"Lily? How can you possible wear heels all the time?! You practically live in them! I know you're short but that's just sad" I teased Lily, before running out.
"Shiyloh!" Lily called after me. I laughed.
I was pretty tall for my age, 5”8 so Lily, being 5"4 is tiny compared to me.
"What did you do to my Lily?" Elliott asked.
"I just called her short" I said hiding behind Remus, who was trying not to laugh at me and the situation.
"Why would you do that?" Jasper asked, looking at me funny. “Why would you provoke her?”
"Because one; She always where heels to make her taller and two; Because she hates it" I smirked
"Shiyloh RosaLynn Lawrence! I will get you!"
I shrieked in a rush of adrenaline. "Remus save me!"
Remus chuckled and moved out of the way for Lily to get me.
"Remus!" I shouted before hiding behind Elliott, who was second closest to me.
Lily stopped and walked up to Elliott. "Elliott? Could you move so I could get Shiyloh. Please?" She asked innocently, looking up at him with puppy dog eyes, pouting her lips out slightly. Elliott gulped and moved away.
I squeaked, ran and jumped onto Jaspers back.
"Mush Horsey! She's gonna get me!" I told him.
Jasper laughed and began to run out of the common room, out through the portrait hole.
As we ran by, I saw a couple snogging on the in the corridor, I cast a silent spell and the male turn into a donkey and the female turned into a chicken, I giggled as they began to make animal noises. Jasper chuckled, meaning that he'd seen it too.
As we ran up the hall to the Great Hall, I saw Holden and Rowan being bullied. . . again.
I quickly jumped off of Jasper and walked over to where Gunner and Macduff were, with Rowan and Holden backed in front of then.
"Now that precious Lawrence isn't here to protect you, we can do anything we want" Gunner sneered as she backed them up into a corner.
I turned my head to see Remus, Jasper, Elliott, Alice, Frank and Lily all standing there, watching the event that was happening in front of then.
I turned back and saw Rowan taking a step forwards.
"You can't bully us." She said.
"Oh yeah? Why not?" Macduff mocked.
"Because we're too strong for you" Holden continued. I smiled at them. They saw me in the background and smiled
"Aw, the little firsties think that they can stand up against us" Gunner fake squealed.
"I don't think it's fake Gunner, so maybe you should get lost" I said.
Gunner and Macduff whipped around to see me, I smirked and they ran down the corridor, through a doorway and they disappeared.
I turned to Rowan and Holden.
"I am very proud that you did that" I told them. Rowan jumped up and hugged me while Holden just smiled.
"Thanks." He said
"I didn't do anything, you scared them off. Hell, I was scared of you guys. Weren't you guys?" I turned to my other friends. Rowan froze up at the sight of them, reverting into a certain shyness that comes with meeting new people.
"Oh yeah" Remus said.
"Terrified" Lily shuddered
"You guys are pretty scary" Alice and Frank said
"You had us shaking in our boots, didn't they Jasper" Elliott said
"I think that Elliott here" Jasper pointed to Elliott "Even wet himself"
Holden and Rowan relaxed and started laughing. Along with the rest of us, minus Elliott who was scowling at Jasper.
We walked into the Greta hall, me holding Rowan on my back. Holden said goodbye to us and went to sit at the Lovelace table with his friends.
"Where are your friends Ro?" I asked Rowan. She looked down sadly.
"I don't have any. No one likes me because they say I'm a Disgusting Mundane and don't belong here" The words made my heart sink, a heavy feeling on my chest as I looked down at her.
"Hey, that's not true! I'm offended!" Jasper said. Rowan looked up worried that she'd hurt someone's feeling, but saw Jasper smiling "I thought we were you friends?" He asked
Rowan smiled and nodded. Resting her head on my back again. She was like 4"5. Really small.
But what she'd just said got me thinking.
Beaverstone had gone down, I used to be a place where everyone got along from what I've heard, but from what I've seen, little kids who are Mundane or Full-bloods that don't follow the Full-blood traditions. Even half bloods were being made fun of, just because the stuck up Full-blood thought that they were better than others.
And I for one, had had enough.
Rowan climbed off my back and happily dug into her breakfast with the others as they chatted, but I sat silently, thinking of what I could do.
I felt an arm go around my hips. "Hey Love, you okay?" Jasper asked quietly.
I smiled at him "Yeah, just thinking" I said
"What about?"
"I've noticed that there's a bullying problem going around, so I was trying to think- I GOT IT!" I shouted the end, kissing Jaspers cheek before running up to Daedalos., leaving my friends surprised at my outburst, and confused by my running away. Most of the time, students weren't allowed to interrupt the teachers while on their lunch or dinner break. We were supposed to stay at our assigned tables.
"Aahh! Miss Lawrence-”
"Shiyloh" I corrected quickly, heaving my breath a little bit.
"Shiyloh." Daedalos smiled "How can I help you?" He asked.
"I have an idea" I said excitedly.
"Go on" Professor Morgan urged, she seemed interested in whatever had gotten me so excited, not like the other Professors around us, who seemed annoyed at my sudden appearance.
"I've noticed that there's a bullying problem in this school, that has developed over the past few years, I've watched as it gets worse, people coming from all kinds of backgrounds, Mundanes and full-bloods alike are becoming victim of it. It's the only time that there isn't any discrimination between anyone. I think I might have a solution." I stated
"Yes?" Daedalos said
"I think, we should start a – for lack of a better word – Rebellion of sorts. Get all the kids that are being bullied involved, give them strength instead of knocking them down and telling them to just ignore what's happening to them”
"My dear Miss Lawrence! That's a marvellous idea!" Webster exclaimed.
I smiled, feeling a little bit embarrassed.
"You do realize that this project will be your own?" Daedalos said, though he was smiling brightly. “It will be yours alone, yours to build and keep track of, and if something goes wrong, it will be your responsibility to take care of it.”
"Yes sir, I under- wait, I can do it?" I asked excitedly.
"It was your idea. I see it unfair that anyone else carry it out" Daedalos said.
"Thank you Sir, I won't let you down" I bit my lip, turned around and ran back to my seat next to Jasper and Rowan.
"What's going on?" Rowan asked innocently.
"I'm starting a movement against bullying.”
"Why?" Remus asked “I mean obviously I know why, but why now?”
"Because something needs to be done and I'm willing to do it.”
"I'll help!" Lily piped in.
"Me too!" Rowan said
"Me also!" Alice said and Frank gave a thumbs up because his mouth was full.
"I'll help too Love" Jasper said, kissing the top of my head
I smiled brightly
This was going to be good.