(A/N):Hey guys, i know i said i had to have two reviews before i would post this chapter, but the others really want me to post this so here it is! THis chapter was written by -Ditzy-Ash-, the last chapter waswritten by me, SilverSilencer15! Enj-
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Chapter 2 - Secrets!
Isabelle stared at the wall in the common room, a dozen thoughts going through her head, most of them other peoples. She passed time by wondering around telepathically, into the depths of people's minds. Invasion of privacy? Not at all. Mild entertainment . . . nothing more. Stirring herself up, she looked out the window, smirked, and grabbed her bag. Flinging it onto her shoulder, she quickly tied her curly locks out of her face and ran out of door to the Great Hall for Breakfast.
Met by Liz at the entrance, they chattered away at each other, heading toward the Hufflepuff table. Izzy hated her house, but had grown accustomed to the fact that there was nothing she could do about it. Sitting at the table, she watched a girl in the far off corner, remembering her form the train . . . the one who had shoved them. Izzy shuddered, remembering the feeling she instantly received when the girl pushed by. Greeted by a group of friends sitting around her, they chattered about their schedule. I have Divination, first!" Izzy declared contently.
"Me, too!" Liz giggled and grabbed Izzy's schedule from her hands. Izzy eyed her for a moment then jumped when a hand touched her shoulder. Looking up, and leaning backwards, she saw an upside down Zeph grinning at her. "Hello there!" she smiled back and straightened up, while he shoved a girl aside and sat next to her.
"Hello!" he replied.
"Shouldn't you be over at the Slytherin table?
"No one sits where they are supposed to!" True.
"Ah-ha. How about Quidditch? How's that going?" Zeph loved Quidditch, so naturally he began chattering on about it while Izzy listened.
"Lemme see your schedule!" Zeph demanded, and after prying it from Liz's hands, who was so disappointed because they only had one class together, she handed it to him.
Isabella Gwendylin Potella
Zeph smirked, "Nice last name . . ."
Izzy muttered, "Shove it!"
Divination 9:00
Advanced Charms 10:30
Potions 12:00
-Lunch until 1:00-
Care of Magical Creatures 1:30
Defense against the Dark Arts 2:30
Zephyr handed it back, a smile creeping on his face. "We have Divination and A.C. together! But I have Potions alone!"
"I simply loathe Snape. He's going to assign us loads of work this week, I just know he will!" Izzy groaned while looking through the others' schedules.
Takato stumbled in, his cheeks flushed. "Woke up late . . ." he mumbled, sitting across from them. Izzy leaned over and whispered to him and Zephyr, "Let's play Quidditch . . . Tonight?" They all agreed to meet in the Entrance Hall, getting there by their own means at midnight. The bell rang and Izzy jumped out of her seat, waited on Zephyr, and hurried off to class. After an hour and a half of endlessly snickering while Trelawny went on about the destiny of Stan Puckerpoole, they headed to Advanced Charms. Izzy looked up at the door and suddenly was pushed into the doorway by the same red-head from the train. Muttering curses under her breath, she sat down at a table alone while Zephyr and Takato sat together, passing notes to other girls, who would burst into a fit of giggles. She rolled her eyes when they shrugged at her. Turning around, Izzy stopped short when the same Crimson-haired girl sat across from her, her eyes unnaturally colored, though she couldn't quite figure it out. She let her eyes go to her neck, expecting to see bite marks, but found something a tad bit worse. There, on a gold chain around her neck, was a small phial of red liquid. Izzy tried to smile, but the girl's eyes hardened and she looked away. Izzy snapped to and listened closely to the professor, but her mind could not concentrate on the basic ingredients for a properly cast charm. "That was blood . . ." she thought to herself and stiffened. "Bloody Hell!" she whined as she thought on this, not the best choice of words. "I'm just imagining things . . ." she said to herself quietly, and began copying notes from the board.
The day went by quickly, and as she expected, Snape assigned a three-foot essay on the properties of toad wart, due in two days. Soon it was lunch time and off to Care of Magical Creatures for Izzy. She shared it with some of the Gryffindor and some of the Hufflepuff, including Liz. Liz dragged her around and began chatting with Hermiolne and Ron, while Izzy issued a few nods here and there. After a tad terrifying experience with a ravaging dog-like creature with lashing claws and sharp teeth, Izzy hurried on to Defense against the Dark Arts and re-learned the basic spells for defense. Soon enough the day was over and she lay in the Hufflepuff Common Room doing her essay by the fire, waiting for midnight. Not long after she finished her essay, the clock chimed twelve times, leading to her cursing. "Dissimulo"she whispered, pointing the wand to herself. Soon, she was running down the Grand Staircase to the entrance hall and was met by the impatient glares by an invisibility cloaked Zephyr and Takato. She giggled quietly and pushed past them to the cool outside air. "Aperio," she whispered and reappeared behind them, then poked them on the shoulder, or at least felt like it, and was met by the following:
"Did you feel something?" Takato asked.
"Yea . . ." Zephyr muttered, turning to look straight at Izzy and grinned. "Oh boy . . . "he mumbled, feigning fear.
"What?" Takato whimpered.
"You don't wanna turn around, trust me!" Zephyr whispered.
"Boo!" Izzy whispered in Takato's ear. Takato appeared out from under the cloak, screaming, then stopped to glare heatedly at Izzy and Zeph, who were both rolling on the ground in fits of uncontrollable laughter. "You too can bloody well die!" he yelled and then stopped, pointing at something far ahead. "Look . . . "he whispered. Izzy turned and Zephyr appeared, staring ahead. All three were quiet, and stared intently at the shadows.
Two shadowed figures stood ahead, one covered by a billowing cloak, holding the other in its arms. The cloaked figure seemed to have its head ducked, and a strange sucking noise occupied it. "Think they're snogging?" Takato asked. Zephyr shook his head, an odd look of desire in his eyes. Izzy turned around and 'shhed' them, then snapped back around. The person in the cloaked ones' arms went limp and the sucking noise ended, the body hitting the ground with a soft thud. The cloaked figure looked up and hissed, which made Izzy stand up and scream out a spell that they had never heard of, "Liberius Lockus!" The figure suddenly stopped and fell to its side. The trio took off running, under the hide of the invisibility cloak. They let Takato out in the entrance hall as he cast the Disillusionment charm on himself and made his way to Ravenclaw Tower. The remaining two went their separate ways, to their own houses. Izzy stared at the door and whispered, "Attitlus." The picture swung in, yawning and closing their eyes once more. Izzy climbed in, walked up to the girls' dorms and crawled under the covers of her four-poster bed. But she didn't sleep. She looked out of the window and hugged her stuffed brown teddy bear, nicknamed Mr. Ted, tightly in her arms. She remembered the shock of having learned there was a vampire on Hogwarts property, but what was more of a shock was what she saw. A lock of deep crimson hair. She shuddered, curling into a ball under her blankets.