Truth?or Lies?

Chapter 7

Crudele POV

I woke on Christmas morning in the Hufflepuff girls dorm. With a sigh, I remembered I would be going back to Beauxbaton tomorrow morning. Then I noticed the pile of presents at the foot of my bed. I sat up and counted them. One, two, three, four. Wait, four? I guess dad sent me one this year. With a smile, I open Cecil's first. Its a bright pink owl cage for Diavolo, and I groan. Tossing it aside, I open the present from my mum. Surprisingly, its a book. My mum knows I hate books. The title is City of Bones by Cassandra Claire. "What a lovely title" I mumble. Next I open Sole's present, and smile. Sole, the one who knows me best, has given me a dark blue cracked heart necklace. I love it and immediately put it on, along with the matching earrings. Now for dad's, something cheap of course. Mud stained, falling apart, hand-de-down rain boots. Just what every eleven year old girl wants for Christmas. NOT! I get up and stroll casually down to the common room. The fire is roaring and I smile, tossing the boots in.

Sole POV

I wake at 7:30 to find presents stacked high on my bedside table. I count nine presents and smile. I grab the one on top, which is from someone named Hermione Granger. Its a book titled Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I've heard of her, no wonder she gave me a book. But why'd she give me a Christmas present? Oh, well. The next one is from Hannah. She's sweet, I think. She gave me some chocolate frogs. Susan gave me several boxes of Bertie Botts every flavor beans. Cedric was cool and gave me Quidditch Through The Ages. Ernie decided to give me a floating bed for Kimber. From Justin I got Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Its my favorite muggle book. From my dear old dad I received worn out, ugly sneakers. My loving mum gave me 24 galleons. The last present is from Crudele. She gave me a hand knit yellow sweater with little black skulls. Yup, that's my dear little sis. As I finished unwrapping the last present, Madam Pomfry came over. "You're allowed to go to Christmas dinner in the great hall, as this is you sister's last day here before she goes back to Beauxbaton" she says with a smile. "That's great!" I say happily. It'll be good to leave the hospital wing after over two months.

Crudele POV

After breakfast, I head to the hospital wing to spend Christmas with my brother. I don't get far when someone shoves me from behind. I turn around glaring "what do you want, Malfoy, Zabini, Parkinson?" Malfoy snickers and steps forward "I hear you're leaving tomorrow, Sebastino." I shrug. "What's it to you? Now if you don't mind, I'm going to spend my Christmas with my brother"I snarl and turn on my heel. "Is the great Crudele Sebastino scared?"Zabini taunts. I ignore him and keep walking. "Oh Blaise, I do believe she is"Parkinson sneers. Losing my temper, I spin around, my wand raised. "Move along, before I hex you"I say, and silently cast the leg locking jinx on Parkinson. Turning around again, I storm away to the hospital wing. But not before I hear Parkinson shriek. Laughing, I walk straight into Professor Snape. "Well, what's so funny, Sebastino?"he asks. I smile sweetly "nothing, sorry Professor, I was just remembering a time when me and Sole we're younger, Merry Christmas." With that I walk away, and Professor Snape doesn't call me back.

Sole POV

Crudele walks in around lunchtime. I smile when I see she's wearing her present from me. She sits by my bed and smiles at me. "I'm going back to Beauxbaton in the morning"she says (sadly?) "Oh, well guess what sis"I reply. She thinks for a little bit. "Hmm, I don't know, what?" I give her a big smile "Madam Pomfry says I can go have dinner in the great hall with you today." She smiles as well "that's cool, and thanks for the necklace and earrings, did you like your present?" I nod "yeah, but what's with the skulls?" Crudele just shrugs, a smirk playing on her lips. Madam Pomfry comes over and gives me the potion I'd been taking daily. Thanking her, I gulp it down as Crudele talks again. "Dad gave me some mud stained, falling apart, hand-de-down rain boots, but I burned them. What'd he give you?" As a reply, I point to my 'new' ugly sneakers. She laughs, and that makes me laugh to.

5:45pm Crudele POV

Me and Sole are walking to the great hall, him leaning on me most of the way, when Malfoy and his friends stop us. "Well well well, looks like the Sebastinos are going for their last meal"Zabini sneers. "Why don't you keep making fun of us and see what that gets you"I say, pulling out my wand. "Oh no, a first year mudblood is threatening us"Malfoy fake yells. Parkinson and Zabini snicker, and I calmly whisper "Rictusempra." They start laughing uncontrollably, and me and Sole continue on our way. Sole's laughing so hard at my spell that I'm practically carrying him. Which is hard as I'm also laughing. Malfoy tries to send a jinx at us, but fails as he's laughing too hard from MY jinx.

Sole POV

When we finally reach the Great Hall, I'm feeling weaker. I know Crudele will need help getting me back to the hospital wing. No wonder Madam Pomfry didn't want me to leave. Crudele and I are greeted at the Hufflepuff table by Ernie. Wait, where's Justin? "Hey Ernie, where's Justin?"I ask, scanning the table. Crudele and Ernie share a look, then he replies. "He got petrified." I gasp, and sit down. "He's muggleborn, so am I, maybe I'll be next" I wonder aloud. Now its Ernie's turn to gasp "what? No, you can't be petrified." Crudele sits on my left, obviously lost in thought. Ernie sits down on my other side, muttering reasons why I wouldn't be petrified. With a sigh, I put some roasted duck on my plate. I look at the bottles of pumpkin juice and poor some in my goblet, then mutter a spell and change it to milk. I begin eating as Ernie keeps talking.

Crudele POV

After Sole said he might be the next one to be petrified, I started thinking. The Malfoys were all in Slytherin. Malfoy hated muggleborns, especially Sole. And Justin. Maybe they're heirs of Slytherin. No, even they aren't that evil. I am, but there's no way I'm Slytherin's heir, as I'm muggleborn. I wonder who could be his heir. When Sole finishes eating and we've shared a few Christmas crackers,me getting a bright pink wizard hat(as neither of the boys would take it), Sole getting a wizard chess set(which he's never even played before), and Ernie a dark purple wizard hat with little butterflies(as I wouldn't take both hats), I went to see if Cedric could help us get Sole back to the hospital wing. He agreed immediately and put Sole's arm over his shoulder. I did the same with his other arm, and we made our way, with a half unconscious Sole, to the hospital wing. Setting him down on the bed, I smiled and thanked Cedric for the help. "Merry Christmas, good night, and good bye, brother"I whispered before heading to the Hufflepuff common room.