Chapter 37: Breakfast Time
"Hey Yvette!!" Lily called out as she, Arabella and Stefanie walked towards the Great Hall together for breakfast. The four Ravenclaw girls were surrounded by some boys and looked relieved when Lily, Arabella and Stefanie appearance.
"Hey Lily!!" Yvette called out from the middle. She turned to her friends to say a few words. The three other girls smiled warmly at Lily and her friends and walked towards them.
"Let me introduce you my friends." Lily said warmly. "This is Stefanie Black and Arabella Figg." Arabella and Stefanie said a friendly hello to all of them.
"Hi, I'm Jennifer Teng. Eve had talked a lot about you." Jennifer held out her hand for a handshake. With long wavy waist-length dark brown hair and fair complexion, standing 1.6meters, she looked extremely pretty and mature for a fifteen year old.
"Shannie Muye here. Hello. Eve had talked us all the way here in Scotland." Shannie followed and held out her right hand as well. The petite looked pretty in her waist-length raven black straight hair, which was pulled into two plaids.
"Hi, Yvonne Xiao. Nice to meet you." Yvonne said shyly as she held out her hand as well. She had shoulder-length straight dark brown hair. She looked really sweet and adorable with her big hazel eyes, which made her looked a little doll-like.
"Lils had talked a lot about you too, Yvette. Really glad that you all managed to make it here." Stefanie said sincerely as the seven girls started to walk towards the Great Hall.
"We nearly couldn't make it because we were all waiting for Eve. She's quite a last minute person." Jennifer joked and Yvette gave her a friendly punch on her arm.
"Well, Shannie forgot some stuffs and we had to make another returned trip." Yvette added and this time Shannie gave her a friendly punch on the arm.
"So by the time we make it to school to the Portkey room. We were a little late." Shannie added sheepishly.
"You all don't go school by train??" Stefanie asked, bewildered.
"We drive muggle cars to school because most of us are half-blood. The school has a place something like the car park for our cars." Jennifer said.
"Your parents actually allow you all to travel half the world to come here for a year??" Lily asked, rather amazed at that fact.
"It wasn't much problem for the three of us except for Von. Anyway with our power of persuasion, and the promise of taking care of one another, they had given in finally." Jennifer grinned.
"Want to join us for breakfast at the Gryffindor table??" Lily invited the four girls.
"Great!! The guys had been bugging us the whole night. That was so irritating!!" Yvette said. The seven girls went towards a corner of the Gryffindor table and settled nicely.
"I'm sure this happens when you all are back in school right??" Arabella asked as she buttered her toast.
"Yes. Guys are just so dense. We're simply not interested in those brainless gits." Shannie said and helped herself with the omelets.
"No boyfriends or whatsoever??" Lily asked, eating her salt and pepper scrambled egg.
"Nope. But we've a little crushes on those flower boys." Jennifer said in between sips of milk.
"Why do you call them flower boys??" Stefanie asked in amusement.
"They nicknamed themselves flowers when they were in kindergarten!! They're the most sort-after guys in school but I don't think they're anywhere more special than other guys besides their looks." Shannie commented.
"I didn't know any decent guy will ever identify themselves near anything flowery!!" Lily exclaimed. The girls started giggling.
"I think you all should be identified as the flower girls instead. I think you all are really pretty." Arabella said sincerely.
"Thanks, but we're not as egoistical as those guys. We're happy being like this." Yvette said modestly.
"Hogsmeade weekend coming up in two Saturdays time. Do you want to go together??" Lily asked.
"Definitely!!" The four girls replied together.
"Wah!! How come you're so enthusiastic about that??"
"Because at least ten guys had came up to ask us out to this place call Hogsmeade Village since the notice was put up in the common room."
"We don't want to go separately."
"I suggested to them and we thought of asking you about it."
"Jun had asked us if we want to join them but we decided to ask you first."
"The Ravenclaw girls are really nice. Our two roommates are good friends with them.
"They told us about the girls from various houses as well. I don't think the Slytherins sounds nice."
"They're not!! Just be careful. One or two girls from them are okay. But most are not. The guys are definitely a no-no!!"
"That's what Jun, Eva, Mabel and Pepper told us as well. I guess they're universally unlikable."
"Definitely. They despised half-blood and muggle-borns."
"So superficial!!"
"No way!!"
"That's the Slytherins."
"We must do something about that!!"
"But what??"
"We always come up with brilliant ideas!!"
"Well, prank of the year then."
"No, it would be the prank of the century!!"
"Sounds good!!"
"Hey, you girls are here for barely
twenty-four hours and we're talking about pranks even before you serve your
first detentions!!"
"That's us!!"
"Let our brain juices flow. I'm sure we can come up with something next week."
"Let's keep this a little secret!!"
"We might need help though!! Let's see what happens and what we can come up with!!"
"Sounds good!!"
"It's brilliant indeed!!"
"Miss Evans, Miss Black and Miss Figg, here's your timetable." Professor McGonagall walked over to them and eyed the four Ravenclaws. "I think you girls ought to get your timetables too. The first lesson is starting in thirty minutes time." With that, Professor McGonagall continued walking down the Gryffindor table.
"I think we ought to get going." Jennifer said as the four girls stood up, starting to head back to the Ravenclaw table.
"Hey, we're having our first lessons together. Charms by Flitwick." Lily told them.
"That's great!! We see you at the Charms classroom then." Yvette exclaimed. "Let's go and get our stuffs." The girls waved goodbye and left the Great Hall after obtaining their timetables.
"They're really nice, aren't they??" Lily asked Arabella and Stefanie.
"Yup. They're really cool and not the arrogant or proud kind of girls." Stefanie commented.
"They could be since they're really drop-dead gorgeous. Look at the bulging goldfish eyes of the guys in the Great Hall." Arabella commented. Most of the guys looked at the four girls until they left the Great Hall before turning back to do what they were doing. The four of them did not dressed fancifully nor did any make up. They were natural beauties, exuding grace and elegance as they walked.
"Look at those guys. Who did they think they are??" Sirius commented as they eat their breakfast together. They had come in late and had not join the girls for breakfast. Now they were watching the four Hufflepuff exchange students being surrounded by girls from Hufflepuff and Slytherin.
"I think only two of the guys are flirting like no tomorrow while they other two are not even concern anything more than their toast." James commented. There were four girls surrounding Xavier who appeared to be saying some joke, which made the girls burst into hysterical laughter. There were three girls surrounding Malcolm, buttering his toast and feeding him breakfast and even feeding him. The other two were barely talking and eating their breakfast quietly with at least ten girls surrounding the two of them trying to strike up a conversation.
"I wonder how could they eat with the girls flocking around them. I think it's nauseating. Look, seventh-year. Eeeww!!" Remus commented as the seventh-year Hufflepuff girls settled in the midst of the crowded bench. Peter was busy concentrating on his breakfast to be bothered by the four new guys.
"Well, what so good about them anyway??" Sirius complained, sulking. He was one great attention seeker and he enjoyed being in the limelight.
"They're probably just pretty faces that's why they're in Hufflepuff and not Gryffindor. Why don't you just eat your breakfast? We only have five more minutes before lesson starts." James pointed out as he ate his third helping for breakfast.
"Sirius, you better eat before you complain hungry during the lesson." Remus suggested. Sirius often complained being hungry. Unlike Peter, Sirius pretended to whine when he was hungry.
"We can go and find Scooby anytime."
"Not when we're in the middle of some lesson."
"Whatever." Sirius said as he stuffed his face with toast and eggs and sauages.
"Potter, Black, Lupin, Pettigrew. Here's your timetable." Professor McGonagall handed out their timetable and proceeded with the rest of the table.
"Charms with Ravenclaws first." James said. "We can try to get to know those Ravenclaw girls if you want."
"Argh, look at what's after Charms!!" Sirius commented as he wrinkled his nose in disgust.
"Herbology with Hufflepuffs." Remus said. "Herboloy is definitely going to be more interesting and fun this year."
"I can't help but have to agree with you." James said, grinning with Remus.
"Why would it be interesting with those four??" Sirius asked blankly. Peter looked confused as well.
"You'll get what we mean by fun and interesting soon enough." James said calmly and continued eating his breakfast.