Chapter 3
I woke up on the floor with Pansy screaming at me. Great. My head and my lower back hurts from her pulling my hair and dragging me to the floor. I was so drowsy that I didn't hear a word she was saying. Until she said boyfriend. My head snapped up to her, then towards Draco. All he did was look down, refusing to meet my eyes. I should've known that they were dating. I shouldn't have fallen for last night. My eyes went back to Pansy because she started snapping in my face.
"Look pug face. Get the fuck out of my face before I beat your ass to the ground." I got up quickly and pushed Pansy away from me, making her stumble backwards.
"You bitch. First your slutty ass decides to use a love potion on my boyfriend and then your half-blood filth touches me. Ew."
"Oh boo hoo. You got pushed by a half-blood. Grow up and get off your high horse. If you didn't want to be around non-purebloods then you shouldn't have come to Hogwarts. Also don't you dare call me a slut. You've probably slept with more people than your little boyfriend here." I went up to her and smacked her across the face then turned around and walked off to my dorm. How could I be so stupid? I should have known they were together. Great my second day here and I am already in a world of shit. With Pansy finding me last night, people are going to be thinking I'm a slut or whatever. Jesus, I'm screwed.
I storm into my dorm and head straight for my dresser. I grab some clothes and run to the bathroom. I quickly get changed and brush my teeth. Not bothering to mess with my already fucked up hair, I head down the stairs and out of the common room. I was basically running to breakfast, almost dropping my wand twice on the way there. As I get to the great hall I slow my pace and calm myself down so know one knows that I was mad. I walk into the great hall and I walk over to the Gryffindor table. Parker was already there so I sit next to her. As I sit down, Ron gave a small grunt. I gave him a death glare in return because I am not in the mood to deal with his shit. I feel a pair of hands grab a hold of my shoulders. I look up and see Fred leaning over me.
"Oi. Feliz. Me and George have something planned, wanna come with?" Fred says with a grin plastered on his face.
"Sure, just let me grab a piece of toast." He nods ok and lets go of my shoulders. I grab a piece of toast and tell Parker that I will see her later. As we walk towards the entrance Malfoy, Pansy, and Malfoy's goons Crabbe and Goyle walk in. Malfoy points at me and the twins and shouts, "Oh look the slut has found her next victims. Wonder which twin she will go for first." I notice Fred get tense and clench his fist.
"Malfoy. No one wants to hear your screechy ass voice this early in the morning." I snap.
"That's not what you said last night." He taunts, while walking up to me.
"What's that mean, Feliz?" Fred asks.
"Malfoy go fuck some little Slytherin slut because I am not in the mood for your bullshit." I say, ignoring Fred's question.
"Oh. Then I could have round two with you then?" Fred steps in between me and Malfoy.
"Leave her the hell alone Malfoy or I swear to god that I will beat your ass." Fred threatens. I flinch at his words. He usually threatens people with pranks, not actually hurting someone.
"Oh. Get out of the way, Weaslebe, this is between me and miss slut over there." Fred rears his hand back to punch Draco but I grab his hand before he could hit him. I drag Fred out of the Great Hall, with George tailing behind us.
"What was that about?" Fred asks more urgently this time. "
"I ended up sleeping on the couch last night and I guess at some point without me knowing Malfoy joined me. And this morning Pansy found us together." I lie. He nodded his head. His demeanor was still a little threatening but otherwise he has calmed down a little. He started dragging me to who knows where. We stop at a broom closet and I look at the twins confused.
"What in the world are you two planning?" I ask.
"One must not question the wise ones." Fred responds. I snort a little and I hear George laugh behind me.
"Oi Feliz, which one of us is wiser?" George asks, challenging his brother.
"If you are making me pick between you two then I'm leaving."
"Yeah come on George. You know she would pick me over you any day." I snort. No way I'm picking between the two. Though I might pick Fred.
"Alright. I'm leaving." Fred grabs my arm before I could leave and opens the closet door. Instead of the closet being filled with brooms and other cleaning junk, this closet was filled with what looked like supplies for pranks. I look at Fred confused as he grabs something that looks like a heart-shaped box. Like on one of those stupid Valentine's day chocolate boxes. Then realization hits me.
"Are these some sort of trick candy?"
"Yep. Ones we are trying to make." George replies before Fred could.
"They are supposed to give you huge sores all over your face. But we haven't tested them yet." Fred finishes the statement.
"If you guys think that I am going to try one of these then yall are dead wrong." Worry crosses my features. I'm not trying any candy they decide to give me. No way.
"Don't worry. You're not going to try them. Filch is." Fred says, trying to reassure me. It's not very helpful.
"Oh. Lord." Fred smiles and closes the closet door, making sure to lock it when he's done. George and Fred start walking off and I follow them. I'm pretty sure we are going to Filch's office but with the twins you never know.
On another note. Why did I script that I was 5'4? I should have scripted that I walk fast. Literally I'm so far behind them it looks like I'm stalking them. I heard some random kid say, "Oi! Weasleys! You've got the Slytherin slut following you." The twins stopped abruptly and turned around to look at the kid.
"Back off before we hurt you. I don't care that you're a 5th year student. I will hurt you. I've heard that one too many times today." Fred was absolutely fuming. I go up to Fred and put a hand on his arm, trying to calm him down. I knew this wasn't going to end well for that fifth year.
"Fred. It's ok. I better get to class anyway. I'll see you later." Fred keeps looking at the student. He literally looks like he's planning that student's murder.
"Fred." I whisper, trying to get him to look at me. He looks at me and snaps out of it. By now the kid was gone so I pulled Fred away. Why is Fred being so protective of me? He barely knows me. Anyways, Fred finally gets out of my grasp and he stops walking. I managed to hand Fred the box, but even with it in his hand he insisted I take it.
"Fred, I should get to class." I try again.
"Hehe. You're funny. You're coming." He doesn't sound amused. I roll my eyes and point for him to lead the way. He walks ahead of me, handing me the box along the way. George follows him and I follow after the twins hesitantly. They lead me all the way to an abandoned cordorier. We stop at the end of the hall, in front of a large door. Fred did the alohomora spell on the lock and the door immediately opened. Without them having to ask, I walked into the small room and set the box on the table. I then took out a muggle pen and wrote on the box, "Thank you for all your hard work. The school wouldn't be the same without you. -A secret admirer," in really fancy handwriting. I feel someone put their hand on my shoulder and laugh a little.
"Let's get out of here before Filch catches us." I look up at Fred and he nods his head. We walk out and George locks the door. We hear footsteps so we go up the stairs and duck behind them. Soon we see Filch and Mrs. Norris the cat walk to the office, unlock the door and walk in. We wait a couple of minutes for him to come running out, but he never did. Instead we saw a big cloud of green smoke explode in the room. Seeing that, we got up and ran up the stairs before Filch could come and find us. As we were running, we went up to the second floor hallway. Where apparently Dumbledore's office is. Speaking of Dumbledore, right as we got to the second floor we were stopped by the headmaster himself. Me being the dumb one in the middle I almost bumped into him
"Ah. Miss Wilhite. Just the person I was looking for." Dumbledore says as I stop in front of him. He looks between me and the twins through his spectacles.
"Professor. I'm not in trouble already am I?" He chuckles a little at my comment.
"Not quite the opposite in fact. But these two will need to get to class or they will be in trouble." He points at the twins who are slightly behind me.
"Yes sir." They both speak at the same time. It baffles me how they do that. It takes me and my best friend like ten times before we could get something like that right. I see the twins walk in front of me. Them waving bye as they leave me with the professor. I wave back and stare at them as they leave.
"Curious boys aren't they? I see you have an eye for one of them?" Dumbledore says, while watching the boys leave.
"I'm not going to lie to you that I don't because I know that you already know I do." He chuckles at my comment and then points ahead of him for me to go. I walk in front of him and stop in front of the Griffin statue. Dumbledore said the password and out of nowhere the Griffin statue twisted around to reveal stairs. Dumbledore pointed forward for me to go first, so I started walking up the circular stair with the professor following behind me. I walk into his office and I see Parker and Ethan fighting with each other verbally. My breath catches in my throat when I see Ethan. And I think I know what this is about. I take the seat right next to Parker, away from Ethan, while Dumbledore takes a seat in his chair.
"So I see you three are wondering why you have been asked to my office." Dumbledore starts. We all nodded our heads in response.
"Are we in trouble?" Parker asks.
"No, Miss Sallow. This is about you three coming to our world. Now how you came to this world is beyond my comprehension but you must know that since you are here I want to know more and I want to give you a warning. Be careful of what you do here and do not try to change anything that you already haven't scripted to change." We all nodded our heads and Dumbledore gave us a warm smile.
"You all may go to class now." We nod again and get up out of our chairs, then we walk out of the Headmaster's office. We walked down the stairs quietly but as soon as we were off the stairs Ethan started talking.
"Are you going to talk to me now?"
"She doesn't have to if she doesn't want to." Parker steps in, trying to defend me.
"Oh, since when do you talk for her?" Ethan snaps. I'm fuming. No one talks to her like that.
"Ethan, don't talk to her like that. No, I'm not going to talk to you. I've already said my bit and that's it. Leave me alone." I grab Parker's arm and start dragging her away from him. I know she wants to punch him but I want to do a lot worse than that and I'm not looking for either of us to get expelled on the second day.
Parker and I got to potions as quickly as we could. We knew we were already late so we were already going to get into trouble. We walk into the classroom and Snape's head snaps toward us quickly.
"This is the second day this week Ms. Wilhite that you are late and it seems that you are rubbing off on your friend." Snape said, drawing out his voice longer than needed.
"Sorry Professor. I never meant to miss my favorite class." I say sarcastically. "But me and Parker had to go talk to Professor Dumbledore."
"Since you feel the need to be sarcastic Wilhite you sit next to Malfoy for the rest of the year."
"Whatever." I walk up to my seat and sit down in the seat, basically slamming my stuff down in the process. Snape gives me a glare but I just smirk at him.
"Detention Ms. Wilhite." I hear Malfoy snort beside me. I roll my eyes and take out a quill and paper. I start writing on the paper "FML," and "Fuck life," so hard my quill almost broke. All of a sudden I hear a "psst, psst" coming from in front of me. I look up and see Blaise Zabini looking at me.
"What Zabini?"
"Is it true, about you and Malfoy?" Blaise whispers.
"I think you of all people should know that rumor was just a boost for his ego."
"True." He snorts a little then turns back around to get back to work. I looked down and started scribbling random words on my paper. I feel Malfoy's elbow poke into my side. I look up as he slides a note over to me. It reads, "Stop writing like a maniac." I roll my eyes and write FML across the note he gave me. I sloppily drew a hand with the middle finger pointing up, then gave the note back to him. He rolled his eyes then decided to do something stupid. He put his hand on my lower thigh and slowly made his hand way up my thigh. This made me squirm badly. I hate being touched like that. But me being a dumb ass decided to move his hand and put my hand on his thigh to get him back. I moved my hand slowly up his thigh, a smirk spreading across my face. Out of the corner of my eye I could see him squirming. I rest my hand next to his sensitive spot, not going any further. Just to mess with him. When did I get this confident? I would never act like this in my real reality. It's weird. Draco leans towards my ear and whispers, "You're gonna regret that." I smirked at him and whispered back, "I sincerely doubt it." He pulls away from me and scoffs. I smirked and moved my hand a little closer to his area. I felt him squirm under my touch and I was trying hard not to laugh. The bell rings and I quickly grab my stuff and run out of the class. I turn my head around and I see Malfoy following me with anger on his face. Suddenly I feel myself bump into someone and then I am on the ground. I look up and see Fred holding his hand out to me. I take it and he pulls me up.
"I know this is weird but can you flirt with me for a second, please?" I ask quickly.
"Why?"
"I'm trying to get Malfoy off my back." He nods and starts saying flirty things to me. I try my best to flirt back but I am not very good at flirting. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that. Especially Parker. She's seen me trying to flirt before and she knows it always ends badly. For me anyway. Anyways, I look over and Draco is standing a few feet away, glaring at me and Fred. Fred notices and pulls my face towards him, then pulls me into a kiss. I was surprised at first but after a second I kissed back. His kiss was sweet but I really can't compare it to anything because this is my first kiss ever. He pulled back after a couple seconds and smiled down at me. He mouthed sorry but I brushed it off and whispered, "It's fine." I looked over and saw that Malfoy was no longer watching us. Instead Ethan was standing where Malfoy was, with what I thought was a hurt look on his face. My stomach turned upside down. I turned to Fred and tried to open my mouth to speak but I couldn't.
"Want to skip class?" Fred said out of nowhere.
I nod my head. "Yeah."
"Good because it's my turn to show you a place." I roll my eyes as he quickly grabs my hand. He drags me in the direction I was supposed to be going but instead of going the way to the astronomy tower he drags me towards the back exit of the castle. We exited the castle, him continuing to drag me. I didn't care where we were going. I was just glad to get some fresh air.
He took me all the way to the black lake. We stopped at a patch of bushes and he took out his wand. He did some random spell and the bushes opened up, showing a rock ledge that sits over the edge of the lake. He pulls me forward and sits down on the ledge, basically dragging me with him.
"It's so pretty up here." I breathe out.
"I come here when I want to get away."
"Wow. Fred Weasley. Prankster extraordinaire. Has a quiet place to himself." I say jokingly.
"Hey! I'm not that bad." He said it jokingly but I kinda felt bad saying it that way.
"Sorry. By the way, thank you for getting me out of that."
He shrugs. "No problem, Feliz. Can I ask why that was necessary though?"
"I kinda got into trouble for being late. And Snape forced me to sit with Malfoy. Well while I was writing he decided to mess with me by putting his hand on my thigh." I explain.
"I'm going to kill him." He mutters in response.
"Hold on there's more. Me being dumb decided to bother him, so I moved his hand and did the same thing to him that he did to me. And every time he squirmed I would move my hand a little closer but I never ended up touching his area. Damn now that I say that it sounds bad." I wince at my stupidity. Why did I decide to mess with Malfoy?
"You're a virgin aren't you?" The question comes out of nowhere.
"Ok. Weird question to ask, but the answer is yes. Why?"
"Because I feel like a virgin would refer to a guy's dick as his area." I roll my eyes and laugh a little bit. I smack him in the arm a tiny bit and he just bursts out laughing. I can feel my face turn red. After he calms down he looks me directly in the eye and I could tell he's a little about something.
"That was your first kiss wasn't it?" I nod my head slowly. And with that being confirmed his face turns almost redder than his hair. But I know my face is just as red.
"I'm sorry. If I'd known then I wouldn't have done it."
"Fred. It's fine. Out of all people, I'm glad it was you. Besides, the worst thing that would've happened if you didn't was my first kiss could've been Malfoy." He laughs at that but I don't, even though I was trying to joke around. My thoughts were contradicting my words. A part of me liked Malfoy but I really didn't want to. I think the reason though, that I'd prefer Malfoy is because I know Fred is going to die. I know I could change that but my mind completely forgot when I was writing my script and I am also scared that I'm not going to go to the same reality if I change it. And knowing me I'm going to forget to add it to my script. Anyways, I realized that I had zoned out so I snapped out of it and looked at Fred. He was looking over at the water. Probably thinking why I'm so quiet.
"I wish things were this peaceful."
"Yeah. Well then everything would be boring and no fun."
"I know." I see Fred pat his knee signaling for me to lay my head down. I lay my head down hesitantly, on his lap. He starts playing with my hair. I started getting really tired from not sleeping much last night. And soon I was asleep on Fred's lap.
I woke up what I hope was a little bit later, in a bed and with Fred's arm wrapped around my waist. He was lightly snoring and I didn't want to wake him up. I looked around the room and saw that we weren't in the Gryffindor or Slytherin dorms, so we must be in the room of requirements.
"Fred." I whispered quietly. He stirred a little bit so I said his name again. He jolted awake and looked down at me with surprise.
"Morning sleeping beauty."
"Who's Sleeping beauty?" He asked, very confused. I laughed a little because I knew he wouldn't get it.
"It's a muggle story." He nodded ok and scratched his head.
"What time is it?" He asks, sleepily.
"How should I know? I don't even know where I am." He laughs slightly and hops off the bed. I follow after him and we both exit the room. The hall was dark and a bit eerie. The lights were dim so I assumed it was either before curfew or almost dinner time. Either way I'm going to my common room.
"I'll see you tomorrow Fred."
"Yeah. See you tomorrow." He gave me a quick smile then started walking away from me. I stand there for a second, watching him leave. I whisper to myself, "I need to stay away from him." I decided that instead of going to my common room and having to deal with people I'm just going to go to the astronomy tower. But then I remembered I have detention tonight. So I make my long trek to the dungeons.
I get to Snape's office a couple minutes later. I swear to god that if CR me did this she would be complaining the whole way to herself. Partly because I hate walking though. Also she would be as skinny as I am right now after a month. I walk into Snape's office and see Malfoy at one of the desks looking bored and Snape at his desk looking up at me. I walk over to his desk and wait for him to say something.
"You and Malfoy will just be in here sitting quietly. I have business to take care of." I nod ok and walk to a seat that is as far away from Malfoy as possible. Professor Snape stormed out of the room and slammed the door behind him. As soon as Snape left, I took out a book and started reading. After a couple minutes, I felt my arm get grabbed and I was dragged out of my chair and thrown to the wall.
"What Malfoy?" He put one hand around my throat and one hand on my arm.
"That was a really slutty move, you know that? Messing with me then kissing Weaslebee."
"Trust me. I'm aware." I quip. He looks me up and down. His eyes uncomfortably linger on my chest, that isn't even exposed.
"You know. Since you are such a slut you won't mind me doing this." He starts roughly kissing my neck, while sliding his hand down to my thigh. His hand stopped right at the hem of my jeans. His finger slipped into the hem of my jeans and started tracing my stomach. I started squirming at his touch. I tried pushing him away but he is too strong for me. Every so often I felt him suck on my neck, most likely causing hickeys to appear.
"Draco. Please stop." He took that as a sign to start kissing my neck more roughly. I tried putting my hand on his chest to push him away but again he didn't hardly move. My eyes started tearing up.
"Draco. Please. Please stop." He was starting to get close to my area but luckily for me we heard the door knob move so Draco pulled away from me and went back to his seat. I wiped the tears that were rolling down my face and went back to my seat. I covered my neck and went back to reading like nothing happened. I really hope my face wasn't red.
Snape came back into the classroom with a disappointed look on his face. He dismissed us, so I ran out of the classroom and away from my common room. I was heading to the astronomy tower and I don't care who tries to stop me. On about the third floor I heard muffled crying coming from around a corner. I walk over to the crying carefully, thinking it was a first year who lost their way or something. But when I turned the corner I saw George sitting by the wall with his legs hugged to his chest, crying. Quietly, I walked over to him and sit down beside him.
"George?" He looks up at me, a little startled.
"Felicity. What are you doing here?" He questions.
"I was going up to the astronomy tower. Are you ok?" He nods his head but lets out a ragged sigh afterwards.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing. You probably wouldn't understand anyway."
"Probably not, but try me. I know I'm only a third year, but hey you never know." He laughs slightly and nods his head.
"I just feel like sometimes...that I'm just Fred's shadow. That he wouldn't need me if I ever died." He sobs, making my throat tighten.
"George, that's not true."
"But it is. He doesn't need me. He would be better off without me." Something twists in my gut. Guilt? Sympathy? Maybe both.
"George. He does need you. I've never had a twin before but I know they have a special connection that no other people with siblings can have. You are just as important as him. And trust me, he would need you." He smiles a little bit.
"Thanks, Felicity. Hey. What's that on your neck?" I put my hand to my neck and sighed.
"I burned my neck. I was messing with a curling iron earlier." I lie, quickly.
"Who gave that to you?" He urges on, catching my lie.
"No one." I lie again.
"I'm not an idiot."
"It was Malfoy. During detention. He was getting back at me for kissing..." I cut myself off because I had a feeling Fred has not yet told him yet.
"Kissing who?"
"Did I say kissing? I meant messing. I was messing with him in class because he was messing with me first." I get up and George follows after me.
"Whatever happened. Fred is going to kill him for that."
"Can I ask why he has been so protective? I don't know if that's how he normally is but I'm curious." The question spills out without meaning to.
"You can't tell can you?" He questions, making it sound like the answer to my question is the most obvious thing in the world. Maybe it is. I just can't see it.
"Tell what?"
"Never mind. See ya tomorrow." The joking returned to his voice.
"Yeah see ya." I wave him bye as he walks off. I take a deep breath and start walking to the astronomy tower again. I sigh and feel tears start coming out of my eyes. Not for me but for George. I might not be a twin but I know how it feels to not feel wanted or feel like I'm someone's shadow. When I first started hanging out with Parker and my other best friend I always felt like they could do without me. Which they could but they both have shown me that they do want me around. Don't know why sometimes but I'm glad that they do. They both have got me through a lot. Especially Parker. She's been through all the drama, heartbreaks, anxiety attacks, and late night advice. Which all that stuff I probably caused on my own. Ok. Correction I did cause all that for myself. Which is also why I asked Parker to come with me here. I don't know what I'd do without her.
I walk up the astronomy tower steps and sit down near the edge. I look up at the stars, just admiring them. They all looked so beautiful and calm. Like there wasn't a care in the world. But there is and I know that tomorrow I'm going to have to deal with what Malfoy did to me tonight. Again my breathing starts to get harder and my mind starts running again. My mind starts saying stuff like, "You know you liked it," and "You deserved it for being a slut." I get up from the edge so I don't get any ideas and walk to the middle of the tower. I lay flat on my back. I try counting the stars but it's hardly working. I want to go get Parker but I don't think that I'll have enough time to go get her.
Then my mind starts telling me, "Why would she want to help you anyway?" I start crying harder and my breathing is getting worse. I would really prefer passing out right now.
"Please stop. What did I do to deserve this?" Of course my brain answered back with everything. I tried to count stars again and this time it seemed to help. My breathing slowed down and I let out a sigh of relief. I lay there on the cold floor for a good couple of minutes letting the tears drip off my face. I wanted to throw up and pass out at the same time.
After those couple of minutes, I get up and walk back to my common room. The walk was really long like usual. I hate walking now that I think about it. I can barely walk around my high school without complaining about walking. Back to the topic, I avoid Filch easily. He's asleep most likely anyway. I walk into the common room and I saw Malfoy laying on the couch, sleeping. I was glad he was sleeping but I wish that he wasn't sleeping down here. I wanted to sleep down here. Anyway, I walk up to my dorm as quietly as I can. Careful not to wake up Malfoy. When I walk into the dorm Parker was still awake but Pansy was asleep. Thank god.
"Where have you been?" Parker says quietly, sounding like a mother when her kid comes home after curfew.
"Detention." I shrug.
"Detention shouldn't have taken that long."
"Well after detention I went to the astronomy tower." I shrug again.
"Why? Wait what's on your neck?" She walks over to me and moves my face to look at my neck.
"Just break my neck while you are at it." I say sarcastically.
"Why do you have hickeys on your neck?"
"Malfoy. He did it in detention. He was trying to get back at me for kissing Fred." I whisper, ashamed of myself for letting it happen.
"Wait, you kissed Fred? Am I missing something?"
"You are missing a lot but I will explain in the morning I promise." She nods ok and goes back to her bed. I went back to mine and as soon as I hit the pillow I fell asleep.
I was running through the woods. I could feel my legs burning. I end up at the clock tower courtyard. The war was happening. I was getting closer to the castle and all around me was destruction. I turn to the side and I see Fred and Percy Weasley trying to fight off some death eaters. Coming up behind them was Augustus Rookwood. I tried to yell for them to watch out but my voice was drowned out by the noise of battle. Rookwood shot a spell from his wand causing an explosion close to Fred. Fred got caught in it and was sent flying backwards. I ran to him knowing he was most likely dead. I knelt beside him. He was breathing but barely. Blood was dripping from his forehead. I wanted to wipe away the blood or try to heal him but I was stuck. I couldn't move. I look up and see Percy is leaning over Fred's body. I don't think either of them could see me.
"Funny that you are scared of that." An evil voice rang from behind me. I turn around and see Voldemort standing behind me.
"Guess now I know what to use against you."