The Forest is a dangerous place(DE/ORDER Abbey, Samantha, Lyra)

Alexa stared out of the window beside her bunk. So little people were outside, as it was too cold. Looking back at her essay, Alexa put down her quill. She was going outside; she needed fresh air. Slipping on her boots and leather jacket, Alexa headed out of her dorm, and into the comman room. There, three Gryffindors were fooling with gobstones. Sneaking past them, Alexa left the room.

The air was fresh, and bone-chilling. Alexa shivered, and wrapped the jacket tighter around her. A group of people were clustered around a tree, but other than that, the grounds were empty. Spotting a spot under a tree that had a strip of sunshine, Alexs made her way over to it. The grass was warmer than in the shade, bit it was still too cold to take off her jacket. Alexa looked up at the sky. The clouds were white, but there were some gray clouds in the distance.

Abbey walked down path towards the forest, the wind whipping her hair into her face. Abbey pushed the strands of red hair out of her face and fingered it lightly, wondering if it was time to get a haircut and a new dye job soon.

Just as she reached the forest, Abbey saw Samantha searching around on the ground for something. "Hi Samantha!" Abbey said. Even the Abbey was in the Confederacy, she did not know that Samantha was a vampire, so she always greeted her with a smile. "How are you?" she asked, looking over the small blades of grass. Abbey was curious as to what Samantha was looking for, but she didn't want to be rude and ask.

Alexa watched as Samantha walked out of the castle. She seemed to be looking for something she knew was there, but could not see. Alexa shrugged it off. It was probably a lost ring or something. A few minutes later, Abbey Dawn also came out of the castle. She seemed to have the same intentions as Samantha did. Something was clearly there , and it was not a ring. Deciding that she was going to go and see what was going on, Alexa stood up, and walked over.

"Um, hey guys. Whatcha looking for? Did you lose something?" By the looks of the situation, the item was not here. "If you guys are looking for some glasses, or contacts, you're never going to find them. How about using a summoning charm? You will probably get better results if you do."

Samantha was sitting on a rock and looking for the odd shiny object that had caught her attention a few seconds ago. But she was unable to see it anymore so she stoped looking. Then she was just about to stand up and leave when she heard someone address her. She looked up and saw Abby. She could remember if she had talked to her before. If so they only talked once, but it looked like she knew her name so Sam smiled and replied. "Hey there. I thought that I had seen something shining around here but I can't find it. But it's ok, It's not important." She said to Abby, then heard another voice, one that she had heard before in the forest when the CoL attacked. It was Alexa. "Hey there Alexa. I was just looking for something that had caught my eye a second ago. But I can't find it now and I'm not worried it's not important." Sam said to Alexa. She then looked back and forth between them. "So how have you guys been?" She asked them both just being friendly.

"Well, nothing really. I'm kinda at a calm/boring point in my life. The only thing I am really worried about is my essay's. And even those are mild. But I am not complaining." In fact, Alexa was thrilled her life was so calm. It was nice not to have almost nothing to worry about. "How are you? Is your life chill, or thrill?" Alexa then asked the same thing of Abbey.
"This is just a guess, but I am guessing nothing is going on."

Sammy frowned when she heard Alexa ask her about if her life was hectic or not. Well Sammy knew that her life was definetly exciting right now, but not the kind of exciting that one talks about. So she took a deep breath to steady herself, and started. "Well my life has been kind of hectic lately but it's not something I like talking about. It's great to hear that your happy with you life right now. I wish that i could just drop out of school and go on with my life already but finishing school will help me to give my kids a better life." Sammy said to Alex and Abby, she then turned to Abby to see what she had to say.

"Thrill!" Abbey said, smiling. "What with the tournament coming up, taking classes, Quidditch practice, and my part time job, I haven't had barely any time to breathe!" Abbey gasped out.

"Wow. My guess was far from right. Your lives are pretty exciting." Alexa did not envy Abbey or Sam in the slightest. Her life was like rapids; at one point it was hectic, and when it slowed into a river, it became calm again. It was now at the river part.

As she walked toward the school grounds, Lyra could see three girls at the edge of the forest, and one of them, joy of joys, was identical to the picture she'd seen of Ne'os Emof's girlfriend.

She sped up, tried not to look where she was going, and deliberately tripped on a tree root. Immediately, she stood again and willed herself to cry. It didn't work and instead, she whipped out her wand to cast a pepper-breath jinx into her face. That was much more effective. She began to run again, and dragged her hand across the bark of a particularly wicked-looking tree, ripping off slivers of flesh and causing a livid purple rash to run up her arm.

Finally, Lyra stumbled up to the group of girls, weeping and sniffling. Sure, she didn't sound like Rose Weasley, but she doubted Rose Weasley would've sounded like herself if this happened to her. Fortunately, she came from that gigantic family. There was no doubt she had relatives at this school. Wasn't that Potter boy her cousin?

"M- my cousin..." Lyra stuttered. "We- we went into... the woods..."

She paused, gasping for breath through her tears, to gauge the girls' reaction.