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Chapter 5: Secrets

Derisa Phoenix Potter POV:

Voldemort had raised his wand. His head was still tilted to one side, like a curious child, wondering what would happen if he proceeded. Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed fear. He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone.

Ris shot up gasping for breath, breathing heavily. She felt something coming up from her throat to her mouth so jumped of her bed, throwing the covers away, and raced to the bathroom; Ris felt all of the contents of yesterday come up her throat and into the toilet she managed to get to just in time.

Derisa jumped into the shower after brushing her teeth to get rid of the ghastly feeling and taste in her mouth. She relaxed feeling the hot water run down her stiff muscles. She scrubbed of the sweat with vanilla scented body wash and washed her hair with strawberry aromatic shampoo. Ris stepped out of the shower and grabbed a fluffy towel to dry herself off. Ris looked through her dresser and chose to wear a purple lace bra and panties.

She walked over to her closet and selected mid-length cap sleeves sew top, killer pins skinny jeans, denim ankle boots, purple princess bracelet stack and sunglasses on top of her head; put an elegant purple glitter luxury iPhone 6 case, her normal goblin made necklace, and purple nail polish. She grabbed her normal school shoulder bag and put all her books inside. Her highlighted hair was always loose now; having it tied up just reminded her of how she used to do it the war so it wouldn't get in the way.

Risa went to the kitchen and made a cup of tea grabbing some cookies from her cupboard, she didn't have to worry about expired foods or the food running out; another handy spell taught by Mrs. Weasly, all it did was refill whatever food finished and replaced the food that had become expired.

Once Derisa had finished eating her breakfast, she checked the watch, her mother had once adorned, and saw that she would be a thirty minutes early. She head out to school as this gave her a chance to go to the library, another passion of hers from her childhood, as well as music, was book reading. She longed to have a mother and father read her to sleep at night and so she started reading at night to try to fill the empty void, but it still wasn't the same.

Ris parked her car in the parking lot and headed straight inside the building, down the hallways that she knew would lead to the library. She had one at home but she wanted to see what material the school; hers was mostly on all kinds of magic, that no one else could see unless Derisa herself let them, and England or the more famous parts of American and the rest of the World's History. She had absolutely nothing about Mystic Falls.

"Hello Derisa, how come you are here this early? Wouldn't you rather be in bed?" the old librarian, Mrs. Davis, greeted her.

"Good morning Mrs. Davis, I wanted to see the reading material in the library and I always was an early riser." Ris replied to her leaving out the parts of her nightmares. The librarians would always have the teenagers respect because of her love for books. As well as the music and gym teachers.

She looked at the books and chose one on the history of Mystic Falls, the librarian scanned the book at returned it to Ris, who put it in her bag to later read at home. The foreign teen walked to her first lesson and saw the whole gang sitting in their seats.

"Wow, hey Risa, you're early today" Bonnie said, alerting the other 3 talking teens of her presence, they all looked up from their conversation and smiled at the English girl who smirked back.

"Yeah, I was at the library for the past half hour." The teenager replied. Stefan raised his eyebrows, while the girl's eyes grew big.

"You're able to make your brain work that early. I have to have an half an hour at least to just get out of bed." The brunette muttered to the others, who all nodded in response silently saying that they agree.

"I've always been an early riser" the raven head smirked, drawing in her notebook. At lunch Ris sat out in the courtyard with everyone. Elena came storming out the building and to the table, dropping down with thud and a scowl on her face.

"What's with you, Scowly" Ris asked casually putting a fry in her mouth. The other chuckled at this while the brunette in question scowled even more but this time it was directed at the raven headed foreigner instead of the table. Since this was Ris, all she did was raise an eyebrow and take the stare head on. She had survived Snape for 6 years and her relatives for her entire life; a teenage girl was not going to scare her. Elena groaned and gave up.

"It's my brother; he won't take to anyone and is high, stoned or drunk nearly all the time. I have no idea what to do to help him." She explained her foul mood to help everyone to help them understand why she was acting like this.

"Simple, you can't help him, all you can do is tell him that the world is moving on and he should to. Everyone deals with grief differently, getting stoned, high or drunk is your brothers way. Leave it to him but if you want to help him so badly; put a limit on how much he can take in one day for his health and when he feels better he'll start to lessen the amount he takes gradually giving it up all together and everyone's happy." The raven headed beauty suggested a solution. Everyone looked at her amazed and dumbstruck as to why they didn't think of the simple solution themselves.

"Thanks Derisa, I'll take to Aunt Jenna about it." Elena said happily. It was clear to Stefan that Ris was wiser beyond her years but the puzzle was, was she taking from her own experience or witnessing it happen.

"So you guys want to get ready at my place for the party" Elena suggested as they ate in silence. The girls nodded and Caroline looked as if she just remembered something important.

"Hey remember the girl that used to bother all throughout freshmen year, Jane, she died yesterday in an animal attack in the woods; Mom said there was a lot of blood."

At the end of the day, Risa went to the library and did her homework there, by the time she had finished, it was five o'clock. She couldn't be asked to cook so she decided to go straight to the grill. She went out to the empty parking lot and drove to the famous bar and grill restaurant. As soon as she entered the building she spotted a quiet corner at the front. She walked over and Matt came over to take her order.

"Hey Matt, I'll have a coke cheeseburger and fries. Thanks." Ris ordered. He nodded and walked away to get the girl her food, while Ris waited, she read a novel she had brought from her house. The chair opposite scraped out and Ris felt someone sitting there. Her magic was warning her to on alert, so Ris concluded it was Stefan.

"Hey Stefan." she greeted the vampire without looking up from her book. She heard Stefan groan and mutter something like 'how does she do that' under his breath to himself.

"Hey Risa" he replied smiling. She smirked at him, finally putting the book away as Matt came over with her food and a coke for Stefan.

"So, have you told Elena that you like her yet?" Ris asked and laughed a bit when Stefan chocked on his drink. Stefan stuttered some nonsense about not liking her making Ris raise an eyebrow.

"A blind man can see you like her so get a move on because she likes you to" Ris retorted eating a fry.

"I'm not good for her Ris-" Stefan admitted frowning, before he was interrupted.

"Because you're a vampire? I know" she whispered, making Stefan gape at her.

"How do you know that?" she asked quietly making sure no one could hear their conversation but unknowing to him the girl opposite him had cast a silent and wand less Muffliato.

"Your ring. It's lapis lazuli spelled by a witch and you tensed at lunch when we started to talk about the animal attack on that girl, you looked really uncomfortable. I know how to spot a vampire, Stefan. Don't worry it's your secret to tell, I'm not going to tell anyone Ripper. If you want to date Elena then you have to tell her, she'll overact but she will come round in the end. If you love something sent it free, if it's meant to be than it will always find its way back Stefan. Think about it." Ris advised at him

"How did you know that I was the Ripper of Monterrey? That was before your time." Stefan exclaimed quietly

"I know a lot of things, that doesn't mean I'm going to tell you how. I've got to go now. Bye Stefan." Risa said ending the conversation and walking out leaving Stefan to think about what she said.