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For the rest of Christmas holidays, I mainly stayed in my room trying to work out why I was so angry over Scorpius Malfoy hitting on Dominique and pulling that slut Claudia Bennett!
All we were doing was having a bit of harmless banter and a bit of fun. Sure, the kisses and gropes were very fun and the flirting and banter between the two of us was harmless and funny enough…so why on earth was I so annoyed that he was with other girls?!
Whenever anybody spoke to me, I ended up snapping at them, which made me get in trouble with my parents.
"Fine!" I slammed my fork down on New Year's Day in the Burrow after my mother yelled at me for having an attitude. "Why do I want to stay down here with a bunch of stupid pussycats, a useless badger and a couple of stuck up birds?" I sneered at my siblings and cousins, surprising most people – I never held houses against my family; I couldn't, considering I was the first Potter and Weasley ever to be sorted into Slytherin, with Lucy following me.
I stormed all the way up to my mother's old room, kicked the door open and slammed it shut. When Lucy knocked a couple of minutes later, I simply locked the door; surprising myself with how angry I was!
All that was because Dominique and Roxanne were discussing Sophie Bell's party and Roxanne mentioned that Claudia was spreading rumours about how she and Scorpius were a couple after they hooked up.
Why was I so upset over Scorpius Malfoy!?
The rest of the holidays past by quickly and soon my family and I were on the train back to school. As usual I was sharing a compartment on the train with my brothers and all our cousins. After saying goodbye to our parents – which was slightly frosty on my case since hardly anybody in the family was speaking to me since my outburst on New Year's Day, I slowly dropped off to sleep in the compartment, leaning against Albus's shoulder.
I woke up about three hours later, the room was emptier where some people had gone to see other friends and the others that were left were fast asleep. I sat looking at my reflection in the window, my hair was still blue! I know I promised not to 'fraternise with the enemy' anymore but I have to shout at Malfoy about this the next time I see.
As if he read my mind the next person to walk past the sliding door was the blonde himself. I grabbed the first thing I could and flung it at the door to grab his attention. That thing happened to be a rather large book from Rose's lap, and I winced as it made a slightly louder sound than anticipated. My family stirred but no one awoke. Malfoy turned when he heard the sound. He spotted me through the door and smirked.
He stopped where he was and waited for me so I jumped from my seat and hurried out the compartment.
"Alright Blue, how was your –"he started but I cut him off. I grabbed him by the arm and quickly pushed him into the next compartment, remembering how Fred assured us we could make as much noise as we wanted because the compartments on either side were empty.
I pushed him onto one of the chairs and slammed the door shut, pulling the blind down so nobody saw the two of us and told a member of my family.
"Well, this isn't how I anticipated spending the boring journey to Hogwarts, but it will do," I jumped when I felt his breath on my neck – followed by his lips!
As I did the last two times, I lost all self-control when his lips touched me, and then went weak when his uncharacteristically warm hands went to my waist, roaming up under my jumper and caressing my flat stomach softly.
When I felt a small sting on my collarbone, I hurried away from him, rolling my eyes at his smirk.
"Come on Blue –"
"No! I was serious when I said this couldn't happen!" I snapped at him, glaring at him as I straightened my jumper – ignoring that small part of me that whispered 'stop being stubborn, let him touch you again!'
"Anyway! What about this?" I thundered, grabbing a lock of my bright blue hair! Malfoy, you said the blue would have faded by now and it has not! It's got bluer if anything!" I snapped at him.
"Oh did I say three weeks? I meant two months." He replied innocently but that obvious smirk on his face showed that he lied to me on purpose. "It's not so bad, I think it suits you."
I held my hand up to his face to stop him talking. I then gave him the finger along with a filthy look before I stormed out of the compartment and into my family's, ignoring the deep laughs from behind me.
For the rest of the journey, I sat and looked out of the window, ignoring my family when they woke up and began talking about the things they usually talked about; Quidditch, food, the family and themselves.
Lucy must have warned everybody that I was in a terrible mood, because when I got into our dormitory, nobody would meet my eye and let me slam about in silence. When I sighed very loudly and obviously because somebody left wet towels on the bathroom floor, nobody said anything, when I kicked my trunk under my bed, nobody said anything and when I climbed into bed and pulled my hangings closed…well at least they had the decency to whisper about me.
"What on Salazar's life is wrong with her?" Anna Wyatt asked Lucy.
I could imagine Lucy sat on her bed, looking at mine with a light scowl on her face, trying to determine why I was in a bad mood.
"No idea, she's been like this since we came home." Lucy eventually sighed. "Wish she'd tell me, I think she's fed up of being babied by the family. She's not even the youngest! Louis is!"
In Potions class the next day, I made sure to talk to Lucy in my 'normal' tone and made an extra effort to talk to her. When she asked me what was wrong, I lied and agreed with her, saying I was fed up of my brothers and our cousins babying me.
"You know what you need?" Lucy grinned at me, biting the corner of her lip. I smiled when I saw her do this; it was her trademark 'we're going to get into trouble for this' look, it was that look that cost us a month's worth of detentions and the entire Easter Holidays grounding in our second year because she convinced me to steal James' map and Albus' cloak so we could sneak out to Hogsmeade…at four a.m.
"What do I need, Luce?" I grinned back, up for whatever form of mischief she had planned. Maybe getting into trouble would take my mind off Scorpius Malfoy.
"A girl's night with Dominique, Roxy and Rose! We'd better invite Molly so she doesn't feel left out. Dom can give you a make-over!"
I groaned and shook my head, but after she pestered me all day I finally gave in. After dinner, instead of going to our common room, we made the familiar route up to the Gryffindor common room. The Fat Lady wasn't surprised when we gave the password and happily let us into the tower, when we walked through the common room, nobody was really surprised to see us two Slytherins in there; they were all used to the Weasley-Potter family ruling the roost!
Dominique, Roxanne and Rose were in their dormitory, with Sarah Finnegan and Roberta 'Robbie' Wood, their dorm mates; Molly was also there, sitting on Rose's bed, reading through a book.
"I can't believe you're finally giving us permission to give you a make-over!" Dominique grinned when she saw the two of us enter the room. I scowled when I saw all the makeup on her bed, and then frowned when I saw a large duffel full of clothes in the middle of the floor.
"We've had a clear out! You and Luce can share these cast-offs." Roxanne nodded to the bag on the floor. When I saw Rose's wand on her bed, I knew immediately that it had an undetectable extension charm on it. I opened my mouth to complain, but Lucy stood on my foot, silently telling me to shut up.
"Well, technically, it's Lucy who is giving you permission to make me over." I pointed out, going to sit on Dominique's bed.
Out of all the older kids in the family, I was closest to Dominique – we were categorised into three sections; Victoire and Teddy, then the 'older kids', Fred, James, Molly, Rose, Albus, Roxanne and Dominique. Then it was the 'younger kids,' me, Lucy, Hugo and Louis; it was ridiculous, especially since there was only just over a year between the youngest, older kid, Roxanne, and the oldest younger kid, myself with her being born in August and me in September.
"I'm sure that boy won't mind the make-over as much as you will." Dominique whispered so only I could hear.
I pretended not to, but caught her give me a knowing wink out of the corner of her eye.
"Come on Lily; Jay and Al will probably stop treating you like a little kid if you stop dressing like one!" Roxanne pointed out.
As much as I hated it, she was probably right; not including my school uniform, my entire wardrobe consisted of jeans, tracksuit bottoms and jogging bottoms, with the odd hand-me-down skirt thrown in that my mother claimed from a cousin. My shoe collection ranged from a wide selection of ugg boots, trainers, my school shoes and slippers.
"Fine." I scowled, rolling my eyes at my cousins and their friends as they all squealed and giggled like schoolgirls – then I mentally kicked myself because I realised we are schoolgirls.
For what felt like hours, I sat in silence as Dominique, Robbie and Sarah worked on me while Roxanne, Rose and Molly helped Lucy makeover herself. Dominique cut my hair; Robbie charmed my nails to look continuously and Sarah showed me how to apply make-up. When they started gossiping, I tuned out, until I heard his name.
"Did you hear? Apparently Scorpius and Claudia had sex in one of the empty compartments on the train yesterday. She told Mia in Charms today that she walked past, heard him in there laughing to himself and asked him what he was doing." Sarah told Dom and Robbie quickly, I pretended to not make it obvious I was listening and kept my eyes glued on Robbie doing my nails.
"Mia said that Claude said that Scorpius said he was thinking of something amusing…and then asked her to show him something amusing!" She gasped, making the other two gasp as well.
I bit the inside of my lip to keep my frustrated scream silent; so after trying to make out with me, he has sex with a girl – in the next compartment?
Screw him!
Everybody loved my new look.
I instructed Dominique to keep my hair blue; she cut it but didn't change the colour even though she told me she could remove the charm Malfoy put on it with a simple counter-jinx. Instead of being waist-length and straight, it was now layered, thinned out and framed my face, with bangs covering my forehead.
Instead of my usual personal uniform of jeans, too-big t-shirts and hoodies, I now had a wide selection of skirts, dresses, skin-tight jeans, boots, and a very nice leather jacket that Roxanne gave me. She got it for Christmas but she didn't like it.
Sarah told me that since I had nice skin, I didn't have to apply loads of make-up, simple and basics would be enough, but she said that if I wanted to make my brown eyes really shine I should add eye-liner; so I did just that, and added lip gloss and perfume into the mix.
My brothers and male cousins didn't like it of course, but the boys and girls in the school did.
Harley Arthur, a fourth year in Slytherin, whistled loudly when I walked into the Great Hall the next morning, causing everybody to look my way. Instead of blushing and rushing over to my family, I rolled my eyes and went over to sit with my friends in Slytherin.
I walked straight past Scorpius Malfoy and sat with the other fourth years, Anna Wyatt, Laurie Kalt – Toby's sister, Harley Arthur, Kieran Costello, Riley Warrington and Finn Montague. Lucy had left the dormitory before me and was already eating with our family at the Gryffindor table.
"Lily Potter!" Liam Goyle in sixth year laughed, booming down the table. "Girl, you got hot over night!" He teased me, making several other Slytherins laugh and agree.
Once again I just rolled my eyes.
"What's with the change, Blue? I thought you looked beautiful before the make-over." Scorpius commented in his normal arrogant, flirty voice.
"Dunno, guess I'm changing. I just wanna have a little fun." I shrugged a shoulder, not looking at him as I spoke. I spied him out of the corner of my eye though and when he opened his mouth to give some witty comment; I turned to Laurie and Anna and began a conversation with them, turning my back on Scorpius Malfoy.
I trudged onto the quidditch field dragging my broom behind me. It had stopped raining just before we left for Christmas holidays but the rain had now been replaced with snow. It was bloody freezing! My breath came out in clouds and my hands were already numb. I loved my new look, but the new clothes weren't exactly weather appropriate. When I pointed this out to Dominique, she laughed and said "Beauty is pain and when you look as good as me and you do, we got to suffer!"
It was true, many people – mainly the boys, round school had begun saying that Dominique Weasley, the most beautiful girl in the entire school, has some serious competition. Me. Both Dominique and I laughed these off and ignored the comments when we heard them
I joined the others in a circle around Toby and instantly started to shiver. Malfoy who had obviously placed himself next to me slyly put his arm around me. I elbowed him somewhere in the groin area; he groaned instantly retracting his arm. I smirked and stepped away from him.
"Right guys it is fucking freezing so I'm not going to make you stand around for hours. Everyone just get up there and start warming up, we will start drills when the risk of frostbite is reduced." Toby said through chattering teeth before mounting his broom and zooming off in the direction of the Hufflepuff viewing tower.
I climbed onto my own broom and pushed off into the air. I circled the pitch a couple of times, diving and corkscrewing trying to get the blood pumping faster.
For the rest of the two hours I did some drills with the chasers, chatted to Lucy about Toby looking hot on his broom and tried to avoid Malfoy.
I chased after the golden blur with my arm outstretched. I reached forward slightly and grabbed the orb just before it was about to drop. Grinning triumphantly I looked around for the others but realised just how far I had flown away. I could just see them at the other end of the pitch. They were gathered on the ground.
Shoving the snitch in my pocket I flew towards them. By the time I touched down on the ground most of the team had jogged on towards the warmth and the castle and the only people left were Toby and Malfoy.
"Right I left some stuff in the changing rooms so you guys go on without me and I'll see you two in Defence tomorrow." Toby smiled at us before clambering through the deep snow over towards the changing rooms.
I ignored Scorpius and started walking off but soon enough he started jogging and instantly caught me up
"Good training session aye?" He muttered. I didn't say anything and kept looking ahead.
"Shame there's no mud; we both know you enjoyed what happened last time." I could literally hear the smirk in his voice. I rolled my eyes.
"Whatever Malfoy." I sighed and ran a hand through my hair.
"Have I done something to offend you, Blue?" Malfoy grabbed my wrist and stopped the two of us, looking down at me with a frown on his face.
I scoffed and shoved my hands in the pockets of my training uniform, cursing the school for not giving us thicker uniforms.
"Yes, you have actually." I muttered, turning to walk back to the castle, this time a little slowly.
"Feel like sharing?" Scorpius laughed a little; clearly not taking this as serious as I was.
"Well…what you did is about five seven, blonde, thick as shit, her legs are open more often than the Hogs Head and she gives head for a lot cheaper than some of the whores in Knockturn Alley." I listed off all the qualities that Claudia Bennett was known for. "Oh yeah, you also hit on my cousin?"
Scorpius laughed once more and actually grinned – not the arrogant smirk he usually gave.
"I don't understand –"
"Not many people actually understand Bennett; she gives whores a bad name." I mused, getting slightly out of breath as we walked up the stoop hill.
"Very funny. I mean, I don't understand why that's offended you." Scorpius mused, looking down at me. "Unless…"
"Unless what?" I glared up at him, hating that I was at least a foot and a half smaller than him.
"Unless you're jealous?" He smirked, stopping me once more as we reached the entrance hall.
I felt my cheeks flush red and opened my mouth to say something, but then closed it when I had nothing.
"You are, aren't you? You're jealous? Why? Do you want to bang Claudia? Didn't know you swung that way Potter." Scorpius smirked, I looked around and saw several students sat around the Entrance Hall, no doubt waiting for the Great Hall to open for dinner; a member of my family would probably be here in a second.
"Or…or you want to bang me." Scorpius laughed, looking down at me. When I simply glared at him, not able to do or say anything else, his laugh turned into another smirk.
"You do!" He laughed extremely loudly, bringing attention to the two of us.
I quickly looked round and cringed when I heard my brothers' voices coming from up the marble staircase. They'd be here any second.
"Don't kid yourself Malfoy." I snorted, shaking my head at him. "Why would I want to go anywhere near you? You're a liar, a snake, two-faced, arrogant, selfish, ignorant, and good-for nothing spawn of Death Eater." I listed, completely aware that every single person in the entire entrance hall was now staring and listening to us.
I was also aware that the teasing grin had fell from Scorpius' face.
"You're just like your pathetic excuse of a father and the sooner we're rid of you the better. The sooner you get into some trouble and run away like he did; the better." I turned round, stabbing down that shooting feeling of guilt at the child-like hurt that flashed on Scorpius' face, and stormed away, completely ignoring my brothers and their friends.
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