Fire and Ice//F.W//

Two

I could lie and say I woke up this morning feeling full of joy and light but I didn't, I felt groggy and angry, I guess that's why I wasn't sorted into Hufflepuff. I grabbed my uniform and lazily threw it on. My tie hung loosely around my neck and my shirt hung down over my body untucked and creased.

"Morning" Ginny spoke peaking out from her bed covers, Ginny and I were somewhat friends, not many people wanted to be my friend because of my brother, but I wasn't like Draco, Ginny and the gang were some of the few people who saw me for who I really was, not just my last name.

"Morning" I groaned tiredly dragging myself to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I brushed my long black hair, it was laced with white streaks, they used to change to my mood but after i came back to Hogwarts in my second year, the colours never changed again. For a reason I would never share with anyone. I had one bright blue eye and one dark brown, almost like someone had spilt me right down the middle. I'd always felt uneasy about my eye colour, most of the family had grey or brown so where the blue came from I'd never know. Even though my brother and I were twins, I shared no resemblance to him, nor any of my family for that matter.  I used to think I was switched at birth and my really family would come one day and take me away.

"Saiph!" I heard someone shout chasing me down the hall. It was Harry, Harry and I had been friends since the first train ride to Hogwarts, we became friends incredibly quickly which was odd for me. But it was like I'd known him for years.

"Morning Harry" I smiled weakly at him and looped my arm into his own. A lot of people had assumed we were dating in 3rd year but Harry was like family to me.

"Did Hermione catch you up on the meal last night?" I rarely went to the hall to eat my meals, usually only breakfast. I hated the stares and whispering. I shook my head no "Hogwarts is hosting the Tri wizard tournament this year" he beamed.

"Oh wow, that's rather dangerous isn't it?" I'd read a lot about it, I had way too much time to spend in the library especially last year when I was ill. I swear I must have gotten Snape to transfer at least 100 books down to the hospital wing. By the time I was done Madam Pomfrey said I might as well have had a bed in the library.

"Yeah I suppose, you have to be 17 to enter" he explained "Drumstrang and Beauxbatons will be here as well" he seemed awfully happy about that. Although I suppose Beauxbatons had a reputation for hosting the most beautiful girls.

"Well let's hope nobody gets hurt then" I took a seat next to Neville and grabbed my self some toast and a cup of pumpkin juice. I didn't care much for the buzz of the tri wizard tournament, it was reckless and quite frankly a stupid idea to let kids take part in it.

"Morningggg" a voice whispered into my ear, Fred, he squeezed himself between Neville and myself before I could move George had quickly pressed himself into my other side. I furrowed my brows at him, he just smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

"Did you ever hear of personal space!" I wiggled around barging them both with my shoulders in attempt to push them away to give me some breathing space.

"You weren't to bothered about that last night princess" Fred spoke draping his arm over my shoulder. My elbow made swift contact with his side making him groan.

"Get off of me you pig" I flung his arm off of me, Hermione let out a laugh as his arm hit the table making him sigh in pain.

"Aw come on Saffy" Fred cooed throwing his arm back over, Saffy was a nickname everyone called me by, not that it was hard to say my name. But something about it coming from his mouth had always filled me with a feeling I could not understand.

"It's Saiph to you, Weasley" I picked up my toast taking a huge bite out of it. I pulled out my class schedule, my first class was defence against the dark arts with a new teacher, that should be fun.

"Right well I'm off to class!" I announced pushing myself up from my seat, Hermione followed suit and came along with me. Both of us liked to get to class early, most of the time it earned you extra house points. Where as Ron and Harry were late half of the time which lost us those points. The only good DADA teacher we ever had was Professor Lupin in my opinion , even though I only went to one lesson. Last year the illness that I had landed me in the hospital wing for most of the year, along with several weeks at st mungos. I hadn't been able to attend classes but professor lupin would come down to the hospital wing and give me my classes there. Lupin would always brought a bar of chocolate which he insisted would make me feel better.

The new DADA teacher didn't even compare to Lupin, he was absolutely vile. I'd read about him but he wasn't at all like the books described. For one the man I read about would never be demonstrating the unforgivable curses on a poor spider.

"Miss Malfoy! Pay attention" I felt something hit my head snapping me out of my thoughts, a small piece of chalk hit the desk in front of me after ricocheting off of my head "perhaps you could tell us the last unforgivable cures seeings as miss Granger is unable to" his brow raised and he stared at me as if he were staring into my soul.

"No" I stated simply, I'd only had to listen too that spell one time in my life and it's not a time I choose to remember. It's a vile spell that only a vile person would be comfortable using.

"Avarda kedavra" he spat, my hand flew over my mouth as the spiders bones contorted, I flew out of my seat and walked up to the desk carefully grabbing the spider and running out of the class with it. I ignored the laughing and the whispers that surrounded me on my way out of the class.

"Saffy!" I heard Fred shout as I ran past him with tears flowing down my face, I ran out to the yard and knelt down, I cupped the spider tightly in my hands and screwed my eyes shut.

I felt a faint tickle in my hands, I smiled widely as the spider crawled into the grass.

"How did you do that?" Fred's voice asked from behind me. My body tensed, why had he followed me out here in the first place.

"Fred, you can't tell anyone" I panicked, the expression on his face moved from confusion to something I couldn't quite read, he hesitantly stepped forward and raised his hand to my hair, he pulled out a strand and examined it.

"Your hair Saff..." I inhaled a small breath of air as I caught a glimpse of the bright red streak that now ran through my hair "It hasn't done that in a while" the space between us had closed more than I would have liked it to, he could probably hear my heart hitting my chest.

"Fred you can't tell anyone" I repeated staring up at him. His expression had completely softened, his hand dropped to his side letting the hair fall loosely down my shoulder.

"Your secret is safe with me" a wave of calmness washed over my body, I could finally breath again.

"Thank you" a flash of shock spread over his face, we hadn't been this civil with each other since my first year. Before I could control my actions my hand reached out to grasp his "thank you" I repeated my words but this time they had more meaning. His hand squeezed mine cautiously.

"No worries" he mumbled before pulling his hand away from mine, he flashed a quick smile before disappearing back into the castle. It left me feeling something I wasn't quite used to, I wasn't even sure what the feeling was. But it made me want to throw up, it made my stomach fill with an uneasy feeling of fluttering.

I hated it.