In My Eyes

Chapter 5

Alyce was still standing with her mouth wide open. "Gabrielle Sasindal, what the hell is going on here?" she asked, quietly.

Gabrielle looked up from her book. Her eyes were in tears. "A...A...Andrew Wiseman, he, he......" Gabrielle couldn't finish. She was crying her eyes out.

"Gabby," said Alyce, softening . She ran to the bed, sat down next to Gabrielle and put her arms round her. "What did Andrew do?"

Alyce wasn't very keen on Andrew. But he used to be nuts about her the year before. She had been out with him a few times, and he had taken her to the Yule Ball. He was quite nice and had a good personality, but still, Alyce was in love with Cedric.

Gabby's head was on Alyce's shoulder, crying. Alyce could see her friend's shoulders shake occasionally.

She lifted up her head, and looked into Alyce's blue eyes. "Well," started Gabrielle, stopping her tears. "Like, yesterday, he totally said I was, like, a tart. And today he was, like, being a real jerk, and then Cho, like came over, and she put her arms round him and kissed his neck."

Alyce looked horrifingly at her friend. "Oh my God!" Alyce shouted. Calming down, she started giggling.

Gabrielle looked confused. "Like, what is it? This is, like, terrible stuff for me, and you are just like, laughing?"

Alyce told Gabrielle all about the mischief she had cocked up on Cho, and then she pulled her necklace out her robes and showed her friend it.

"Do you know what this is?" she asked, tilting her head slightly.

"Hahahaha........no!" Gabrielle said suddenly.

"Well, its whats called, an 'Lavanist Amethyst', which is a magical crystal, and since most of them were destroyed in Victorian Times, due to the amount of theft, they are now extremely rare, and it is thought that there are at least five left in the world. Anyway, when you put it round your neck and squeeze it, you shall turn invisible," Alyce explained.

Gabreille put a hand over her mouth. "Oh my God," she whispered. Then she put her hand down and gave Alyce her famous, white-toothed grin. "This is like, so cool!" Gabrielle took the necklace out of the other girl's hand. "Can I?" asked Gabrielle, looking at Alyce with big eyes.

"Sure."

Gabrielle put on the necklace, and gave it a slight squeeze. She vanished. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "This is like, so cool! Oh my God! I can't see myself. Shit, this is like totally awesome!"

"Sh, Gabby," whispered Alyce. "Someone might hear you."

***

Maybe she heard. Maybe she just decided to walk in. No matter what the reason, Cho burst into the dormitory, her hair untuggy.

"Hey Cho, weren't you the one boasting about going on holiday. Has Daddy gone all poor?"

Ignoring the statement, Cho gave Alyce a whimpering look. "I know it was you Alyce. Why have you been so mean to me?"

Alyce raised an eyebrow. Gabrielle was about to go "Catfight! Catfight!" but quickly remembered she was invisible.

"Well?"asked Cho impatiently.

"It was, what one would call, a 'taste of one's own medicine.' You only wanted me as your best friend, not because you liked me, but because you thought I would depend on you. In your case, I was like a pawn, someone you could turn to when others abandoned you! You never cared, I was just the 'best friend', doing whatever you told me to do. I grew sick of you, always using me, confusing me, betraying me. So I thought, 'Well, she deserves to be treaten like shit, not me!" shouted Alyce.

Cho looked horrified. "Alyce, I didn't use you. You were my best friend. I'm not lik...."

"Oh hohoho, here we go yet again with your 'I'm not like that.' You are like that. A stupid cow, who will do anything for attention!"

Cho glared at Alyce. She was about to spit something back at her, when Alyce quickly said: "Oh by the way, did I mention there's a spider in your hair?"

Cho gave her a sarcastic smirk, then put her hand on her head. She felt something hairy (not her hair) and screamed. She ran out the room, screaming, her hands continuosly batting her head.

Alyce giggled, and though she couldn't see it, Gabrielle winked at her.

***

"Whoa!" exclaimed Gabrielle, after giving the purple stone a squeeze.

" 'Whoa' indeed," said Alyce.

Gabrielle took off Alyce's necklace, handed it over, then flopped onto her four-poster-bed. "I didn't realize," she began. "That Cho was so fucked up!"

Alyce sighed. "Then, it seems you don't know anything about her. But right now, we need to figure out this Andrew-Cho situation. First of all:"

Alyce took Gabrielle's book. 'Heartbreakers' was its title. She sighed. She slammed it shut. "In all my

years, I've never seen you read a fiction by freewill," she told Gabrielle. Alyce's reply was a shrug.

Alyce looked through her friend's trunk. It was quite some time before she found what she was looking for, since Gabrielle wasn't the tidiest of all people.

"Voila!" she declared. She had taken out Gabrielle's make-up box. "You don't look right without it."

Sighing, Gabrielle made herself up. After five minutes, Gabrielle looked normal again.

"There," encouraged Alyce, smiling. "Much better. I much prefer your Barbie look than your natural one. I'm sure everyone thinks so."

Gabby smiled.

***

The next day, at breakfast, Cho kept on glaring at Alyce and her friend.

"Ignore her," whispered Alyce. "She isn't worth it."

Soon, the owls came, dropping packages and letters to the students. Gabrielle received a small package from her Screech Owl. She raised an eyebrow. "What...." she began but Alyce stopped her. "Just open the bloody package, Sindy," she said. Gabby snorted, everyone didn't always call her Gabrielle, Gab, or Gabby. She was sometimes known as Barbie and Sindy.

She ripped open the package. "Yes!" she exclaimed. Opening the small box was the new lipstick and matching nail varnish, made by Beana, the top witch designer perfume and make-up company.

"Happy now?" asked Alyce.

"Than I've been in ages!"

***

"Serena!"

"Sky!"

"Calisto!"

Alyce and Gabrielle shouted their friends names when they came into the dormitory.

"Alyce! Gabby!" they shouted back.

They all ran towards each other, finishing in a big, group hug.

"Oh my Gawd, I like missed you guys!" cried Serena.

After a while, they eventually split up, with Sky near tears.

Calisto jumped next to Alyce on her bed. The rest joined them.

"So, what have guys been like, doing all through the Xmas hols?" asked Calisto.

"Well I like went to Spain with my mum, and I met this totally hot guy, with a tan, and a great chest!" giggled Serena.

"By the quanity of your enthusiasm, it sounded very delightful," said Sky in her posh voice.

"Well, duh!" said Calisto.

"What did you do, Sky?" asked Alyce, politely, not wanting an arguement to start.

"Yeah, what did you like, do?" asked Serena.

"My grandmama took my brother and I to Japan. We were going to China, because grandmama loves tea, but she said it was such an ever so unhygenic country, so she took us to Japan, saying there was no difference, even though there is grand one." said Sky, her chin high.

Gabrielle rolled her eyes.

"I like went to America," said Calisto. "And there was......"

"A sale at Beana, that you couldn't possibly resist." chorused the other girls.

***

"Miss Menya, would you kindly pay attention!" spat Professor Snape.

Calisto's head popped up. Alyce had stopped prodding her when Snape had found her friend sleeping during class.

"You're in shit now," whispered Alyce.

***

Potions with the Hufflepuffs were the last class that Alyce and Calisto had. Serena took Astronomy, while Gabrielle and Sky wanted to stay together in class, and the both of them had Muggle Studies, because Sky was fascinated by Muggles, which Gabrielle wasn't, ("What's like, the point? You're like a Pureblood, you are like, totally not supposed to know about these things!").

After Potions, Alyce was asked to wait after class, while he gave Calisto a serious lecture. Alyce was surprised that Cal's amount of sarcasm didn't get her into more trouble.

"You may leave now!" spat Snape. "And 40 points from Ravenclaw, and you can serve detention!"

"I'd rather not," muttered Calisto, leaving the classroom.

"Miss Baddock," called Snape.

Alyce strode towards the Potions Master.

"Sir," she began. "Before you say anything, I didn't fall asleep, and the Veritaserum that's stained the floor, was so not me!"

"Miss Baddock, you are not in trouble. You have made exceptional progress in all of your potions, better than I have ever seen, 20 points to Ravenclaw."

"Wow, go me!"

"That was all, you may go now."

When Alyce got into the corridor, she jumped up high and punched the air, glad nobody could see.

***

"Wow!"

"Awesome!"

"I never expected Professor Snape to be so generous!"

Alyce got happy compliments from Serena, Gabrielle and Sky.

"So that means," began Sky. "That Calisto has practically only lost twenty points, thanks to you Alyce."

"Yes," said Serena. "And Professor Sinistra, like, awarded ten points for my homework."

"And I got ten points for my homework too!" exclaimed Sky.

"Er, well, I like, lost five points for talking," mumbled Gabrielle.

"It is alright, Gabrielle," encouraged Sky.

Calisto soon entered through the portrait-hole.

She curled up next to Serena, on the sofa nearest the blazing fire.

Alyce's little tabby cat, Tillie, meowed at her. Alyce gave Tillie a kiss on the head, and the cat licked her owner's chin. Gabrielle, who was sitting next to Alyce, scratched the cat's back.

"I am so bust!" moaned Calisto.

"Don't worry Cal," soothed Serena. "Since like, almost all of us," (Gabrielle suddenly went pink) "got like, lots of House points, not one Ravenclaw will know what happened."

"Totally," muttered Gabrielle, her head down, looking at her feet as if they were the most interesting things she had ever seen.

"Hey," she piped, her head shooting up. "Who are you guys, like, going to the End of Winter Dance with?"

"Oh shit, I like totally forgot about that!" beamed Calisto.

Since Professor Dumbledore had throughly enjoyed the Yule Ball, every few months there was a dance for the older students, usually to celebrate the end of Winter, the beginning of Spring, etc. The five girls had so far gone with completely different guys, for a bit of experimenting. Sky's dates usually didn't take no for an answer, which confused her friends, as Sky was never the flirty type.

"I think I'll try and get Kyle, you know, that really hot Gryffindor?" said Serena.

"Kyle, that brunette bimbo?" asked Alyce suprisingly. "No offense Sky," she added quickly, Kyle was Sky's twin brother, and during the holidays, they lived with their extremely old grandmother.

"I do not really care," shrugged Sky.

All heads turned to Gabrielle, for she usually knew exactly who she was going with. Alyce nibbled her lip, she thought maybe after what happened with Andrew, Gabby wouldn't be too happy about dating. She was very wrong.

"I was hoping for like, a Gryfinndor, almost all of them are like totally cute, and they should like, be nice as well," she beamed.

"Well, I'm actually not 100% sure on my date," said Calisto. "I'll like, think about it later."

During the middle of Sky going on about she didn't like balls and dances or boys, Alyce slipped out of the Common Room.

"Yo, Alyce! Where are you like going?" called Serena.

Alyce's head turned round. "I think I left something in the Library," she lied, quickly, before running out through the Portrait Hole.

***

Alyce didn't stop running until she was inside the Forest.

"Hey! Stop! Come back here!" came a voice.

Turning around, Alyce saw the what's-his-name Head Boy sprinting towards her. "Hey," he said, when he had caught up. "You should know perfectly well not to go into the Forbidden Forest." he scolded.

"I know, but I was..."

"Come on, Dinner will be ready soon," he said, grabbing her arm.

"No! You don't understand!" cried Alyce, struggling out of his grsp.

"Please desist, or I shall have to take points off of your House," he said.

He would have said more, if it weren't for the fact that Alyce had kicked him rather harshley in his penis.

"Shit!" he moaned, falling to the ground.

Alyce ran off into the darkness.