Take me back, take me out
Back to the future
Back to the future
Change your thinking
Change your mind
Back to the future

- Dianna Ross

Chapter 4---

Rose's POV

You know when you wake up and you just know that today is going to be a horrible day? Today is just one of those days. First, Z woke up before me. That rarely ever happens. She is always up way after me, so I knew it was late. So I had no time for a shower and I raced down to the Great Hall in a dirty robe.

Right when I reach the table, the food disappeared signaling the end of breakfast. Great, so I woke up late, didn't shower, rushed down here, and I didn't get to eat. Al throws a roll at me. "Here, you looked exhausted," he says. "Well, that's because Z over here, kept me up until 2 in the morning!" I say in my very pissed off voice.

"Hey! I was talking to you! You could've stopped at any time!" Z says grumpily. We start walking to class, Z and Al to arithmancy, and Scor and I to Care of Magical Creatures. "See ya!" Z and Al wave back at me.

Care of Magical Creatures is an easy class. Professor Grubby-Plank teaches 3 and 4th years but Rubeus Hagrid teaches 5th-7th years. We go towards where a big group is huddled in a circle by the Forbidden Forest.

"'Ello," Hagrid begins, "Today you'll be in pairs, one boy and one girl, and you will each get a blast-ended skrewt. The object of this week's lesson is to keep this baby skrewt alive for the entire week." Scor and I look at each other and nod, agreeing that we will be partners for this project, it will be easy enough.

We go to the front to collect our skrewt and get to work. We set down our skrewt and stare at it. Hagrid comes up to us. "What exactly are we supposed to be doing?" Scor asks. "keepin' it alive o' course!" Hagrid exclaims. Right…how do we do that?

"Why don't yer start with comin' up with a name fer it?" he suggests. Scor and I look at each other and shrug. As Hagrid walks away we begin to discuss names. "Hyperion," Scor says. "No! that's your middle name we should come up with something more original!" "Like…" Scor trails off.

"Alzie!" "Alzie?" Scor says skeptically. "Ya like Albus and Mackenzie mixed together." I proclaim. Scor starts laughing "Ok, sure Alzie." Then we begin to talk, because, I mean really? All we have to do is keep it alive, that doesn't require much work, just feeding it really.

Suddenly Scor's wand slips from his grip and smashes Alzie. "Bloody hell!" I yell, "Scor we haven't had him more than an hour and you already killed him!"

Everyone looks at us. Whoops. Hagrid comes over " Er, yer might wanta get a new one, I'm gonna hafta mark ya off though." I roll my eyes, this is just great, another great thing to occur on this wonderful day.

"What?!" Scot hisses at me, "What do you want me to do? Bring him back from the dead? Get a time turner so I can go back and time and not smash him with my wand?"

"How do you even know if it was a him?" I yell "What if it was a girl?!" "What does it matter, Rose, it's just a blast ended skrewt!" I don't think my name had ever sounded so beautiful, but I was pissed off.

"No, it was Alzie! And you killed it!" "It? I thought you said it was a her!" Scor is shouting now. Shit, I don't want him to get mad at me, but by now I'm too wrapped up in my own anger.

"Whatever, Scor, just get a new freaking blast-ended skrewt and name it whatever the bloody hell you want to!" By now the whole class is pretending to not listen. I just roll my eyes. This is so stupid.

As soon as class is over, we have a free period, and Scor and I go back to the Gryffindor common room while fighting, which is an amazing feat. "You killed it! Now we're going to get points marked off! We didn't even have her an hour!" "Is it an it or a her, Rose, make up your mind! And so what if I killed it and we get a few points taken off? At least I didn't-" but Scor was cut off.

Z was sitting down the comfiest arm chair in the room and Al was standing beside her in shock. "Wow, you can totally feel the sexual tension in the room!" Z says casually.

I roll my eyes and hope they don't get stuck permanently. "Z there is tension not sexual tension! Just because there is tension does not mean it's always sexual tension!" I scream at her too, just for good measure.

"Ahh but see, I get a sexual vibe from this tension" she declares. Merlin she's so stubborn.

"Really, Professor Trelawney? You get a sexual vibe?" Al questions while laughing.

"Yes and I can see into the future too!" Z says. She strides right up to me, "Show me your palm, I'll read your future". "Z, no I'm not going to have you read my palm and you'll make up some random mumbo jumbo about…" I start to complain.

"What, Rose, you scared?" Scor asks. I glare at him.

"Fine, here, take my bloody palm." I hand her my palm.

Z leans over and inspects my palm, running her fingers over the lines on my hand. "Ahh yes, I'm sensing something!... I see a Greek god in your future!" She yells and then smirks at me.

Greek god? Oh shit, she can't mean what I think she means. "What I'm going to be visited and impregnated by Zeus?" I question dumbly, looking at Al and Scor, who look just as confused as I do. But Z just continues to stare at me "No, not Zeus, but I think you know who I'm talking about." She winks.

Oh my Merlin. I described Scor as a Greek god once. Shit, she totally knows that I'm attracted to him!

But Z was already off to her next victim. "Ok, Z, try me what do you see in my future?" Scor smirks. She smirks right back at him "Hold out your, hand, O Jupiter, and I shall let you know." God I hope no one knows that Zeus's Roman name is Jupiter and she basically just said that Scor was my future. No one seems to notice, and Z looks a tad disappointed, but continues.

She inspects his palm too, running her fingers over the lines of his hand. "Mhmm just what I thought." she mumbles. "What?" Scor asks. "I see brown in your future!" She declares, "Lots and lots of brown!"

I'm sorry, brown? What does that have to do with anything? Brown is just a color! But Scor seems to understand something that Al and I don't know and goes a tad pink. Z smirks, mission accomplished, whichever mission that is."

Then Al interrupts my thoughts, "Ok, Z, so you've predicted a Greek god and brown, what about my future?" She looks at him, "Ok, hand out por favor." We all look at her again "Por favor?" I ask. "It means please in Spanish. Remember, I take Spanish over the summer."

Right, I'd forgotten about that, in Arizona, which is really close to Mexico,Muggle students learn to speak Spanish, while here in England they learn to speak French, Italian, or German.

Z inspects Al's palm this time, again running her fingers over his palm. Does she notice how he smiles at her?

"You're future is very interesting." Z whispers. "Interesting?" Al questions, "Really, how so?"

"I see blue laughter in your future." Z says. There eyes locks into a tense stare. Ok, I exchange a look with Scor even though I'm still mad at him. Seriously could they be any more obvious?

"So I'm going to be sad but laugh about it? Who put the Cheering charm on me?" Al jokes. Z laughs, too, "I only see outlines of the future in your palm, I know not the details!"

I laugh, well, the Oracle Z has spoken!

Then, she turns to me, "Come along Rosie Posey you are in a dire need for some chocolate!" She winks, at the boys then strides out of the room. I give Al a quick hug and Scor a quick glare. Haha serves him right for killing our blast-ended skrewt Alzie and then barging in on my future!

But, somehow, I wish that Z really did posses super-seeing-into-the-future-skills. As much as I hate Scor right now, I kind of wish that I could be sure that Scor would be in my future forever. I love him…wait what?? I love him?!?!

A/N: super special thanks to my first reviewer, Marciabarcia. Actually this whole chapter is dedicated to you Cheers! Remember to REVIEW!!

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