A Letter 2 Years Late

Chapter 7 - Liar

It was now the day after New Years, and not only were me, Abby, Lilith, Jared and Brandon bored as hell, we were sitting in the great hall playing chess. CHESS.

"Checkmate." I grumbled as I lazily pushed my queen with my finger. This was now the 3rd time I had beaten Abby at this game... Frankly I didn't know why we even bothered to be playing this game for so long.

"Okay, I give. Why are we even playing this game?" Abby groaned.

"Because we are losers at life and have nothing better to do." Lilith growled as she lay herself on the the bench, staring at the ceiling, which depicted snowflakes falling gently. Jared chuckled as he crushed Brandon at their game of chess.

It was when I realized I had spend a few minutes just staring at the wood patterns in the table before I decided that I've had enough. "Okay, that's it. I will not stand for this boredom any longer." I exclaimed.

"You're sitting." Jared pointed out. I gave him a glare.

"It's the second day of new year and we're sitting here playing chess!"

"Kaitlin and the others come back tonight, when that happens I'm sure they'll have an idea."

"Yeah, TONIGHT!" I groaned not able to contain my boredom any longer. This was Hogwarts for goodness sake, there had to be something cool to do.

Brandon and Jared looked at each other.

"Come on, let's go for a walk." Brandon said getting up and offering his hand to help me up. I sighed and took it.

We left the Great Hall and walked outside into the courtyard. It was snowing lightly and it looked beautiful, but it was freezing. I shivered a bit and Brandon -observant as always- noticed. He chuckled and wrapped his arms around me. We strolled around for a bit until I started sneezing violently and we decided to return into the castle.

Back to boredom.

Sigh.

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 Lying on my bed reading a book for Transfigurations class, I suddenly heard a giant bang as the bedroom door smacked into the wall with great gusto.

"WE'RE BACK!" Cecilia screamed as she ran into the room and gave me a huge hug, her hair -tied in pigtails- smacking me in the face. Behind her, Penelope and Karen came in holding way more trunks than the two of them should have but there was no sign of Kaitlin.

"Um, where's-" I started but Penelope cut me off.

"The second she heard from Rose about you and Brandon she ran out to hunt him down. Don't worry, she won't kill him, probably just threatening severly. Minor to major injuries at most." Penelope said casually as if these things happened everyday. My eyes grew wide and Karen, who noticed my gaping mouth burst out laughing. Penelope just rolled her eyes and passed a few of the suitcases to Cecilia and neatly placed 2 suitcases next to Katilin's bed.

"Don't worry, she's not gonna kill him. Threaten with help from  Rose yes, but they could never manage to really cause death..." Karen said, swallowing the last of her giggles.

I stared at her but said nothing. Rose and Kaitlin looked too innocent to hurt...

"So, details." Cecilia said, throwing her trunks on her bed and hopping onto mine, looking at me expectantly.

"Details for what?..." I asked, though I was pretty sure I knew what she was talking about.

"About you and Brandon duh! How? When? Have you kissed yet?" I backed away so I was at the edge of the bed.