Revenge Is Like a Wad of Gum Up your Nose

Euan McGregor would pay. He had been shooting spit balls at her all through potions, and that much she could stand. She did not want to get thrown out of the one class she liked. But as the bell rang she heard another one, and this time… Euan and his little friends began shrieking with laughter. She stared forward and slowly reached back and touched the back of her head.

Gum. There was gum there.

The slimeball has thrown gum in her hair. She froze there and they howled with laughter, but someone had asked Professor Lyons for help so she was stuck sitting there, dumbstruck. She dropped her hand and it slid into her lap. People around her rushed for the door and she slowly began to pack up her things, still a little disconcerted.

The prat would die.

The class had emptied out and Professor Lyons prompted Wally to hurry on to class. Wally nodded and reached up, carefully twisting the gum from the back of her hair, pulling a few hairs painfully from her head. She held the gum in front of her, staring at it, and her heart began thumping extra hard, small flashes of red appeared in her vision.

She stood and dropped her hand, clenching the gum in her fist. She turned and walked out, grabbing her bag with one hand and walking out. She made her way down the hall, turning the way she always saw Euan go. She felt hollow and yet very strong, very real, very very solid. She walked with purpose, turning this way and that way, going- not to her next class- but to Transfiguration where she knew the Slytherins would be going.

She turned and saw him down the hallway, friends on either side. And she took off running, her braids thumping against her back, her bag bouncing up and down. A few feet away, he turned and she lept on top of him, taking him to the ground. She sat on top of him, pinning his arms down with her knees and began punching him in the face as he shrieked. “Shut up, you little shit,” she said in a firm tone. A few of his friends rushed forward and she swung her arm in a wide circle, connecting with their jaws and someone’s nose.

She reached down and grabbed Euan’s chin with one hand and forced it up before procuring the gum. She then went about the business of shoving it down one of his nostrils.