Late minute |Cassandra|

[VEDETTA GENEVIEVE LAROCHE]

Studying was never her favorite thing to do, if she could be outside when the day was bright and sunny, she will but today she just couldn’t. She had been ignoring homework and books in general as long as she was able to and ended with a pile of things to do. She always though she worked better under pressure but she hated the feeling of stress when she knew she had so much things to do ahead and so very little time to do them.

The library was almost empty, people was outside with the books and enjoying the afternoon but she knew if she went outside she will never put attention to the books she had in front of her. Picking a table far away from the rest of the students she placed her things in the nearest chair and wandered looking for the books she needed scolding herself for being such a lazy girl.

Her father had always taught her to be hard worker and in Beauxbatons she used to study quite a lot but here she found herself much more relaxed than there because things weren’t as strict as in her former school so she took the chance of freedom with too much enthusiasm and now here she was, with lot of charms to learn, lot of things to study and works to write.

When she got all she needed she went to her table and started working. Transfiguration was her first choice, she was quite good at it and she didn’t find it difficult at all, then she went on with Dark Arts and then History of Magic, there her problems started. History of Magic was the worst subject in Hogwarst, she didn’t know one single person who liked it. It was difficult and there was too much to memorize. She had to write a work about some important magic event and she could find even a way to start it.

Around her in the table books were open, papers were around them in balls and everything was a mess, even her hair was a mess of all the times she had passed her hand in a gesture of pure frustration. No, that subject was beyond her limits but she managed to figure out how to write at least something. Charms were next, and it proved to be difficult too.

She was about to explode, she looked outside the window to the people laughing and enjoying the day outside, she scolded herself again. In the library there were only the people who couldn’t look beyond the pages of their books and her, someone so lazy that left everything for the last minute. Her mind started wandering at the blue sky and the green grass and the sun outside.

[CASSANDRA ZOEY BLUDD]

Hot day. Skirts. Swimming in the lake. Where was Cassandra Bludd today? In the library. Once again, she had left her Astronomy essay to the last minute, like she did with every other lesson. Although normally, any normal pupil in hogwarts would panic about a one thousand page essay on the stars, but Cassandra was reasonably laid back about the whole thing. Currently she was doing her OWLs, but if she failed them, it wouldn't matter, she'd only be doing them again in ten years time. That was the advantage of being a vampire, because she never died, she'd go to hogwarts and do another couple of years at hogwarts.

The last time she was here, she got mostly O's, but now she had time to perfect it. People thought she was a nerd, because of her grades, if only they actually knew why she had all the brains. Cassandra was quite intelligent, and all her siblings knew it. Of course Cassandra wasn't the smartest one in the Bludd family, her brothers were much smarter than her, but most vampires were smart. They had knowledge and that knowledge would keep them alive for centuries to come! Hopefully anyway. If one of her siblings died, she'd be very very upset about the whole thing.

Of course there were disadvantages, which was feeding. Right now, Cassandra was feeling hungry, she'd have to feed tonight, otherwise she could risk getting caught out, and she knew how much her siblings loved this school, and all species had and agreement, which was as soon as one felt hungry, feed in the forest. Don't get caught or bad things happened. Right now, she needed to feed but she'd have to wait till tonight, so no one would see her enter the forest.

Searching through the shelves, she pulled out two books and placed them down before putting her many pieces of parchment on top along with her quill. Picking up her belongings she approached the tables and scanned them to see which ones where free. Many of them where. Cassandra wanted one by the window so she could feel the sun on her skin.

Walking forward she tripped over something and dropped both the books about Astronomy and the pieces of parchment flew in the air and onto the floor. She could hear snickers and the librarian shushing everyone in the library. Now she felt embarrassed. Things like this always happened to her, and people always laughed. Who wouldn't laugh at a hufflepuff falling over? Quickly she collected her two books and started to pick up her quill.

[VEDETTA GENEVIEVE LAROCHE]

Vedetta was tired of all the homework and study, she wanted to be out of the library enjoying the day with the rest of the people and chatting with her friend while chasing cute boys. She could use the chance to snap quite beautiful pictures, too. But no, she was inside the castle, trapped in the sea of books and parchment studying and getting anxious about it all.

How could she? That would have never happened to her in Beauxbatons, most people thought the girls there were all beauty and no brain and that wasn’t the case, at all. She wasn’t a nerd, she liked life and enjoyed every minute of it but she had always done her things in time, maybe it was all that sense of freedom what caught her in the trap.

Whatever it was, she had to put her head back to work so she watched the charms book she had in front of her and sighed. She had two more things to do and then she would be free and if she managed to them quite fast she would be able to enjoy the sun after all and then maybe she could spend the night with her friends gossiping, using makeup and giving each other beauty treatment.

Suddenly the silence of the library was broken by the noise of books falling to the floor. She looked up, taking the opportunity to stop her study even for some minutes, to see a young Hufflepuff trying to pick up her belongings and the rest of the library laughing at her. Vedetta would have laughed too, if she wasn’t as clumsy as the Hufflepuff girls seemed to be.

Getting up of her chair she went to the girl and helped her pick her things with a kind smile on her face. Wasn’t it enough to be trapped in the Library during such a good day that people have to laugh at you too? Here, be careful next time Hufflepuffs were always in the library, same as Ravenclaws. If you went to there and look for a table you will find half of the kids were Hufflepuff and the other half were Ravenclaws and then you will find three or four Gryffindors, but almost never a Slytherin.

She couldn’t blame them, though, if she could she would never set her foot in the library but she had to and she was forced to go now and then to look out for books and such. The library was, of course, the best place to get together with a boy, people never went to some places of the library and the few people who used it minded their own business so it provided with plenty of privacy.

She looked at the window once more when she handed her things back to the Hufflepuff and turned to go back to her table where her own books were waiting for her. She promised herself once more that would never happen again and next time she would do essays and study at the right time so she wouldn’t waste a day like this one.