I got into the Gryffindor common room at about one in the morning after a good hunting trip. I stopped in the shadows and looked into the room to see if anyone was in there. I couldn't let anyone see me like this. I had blood all over my clothes, my hair was a mess, and my contacts were out. I growled softly as I saw that Harry and his followers were sitting in there talking. And even worse they were talking about me.
"Your sister is mental harry. She is lucky those new kids came along otherwise she wouldn't have any friends." Ron said to him as Hermione snorted into her butterbeer that they were drinking.
"Cut her some slack Ron, she doesn't have the best life. She has all the publicity I do just because she is related to me and she has a lot to deal with so just stop." Harry said as he took another drink of his butterbeer.
"Oh like you really care for her Harry. You have never given a damn about what happens to her here. She wasn't even the person to be down in the lake last year during the tri wizard tournament. Face it no matter how much you try to care for her, you don't. No one does. "Hermione said to Harry. I knew Hermione didn't like me and I knew what she said on the train was true, but I didn't know it was this bad. I felt tears coming to my face as I turned around and ran out of the common room. I ran up to the room of requirements to change quickly before running down to the dungeons. I didn't know what I was doing, I was just acting without thinking and before I knew it I was standing in front of the slytherin common room looking at the portrait.
"password." It asked me. I rattled my brain for a second before it clicked.
"Pure blood." I said to it. It immediately opened for me. 'Figures the password would be something as simple and stupid as that.' I crept in and looked around the room for anyone. When I didn't see anyone I raced over to the boy's staircase and up to the 5th year dorms. It was in the same place as the Gryffindor one. I slowly opened the door and looked in to find all the boys asleep in their beds. Looking around I saw that Draco was in the one furthest away from me. Luckily I can get over there without making any noise what's so ever. I got over to his bed and sat down next to him. Looking at his limp body, messy hair, and peaceful face made my heart flutter; something I didn't know was possible. I couldn't stop staring at him; I sat there for almost a half an hour staring at him before I came to my senses and looked away. I quickly got up and walked out of the room before I got lost staring at him again. Without even thinking I just walked right into the common room and stopped in my tacks as I saw someone sitting on the couch. I was going to try and use my vampire speed to make a run for it when they turned around.
"What are you doing here Hayley?" the person asked me as I looked at them with embarrassment filling up my body I was lucky Edward wasn't here reading my mind.
"Oh wow how did I get in here? I must have been sleep walking." I told the person while I acted like I had just woken up.
"We don't sleep dumb ass." I flinched as I realized that this was true.
"It's none of your business rose." I said before running out of the common room and back to the Gryffindor one. I noticed that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were still sitting there talking, although they were not talking about me anymore, they were talking about the war. I walked into the room at human speed but still hoped that they wouldn't see me.
"Hayley? Why are you still up, and where did you come from?" Harry asked me making me stop in my tacks.
"Oh I uh, couldn't sleep so I decided to take a walk. You must not have seen me leave. So I am just going to head up to bed now." I told him as I started to walk towards the girl's staircase.
"Why don't you have some butterbeer with us?" I turned around to look at the person who said that and was surprised to find that it came out of Ron's mouth.
"Oh uh, no thanks."
"Please, we insist. We have enough to go around come, join us." Hermione said to me with what seemed like apologetic eyes. I nodded before walking over to them and sitting down next to Harry with Ron and Hermione across from me. Harry handed me a butterbeer and I smiled at him in return. We sat there for a few minutes in an awkward silence before Hermione spoke.
"So, Hayley, you're a vampire?" she said to me making me choke on the butterbeer I was drinking and look at her in shock.
"How did you-"
"Harry told us. So it is true. You and the new kids are all vampires. "I nodded in return and saw that Ron had a terrified look on his face.
"Don't worry Ron we don't drink human blood, only animals. We call ourselves vegetarian vampires. Although the animals in the forbidden forest taste nasty." I told him as I scrunched up my face in disgust just thinking about what my dinner was for tonight and how I had to just force myself to keep drinking. I saw Ron calm down a bit but he was still a little scared.
"Hayley I have to know, why Draco?" Harry asked me.
"I didn't go looking for him Harry, he came to me. I was just sitting in the hallway and he came up to me and started being nice to me. Trust me Harry I was about as shocked as you were." I saw him sigh before realization hit.
"You weren't on a walk where you? You went to go get…blood, and then went to see Draco didn't you?"
