Shaula lay awake in her new bed, the morning sunlight from the window shining through the gap between the blue curtains around her bed. She stared at the roof of her bed, her mind blank as she tried to think about what could happen once she reaches the Great Hall.
The sound of the fellow girls rummaging around the room broke her trance. She sat up and moved her curtain back, having a look as to what the other girls were doing. Shaula shared a room with four other girls.
Pandora Fawley
Cindy McArthur
Tarren Bentley
Holly Hunter
Shaula hadn't spoken to any of them yet, but it sounded like three of the girls had become fast friends. The three were stood by the bedroom door, looking ready to go outside to the Great Hall.
"I can't wait for breakfast! If it's as any good as the food last night then I'll be putting on so much weight by the end of the week." One if the girls said, the other two laughed along and then they had left the room swiftly. Leaving Shaula and Pandora alone in the room. It appeared that Pandora was shifting through her chest at the foot of her bed, looking for something.
Shaula climbed out of her bed, grabbing her clothes and entering the bathroom. She takes a quick shower and drys her hair with a charm she learnt off Andromeda. She exits the bathroom to find Pandora sat on her bed, dressed in her uniform and seeming to have waited for Shaula. Her pale blonde hair hung loosely around her shoulders, a silver headband in her hair decorated with small, dangling radishes. Shaula narrowed her eyes at it, tilting her head before shrugging and heading for the door.
They leave together in silence. Walking down the stairs and out the common room before Pandora breaks the silence.
"You don't like to talk much do you." Her airy voice pulling Shaula's attention to her. Pandora reminded her of Luna Lovegood, this was most likely her deceased mother in the cannon world.
"No I do like to talk, I just... don't know what to talk about." She replies honestly, as whilst Shaula did want to make friends in Hogwarts, she just didn't know how to interact with those who were mentally younger than her. That and she was also terrified of her parents response to hers and Sirius' Sorting.
"You might have an infestation of Wrackspurts then. They always make my head fuzzy and unable to think straight." says Pandora, Shaula looks over at her, further convincing the reincarnated girls belief of the blonde being Luna's mother. Pandora must have mistaken Shaula's expressions as confusion, as she continues talking.
"A good way a getting rid of Wrackspurt's is by thinking positively. Think of something happy,"
"Something happy?" Shaula thinks for a couple seconds over what makes her happy. "My brothers I guess, although Sirius can be annoying at times with his pranks but he doesn't mean any harm to me." Pandora smiles at that, happy that she had made Shaula think of something happy and had hopefully gotten rid of the Wrackspurts.
"What about you? What makes you happy?" asks Shaula, which slightly startles the young girl as she had not believed that Shaula would try and get to know her. Pandora thinks herself now, tilting her head as her silver eyes widen slightly and glaze over. Shaula furrowed her brow and quickly links her arm with Pandora's so that she doesn't walk into anything or fall over. Her eyes eventually unglaze themselves and she responds.
"Mint ice cream makes me happy. The colour mint green as well. It reminds me of the trees." She turns to look at Shaula, before noticing their linked arms and looks in confusion.
"Oh, you looked like you were in your own world for a minute, so I thought I'd hold onto you so that you wouldn't walk into a walk is something." exclaims Shaula, in a nervous panic, quickly trying to justify what she had done. Pandora smiles at her gently, pats her hand and leaves their arms linked. Shaula smiles back, a feeling of calmness washing over her body.
Once entering the Great Hall and being surrounded by the fellow students, they sit at the Ravenclaw table and begin to eat their breakfast. A mixture of fruits for Shaula and a couple slices of toast with raspberry jam for Pandora. The two quickly work themselves into an easy flowing conversation, only to be interrupted by Professor Flitwick as he handed them both their schedule.
Their first day of classes was in a Thursday, just over half the school week over. Their first lesson of the day would be double Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, followed by Transfiguration until lunch. Then they would have no lessons until the evening for Astronomy.
"No lessons with Gryffindor today, so I won't be seeing Sirius in class then." Shaula mutters to herself, but Pandora could hear. She looks up to try and find her new friends brother at the lions table. She nudges Shaula in the arm.
"Is that him there? With the three laughing boys?" asks Pandora. Shaula looks up at her brother, to see him with James, Remus and who she could guess was Peter Pettigrew. He certainly did look mouse like, with a button nose and a small and slim build. He looked nothing like he did in the movies from what she roughly remembered.
"Yes, that's my brother over there. I'm going to go over and say good morning. Would you like to come with me? I'd love to introduce my new friend to him." Shaula said as she grinned at Pandora, who stared at her shocked for a couple moments before nodding meekly. The pair headed over to the red and gold decorated table and sat next to the four boys. Shaula on Sirius' right, facing Pandora who sat on Remus' left. On Sirius left was James and in front of him was Peter.
"Good morning brother mine, Remus, James, person I haven't met yet. This is my new friend, Pandora." Shaula speaks once the four boys look at the two girls. Sirius grinned back at her, Pandora offering a smile in greeting.
"Good morning sister mine, the lovely Pandora. This here is Peter Pettigrew, shares the same room as us three." replies Sirius, and a 'good morning' is echoed from the rest of the boys.
"What lessons do you lot have today? We have Herbology, Transfiguration and then Astronomy this evening." The female Black sibling asks as she plucks a grape from a nearby bowl.
"Charms, Potions, Charms again and then Herbology." The Male twin responds as he places an arm around Shaula's shoulders. She nods and carries on plucking grapes from the stem in the bowl, sometimes offering one to Pandora or Remus, who each continue taking them from her and eating them. A small muttered 'thank you' sometimes resounding from them as Shaula smiles at them.
"Wow... She's gorgeous..."
"Huh?"
Everyone looks up to see who James was looking at. Down the table, a small red haired girl had sat down and began eating breakfast. James' eyes were wide, mouth agape in amazement. He was clearly lovestruck. Pandora and Shaula let out a couple giggles, whilst Remus lifts an eyebrow at James. Sirius rolls his eyes at his new friends apparent wonderment whilst Peter lets out a couple snickers, finding his reaction humorous like the girls.
'So this is where the great James Potter fell in love with the great Lily Evans.' Shaula thought to herself. She rolls her eyes before turning to Sirius once more.
"Letters should be arriving tomorrow I think. I'm going to send a letter to Reggie and one to father later today. Are you sending one later? If so, we might as well send them all at once." She asks and Sirius thinks for minute before nodding.
"Yeah I'll send one to Reggie too." He first day anything about their parents. Shaula nods before standing, looking towards Pandora who had managed to get into a small conversation with Remus and Peter. The two Ravenclaws bid them goodbye and they went off to collect their required equipment for classes from their dorm and start their new school day.
Whilst the bad feeling inside Shaula hadn't ebbed away yet, she knew whatever was going to happen would cause a negative impact on Sirius, and possibly herself as well. In fact, the feeling only got worse at the mention of sending a letter home. She knew Walburga wouldn't react well to this. Neither will Orion. She just hoped however that throughout all of it she could still keep her close bond with her baby brother Regulus.
A/N: I know I haven't done one of these yet, but I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has read this story so far and has followed and favourited it. I would like more comments but other than that thank you all so much for reading this and I hope you are all enjoying this.
