I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving (if you live in the US) and to show my thanks for those who are reading my story I'm uploading two chapters today. I'm also uploading two chapters because I forgot to upload one last week (I was too busy studying Multiverses, true story). I hope you enjoy. I didn't do the most thurough job of editing and revising this chapter because I was in a rush to get it up, but I hope it's bearable. Thanks again.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter

Chapter 10: Halloween

"So what do you think?" I asked spinning around. I was dressed as something Zach called a Kissogram, but it was from one of his favorite TV shows, called Doctor Who. He also had dressed up in a tweed jacket, red suspenders, a bowtie and black pants.

"Amazing." He smiled and got up from his comfortable seat on the couch. "Now lets go get some food."

I hooked my arm in his and we walked down to the dining hall. You could hear the rumble of chatter that drifted its way outside of the hall, but as soon as you pull back the large doors to get in, nothing could brace you for the wave of excitement that came with the Halloween feast. We had arrived fashionably late to get ready for our characters and a soon as we made our unexpected entrance, the noise level settled down only a little as people took time out of their conversations to see who had just entered in the middle of the feast. Zach looked satisfied at the stares we were given, because most of these people didn't know what we were dressed up as and those who did came up to compliment us on our accuracy.

My mom sent us the costumes after Zach drew pictures of them so she could gage on what they looked like, but she obviously watched the show in order to get them this accurate because I don't think Zach's strongest point is in art.

None of the teachers understood it either and I think that's why Professor McGonagall sent Snape to talk to us and have us explain what was going on. Luckily, Zach is one of Snapes favorites so after a brief explanation of our picnic plans he let us go.

"What the hell are you wearing?" Draco asked as we gathered our food.

"Costumes." I replied. "They are suppose to be fun and people wear them on Halloween… for fun. But it's not like you would know anything about fun."

"Shut up." He said, returning to his meal. "And we can do our first lesson Sunday as long as you're not wearing that."

"Sure, whatever suits you Draco." I said sarcastically, I wasn't going to let him ruin my night.

Then he turned to Zach. "It was easy getting that little whore to dress up like that, wasn't it?"

And with one fluid movement, Zach swung his fist and hit Draco square in the jaw. "Lets go." Zach whispered in my ear and placed a strong hand on the small of my back, walking out of the now silent dining hall. The picture of Fred hunched over his plate, looking at me like I was disgusting created a lump in my throat and made it hard to speak as we walked down to the lake.

"Listen, I'm so sorry. I thought people would think it was fun." He said taking a red fez off his head and opening the basket we had put all the food in.

"It's alright. It was fun for me, lets just forget all of that happened and enjoy our night."

He handed me a glass that he had snuck out of the hall as well and poured Pumpkin Juice into it. I chugged all of it and refilled the cup.

"Are you okay?" He asked, seeing how I was treating the juice like it was an alcoholic drink.

"Yeah, I just…when I left, Fred was just looking at me like I was gross and it kind of bothered me." I explained taking a cauldron cake from the basket and breaking off a piece.

"You can't let him bother you anymore." Zach said, taking food for himself. "If he isn't willing to accept every part of you, then he doesn't deserve to judge you."

I nod, I wanted to say how hard it was seeing someone who you thought was truly amazing look down on you and hate your guts because of something you can't control and if you could then you would, but you can't. Instead I swallowed the little piece with great difficulty and nodded my head, "yeah."

Zach laid down on the wet grass and invited me to put my head on his chest. I stayed close to him because the short skirt that was part of the costume didn't keep me very warm. We watched the stars in the dark sky shine amongst the blue-black background. Our breathing soon synced up and I could feel the steady beating of his heart. I focused on rising and falling of his chest beneath my head. I closed my eyes imagining the sounds of the ocean with each breath.

"So your Quidditch game." I prompted him with conversation.

"Yup." He answered simply and everything turned silent again. My ears were tuning in to the most acute sounds and I could hear the water lapping at the edge and the light breeze moving through the grass.

"How are you going to do?" I asked.

"Well, Ron isn't good at keeper so we just need to get enough goals in so when Harry catches the snitch it would be useless." He told me. "Cause Draco is shit at catching the snitch. I mean he's an okay flyer but bad seeker."

I nodded, I understood some of what he was saying but I still felt odd in the Wizarding World, like it was just going to be a brief place to visit and wrap your head around the important things, but soon enough I would be back home living my static life. I couldn't completely convince myself that I was apart of this place and I needed to get used to it. Part of it was due to the fact I was introduced by people who now couldn't stand to see my face and that made everything else unreal.

"You're coming right?" He asked.

"Of course, I'm going to come." I said. "And I will paint my face with silver and green and wear all the gear."

"Great."

"So this is where the slut and the nerd ran off to?" I raised my head to see Pansy and the rest of my roommates heading down the hill towards us. She had a satisfied sneer on her face and was pulling out her wand. "Come on then, why haven't you done it already Zach?"

"What?" I asked, but before I could get an answer. I was thrown up against a tree and tied there. Zach got up and started running to me.

"It's nothing okay? Everything they are going to say is a lie." He explained, but then Pansy threw him in another direction.

"What do you mean?" I shouted at him.

"What he means is he doesn't want to look like a bad guy." Pansy said getting close to me. "You see he and Draco had a bet that he could do you by midnight Halloween and then he would never talk to you again."

"That doesn't make any-" I started to say, but then Pansy put her finger to her lips as a way to silence me.

"They're all lies!" Zach shouted. Pansy, without turning around, shot a spell at him and I heard him scream in pain. I couldn't see what had happened because Pansy was blocking my view.

She was looking at something on the side of my neck closely and I realized it was probably the necklace my parents gave me. She followed the chain down with he to fingers and pulled out the emerald at the end.

"Wow this is pretty." She said holding the gem gently and then she yanked on the chain and it broke. "Too bad you can never see it again."

She began to throw it into the lake and time seemed to slow, I watched it arch and slowly start dropping to the surface of the water. I tried to struggle out of her grip but pansy had placed her arm at my collar bone pushing me closer to the tree. I was screaming. I didn't know what I was screaming, but I felt hot tears roll down my face and fall into my mouth. It felt as if time stopped completely. Suddenly the necklace stopped falling and Pansy's face dropped. The world seem to silence, I can't even remember the sound of my sobs, but the necklace flew back, away from the water and Pansy turned to see someone who was saving me.

The girls then started to walk away without a word, except for Pansy who said a quick, "bitch" and let me drop from the tree to the ground. The person walked up to me holding out the necklace, at first I thought it was Fred in the dark, but at he got closer I saw his face was a little rounder and he had the odd freckle that Fred didn't have. He offered his hand to help me up, but I didn't take it and got up myself. I took the necklace from his hands and cleared my hair out of my face so I didn't look like such a mess.

"Are you okay?" George asked. I looked past him and to Zach who was getting up and looking to me.

"Yeah I'm fine." I said quickly, not looking him in the eyes. Without even a thank you, I started back up the hill to the castle.

I just wanted to disappear. That's the one thing that's bad at boarding schools, you can't ever really get away from someone, you just have to live with it and deal with seeing them everyday. At least at home I was able to lock my self in my room, but here I shared my room with some of the most horrible girls in the world and the one good friend I had, turned out to be not that great of a friend. So I was alone, embarrassed, angry, and worst of all I was moping in all of this. I was feeling bad for myself, I had reverted back to my old ways of being selffish, but right now being selfish looked good. It was easy. I was going to not worry about the social part of school and just focus on learning as much as I can because that is what I am here for right? I'm going to ignore everyone and focus on things that don't have to do with people.