Chapter 11
Hermione flung herself down on her bed and fell asleep almost instantly, still in her robes and shoes. When she woke up it was to Pavrati and Lavender bustling around the room getting ready for the first day of classes. She groaned and threw herself back against the pillows. Then resigning herself to the fact that she would have to face them sooner or later, she pulled open the curtains and put on her sunniest smile possible and greeted them.
By the time she was able to dislodge herself from them and gently push them down the stairs. She only had ten minutes to get ready before McGonagall handed out schedules. Hermione threw a de-wrinkling spell at her clothes and a refreshing spell at her face and flew out of the dormitory down the stairs into the great hall. She was just pouring herself a cup of pumpkin juice as McGonagall came up to her and gave her schedule. Her schedule was very full as usual, but she wasn't the top of her year for nothing. McGonagall congratulated her on being one of three students in her entire years to be accepted into the N.E.W.T level ancient runes class. She couldn't wait to see who the other two students were. She finished her breakfast and said goodbye to Harry and hurried off to her first class.
Blaise woke up to sunlight filtering in through the filmy silver curtains on the bed. He kept his eyes shut and slowly became aware of the other warm body next to his. His forehead was nestled against Aspen's. He gently pulled away from her and watched her as she slept. She looked truly peaceful while she was sleeping. She had no look of self doubt hidden by mischievous eyes. She was nestled on her side with her face buried into the pillow and her right hand tucked underneath the pillow. Her left hand was crossed across her stomach. He pushed himself into a sitting position when he did this Aspen tucked her hand under side. In doing so her breasts were pushed together, seeing this Blaise blushed and looked at his watch. Seeing the time he blanched. They had less a half hour before Snape handed out schedules. He got out of bed and got dressed. Sometime during the night a house-elf had come in and folded his clothes over one of the chairs he and Aspen had sat in last night. He walked over to the bed where Aspen lay with her towards him. He reached out grasped her shoulder and gently shook her shoulder. Aspen responded with rolling onto her stomach and burying her head in the pillow. Smiling Blaise shook her again a little harder this time. Only this time instead of burrowing down into the pillow she flung her arm back and caught Blaise right in the face. He fell over with a pained grunt and clutched his nose.
Aspen was having a very good dream she was in a beautiful ballroom wearing a beautiful black dress with a black lace mask and gauzy black wings. The entire ensemble was beautiful and exactly what she would have picked out for herself, but then again this was her dream so hey why not. She prowled the ballroom and didn't recognize anyone until all of the sudden she a tall boy, no correction tall man appeared out of nowhere in front of her. He smiled and handed her a black rose before whirling away and disappearing into the crowd. She walked in the direction that he had disappeared in and found nothing. Until out of she found herself in his arms. They danced and while they danced she noticed just how handsome he was. He was over a foot and half taller than her and had a very generous mouth. He had the bluest eyes she had ever seen and they glinted with a malicious mischief that could possibly rival or match her own. He too was wearing a mask as were all the dancing couples in the room they danced closer and closer until hand was dangerously low on the small of her back. The music swelled and he pulled her closer so that there was no space remaining between their bodies. The music ended and he pulled her closer and into a kiss that had her toes curling. When the kiss ended she reached up and was just about to pull off her mask, when the world began to shake and she was thrown back into reality. She was pissed so she flung her arm in the general direction of the person who had tried to wake her up.
Aspen realized that her hand had come in contact with someone's face. She sat up and realized that she wasn't in her own bed, slowly the events of last night drifted back to her and she smiled. She was just about to lay back down when she heard a pained grunt from somewhere in the vicinity of the floor. She scrambled out of bed when she realized that it was Blaise.
Blaise was lying on the floor clutching his nose, Aspen got down on her hands and knees next to him and tried to pry his hands off his face. Once she succeeded she found that his nose was bleeding profusely. She grabbed her wand from the bedside table and muttered a healing charm over his nose. Once the bleeding stopped Blaise was able to push him self off the floor and prop himself on his elbows. He looked at Aspen, who had a look of embarrassment and barley contained laughter on her face. He watched as her face turned bright red and she clutched her hand over her mouth. By now she was visbly shaking with the ill hidden laughter. Eventually tears began to leak from the corners of her eyes. She fell backward and was clutching her sides because she was laughing do hard.
While Aspen was occupying herself on the floor Blaise stood up and brushed the dust off him. He watched aspen for what seemed like a good ten minutes but it turned out to only be five. He extended her hand out to her as she lay there giggling with arms crossed over stomach. She took his hand and allowed herself to be pulled off the floor.
"You now we only have about twenty minutes before Snape hands out schedules." Blaise told matter of factly as soon as she was off the floor and had righted her nightie.
"Oh shit!" with that said Aspen dove for her clothes that were laid out on the chair. She came out five minutes later with her hair still in disarray from sleeping. She picked up her school bag that had appeared out of nowhere, and waved a casual flick of her wand at her hair which arranged itself into two tight French braid pigtails. The white stripes in her hair caused the braids to have a zebra effect.
"Nice." He said as he gave one of the braids a tug. She just tugged the braid out of his hand with a shake of her head.
"Come on we have to get to breakfast." She walked to the door and left Blaise exactly where he was standing. She had just gone from laughing so hard that she was rolling on the floor to little miss serious. It was weird and totally unexpected.
"Are you coming or not??" She said looking extremely annoyed. Blaise blinked and quickly followed her out the door and into the hall.
They dropped their bags on the floor and sat down at the Slytherin table. Draco Malfoy glared at them as they sat down but Aspen just glared back and stuck out her tongue. Blaise pulled the toast towards him and took a few pieces and buttered them. He looked over at Aspen's plate and was shocked he didn't think such a tiny person could put away so much food. She had her plate completely piled with eggs, bacon and toast. All covered in butter, salt, pepper and ketchup. She was shoveling all of it into her mouth like there was no tomorrow. He watched her shovel it into her mouth until she noticed him watching her. She turned to him with her cheeks still full of food and her eyes big and wide with a look innocent confusion on her face.
"What?" she managed to get out before she swallowed. Blaise just shook her head and smiled into his toast. After Aspen had finished her plate of eggs, toast and bacon she poured herself a bowl of cereal with milk, bananas, and strawberries.
Blaise had finished his coffee and was watching Aspen dig into her second bowl of cereal when Snape came up behind them out of nowhere and made both of them jump.
Blaise swallowed his burning hot coffee that he has been sipping and Aspen had both choked and snorted into her cereal. Snape looked at the derisively before giving them both their schedules. They had the schedule verbatim. They were also two of the three students who had qualified for the N.E.W.T level ancient runes class. They finished their breakfast without any further interruption. They got up and left the great hall after Aspen had finished her fourth bowl of cereal and headed to their first class.
"Who do you think is the other kid? I mean considering that we're two out of the three." Aspen asked as they waited for the staircases to finish changing.
"I honestly have no idea." Said Blaise though he knew who he wished it was. Aspen just shrugged her shoulders and walked up the newly relocated staircase. They got to their classroom without any further conversation and went inside with a nod to each other. Aspen entered first and groaned; she turned around on the spot and whispered in his ear "God damn this is going to a long year. Especially with her here." She nodded over her shoulder to Hermione Granger who was sitting in the first row center reading out of the text book, seemingly not noticing them at all. Aspen still hadn't moved her face away from his ear; he was just about to move back when she pecked him on the cheek out of nowhere. She turned around and marched into the class room as if nothing had happened. And left Blaise standing there extremely red.
A/N: I am so sorry about the 3 month delay, but starting college is actually a lot more work than it sounds. So yeah I love all of my faithful reviewers who kept prompting me to update!! Because with out you this probably would have taken another 3 months. As always: Read, Review, and Enjoy!!!!!!!!! Love, Saylin!!! D