Chapter Three: The Green Eyed Monster
It was dinnertime and Zoey was quietly sitting on the Hufflepuff table. There, on the table, was chicken, beef, pork, pasta, corn, rice, soup, fruits and pastries in large quantities. Just by looking at them, Zoey felt full. She slouched on her seat and used her fork to poke at the grains of corn on her plate. She popped one in her mouth and chewed quietly as she looked around the Great Hall. Everyone was chatting with his or her friends. Some huddled up in their own group and others visiting their friends from the different Houses. Zoey felt like a loner.
Zoey let out a surprised squeak when someone sat by her side. It was Echo and she held a pastille in her hand, eating it before waving at the Hufflepuff.
"Aren't you supposed to be at the Ravenclaw table?" Zoey found herself asking.
Echo snorted. "They're not worthy of my presence. Most of them are dumb and unsophisticated.
"Dumb? Aren't they in Ravenclaw for a reason?" Zoey was confused.
"I'm here because I needed to tell you about the oh-so-famous twins, right?" Echo ignored Zoey's question. "Look at the Gryffindor table." Zoey did as told. She saw that they were laughing merrily and their faces were a bit red. "Right is George and left is Fred. Got it?"
"Okay. That would help me tell them apart as of this moment but once we leave, I'm going to be at a loss. I need you tell me who they are and if there is any way to tell them apart easily. Like a misplaced freckle or a visible birthmark." Zoey said. "I don't want to have to approach one of them and say the other's name."
"George is much more kinder than Fred." Echo said.
Like that's going to help me. Zoey furrowed her brows.
"Anyway, George has his eyes set on someone, and he can bug you out with his total kindness." Echo continued with a cough.
"Okay..." Zoey trailed off, coughing herself. "Do you know who might have ran into me?"
"Fred. He would have prank ideas running of in his head." Echo said.
"Running into me was a prank?"
"Most likely he was running away from a prank."
Zoey drew in a breath as she hid behind one of the many statues decorating the walls of Hogwarts. She placed a hand over her growling stomach. She had missed lunch because she had to run away from a couple of Slytherins who decided that it would be fun to pick on her. Casting spells that would spill ink all over her notes, stick her shoes together and call her names like "scum".
Biting her lip, she inched further behind the statue when she heard voices. Someone was coming.
Please don't be Slytherins. Please don't be Slytherins. She chanted in her head.
"This idea is brilliant!" a voice echoed through the semi-empty halls. It was followed by laughter. Zoey sighed in relief and peaked from behind the statue to see three Gryffindors and Echo. The Gryffindors were the Weasley twins, Fred and George, and a boy with dreadlocks, Lee Jordan.
Zoey knew for a fact that the Weasley Twins have already made a name for themselves in Hogwarts as "pranksters". From what she heard, the two knew Hogwarts like the back of their hand and they never ceased an opportunity to pull a prank on a "helpless" Slytherin or anyone who deserved it. Zoey looked over to Echo and saw that the girl was not laughing with her friends, busy reading the book in her hands.
Zoey found herself furrowing her brows at the sight of the friends. She knew the feeling boiling in the pit of her stomach. It was jealousy. She was jealous of Echo. She wanted to be Echo. She wanted to be smart and beautiful and she wanted to have friends. She wanted to be friends with the funniest people in Hogwarts. Fred and George, from what Zoey could see, were lively people and could probably make anyone laugh by just uttering a single, nonsensical word.
The school's bell rang, making Zoey jump in her place, and she looked both left and right before fully coming out from behind the statue. No one was in the hall. Fred, George, Lee and Echo had left. Zoey breathed out and pushed her glasses up her nose before dashing off to her next class, Charms.
She skidded on the floor and brought her hands to the doorknob of her classroom. Twisting the knob and pushing the door open, she was greeted by a liquid substance falling all over her, drenching her completely. Then she felt feather like objects following. Blinking her eyes, trying to process what had just happened, Zoey heard laughter.
The Gryffindors and the Hufflepuffs in the room were laughing so hard that tears prickled their eyes and they held their stomachs from laughing so hard. Only a handful looked worried.
Echo, who had been in the classroom, wanting to discuss something with Professor Flitwick, emerged from the laughing crowd and took in the sight. She knew who caused this little pranks. Those good for nothing brats. She thought to herself, feeling extremely pissed.
"Zwei! Are you not alright?" Echo asked as she approached her feathered friend. Zoey looked up, used to the odd nickname given to her and sniffed.
"I…I guess," she mumbled, looking at her feet. Her things were drenched and feather-fied. "What just happened?"
Echo turned around when she saw Fred ad George, out of the corner of her eye, sneakily get up from their seats.
"So who was the victim this time?" Fred asked with a grin on his face. He did not recognize Zoey from the time he bumped into her.
"I would really love to see their face right now!" George barked a laugh.
"You gits! Do you not care that a girl's been your victim?" Echo thwacked her book at each of the twins' heads, threatening them. "Wait till I tell your mother about this!"
"Echo! What the bloody hell is your problem?" Fred asked, trying to defend himself from the book Echo held in her hand.
"She is as of someone whom I finally got acquainted with!"
"You wouldn't dare tell our mum!" George said, "It was just a harmless prank! Wait." He paused. "What?"
"Meaning, she is my friend, you nitwit!" Echo yelled.
"And what does make us?" Fred asked, his face red. He hated being within the wrath of Echo's book. That and having an argument he would most like lose. He hated losing.
"Tell the Professor that Zoey Emeraude was taken to the Hospital Wing!" Echo ignored Fred's question and took Zoey's wrist, dragging her out of the classroom.
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