Bad Romance

Escaped Frog

-From your POV-

I paced back to my room quickly and shut the door. I already knew I wasn't getting any sleep tonight; my mind was working too much right now for me to be able to fall asleep. I looked at Victoria, or V, as she was flipping through some of the books I had. I hated sharing stuff with people and I hated people touching my stuff, but not only did I kill her but I did offer her anything in my room. I break the silence. "So, do you want to cut your hair? We have to make you completely different." I suggest. She turns her head to me and inspects me carefully.

"I trust you. You cut it and style me however you think will be different." she says. I nod and then head to my desk and start looking for the scissors. I find them and then grab my hairbrush and insist that she sits down on one of the desk chairs, and she does. I begin combing through the mess on her head and begin cutting it. Her hair had crawled all the way down her shoulder blades so I watched it carefully as the black locks were reduced to a shoulder bob, leaving hair all over the floor.

I had started cutting at the back and was working my way around the front. I was going to cut her straight across bangs so it required me to be face to face with her. When I cut away, revealing her face, my eyes widened. Her hair had been covering most of her face before and I wasn't worried about her face of all things so I hadn't noticed the scarring. Almost the entire right side of her face was covered in scars. They resembled burned flesh and then there was a huge slash scar that overlapped her eye. And her eyes. They were a different color; one was green and the other was deep brown; almost black. I studied her face quickly, not trying to make it weird, and then stood back straight up and looked down at her bangs. "Here." I say as I hand her my handheld mirror. She holds it and looks at her new hair in the reflection.

"It's good." She says flatly before handing the mirror back to me. "While you're gone off to classes and I lay low in here, I'm going to read your books." she states. Wow not even asking? Okay. I just nod and kick my shoes off. I drop down on my bed and let out a huge sigh. I lay down and just stare at my ceiling.

"Are you mad at me?" I blurt out. I don't hear a response for a minute and then she speaks.

"Mad at you? No... I trust you and you're the only person besides myself that I trust, actually. That being said, we're not friends." Ouch. I take in a deep breath.

"I can work with that." I tell her. I fold my arms behind my bed and keep staring at my ceiling. We sit in silence as she does whatever she's doing and I keep thinking to myself while staring at the ceiling.

I'm going to have to kill her .... again. I lightly shake my head as I come to the realization.

At some point during the night, my brain must have calmed down enough to allow me some rest because I was awoken to V's loud snoring. I rubbed my eyes and saw the clock on the wall; I had class in ten minutes. I rolled my eyes as I stepped out of bed and fixed my uniform. I sprayed perfume on myself and just put my robe on. This morning, I really could not be bothered.

I sulked into class and dropped my stuff down in my seat next to Tom. He looked up at me and his eyebrows twitched a little. "Wow, you look horrible." he says flatly. I turn my head to him and give him a patronizing smile.

"Tom, calm down you're being too flirtatious." I say sarcastically before turning my head towards the front. It goes silent for a minute and then he speaks again.

"So, any new thoughts?" he asks me.

"Mhm. Time to ice her again." I say flatly, still facing the forward.

"Really?" he asks. I nod my head slightly.

"But first, we have some studying to do; I need to figure out what happened to her and you, need to tell me what you know about the room she was talking about." I say as I turn to look at him. His eyes look away from mine. "Yeah, I knew a black snake sounded familiar." I say before I turn my head back to the front.

Class ends and I didn't even notice; I had one hand propped up by an elbow, supporting my head. My eyes were half open. I didn't even move until I felt Tom nudge my arm, and then my eyes darted open wider. "Hm?" I hum.

"Class has ended." He says calmly as he picks up my books and holds the for me. I rub my eyes and start packing up my bag. "You should really go to sleep." he tells me. I sigh as I finish packing up.

"I wish I could." I admit. "But, cannot draw any attention to myself by missing class,now can I?" I say as I throw my bang on over my shoulder. We start walking out and I feel something graze my finger tips and I look down and see it's Tom's hands. I wrap our fingers and then look up as we keep walking.

I just barely drifted through the rest of the day half awake and by the time it was the end of classes, I completely skipped going to the Great Hall like I usually did; I just went straight to my dorm. I pushed the door open and then closed it behind me. I kicked my shoes off and flopped face down onto my bed, letting out a low groan of relief into the sheets. Wait.

I lift my head up and twist it around and look behind me. "No no no no no. I'm going to commit literal suicide no no." I whine to myself. V was nowhere in the room. I got up and frantically checked in any weird place she could've hid. Nowhere to be found. I rolled my eyes and huffed as I put my shoes back on and stormed down to the Great Hall.

I marched over to his table and stood there with my arms crossed. "Y/n," he begins.

"There's an issue. Remember when someone found the frog, V, wandering in the corridors?" I say to him. His eyes deepen as he quickly realizes what I'm talking about. He nods. "Well, he's no longer in the tank that he was supposed to be in and I'm afraid he's wandering in the halls again." his eyes widen frantically. "Yeah, and I am like, 10 minutes, from collapsing of exhaustion. So if you and Malfoy could go catch the frog, I would greatly appreciate it." I finish. He looks down and then back up to me.

"Of course, of course. You need rest." he says. I give a small smile.

"Brilliant. See you." I bend down and kiss his cheek before leaving.

I have no idea if he and Malfoy will find her, but it's not my problem for the time being. I just wanted to devour my sheets and sink into the comfort of my bed.

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