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"RUN! FASTER!" Two boys suddenly screamed in unison while trying to catch their breath—it seems like they have tried to gather the remaining energy they have from running in order to utter those words.
"Hm—WHAT?!" The girl was just about to look back where the noise had came from when suddenly, both of her arms were grabbed by two students from each side. She violently looked at her side, and the other. Shock visible in her face when she realized that they have started dragging her. Ezra Starkey did not know that she'll be involved in such a matter, which causes her to run with the two boys.
"Let's hide there, George!" The one from her left side had quickly said, catching his breath. It is evident that they had been running away from someone for a long time now. Their sweats dripping from the sides of their faces and their necks, their feet slowing down
from tiredness of running.
"let's go!" The other boy replied, and nodded. The one in the middle—Ezra Starkey does not know what is happening and just like the two boys that are dragging her, she kept running. They turned in the corner of the hallway and did not stop from running.
"What?! This is a dead end!" The witch spoke with a shaky voice. Maybe the two did not hear her or maybe they did not care at all because they are still running despite the warning the witch gave. They halted in front of a wall and suddenly, the boy who was called "George" push the wall and it revealed a door for a secret room. The three of them abruptly entered the room and closed the door, afraid that the one chasing them might reach them.
Once they have closed the door, they let their guards down and threw themselves at the floor, except Ezra who's currently catching her breath leaning on the wall.
"That was brilliant!" The girl had a hard time thinking who was the one called "George", the identical twins are now looking at each other.
"Hell yeah! Filch is so mad!" The other one replied, gasping.
That continued to happen for about 2 minutes — the twins sitting on the floor while steadying their breaths, and Ezra, leaning on the wall, questioning what just happened and how did she got into this mess.
"What the hell?" She can't help but verbalize her thoughts. She did not know what just happened and based on what she just heard, she is sure that they will get in trouble for it. The boys slowly turned their head from the owner of the voice and once they have seen her, they gasped.
"Who are you and how did you get into this place?!" Fred and George said in unison, obviously surprised that they have a company.
"What? You are the one that dragged me in this place!" Ezra's brows furrowed at the twins. The twins can't help but to stand up and look at her.
"We did?" "We did?"
"Yes! You guys did!"
"I thought we're holding Lee?" The one from the right spoke, turning his head at the other boy.
"Yes. I thought we're holding Lee, too." The siblings made an eye contact and broke it when they have to look at her. Everyone became silent, the atmosphere is becoming awkward and everyone are too scared to break it, not until she spoke.
"I am going to report you to professor Dumbledore!" Ezra yelled out, and impulsively opened the secret door that they went into. The boys tried to stop her for they might get caught, but they did not reach her arms on time and she's already outside, walking away.
When Starkey stepped out of the room, she immediately spotted Mr. Filch at the end of the hall. The girl turned back from him, fixed her dress and wiped her sweats with a handkerchief so that she'll look like she never ran and Mr. Filch won't get suspicious of her. After making sure that she looks presentable enough, she starts walking towards the hall as if nothing weird just happened at all.
Unfortunately, when Mr. Filch's eyes landed on her she became his number one suspect and funnily run towards her.
'Oh hell no' She thought to herself but she still acted nonchalant about it. Maybe if she seems calm and cool, Mr. Filch won't think that she's one of the people who did something to stir trouble.
"Hey you, young lady!" The man pointed at her, Ezra looked at her back, trying to look at no one, thinking that maybe the old man is talking about someone behind her.
"Yes you, young lady! There's no one here at this hall except the students who ran away from me. Now tell me, where are your friends?!" The man voiced out sternly, trying to scare the young woman. Ezra—who's still playing innocent, pointed at herself and raised her brow.
"Excuse me sir, Do you mean me?"
"Well, who else?"
"I don't know what you're saying about, sir." Ezra tried to speak gently, as if she's not panicking inside.
"You can keep covering up for your friends, but you're definitely going to detention"
Ezra had just came back from a year break because of an incident, and detention is the first thing that's going to greet her this year in Hogwarts. Ezra hasn't processed the whole thing but Filch is already pulling her towards the detention room.
"What? What? No! This is unfair, it wasn't me! It's them! I'll show them to you, I promise, just don't put me in detention!" The girl can't believe that she's the one who's getting the blame so she decided to snitch them out. But if she wasn't caught, she'll probably never mention anything that just happened .
In the other hand, the two boys who's leaning at the secret door to hear what's unfolding outside, heard what the girl just said and they let out an aggresive sigh.
"Sir! Sir, they're there!"
She pointed to a wall but the older man do not believe it because he can't see anything about where they could've possibly hide.
"Cut it, Ravenclaw! Off to detention!" The twins heard that and they let out a relieved breath. They then danced a celebratory dance because they did not get caught and they just put someone in trouble for what they just did.
"Mister Filch, come on! You know I wouldn't cause trouble! This is unfair!"
"That's too bad, Miss Starkey, this is how you will behave after getting back?" The girl couldn't help but sigh.'The year had just started, the year had just started I need more patience' Ezra can't help but remind herself.
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"This is so annoying!" The witch groaned under her breath. She's currently on her way towards the great hall. Apparently,
it's the first day after school break and Hogwarts will have a ceremony for the first years and have a feast for the students as well — Mr. Filch is kind enough to let her go after she basically begged him to make her attend the event. Fortunately, He agreed and now she's on her way to see some familiar faces.
The young lady dragged her feet, it seems like every ounce of good character in her body is now gone after what had just happened. She rolled her eyes for the nth time while blabbering curses about the two—she knows them, by their name atleast.
"Those Weasley twins, I fucking swear—" those phrases keep repeating in her mouth, giving an annoyed sigh in every repetition. After minutes of walking and cursing, she arrived at the front of the big door and walked in, feeling lucky that the main event hasn't started yet but about to.
As she made her way to her house's table—the Ravenclaw, she noticed that some people are looking at her. Ezra suddenly grew conscious about herself.
"Do I look sweaty? Is my hair a mess" that thought suddenly crossed her mind, nevertheless, she acted as if everything's okay but is actually thinking to sit down at the table immediately and ask someone if there's something wrong with her face or appearance. She have arrived at her table and she saw that the corners are already occupied by bunch of friend groups. She did not have any choice but to accept to sit in the middle part of the table between two sides of noisy people.
"This would've been preventable if those two did not dragged me into that mess" she found herself subtly rolling her eyes so that people in the room won't see it and call her a snob or a bitch who rolls her eyes to everything. She lifted her leg and sits down, when she's adjusting herself, her eyes landed at the table of gryffindor and saw someone already looking at her—they made an eye contact and he winked at Ezra, nudged his twin beside him and whispered something —still maintaining eye contact.
"What the fuck is that man's problem?" Instead of voicing out her thoughts, she just sighed and closed her eyes—summoning the remaining patience she has. Thankfully, her mind darted off the twins when professor Mcgonagall pulled the door wide.
A bunch of
first years followed the said professor, it is no doubt that all of the kids are amazed by the view they are seeing—stone walls are lit with flaming torches, the tall ceiling, and grand marble floors. Ezra looked at the kids, excited to know where the sorting hat will put them.
Professor Mcgonagall then proceeded to explain to the new students that they will be sorted into their houses, and told them what the four houses are. While the first years seems astonished, the old students didn't listen to what the professor is saying for they have already heard it a few times—at least Ezra does. Minerva made the said students form a line and she put an old pointed hat on a stool.
All of the students are into the ceremony, that they did not noticed how long did the sorting happened. In a snap of a moment, bunch of appetizing foods are already appearing in their tables. Dumbledore gave the students a signal and they start to consume the foods right in front of them.
As Starkey's chewing the 2nd plate of the food she got, A fourth year student sitting besides her lean her head towards her — at first, she did not care because maybe the student is just trying to get some food in her area but she stopped munching when the girl whispered to her ear.
"I think those three are making fun of you, miss..." A girl with long blonde hair, whispered gently. After saying the message to her, the said blonde leaned back and goes back to eating. When Ezra heard that, she slowly tilted her head upwards looked at the girl with furrowed brows and mouth full of food.
The girl, on the other hand, is not looking at her. Instead, she's eyeing some people at the gryffindor table. Ezra can't help but look, too. And there she saw the twins with Lee, staring at her still laughing and talking.
"What is wrong with them!" It didn’t came out clearly since her mouth is full. She swallowed it abruptly and continued to glare at them.
"she's looking at us right now, act like I just said something funny." Fred whispered at his two friends, glancing at the ravenclaw after every word, trying to show that they are indeed making fun of her. The trio laughed hard that they almost got everyone's attention in the room, the other two — George and Lee, are trying to put more fuel to the fire."Lee, it was so funny then we got into the secret room near the charms classroom, and you know what? We pretended that we did not just drag her there." George cackled, while holding his stomach. He then hold his chest after, implying that he can't breath anymore from too much cracking up. Lee, who's in the middle of the siblings, nudged George while cackling and leaned back on the seat he's in, almost falling, which made the group laugh even more.In the other hand, there's someone not happy at the other table. Instead, that particular someone is furrowing her brows, and clenching the utensil on her hand. Her appetite's now gone, not wanting to even lift her spoon by a centimeter. She wishes that the event would be over so that she can ran towards her dorm."fucking assholes." The girl mouthed and drops her spoon and fork. She decided to not give the friends the attention they want and instead she attempted to make conversations with her housemates.
Later on, she didn't really glance at the trio's direction and chose to enjoy the night. When the occasion has ended, Ezra didn't looked back and walked briskly towards her room because of two reasons: one, the people making fun of her might make fun of her even more of she stay longer. Second, she feels exhausted socializing and just wants to curl up in bed all night.