ride or die

the great hall

My hands were shaking with excitement when my name got called "Kate Allaban" Curious eyes filled the great hall as they all turned towards me. 

Awkwardly I stepped forward not knowing what to do, and gave the most idiotic wave. A WAVE. A GODDAMN WAVE- AM I- was i feeling okay like wha- huh ?

I heard whispers going around, certainly not helping my racing heart. 

"she can't be a first year"

 "why is she getting sorted now?"

 "she is not 11" 

"do you think she's a muggle"

"SILENCE" professor dumbledore announced, "Ms Kate along with the other children are here as exchange students from america. They will be in the fourth year going to classes with the rest of you, they all have gone to a wizarding school back in the states I assure you. If the students find Hogwarts to their liking they will stay to learn here. Now Minerva if we could continue..."

Professor McGonnagal shook her head and called out my name once again and gestured for me to sit down in the seat. She had placed a tattered old brown hat on my head.

"Hmm a smart one indeed, ravenclaw? no that's hardly the right one. An ache for ambition and acceptance but not cunning enough to be slytherin. They possess a great deal of bravery but not recklessness..no better be...HUFFLEPUFF"

I felt a hand taking the hat off of my head, I had now gotten a better view of the hall and the reactions...were not what I expected. Most, if not everyone had suddenly looked disinterested in me. 

Why? What happened, what was wrong with Hufflepuff?

Looking out I could see two boys, looking identical while animatedly talking too each other. They caught my eye and both gave me a wave and a smile. At least two people like me.

Professor McGonagall showed me off to the hufflepuff table where I finished dinner. It was actually quite boring. Don't get me wrong, everyone was very sweet just a little bit too...much.

As the night went on I understood that each house had distinct qualities individually. Slytherins were ambitious but known as cold and cunning, the ravenclaws were smart but seen as irritating and overbearing, the hufflepuffs were known as kind and loyal but seen as too emotional and naive and the gryffindors were brave and were known as heroes.

How is that even fair. Just because a person is smart or kind or ambitious doesn't make them any less deserving the freaking gryffindors !!

The hufflepuffs that were seated near me were very kind, a little bit too nice actually. I was slowly starting to see why everyone cast the hufflepuffs aside. A bitter feeling rose up in my chest, are we all really that pathetic that we need to be placed in the "left over house" ??

...thats what I heard some slytherin boys calling us along with the ravenclaws, a waste of space.

Eventually we were led back into our common room, to settle in. I had met a girl at dinner, Susan Bones, she was in my year and was very helpful. She explained everything that I needed to know and was also my roommate. Our house head called to us all and let us know to go to bed, obediently Susan turned off the lights and wished me good night.

I wish.

I lied there for hours with my blanket wrapped around me, staring at the ceiling.

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The next thing I remember was walking down the corridors trying to get to my potions class. there was almost no one in the hall, it was very early in the morning but I had gotten up to be prepared for the day.

My head was practically getting whiplash from all of the glancing back and forth from my time table to up around me.

Suddenly I felt two arms tugged around and for the first secondary body went into shock.

Nasty memories appearing in my head but disappearing just as quick when I tightly grabbed the arms around me and kicked backward into the area which hopefully was where the general area of my attacker's groin was.

I heard pained yells as I turned around and stepped back, I saw two boys looking familiar and extremely identical.

My brain registered that these were the boys who had waved to me yesterday in the great hall as soon as I heard

"Bloody hell ! Honestly, woman what were you thinking !"

"Just kicking us like that, bloody-"

My hands reached out to both of their shoulders, nervously trying to do something

" oh my god, im- oh- I- ugh- why do I always- im so sorry"

The one with the straight nose looked at me curiously before laughing.

The other one replied and said "it's alright. calm down...Kate was it?"

I replied, " yup Kate Allaban i am new i actually was sorted yester-"

The one with the more straight nose stuck his hand out and said " well kate i am george weasley and this is my brother, fred"

Fred stuck his hand out as well and introduced himself as "fred, fred weasley. we meaning us, fred and george the official unofficial pranksters of hogwarts witchcraft and wizardry'

My eyebrows lifted " i'm assuming the both of you get into loads of trouble for those pranks am i right."

The twins just stared back

I rolled my eyes "it is just like my self for the first people i meet in my new school to be the ones getting in all the trouble"

Fred and George simultaneously started laughing at that, kind of freaky to be honest.

"Well we'll let you get on with your day" george said as he grabbed fred's arm and pulled him away.

I shook my head and smiled, well...it wasn't that bad. Honestly I could do well with a friend and besides, they might not be SUCH a bad influence on me

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so that's the first chapter, please tell me if you like it and any suggestions of where you want the story to go in the future !