Lies from Me to You
Chapter Six
Written: July 13, 2005 - July 20, 2005
Posted: July 13, 2006
Two weeks before Halloween
Torri walks into the Great Hall, sleepy eyed, and her hair brushed but not quite enough to get all the tangles out. She slowly walked over to the Slytherin table seeing that breakfast was about halfway over...at least. Saige's back was to her, but Torri decided not to get her attention, because it looked like she and Hermione were in a very serious conversation. Torri sat down; of course since her morning couldn't go right today, the only open sit was next to her 'favorite' person in the world, Draco. "Do you plan this or something?" She said rather crabbily.
"Not my fault you can't see two feet in front of you," Draco snarled, and turned away to grab a muffin. He seemed in an even snootier mood than usual. And that was saying something. So instead of trying to get something else out of him, she grabbed an apple and began eating.
Torri pulled out her schedule from her bag, and then put it back as she remembered it was a Saturday. Draco 'accidentally' elbowed her; she glared back at him "Whatever." She looked back over to her sister and Hermione, seeing that there was a lot of empty seats by them, she got up and went to sit over there. Ignoring Draco's mutters as she did so.
Saige turned to look at her and smiled. Hermione did the same. But there was someone missing. "Where's Harry?" Torri asked.
"Probably sleeping," Hermione answered. Saige looked away as Hermione said this, like she really didn't believe her. Torri choked on her orange juice, for no apparent reason.
Saige gave her an odd look, and shook it off. "I don't know, you guys. He seems so quiet. I know you said that he has moods, but I think something's wrong."
"Why don't you go check on him or something," Torri said looking at Hermione over the top of her orange juice.
"No, I'm not going to check on him, I'm just voicing my thoughts." Here she gave Torri a withering look. "But if you think I should, then you are coming with me."
"I, um, I need Hermione's help with, um, with..."
"Transfiguration," Hermione cut in.
Saige smirked. "That's what I thought."
"Was that supposed to imply something?" Torri asked, not really caring for an answer.
"Actually it was, but I guess you're too tired to notice."
"Ugh, all of the idiots in my dorm were up all night talking about, none other, than Draco. Eww, what do they see in him?" Torri said flopping her arms on the table. "Weren't you going to check on Harry?" Saige cast her a glare, that told Torri the answer was no. As to the answer to her first question she merely shrugged her shoulders and finished off a piece of toast she had been eating.
"It doesn't look like you need to go check on him, after all, if you noticed, he was sitting down a little further trying to work on...homework? Wow, that's a new one," Hermione said, the last part to herself.
Saige rolled her eyes and smiled. "So what are we going to do in Hogsmeade?"
Torri shrugged her shoulders, as Hermione mumbled "I don't know."
Saige rolled her eyes. "Fine."
Hermione shrugged her shoulders hastily. "A better question is what aren't we going to do in Hogsmeade? There's so much stuff to do..."
"What do you suggest to be first on the list?" Torri said "I've never been there officially...just passing by."
"I don't know, really. We can decide when we get there. But first, are there any birthday's coming up in the near future that I should know about?" Hermione asked, taking out quill and parchment, not wanting to forget.
Torri sat up straighter, forgetting her sleeplessness and became somewhat hyper.
Saige smiled, rolling her eyes, and pointed at Torri. "This one right here."
"Two weeks until Halloween." Torri said bouncing in her seat.
Hermione poised her quill, getting ready to write. "Your birthday's on Halloween?" She nodded vigorously. Hermione smiled, and wrote it down. "Good, then I can do some early Christmas shopping too."
"Christmas isn't for umm... until December. But...yea... I forgot what I was going to say."
"I know that, but I always want to shop early so I can beat the November crowds," Hermione pointed out.
Torri formed an O with her mouth, looked at her orange juice frowning. She looked up and down the table, and finally picked up a carton... of surprise, surprise, apple juice.
Saige rolled her eyes, grabbed a peach, and slung her bag over her shoulder. "C'mon, guys. I'm supposed to meet Blaise now. You guys can finally start to be nice to him," She said through clenched teeth. "Draco and Pansy are meeting us too. Sorry Torri," Saige added.
"You promise to buy me a drink then? Unless you want me to pester Draco and get on your nerves..."
"I promise, I promise," Saige smiled. "Now let's go."
"...I feel like skipping," Torri burst out randomly.
Saige rolled her eyes. "Just come on. You too, Hermione."
"Alright," She sighed and shut her book closed, jamming it into her bag and standing up.
"Agh," Torri moaned as she got up, her tiredness coming back. Saige linked her arms through theirs and led the way out of the Hall.
"But can you explain to me why Draco and Pansy are coming... I was all prepared to be nice to Blaise, which took a lot of practice in the common room last night, and then you spring this on me," She whispered into Saige's ear.
"Sometimes life is full of little surprises." Saige told her.
"Yea, little surprises." She rolled her eyes.
"I'm not saying you have to be nice to Pansy or Draco. You can kick both of their asses if you want." Saige encouraged her.
"Seriously! All right!" Giddiness coming back.
Hermione leaned over and whispered into Saige's ear, "Maybe you shouldn't have said anything..."
"I heard that," She leaned front sticking her tongue out at Hermione.
Hermione rolled her eyes as the three set out to a grove of trees, three distinctive figures sitting underneath them.
"You're late," Draco said as they finally reached the trees.
Saige gave him the finger. "Shut up." She sat next to Blaise, who quietly slipped an arm around her waist.
Torri looked at Hermione with a look of disgust on her face saying that she didn't like having to be nice to him.
Hermione nodded herself uncomfortable. Saige knew they were both uncomfortable, but she didn't wanna just up and leave. "So, Draco, I expect you have something to announce to the rest of the group," Saige told him. He looked at her with burning eyes. She simply smirked.
"And what...might this be?" Torri said curiously.
Draco tore his glare away from Saige. "I'm..."
Everyone leaned in a little to hear what he had to say.
"I'm not a virgin..." He said quietly. Torri burst out laughing. "Not that I wanted to say anything..."
"Wa--wait a second," Torri said gasping, "You told us this why?" She burst out laughing again.
Draco rolled his eyes. "Well, Saige here thinks that I should be telling you about my...sex status...not that you needed to know anything of the sort..."
"I'm confused. Saige... thinking about your sex status... okay, not the way I meant for it to come out. Saige thinks we should know about your stats..."
"Hey, hey hey... I never asked for him to tell me. I'm not a pervert." Blaise laughed. Saige punched him playfully. "And I'll have you know that Pansy is not his first, whatever she may say." At this, Pansy shrieked.
"You bitch!"
Draco smacked a hand to his forehead. "Pansy --" But she cut him off.
"You are a lying asshole! We were supposed to be each other's first! And you go off and have sex with some slut! You manwhore!" Torri, Hermione, Saige and Blaise laughed, but automatically shut up when Draco sent them death glares.
"I do believe, Miss Malfoy... what you are trying to get across... is some sort of blackmail," Torri said, still trying to hide her laughter
"No, I just wanted to see Draco piss his pants, and Pansy loose control."
"Have I ever told you that I think you're trying to steal my place as oldest and smartest?" She looked over at Draco shaking her head.
Saige smirked. "No you haven't. But I think it's amazing that you remembered."
She sent her a playful glare as she stuck out her tongue, her favorite past-time.
Saige blew her a kiss. "Love you."
"Yeah, yeah."
"Are you always quarreling like this?" Blaise asked. Saige nodded. Torri focused on Draco and Pansy at the moment.
"Are we going any time today? I don't think I can handle this site every minute," Torri said getting and flinging her bag over her shoulder.
"Yea yea yea...let's go," Saige stood up.
Torri waited for everyone to pass her and walked with Hermione. "What's up?"
"What do you mean, what's up?" Hermione asked her nonchalantly.
"You're all quite, it's kind of scary."
"Is it a sin to be quiet or something?" Hermione asked.
"No...But it's odd..." Torri looked over at Hermione. "Some things wrong, what is it?"
Hermione looked at Saige and Blaise, fingers intertwined, Saige giggling at something Blaise had obviously said, and then at the furious Pansy, and the quiet Draco and sighed. "Nothing what-so-ever."
"Yeah yeah... it's what they all say. Anyway, they look sickening, we need to work on our plan," Torri rolled her eyes and whispered back to Hermione and she looked at the couples in front t of them.
Hermione smirked. "Good. We haven't had a real chance to talk about it. Have you thought up anything?"
"Well, I've had basic thoughts, but not major ones. Is there anything planned for like Halloween or something? I'm asking you... considering you're a prefect and if I asked him he'd get all curious..."
Hermione smiled. "Well, now that you mention it, there's a Masquerade Ball on Halloween..."
"Are you serious?" Torri looked over Hermione.
Hermione nodded. "Mmhmm. And I think it might be the perfect opportunity to carry out our plan. If we have one, of course..."
"Okay, here's my thinking, we...only we, know what Harry and Saige dress up as... we do a little magic, badda boom badda bing, wham" Torri said over excitedly.
Hermione raised an eyebrow. "And what is that 'wham' that you speak off?"
"Wham, being Harry and Saige together... I think we should somehow make Saige think that Harry is Blaise and vice versa..."
"Yea, but who is Harry going to think Saige is?" Hermione asked eyebrow still raised.
"Well... just some fish in the sea," Torri said.
"Like?"
"Does it matter? I thought the whole masquerade was so that you don't know who the other person is... But knowing Saige...she'll want to know who she's with, thus explaining the other 'Harry/Blaise Blaise/Harry thing."
Hermione thought about it for a moment. "Hm, yes, she will want to know who she's with, but we have to make sure Harry doesn't say anything..."
"Yeah, your right... ponder on this we must..."
Hermione looked at Torri. "Well 'ponder this we must' later. I'm going to go with Ron, and maybe talk to Harry. See you later."
"You're leaving me... WAH!" She replied dramatically. "Make me go insane... bye."
Hermione rolled her eyes, and waved good-bye. Torri caught up with the four ahead of her, and walked on Saige's left side, since Blaise vacated the other.
"She left me..." Torri faked sniffled.
Saige laughed. "Oh, come on. We'll have fun together to. We can have some sisterly bonding time." And together they walked into the Three Broomsticks.
"I think I deserve two free drinks, you didn't tell me that she would leave..."
Saige shook her head. "I didn't know myself. You get one. Now choose." And Saige pushed Torri towards the counter.
"Hmm, decisions, decisions. What should I get?"
Saige shook her head, but at the same time Blaise replied, "Firewhiskey."
"Good choice, one firewhiskey please Saige."
Saige rolled her eyes, and grabbed five Knuts out of her back pocket. "I'll have a butterbeer, please." And she handed the bar tender her money.
Torri rolled her eyes back at Saige. Saige and Torri grabbed their drinks and headed toward a back table to wait for the others.
"So..." Torri said, taking a sip of her drink.
Saige played with a napkin by her mug. "So..."
"Yea..."
Saige sighed, and flicked the napkin aside. "Okay, look. I'm going to tell you something that I trust you'll keep a secret, because if Blaise found out, he'd kill me."
"Yea... you know you can trust me."
She sighed again. "Okay, well -- I sort of...have feelings for this one guy that isn't Blaise..."
Torri perked up. "Who!" She said quietly.
Saige whispered the name so quietly Torri at first didn't know if she heard correctly. "Harry."
"I knew it... "She sat back in her chair with a smirk on her face.
Saige looked up. "What?"
"You heard me."
"But -- how did...what...how did you know?"
"It was written all over your face when we told you that Harry had a crush on a 'certain someone'."
"No...It was not!" Saige said, completely serious.
"Are you telling me that it's possible to see your own faces reaction?" She asked rhetorically.
Saige gave her a look.
She looked back, as a mirror reflection.
"Harry does not like me! And I think it's clear to see that he --" Saige stopped. Blaise, Draco and Pansy were coming over.
"We'll talk about this later," She said under her breath.
Torri rolled her eyes.
Saige's eyes traveled over to the bar area, and she shut them tightly. "Oh, no. Please, no." Torri looked at her.
"What?" She too looked over at the bar. "Ohh." Harry was standing there, eyes focused on Saige, jaw set. "Uhm, come on guys. Let's get out of here." Torri stood and grabbed Saige's arm.
"What is with you today?" Draco asked.
Saige rolled her eyes. "Just come on."
They unwillingly left the Three Broomsticks, drinks still in hand.
"So… where are we going to go?" Torri asked no one in particular.
"I heard Honeydukes was a good place. We could try there. My sugar tooth is bothering me, anyway," Saige grabbed Blaise's hand and smiled. "Sound good?"
"Lead the way Sherlock...s."
Saige gave her a look. "I don't know where it is..."
Draco rolled his eyes. "Follow me." Torri looked at Saige and rolled her eyes at Draco.
Saige smiled. "As long as we don't run into Harry, I'll be perfectly alright..."
"And you said we lost her," Torri told Draco mimicking his words.
Saige gave her a confused look. "What the hell are you talking about?"
Draco glared at Torri. "You brought it up."
"But I believe it was you who said it," Torri said glaring back.
"Do they always fight like this?" Blaise asked.
Saige smirked. "It's in their nature. You can learn to live with it...but I'd rather not..."
"Technically you said it," Draco smirked as he replied to her, thinking that this would end it.
"Not originally...besides you're a much better story teller, we all know I suck," Torri fought back, smiling her victorious smile.
Saige shook her head, sighed, and added apologetically. "Uhm, Torri, actually, you brought it up..."
"I know that, but he said it originally, if he hadn't said anything about losing you at any given time, there would have been no reason for me to bring it up, hence, he said it originally..." Torri said to Saige…without her complex explanation.
"Okay, whatever. But what did you exactly mean...I don't recall saying anything to trigger --"
Draco snorted. Saige shot him a glare. "Can it. As I was saying, I don't recall saying anything...well...to bring up what you guys were just arguing about..."
"But, my dear, you did… recall... umm, about five dialogues back... hypothetical dialogues of course..."
Saige sighed, throwing up her hands. "Here we go..."
"You said... and I quote 'As long as we don't run into Harry' and then you said... uh... 'I'll be perfectly alright.' And then if you recall what Draco said …uh, like maybe two weeks ago about already losing a sister to Gryffindor and not losing another... which by the way, didn't know you cared Draco..."
Draco gave her the finger, and a scowl.
"I know, but sorry, I don't think about you that way."
Blaise snorted a laugh. Saige laughed loudly, and Draco looked like he wanted to kill her. "What makes you think," he started shakily. "That I would have feelings for someone like...you? That's downright disgusting, and overly made it up. One of your sick fantasies, I presume?"
"Did you not just hear me? I said I don't think about you that way...in fact, I try not to think of you at all. How your father keeps you in your the family...is beyond me, your mo- - "She stopped short and looked at Saige her eyes wide. She mouthed 'talk… now, I am such an idiot'.
Saige smacked a hand to her forehead. "Uhm...maybe we should talk about something else..."
But Draco seemed to ignore her. "What?"
"What?"
"What the hell did you just say?" Draco rounded on her, completely pissed off, and accusing. Torri saw anger flare in his eyes, and started to get scared, but tried to not show it in her voice.
"I said... how father keeps you in the family, is beyond me." Torri stood up straight gaining a few inches trying to measure up to Draco's height.
"I have no idea what to say," Saige said, looking at Draco and Torri.
"Stay out of this," Torri and Draco yelled at her at the same time, then looked back at the other still glaring.
Saige gave them both a glare. "I don't appreciate your tone. And I for one, am not going to put up with how bitchy you both treat me whenever I want to help. I'm getting sick of it, and I don't need on top of all the other bullshit I've had to stand from the both of you."
"Sorry," Torri mumbled backing off Draco looking towards where they had came from.
Saige scoffed and grabbed Blaise's hand again. "Let's just go."
Draco looked at Saige's back and sighed. "We should – I almost think she's right. For a – Gryffindor."
Torri sent a look at Draco again and followed after Saige towards Honeydukes in silence.
"You know what?" Saige asked suddenly. "I think I just want to go back to the castle. I don't wanna go to some stupid candy shop with this type of mood in the air. Let's just go back."
Draco looked like he agreed, and so the small group turned around, and headed back towards the castle.
Well..that was chapter six...
review?
Nocturnal077:...it gets more interesting this that...and here's more! I (Emily) am sorry I haven't gotten around to checking out one of your stories. I started reading one of them and then I had to do stuff, and all of my free time is starting to getting devoted to colorguard...but I swear I'll get to it eventually, in the near furture...which do you recommened?