The next day, Lindsey went "Times Studies" class first that day. The professor, Professor Rankin, was already speaking when she got there. Some nasty fifth years had played a very mean prank on her, making her quill jabb her in the back every time she started walking, and it took her twenty minutes to find a counter-jinx.
"I'm sorry Professor," She apologized in between deep breaths. "I got... held.. up, " some Slytherin boys sniggered as she sat down next to a friendly Hufflepuff girl named Molly.
"Right then," Professor Rankin said, picking his wand up from his desk and tapping a chalk board with it. Notes magically appeared on it.
"Time Project..." It read. Lindsey silently groaned as she read further. groups! ugh, I want to do this alone! She thought
After reading through all of the notes and dictating in a whisper to her quill what to write, Lindsey turned back to her teacher.
"Okay, I'll pick the groups for this project-" All of the students groand in unison. "-You guys have to learn how to work with different people-" Lindsey raised her hand. "-No, Miss. Anderson, you may not work alone," he said, reading her thoughts.
After speaking for a short while more, Professor Rankin started picking groups. "Anderson, Boggs, Bott, and O' Learly."
NO! why must I be stuck with such a group! Linda Boggs, a Gryffindor girl, had golden curly hair and chocolately brown eyes. She never did her own work, always cheated on tests, and was totally obssesed with her looks.
Kyle Bott, Was a Hufflepuff boy. He was very mean, which was very rare in a Hufflepuff, and he too, did not like to work very much. He was also incredibly stupid. He had white-blond hair and silverly-gray eyes, and Lindsey couldn't have hated a Hufflepuff more.
But the last person, Kevin O' Leary, was the last person Lindsey ever wanted to be forced in the presence of. He was a stunningly handsome Slytherin boy with jet black hair and saphire blue eyes. He was very cunning and intelligent, and would probably work on the project- but only so he didn't fail. He was so very nasty. He was the master mind behind the prank performed on Lindsey just earlier that day.
"Earth to Anderson," Kevin said, waving a hand in front of Lindsey, she shook her head. She had to try to work with them.
"So, did you happen to hear the directions during your trance?" Kevin asked in a sarcastic tone while Kyle sniggered.
"No, would you be so kind as to tell me?" She asked in a very fake sweet tone. He handed her his notes.
'Time Travel Project'
'Your objective is to create a time travel machine that will send you one hour back in time. The directions are below, due by the end of this week.'
Lindsey glanced over the directions before classifying it as pretty simple.
[[Next day In the Library]]
Okay, so. we've got to start turning the time turner, freeze it mid-turn, then smash it and take out a single grain of sand and add it to the potion," Lindsey dictated to the rest of her group, though Linda was filing her nails and Kyle was staring dazedly into space.
"Then, we have to put the potion in the top part of the machine, and when we walk through the door-type thing, it should take us an hour back." She concluded.
Okay, I'll freeze the time-turner, and you-", She pointed to kevin, "-break it and take out the grain of sand." She was very suprised that he actually obeyed without discussion.
After they were done, Lindsey looked at her watch "Oh! I have to do my Prefect duties! Will you guys put this away?" They all nodded, though the sides of their mouths were twitching as she scurried off.
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Little did Lindsey know that her other three group members weren't done with their extra, special additions to the project.
