Boyfriend or Ex
"Vi wake up!" Gabrielle calls from down the hallway as she runs towards my room, probably to jump on my bed. I jumped up from where I had been laying on my bed sewing my new pointe shoes and looked towards the door which had burst open. Gabrielle ran forwards still wearing her pajama's and jumped towards my bed I caught her and quickly spun her in a circle making her bubbly laugh resonate through the room.
"Morning Gabs" I say to the energetic eleven-year-old as she wanders over to my closet and looks over all of my clothing. To explain my name is Violetta Mae Dandenua and both my parents died mere months after I was born, and both were personally killed by Lord Voldemort. My father Mateo Izan Dandenua was a skilled legilemence so skilled only one was greater, Albus Dumbledore. Lord Voldemort wanted my father on his side, for if he wanted to beat Albus Dumbledore he would need the best legilemence he could get. While looking for my father Lord Voldemort also learned that my mother the beautiful Adelia Maria Dandenua nee Lavallee, was a Metamorphous a very powerful metamorphous who seemed to have superior control over her transformations. So, he decided he wanted both my parents to help him on his horrifying path towards getting rid of all muggle born wizards. When Lord Voldemort finally caught both my parents, they fought against him resisted until their last moments, when he killed them both. Without his knowing I had been born and given to my godmother, when my mother had learned of what the Dark Lord had planned, she hadn't wanted me anywhere near her, that was how I ended up with the Delacour's. Apolline Delacour was my godmother so, I grew up with the Delacour's but, I kept my family name. This year at Beauxbaton's would be a big one. Last year, I got mad at a very annoying boy at my school, one too many times he had brought up my parents and I had snapped my hair flying around my face in a dark red haze as my blood boiled, after that I don't remember much, just that I was really mad, and I lunged towards the boy. From what Fleur had told me happened was that somehow my hair had turned to flames and when I launched myself at the boy, I started burning him. When Madame Maxim had finally pulled me off him half of his face had been burned and he had to go to the hospital wing. I had also very nearly burned down one of the many towers at Beauxbaton's, the weird thing was, I was completely fine not a single burn marring my skin. Of course, the fact that I had almost burned down a tower had gotten out and Madame Maxim had to explain to a French reporter what happened, of course the reporter had to talk to the famous Rita Skeeter and now, if I wanted to continue my studies at Beauxbaton's, I will have to win the Triwizard tournament for our school. Now that we are all caught up I need to go get ready for Gabrielle's first day at Beauxbaton's. I walked towards the young girl pulling her away from where she had been looking through my closet.
"Why are you always looking through my clothes?" I ask her as her brown doe eyes turn from my clothing to look at my face.
"They're so pretty!" She answers.
"You have pretty clothes too, do you want me to help pick your outfit" I ask her, and she turns back to face me a smile brightening her face, she doesn't say a word as she drags me towards her room and rushes over to her closet, opening the doors to the closet she steps back, and I laugh walking over to it to inspect her options. I search for a moment before settling on a long-sleeved white shirt with ruffles around the neck and shoulders and pull out a beige almost knee length skirt. I arrange them onto the bed and grab Gabrielle's hand.
"Come on Breakfast" I say as I lead her down the stairs. Fleur was already sitting at the table butter and toast already set on it. Apolline was sitting on the couch in the living room reading the paper as she drank her coffee, and their father was probably still upstairs. Gabrielle and I quickly sat down, and I spread some butter onto a piece of toast.
"What year are you guys going into again?" Gabrielle asks her mouth full.
"Gabrielle don't talk with your mouth full" Fleur chastises the younger girl.
"I am going into my fourth year and Fleur is going into her seventh." I answer as I get up to get a glass of water. We quickly finish up our breakfast and Fleur rushes us up the stairs.
"Go get dressed" She calls over her shoulder as she walks into her bedroom. I walk into my own and I hear Gabrielle's door close. I quickly walk over to my closet looking over all my clothing before deciding on a pair of white skinny jeans and a light blue laced up crop top with small pink flowers and elbow length flowing sleeves. I walked to the other side of my room to look over my shoes and chose a pair of light blue suede sandal type heels. I walked out of my bedroom and into our shared bathroom. Since I knew we would be doing our makeup on the train I just did a little foundation and a pink lip gloss. I started brushing my hair as Gabrielle walked into the bathroom wearing the outfit, I had chosen for her.
"How should I do my hair today?" I ask her holding a strand of hair in front of my face. Gabrielle thinks for a moment before saying
"Blue and Purple" she says nodding to herself. I smile and concentrate, like usual when I use my metamorphous powers a cool feeling like a wave washed over me and when I opened my eyes again and looked in the mirror my hair was shorter and curled lightly, my roots black and streaks of purple and blue congregating at the bottom and running up. I turned to my younger sister
"How do you want me to do your hair today?" I ask her as she turns around and I start brushing her hair.
"A braid" Gabrielle answers her brown eyes wide as she watched me in the mirror. I quickly pulled her hair over to one side and started braiding her hair as I do this I hear Fleur calling me.
"Violetta" she calls through the house.
"Yes" I shout back towards her, she walks into the bathroom.
"Where are the black shoes, the ones with the bows on the back" she asks me.
"In my room on the" I trail off to think for a moment "the right side of my bed" I tell her.
"Thanks" she calls behind her as she rushes towards my room. I finish up Gabrielle's braid and put my hands on her shoulders, turning her to face me.
"Ok Gabs go get your sandals" I tell her, and she walks back over to her room as I look over myself once more. Fleur walks back into the bathroom now wearing the black heels. Her outfit consisted of a layered grey skirt and a short sleeved white scoop necked top. Of course, Fleur could do her hair much faster than Gabrielle and I, since she was seventeen, she could use magic. So, she tapped her wand to her face and a thin layer of foundation and contour applied itself to her face, then she tapped the top of her head and her hair magically straightened itself. We both walked out of the bathroom and found Gabrielle next to our bags, Fleur muttered under her breath and pointed her wand at our bags and the transformed into small pale blue purses.
"Undetectable extension charms" she explains airily as we all grab our own.
"Girls" we hear Apolline call from downstairs "are you ready". We hurry down the stairs, Alexander Fleur and Gabrielle's father is standing next to his wife. Apolline extends a hand towards me and Alexander towards his youngest daughter. We both take them and Fleur apparats away. Quickly Apolline apparats with me and I feel the breath in my lungs being pushed out as we travel through a tight tube before landing on a main street. Soon enough Gabrielle and Alexander arrive, and we walk a couple streets to an unused side street, as we walk past a pole my vision blurs and wobbles as the magic passes over us. Past the magical barrier we cans see many witches and wizards dropping off their children within three carriages each pulled by six unicorns, the carriages are pale blue like most of the things from Beauxbaton's and have undetectable extension charms placed on them.
"Bye Mother, Bye Father" Fleur and Gabrielle say hurrying over to one of Fleurs friends.
"Bye Apolline, Bye Alexander" I say kissing Apolline's cheek and hurrying after my sisters'. I catch up to them and the three of us walk into the second carriage.
"Can you take Gabrielle" Fleur asks as she starts heading after her group of friends
"Sure" I say grabbing Gabrielle's hand and walking the opposite direction to the middle of the carriage, on the left side there is an open door and I turn into it. Sitting with her knees up a sketch pad on them and a pencil in her mouth as she shades something with her finger is a girl.
"Cel" I call out to her, and her head snaps up to meet my gaze her pencil drops from between her teeth.
"Vi" she shouts out putting the sketchpad down beside her. She rushes over to me pulling me into a tight hug.
"How are you" she asks quickly pulling away "I heard about the Triwizard tournament" she continues "are you okay?, what's going to happen" she says quickly and then her gaze catches on Gabrielle. I smile and grab Gabrielle's hand pulling her in front of me and resting my hands on her shoulder.
"Gabs this is Celeste" I say. Gabrielle stares for a moment before finding her voice "Hello my name is Gabrielle Delacour" Gabrielle says her chin up and eyes looking right at Celeste. Celeste looks at me and laughs before saying.
"Just like Fleur" she ruffles Gabrielle's hair and Gabrielle smiles up at the two of us. Celeste's dirty blonde hair was pulled out of her face, the top half came up into a small messy bun and the rest fell behind her shoulders, frizzing slightly from how she had been sitting. Her outfit consisted of a pair of yellow heels with a bow on each side that were thrown next to her bag on the floor, her bare feet came to sit back on the seat and her knees bent as she put her sketchpad back onto her lap. Her shorts were black with little yellow flowers on them, and her shirt was a golden yellow with a low neckline and cut off sleeves.
"I got the paper's signed" she said as Gabrielle and I sat down.
"What papers" I ask her.
"If you get expelled, I am going with you to Hogwarts" Celeste says confidently.
"Celeste, no" I say shaking my head.
"I'm going with you, Jaquez signed it" she said.
"Don't you need the dame to sign it" I ask. Celeste's parents like my own had died not, like mine had just as casualties between the two sides. Sadly, Celeste's parents didn't appoint another guardian and she was put into the foster system. She lived in a large house with ten other children between the ages of eight and seventeen. The dame was the woman who owned the house and was their legal guardian until the turned eighteen.
"No, I need an adult signature to leave Beauxbaton's and one to be accepted into Hogwarts, and Jaquez is eighteen" Celeste explains. Jaquez was another child at the house, but since he had turned eighteen, he had moved out, Celeste had always been close to him, she only ever called him her brother.
"Really Celeste" I say hope slipping into my voice.
"Of course, you and I go everywhere together, there's no way I could make it through school without you" she says and we both laugh.
"Oh, Louis told me he wanted to meet you at the end of the train" Celeste says
"Oh! is that your boyfriend" Gabrielle asks sitting up straighter in her seat
"Yes" I say standing up and pulling my shirt down a little from where it had rolled up.
"Can I meet him" Gabrielle asks her brown eyes widening as she stares at me.
"Sure" I say and extend my hand to her, she hops off her seat and takes my hand. We walk down the aisle of the carriage and past the last car, there was a small alcove behind it. We turned the corner, and I dropped Gabrielle's hand. My mouth opened but no sound came out and I stumbled back a step. My boyfriend's back was to me, and he was kissing another girl, her back against the wall of the train as he was pressed up against her. The girls red hair flashed through my mind, and I couldn't help but find it familiar. Gabrielle turned to me shock registering on her face as well as she whispered.
"Is that your boyfriend?" I lean down over her and breathe deeply before saying.
"Go back to Celeste" She nods and turns around quickly walking away. Her steps must have alerted Louis and the girl because they both turned my way. And my shock rose as I looked at Emmie my other best friend. Tears started to blur my vision, but I pushed them away.
"Wha- What" I stutter out. Louis ran a hand down his face.
"Vi th-" Louis starts.
"Violetta" I cut him off "It's Violetta to you" I say.
"Violetta" he tries again "this is not how I wanted to tell you" he says.
"Tell me what" I ask "That you're cheating on me with my friend."
"No Vi, it's not like that" Emmie tries. Her green dress the complete opposite of how she used to dress. The dress was skintight, a pale green layered at the top, her dark green pumps made her short 5'0 stature come right under Louis's chin.
"Violetta!" I spit viscously at her "Only my friends call me Vi, and a real friend wouldn't do this" I say my eyes starting to get blurry once more as I push my feelings away.
"My parents didn't want us to be together anymore" Louis says.
"That's not an explanation" I say my eyebrows raising and I could see my hair changing, it flashed between black and purple, loss and betrayal. "Your parents didn't want us to be together in the first place" I continue "Why does it matter now". I ask.
"Wel- uhm" Louis stutters he pauses for a moment before saying "I didn't want to be with someone who could get expelled" he says quickly his eyes downcast; a tear slips down my face at that. Louis shook his head as if to clear it before turning to look at Emmie and saying.
"Anyway, while I was out with my parents one morning, we met Emmie's family and, we just kind of hit it off" he says rubbing the back of his head. Emmie grabbed his hand and pressed herself into his side at the words and I looked down, my hair had curled and lengthened it reached my stomach now and was fully black with purple streaking the bottom. I wipe away my tear and look back up.
"I hope you two are happy together" I say pushing my feelings down, I turn around and I hear Louis say
"Violetta wait" he grabs my wrist and I stop but don't turn around.
"Don't" I hear Emmie call out to him and he drops my wrist, I walk away and all of it washes over me. 'I didn't want to be with someone who could get expelled', a tear dropped from my eye, and I hurried down the hallway and burst into our compartment. Celeste stood up and pulled me into a hug as I cried into her shoulder.
"Go get your sister" she says to Gabrielle who scampers out of the compartment without another word.