Chapter 7 - Birthday

Nikki woke up the next morning, after seeing that same dream she had seen about that woman with dark black long hair. She went down to the common room when she saw Harry sitting on his own,everyone else going to breakfast.

"Hey Harry." said Nikki.

"Hi." Harry replied.

"Is there something wrong?" she asked him.

"Nikki we need to talk." said Harry.

"Ok. What's up?"

"You remember the day we got sorted into Gryffindor and then you went to see Dumbledore?"

"Yeah."

"You looked pretty upset that day and I never got a chance to ask you if everything was alright."

"Well, you just asked me right now and as you can see. I'm absolutely fine. You don't need to worry about me. I can take care of myself."

"Look, I know how you feel and you can trust me with things like that. Tell me if there's anything wrong."

"You really think that you know how I feel right now. Well listen to this, my parents die when I'm only one. After that I stay in an orphanage until I'mtwo years old, when this cruel couple adopts me and makes me work for them every second of my life. I finally escape from their house and I have to live in an alleyway at the age of seven to nine. Whoever came near me used to swear and taunt me. Finally Jack, Tom Coliandris' brother is talking to me in the summer when I rise up five feet above the ground, he takes me to his house and his mum adopts me. I come here and on my first day I find out that a guy name Voldemort had killed my parents and when I ask Dumbledore who my parents were, he still doesn't tell me. Instead he says that he'll tell me when I'mready. So actually Harry, I don't think you know how I feel right now at all."

"I really didn't know that you've gone through so much."

"Yeah well it's not something you tell the whole world. I'm starving right now. I'm going to breakfast and please don't tell anyone what I just told you."

"I won't."

Nikki went to breakfast and Dean came down from the boy dormitories.

"Harry did you tell her? What did she say?" asked Dean.

"I totally forgot, I'll ask her now at breakfast. Come on let's go."

They both went down to breakfast.

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Nikki woke up in a happy mood. It was her birthday. She got dressed and went down to the common room.

"Surprise!!!" everyone shouted.

"What the...?" Nikki looked around.

"Happy Birthday Nikki." said Fred, giving her a hug.

"Aww thanks everyone. This is the best birthday I've ever had."

"We didn't do anything. It was only Fred, Harry and Dean." said Ron.

"Really? Oh my god this must have taken you all night to do!"

"George and Tom helped as well." said Dean, while he kissed Nikki.

"Thank you so much. I really don't deserve this."

"Stop saying that. Of course you deserve it." said Harry.

"Can we cut the cake already? I want to give her my present." said Seamus and Neville.

They all sang happy birthday, had cake and opened Nikki's birthday presents. Then everyone went to breakfast.

"Happy Birthday Nikki. Here's your present."

"Thanks Cedric. Wow you got me the poster that I wanted of the Chuddly Cannons."

All of a sudden Draco and his mates walked up to the Gryffindor table.

"Hey Nikki. Happy Birthday."

"Thanks Draco." she answered him with a loathing look.

"I got you something." said Draco, holding out what looked like two tickets. "They're tickets to the next Chuddly Cannon game against the Tornados."

"But why are there two tickets instead of just one?" Nikki asked curiously.

"I thought maybe you would like go with me?"

"Draco let me make this perfectly clear. Thanks, but I'm not going anywhere with someone who's in Slytherin, especially if they'rea Malfoy. Do you know why? You're the next person on my list of the people I hate after the man who killed my parents." She walked away and avoided him all day.