Just A Girl From the USA

~Chapter 3~

First day at Hogwarts

Alex woke up around 7:30 am, probably because she was really nervous to start her first day at Hogwarts. She took a quick shower, and dressed into her uniform and robes.

Alex walked downstairs, to the Common Room, with a book in her hand and her glasses on, and sat on a couch in front of the fire. About 15 minutes later people began to walk down the stairs, and Roger came along too.

"Hi Alex!" he said, "Ready to begin your first day at Hogwarts."

She closed her book and walked over to him, "Yep, I'm a tiny bit nervous, but I'm sure that'll pass."

"Yes, it probably will, " he said stretching out.

"Roger..." she said in a small voice.

"Yes?" Now he was looking straight to her.

"Can I hug you?"

He kind of stared at her, "Sure..." she walked over and hugged him, "What's wrong?" he added.

"Nothing, it's just I used to hug my best friend, Erik, every morning."

"You miss your friends don't you?"

"Yea," she broke the hug, "Can I hug you every morning?"

"Sure!" he felt kind of proud a girl would ask him that, he felt really close to her.

She looked him in the eyes; "I've known you for such a short period, yet I feel as if I have known you my whole life."

"Me too!"

(((A/N: Sorry for the mushiness part, put I was a bit gloomy)))

As they walked down to get breakfast, Roger told Alex as much as he could remember of what his friends had said about her.

"Eddie thought you were 'pretty cool', but he thinks that of most girls...Peter kept talking about how much girls he could impress if you told him how to skate," he thought for a moment, "actually that's all he said, it's just it took him so long to say it..."

Alex laughed, "Why?"

"Because he kept being interrupted by Jim or Dennis...if Peter said 'her brown eyes are nice', Jim, or Dennis, would correct him," he put a dreamy voice," 'actually her eyes are brown with a little grey in the middle with a deep ocean blue circle around them'."

Alex walked a little back, and looked into a big mirror that hung in the corridor, she took her glasses out of her pocket and watched more closely, she then put her glasses away and walked back to Roger.

"What was that?" Roger said sniggering.

"What was what?"

"The mirror thing..."

"Oh! It's just I was checking if your friends were right."

"And...?"

"Yep, they are."

"I told you, they are obsessed with you, " they both laughed.

Without noticing they reached the Great Hall. They walked over to Eddie, Jim, Peter and Dennis. Alex sat between Jim and Dennis. They quickly started up a conversation about music.

"What is Muggle music like?" Peter asked.

"It depends there are a lot of types," Alex said.

"Like...?"

"Well, you have Rock, Punk, Hip-Hop, Funk, Pop, Romantic, etc." Roger said.

"Too much, I prefer simple wizard music," Jim said.

"But that's because you haven't heard it, do you?" Alex asked.

"Nope, but how do you want me to hear it, we don't have those things Muggles use to listen to music."

"That's true," said Alex disappointedly.

"Why don't you sing some for us?" Eddie said.

"Yes, why not?" Jim added, with a little bit of excitement in his voice.

"I don't recommend it, I sing like hell." She said.

"Hey, come on, you can't be that bad!!" Roger said.

"Well, ok! Can I choose the song?"

"Sure!"

"Ok...this is a Avril Lavigne song, it's pop...

It's the first time I ever felt this lonely

I wish someone would cure this pain

It's funny when you think it's gonna work out

'Till you chose weed over me you're so lame."

She stopped; she liked to sing but never in front of more then one person, herself.

Dennis said, "You sing beautiful, how could you say we were going to regret it?"

"Ehm...Dennis...you think I sing well?" she asked, looking at him.

"Yes, you sing great!"

"Well, I don't, actually I think a 5 year old kid sings better then me."

"Ok, I think someone needs to pump up some self-esteem." She heard Peter say.

She laughed, "Ok, but I don't want you to lie to me, do I suck?"

"Nope." Eddie said.

"Not at all." Peter said.

"Would I lie to you?" Roger said, she smiled, she was sure he would not lie to her.

"You're great!" Jim said, again.

"Yes, you definitely are!" Dennis replied.

"Thanks guys!" she smiled.

They kept talking until people began going to there classes.

"Ok, I think it's time to go to class." She said, when she saw there were, only, 10 people left.

"Yep, me too," Jim turned to Roger, "What's our first class?"

"History of Magic."

"Cool!" Alex said, the boys looked at her as if she was as if she was a giant squid, "What don't you like that subject?"

"Ehm...wait until you meet Binns, he's the most boring teacher in Hogwarts," Roger said.

They began walking out of the Great Hall, and walked a lot of stairs until Peter finally said, "Here it is!"

Alex turned and saw a lot of students enter the classroom. When she entered she saw a ghost sitting at the teachers desk.

"Who's that?" she said.

"That's professor Binns," Peter said.

"Our teacher is a ghost!!!"

"I told you it would be boring," Roger said.

Alex sighed and sat down, Jim sat next to her. Binns started the class, he had a very monotone voice, and Alex began to stare out the window. She was remembering Salem, her friends, the skating, the jokes, Erik...He had been her best friend for 5 years, they even dated for a month but that was too awkward, so they decided it would be better to be friends. Suddenly she felt a hand on her arm, and she woke up from her daydream.

Alex turned, and saw Jim, he handed her a parchment with something written on it. It said:

Hi. Are you, bored?

She grabbed her quill and wrote:

Yea really bored. Are you?

Yes.

This guy really ruined all my love for history you know!

Yes, mine too.

Really? You like history?

Yes, it's fascinating to know how the wizards were living ages ago.

I know!! Too bad it isn't only about that...

Yes...so you like it so far here?

Yes, it's pretty nice. All these people with funny accents;

Hey! It's you Americans who speak funny!

Jim and Alex kept exchanging notes until the end of class. When the bell finally rang there were a lot of relieved faces.

"So, did you enjoy your History class?" Eddie said, sarcastically.

"Yes, it was pretty fun," they all looked at her, "I mean, I didn't pay attention, but me and Jim had a quite interesting conversation."

They boys grinned and he went very red. "Watch Out! Or you'll have to separate Dennis from him pretty soon!"

They kept making fun of Dennis and Jim until they reached Transfiguration class, after that DADA and then, finally, lunch.

"Oh, thank god!! I'm starving," Alex said.

"No, you can't you promised you would show us your skating skills," Eddie said.

"What? You can't do this to me, I have to eat!" she said, in a very melodramatic way.

"A promise is promise, you said so yourself," Roger said.

"I hate it when people rub those things in my face!" the boys laughed, "Ok, ok, you're right. But if I fall of the thing or anything happens you are going to pay a high price, and you'll have to give me a big meal after this."

"Ok, Deal!" Roger said, shaking her hand.

She turned ran up to the Common room (she got lost a few times, but finally found it), ran the stairs up got her skate and went the whole way back. When she arrived at the entrance the boys were waiting for her.

"Shit!" she, suddenly, said.

"Actually here in England we say Hi to people, but since you're from the USA I'll try to understand," Peter said.

They all laughed, but finally Alex said, "I forgot I've a skirt, I can't skate with a skirt, man, I hate these things!"

"Well, one of us can let you borrow our pants," Roger said.

They all turned and looked at Dennis.

"What? Oh, no! No, no, no, I'm not taking of my pants."

"Come on, you are the one with the biggest pants," Eddie said, Alex snorted and Dennis blushed.

"Ok," he finally said, " but you owe me this one!"

"Lets go!" Alex said, "Wait! Where can we get changed?"

"Oh, don't worry, there are plenty of empty classrooms," Dennis said, "Just follow me."

They walked the stairs up and, after a while, they found an empty classroom.

"Ok, lets turn around," Alex said.

Dennis handed Alex his pants, she put them on, "Ok you can turn," she said, "Do you have something sharp?"

"Why?"

"Because these pants are to big, I need to make another hole in this belt... Nah! Doesn't matter lets leave it this way, by the way, aren't you summoning some pants you'll freeze."

"No, it isn't that cold besides you can't notice I don't have pants on and I could not summon some pants, you imagine what it would be like if a teacher saw some pants flying!"

"Yes, you are right, I really owe you."

"No, don't worry, it'll be worth it to see you skate," he said smiling.

"Yes, I guess it will," she said, smiling back.

"I see you have recovered your self-esteem." They both laughed.

"I think we better go, otherwise will miss lunch." Alex said.

They ran back down, where the boys were already sitting on the floor throwing a little parchment ball to each other, when they arrived all of them stood up.

"Finally! What were you doing up there?" Eddie said.

"Nothing," Alex said, "Ok, guys, lets hurry I don't want to miss lunch."

They all walked outside, "Ok, you better pay attention because I won't do this again, oh wait, here, hold my robe."

She handed it to Peter, whom said, "Hey! Nice pants!" They boys laughed.

She gave herself some impulse did a grab, an Ollie, and finally she tried to do a kick flip, but she fell in the wrong way and twisted her ankle.

The boys rushed over, "What happened?" Roger said.

"Well," she said with a sarcastic voice, "Normally when people do kick flips they land ON their skateboards, apparently that was to much for me, I had to land next to it and twist my ankle," they laughed and she tried to stand up, but it didn't work quite well, she fell again, but Jim nabbed her before she hit the ground.

"Thanks."

"Your welcome, now lets take you to the Hospital Wing."

Peter handed passed her robes to Dennis and she asked Dennis to put her skate in her trunk and put on some pants.

Roger and Jim helped her up to the Hospital Wing, while the rest went to eat lunch.

"That was absolutely fantastic! I mean, even though you fell, the rest was spectacular," Roger said.

"Thanks, I could teach you."

"Really?" Jim said.

"Yea, sure, but you'll have to find a skate though because I can't lend mine. Oh, but I've got another one..."

"Brilliant!"

"So, did you practice a lot to do that?"

"What...the fall?" She said sarcastically, Roger gave her a look and she said, "Yes, every free time we had, Eric tried to teach me."

"Ok, were here!" Roger announced.

A fat little woman came out of a room on the left side of the Hospital Wing.

"What happened to this girl?"

Alex smiled, "I think I twisted my ankle."

"Oh, Dear, you kids, always getting hurt doing stupid things," the woman let out a sigh, "Take her to that bed." She pointed at the first bed on the right.

They helped her onto the bed "Well, lets see here," she took it and touched it a bit, "Yes, you really did mess this ankle up, didn't you? Let me get something for that." She walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.

Alex began moving her good leg in circles and looking around, "This place is huge, why do you need so much room, it's not like the whole school can get sick at the same time."

The boys laughed, "What time is it?" Alex asked.

"Two fifty," Jim said looking at his watch.

"Oh, no! We have divination in ten minutes!" Roger said.

"Guys, don't worry about me, Go!"

"We can't leave you here."

"Why not? It's not like I'll die if you aren't next to me."

"Because you have to find the North Tower," Jim said, "The Divination classroom is there," he said before Alex asked him what that was.

"Oh, shit, you're right! So, who's going to stay?"

The boys looked at each other and then Roger said, "Sorry, but Jim's going to, Trelawney hates me enough already to give her one more reason to be mad at me."

"Oh, don't worry. I'm sure Jim won't be that boring," she said letting out a laugh.

"Bye!" Roger said running off.

"Bye!" Jim and Alex said together.