My life is a Riddle(Tom Riddle falls for a mudblood?!)

Chapter 15

I cocked my head to the side. "What's ravenclaw?" They all gave me shocked looks, and Matt just seemed to give me an amused look as he sat slumped against the seat.

"You don't know about the four houses?!" Lucy shrieked in disbelief, causing my eardrums to almost pop out, this girl really liked to be loud.

"Nope." I shrugged, not understanding what was so important.

"Ravenclaw is one of the four houses at Hogwarts." I jumped a bit at hearing Matt suddenly speak up. His voice was deep and velvety.

"The other three are Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, and Slytherin." He continued.

"Each house stands for a certain quality each member possesses the most. Us Ravenclaws are the smarties of the school, the geeks." Oh trust me, he didn't look like a geek at all.

"Gryffindor house is home to the brave and courageous, and Hufflepuff is for the loyal and hard-working. Slytherin is for the cunning and deceiving." His explanation helped me come to understanding.

"Oh." Was all I said, and Matt smirked a bit.

"Where's your robe?" Asked Miranda, who was checking her reflexion in a mirror she had pulled put of her pocket.

"I have to have a robe?! I don't have one!" I remembered buying one at Diagon Alley, and stuffing it into my trunk, but that trunk had been lugged off by an employee on the train.

"Relax," It was the first time I had heard Nicole speak too, her small voice barely reaching me.

"I'll make it appear for you." She said eagerly, taking her wand out.

"No it's f-"

"Shh." She cutting me off, shutting her round eyes tightly as she seemed to concentrate.

Okay then.....

The small room grew quiet as she mumbled a few incantations before her eyes fluttered open.

A few seconds passed and I was about to give up when the door flung open, and my robe hit me smack middle on the face. I found myself stumbling backwards into the wall with an 'oomph!'

A snicker escaped Matt's lips and the other teenagers in the room were trying hard not to laugh.

I sighed and got up, embracing my patch-less robe and grinned at Nicole.

"Eeep! Oh my lord, dude I Friggin love you! Yay!" I spun around with my robe, attempting to do it in slow motion. They all laughed at my attempt.

"You know, I think I'm going to like you Aneline." Said Ned. "Unlike all these butt-heads." For that he received a light slap on the arm from Miranda, scowling at him, but a slight smile beneath her tainted lips.

I smiled and decided I it was time to change into my robe and began to unzip it.

"Whoa, whoa whoa!! Hold your horses there!" Said Ned, blushing scarlet.

"At least warn us before you decide to strip!" I rolled my eyes and continued to unzip the robe, and had noticed Matt was inspecting his nails, uncaring if I took my clothes off or not.

"It's not like I'm going to take all my clothes off Ned, I'm just going to put the robe over my clothes."

"Oh..." Ned blushed deeper, and I inwardly smirked, glad I wasn't the only one who blushed like my life depended on it.

"So did you come here alone? You didn't have anyone help you out?" Lucy prodded curiously.

My thoughts were immediately flooded with Tom, and how he had been the one to take me here.

"Well I wouldn't really say he helped me very much..... but yeah I don't know if you guys know him. Tom Riddle?" Almost instantly they all froze, there eyes widening as they processed this new piece of information. Even Matt had stopped to look up, venom burning brightly in his deep blue eyes, telling me he and Tom had some problems.

"Wait. Stop. Rewind. Play." Miranda said.

"You're telling us, that you know him, like know him know him?? That friggin jerk?!"

So they did know who he was......

"Yeah, I kind of work for him, you know like a maid?" Now they were way beyond disbelief.

"How did you end up in here then, if you supposed to be with your boss?" Ned asked, the blush now replaced with bitterness.

"Let's just say him and his disciples aren't all sugar and nice." I sighed out, noticing how different and openly I acted around these people than with Tom.

They nodded in complete understanding. They and probably already experienced a full blast of Tom and his friends too.

The rest of the ride went by in laughter and chatting after they got over the fact I knew and came here with Tom. I found myself talking to Miranda and Ned more than anyone. Matt seemed to be on his own world, lost deep in thought, and Lucy and Nicole were quizzing each other on things I never even knew about.

Pfft. Like I was ever going to make it into Racenclaw.....

We continued to chat and stuffed our faces with sweets like chocolate frogs and every-flavor jelly beans we bought from the trolley. I was lucky enough not to come across any gross flavors, like earwax or worse. I shuddered as I thought of a coconut flavored jelly bean.

The train came to a screeching halt, and we all got up to exit once the announcement to get off came on.

I shuffled forward alongside Ned and Miranda. Matt caught up with some other friends, and Lucy and Nicole were nowhere to be found, probably lost within the giant crowd of students.

We ended somewhere near the forests, the actual Hogwarts Castle itself visible a few miles away, a lake with dozens of boats waiting for students.

I began to make my way toward the boats when a hand stopped me. I turned to see Ned and Miranda giving me a strange look.

"The boats are only for first year students Aneline. Second through seventh years get to the school by those carriages over there." He said, pointing to a decent amount of black carriages.

Well don't I feel smart.....

"Carriages are usually driven by these creatures called threstrals, white winged horses, although I can't really see them. I've only learned this from books you see." He was in an all-out nerd-mode at this point.

"You can only see threstrals if you've witnessed death, so-"

"Wait. You can only see them if you've seen death before?" I cut him off, to his annoyance.

"That's exactly what I just said-"

The rest of his sentence was entirely drowned out. My blood ran cold in my body, yet sweat seemed to be at my palms.

I could see the threstrals.

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:O Shocker!!! So who did Aneline see die?! Does she know about this mysterious death??!! Does she remember?

Find out.....in the next chapter!

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