Morning walks (Pandora)
Pandora sighed as she cracked her knuckles. It was Saturday morning just before breakfast started, she was the only one up besides her dorm mate phoebe.
Phoebe had long straight black, a few freckles and when she smiled pandora could see dimples on her pale cheeks.
She looked sort of similar to regulus, but was the complete opposite personality wise. She almost always had a smile on her face, she wore darker clothes on weekends but they were still colorful.
Today she had on a pair of dark blue jeans and a t-shirt that she assumed belonged to her older brother. It was the name of a muggle band that pandora didn’t recognized.
Pandora had on a long flowy white skirt with a light green tank top. Her and evan had stayed with their cousin a month before hogwarts and had let them get muggle clothes.
Pandora looked back over at Phoebe who was putting a brush? On her nose that had white powder on it. She stood up and walked over to her, “what’s that?”
Phoebe looked up when she saw her and smiled, “it’s called highlighter, it’s makeup. My mom said I could only get this and mascara until I’m thirteen, do you want me to put some on you?”
Pandora looked at the girls nose and liked how it looked so she nodded.
Phoebe put some more of the sparkly powder on her brush and leaned over to pandora who sat on the chair next to her.
The brush was quite soft pandora thought as the slightly taller girl leaned over and placed the brush on the tip of her nose.
A few seconds later she was done and pandora looked in the mirror.
“Do you want some mascara too? It just makes your eyelashes look longer, I could also put some of the highlighter in the corner of your eyes.” Phoebe said as she looked into the mirror as well.
Pandora nodded and put her long curly hair behind her ears.
It only took a couple of minutes before the girl was done and motioned for her to look in the mirror.
Her eyelashes did look longer and the highlighter complimented her face.
“If you don’t like it it’s fine I could-“
Pandora put her hand on the girls knee.
“I love it Thankyou.” She said with a small smile on her face.
Phoebe smiled and nodded towards her.
Suddenly an idea came into pandoras mind, “do you want to meet my other friends later today?”
Phoebe looked startled for a second before she spoke,”yeah sure what are they like?”
Pandora hummed, “well Evan’s my brother- obviously but he’s kind of annoying he likes to joke around I guess? I’m not really sure how to describe him sorry, but he’s nice overall.” Phoebe nodded,
“He sounds nice.”
“Then there’s Dorcas, she’s a year ahead of us and she’s kind of quiet but if she has something to say she’ll say it. We mostly talk about hair and stuff because we have similar hair types but she’s really smart.” Pandora said as she put a ring on her finger.
Phoebe smiled and nodded along.
“Barty is very, hyper? I guess, he gets bored very easily but he says whatever’s on his mind most of the time.”
“And then regulus, regulus is quiet as well but I just think he doesn’t like talking to people who doesn’t know, ive seen him at family gatherings but he didn’t talk to me much then. He’s always reading I swear I don’t know how he doesn’t get bored.”
Phoebe laughed, “Black right? I’ve seen him in our potions class with Barty he cannot stop talking in that class.”
“Yeah, he loves potions and he doesn’t want barty to mess it up so he’s always telling him what to do” pandora said with a small smile on her face.
They heard the other girls in their dorm getting up so they stood up to walk to breakfast.
As they walked Phoebe spoke, “are you going to sit with us today?”
Pandora hummed in response, “yeah for the most part I’ll wait for the other girls to sit with us before I talk to Evan about you and me coming in their dorm to hangout.”
Phoebe smiled in response. The two girls walked over to the ravenclaw table once they got to the hall. Barely anyone was there, pandora assumed they were sleeping in.
She looked over and saw barty and regulus bickering about something, barty had regulus’ book in hand and was holding it above his head. Then regulus grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, grabbed his book and sat back down.
Phoebe was looking at them with wide eyes before looking at pandora and bursting out laughing, “Are they like this all the time?” Phoebe asked after they both stopped laughing as much.
“Sometimes, regulus doesn’t do much in response to Barty when he pisses him off. He normally just walks away.”
Pandora grabbed a couple of pancakes and poured some syrup on top.
Her and Phoebe finished eating after a little bit and the other girls still weren’t there, pandora looked over and saw that regulus and barty were still at the other table.
“Want to go ask them now? Evan normally sleeps in for a while if he can and you can kind of meet them now?” Pandora asked looking at the dark haired girl.
“Yeah sure c’mon” she said as they got up.
Regulus looked over at them before they got there and sighed.
Pandora and Phoebe sat next to barty who was grumbling under his breath.
“Phoebe and me want to hang out in the dorm tonight is that okay?”
Barty looked up, “yeah maybe regulus will be in a better mood by then.”
Regulus glared at him before turning to pandora. “Yeah it’s fine” he said rubbing his eyes, the boy looked like he hadn’t been sleeping.
He walked away a few seconds later.
Pandora turned to barty and hit his shoulder, “why are you and him fighting again?”
“He got into some sort of fight with his stupid brother and has been an asshole ever since.” Barty paused, “don’t tell anyone that he’s talking to his brother I don’t think he’s supposed to be” even barty looked confused as the words left his mouth. Pandora understood though and hastily nodded before turning to Phoebe who nodded in response.
“do you want to go on a walk?” Phoebe nodded with a small smile on her face.
The two girls were sitting side by side near the black lake. Pandora was braiding phoebes hair into two braids, she added a few flowers into the braids with a spell her cousin taught her that would prevent them from falling out.
Once she was finished Phoebe turned around, the braids looked good a few strands layed across her forehead going behind her ears, the white daisys she had used complimented her dark hair.
“Let’s use the lake as a mirror” she said with a small smile.
Phoebe stared into the water and saw the braids that pandora had done, she turned to pandora and smiled bigger.
“They look amazing”
Pandora laughed, “Thankyou I’ve only ever braided my hair, Evan’s hair is too short but I think I could probably convince one of the others to let me braid their hair.”
“I don’t know how anybody could ever say no to you” Phoebe said with a light blush over her cheeks.
“Phoebe!” The girls turned to look behind them and saw Mia one of their dorm mates. Her blonde hair flew behind her from the wind.
She sat down next to them and looked at phoebe, “your hair looks amazing did you do it?” She asked turning to pandora who nodded in response.
“Okay anyways, winter break is soon so I was wondering if you guys would want to hangout sometime?”
Phoebe nodded, “yeah I can any day besides the twenty eighth that’s my brothers birthday and obviously Christmas.”
The girls turned to look at pandora.
“I should be able to” she said.
Pandora knew she would have to lie and say they were purebloods but other than that her parents wouldn’t care.
It was a few hours later that pandora and Phoebe were walking up to the dorm.
They had spent the day reading, catching up on work they hadn’t finished and pandora had watched Phoebe draw for a while. Phoebe had drawn flowers, specifically white daisys in a garden, there was a small river flowing inbetween the garden and a quaint house towards the edge of the garden. Pandora had never seen someone draw so well before.
Pandora knocked on the door and listened as someone rushed over from the other side. Dorcas stood on the other side and pandora looked in.
“It’s cleaner than normal.” She said looking around. Bartys side specifically, normally there were books and papers spread around, a few clothes lying on the floor or random things barty would use to entertain himself when everyone was busy.
“Well regulus said most people wouldn’t appreciate lying in my filth” barty said with a lazy smile on his face.
Regulus scowled in response. “Most people can clean their side of the room without complaining.”
Dorcas sighed and looked over at pandora again, “I don’t know why they keep on fighting its so annoying.”
Pandora remembered the brief mention of regulus’ brother from barty before pushing it out of her mind.
Pandora hummed and led Phoebe to sit at the end of regulus’ bed.
Regulus sat on the floor next to them, where as barty sat next to Evan.
“Hi Phoebe I’m Dorcas”
Evan raised his hand slightly, “Evan”
Phoebe nodded slowly looking to pandora for help.
“Okay let’s play a game, do you know any more muggle games?”
“I don’t think so.” Phoebe said with a small smile on her face.
“Can we Play Truth or dare again?” Barty said looking at the two girls.
They both nodded and barty seemed deep in thought for a second.
He looked over to regulus, “truth or dare.”
“Truth”
“If you had to marry someone in this room who would you marry?”
“Pandora, our parents would probably arrange it anyways.” He said looking at barty.
Pandora hummed, “I would love to marry you my lovely third cousin.”
Regulus smiled, “I’d propose, but I think our parents would do it for us.”
Pandora laughed softly. Regulus turned to Evan, “truth or dare.”
“Dare.”
“I dare you to read as much as I do until lunch tomorrow.”
Evan groaned in response before burying his head in his pillow.