you try asking nicely, and maybe I'll tell you," I stated. By now, everyone at the Gryffindor table was staring at me in awe. I guessed that very few people had ever talked back to Draco Malfoy. Even Kavie seemed shocked.

"How dare you. You'll learn soon enough not to talk back to your superiors," He snarled. I almost cracked a rib trying not to laugh. I couldn't believe what I was going to say next.

"I don't talk back to my superiors. But the only superiors I see here at sitting at the front of the Hall." He looked as if he were going to explode. He glared at me and stormed off, his pale complexion growing steadily more red with rage. When he had sat down at the Slytherin table, Harry looked up from his hashbrowns, and stared at me. I looked around. Everyone was still staring at me. Even some of the professors were staring at me. "Was it something I said?" I asked innocently. Harry was the first to react. His shocked reaction changed to a fit of laughter, and within seconds, the whole Gryffindor table was cheering. I suspected half of them didn't even know who I was, but I was happy for it anyway.

"You're bloody brilliant!" Ron grinned.

"No one's ever talked to him like that. You're amazing!"Neville stated from across the table. Even I was shocked.

I felt slightly better now, and was actually able to get in a few bites of toast in between the cheers from the rest of my house. And the Hufflepuffs. And the Ravenclaws. By now, I was wearing a massive grin, which occasionally turned into giggles when Ron would look at me, his face full of pride. Heehee... Ronald Weasley was proud of me. Anyway, after we had finished our breakfast, Hermoine and I ditched the guys and decided to head to Defense Against the Dark Arts. We entered the room, and the professor smiled at us. I had a suspicion who it was, but I was terrified to take a guess. Just in case.

"Hello Hermione," He said. Hermione smiled.

"Hello, Professor," Hermione greeted.

"And I'm guessing you're Erika." He asked me.

"Yeah. It's nice to meet you." He shook my hand.

"Pleasure. I'm Professor Lupin." He smiled. YES! Was all that ran through my head. He excused himself from the room, and we sat down in the front of the class. The room was slowly filling with students, all giving me odd looks.

"Wow that's getting annoying." I mumbled.

"It'll go away soon enough," Hermione stated.

"I never said I wanted it to go away." I smiled. She looked at me, puzzled for a moment, and then smiled as well.

"Then you might just have to keep talking to Malfoy like that."

"Oh don't worry, I will."

When the whole class had clambered into the room, looking glum and not entirely awake, Lupin came back into the room.

"Good morning, class." He smiled.

"Good morning, Professor." rang through the room. He seemed satisfied.

"Today, we are going to have a review," Lupin told the class. "But first, Erika, could you please come here." I stood up and walked up to Lupin, fully aware that everyone's eyes were on me. "I'm aware of your situation, and I'm not expecting you to learn everything in one day. Professor Dumbledore has spoken to your professors and we have agreed that you and Caveena will be more comfortable spending the day in the Gryffindor common room, doing your work there." I nodded. Thank god! I felt a wave of relief - at least I didn't have to embarrass myself in front of everyone! He gave me a list of things that I needed to do and get from my other teachers along withKavie's Defensework, and sent me back to Gryffindor Tower.

Kavie was waiting for me on the other side of the Fat Lady's portrait, and when I walked in, I was bombarded. She was nearly jumping with joy about the guys in her year. Scratch that, she was jumping.
"There's this one guy - Michael Corner ... and James Davie and ..." That was pretty much all I'd managed to make out. Although, her interest in Michael Corner made me giggle.

"You know Michael Corner's Ginny's ex, right?" Kavie paused for a moment.

"Really?"

"Yup."

"Damn."

"But, what about the other guys?" I asked, trying to make her feel better. And that was the last logical word I heard from her in that conversation. She was off rambling about different guys. I don't even think half of them existed. She just seemed to be putting names together as she saw fit. I figured I'd let it slide as I threw her work onto the table and looked at the list Lupin had given me. "We should probably go get this stuff," I said. Kavie looked up - apparently she'd been counting the number of hot guys on her fingers.

"What? Oh, yeah." We stood up and headed out of the portrait.

A/N: Oh the shortness! Hopefully the next chapter will be up before the next millenium:D