Hope you like this. It is a lot like one of my other ones but at the same
tiema lot different. Anything surrounded by * is thought.
"Cassandra Elizabeth Granger! What have you done to your hair?" Screams Anne Granger from her seat in the car. She had come to pick up her daughter from the mall to find she had dyed her hair.
Cassandra, or Cassie as she is known by those close to her, says nothing as she gets into the back seat of the car.
"I dont know mom its not that bad." Comes a semi sympathetic answer from the front seat where Hermione Granger is sitting.
"I was not asking you dear but at least you had an answer. Now Cassie you are such a good girl what in the world possessed you to disobey a house rule and dye your hair, crimson of all colors?" Anne calmly asks her younger daughter.
"I don't know I just wanted something different." Cassie quietly and somewhat embarrassingly tells her mother.
"Why did you not ask one of us first or if you absolutely had to have a change why not just pierce your ears or something smaller?"
Cassie just shrugs in the back seat and, if at all possible, sinks lower out of her mothers field of vision through the rear view mirror. Truth was she had pierced her ears two year ago but she would not expect anyone in her family to notice. She was fifteen and definitely overshadowed by her older and perfect sister Hermione. Her family talked to her and everything but they never really listened, that was what they thought she was there, for to listen to their problems and give answers never to give her answers in return. She had dyed her hair to get some kind of reaction out of them, and she secretly like the color.
Hermione always got the attention and the praise. She had the good grades, the best manners and she was the one with the special talent for magic. Cassie her self had never even shown so much as a spark of magic and was doomed to live at home with her parents and attend public muggle school where everyone treated her as though she had the plague.....even the geeks.
"Well your father and i will talk when we get home and decide a proper punishment for your actions, i am assuming that you cant just wash this stuff out and get your natural color back." Anne said with finality as she pulled in to traffic and headed for the Grangers' two-story home in the suburbs of London. (don't know is London has suburbs but oh well).
When they reached home Cassie immediately went to her room as her parents had a discussion on her punishment. After a while Hermione walked in to have a chat.
"What the hell did you dye your hair for anyway? You had a perfect hair color it was beautiful! Now you hair does not go with any of your features, it looks terrible on you." She stated rather haughtily.
"Whatever sis." Cassie replied evenly, if it was one thing she was used to it was her sisters superiority complex when it came to her.
Ever since they were little Hermione acted like she was better than Cassie, always taking the better toy and breaking the rest so Cassie had nothing and leaving her out of any games she played with her friends.
"Arg! You are so boring sis. Is this all you do when I am gone, sit around doing nothing? You really need a boyfriend, oh wait you wouldn't know what to do with one even if any guy would actually be interested in YOU!" Hermione said in her usual tone as she flounced out of the room and into hers across the hall.
*Great same old life with Hermione, you think someone would have taught her real manners at some point at Hogwarts. She is right about that guy thing though, what would any guy want with me? I'm not bad looking but I don't know the first thing about guys or dating and all that dating entail. Hermione probably has loads of experience with guys, though that would make her a whore, what ever.*
"Cassandra come down her please." come John Grangers voice from the living room.
"Coming!"
What Cassie got down stairs her father immediately began lecturing her on her actions and she stood there taking all of it. Turns out her punishments were grounding, for a month and no phone. None of it mattered to Cassie she never went places anyway and she never talked on the phone. She could still use her computer and the Internet so she was good to go for the entire summer. She was a little mad though, they never punished Hermione no matter what she did, and they just ignored it because it did not fit into their perfect daughter image.
A few hours later Cassie was contemplating her magical status, or lack there of, and could not help but get pissed off.
*Hermione always gets everything, the good looks, the brains and the magical talent. Its just not fair! NOT FAIR AT ALL!*
From no where the sound of shattering glass could be heard throughout the house and Cassie immediately went to see what happened. All of the down stairs windows were in pieces.
Hermione was talking to their parents, "It was magic, that's the only explanation for something like this, and it came from inside the house but it was not me."
She turned slowly to look at Cassie and Cassie knew.....she had made the windows explode and she finally had her wish, she had magic.
"Cassandra Elizabeth Granger! What have you done to your hair?" Screams Anne Granger from her seat in the car. She had come to pick up her daughter from the mall to find she had dyed her hair.
Cassandra, or Cassie as she is known by those close to her, says nothing as she gets into the back seat of the car.
"I dont know mom its not that bad." Comes a semi sympathetic answer from the front seat where Hermione Granger is sitting.
"I was not asking you dear but at least you had an answer. Now Cassie you are such a good girl what in the world possessed you to disobey a house rule and dye your hair, crimson of all colors?" Anne calmly asks her younger daughter.
"I don't know I just wanted something different." Cassie quietly and somewhat embarrassingly tells her mother.
"Why did you not ask one of us first or if you absolutely had to have a change why not just pierce your ears or something smaller?"
Cassie just shrugs in the back seat and, if at all possible, sinks lower out of her mothers field of vision through the rear view mirror. Truth was she had pierced her ears two year ago but she would not expect anyone in her family to notice. She was fifteen and definitely overshadowed by her older and perfect sister Hermione. Her family talked to her and everything but they never really listened, that was what they thought she was there, for to listen to their problems and give answers never to give her answers in return. She had dyed her hair to get some kind of reaction out of them, and she secretly like the color.
Hermione always got the attention and the praise. She had the good grades, the best manners and she was the one with the special talent for magic. Cassie her self had never even shown so much as a spark of magic and was doomed to live at home with her parents and attend public muggle school where everyone treated her as though she had the plague.....even the geeks.
"Well your father and i will talk when we get home and decide a proper punishment for your actions, i am assuming that you cant just wash this stuff out and get your natural color back." Anne said with finality as she pulled in to traffic and headed for the Grangers' two-story home in the suburbs of London. (don't know is London has suburbs but oh well).
When they reached home Cassie immediately went to her room as her parents had a discussion on her punishment. After a while Hermione walked in to have a chat.
"What the hell did you dye your hair for anyway? You had a perfect hair color it was beautiful! Now you hair does not go with any of your features, it looks terrible on you." She stated rather haughtily.
"Whatever sis." Cassie replied evenly, if it was one thing she was used to it was her sisters superiority complex when it came to her.
Ever since they were little Hermione acted like she was better than Cassie, always taking the better toy and breaking the rest so Cassie had nothing and leaving her out of any games she played with her friends.
"Arg! You are so boring sis. Is this all you do when I am gone, sit around doing nothing? You really need a boyfriend, oh wait you wouldn't know what to do with one even if any guy would actually be interested in YOU!" Hermione said in her usual tone as she flounced out of the room and into hers across the hall.
*Great same old life with Hermione, you think someone would have taught her real manners at some point at Hogwarts. She is right about that guy thing though, what would any guy want with me? I'm not bad looking but I don't know the first thing about guys or dating and all that dating entail. Hermione probably has loads of experience with guys, though that would make her a whore, what ever.*
"Cassandra come down her please." come John Grangers voice from the living room.
"Coming!"
What Cassie got down stairs her father immediately began lecturing her on her actions and she stood there taking all of it. Turns out her punishments were grounding, for a month and no phone. None of it mattered to Cassie she never went places anyway and she never talked on the phone. She could still use her computer and the Internet so she was good to go for the entire summer. She was a little mad though, they never punished Hermione no matter what she did, and they just ignored it because it did not fit into their perfect daughter image.
A few hours later Cassie was contemplating her magical status, or lack there of, and could not help but get pissed off.
*Hermione always gets everything, the good looks, the brains and the magical talent. Its just not fair! NOT FAIR AT ALL!*
From no where the sound of shattering glass could be heard throughout the house and Cassie immediately went to see what happened. All of the down stairs windows were in pieces.
Hermione was talking to their parents, "It was magic, that's the only explanation for something like this, and it came from inside the house but it was not me."
She turned slowly to look at Cassie and Cassie knew.....she had made the windows explode and she finally had her wish, she had magic.