Chapter 2
As soon as they arrived at Platform 9 ¾ Olivia hastily hugged her parents and sister goodbye and got on the train to get away from her brothers as fast as she could. She found an empty compartment and sat down waiting for her friends to come join her. It wasn't long until Nora and Aoife were cheerfully embracing her with Aoife's black cat, Pepper, stroking her feet excitedly.
"Love the hair babe!" Said Nora messing with the top of Olivia's hair. Olivia laughed and ran her fingers through her hair to flatten it back out.
"Thanks Nora, how were your summers?" Olivia asked the girls, scratching Pepper behind his ear.
"Mine was great, I honestly think I want to move to New York after our holiday there. Did you know they have a different word for 'muggle'? I felt so foreign there!" said Nora excitedly, now playing with Pepper's tail.
"Merlin your accent has nearly turned American after just being there for 2 weeks, Nora, imagine after you've lived there" Aoife said with a grin on her face, "My summer was grand, been enjoying the single life back home" she winked at Nora and Olivia who laughed, knowing very well that Aoife who had recently broken up with her boyfriend hadn't been allowed to leave the house all summer to help her parents, who were both muggles, renovate the house.
"How have your siblings been with you this summer?" Nora asked Olivia in a more serious tone.
"Just as bad as you'd expect them to be" Olivia sighed "You know they've somehow found out I've got a crush on Adyn?"
"No way! That must've made them even more annoying" Aoife said shaking her head comprehensibly.
"Yeah, I'm used to it at this point though. I just hope they don't tell him." Olivia said knowing that they probably would.
"I mean, considering how relaxed Adyn is with his girls I'm sure you'd probably have a better chance getting with him that way" They all giggled and a small spark of hope lit within Olivia. Maybe she'd actually have a chance with Adyn this term.
That spark of hope was soon extinguished as after the sorting ceremony, a roar of laughter filled the Great Hall. The girls turned around to see Tom and Will standing on the Ravenclaw table waving their wands in the air.
"Oh no" said Aoife quietly. Large ghost-like figures were flying around in the air with banners saying: "Olivia Clearwater loves her Slytherin prince, Adyn". Olivia realised the ghost-like figures were supposed to portray herself on her knees begging a disgusted-looking Adyn to be with her. She could feel blood rush to her face; she knew they would have told Adyn at some point, but she had not expected them to do it within the first hour of being back at Hogwarts, let alone in front of everyone in the Great Hall. As people started pointing towards Olivia Nora got out of her seat and stormed off to the Ravenclaw table.
"Nora, no! They're not worth it!" Yelled Olivia who had now also got out of her seat rushing after Nora.
"Are you out of your mind!? She's your freaking sister! I know you're dicks but this is taking it too far!" Nora yelled at Tom and Will who were still laughing.
"Nora!" This time it was Aoife yelling as she saw Nora's fist heading towards Will, hitting him straight in the face. The Great Hall was filled with "Oo"s and "Aa"s and their potions professor, Professor Johnston, pulled Nora away whilst a group of boys in Ravenclaw were holding Tom and Will away from her.
"That's one detention for you Miss and one week of detention for you two Clearwater" Professor Johnston pointed at Tom and Will who no longer were grinning.
Olivia, Nora and Aoife had their dinner in the Hufflepuff common room that night.
"Nora that was amazing but you really didn't have to do that" Olivia said whilst chewing on some roast potato.
"Are you joking? They embarrassed you in front of everyone just so they could have a laugh, that's not okay" Nora said determinedly.
"I know but you've got detention now! They're not worth detention" said Olivia, feeling a bit bad her friend had got detention for defending her.
"Don't worry gal, I've always got your back" Nora said reassuringly and Olivia hugged her; Aoife joined the hug and after letting go they spent the rest of the night in the common room playing exploding snap, thinking of ways to get their revenge on Will and Tom.