A Whole Different World

Chapter 6 - One prank to introduce friendship

Taylor headed down to her next class with Aneesha, Gillian, and Aneesha's friend Keira. Hermione went to class early. They were heading down to double potions with Snape and the Slytherins. They had already been at Hogwarts for a week. They arrived in the dungeons to find the Slytherins on one side of the room and the Gryffindor's on the other, of course, it's always like this. Taylor hadn't been talking to Laura as much lately, she seems afraid that the other Slytherins will get angry at her for being friends with Gryffindor's, it's the same with Aneesha and Gillian's friend Eden, she also seems afraid.

Potions pretty much goes by with Snape picking on Harry Potter, telling kids their potion is not good, taking away Gryffindor house points and favouring the Slytherins.

On this day they had to get in pairs and make a potion. Taylor went with Hermione, Gillian went with Dean Thomas, and Aneesha went with Keira. Taylor and Hermione finished and brought our potion up to Professor Snape,

"Average." He muttered, Taylor looked over at Hermione who seemed upset, their potion looked better than half the class! Especially Neville's who looked the complete opposite of what was expected and gave off a foul smell.

After potions ended Taylor went back up to the common room with the other Gryffindor's. As Aneesha pushed open the door to their dorm, a bucket of goo fell on top of her. She started swearing loudly; Taylor heard roars of laughter coming from inside the dorm. She stepped inside and found the Weasley twins on the floor laughing. Aneesha walked inside with the others and slammed the door behind them. The boys got off the floor and tried to get around Aneesha, it failed. When they went close to her she reached out and slapped them both. Taylor started laughing. Hermione went over to look at a text book before walking over to Aneesha, muttering a spell and suddenly the goo came off of her. Fred and George just stood in front of them, staring at what Hermione just did. Aneesha no longer had goo on her, but she was wet, Hermione's spell must not have worked properly. Aneesha just stood there with her arms folded, glaring at the twins.

"Apologise, you dim wits!" Gillian yelled,

"Sorry." They mumbled.

"Come on, a dog could do better than that!" She snapped,

"Okay then, we're extremely sorry, we never meant for the short gal here to get upset." Aneesha huffed when the twin on the left said this,

"Nicer." Taylor said.

They one on the left rolled his eyes at Taylor. The one on the right slowly walked forward to Aneesha, smiled and leaned in closer to her, leaving a soft kiss on her cheek. Aneesha blushed and opened the door, the boys walked out. None of the girls could tell the twins apart, but Aneesha was definitely dying to find out.

"I'm going to t-take a shower now." Aneesha stuttered. Taylor, Hermione, Keira, and Gillian stood around awkwardly, until Gillian decided to make Aneesha blush even further.

"You do realise what just happened, right?" She asked Aneesha. Aneesha really didn't know what happened,

"Yeah, I just got goo all over me, so I'm going to take a shower." She mumbled and ran out the door.

"Do you guys think that..." Taylor trailed off,

"Yes." Gillian said, knowing what the end of the sentence would be.

"Yes, what?" Hermione asked,

"It's puppy love." Keira answered. Taylor wouldn't have used those words exactly, but yes, it was puppy love. But which twin was it?

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Ella walked down to a flat grassed area on the castle grounds with Anna, Catherine (a very lovely girl), and the rest of the Ravenclaw's. They were off to their first flying lesson. They walked down to find the Hufflepuff's, standing around chatting.

"Catherine!" Two Hufflepuff girls exclaimed, coming towards her.

"Hey!" Catherine grinned.

One of the girls engulfed her in a hug, Ella glanced at Anna, wondering who those people were,

"They're Amy and Mackenzie; I recognise them from the sorting." Anna whispered. Ella nodded, trying to remember them.

"Everyone, get here!" A lady with grey hair commanded, it was the flying teacher, Madam Hooch.

Ella learnt that she was not a very good flyer, but she enjoyed it anyway.

"Ella! Want to go down to the lake with our friends?" Anna asked,

"Sure!" Ella replied.

Catherine, Anna and Ella ran up to their dormitory and changed into their swimsuits, putting their clothes on top.

When they arrived at the lake they saw Mackenzie, Amy, Taylor, Laura and some other girls.

They introduced themselves as; Eden, Gillian, Keira and Aneesha. They all seemed to be getting along well. Three of them were Gryffindor's but Eden was a Slytherin, which made Ella a bit nervous. She really enjoyed hanging out with them; they really knew how to make her happy.

As Ella sat around the lake with these girls she couldn't help but notice little things about them. Taylor always seemed to have her guard up, not letting it down even as she had fun. Laura was constantly looking around to see if anyone else was there. Eden used big words that confused everyone. Mackenzie was trying so hard to be "cool", she probably worried about what people thought of her. Anna was swimming around, enjoying herself, not caring that she was missing out on some of the conversation. Keira was loud, and full of energy and fun. Catherine and Amy sat together, talking about books only they had read, as Amy judged those who hadn't read them. Gillian was adding in her smart comments whenever someone said something annoying, she was someone who you wouldn't want to mess with. All the girls were in the water swimming together. Except for one of them. Aneesha was sitting by the water; she wasn't even wearing a swimsuit. It appeared as though she was thinking about something else, and she seemed perfectly content to just be there, even if she wasn't talking to anyone.

After a while everyone went to their dorms, and all the girls hoped they would have days like these all the time.