Publicity is never a good thing

[Efeyenia Samartzi]

Nia made her way to the Great Hall for breakfast, just like every other, boring, day. As she made her way over to the Slytherin table she could see it was still pretty empty as not many were they yet. Making her way to the far end of the table, away from some annoying first years, she sat and poured herself some coffee. For a change she felt hungry so she buttered herself some toast and put a few sausages and eggs on a plate.

As she was about to start her breakfast she heard the flipping of wings. Nia didn’t bother to look up, she rarely received any post, and she doubted today would be any different. As she took a sip of her coffee she saw a newspaper fall in front of her. Confused she picked it up and flattened it out.

Staring up at her was two very familiar faces. He heart sank as she read the head line, thankfully no one else could read it as it was in Greek, her local paper to be exact.

 

[Isabella Chaos]

Isabella was still not getting much sleep but had finally managed four hours the previous night, the most she'd gotten lately. She was so thankful for make up to hide the huge bags under her eyes so that her roommates still didn't know of her sleeping problem and after she'd thrown on some jeans and a floral t-shirt, she made her way down to the Great Hall, her stomach rumbling with food. Lately the Slytherin hadn't been eating much so she looked a lot thinner but she tried to play it off and was still seemingly a lot happier than usual later now that she and Mike were on the same page for now at least.

"Hey Nia!" she said brightly, spotting her best friend sitting on the far end of the table. "What's up?" she asked her, plonking herself down beside her and reaching for a muffin right away. Her brown eyes happened to glance down at something Nia was looking at and she had to do a double-take. "Is that us?" she asked in disbelief as she scanned the cover of the magazine.She scanned the rest of the cover, all in Greek which she was unable to read, thus unable to know if it was a good or bad headline. Personally she thought it was awesome that they were on the cover of a magazine, she remembered the day those photos had been taken, at the carnival where she had Flooed to Greece on her own and had the time of her life, they couldn't possibly have anything bad to say right?

 

[Efeyenia Samartzi]

Nia stared at her food, now no sence of an appetite. She knew the whole thing was a complete an utter lie, but the fact it was said like that for everyone to see. What would he parents think? She almost didn't even want to read the letter that came along with the magazine. Taking a heavy sigh she slowly opened the letter and scanned over it.

Efeyenia,

Well I'm sure you know where this is from. Don't worry, we're not mad, we know you and your friend were just having some fun. Dad is just going through some damage control at the minute, but it will all be cleared up soon. The magazine have recieved a warning and are planning in publishing a letter apologising to you, your friend and the family. Tell your friend not too worry, some how the magazine found out her name and sent one to her parents aswell.

Hope all is well at school. Talk to you soon

- Mother

Nia felt slightly relieved but still sick to her stomach. What will Bella's parents say? she thought. She planned to quickly dispose of the paper but then she heard a familiar voice greet her. She looked up to see her best friend. Nia tried to smile but couldn't she just lowered her head again and averted her gaze from Bella and the paper.

She cringed when Bella questionned the picture. She just nodded her head lightly. "Bella I'm sorry. That magazine is just pure flith." Nia said in disgust glaring at her picture again.

 

[Isabella Chaos]

Immediately Isabella could tell by Nia's expression that it wasn't good. Her face fell, she had been hoping it was good because after her own little 'Gossip Magazine' where she'd occasionally trash herself in, she was hoping for some good publicity. She heard Nia's apology and her brows furrowed lightly in concern as she began flipping through the magazine in search of any more photos. "Why, what's it say?" she asked with curiosity. Why would Nia be so upset for her? It was her parents that were the famous ones and thus she should be angry for the publishers putting her in this situation, it didn't matter for Bella, it's not like her parents read Greek magazines.

 

[Efeyenia Samartzi]

Nia laughed lightly, forgetting that Bella couldn't actually read this headline, "Urgh, it says, "Girls just want to have fun." she quoted the headline with a hint of disgust. Granted the headline didn't sound too bad said out loud, almost funny. It was true her and Bella did have fun, well Nia did anyway, the most fun she had in ages.

She went on to give Bella the general gist of the article, "Don't worry it doesn't metion you that much, it mostly says how the Mayors daughter is a bit of a party animal and how she and her friends liked to do more than party." She said with a roll of her eyes. "I mean, could they not have done a nice article about the festival and leave it at that?" She muttered to herself.

 

[Isabella Chaos]

[Soo sorry!]

Isabella pursed her lips in thought as she looked at the pictures in the magazine and then the stuff Nia was saying it said. She shrugged her shoulders, thinking it was no big deal to her, but it must be bad for Nia and her family. It was true she loved reading how messed up these young Hollywood starlets could be when their parents were famous, but when it was her best friend they were talking about, she didn't like it. For her it didn't matter because these people in Greece had no idea who she was so she was in the clear. "Well thankfully my parents live in Italy," she said with a slight laugh before suddenly an owl came and dropped off a letter.

Puzzled, Isabella picked it up and opened it and she actually burst out laughing after she was done reading it. "Wow, I think I spoke too soon," she said afterward. She showed Nia the letter from her parents saying how dare she disgrace them like that, they let her go free this past summer thinking she would respect herself and this is how she was acting without parental supervision, and other things along those lines. This was perfect! Anything that could help Pammy realize that Isabella was a trainwreck without her was good for the Slytherin. "I don't even know how they got the magazine," she wondered out loud softly.