It's almost been the three weeks and Christmas is finally here. I hop out of bed with unnatural excitement and energy with a massive grin. I quickly change into a black sweater and leggings before jumping all the way to the common room. "Happy Christmas!" Alex, who is waiting for me in front of the fire place, grins. "Buon Natale!" I smile back. (Happy Christmas in Italian) He laughs as I sit beside him. "Loving those language classes huh?" I nod enthusiastically. I watch him pull out a few gifts and open them, one being a gift I had got him and wrapped in black paper with a yellow bow. With a cheeky grin he tears through the paper. "Awesome! A sneak-o-scope!" He also opens a weird black cloak that was tied only by thin rope. "Woah!" I breathe. "Is that?" "Yea! The Invisibility Cloak!" He says as pulls it on and his red sweatered body instantly disappears, excluding his head and messy mob of dark hair. "It works!" I laugh. "I've studied about that thing! The rumor's true than?" "What rumor?" He takes the cloak off and sits beside me again, sifting through his last two gifts. "That you're a Prevell?" "Oh, I guess, yea," he nods distractedly, opening a bag of Weasleys' Wizzarding Wheezes treats from his Aunts and Uncles. "Hey, I got you something. Two, actually," he hands me a small box wrapped in black paper with a purple ribbon and a card, and another box wrapped in purple with a black ribbon and card. "It's your birthday, too, right?" I sit there, stunned. I've never really gotten a birthday and/or a Christmas gift. Heck, I rarely am told, "Happy Birthday!" or "Happy Christmas!" I slowly tear through the black bowed box and pull out a gold necklace with an hour glass. "A time turner?!" I gasp. "How did you get this?" Alex laughs and grins. "I asked," he shrugs. "I talked to Professor Mcgonagall and she said just don't use it to cheat and all." I nod eagerly and put it on. "Open the other one!" I open the yellow bowed gift and pull out a small silver ring in the shape of a tiny dragon with black diamonds. "No," I shake my head. "I can't take this. It must have cost a fortune!" I shove the ring reluctantly to him. "But it's for your birthday!" He protests and slides it in my index finger. "It's gorgeous! Where did you find it?" I ask while examining it. "I picked it up at a store," he shrugs. "Now, let's go get some food!" We race to the Great Hall and sit at the single table with the Professors. "Hello!" Smiles Professor Longbottom as we sit down. "Hi!" Alex grins and I wave. "Anything change yet?" I ask solemnly. "Not quite yet," he sighs with his eyes closed. "But close. However," he says, brighter now and clapping his hands. "this is a holiday! And, as I've heard, a certain student's birthday. Happy birthday, Bri." I nod and smile a quiet thanks before piling a sweet potato and marshmallow dish on to my plate. Alex and I play a few rounds of Cribbage Wizarding Crackers with some Ravenclaw and Gryffindor kids. We also throw an icy glare at Brooklyn and her Slytherin girl squad who stayed behind. "I'll meet you back in the common room later," I wave to Alex. "I have something to take care of." I turn on my heel and walk briskly down the hall. "Hello, Bri," Brook nods to me. I lean back on the balls of my feet and cross my arms. "Where's your girl squad?" I ask with a single raised eyebrow. She waves off the thought with a single hand. "Else where." "So," I start. "First off, I like my earrings and my hair. Second, I've passed more exams with higher than Exceeds Expectations than you have in every one of our classes," he face suddenly falls as she realizes what I'm talking about. "Third, I like to think I'm more humble than most and I certainly don't brag about how malicious and evil my family was and I don't pick out everyone's flaws for the hell of it. Fourth, Nightshade, Longbottom, Harley, and Potter are better people than you." I stare at her with daggers. "So, so you heard me, huh?" My glare intensifies. "I'll take that as a yes." Without another word, she turns around and walks to the dungeons and I walk back to the kitchens.
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Cold. I really hate the cold. I'm outside huddled up in my sweater and coat over that talking to Alex at the water fountain. "The potion will be ready by the end of the week," he says. "But what do we do with it after that?" "Honestly? I have no idea." It's true. I don't know how we're going to corner this thing. And, after our encounter with it in the common room, nothing has happened. "Hey!" A voice says from behind us and I turn around fast and nearly fall off my perch on the fountain on top of Alex on the ground. "Wolf," I nod. "How's it going?" She asks in a lower voice. "The potion, I mean." "Almost done," Alex says. "Just a few more days." "We still don't know how to trap it or anything though," I tell her. "Oh that's easy!" Wolf laughs. "The shape shifter obviously has some tie to you, Bri." "Me?" I ask doubtfully. "Yea, he or she was in our common room numerous times and changed into you." "A version of me," I correct and she waves it off. "You know what I mean." "Well, I find all this hard to believe," I shake my head. "No way am I being bait to something that can change itself into a snake, a spider, myself, or that monster that paralyzed Silvia Longbottom!" Wolf's face falls. "Haven't you heard?" She asks. I glance at Alex and we shake our heads. "It got into the Slytherin common room just after breakfast." My eyes widen as she continues. "A few girls were attacked but it wasn't a basilisk this time." "Show me," I tell her and we rush to the hospital wing to find what I, for some reason, not Brooklyn Carrow and her girl squad.

Hey wazzup?!
I have been struggling to update because I have school, and homework, and technically I'm grounded, and I have to clean my room, but I've been working on this when I can do, I hope you enjoyed.
Peace out!
-Bri