Hello my lovely readers its chapter two time. And 2 things 1) I think I'm going to bump the girls up 2 years because in the way the story is going it's gonna require them to be a bit older 2) I'm going to refer to Aurore as Dawn from now on. Only family will actually call Dawn by Aurore and stuff. Guys I'm so sorry I completely forgot to translate the French and I swear I'll make a habit of doing that from now on. Hopefully last chapter's French wasn't all that hard to understand but still. ANYWAY on to Chapter 2.
The Gryffindor girls dormitories was rather quiet as the sun tried hard to peek through the English cloud cover. The 5th year girls were, one by one, waking up and started getting ready for their first day at Hogwarts. Everyone awake were rather confused when they started hearing music, and not music they were familiar with. The girls looked at each other confirming that it wasn't them and that the odd music was coming from the one girl who wasn't awake yet.
The Veela girl Dawn, as they learned from hearing the Weasley girl call her that. Just as they were about to dismiss it and start their morning routines the Veela girl inhaled deeply, sat up and rubbed her eyes. No girl said a word as Dawn peeled the covers off her body and got up. Clad in just some gym shorts and a tank top she stretched and made her way to the loo. What was odd was the thing in her right hand and those strange white strings with, what looked like a misshapen ear plugs, in her ears.
Slowly the other girls started getting ready, always eyeing Dawn and that music…..thing. Dawn being, used to people staring at her, got showered and dressed. When the Veela slipped on her still-too-short-skirt, one of the girls laughed.
"You trying to attract attention Dawn?"
Dawn laughed and shook her head and answered ever so sweetly, "No Charcoal just shredded my proper skirt and my mother has yet to send me another one. That reminds me I need to check the owlery. Thank you."
The Veela smiled at the other lionesse and continued to gather her books for the day. She slipped her music thing in her skirt pocket and worked the white strings under her shirt to let the ear plug like ends to dangle out. After putting one of the ear plugs back in Victoria Bell asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
"Dawn what is that?"
"Oh this? Its a muggle device used to communicate, take pictures, listen to music, play games and watch videos. And you work it by touching the surface called the screen."
All the pure-blood witches looked at her like she grew a second head. Instead of trying to explain it herself, Dawn motioned over for the other witches over to her bed. Once they gathered around she started working her phone with a deft thumb. Sliding it to show how to unlock it, quickly punching in her passcode and went directly to her music. She unplugged her white string things and the music started ringing out. Everyone had their wands out ready to hex it. Just before one witch casted an exploding hex Dawn quickly clutched it to her chest.
"Don't! This is important and expensive cell phone. My parents will kill me if I let it get cursed and or hexed!"
"Well how the hell does that….cell phone...work?"
"Muggle technology! I don't know enough about it to properly explain it."
"Wait how'd you get yours to work here? Mine doesn't"
"Special spells I'll teach you them after class."
Everyone looked over to the source of the voice which was muggle born Alexandria Johnson otherwise known as Alex. She and Dawn got along because they both enjoyed a muggle pass time called video games. The difference the two had to work around was the fact that Dawn played more intense, heart racing games while Alex was more casual. But the two still found one game series they could talk about, Legend of Zelda. Both girls had an obsession with the games and they had some trinkets to prove it. Alex had multiple figurines of the different characters while Dawn had posters, jewelry, and clothes.
Alex nodded and made her way to her first class. Everyone continued getting ready which quickly turned into some girls frantically looking for different pieces of their uniforms.
Once all her books were safely tucked away in her messenger bag Dawn slung it over her shoulder and made it down to attend her first class. Most students shrunk their bags down to fit in their robe pockets. Dawn being raised as both a muggle and a witch always had a muggle way of doing her school work, even when she was a Beauxbaton. Took notes with a notebook and pen, write her rough drafts on her laptop (which only she knew how to work), then finally would write the final draft on parchment with a quill. Thats how she's always worked and nothing was going to change that.
It was time for lunch and so far no real homework was assigned. Minus Dawn's potions class which was a reading up on amortentia. Which was, to Dawns understanding, was the most potent love potion a wizard could make. It has a perfume type power that makes it smell like anything one person likes. It affects everyone no matter what.
After reading a bit more she decided that she would be fine for finishing her lunch she went to the tower for her divination class. Hopefully it wouldn't be a dreadfully dull as it was back at Beauxbaton.
Dawn made her way up to the common room with a slight spring in her step. Normally people would be dead tired at the end of the day especially after the first day. But today was a good day, for whatever reason the guys weren't drooling all that much and she had decent conversations with some of the girls. She made her way through the common room to her dormitory and slipped into a pair of jeans and grabbed her broom. Her family has always been very supportive of her hobbies so long as they didn't bring down her grades. And it worked for her and the not so little rewards at the end of the year for good grades was always a good motivator too. So at the end of her 2nd year she got a Nimbus for outstanding marks on her final exams.
Flying was always a rush and she caused her family a lot of grief with some of her crazy antics. She smiled to herself and made her way down from her dormitory, broom in hand.
"Hey Dawn where are you off to?"
It was Rose curled up near the fire with a book in her hands. Dawn smiled.
"Just heading out to fly. Would you care to join me?"
"Sure."
Rose got up and dusted off her skirt before walking up to Dawn and linked arms with her. The two made their way out of the common room and down to the quidditch pitch. They passed by the Gryffindor team just after practice most of them didn't pay attention to the two girls. Except the captain who saw the broom and decided to hang back and see if either of those two would be good for the team.
Rose went up to sit in the bleachers while Dawn went to the center of the pitch. Dawn mounted her broom and kicked off, relaxing as she felt the wind whip around her. Once she leveled out Dawn dove head first pulling up at the last possible second laughing like a little kid. Flying through the rings, skimming the ground, doing corkscrews and doing laps at a breakneck speed. Dawn was having the time of her life while Rose was nearly having a heart attack. Watching her friend zoom about the pitch without any padding was filling her head with images of Dawn in the infirmary, broken and bruised.
Dawn did nothing to ease these worries when stood up on her broom and flew around like she was riding a skateboard!
"DAWN BE CAREFUL!"
Dawn zoomed past Rose with a thumbs up. Signaling that she would be alright. But Rose was still scared out of her mind for her friend. A few minutes later Dawn came zooming straight towards Rose with an evil little smirk on her face.
"Dawn slow down! Dawn! Slow down you're going to crash! DAWN!"
Rose closed her eyes and threw her hands up to protect her face, waiting for the crash. Only it didn't come. After a minute or so Rose popped one eye open to see her friends face a bit too close for comfort and also upside-down? Rose jumped back and, rather ungracefully, fell in between the bleachers. Dawn roared with laughter, Rose turning red as her hair with anger and embarrassment. But then she noticed...Dawn was flying while upside-down!
"How in the name of Merlin are you doing that?!"
"What this? I just squeeze my legs together around my broom and kinda hang like this."
"Well obviously but I mean just...how?!"
"I'll have you know I have strong legs."
Dawn flipped herself right side up and hovered over to her redheaded friend. Silently offering to help her up. Rose took the outstretched hand but she instantly regretted it when she saw the smirk on the Veela's face. Using her Veela strength Dawn hoisted Rose on the front of her broom. The redhead made the most undignified yelp before gripping the broom handle.
"Dawn?! What the heck?!"
"Relax, I've got you."
An awkward silence fell between the two girls before Dawn cleared her throat. She leaned back a bit, slowly turning the broom around. Rose tensed up and whimpered like a kicked puppy. Dawn cooed quietly, drawing her redhead friend closer to her. Enveloping Rose in a warm hug.
"It's alright I've got you."
Rose melted into Dawn, resting her head where the Veela's neck met her shoulder. They stayed like this for what seemed like hours, just hovering there like it was the most normal thing to do. Dawn rested her cheek on the side of Rose's head inhaling the redhead's scent.
She smells like strawberries and dark chocolate.
"Hey! I wanna talk to you!"
Hey guys I am so sorry for falling off the face of the earth but senior year of high school is frickin crazy! AND MAJORLY EXPENSIVE! I also got back from China and Korea pretty recently so jet lag is killing me. I'll try to update on the weekends and don't worry I'm still working on Not So Pitch Perfect. Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It got super snuggely at the end for whatever reason. My brain just works like that. Thanks for the follows and favorites.
-Tenshi