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Chapter 2: Bouncing Sheep
Professor Flitwick walked around the room checking that everybody was doing they're work when a certain dark haired girl caught his attention. He sighed. He knew this class well enough to know that there were certain people who never did any work. Alexandra Fylonrei included. Right now though she was bent over her exercise book (which she was supposed to be copying down the spells that may come up in the N.E.W.T tests) with her pool of black –though actually deep violet- hair covering her pages from view and her hands moving almost violently across the page. It was obvious to him that she was not doing what she was supposed to.
He walked over to her before saying in a very loud voice. 'You seem to be working well today Miss Fylonrei. Would you like to read out to the class what you've wrote?' his eyes glittering.
Alex looked up at him, uncertain what to do as she had no idea what she supposed to be writing but couldn't read what she had actually wrote without getting another detention. The whole of the school had heard of her little issue with the pink hair and green spotty skin and she did not need extra attention or worse, more of the stupid jokes that had been going around school. The whole class was now turning in their seats to try and see what was written in her book. She could almost feel Black's smirk as he waited for her to get told off.
'Don't you want to read it out and share with us what was so much more important then the N.E.W.T.s test?' Professor Flitwick asked before pausing. 'Read!' he commanded.
Alex swallowed and read, 'Title: ten ways to kill Sirius Black'
She could picture in her mind the look on Black's face and could hear the laughter of her classmates around her.
'10. To have him falling off a broomstick from 5,000 feet and landing in pigs dung
9. To have him dying from loss of saliva because of the many girls that manages to suck it out
8. To have the giant squid eat him
7. To be able to tickle him to death
6. To die from embarrassment which I caused to him
5. To drown from having his head stuffed down the toilet
4. To die from me strangling him
3. To have his big head exploded by a pin being stuck in it
2. To die from running into glass walls repeatedly
1. To drown in his own big ego'
She looked up timidly from the piece of paper to Professor Flitwick's gaping mouth. Around her people were all laughing their heads off though, well until she heard a chair being shoved back angrily behind her. She turned around. Sparks were flying from a pair of greyish blue eyes a few rows behind her.
'That's it Alex,' Sirius snarled at her, 'you've gone too far!'
'Oh too far!' she growled at him, 'now you think that this is too far? Did you ever think that people thought that things you did were "too far"! Did you ever listen? Oh and that's a rhetorical question so you can close your mouth.'
'What is your problem? So I changed you pink and green for a few days, so what? You need some serious anger management.'
'Well it's not as if your mother taught you any manners.'
'My mother' he spat the word out, 'has taught me nothing.'
'THAT IS QUITE ENOUGH!' Professor Flitwick screeched in his high pitched voice. 'Now both of you can see me after class or it'll be detention for both of you!'
Alexandra raised her eyebrows. 'Isn't the point in seeing us is to give us detention?' She muttered to herself but sat down anyways.
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Later that day, Alex stomped up to the common room where Cassie and Lily were sitting in the seats besides the fireplace, discussing N.E.W.T.s examinations and doing their homework. She sat down heavily next to them and sighed heavily, looking at them expecting some sort of reaction from them. She frowned when she didn't get anything and sighed heavily again, this time with some annoyance in it.
Lily looked up from her potions homework. 'Yes? I'm kinda in the middle of my potions homework, I've got to get this formula right or it could the antidote could turn into a poison you know.'
Alex snorted. 'You know you're going to get an O for all your work Lily. What with being the magical version of Einstein and one of Sluggy's personal favourites.'
'Stop calling Professor Slughorn Sluggy! God, you never show any respect to teachers and you would be one of his favourites if you didn't poison him in 2nd year.'
Alex giggled. That memory still made her laugh. She had misread the book and stirred the concoction around 5 times clockwise instead of 5 times anticlockwise. Professor Slughorn had tested the potion and choked the second he swallowed it and it was only for Lily's quick think that he lived to tell the tale.
Cassie sighed. 'What did Flitwick want?' she asked Alex.
'Me and Black have to clean the whole trophy room, WITHOUT magic!'
'So you're just gonna do it?' Cassie said, her eyebrows raised. It wasn't like Alex to have a detention without trying to get out of it or make it easier in some way.
Alexandra's dark blue glinted. 'Well… I was hoping Lily would make some of that really good polish that she lets my use for my broom.' It wasn't just normal polish; this one makes the work ten times easier. None of that mouldy shit Filch was going to give her! She thought to herself.
Lily slammed her book closed. 'No, no and more no. That list you made was childish and immature and you deserve to be punished for it.'
'Come on! It's not as if Black isn't childish and immature. Besides, I didn't know it was going to get read in class, did I?' She widened her eyes, hoping the puppy dog eyes would work on Lily.
'The puppy dog eyes aren't going to work Alex,'
She pouted. 'This is actually your fault you know. If you hadn't upset James and made him tell Black to turn you green and pink, I wouldn't have got mad at Black and wrote the list so you owe me!'
'I don't owe you anything.' Lily said stubbornly.
Cassie nibbled her lower lip and tossed her mahogany brown hair over her shoulders. 'Alex… really Lily's right. You shouldn't use her polish to help you clean the trophies. It's just not right.'
Alexandra frowned at them both before smiling brightly. 'Sure thing, you guys are right. Oh Gosh, I'm tired' she said with a yawn, 'I'd better get to sleep. G'night.' She smiled at them and left for the girls' dormitories. Lily and Cassie watched her leave with more then slight fascination.
'Lily… what's up with her? It's not like her to drop a subject like that. And it's not even eight yet'
'I dunno Cassie… maybe she's finally learning to be at least slightly more mature'
And with that, they got back to their homework.
Up in the dormitories, Alex was looking though Lily's books at rapid speed. She knew that Lily kept her own spells and potions in her little notebook/diary but it didn't seem to be in there. At last, she pulled out a purple notebook triumphantly. Lily had locked it but she unlocked it with a simple alahomora! charm. She snorted; Lily sure needed to update her security and then grinned guiltily as her thoughts wandered to the time when she bought Lily a diary for Christmas… It bite everybody that tried to read it but she hadn't thought that it would've bite Lily too and it did. Lily had to stay at the hospital wing overnight because of it. Alex did apologise for it and bought her a box of Chocolate frogs instead.
She turned the pages rapidly until she came to a page entitled: Polish (Alex wants it. Don't know why she can't make it herself)
She looked offended for a second and then thought, well I'm making it myself now! She quickly got a piece of scrap parchment and did a little charm that copied everything on the page in Lily's book onto the scrap piece of paper.
She smiled to herself before replacing all of Lily's books in the right place. She folded the piece of paper and put it in her pocket before setting off to dinner.
The next day a 4th year girl approached Alexandra at breakfast. 'Alexandra Fylonrei?' Alex nodded and took a sip of her pumpkin juice, the girl carried on talking 'You and Sirius Black are to see Mr Filch in the trophy room tomorrow at eight.' She nodded again and turned around to face her eggs, smirking slightly.
'Er, I've gotta go get summin for Charms. I'll meet you in class.' And with that, Alex grabbed her bag and ran out of the dining hall. Lily and Cassie looked at each other, slightly confused before getting back to their breakfast.
Outside in the first floor girls' bathroom, Alex sat staring at the piece of parchment that had what she needed to make Lily's polish. It wasn't complicated but it had a few ingredients that she didn't know. Her fingers ran down the list until she came to the words, αναπήδηση πρόβατα. She frowned. It looked like… Greek. Well I'll have to translate it, she thought to herself. The concoction was simple; she could complete it in a day. But she had to keep it hidden from Cassie and Lily. She knew that they wouldn't let her carry out her plan if they found out.
She sighed and placed the piece of parchment in between the pages in her Charms book. Greek was not her strong point.
Alex stumbled out of the toilet and crashed into someone. That someone happened to be James. 'Hey Alex, what are you doing?'
'I just came out of the toilet, what do you think I was doing?' She looked at him again, 'Hey James, do you think you could help me?'
'Sure.'
She opened the notebook and showed him the Greek words. 'What does this mean?'
James smiled. 'It's Greek words, it means "bouncing sheep"' he saw Alex looking at him with her jaws open. 'It's an ingredient, for the potion.'
'Yeah, I realise that but you mean I'm supposed to go to the countryside and find a sheep that bounces?' She looked at him incredulously.
He laughed. 'No, it's not a real sheep hair. It's quite rare actually; the only place you could probably get it is from Professor Slughorn's offices.' James looked at Alex sideways. 'I could get it for you if you like.'
She opened her mouth to say no but thought that she didn't really have time to go and rob Professor Slughorn so she might as well get James to do it for her. She narrowed her eyes. What is he was planning to get his own back on her? No… it was only Sirius who was angry at her, right? 'Well, if it's no trouble.'
'No trouble at all. When do you need it?'
'Before is tonight alright?'
He nodded and they went their separate ways, Alex not seeing the smirk that was creeping up on his face.
Sorry it took so long to update but it's finally up!
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In the next chapter, Alex makes a mess of her detention and decides to pay Sirius and James back once and for all.
And this is quite a short chapter, if please tell me whether I should make my chapters longer cos' I know people like different lengths.