Chapter 17: The Modelling Career and The Start of Something Bad
As students returned from winter break, they each shared to one another about their great Christmas's. As January moved slowly, the end of the month was met with a Hogsmede visit. It was rather odd that they were having one in January, considering they usually had one for Valentines Day instead.
"Where are we heading to first?" Daisy asked, as the five girls: Lily, Alice, Britney, Tess and Daisy walked down the long dirt path into Hogsmede village, late morning on Saturday of the Hogsmede weekend.
"I need new robes," Lily said, as they entered Hogsmede.
"Ok, we'll go get Lily's robes first," Alice said. They five girls walked to Madam Malkin's robe store. They entered one after another and walked in.
A lady with orange hair came over, with a huge smile. "What can I do for you girls?" she asked the five.
"I need knew school robes," Lily said smiling.
"Great, this way," she led Lily over onto a box and motioned for Lily to stand on it.
"Yeah, I think I'm going to leave," Daisy said, as she looked at Lily who was being measured for her size.
"I'll come too," Alice said and the two waved good-bye and left.
"Why aren't you leaving?" Tess asked Britney.
"I'm not meeting Dom until later and I have nothing else to do," Britney said. "Why are you here?" Britney asked giving Tess a strange look.
"So I can see Lily's size," she muttered, so Britney couldn't hear. Britney rolled her eyes and grabbed a magazine on the table next to the sofa that her and Tess were waiting on.
The sound of a bell signaled off that someone had entered the shop. A lady entered looking around the store. She was rather large with thick glasses, she was wearing magenta colored robes and her dark brown hair up in a messy bun at the top of her hair. She was wearing a lot of make-up and she looked like she was in her mid-forties.
She walked over to Britney and Tess and stood in front of them. Britney looked up and smiled.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" she asked in a sweet voice, her voice long, draggy and annoying.
"No not at all," Britney said nicely, and she moved over closer to Tess, who was moving towards the end of the sofa.
"Thanks," the lady said. She turned around and started to sit down right on Britney and Tess. Britney's eyes widened and moved quickly the other way, as the lady sat in between Britney and Tess.
She smiled at Britney and Tess who smiled back at her nervously. Tess went back to staring at Lily and Britney went back to her magazine.
"Felicia Koalski," the lady said holding her hand out to Tess and shook Tess' hand. Tess wasn't paying attention to the lady, but paying attention to Lily as the woman who was trying to fit her robes was calling out the sizes. The lady, obviously annoyed by being ignored turned to Britney. "Felicia Koalski," she repeated to Britney. Britney looked up from her magazine.
"I'm sorry, what?" she asked. The lady let out a huff.
"My name is Felicia Koalski," she repeated once again.
"Ohh," Britney said and nodded and went back to her magazine.
The lady opened her mouth, wanting attention. "The agent," she said.
Britney looked up and nodded as she pretended to care, she quickly looked back at what was so interesting in the magazine.
The lady growled at the lack of attention she was receiving from the two sixteen year old girls.
"Have you two ever wanted to be a model or singer?" she said loudly, hoping the two would hear. Tess perked up and looked at the lady.
"Tess Horta," she said shaking the woman's hand quickly. Tess put on a fake smile, which she hoped would get the lady talking.
"Felicia Koalski," she said putting a hand to her chest to indicate herself.
"Really?" Tess asked interested.
"So you heard of me?" Felicia asked grinning proudly.
"No," Tess said laughing. "Does it really even matter?" she asked. "I have wanted to be a model slash singer."
Felicia looked annoyed, but in a split second went back to her business-like smile. "I can make it happen." She said in her annoying voice. Tess squealed.
Felicia turned to Britney. "Have you ever wondered what the models in that magazine's life was like?" she asked Britney.
Britney closed her magazine. "No, not really." She said shrugging.
"You never wondered what it would be like to live rich and never having to worry about money. Live in a nice mansion?" Felicia said to Britney. Britney scowled, she opened her mouth.
"Oh, shush," Tess said to Britney, who rolled her eyes and closed her mouth. "Britney already lives like that. She's a spoiled brat!" Tess said, Britney glared. "But, who really cares? Anyways, I have always wondered the things you just said," she said this all very quickly.
Felicia looked sort of dazed at what Tess had just said. "Right, well, I would love to help you out. You too," she said to Britney.
"No thanks," Britney waved Felicia off.
Felicia grabbed the magazine off of Britney's lap and ignored Britney's protests. "You never wanted to be in …" she looked at the cover of the magazine. "Witch Weekly?"
"No," Britney said, clearly annoyed by this woman.
"Really? Well, I can tell you two could be so famous as models. In magazines and more," Felicia said.
"Well," Britney started. "Don't you have to be tall and slim?" Britney asked. "I mean, Tess and I are far from tall and –"
"Speak for yourself," Tess said.
"Tess, you're shorter than me," Britney said looking at Tess annoyed.
Tess scoffed and looked away. "Not in heels," she muttered.
"Oh yeah, my bad. Congratulations you just moved up to the grand height of five foot four!" Britney snapped.
"And what height would you suggest I am Britney?" Tess said coldly.
"Five foot two! And, if you look in these sorts of magazines – which I know you do – all these women are much taller than us," Britney said looking at the magazine. "And they look so fake," she stated. "But they do have nice clothes," Britney said, sighing and leaning back into the sofa and looking at the magazine again.
"Ladies," Felicia said. "Size does not matter." Britney looked away from the magazine and looked thoughtful.
"Actually," Britney started. "It sort of does."
Tess rolled her eyes. "You're so immature Britney!" she nearly yelled.
"This is ridiculous," Britney said, as she stood up. Lily was at the counter paying for her robes and she walked over to them.
"Ok, let's go," Lily said happily.
Felicia stood up quickly. "Hello I'm Felicia Koalski," She said holding out her hand to Lily, who shook it cautiously. She looked at Britney for an answer. "I'm a modeling or singing agent."
"Oh," Lily said. "Let's go," she said to Britney.
"Don't you want to hear more?" she said quickly to Lily, trying to stop her from leaving.
"No," Lily said.
"Wait – wait," Tess said. "You're going to let Lily be a model?" Tess scoffed.
"Well, yes," Felicia said. Tess looked outraged.
"She has red hair!" she screeched. "I mean, I found it hard to believe you wanted Britney, but she's a brunette… But a red head?" Tess snapped.
"Hey!" Lily said weakly and looked at Britney, who comforted her.
Felicia laughed nervously. "Well, I don't see the problem."
"She has red hair! That's gross!" Tess said angrily.
"Oh Tess, drop it!" Britney said, as her and Lily headed out the door with a little ring of the bell. They exited to the streets of Hogsmede and they started to walk down towards the Three Broomsticks.
"What was that about?" Lily asked. Britney rolled her eyes, Lily moved her bags in her hands so that it was more comfortable to carry.
"Some modeling agent or whatever, trying to get us to sign for her," Britney said shaking her head. Lily laughed.
"Why are we at the Hogshead for our date?" Britney asked Dom skeptically. Britney felt very uncomfortable in the Hogshead. There were some creepy characters in this place. Why Dom took her here surprised her.
"What's wrong with the Hogshead?" Dom asked, as the waiter came and put tow bottles of firewhisky in front of the two of them.
"It's freaky. That's what's wrong with the Hogshead," Britney said like it was obvious.
"But they can give you firewhisky here while your underage," Dom said smiling at her slightly as he started to drink his firewhisky.
"Oh, right," Britney said quietly as she grabbed the bottle of firewhisky and gulped it down.
"Why are we here?" Britney said excitedly, as Dom led her to the back of the library. They had just gotten back from Hogsmede. Dinner had just started. At this point Britney was very drunk and was being held up by Dom as he stopped them at the back of the library.
Britney laughed. Dom pushed her against a book shelf and started to kiss her passionately he wasted no time as he pulled her shirt off.
And this was the start of a bad thing.
Sirius wandered the halls by himself on that Saturday afternoon. He had decided to come back early from Hogsmede. His date that he was with ended up very annoying, and Sirius made an excuse to leave early. Sirius wandered around for a bit, he walked past the library when Britney emerged with Dom.
"Hey Sirius!" Britney laughed and stumbled over to Sirius. Sirius caught her as she tripped. She started laughing uncontrollably. Sirius frowned deeply, and turned towards Dom.
"Come on Britney. Leave Black so he can torture some innocent girl." Dom said grabbing Britney roughly by the arm and pulling her away from Sirius.
"Torture an innocent girl?" Sirius started. "Your one to talk." Dom glared and Sirius were in a glaring competition now. Britney was slowly sobering up watching the two glaring at eachother with a lot of hate.
"Well, I think we should -" she tried, walking away a bit. When she noticed neither of them were moving, she stayed put. "Sirius -" she tried again. He finally broke away from glaring and turned to Britney. Britney had her hands on her stomach with an uneasy look on her face.
"Dominic, I think you should leave," Sirius said turning back to Dom.
"Why, Black? So you can make a move on my girl? She is mine, Black. Not yours." He moved closer to Sirius, and smirked. "Your not good enough for her. She deserves a man who can give her stuff. Not a boy who is living with his best friend. Having his friend's mummy making you breakfast with a smiley face." Dom hissed at Sirius.
"Whoa, Dom, don't start with that," Britney snapped at Dom. Sirius was full on glaring at Dom with so much hate.
"Why are you defending him Britney?" Dom asked her.
"He's my friend!" Britney snapped.
"Well I don't like the fact that your friend is in love with you!" Dom snapped back.
"I'm not -" Sirius started.
"-In Love with her?" Dom finished venomously. "Then what is with this whole thing your pulling?" Dom asked.
Sirius smirked. "I'm looking out for her, so guys like you don't ruin her life."
Dom narrowed his eyes at Sirius. "She is mine."
"Like hell I am!" Britney yelled. "What am I? Property? I believe I have an opinion too!"
"No, no you don't!" Dom scoffed.
Sirius turned to walk away but whipped around and punched Dom in the face.
Britney gasped. "Sirius!" She yelled pushing him away, and kneeling down to Dom.
"Britney, don't!" Dom snapped putting a hand to his face and sitting up. "Don't help me, I can do it myself!"
"I wasn't going to help you," Britney laughed. Dom pulled the hand away from his face. Britney was glowering at him. Britney pushed him back down and stood up and stormed away. Sirius smirked and ran after Britney. While Dom lay on the ground stunned.
A/N: Whoa i realized it's been 8 months since i updated last. The reason why was i was stuck, and i haven't had much time to update. I had this chapter half finished since july i think and i sort of found it today, and decided to finish and update. I'm So Sorry for takin so long. Whether i still have my reviewers or not i will try to update as soon as possible. I think i might be in the groove of things again.:P
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