"So what exactly do I need to do for the rest of the school year?" You asked Elizabeth.
"You need to talk to Draco, become friends. Convince him that you truly had called truce," Elizabeth answered as her, Mark, and you all walked along the hall to head to breakfast.
"Okay.." you were kind of, nervous, about this whole thing. Could you pull it off? As you all walked along the halls, you saw Draco with some of his friends, Blaise, Zach, Pansy, Flint, and some others. You looked towards Draco as you walked by, and he actually looked back. He smirked, as if saying hello, and you smirked back. You glanced over to Elizabeth and saw her with a shocked look on her face.
"That convincing?" you asked Elizabeth.
She closed her agaped mouth, "Yea, very."
"As you can see, when you mix both potions a purple mist appears..." Snape drowned on and on about some dumb potion that you really had no interest in. But you continued to take notes anyways, you wanted good grades. Elizabeth was listening intently, potions being her favorite subject, and Mark slowly head banged to some beat that was in his head. You rolled your eyes towards him, he could be so weird sometimes. You sighed and focused back on the professor.
"...So remember that if it turns black, to quickly pour what I told you to, over it to extinguish it before it explodes. Now begin the potion, you have until the end of class to complete it, No talking! Starting, now!" You quickly jerked your head up realizing you had missed what the professor said to do if the smoked turned black. You gulped thinking you had to do this potion correct or you were in BIG trouble. You read the instructions off the black board and put the rightful ingredients into your caldron mixing it carefully.
"Oh, shoot!" you heard someone yell. You looked over to your side and saw Mark blowing on his caldron, that had just turned, black. Your eyes widened, it was going to explode! You looked around fratically thinking Mark didn't know what to put in the caldron either if it turned black. But when you turned back over to Mark, it had turned into a purple mist, you had missed what he put in it! You then looked down at your caldron. Black smoke arose from it. You gulped. You couldn't ask anyone for help, because you weren't suppose to talk. So the only thing that came to your mind, was to RUN! You quickly ran all the way to the other way of the room and dove underneathe a table. You put your hands over your head just as you heard a lound bang and what sounded like water hitting the ground and books falling. You slowly took your hands off your head and looked out from the table. Smoke covered the room as black ashes covered around your caldron. You slowly stood up as you realized everyone around your caldron, including Mark and Elizabeth, were covered in black suet.
"Miss Trisken." you whipped your head around and saw a fuming Snape behind you. You closed your eyes and breathed in deeply, taking in a bunch of black smoke. You opened your eyes and nodded towards Snape.
"Yes, sir?"
"May I ask why you didn't add Fairie tear drops into your potion when it turned black?" Snape said dangerously low.
THAT'S what you had to put! "Um, I forgot?" you said nervously.
"Well, let's hope you won't forget when your here with me for detention!" Snape yelled. You winced and nodded.
"Class dismissed!" he bellowed. Everyone quickly scrambled out as you also did. You met up with Mark and Elizabeth apologizing for making them get so dirty. You used a spell to clean them up as you once again apologized. You felt terrible.
"'Tis alright. I thought it was brilliant! I hadn't seen Snape that mad before! And did you see that vein in his forehead! It was HUGE!" Mark laughed. You looked towards the crowd, he was NOT helping.
"Oh, sorry, Holly. Don't get yourself so down, you probably won't be alone during detention. Snape always has more then one person in detetion," Mark said patting your back. You sighed, hopefully it wasn't anyone that you wouldn't want to have detention with.
(me:I was writing that first half when I finally realized I wasn't listening to any music! I can't write anything without my music!)
"Hey, Elizabeth," you said.
"Hm?" she answered.
"Do you still like Mark?" You and her had just came in from Herbology from outside and were stopped at the end of a large group of kids blocking your way to get to Transfiguration. Mark had said he needed to go to the bathroom, so he ran off.
"Um, I guess... but I doubt he likes me. Does he even like anyone?" Elizabeth said trying to look over the large crowd of people. Lucky her, she was taller then you and could see more.
"I dunno, maybe he does like you and doesn't know it yet," you said. She laughed and rolled her eyes.
"What is going on?" she asked. You jumped up trying to see over everyone but couldn't see anything.
"Let's go see!" You said grabbing Elizabeth and running into the large crowd of students. You both forced your way into the center of this whole blockage. The whole time getting nudged and scorned at. Finally you reached the center, and your mouth fell open at the site.
"Bloody hell, Malfoy, what are you DOING?!" You yelled. Malfoy stopped what he was doing and stared at you, then glared. Draco had Mark floating the air, and Mark was bleeding from his head.
"Stay out of this, Trisken!" Malfoy growled.
"Malfoy, are you INSANE?! Put Mark DOWN!" Elizabeth yelled.
"Draco, what did Mark do to you?" you asked calmly. Obviously, Mark had to do something to get Malfoy mad.
"The bloody Bastard decided to play some games with me. So I decided to play back," Draco laughed as he made Mark go higher in the air as his back slammed against a high wall.
"MARK!" Elizabeth screamed.
"What, Malfoy, can't handle getting called names?!" You said.
"No one talks to me like that, like Mark did!" Draco yelled.
"Mr. Malfoy!" Someone yelled. Everyone turned their heads to the direction. There stood Professor Snape, that vein on his forehead pulsing again.
"Please put Mr. Laning down," Snape said trying to remain calm. Draco gulped and followed what he was told and slowly brought Mark down, putting him on the floor. You and Elizabeth quickly ran to his side, dropping to your knees.
"That's a detention I am afraid Mr. Malfoy, tonight, don't be late," with that Snape turned on his heel and made his way through the crowd. You glanced from Snape to Draco, who had his head lowered. So Mark was right, you wouldn't have detention alone.
(me: I am so mad at myself! This summer I said I would be more active and get into shape and I am doing HORRIBLE! GAH!)
"I could have taken, Malfoy, on," Mark said while he layed in a hospital bed in the Hospital Wing. You and Elizabeth rolled your eyes. You both sat on one of his sides, you sat with your back to the door.
"Mark, sit still. Your cuts won't heal if you keep fidgeting like that," Madame Pomfrey said as she put a potion over his wounds.
"It isn't my fault that the evil liquid your pouring on my open wounds has pure evil and death-syndrome in it!" Mark said as he eyed the potion and twitched like crazy. Madame Pomfrey rolled her eyes and finished up on his cuts then stood up and left.
"Evil and death-syndrome?" You said raising an eye-brow.
"Yes, you may like it. But I know what it TRULY is!" Mark said prompting his pillows up to sit upright on them, he winced slightly when he rested on his sore back.
"You have a big mouth," Elizabeth said leaning back in her chair.
"Well, you have a big brain," Mark said closing his eyes as his brown long hair fell over his forehead and covered his eyes.
"Oh, shoot, I have to go to detention!" You said looking up at the clock, "I'll see you guys, later!" You said standing up and rushing out of the wing and down to the dungeons. You would just make it in time, thank goodness, you couldn't afford another detention. You quickly walked down to the dungeons and to Snape's door. You stopped in front of it and took a deep breathe. You slowly opened the door not realizing what this detetion might do to you...
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Here you go! I felt bad because I said I would have a quiz out on Friday but I couldn't! So I put one out tonight. I am very sorry! And I just want to tell you that I am REALLY excited for this series, I have SO many ideas! Believe me, it's going to be different from most and actually prove a lesson in the end! I'm oddly proud of myself! So there was number 19! I hoped you enjoyed it!
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