Havi Lupin Chap. 17

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I wake up today feeling very lazy and sad because the school year is ending. Asher was waiting for me outside of my common room which surprised me. While we were walking, Emily came up to us and said that we needed to have a meeting and ran away. I quickly went over to the Hufflepuff table leaving Asher standing to tell Jackie. "Hi Havi." she says. "Hi. You look tired, everything okay?" I ask. I look over to see Teddy wave at me so I wave back. "Yeah, just fine." she says, almost hitting someone next to her. She holds her head with her left hand on the table. "You suuureee?" I prod. "Yes." She says firmly, leaning forward so her chocolate brown eyes stare into my dark brown ones. She lowers her voice to a whisper. "You know Ravenclaws aren't allowed at the Hufflepuff table, right?" I smile and lean forward. "Yes and I don't care." "You should." "Why?" "I dunno, I just don't want you to get in trouble." she says. I move back and stand up. "Okay, well, meet me in the corridor outside okay?" "Okay." she says and goes back to her toast. After that I met up with everyone in the corridor and see Jackie coming up to us. "Hi so what did I miss?" she asks, leaning against the wall. "I don't know. Emily's the one who called the meeting." Asher says. We turn to Emily who looks quite frazzled and is hanging onto Matt's arm for one second and then catches Jackie staring and lets go immediately. I glance at Matt who is bright red and then at Jackie and we both smirk at each other. Then I see Logan and Teddy both make a move to get close to Jackie which confuses me. Then Emily steps forward, her Slytherin robes billowing behind her. "Okay, so uh. You all know how my last name is Riddle right?" "Yes." We all chorus. "Well... APPERENTLY. Uhm..." She whispers, "My dad is You-Know-Who..." My eyes widen, while I try to fix my glasses in place. Asher's face turns bright red and he looks furious for some reason. I look at him in concern. Emily is looking down and looks like she is crying or is going to. Jackie walks over to her, her boots clicking on the floor. She hugs her. "Don't worry, we'll still be your friend." she says to her. She turns to us. Voldemort's followers killed my parents by his orders, but EMily isn't like her dad. "RIGHT?" Jackie says, snapping me out of my thoughts. We all say yes. All except for one. Asher. I nudge him with my elbow. He looked furious. "Well... Yeah, I guess." He says. I was confused to why Asher didn't agree. After a few seconds of silence I finally spoke up. "Okay, meeting adjourned." "Huh?" everyone except Jackie says. "'Adjourned means that 'it is over' so what Havi means is 'Meeting is over'." Jackie says. I point to her with a 'don't any of you read except us?' look. "How did you know that?" Teddy asks Jackie. "I read. You should try it sometime." She says and I nod. "Oh okay." He says. We all walk away in different directions.