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In the Right Place, at the Right Time
Chapter 4
"Two new girls"
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Usagi woke up, as the memories continued to pour from her mind. She clutched her head tight, and when she looked up, she came face to face with Luna. Luna nodded her head in the other direction and Usagi saw Draco sound asleep in an arm chair. Usagi smiled inwardly and Luna spoke.
"We're in Draco's room."
"Draco has his own room?" Usagi asked in wonder. She looked around, it was a dark room, and it was bigger than her own back home. It wasn't overly large, it was nice. There was a desk, a large bed with poles and certains, a bunch of books, paintings on the wall, a chair and another door. She assumed he also had a bathroom.
Luna nodded, "Apparently his father insisted he had his own room much like his father once had. Something about being pure-blooded. He figured you'd have more privacy in here, because of something about you sharing a dorm with some Pansy Parkinson girl."
"Talk about treatment..." she noticed that the bed sheets were dark green and also satin, which a large silver snake in the middle. Luna jumped up in the air and did a summersault. Down came a crystal stick that dropped on the covers infront of her. Usagi slowly reached for it and saw that it had energy coming from it.
"This was your great-grandmother's wand. It's made of crystal, moon goddess hair, and moon dust. It also holds some of the silver crystal's powers." Usagi was in awe and picked it up, without knowing, she flicked it. And the books on the desk next to Draco fell over, instantly waking him with a shudder.
"Usagi." He said, getting up and coming toward her. "Is that YOUR wand? It holds such great power!"
Usagi nodded, and he sat on the bed beside her. "Are you feeling alright now, Usagi?"
"Yes, and whatever happened to "muggle" hmm?" She wondered. Draco chuckled deep in his throat.
"Muggles are people of non-magic. YOU are not a muggle." he said, proudly.
"What time is it?"
"Well, everyone's gone to bed now."
"What will people think of me being your room?"
"Who cares. Would you want to be in the same room with Pansy Parkinson?"
"Who's that?" Draco shook his head at her question.
"You do not want to know. She's had this crush on me since I can first remember. She comes from a line of pure blood line of Slytherins, and my father grew up with her's and of course he approves of her. I personally don't like her, she's rather annoying if you ask me. We grew up together and she's always thought I liked her." Draco gave a short laugh. "Pathetic she is. And she's a total snob, and you wouldn't want to get stuck with her."
Usagi took what he said into thought and decided that this Pansy girl wasn't all that nice. But then agian, this is coming from Draco, who is just like her in the snobby aspect.
"Well, I can't stay in here all the t-"
"Sure you can. If you want."
"We could get in trouble."
"Why?"
"I don't know...people have dirty minds." Usagi tried to convince him that it was wrong for her to stay in his room with him.
"Well, if that's what you want. But if she gives you a hard time, tell me and I'll deal with her."
"Um, ok Draco." and with that, Usagi turned over, and fell back to sleep. Draco also layed his head down on the pillow next to her, pulling a different blanket up over him.
Usagi awoke the next morning, stretching and looked down to see Draco there, with his arms wrapped around her waist. Carefully, moving his arms from her waist, she got up, making sure to not wake him. At the bottom of the bed, she noticed some robes and knew that they were hers because Luna must've left them there for her. She walked over to the door and opened it, only to see that it was a bathroom.
"Hmm.." Usagi looked back at Draco and then in the bathroom again. "I'm sure he won't mind too much." With that she gently closed the door behind her and went over to run the water.
Draco woke with a start with the absence of warmth near him. He got up and noticed that Usagi was gone. He walked into the bathroom, not realizing that the water was indeed running. Both Usagi and Draco screamed at each other and turned as each blushed a bright shade of red. Even on Malfoy's cold and pale features, the red shone through. He coughed.
"I'm sorry Draco, I figured it would be ok..." Usagi said in a blush, still not turn around, and wrapping the towel around her tighter.
"It's ok, I don't mind... but I should've known..." With that he quickly ran out and shut the door quickly behind him and leaned against the door as Usagi went back to her bath.
When she was done, she came out fully clothed in her Slytherin robes. Draco took his turn in the bathroom, and Usagi decided to go make herself at home in her dorm with the other two girls that she would be sharing with.
When Usagi opened the door and walked in, she seen the pug-faced Pansy glaring at her. Pansy Parkinson shot up, and walked briskly over to Usagi, pinning her against the now closed door.
"Listen, "Princess"..." She hissed in Usagi's face. Pansy was a bit taller than her, and glared down at her, making Usagi tremble in fear, but Usagi soon regained her senses and stood up against the other girl's weight. "Draco is mine. If you go near him, talk to him, touch him or whatever the case may be, I'll have to seriously harm you..." Pansy said in her face, petting her own wand, pushing Usagi and then walking away.
Pansy walked over to a trunk, and kicked it the door.
"I believe this is yours miss Moon Princess brat. I'm the only "Draco-lover" that's allowed in here." the other two girls woke up and watched the scene with smirks on their faces.
Draco heard the noise as he was walking down the stairs from his own room, and went over to see what was going on.
"I demand to know what's going on here!" His voice interrupted Pansy's bickering to the silent Usagi. Pansy pointed to her.
"Her! She's causing trouble, Draky-poo!"
"Draky-poo?" Usagi asked, and then giggled at "Draky-poo's" reaction.
"DON'T YOU EVER DARE CALL ME THAT AGAIN! MY NAME IS MALFOY TO YOU!" He spat at Pansy who was now in tears. He looked at Usagi and picked up her trunk, nodding to her to follow him, "Come Usagi, I'll get you away from her." Usagi looked back at Pansy one last time and followed Draco to another room, where two other girls were just waking up. Pansy muttered something about 'telling her daddy'.
"Sarah and Alia, Usagi will be staying with you." Draco said to the two girls, one with short brown hair, and the other with long black hair with the ends purple, she looked oddly a lot of like Usagi with the same eyes, only she was different at the same time. They smiled to her and welcomed her in. Draco soon left.
"Was that Parkinson girl bothering you?" The one with the brown hair asked, "I'm Sarah."
"And I'm Alia, as you may have guessed. I hate Parkinson." The other girl growled softly, "I kicked her ass the first year here, because she tried to start shit with me. Almost got suspended, I did."
Usagi knew she was going to like these two girls.
"So where do you come from, Usagi?" Sarah asked, pulling on her robes.
"Japan."
"Japan, huh?" Usagi nodded. Sarah left the room to go down to the Great Hall after she got dressed, leaving Usagi and Alia behind. Alia shoved on ripped, fingerless gloves, and did a spell to make her hair spiked. She put on a spiked collar above her Hogwarts tie. And put some spiked bracelets on. Usagi watched her unsure as the other girl finished and left the room, soon following behind.
To Usagi's surprise, she saw an empty seat next to Draco when she walked into the Great Hall for breakfast. She noticed that Pansy was seething across from him, with her arms folded over her chest, how typical Usagi thought. She rushed up and took the seat beside Draco.
"Today, you'll be starting classes with everyone else. First we have Potions with Professor Snape," Draco informed her between bites. "You DO NOT want to be late for this class, Usagi."
Usagi gulped, how was she going to pull that over? Soon the breakfast was over, and Usagi ran off to find a bathroom.
Draco waited impatiently in Potions class before Snape was about to storm in at anytime. Usagi still hadn't showed up, and he figured she must've got lost. He heard snickers coming from Pansy and her two other girl friends. He angerly turned around, and glared at them.
"You do realize Parkinson, that if she's late, she'll lose points for ALL of Slytherin? Not just herself." With that Pansy shut up, and so did her other girls and looked at each other.
"Yeah, well, maybe that'll teach the worthless lit-" Again, she shut up when Draco pointed his wand to her face. "Really Draco, why do you defend her so?"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione listened in on the conversation going on near the front. Ron nodded with agreement to what the Parkinson girl said.
"Why IS Malfoy acting so strange with that girl around?" He wondered. Hermione nodded.
"It's so strange!" she whispered, "Malfoy hasn't even bothered with us at all lately since she's come..."
"Don't complain." Harry muttered in disgust. He still wondered about that girl and why she make his scar pain in such a way that it did. It was a faint pain, and he didn't know whether to call it 'pain' or not. Harry's thoughts were interrupted when Snape came storming in like he usually did every morning, commanding them to open their books. Snape looked around at the class in distaste, mainly at the Gryffindors. Then it was noticed that there had been an empty seat next to Draco Malfoy which he assumed was preserved for Tsukino.
"And where may I ask, is Tsukino?" he looked to Draco who looked as though he didn't have an answer to give, which he didn't.
"I'm not sure, Professor." He answered shortly, followed by snickers from Parkinson. Alia, who was sitting behind Parkinson, was about to lean over and pound her in her head, when Sarah stopped her.
"Well, we can't delay the class for a single tardy girl. Open your books to page 840." Snape continued to get various students to read paragraphs from the pages, and ask them questions that put them on the spot.
"Potter, read the next paragraph." Harry did as he told and began when the door suddenly burst open and Usagi slid into a pile of cauldrens. Students laughed, mainly a few Gryffindors, Parkinson and her crew, and Crabbe and Goyle, who Draco glared daggers at.
"Miss TSUKINO. Explain yourself." Usagi got up, and straightened her robes, gulping.
"Well, Professor sir, I got lost on my way back from the washroom."
"I see. 10 points from Slytherin next time this happens. Take a seat. Now." and so Usagi resumed her seat next to Draco Malfoy who was still giving Crabbe and Goyle the evil eye. Class continued, and soon was over, followed by a class of Transfiguration also with the Gryffindors.
In this class, Parkinson also sat directly behind Usagi this time. She would throw the odd peice of parchment and other such items from her desk. Usagi was becoming very annoyed, and wanted to turn around and stab the girl in the eye with her quill. But as her nature, Usagi did no such thing but she did notice that Alia wanted to. When Professor McGonagall was pulled from class for a moment, Parkinson turned around to say something to Alia.
"Lesbian, stop it already! Why are you protecting her for? Do you have a crush on her or something?" Usagi heard this and also turned around only to see Alia's face turn red, and her spikes pointed to her, as her head go down. Sarah tried to comfort her by telling her that it was none of Parkinson's business. Alia shot up and punched Parkinson in the face. Pansy fell back, and Alia held her against the wall, threatenly.
"You leave me alone, you leave Sarah alone and you leave Usagi alone..." and with that, Alia threw the helpless girl to the ground just as McGonagall came rushing back in.
"Riddle! Parkinson! What this this behaviour? 50 points from Slytherin...each!" All of the Slytherins groaned, as Parkinson and Alia made their way back to their seats as McGonagall started the class from where she left off. Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at each other and smiled.
"And here I was hoping that Riddle would've pounded her..." Hermione almost flinched at the name. Alia Riddle was in fact the daughter of Tom Riddle, or Voldemort, and she was greatly feared in the school by everyone. However, Alia wasn't really the type to hurt without a reason. Still, she was ignored constantly, and the only one that ever paid attention to her and showed any interest was her lover, Sarah. The two usually kept to themselves.
After class, they were off to their Care for Magical Creatures class with Hagrid. Along the way, Usagi thanked Alia for sticking up for her the way she did. Alia told her that it was no problem at all, and that she wanted a reason to pound Parkinson into a bloody pulp. That class was soon over, which lead to Lunch and then the afternoon followed with History of Magic and Herbology.
Later that night, Usagi stretched out on her bed in the dorm that she shared with her new friends, Alia and Sarah. They reminded her a whole lot of her two friends, Michiru and Haruka. Her friends, she thought. She missed them so much and wondered if they were thinking of her. She hadn't even had the chance to tell them about the new boy she'd met.
Infact, before that monster attacked, she and Draco were going to go meet the girls. Then she thought about Mamoru. She wished she hadn't decided to go visit Mamoru. She missed the girls so much. She missed the way Rei would yell at her, how Makoto would cook for her, how Ami would help her study, and how Minako would whisper things in her ear about cute boys. She wondered what they'd think of Draco Malfoy.
She giggled to herself because she knew what Makoto would think. She'd think that he looked like her old boyfriend.
Seeing that Alia and Sarah were already asleep, she decided to go and visit Draco before going to sleep.
Shutting the door behind her, Usagi muffled up the stairs toward the boy's dorm. Her loose streams of hair glided behind her like protective wings, and she stopped outside Draco's room. She was about to knock when she heard voices from behind the door.