\\Blinding Love// (Fred Weasley) Part 2

"AH!!"

I bolted straight up out of bed, rudely awakened by a loud piercing scream that probably woke everyone in the whole dorm, no matter how thick the stone walls are.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?!" I hollered as I got out of bed and walked over to where Cheryl was.

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!! LOOK!! LOOK!!" Cheryl said screaming and pointing to her suitcase.

"WHAT IS IT!? I'M FREAKING OUT HERE!" I said pulling my hair and clutching my head.

"I-I-I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" Cheryl sniffled.

"WHAT!?" I was clearly aggravated and about to gag her with a spoon.

"I can't believe I didn't pack my new shoes! They were cute too! And I was going to wear them today with this outfit! Now I can't!" She sat and pouted in front of her suitcase as she rummaged through it.

I walked over towards a vase, picked it up and was about to smash it over her head when Danni appeared from the bathroom and stopped me, taking the vase away from my clutches. She was dripping wet and clearly just got out of the shower.

"What the hell was that all about?"

I glared at her as I grabbed the clothes I would be wearing for the day.

"You don't want to know." I slammed and locked the bathroom door as I did my morning routine.

When I got out of the shower, I got dressed, put on my clothes which was a fairly nice outfit I guess for being outside. I wore a nicer pair of darker colored jeans than the ones I had yesterday with green converse and a black tank top with a green snake along with the black wrist warmers I always wore.

The two crazy friends of mine were doing each others makeup as I slipped downstairs. They always knew that I liked to be alone in the morning; I happened to not be myself at that time. I was surprised to see Draco up this early and he was coming down from the other end of the hallway.

"Good morning Drake." I implied.

"Morning. What was that screaming earlier? It sounded like a cat dying. For a minute I thought it was your new pet."

"Caim! Where is he?" Just when I asked myself that he appeared in the shape of an Iguana.

"You, come with me." In the blink of an eye, the Iguana formed into a lizard and crawled onto my left shoulder.

"You're very strange Ellie." He grinned slyly.

"Thanks Drake. Want to walk me to breakfast?"

"No problem." He took my arm and we walked out of the dormitory.

I always liked being with Draco alone. He only showed his true side to me when we were alone. I've known him since we were toddlers and it's funny to have grown up with him and to see how things have changed.

It seemed like we were the early birds today. Usually people slept in on the weekends but not me, not unless I was really tired but I did sleep in the car and then on the train and then last night so I was reenergized. There was breakfast on the tables already so I had a bagel with cream cheese and Draco some fruit with crackers. There were very few others in the mess hall. I thought it was amazing how fast the house elves here were at cleaning up that mess from last night's dinner.

After I was done with my small meal, I left Draco, seeing as how his cronies were coming my way so I went outside. I breathed in the crisp morning air, filling the familiar forest and outdoorsy scent in my lungs.

"Caim, I suggest you stay in the Owlery until night times ok?" the morphing animal changed into an owl and flew off towards its destination.

I walked the grounds, bored, as always and usually. More people would be getting up by now and making their way to breakfast and chatting with friends. I made my way across the bridge and towards the woods where there was a tree I always sat at to just enjoy the piece and quiet. My thoughts ran back to the night before going to school.

I was escorted by my parents to the Dark Lords house, seeing as how he was...reconstructed I would call it. He had really arisen, but I had already known that since before the beginning of sixth year for me. My parents praise him as if he were a God, even though he doesn't like any one the people who worship him.

So, everyone who had been there when he was reborn and everyone who wasn't was there the other night (including the next generation Death Eaters). Voldemort really did look like a human snake. His pupils were slits, as was his nostrils and he was an off-white color, as if he were still dead or dying. I felt sickened to be there in his presence but, he had always liked me for some reason. Probably because how I take charge of a situation and I'm very outspoken. I guess he believes I have great leader ship skills. Or maybe it's just because of my gift…

He talked to me in private that night.

"My dear Elise, I'm glad that you have come, knowing that you have school tomorrow and have to rise early."

"It's not a problem, my Lord." I bowed my head slightly.

He smirked and put a thin, boney hand onto my shoulder. "My dear, I would like you to join my forces after you finish with your schooling." I looked into those red, devilish eyes and had to look away to make sure I wasn't making a disgusted face.

"Uh, my Lord, I'm not su-"

"I know of your gift my dear." he stated cutting me off and making me recoil from him.

I backed up two steps from him and he took one towards me. "It will be very helpful to me if you would join me."

"My Lord, I-"

"Think about it of course, you have to. I know you'll make the right decision. That's why I'm fond of you. To be able to analyze your choices before choosing the most obvious path." he said dismissing me as he walked off.

I rolled my eyes behind his back and straightened up when he looked at me. "Oh yes and don't forget your gift." he finally left to go probably sit on his "royal" ass.

He gave every one of the next generation Death Eaters a gift to persuade everyone or to get them into thinking about joining him and following their parents' footsteps.

Mine was Caim. Yeah, I lied to my friends about Caim and my uncle and all that but, I'm not going to tell them that Voldemort is trying to get me to join him because they don't need to know that I plan on denying him. I was disgusted when I got home that night that I spent two hours in the shower washing off the feeling of his cold, clammy hands. I would never in my life join the Death Eaters. My thoughts were interrupted by Fred Weasley. I can tell him and his brother apart because Fred is the one who always talks to me and I can mostly tell them apart from their voices now.

"Hey."

"Huh? Oh yeah! Sorry…here." I said slapping two sickles into his palm.

"What's the matter with you, eh?"

"I owe you two sickles for that exploding thing yesterday."

"Well thanks but you know, you don't have to pay...for anything really."

"Keep it. Please just take it." I shook my head.

I sighed heavily, slouching down my tree even more. "I'm bored." I admitted answering his earlier question.

"Come play Quidditch then."

"What?" I stared at him like he was joking.

"I'm being serious."

"With who? Gryffindor people? I know for a fact that I'm not welcomed with your family and friends because I'm a Slytherin." I mocked.

"But you're a different type of person who is in Slytherin."

I rolled my eyes. "How do you figure that?"

"Well, I've known you since first year really. We met on the train and even after we were sorted and had different friends, we never had a problem being friends because of the houses we were in. You didn't discriminate because of the house and that's why I know you're different." I shrugged.

"I guess I see what you're saying. Fine, I'll go play just because there's nothing else to do and to also kick your ass." I smirked as he pushed me.

We arrived at the Quidditch field and sure enough, there was the Gryffindor gang. Potter, Granger, Ron, George, Ginny, Seamus, and Neville. Of course, I got looks and a not so good look from Ginny. I just ignored.

"Hey Elise." George greeted me with a high five.

"That was brilliant what you did to Draco and Pansy yesterday." Ron commented.

"Thank you." I nodded and returned a kind smile.

"By the way Ginny," I began my apology. "Sorry for throwing that fruit cake at your head. I meant to hit my friend." She just stared and turned around.

Everyone glanced at each other as I rolled my eyes as I sighed. "This is going to be a long Quidditch game."

So the teams were picked out. Ron, Harry and Ginny played on one team while Fred, George, and I played on the other. Elders against youngsters as me, Fred, and George joked. Even though I wasn't able to kick Fred's ass this time, I'd be able to soon enough in the upcoming Quidditch games. The game had been going on for the past couple of hours. I was getting exhausted. It was almost a tie though, with the Elders ten points ahead and we needed to score to finally win the game. We all agreed before playing to not even bother with the Snitch, seeing as how there weren't enough players and the others who were watching just wanted to do that, watch.

Ron was a chaser, Ginny a beater, and Harry the keeper. Fred was a beater, George the keeper, and I a chaser. Ron had the ball and I was going in to steal it from him. We both swiveled around each other in a dance of flying until he fumbled the ball and I caught it, making a fast run towards the goals. Harry was right in the middle of the goals and my only chance was a fake out. Just as I was going to throw it to the left Harry dove that way like I suspected and I threw it to the right side, making a goal and winning the game. Fred, George, and I high fived each other and congratulated all the others.

"That was some fancy flying there Elise." Fred commented.

"Yeah, I got a headache just trying to stay away from you." Ron said as he rubbed his temples and I smiled a bit.

"That was a brilliant throw. I didn't know where the ball was until I turned around and saw you make the goal on the other side." Harry seemed fascinated by my little fake out.

I just guess he's never seen me actually do it during games before; being all focused on the Snitch and everything.

"Well, it was fun playing with you people but, I guess I must go and clean up." I waved goodbye to the strange group of friends and made my way back inside the school corridors.

I ignored all the stares I got when I walked through the halls. Being a Slytherin was harsh sometimes. No I wasn't really emo, maybe sometimes but not usually. As I ran up the stairs to my dorm room and took another shower and redressed myself in some Bermuda black shorts, a gray shirt with green, blue, hot pink and yellow swirls as a design, I retouched my makeup and went back out into the halls.

I was looking for my so called friends when I found one of them. Danni was with Nott in the library talking ever so quietly. I rolled my eyes and kept on walking. They were most likely flirting with each other or whatever and I didn't want to disturb there little séance. Now, time to find Cherry. If anything, she'd be the only girl in the school wearing Cherries. It shouldn't be so hard to spot her with her golden locks and her slim paled complexion.

She was one of the more fancy and sophisticated type girls in Slytherin who always attracted guys because of her brilliant hazel eyes. She wasn't so much an enemy of anyone but no one really liked her just because guys were attracted to her. I found her of course in the mess hall and walked down to greet her. She was surrounded by Montague, Adrian, Draco, and Blaise and they were all snickering at something.

"Hello guys." I greeted as I sat down next to Draco and across from Blaise. They all looked at me with a serious look. "What's with all the glares?" I gave them a nasty look as I took a sandwich onto my plate and placed a few potato chips along side it.

"You were playing with those Gryffindor scumbags out on the Quidditch field." Montague said with the utmost disgust.

I shrugged. "And you're point is?"

"Why in the world would you be hanging around them, Ellie?" Draco demanded more than asked.

I took a few bites of my sandwich and drank some juice and didn't answer. They all seemed to wait on me. "You know, I make it a habit to NOT make myself an enemy of everyone. If you all haven't noticed, I'm not as hated by everyone else here unlike all of you, and it's been that way since year one. Now if you excuse me." I said standing up and walking away from them with Cheryl of course yelling after me to come back.

I was running down the steps from the hall and turned a corner when I smacked into something hard and made me fall forward onto something.

"Ow!" I groaned as I lifted my head.

It was either Fred or George? "Blimey Ellie, where in the world is the fire?" It was Fred.

He was the one who first called me Ellie actually, besides my mother and now my friends. "Oh I'm sorry Fred." I said getting off of him.

"Wait, I think it's quite cozy like this. Don't you think?" he chuckled.

I snickered at him. "You're a sick pervert."

He shrugged. "What are you doing anyways?"

"I'm just trying to get away from certain people." I said helping him up.

An awkward moment of silence took place.

"Well, I better get going." I began to take off when he grabbed my hand.

"Now hold on there. I was just coming to actually ask you a question." I halted in my place and turned around to face him with an eyebrow raised as I glanced at our hands. He noticed the situation and released my hand.

"Really? And what might that be?"

"I was actually wondering if you would come with me to Hogsmeade tomorrow." I thought about it for a minute and smiled.

"Sure. I need to stay away from a few people for awhile before I decide to do something to them."

He smirked. "If you need any help with that, George and I will be glad to help you."

I grinned. "That would be a pleasure. Well, how about you meet me right here tomorrow early in the morning?" I asked, setting a time for us to meet.

"Alright then. See you later." he chuckled as he walked off.

'Until my so called friends stop thinking so wrongly of me, I'll just keep away for a long while.'

So the next morning, I woke up extremely early. So early, the sun wasn't even up yet and neither were Cheryl and Danni. They didn't speak to me last night and I didn't to them. Whenever we all fought, we wouldn't speak to each other in days. Not even at the Slytherin table, nor in the common room or anywhere else. I had used a muffling spell so they wouldn't hear me showering or getting ready for the day in Hogsmeade with Fred.

Usually, the first weekend of the starting of school, the professors would allow us to go to Hogsmeade and gather some things we might need for school or whatever. It took me no time to get ready and when I came out back to the room, I found Caim at the window sill outside and let him in. He hooted at seeing me.

"You didn't let me in last night. I was tapping the window forever but, didn't bother when your friends came in." he spoke to me.

I was startled for a moment when I heard his voice. I had slightly forgotten I could speak to him telepathically. I had only had him for technically four days now.

"Yeah, I'm sorry Caim. They were being stupid and I was mad and I used a muffling spell so I wouldn't hear them speaking." He sighed as he stretched his wings.

"I'm going to Hogsmeade today so, unless you need to eat or whatever, you can follow if you want." He snickered. "I'll pass thanks." I shrugged as I left the room and the window open for my new little pet.

I headed for the mess hall and as usual, there was food on the table. Seeing as how I skipped dinner last night, so to not encounter any unneeded arguments, I just went straight to bed. I took my time eating, enjoying my loneliness and solitude of being the only Slytherin at the table. I sighed, feeling more bored than ever. School hadn't even begun yet and I was already stressed out. I was playing with the strawberries rolling around on my plate as I gently stabbed them when something bounced onto my table and snapped my senses awake. I looked directly ahead of me and saw Fred and George laughing. They were eating breakfast with a few of their friends that were there. Harry Potter and his gang weren't present though.

I shook my head at the two laughing twins as I exited the hall. I leaned against the pillar of the rendezvous point and closed my eyes.

"Retards." I thought to myself.

Someone then poked me and screeched. It didn't phase me because I knew who it was and I had a "feeling" about what he was going to do. I peered through my eye closest to him and raised an eyebrow as I closed it again.

"Wow, you're pretty hard to scare." he said biting into an apple.

I nodded simply. "Yeah, don't bet that you'll get me on Halloween."

"We'll see." he joked.

I scoffed as I stood inches from him and smirked. "Yes, we will."

I turned to walk when he grabbed my shoulders and spun me around. "Are you implying something Miss Richards?"

I kept a straight face. "As a matter-of-fact, yes. Let's make this interesting. If you are able to scare me on Halloween, I will do whatever you want for a whole week. The same applies to you, just vice versus." Fred grinned.

"Alright then deal." he held out his hand and I firmly gripped it.

I gave him a sickly grin that made him raise an eyebrow as I walked off to Hogsmeade and he followed.

"So," I began to converse. "Why don't you and your brother stick together like you guys usually did? Is it because of Angelina?"

Fred nodded. "Yeah but, I don't mind. We still all hang out together. Just because he's got a girlfriend means nothing."

I nodded in understanding.

"What about you?"

"What?" I asked suspiciously.

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

I frowned, disgusted.

"Of course not. I wouldn't dare have one anyways. You might not have noticed but, most people in Slytherin are...never mind." I said thinking about what I was going to say.

"What about Montague? He seems to really like you."

I scoffed. "Yeah, some over protective, controlling, muscularly oaf who is full of himself has liked me ever since the first day of school. He is so annoying." I groaned.

Fred laughed at my agony as we just made more small talk until we finally reached the small village of Hogsmeade.