Chapter 6

            Hillarie got up early so that she could meet her friends before classes. When Matt finally arrived in the Great Hall he saw that Hillarie was surrounded by the very large group of friends that had been brought with her and they were all sitting at the Gryffindor Table. He looked around and saw most of his friends scowling at the group; they did not like Slytherins sitting at their table. Seeing that he would probably be yelled at if he sat with the group right away he sat down with Ben, Chris and Terry.

            "Have you seen what the new kids are doing?!" Chris asked the moment he sat down. "There is a Slytherin girl at our table!"

            "Yea and in case you haven't noticed there are also two Hufflepuffs and a Ravenclaw sitting with them as well."

            "You know very well that Slytherins aren't supposed to come over here just like we don't go over to their table." Terry replied.

            "In case you haven't noticed they don't seem to care about our stupid 'rules' so maybe we should just leave them alone." Ben said trying to help Matt out.

            "Whatever." Chris said as he returned to eating his breakfast.

            Matt decided that, since he obviously wasn't going to change their opinion, he would just go sit with them and not worry about what they thought. Ben seeing that Matt was going to go over there decided to go as well and meet the girlfriend that had been hidden from him for the past week. Matt was immediately greeted and the girls waited for the other boy to be introduced to them. "Oh this is Ben, Ben this is Defrias, Silva, Paola, and Hillarie."

            "Hi." They replied before turning back to their conversation.

            "Look Silva just because you had to leave Macaroni behind doesn't mean that it's the end of the world. We always told you that he was no good, I mean the guy went around telling you that he was going to die an early age in the army!" Defrias told her. "Plus there are tons of other guys here that are probably just like him."

            "It's not my fault I can't just get over a guy as quickly as you can. I mean he wasn't a complete ass to me like Dictator Smelly was so it's different for me." Silva replied.

            "Okay the thing with Dictator Smelly was over almost as soon as it started so please do not bring him up again. Look at Hillarie, she's still standing strong after leaving Barbie behind."

            "Defrias is right Silva you really need to try and get past your whole Macaroni obsession."

            The conversation continued and Matt looked over at Ben to see that he was apparently just as confused as he was. "They have very interesting names for people in the states." Ben joked.

            After breakfast had ended Matt decided to see what they had been talking about at breakfast. "Hey what's up with all the weird names?" He asked her bluntly.

            "Oh that." Hillarie laughed. "I forgot you guys didn't know about the codenames. See at our old school we had to come up with codenames for the guys that we liked so that they wouldn't figure out whom we were talking about. You get pretty used to using them after awhile. Mine was hands down the worst though, I had Barbie, not Ken, Barbie. It took me a little while before I finally accepted that they weren't going to let me change the name. "

            "Okay then it all makes sense." Matt said slightly relieved that they weren't the actual names of the people. "So you guys are pretty brave all sitting together like that."

            "What are you talking about, we always sit together." Hillarie said, genuinely confused about why that would make them brave.

            "Well you and your friends were all put into separate houses."

            "Duh, we know that. It's only for classes and sleeping though so why wouldn't we be able to sit together?"

            "Well it's just…I don't know why you wouldn't be able to sit together. It's just always been that way, with the different tables for the different houses. Usually we don't make friends outside of our own house."

            "Well that's stupid." Hillarie told him bluntly.

            "Yea it kind of is, isn't it." Matt agreed. "Well I'm off to Transfiguration, what do you have first?"

            "Divination."

            "Ha good luck with that, my dad took it with Trelawney and every time she predicted his death, I'm pretty sure that she's still here."

            "Okay I guess I shouldn't take her too seriously then, considering that your dad is still alive."

            "You're so observant." Matt joked. "I'll see you after class," Matt said as he quickly gave her a kiss and then hurried off to class.

            When class was finally over Matt went up to the Gryffindor Common Room to get his other books and when he got up there he saw Hillarie talking to Will. 'I wonder what she's talking to him about.' Matt asked himself feeling a little bit jealous of the attention that she was giving this boy. They seemed to be pretty good friends with this kid. "Hey how was Divination?" He asked as he sat down next to them on the couch.

            "Fine, apparently not only am I going to die an early death but I also have 2 children. Exciting huh?" She said sarcastically. "I've decided to name them Kristin and Courtney."

            "I told you she didn't know what she was talking about, my dad said she's only made like five real predictions in her entire life."

            "It wasn't so bad, I found out that Will here is in a lot of my classes." Hillarie said as she tried to find the bright side to her day. "He thinks that maybe her whole false predictions thing is a façade, just like the gay façade of Salem." As soon as she said that the two of them started laughing and Matt began to notice how out of the loop he really was about her, and how she really didn't know much about him either. Which was perfectly understandable considering they had only known each other for about two weeks but the jealousy thing was beginning to affect his thinking.

            "Whatever I'm going to go meet Ben, see you two around."

            "What's his problem?" Will asked her.

            "I have no idea. Well I better be off I promised Defrias, Paola and Silva that I'd meet them outside. Hey are you finally over Paola?" She asked.

            "Yea. Unfortunately the person I like now isn't exactly a good choice considering she's already taken."

            "Aww poor Will isn't very lucky with girls is he? Well do you want to come for a walk with us? Dumbledore said that we could take the afternoon off because apparently we have to start training tomorrow."

            "I thought we would have more time before we had to start that. You know like until the end of the year." Will joked.

            "Oh yea because that's not the reason we're here or anything."

            "Hey it's the reason YOU'RE here not us. I believe we are just here to look pretty and help you adjust." Will said in the most know-it-all voice he could muster. "Well Ms. Queen of the World let's go have some fun before the training begins."

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Okay I know that chapter was really short, but I promise the next one will be longer. I've been really busy lately cause I have finals and stuff coming up. Don't worry I'm going to make myself work to get a really long chapter out next time and don't worry the plot is coming. This story isn't just going to ramble on about nothing like I'm doing right now. Anywaysss….. PLEASE REVIEW! I love input on how the story is.