Authors Note: Hey guys!
OK, so I've been updating really quickly for some odd reason so if I don't update too fast anymore, SORRY!
Hope you like the story!
Neko-hanyou05- Yes my hand is a sad one, thanks for trying to make it happy, and yes you are forgiven for your terrible smiley.
Black Roses of death- I'm not saying.
Sango taijiya1- Thanks and I'm not saying. And is it really a cliffhanger? I didn't mean it to be that way. Or I did. I don't know. The chapters are blending.
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Emily awoke to someone petting her hair. She looked up to see Terry.
"Finally you're awake!" He said gleefully.
EL sat up and looked around. No one was in the common room.
"What time is it Terry?" she asked groggily. She realized she fell asleep in the common room. EL turned off her mp3 which was miraculously, still going.
"It's 5:30! Up with you." He said helping her to her feet.
"5:30? What are you, the energizer bunny? I'll be back…I am in dire need of a shower." She shook her head at the funny look her gave her and went up the stairs to her dormitory.
After she showered she came downstairs in clean clothes. She was wearing her gloves, tie, and stockings still but now she was wearing a black green day shirt, a black knee length skirt, and knee black leather boots. Her lips had black lipstick and her eye shadow was deep purple. She had a hint of glitter on and a black and white baseball cap.
When Terry saw her he almost fainted. Instead her collapsed in a chair his jaw dropped.
"Up, prep up!" She said shouldering her school bag and grabbing his hand, dragging him toward the door.
"Wait!" He grabbed his bag then let her drag him again.
They made it out the portrait and in the hallway before anyone else in their house were even awake.
"What was with petting my hair this morning?" She asked. You just don't pet peoples hair…it doesn't seem right.
"Oh nothing. Trying to wake you up." He said a mischievous twinkle in his eye. She turned her head to face him and he just smiled then started running and dragging her.
She started to run too and they ran all the way to the great Hall. There was food on the tables and Snape was eating already. The second he saw EL he ran out.
"What was that all about?" Terry asked Emily quietly.
El just screamed and ran around, after dropping her bag, flinging her arms and twirling
"Come on Terry! No one will see you!" Terry just shook his head and sat down, watching her let loose.
EL snapped her finger and Stuck in America by Sugarcult came on from somewhere and she started dancing and singing along to it.
Today,
I changed
It's too late
Cause everyone stayed the same
I'm
gone, so long
Break out, I'm better off on my own
Today, I
changed
It's too late
Cause every town feels the same
I'm
different and you're distant
Add it up and it makes no difference
Everybody's talkin 'bout blowin up the neighborhood
Everybody's
gonna break it up today
Everybody's talkin 'bout blowin up the
neighborhood
Running just to get away
Stuck in America
Stuck
in America
I'm lost in America
Stuck in America
She twirled around some more when Dumbledore came in. The two Ravenclaw's didn't notice him so he quietly left, shutting the door behind him.
Another song came on and Terry was shocked how EL's face had changed. It went from happy, or similar to happy, to pained and sad in a matter of seconds.
Emily began to sing I'm a Fake by The Used, still twirling around.
Look
at me, you can tell
By the way I move and do my hair
Do you
think that it's me or it's not me?
I don't even care
I'm
alive
I don't smell
I'm the cleanest I have ever been.
I
feel big, I feel tall, I feel dry
Dry
Just
look at me, look at me now
Just look at me, look at me now
Do
I drink? Do I date?
I've got perfect placement all my
ink
Satisfied, in your eyes
I'm the biggest fan I've got right
now
I made sure, that I look how I wanted to look
The people
around me, the people surround me
I feel big, I feel tall, I feel
dry
Dry
Just
look at me, look at me now
Just look at me, look at me now
As the song ended she looked at the door to see the whole school there, most in their PJ's. EL snapped her fingers three times. The first turned off the music, the second summoned her bag to her, and the third slammed the great oak doors in the student's faces and locked them.
"Now that the student population has seen me for today, I think I'll eat for the first time in two days." She said walking over to Terry at the old Ravenclaw table.
"I'm surprised you didn't lose your cool and end up hexing them all." He said amazed.
"What would've been the fun in that? If you haven't noticed, I don't show emotion too often." She said helping herself to some toast.
"Oh I've noticed. It's kind of hard not to." He said taking a bite of his own toast.
EL shrugged and they ate in silence until McGonagall came in the Great Hall.
"Miss…ummmm Miss?" She asked storming over to EL.
"Professor….Professor?" she asked the same way.
McGonagall didn't look to happy at being mocked. "Miss, you don't blare music at 6:00 in the morning, lock the whole school out of the Great Hall, or mock a teacher." She said sternly. With that she walked away. Leaving the doors open.
"Wow!" Terry said as EL started on her cereal completely unfazed.
Emily shrugged and asked politely, "When did they come in?".
She couldn't care less but it was out of plain curiosity.
"Let's see. They came in just in time for your face to go from semi-happy to sad and pained." He answered, thinking hard.
Emily just said great then muttered to herself "Wonderful. I'll soon be 'emo person' again."
Terry just caught the 'emo' part. "What does emo mean?" He asked curiously.
EL gave him a strange look. "That's sad. You don't even know what an emo is. Tell me; are all British teenagers oblivious to the outside world? OK…I'll explain it…but only once. An emo is a person, boy or girl that has emotional problems. From being neglected at home to having an abusive boyfriend, emos are always depressed. Most are funny though, that's the confusing part. Now real emos, not the wannabes, cut themselves, usually on the wrists but anywhere really, because they think that when they bleed, the sadness leaves them with the blood. Let's see what else, they apparently look forward to dying and think about it often. They're antisocial and are quiet. That's not really true though; that's just a stereo type. The rest…well you'll have to ask a real emo if you ever go to North America." She said, finishing her cereal.
Terry sat there for a minute, taking in the information.
"So they…they cut themselves with knives?" He asked incredously. It just wasn't sinking in his brain.
"No, they use razor blades mostly. Oh…and most of them like black. Man…we are talking like they are a breed on there own. And before you ask…I'm not emo." She said, seeing the look on his face.
Emily stood up and started to walk out of the hall, seeing as people were filing in. She checked her watch and noticed in was 7:30.
Before she could get too far she was pulled into someone. She looked to see Ron standing there.
"Ummm…Let go Ron." She said, kind of confused.
"I don't think so…" He said his hand going down to her butt. She hexed him wandlessly, sending him into the wall, knocking him unconscious.
"Leave me alone!" She screamed at the unconscious figure before she ran. She pushed two or three people away from her wandlessly as she went.
She ran to the lake, her favorite place so far at Hogwarts.
EL sat down as the reality of Ron just did sunk in.
Ron? He was…well not exactly nice but he didn't really bother me. What was that all about?
Emily hugged her knees to her chest as she rocked herself.
She heard someone behind her and looked, but there was no one there. Thinking she was hallucinating, she turned her attention back to the lake, absently staring and rocking.
After a while she decided to go to her class, which was conveniently Care of magical creatures, and she shared it with the Hufflepuffs.
Her morning went uneventful. She didn't go to lunch, she went swimming instead.
After lunch she went to potions early and sat in her desk, waiting for the class to arrive.
Snape walked in after about twenty minutes of her waiting. He didn't see her because of the shadows she was in.
He sat at his desk, looking through his notes and muttering to himself.
EL cleared her throat and her looked up to see her boots on the desk.
"Why are you here?" he asked in a choked voice.
Emily sat forward and said, "I'm here for potions. My class is next."
"I mean how did you get in here?" he asked again.
She sighed. " A really simple concept. Walk to dungeons, open door, sit down. I do belive you've done it before." She said na a bored voice. She lookeda t ther watch. The class should be in here already.
"How did you get thouh the enchantment as wards?" he asked now.
Why does he ask so many questions? "Oh those. A wave of the hand and they're gone. Quite simple really. You need better ones." She said tiredly as she sat back again.
Snape looked furious but didn't say anything. He sweeped across the room and barked for the class to come in. They all scurried in afraid of Snape. El snorted. What a bunch of weaklings. He's just slimy git.
Snape flicked his wand and the instructions were on te board. "Love potion. Start." With that said he left the room.
Terry moved to beside Emily. "What's his problem…other then being himself."
El snorted. "he's all bent out of shape because I got through some wards I wasn't supposed to get through." She said, starting on her potion.
The same thing as the day before, she was done before everybody and left before he came back. It was double potions but it only took her half a class, so she went to the great hall.
As she sat down she stared at the empty golden plate. What's wrong with me? Why am I so different? Why me?
She didn't notice someone come behind her until they put their hand on her shoulder.
"Hello".
-----Disclaimer-----J.K.'s owns them….except EL, Carissa, and Keith.