Just A Girl From the USA

~Chapter 2~

Sorting out more then houses.....

They stepped of the train, and they both took separated ways. Alex went over to a giant, whose name was Hagrid. They had to step in little boats that took them over a lake. It was a beautiful trip; she could see the castle, and the stars shinning above it.

When they arrived, they were all led into a big room, and through a big Oak door. After this big Oak door she could see, what was called, the Great Hall. It had 4 tables, each corresponded to a house, and in front of those all, a horizontal table with all the teachers. Suddenly the group stopped walking, the witch who had led the way, Prof. McGonagall, went to a door at the right of the teachers' table. She returned with a three-legged stool with a hat on it, which she put in front of the big table.

"Now, each of you will be called, you come here put the hat on and sit on the stool. Arcandike

, Steven," she said.

All of the first years were sorted, until it was finally her turn. She was the only one standing, except for Prof. McGonagall, of course.

Then Dumbledore stood up, and said, "This is Alexandra Collins, she has been transferred from Salem, in the United States of America, she is in 6th year, she will now be sorted in a house...Prof. McGonagall."

"Sixth year," the witch said, "Collins, Alexandra."

She walked over to the stool, put the hat on and sat down. She could hear the hat mumbling, but couldn't hear it that entirely well; suddenly it yelled "RAVENCLAW!"

Alex could not have been happier, she walked over to the cheering table and sat between a girl named Cho Chang and the other one named Caitlin Bones, they were both 7th years.

They introduced themselves, and when she turned to look at the table again it was full of food.

She could not remember having such a great time. She ate like a pig, and talked to people who kept asking her about Salem, she told them everything she knew, and about skating too.

Roger came too. "You made it!" Roger said, with a big grin.

"Yes, and I'm sure it's all because of the hug you gave me," she said smiling.

"Well, I could not say you're not right," he said in a serious tone of voice. They both laughed.

Suddenly Alex noticed people were starring at them. "Roger, didn't you say that you were not 'that kind of guy'?"

"Which one...Oh! Yes that one, yes, why?" He said, with his mouth full of food.

"Because those girls are staring at me furiously," Alex said looking in his eyes, and moving her head to a couple of girls.

Roger turned, and as a matter of fact, girls were staring, but the minute he had turned they had began smiling. He went a little red, and then turned to Alex again.

She bent over and whispered in his ear, "You want to have a little bit fun with them?"

Roger smiled to himself, and said, "Of course".

They both smiled at each other, then Alex took his hand and put it on the table, so everyone could see, people really starting staring. She then came up with an excellent move to keep everyone's mouth hanging; she kissed him on the cheek.

Then she stood up, still holding Roger's hand, and they walked out of the Great Hall.

When they got out of the Great Hall, they both burst into laughter.

"Did you see the looks on their faces?" Alex said.

"Yes, specially when you kissed me on the cheek, excellent move!"

"Thanks, " she said, after she'd stopped laughing, "I had to do that sometimes in Salem, when girls stared so much at my friends, it would bug them."

When Roger had stopped laughing, people had already begun to walk to their Common Rooms.

"Shall we?" Roger said, offering her his arm.

"Yes, we shall. But I won't take your arm."

"Well, in that case, just follow me."

They went through a lot of passages, moving staircases and behind some paintings. They finally reached a blue carpet. "Pigtails!" Roger said, the carpet rolled up, showing a door, Roger pushed it and they went inside a big square room.

"Wow! It's beautiful. Who decorated it so well?"

"House-elves."

"Oh, they really work their asses off in this castle, don't they?" They walked over to two chairs in front of the fire.

"Well, they don't have very big asses to work off, do they?" Roger sniggered.

They both laughed. Suddenly the whole Common Room went silent, and people starting staring, whispering and pointing at them. There were a lot of furious looks from girls, and some grinning faces from boys.

"What's wrong?" Alex whispered to Roger, barely moving her head.

"I don't know," Roger answered.

After 5 minutes went by, Alex couldn't stand it anymore. She turned, to be sitting kneeled on her chair with her chest against the leaning of the chair.

"Ok, anyone care to tell me, what the hell is going on?" She said, this time the Common Room went so silent you could've hear a needle fall, if someone had dropped one.

Suddenly a boy said, "It's just...we were wondering if you and Roger are dating?"

Alex started laughing; everyone was looking at her as if she had gone mad. Roger saw furious glances from girls, and then he looked at his friends.

"Where did you get that idea from, Jacob?" He said.

"Well, you whispered at each other at dinner and then she kissed you on the cheek," Jacob said, as Roger began to laugh.

When Alex stopped laughing, there was still no one moving in the whole Common Room.

"We were just messing with you, I mean, we saw the girls faces and thought we could mess a little bit. I never thought you would not accept the fact that Roger was taken girls!" she explained. There were a lot of relieved faces, especially from girls. "What did you think that Roger was gay?"

Jacob mumbled something that sounded like, "Actually we thought he was...."

"So, you are saying that you and Roger were just joking? That you are not really dating?" a girl said, Alex noticed it was Caitlin, the girl from dinner.

"Nope Caitlin, he's still free. And I'm sure he would not want to be attached to a girl like me anyway."

Roger, who had stopped laughing, went really red, as a couple of girls began to smile at him again.

Then a boy yelled, "Who would not like to be with you?"

"Well, thank you! I'm flattered, but I'm sure you're not my type," Alex said back, not really knowing whom she was talking to.

After that the whole Common Room returned to it's normal volume, and Alex and Roger began talking about Quidditch again. Suddenly a group of boys walked over to them.

"Ehm...Alex, is it? Sorry for interrupting, I'm Peter Grant."

"Yes, it is Alex. Hi Peter. Doesn't matter, Roger here was trying to convince me that soccer is a lame sport," she said rolling her eyes, "So, what's up?"

"We wanted to know if you could show us your 'scaring', you were talking about at dinner." Peter said.

"Scaring? Oh! You mean my skating," the boys nodded, "Sure, but first introduce yourselves."

"Oh, I'm so sorry, we forgot!" Peter said.

"Well, I'm Jim Tikveel," one boy said stretching out his hand. He was kind of cute he was a tall, brown eyes, brown spiked up hair, and wore glasses. Alex took his hand; he had soft skin.

"Eddie Jones," another boy said . He had blond, kind of long, hair, it reached his ears. Blue eyes and was really thin.

"Dennis McFarland," she recognized, from his voice, that this was the boy who had yelled at her.

"Hey! I was wrong you're not that far away from being my type!" she said. Dennis went red, and the other boys laughed. Dennis was tall, tanned, he had green eyes and light brown hair, also spiked and she just loved spiked hair.

"So...let me go get my skate," she wanted to run upstairs, but suddenly she remembered she didn't know which staircase to take. She approached a girl who's name was, apparently, Stephanie, because her friends kept calling her Stephi.

"I'm sorry," Alex said, the girl turned around and smiled, but apparently a few of her friends still didn't believe that Alex wasn't dating Roger, because they shot furious looks at her.

"Yes," she said.

"Ehm...I wanted to know...which staircase do I have to take to go to my room?"

"Oh! You are in sixth, right?"

"Yep!"

"You have to take the left staircase, the third door at your left."

"Thanks," she said and ran upstairs.

She entered the room behind the door. She couldn't believe it. It was a beautiful room. It had six beds, with curtains and everything, at each end of the bed there was a trunk, she saw hers at the end of the last bed from the right. She walked over to it and got her skateboard out.

She was about to walk outside the room, but she couldn't help notice the fact that something bothered her about her bed. So, she decided to take a little peek behind the curtains. Then she noticed, the curtains were closed, at no other bed the curtains were closed.

She walked over to her bed opened her curtains, and wished she wouldn't have looked. There were a boy and a girl looking extremely nervous, on her bed were a T-shirt and a bra.

"Ehm...," Alex said, "Hi! And you are..."

"Ehm...I'm Jordan." The boy said.

"Alyssa." The girl said.

"Well, Jordan and Alyssa, I'm afraid you have two options...One: You can keep using my bed, ehm...to do whatever you were doing," she said this last part with kind of a laugh in her voice, "and I'll go ask everyone in the Common Room, if it's normal that you two use people's bed and not your own. Or two: You can go take a shower, because I'm thinking you'll need it, and go down to the Common Room, and we'll all act like nothing happened."

They looked at each other, finally Alyssa said, "We take the second option."

"Very intelligent choice!" Alex said, as if they had just made a deal to buy a car. "Now, go on, out of here."

The couple stood up, Jordan grabbing his T-Shirt and Alyssa her bra. They were half way to the bathroom when Jordan turned and said, "By the way, we were just snogging, not having sex."

Alyssa punched him in the arm. "What?!" Jordan said, "She thought were having sex, I had to make that clear!"

Alex laughed, "Yep, don't worry, I won't tell anyone...by the way, my name is Alexandra!" She said as she walked out of there. She walked downstairs with her skateboard in her hand. It was purple with fuchsia, those were her favourite colours, and it also had her name written on it in rainbow colours.

She walked over to the boys. "Here I am," she said.

"What took you so long?" Roger asked.

"Oh, no, nothing. A little inconvenience with my bed." All the boys put weird faces. "Doesn't matter. So, you wanted to see my skateboard, here it is." She handed it to them.

Peter took it, and they were amazed. They were staring at it for 5 minutes, and asked Alex a lot of questions.

After like, an hour answering questions, Alex was pretty tired.

"Well, boys, I'm tired, had along day, bye!" she turned to walk upstairs, but Dennis made a last question, "When are you going to show us?"

She turned, "What?"

"Your skating skills," Jim said.

"Oh! Your in the same year as me, aren't you?" Alex said.

"Yep, all sixth years," Dennis said.

"Ok, then tomorrow at lunch."

"You promise?"

"Yes, I do," she said and ran upstairs.

Up, in the dorms, she found Alyssa sitting in her own bed, reading a book. She looked up and said, "Hi! I used a cleaning spell on your bed."

"Thanks!" she was really tired and not very in a mood to enhance in a conversation, but couldn't help asking her... "So, did you and Jordan enjoyed my bed?" she said, while putting on her pyjamas.

Alyssa went really red, "I'm really sorry!"

"Oh, don't worry!" Alex said, crawling into her bed. "I'm kind of used to it...."

"How are you used to that?" Alyssa interjected.

Alex laughed. "It's just my friends at Salem, used to bring girls into my bed instead of their own," Alyssa put on a weird face. "Well, anyways, I'm tired, goodnight!"

"Goodnight."