I walked off to my first class alone since I had Arithmancy and Draco and Blaise didn't.

"Midge!" Becky called. "Wait up!" I stopped and let her and Mitch catch up.

"Hey guys," I said grinning at them. Becky grinned and threw an arm around my shoulders.

"So...we saw you two," she said. "What were you talking about that made you look at him all big eyed?" I looked up at her with a blank look on my face.

"Huh?" I asked.

"She means after he kissed you," Mitch clarified. I blushed.

"You...You were watching!?" I cried.

"'Course we were," Becky said waving dismissively. "So what were you talking about?"

"N...Nothing..." I stammered. "We were...just talking..."

"What about?" Mitch asked.

"Stuff," I answered with a shrug. "Do you hear that?" I could hear stifled giggling from behind us. We stopped walking and looked behind us. The corridor was empty.

"Stop changing the subject," Becky said as we began walking again.

"I wasn't!" I cried. "I really did hear...there it is again!" I had heard the giggling again. I whipped around but there was still no one there.

"C'mon Midge, we'll be late." I sighed and walked after my friends. Suddenly, a girl with brown hair rushed by me and flung her arms around Mitch.

"Mitchie!" she cried. I stared at the two of them in shock. Who the hell was she!?

"Uh...hi Lavender..." Mitch said. "Nice to see you..." I moved up beside Becky.

"Who's she?" I asked softly.

"Lavender Brown," Becky replied. "She says she's in love with Mitch. She totally stalks him." I stifled a laugh.

"Mitch has a stalker!?" I hissed. "Man I really do miss a lot being in Slytherin!" Mitch detached himself from Lavender.

"Yeah you do," he said. Lavender was glaring coldly at me.

"You're friends with a Slytherin?" she asked, her voice full of hatred.

"Yeah," Mitch replied sounding very close to anger.-

"Guys...we'd better go," I said. "We'll be late for class..." I walked off without waiting for them.
"Schyler!" they cried running after me. I stopped and waited shaking with fury.

"I don't want to talk about it," I snapped before either of them could say anything. "Let's just go." We walked off to Arithmancy.

Arithmancy was a small class compared to some of our other classes. The class consisted of me, Becky, Mitch, Hermione Granger, a seventh year Ravenclaw, and a sixth year Hufflepuff. The class was rather difficult which was why not a lot of students took it. Arithmancy was the study of the magical properties of numbers. Mitch and Granger were the top students in the class.

"I give up!" I groaned throwing down my quill. "This is stupid! It doesn't make any sense!" I glared at the class work that Professor Vector had given us. We were supposed to be translating a set of numbers into words and then we were to figure out what the words were describing. Mitch looked over at my parchment. He sighed and pointed to one of my translations.

"That's because you mixed up four and five again," he said. "Four is creation and five is action, not the other way around." I blinked and looked over at the chart in my book.

"Oh," I said blushing at my mistake. "Right. Thanks." Mitch smiled and we continued our work.