Laughing... There was laughing everywhere around her. Brooke groaned slightly in her sleep. She heard giggling, and rubbed her eyes. She saw some of the girls walking in. Padma and Mandy walked in, holding each other as they were laughing. Brooke swung her legs so that she could stand up. She laughed at her friends then walked over to them, and helped them to their beds.
"You two okay?" She asked with a laugh. Padma looked at her, with a druken looking smile.
"You should've come with us Brooke, we had so much fun." Brooke rolled her eyes.
"I'm sure it was Padma. Look, you all need to get some rest." She said to the other ravenclaws in the room. Most of them ignored her, and she shrugged. She looked over when she heard snoring and laughed at Mandy who was asleep. Then she saw the other girls falling asleep. She laughed again, then returned to her own bed to get some more rest.
A couple weeks later, mostly everyone stopped talking about the party that Brooke had missed. She didn't really care that she missed it, but she did care that everyone talked about it. It got annoying after a while. Brooke was standing in the girls dorms, bored as usual. She looked around and saw the other girls asleep. She smirked and pushed the door open.
Only after she had exited the castle did she realize that she had forgotten her wand. She silently groaned, but then shrugged. She didn't need it. She made her way down to the lake, and she smirked seeing her old friend Morgan Jacobs. She walked over to where the other girl was sitting, and sat down next to her.
"Can't sleep?" She said, with a small smirk.
"Nope." Morgan said with a smile, then shook her head. Brooke's gaze turned to the water.
"Wanna jump in there?" She asked. Morgan smirked.
"Yep!" Both girls stood up. "One... Two... Three!" They both ran toward the water, and jumped in. When they were underwater, Brooke looked around at the world that so many had gone to, but no one had really visited. She swam over to Morgan and smiled, then looked up, as if saying, we have to be careful when swimming up. Can't let a prefect find them. She swam deeper, and looked around. When she turned around to look at something she heard, she suddenly was hit with sudden need to breathe, so she swam up to the surface and took a deep breath. Then looked around. Hoping she wouldn't see any prefects around. After catching her breath for a few moments she felt Morgan put a hand on her back as if to ask if she was alright. Brooke smiled at her.
"A little late for a swim isn't it? We wouldn't to cause any trouble now would we." Brooke smirked. Draco Malfoy. Of course he'd be the one to find them.
"Uh, swim for your life!" Brooke chuckled then whispered to her friend.
"Draco Malfoy, nothing to be afraid of." She looked back up at the tree and could almost make out his figure. She set her arms on an edge of the lake, and her eyes located the figure in the tree. She looked into his eyes."Care to join us for a swim, Malfoy?" She asked. She glanced at Morgan, wondering if she should stop egging him on. "Even if you are a prefect, what are you doing up at midnight?" She asked, looking up at him again.
"no I do not wish to join you in the water, with two girls such as yourselves I'd end up dead in five minutes or less." She caught the smirk that he sent her. "I'd threaten you with docking points but you wouldn't really care." Brooke laughed.
"You're not scared are you?" She asked referring to him not wishing to join them. She looked at the branch, if she aimed her hand just right she could break it, and send Draco plummeting towards the ground. But she wasn't that evil. "No, as you have previously learned. I don't care about house points. A silly number." She glanced at Morgan, her eyes saying, don't fear anything. He's all talk. Then she glanced back up at him. "You never answered my question. What brings you to the Black Lake on this fine night." She asked. Without waiting for a response, she ducked under the water, and then resurfaced and shot something out of her hand. A spark that landed centimeters away from his head. She smirked waiting for his reaction. She burst out laughing when he felt out of the tree. He carefully stood up, and gave her a murderous glare.
"Thanks a lot..." She laughed more as he was being pushed toward the lake.
"Come on, Draco. Not afraid of a little water, are you?" She looked up. Ariana? She vaguely remembered her from their confrontation in the Library.
"Of course not!" He snapped.
"Hi, Brooke. Hi.." Brooke smiled, and waved slightly to her. "..uh.. Hasn't Morgan been under for a little too long?" It was then that Brooke noticed, that Morgan was underwater. She had completely forgotten about Morgan. She slapped her hand to her forehead, and mentally cursed herself for being so stupid.
"Brooke, get out of that water..." Brooke glared as she watched him peel off his robes to lighten himself. She then remembered, Mermaids inhabited the lake! While she was yelling at herself she heard a splash next to her, she jumped a bit then realized that Draco had gone underwater. She glanced at Ariana for a moment then dove under to help. Well, she found Draco and Morgan easily, with a mermaid right next to them. She felt a power surge through her and saw a ray of light shoot out of her hand and head straight toward the mermaid. She started toward Morgan, then felt something hit her back. She turned around cautiously, then the trident type thing that the mermaid held was pointed at her neck. She throw a glance to Draco, telling him to get Morgan out of there. Without waiting for his reply, Brooke moved backwards then swam deeper, hoping to lure the mermaids away from Morgan and Draco.
As she started to not be able to see anything, she realized, maybe swimming deeper wasn't the best idea. As she turned around, to swim up, she felt something dig into her side. She looked down in shock almost, but ignored it, then swam toward the surface. She broke free of the water and took in a deep breath. Then frantically looked around for Draco and Morgan.
"Brooke, can you get out of the water and take care of yourself? I'll make sure Morgan and Draco get out." Brooke looked up to see Ariana jumping in the water. She took in a deep breath and went back under, because she didn't know if they could handle the mermaids alone. She saw Ariana fighting with the same one that had attacked Brooke. Brooke felt that same power surge through her, and the light hit the mermaid, sending it down into the abyss. Brooke grabbed Ariana and pulled her to shore, with confidence that Draco would get Morgan out safely. Ariana and Brooke both got out of the water. Once Brooke collapsed on the ground, she looked down at herself. Her entire side was covered in red.
"Great... I happened to like this shirt..." She said groaning. She looked at Ariana when the blonde began laughing hysterically. She laughed a bit awkwardly.
"That's what you care about? Haha. You're bleeding Brooke! Haha!" Brooke let out a laugh.
"Yeah..." It was strange to hear her say that. Her gaze turned to the lake as she saw the water surface break, and Draco and Morgan popped up. Draco pulled Morgan up to shore. Brooke laughed slightly as Morgan collapsed.
"Thats... what I.... get.... for trying.... to milk.... a mermaid." Morgan said, through gasps for breath. Brooke laughed at that. Then she heard someone else laughing. She looked up and saw Draco laughing through gasps for air. Brooke smiled at him. Brooke laid back and looked at the sky as she tried to ignore the stinging pain in her side. "Uh.. I just wanted to say... thanks." She heard Morgan say. She looked up to see Morgan hug Draco. "I owe you one." She said as she released him. Brooke smiled again, then looked back at the sky, as Morgan sat next to her.
"Remind me, never to go swimming again." Brooke said with a laugh. Ariana laughed as well.
"I don't know, it was kinda fun. Maybe next time, we should go when the lake isn't ice cold!" Brooke laughed. She watched as Ariana walked over to Draco and pulled him over to Morgan and Brooke. Then she pulled him down as she sat down. Brooke smiled slightly, then winced at the pain in her side. "So! Who's up for the creepy crawlers in the Forbidden Forest?" Ariana said with a bright smile.
"Are you okay? I mean, you are still bleeding." Brooke was about to say that she was fine, when he stood up to find his robes. She held back a laugh when she saw that they were in the sand. She watched him walk back over to them and pulled out his wand. "Episkey" She winced as she felt the wound heal slightly. "You'll still have to see Madam Pomfrey about it though." Brooke smirked, slightly.
"Since when are you healing people?" She asked jokingly. "So, what's next on our list of adventures?" She said with a smile. Then she laughed to let them know she was joking. She looked around then her eyes rested on the others. "So, we all go out separate ways, and never speak of this again?" She asked, with some regret in her voice. She liked things how they were. She liked laughing with people. She liked acting like she hadn't seen her mother be killed over the summer. Her gaze turned to Morgan as the girl nodded.
"Wanna head back to the dorms together?" She asked Ariana. Brooke stood up, and smiled. Ariana stood up as well, and nodded.
"Sure!" She turned to Brooke and Draco. "It's been a real slice guys. Catch later. OH and Brooke get that wound checked out, k?" She turned to Draco and hugged him. "Thanks for the help slick. Try not to dock us too many points, k?" She pulled back and stood up, looking to Morgan. "Ready?" Brooke watched as Ariana and Morgan walked toward the castle.
"Well, aren't you going too?" She turned around to glare at Draco. Brooke raised an eyebrow at him. Then scoffed.
"What if I wanna stay out here some more?" She stood up, and looked at him, then she put her hands on her hips. "Why the sudden hostility?" She said, smirking. Then her smirk disappeared and she dropped her hands. "Alright, I'll be on my way." She turned, started walking, then stopped. Then she turned back around. "Again... thanks Malfoy." She said smiling. Then she winked at him and started walking. She tried to erase the moment from her mind. But it stayed there. She couldn't get rid of it. It was imprinted there. As she neared the castle, she stopped. She knew exactly how to sneak in, without being caught, so she had no worries. What she was contemplating was if she should go back inside, or stay outside. She knew exactly how to hide, and where to hide if she needed to with both choices. She decided just to head back in. Before she did, however, she glanced back at the lake, and smiled. Then she went inside and headed back to her room.