we sit down in the great hall and we all begin talking.
"what did i miss?" i ask the group
"what do yuh mean?" theo asks me. he can be so dumb sometimes.
"when i was asleep dumbass," i say with a chuckle and hint of sarcasm in my voice.
"oh yeah because you feel asleep on theo's shoulder," blaise teased and i rolled my eyes.
"i'm pretty sure i feel asleep too so uh you're not the only one who missed stuff," theo says casually. he truly doesn't care what other people think of him and it astonishes me.
"oh yeah," arabella spoke. "really off to a great start of the year then huh vic. already got a guy fancing you."
i don't think they will ever understand how awful it is that she said that in front of him. but i play it off, "piss off." i roll my eyes playfully again and just see theo shrug it off. how was he so good at doing that? i turn to see draco walking down the back side of the great hall to sit with us.
"look who finally decided to show up," blaise said
"where've you been?" arabella asked
"just teaching potter a lesson" he scoffed when he spoke harry's name. someone was jealous. but i never knew what for, malfoy always had everything, money, fame, and unlike harry he had both his parents alive. he had two people that he could rely on and share things with. unlike some of us, theo who lost his mom, and arabella grew up without her father being around due to business.
"sounds fun, what's you end up doing to him?" theo asks. "should've brought me with ya i always wanted to beat his ass."
"you'll see," draco scowled.
now i know he always seemed to be mad or irritated but ever since we got on the train i'd never seen him smile yet. but i could only imagine why, he wouldn't share anything with anyone. he was a bottled up swirl of anger and sadness, and probably fear too. it was only a matter of time before he explodes.
dumbledoor steps onto the podium and begins to speak.
the first years are sorted first. we have new house members, but it's just more people for malfoy to tease and play with. there were a few that sat down and i could just see them turning into the group i'm with now. better teach them right when i get the chance.
we have a new but old i guess professor for potions, slughorn i think. he was a teacher when voldy came here, he's old. and snape now teaches DADA. i'm glad for him he always wanted to teach that and maybe he will be the first teacher to teach that class for over a year.
magonial was speaking now. she announced that the theme for the ball this year was some weird lights. i'm not really sure but if it's anything like last years, we'll be able to make some memories.
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it was after the feast and we were back in the dorms. we always had a tradition where the group would all come to one or the others dorm and we would simply hang out all night. this year it was in theirs.
arabella and i were getting dressed to go over to the dorm room. we were all so close to where i never cared what i looked like around them. they didn't either. i put my hair in a rough bun and put on sweatpants with a hoodie. i looked as if i was kicked on the streets and arabella looked the same.
"ready a?" i called out
"just a sec!" she called in response she was still fixing her hair. she always had to still look perfect while looking awful. "ready." she walked out looking good in an awful way.
when we got to the dorm, we opened it up and i caught blaise and theo jump.
"aw is someone scared?" i mock pouting my lip.
"you were just, uh, unexpected" theo blurt out.
"we could've been changing you know," blaise said all defensively.
"well you weren't," arabella spat out and made eye contact with blaise and theo and i could sense the tension already.
malfoy shows up behind me and arabella and startled me as much as i got blaise and theo.
"well, don't just stand there, go in."
arabella and i take a few steps forward and i sit on the left side of what i think was theo's bed with my legs hanging over the side pointing to whoever's bed arabella was sitting on.
i lay down and rest my head on my hands, staring at the celing.
"you know that was going to be my bed but i assume you could have it too pearson" it was malfoy's bed
"guess you can have the floor then!" i look over and give him a sarcastic smile and i recurve a half smile from him. at least i think he's at least trying to be happy. i shut my eyes to take in the memories from last year and a smile creeps on my face.
"who's got the veritaserum?!" i hear arabella ask from across the room.
i hear someone digging through their trunk and i open my eyes to see theo dig the truth potion out of his trunk and toss it to blaise who caught it with ease.
the night was about to begin.
