Mysteries and Secrets

Chapter Two: Classes on the First Day

I woke up to painful poking on my sides. "Get up!" I hear two identical voices yell at me.

"All right, all right. I'm up." I groaned. They immediately stopped poking me and went downstairs. I pulled myself out of bed and made my way to my battered up trunk, pulling out my things for today. I pulled out a black long sleeve shirt, jeans, and my school robes. I quickly put them on then grabbed my light brown leather messenger bag. Slinging it over my shoulder I went downstairs to be greeted by my sisters all waiting for me.

"Well come on let's go!" Lizelle said to me, walking out of the common room.

We walked to the Great Hall to have breakfast. Once we got there, we all sat in our own little group at our house table. Of course, the twins being the twins had made friends on the train and the sorting ceremony. They immediately start gossiping about something. Lizelle, who is able to hear what they're gossiping about, starts to giggle along and whisper with them, leaving me out of the entire conversation. I leaned in to hear what they were giggling about. Of course, the twins were talking about me and my fabled 'crush'.

My cheeks started to heat up, "I don't have a crush on him!" I whispered to them all.

"Then why are your cheeks pink?" Lizelle pointed out with a smirk that was unforgiving. I became pissed and looked down to my food and started grumbling. I heard a rather large amount of giggles come from the group of girls and gave them a questioning look. They started discreetly pointing at something and giggling even more. I looked to where they were pointing and saw something, well, someone that immediately reminded me of the incident that happened last night. It was Newt. My cheeks heated up once again and I looked back down at my food. There was a burst of giggles, but I didn't care at this point, even though I wanted to stab them with my fork. I knew they were going to be doing this for a while.

When breakfast was over, I walked with my head down amongst the giggles so no others could see my flustered cheeks as I walked to class. My sisters came by, but I knew very well that they were proud of what they did. "What's the matter, Ricky?" Lizelle said.

"I don't know, maybe being embarrassed is a good thing, but it's a bad thing in my opinion," I announced with a pissed off tone. Lizelle looks at me with a sorrowful expression.

"Sorry, I just wanted to poke fun. I'm your older sister. I'm supposed to do this." She joked.

"Anyways, what class do you have first?" I asked.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts." She answered.

"Same. Aren't we with Slytherin for this class?" I asked.

"Looks like it..." She drawled.

Once we made it to class, we saw nearly everyone sitting down, so I took my seat next to Lizelle. Soon enough, class started. "Hello class, I am Professor Winchester and I will be teaching you about the dark arts and how to defend yourself from these horrid creatures." I cringed when he said 'horrid', most of these creatures are misunderstood!

Defense Against the Dark Arts whizzed by and now it was time for Charms with Ravenclaw. We learned Accio, a summoning charm, which was pretty cool. Now I don't have to get up to get something! Yes! After that, it was time for Herbology with Hufflepuff. Winifred and Georgia were in this class too. Lizelle, Georgia, Winifred, their friends, and I found spots in the greenhouse to stand and started to chat amongst ourselves. Then some students entered the greenhouse, I paid no mind, the only reasons I know this is because of the sound of the door and the girls giggling. I could only guess who walked in. I sent them all a glare which meant 'stop giggling nimrods!' They tried to suppress their giggles by using their hands or biting their bottom lip, both of which didn't work too well. I see them giggle harder and then cocked my head and look at them, confused. I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and none other than Newt himself was standing there.