Ginny got up early the next morning to have a shower and wash her hair. She had to shower fast and early so that no one would be able to see her arm whilst she was wrapped in a towel. When she got out of the shower, she realised that she had made a fatal error. She had left her clothes in her room and Hermione slept in her room and if she woke up and saw her arm then she was screwed. This couldn't be happening to her at all.
Ginny had no idea what she was going to do. She stood in the bathroom in her towel for about twenty minutes after her shower had ended. She was truly in a mess a day after she had been branded. She looked through the cupboards and found some bandages, she decided that she would wrap one of those around them however, she stopped for a moment wondering that if she put a bandage on if it would set the dark marks on everyone's arms off, but then she remembered that she was told only a flesh or a wand could activate it. She was safe; she would just have to make sure she put a shirt on very quickly in case Hermione was awake.
She put the bandage on quickly and walked back in to her room and she was right, Hermione was awake and already settling in to reading a book. Hermione liked to read in the morning, it woke her up and it made her feel more lively apparently, well that's what she had told Ginny a few years ago.
"Ginny?" Hermione started and Ginny knew straight away that Hermione had seen the bandage and she immediately started to worry. "Why are you showering so early?" She finished. Ginny breathed a sigh of relief in her mind and was thankful that she was only asking that.
"I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep" She said quickly, Hermione nodded and seemed to believe it and then got back to reading her book. It was only when Ginny had finished getting dressed and sat back on her bed reading a Defence against the Dark Arts book that Hermione opened her mouth again.
"Don't think I haven't noticed that bandage either" She said whilst never taking her eyes off the book "I don't know what is going on with you Ginny but I know that there is something and you can deny it as much as you want but I know that there is something right?" She finished by saying that whilst closing her book and announcing that she had heard Molly getting up and was going to wait downstairs for breakfast.
Ginny was in trouble, she knew what Hermione was like and she knew that when she got started on something that she wasn't likely to stop until she knew what the hell was going on, the full story and why. The thing is though if Hermione found out, she would go absolutely mental seeing as though Hermione was a muggle born witch.
Ginny was a different kind of Death Eater really, sure she aspired for pure bloods to be the top of the food chain and such and for muggles and muggle borns to be at the bottom but there was something different about Hermione, she knew that she was an extremely powerful witch and the Dark Lord knew that too, he had heard about her and he was aware of some of the magic that she could perform. Ginny knew that he would love to have her on his side for her amazing magic skill and Ginny knew that she was the only exception to the muggle born rule but she knew that if Hermione found out what was going on, that she wouldn't listen and hear her out but even if she did, Ginny also knew that Hermione wouldn't take it in the right way that she could be perfectly fine whilst others couldn't.
Ginny knew what was right though, she knew that muggle borns were worthless people and fake witches and wizards unless you were really strong. To be strong with magic, there had to be someone powerful in the person's ancestry.
Ginny knew that it was going to be a hard and difficult task hiding her true allegiance and status from everyone else especially her family and Hermione and Harry. Of course, some people would be happy with it, such as the few Slytherins that knew all about her and the Death Eater appointment but hopefully that won't mean that they start being nice to her in the corridor or saying things and making sly comments to her friends or when she's around them or that would wreck everything. She knew that she was the youngest Death Eater that was in the group at the moment and was shocked that she had been able to join and yet, Draco Malfoy along with Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe were not allowed to just yet. It was a strange world that they lived in, a strange world indeed.
She decided that maybe she should go downstairs and make an appearance at the breakfast table as her mother would think that it would be weird that Hermione is up and that Ginny wasn't. She put a light gray hoodie on over her top and pulled the hood up. She liked the feeling of having a hood over her head as she was getting used to it a bit now.
She walked down the stairs and in to the small kitchen where her mother and Hermione were talking, she went down the final stop and was worried immediately. Her mother and Hermione had stopped talking as soon as they heard the final step of the stairs creak. They both turned around with wide eyes and started to talk about breakfast. Ginny knew that they were up to something and she wanted to know what.
The fact that they had just stopped talking when she arrived freaked Ginny out; in fact it made her feel uncomfortable. No.
It unnerved her.
