Ava awoke the next morning earlier than usual. She felt like she just got the best sleep ever. Elaine didn't make any noise at all, except with the occasional mumble. She got up and showered and dressed. By the time she got back to her dorm, everyone was up and getting dressed. Ava sat on her bed and waited for them.
" I guess whatever Madam Pomfrey gave you last night worked" Nancy said to Elaine.
" Yeah I felt like I slept forever. It felt amazing" Gemma said.
" How does the potion that she gave you work?" Hermione asked
" I don't really know" Elaine murmured. " I am just suppose to take 2 sips of it every night, and it puts me into a deep sleep. But I am not suppose to take too much or I probably wouldn't wake up for a few nights. She also said the deeper I am asleep. The more likely it is for me to sleep walk."
Ava stiffened, she didn't like the sound of the sleep walking idea " Well you better be careful with the potion" she said " It could be dangerous when you sleep walk. Especially in Hogwarts, who knows where you could go" she finished
Elaine just shrugged " I think it would be neat to walk around the whole castle at night, who knows I could find a secret passage or something. Gemma shudderd " I think it would be creepy"
When they made their way into the Great hall they saw Harry and Ron and waved to them
Harry and Ron came over to sit beside them. " So Elaine, no more noise I guess?" Harry asked.
Elaine smiled " Nope, all done, for now on I am normal". Harry and Ron laughed
"Elaine you are far from being normal" someone said while laughing
They all turned and saw Tyler walking toward them. Elaine blushed and smiled. She always blushed when she saw Tyler.
Tyler took a seat next to Elaine and smiled, Elaine blushed even harder and pretended to be interested at what was on her breakfast plate.
Ava chuckled and picked up her fork, but she dropped it suddenly as Seamus sat down rather hard across from her, shaking the whole table and causing Ava to jump and drop her fork which was now somewhere underneath the table under dozens of feet. Ava huffed at him " you really should learn not to be rude"
Seamus just waved her off " I am not going to hear a lecture from you today, it's already a bad enough day as it is without you always telling me about my manners, for once I need space from your nagging",
Ava stared at him, she couldn't believe that he said that to her. I don't nag do I? Was all that was going through her mind. Her shock was soon replaced by anger. " Nag? Nag!.." Before she could say anything else though, Dean and Neville sat down next to Seamus,
" Sorry Ava, he's really upset right now" Dean whispered
"What happened" Nancy asked. Seamus glared right at her " those two snakes are what happened, Snape and Malfoy!" he said rather loudly, " Stupid Oaf! Blames everything on me like its my damn fault!" he pounded his fist on the table and looked down. Neville looked scared of him and moved a little down the table.
" We were just walking to the great hall when Malfoy shows up" Dean said. " He said some things about us that you wouldn't even want us to repeat, and I swore for a second there I thought Seamus was going to beat him into nothing but instead he walked up and whispered something in his ear, which obviously scared Malfoy enough into telling Snape, and he still won't tell us what he said!" Dean said the last part with anger
Everyone turned to Seamus who just smirked " Trust me, you don't want to know"
" Malfoy ran and told Snape that Seamus jinxed him and even though we told Snape that he didn't do it he still got 50 points taken from Gryffindor, along with 2 week detentions and a 3 page essay on controlling your temper" Dean said the last part with a snicker and Tyler laughed at him " That's really embarrassing"
" Are you going to write the essay?" Hermione asked. Seamus just laughed " of course not, he can give me as many detentions as he wants but there is no way I will write it"
Ava hesitated, but said " I don't know Seamus, who knows what Snape can do, he can keep you from playing Quidditch next year" Seamus just shrugged " Well then I don't have to worry about the essay till next year then" He grinned at her and leaned back. Ava gave no expression to him whatsoever and went back to eating her breakfast. If he wanted to ruin his school life, fine!, she would have no part of it.
Ava glanced up and saw him looking at her, all of a sudden she didn't want to be near him and his grumpiness,
She got up rather suddenly with her books in her hand, " I am going to head to class" Ava announced rather annoyed. Donna looked at her confused " But we don't have class for another half an hour, and you hate going to class early,
Ava huffed " well maybe if I am there half an hour early I can earn back the 50 house points that he lost!"
Ava looked over to Seamus before she turned and marched out of the Great hall, Donna was right, Ava hated going to class early, but she wanted to get away from Seamus, instead of going to class she walked around the school and fumed quietly at Seamus,
How dare he!. Maybe I was nagging, but he was just being rude, and I don't nag all the time, if he wants his space then fine! I will give him his space… forever!"
Ava was so mad that she didn't even see in front of her and didn't notice that someone was headed right in her direction until she fell, her books flew all over the floor. " I am so sorry" she said out of breath since the person hit her In the stomach,
" No, No I am sorry I am the one that hit you, are you alright?"
A hand reached out to Ava, and she looked up to find the most handsome boy she ever saw, he had dark brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes, her favorite colour mixture of hair and eyes, Ava blushed and grabbed his hand " Yes I am okay" she smiled and watched as he went to pick up her books, he held them out to her " Thanks for helping me", he laughed " its no problem, sorry about that, where were you going in such a hurry"
" Oh, uh no where I just had something on my mind is all" , but whatever was on Ava's mind before had completely disappeared lost in her thoughts, she couldn't stop looking at the boy in front of her. He was gorgeous, he had black hair and was muscular, his smile as wide and happy and his teeth were pearly white, The boy opened his mouth" Oh -
" hey mudblood!"
The boy spun around, but Ava had no need to turn around, as she knew of only two people that could spoil such a perfect moment, but the one of them was probably talking to Dean and Neville about how much she nagged, the other one was far worse, Ava slowly turned around to see Malfoy walking with Crabbe and Goyle behind him, he smirked at her as he walked towards her, and his smirk went wider as he saw the person standing next to her
The boy that helped her up looked at Malfoy in disgust as he stopped in front of them " I got your little boyfriend in trouble today mudblood, it looks like I have won the battle between me and him for now"
Ava's grimace turned into a snarl " Is that what you call it? You think you won just because you told Snape on Seamus since your daddy wasn't here to protect you! That's disgusting Mafloy, I have one name for people like you, not a winner, but a coward! So go home and write to your mommy that yet again, you just got beat by a girl!"
Malfoy's face turned white and the look on his face was a mixture of embarrassment, anger and fury, he knew that the people around them stopped to list so yet again he got publicly humiliated, instead of hitting her he turned to the boy next to her who had a smug look on his face " and who might this be" he said sourly before Ava could answer the boy stepped in front of them " I am Logan, and from what I heard, your Malfoy the snake, so why don't you leave before you embarrass yourself any more" Malfoy turned white again and looked toward Ava
" Wow Mudblood 2 boys in only a few weeks, wait till I tell the school how much of a whore you are" Then he turned on his heel and sped quickly away with Crabbe and Goyle following closely behind him.
Logan turned to Ava and smiled " I can walk you to class if you want, so we can get to know each other better" Ava agreed and he helped her with some of her books and they began walking to class
" that Malfoy guy sure seems like a jerk" he said
" Yeah but fortunately his only friends were those two Gargoyles behind him" She chuckled, he laughed back " I am Logan by the way and I am in 4th year in Hufflepuff" Ava smiled " I'm Ava and I am a third year in Gryffindor"
"so who is this boyfriend that Malfoy talked about"
Ava's face went completely red " No no! its nothing like that, we are just friends, well I wouldn't exactly call us friends" she whispered the last part to herself"
" That's what they all say" Logan laughed,
" I am saying it because its true, friends is all we will be and its all we will ever be" she said
" Okay, okay I believe you" he said playfully with his hands up in surrender, Ava laughed, but they way he held his hands up reminded her of when she and Seamus were in the common room and she told him off to stop bugging her and he did the exact same thing as Logan just did with his hands. She smacked herself in the head, stop it Ava, he was a jerk to you, he will always be a jerk to you"
Her class was just up ahead " Thank you for walking me" she said
" No problem" he answered " if you need any escorts to class just let me know" he smiled and walked away, Ava sighed and didn't even realize when someone walked up behind her " Who was that?" Stacey said, making Ava jump, " Oh, it was no one, lets get to class"
Stacey squinted her eyes at her " are you keeping something from us Ava Bronson"
Ava laughed " No No he was just walking me to class"
Stacey gasped " really? Ava he is hot! I heard of him I think that is Logan Rye, he is in fourth year, and he's on the quidditch team too!" Ava tried to ignore the butterflies in her stomach
" Everyone was wondering where you were, you said you were going to come early but its already 5 minutes till class starts so I came to look for you" she said
They walked in together and sat down across from Donna and Elaine, Seamus and Tyler were in front of them. Donna leaned over, " where were you?" she hissed " You said that you would be here early"
" She got sidetracked by Logan Rye" Stacey giggled, Donna gasped, Stacey nodded " he walked her to class" Donna looked at Ava. Tyler turned around " I heard he is major at quidditch" Seamus didn't turn around even though Ava knew that he heard what they were talking about, " It wasn't just him guys, it was Malfoy too,"
Donna shook her head " What an idiot, he will never leave you alone will he?, I will just have to deal with him myself" and she pounded her fist on her hand for extra effect. Ava laughed but before she could say anything, Magonogal walked into the room, " everyone please take their seats!" she said rather loudly,
Ava sighed and couldn't wait to get this class over with
...
As soon as the bell rang for lunch, Ava packed up her school stuff and went to go find her friends, outside her classroom was Logan.
" Hey Logan" she said with a smile, " Hey hallway buddy, I thought I could walk you to lunch"
Ava hesitated but smiled again " Sure, why not, I was just looking for my friends but I will probably find them in the Great Hall"
On the way to the Great Hall, they chatted about their school year and he swung an arm around her waist, something about this made Ava feel slightly uncomfortable but she ignored the feeling, all of a sudded something small hit Logan in the head, which made his hand pull away to rub the bump on his head. Ava looked around to see what hit him and saw Dean laughing, and Seamus showing off his evil, teasing smirk, but when his eyes trailed to Logan, they went dark
Seamus was holding some exploding beans in his hand which was what hit Logan in the head, though Ava was relived that his hand was gone from her waist she was furious that Seamus was interfere, she grabbed Logan's hand and stopped into the Great Hall, Logan went to Hufflepuff and Ava went to Gyrffindor.
Ava huffed and sat down beside Donna, " That Seamus Finnigan, I will kill him!"
Seamus and Dean did not come into the Great Hall, No one knew why but Ava hoped that they both got in trouble with Snape