Where The Sage Shrubs Grow,

Chapter 43

Sage's POV:
I was sitting at the Hufflepuff table with Hallie, gulping down my sixth cup of coffee. I still felt sleep deprived. Hallie on the other hand had three cups of coffee and she was bouncing off the walls.
"Up too late hanging out with Fred?" Hallie wiggled her eyebrow at me
I gave her a side glare and responded dryly "I'm ignoring the twins right now."
Hallie's jaw dropped like I had just told her I was dying or something.
"What?" She yelled

I gave her a full on glare "keep it down will you?"
Hallie slumped in her seat, keeping quiet until she spotted Clementine walking in. She called her over, it was obvious that she was hyper.
"Good morning." Clementine smiled
"Morning." I mumbled

Hallie and Clementine engaged in some conversation, I added a few comments here and there I was pretty zoned out just paying attention to refilling my cup three more times.
"Ten cups?!" Hallie eyed me "How are you still alive?"
I drank coffee like water, on top of that I didn't add any sugar or milk so it just didn't seem like a big deal.

"Fred keeps looking at you." Hallie whispered to me
"Well let him look I'm not going to talk to him."
"But why?" Hallie nagged
"Because is him and George are going to enter some stupid tournament where they could die I'm not just going to sit around and be ok with it. So if they want to enter they're going to have to do it without me in their lives. "I sipped down the last of my coffee

We were just about to leave for our classes when Professor Sprout came striding up to me.
"Don't forget about your detention this week." She handed me a paper and walked off
"Detention? Why do you have detention? It's not even past the first day of classes!" Hallie looked at the paper in disbelief
"I'll tell you later."

-

I was walking with Hallie explaining why I had detention all this week.
"Well why were you at the astronomy tower anyway?" Hallie asked
"I don't know."
"What are we whispering about?" Fred smirked popping up behind me and Hallie with George

I turned my head away still refusing to speak to them.
"Sage has detention all week for getting caught sleeping on the balcony at the astronomy tower." Hallie explained
Jeez when she puts it that way I sound stupid, what happened to all the emotion?
"Oh and she isn't speaking to either of you." Hallie continued with a sharp nod
"What?" Fred and George asked
"Yep, definitely don't know why though." Hallie skipped off with me following quickly behind
Does she realize how happy she sounds saying anything when she's on a sugar high?

-

Classes passed long and boring, finally after what felt like hours it was dinner time. I walked to my seat next to Hallie, I could feel the twins staring at me. They were still trying to figure out why I wasn't talking to them. I sat down and not two minutes later Lee came trotting over to talk to me before dinner started.

"Hi Sage!" He chirped
"Well hello there Lee." I smiled
"How's it going?" He asked
"Oh it's going great, what about you?"
"Well not so great." He dramatically lowered his head
I sighed, knowing what was coming "And why is that?"
"Because I've had to listen to those bloody twins all day complain about why you aren't talking to them!" He cried
"Well you can tell them that once they decide to stop being bloody idiots then I'll be more than happy to talk to them." I responded dryly

Lee didn't really have a response so he just left and told the twins what I said. They looked at me with confused faces and dinner began.

"He said he wanted to ask me something, and I'm actually nervous." Clementine ranted
Me and Hallie exchanged nervous glances
We talked about boys for the rest of the evening, unfortunately nothing seemed to be going well for anyone. Except for Clementine but with Darius not much seems like it would stay well.

"Ok, well I'm off to detention." I said getting up from the table
I wasn't paying enough attention to realize the two redheads missing from the Gryffindor table. I made my way to Professor Snape's class hoping he wouldn't make me do something too difficult.

"Ah, Ms. Jackson. Take a seat. We are waiting on two more tardy students." He said in his angry monotone voice
I quickly sat down before he got more upset.
"Sorry Professor-"
"We got held up-"
I know those voices
"I don't want to your EXCUSES. You two have been in here too many times for me to believe anything you say." Snape raged

I wanted to cover my ears, his voice maybe deep but it gets loud and hurts my ears. He recomposed himself and leaned back in his chair.
"Today, you three will be cleaning and organizing my supply closet." He continued
Snape handed me a duster, George the mop and bucket, and Fred the broom. He also confiscated our wands so we wouldn't be able to use magic.
Snape left his room through a back exit leaving the three of us standing there. I was the first to turn in my heel and start heading towards the supply closet the twins following close behind.

"So Sage~"
"Fancy seeing you here."
I just rolled my eyes, they weren't going to break me. I was way too mad about this to just give in.
"Oh come on, we don't even know why you're mad at us!" George complained
That sounds like their problem.

I started taking potions off the shelves so I could dust, when I reached the shelves I couldn't quite reach Fred came up behind me to grab the potions, my back pressing into him. I hate him, I hate him so much.

After a hours of nagging, harassment, and me doing most of the work we headed back to Snape's classroom. He handed us back our wands with no great joy and I practically ran out of the classroom trying to get away from the twins. This better not be an all week ordeal.

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