A/N: So, Chapter 2. I think my tenses got all muddled up in the 2nd part, but whatever
Chapter 2
Katie was always the first awake in the mornings. Angelina was routinely late for the breakfast and the first lesson of the day, and Alicia was incredibly grumpy in the mornings. She wouldn't get out of bed until she absolutely had to.
That was how Katie knew something was up when she woke to the sound of the showing in the next door bathroom the next morning. The sound of the shower in itself was strange; the girls rarely used the shower, preferring to use the deluxe sized bath tubs on the top floor of Gryffindor tower. Katie sat up and glanced around the room. Ange was still fast asleep in bed, but Alicia's was empty...
She got out of bed, found some clean clothes and then wandered into the bathroom to see what Alicia was doing, getting up so early in the day. She set her stuff down by the sinks, and turned just in time to see a rather wet Alicia appear from the shower cubical.
"Hey 'Licia!" She smiled brightly at the bedraggled girl in front of her "Your up early, what's the occasion?" Alicia scowled at Katie.
"Nothing, can't a girl get up early for a change?" Katie raised her eyebrow and looked sceptical.
"But you NEVER get up early, Leesh. What's up?" "So the fact that I get up early for a change means that there's something the matter?" Alicia stomped her foot on the ground "Well KATIE, Miss I-always-get-up-early-and-if-anyone-else-does-the-theres-something-wrong-with-them, THERE IS NOTHING THE MATTER WITH ME! EVERYTHING IS FINE! SO THERE!" Katie blinked and watched as Alicia stormed out of the bathroom to the Dormitory the girls shared, slamming the door on the way out. That was... Unexpected. Sure, 'Licia was grumpy in the mornings, but not normally THAT grumpy... Katie shrugged to herself and turned back around to the sinks.
She was just starting to wash her face as Angelina walked sleepily in. She went and stood next to Katie at the sink; her eyes barely open, and started her daily 'Wake-up' routine - dunking her head in a sink full of cold water. It didn't look very pleasant to Katie, but it seemed to work for Angelina...
"So, what was up with Alicia?" Angelina, looking miles more awake, if a little wetter than normal, turned to Katie with a questioning look on her face. "I heard her shouting something, and then she comes stomping out the bathroom, dripping wet might I add, and clumps around the room getting dressed, whilst managing to get me soaked in the process, and then barges out of the room!" Katie shrugged and rolled her eyes. "I have no idea"
"Maybe something happened last night... She didn't come to bed when we did, did she?" Katie shook her head. "I bet she went wandering around the school again and got caught or something." Katie laughed at that. The last time Alicia had gotten a detention, she wouldn't speak to them for weeks. Somehow she had managed to blame them for her detention, and decided never talk to them again.
"I'll ask her about it at breakfast, maybe she'll feel better after eating something."
Alicia was in a really bad mood. She had woken up early, something almost unheard of, and then couldn't get back to sleep. When she had gotten out of the shower, she had shouted at Katie when she hadn't done anything wrong. She was only trying to help. As she stormed out of Gryffindor tower and down the corridors, she though about the night before.
She had managed to sneak back from the astronomy tower without getting caught, but only barely. Several times she'd had to hide in old abandoned class rooms from Filch and Mrs Norris.
That wasn't what had put her into the awful mood. It was when she heard students' voices in an old charms classroom just down the corridor from where she'd been standing. She had moved closer, but the as soon as she had stopped outside the door, the voices could not longer be heard. Wondering if she'd thought wrongly about the voices, she pushed open the door slightly. To her compete and absolute horror, there in front of here was George Weasley. And he wasn't on his own. No, he was with Christina Grey, the girl from Hufflepuff, and it looked as if they were a little MORE than friends...
She had stood there staring at the pair of them practically eating each other for several moments before she quickly turned and hurried away down the corridor. Oh, she knew George was a bit of a womaniser and had no idea about her newly discovered 'feelings' for him, and therefore didn't know he was hurting her. But that didn't help her one bit.
At first she just felt numb, as she stumblingly made her way back to the tower. There were no tears. She couldn't feel a thing. She was in shock, even though just a few minutes earlier she had been thinking about George and his playerish ways.
The sight of them made everything she'd been thinking about hit home. The fact that George didn't like her that way, and never would do. She would never be able to snog George Weasley senseless, like Christina was obviously doing right that very second. George could have anyone he wanted. Why would he even consider boring plain Alicia? His friend, and nothing more.
Reaching the tower, she had tip toed through the silent common room and up the stairs to her dorm, willing herself not to cry. The shock was wearing off, and now she just felt empty inside. Crying wouldn't do her any good though. It would only make her nose blotchy and give her a headache. Not a good look.
Entering her dorm room, she had silently gotten ready for bed, thankful that the girls were already asleep. If any of them had asked her how she'd been feeling, she would have broken down and started bawling. Tears were leaking out of the corners of her eyes and running slowly down her face. She'd brushed them aside angrily as she got into bed, cross at both herself for being so wet and George for liking the Hufflepuff girl, and not her. Not giving the Hufflepuff girl a name had made Alicia feel slightly better.
That had been when the anger had started up. The Hufflepuff girl was nothing more than a vaguely good looking whore. Or at least, as much of a whore as it was possible for a Hufflepuff to be. Alicia had fallen asleep thinking of making Christina's beautiful blonde hair fall out, turning her skin green, and enlarging her nose hair until it stuck out of her nose like a moustache. The metal images created had cheered Alicia up enough to let her go to sleep instead of brooding, but it did nothing about the mood she was in the next morning.
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