Thanks for reading haha. Sorry chapter 4 was slow, I've written at least 6 chapters or whatever and I had to wait till my internet was working again to upload them. Again, thanks for reading my story even though it's rubbish. Review if you must and once again no flames. To be honest I'm a little sick of saying that.

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Chapter Four: Invitation to Hogsmeade

Madam Pompfrey had bandaged up Abi's hand and sent us back to Gryffindor common room. That was three days ago. Bloody Umbridge was still here so I guess that Madam Pompfrey didn't tell Dumbledore. She should have told him, before someone else gets hurt. Abi had to go back every day and get her dressing and bandage changed. She chose to do it while we had Defense Against the Dark Arts then she'd go to the common room and read.

Abi was not herself. Her routine was fine and the same as it was before. She didn't have a problem with eating or sleeping or studying. It was just that she hardly talked and hardly smiled any more. I was thinking about writing to her Mum and telling her.

We were all eating in the Great Hall for Lunch. Abi was missing once again. Whenever she was missing she'd be somewhere quiet. I could never be able to find her; she was always good at hiding. I stared at the door whilst I shoved a chocolate chip cookie in my mouth, I chewed it slowly. My thoughts were interrupted by a certain pair of twins who decided that it was necessary to sit next to me.

"Ello, Ello Cassie. How are you on this fine Wednesday?" Fred asked me, a smile on his face. I waited till I had finished chewing the rest of my cookie before answering.

"Wonderful, how are you two?" My answer was sarcastic one. I wasn't wonderful, I was worried and exhausted.

"I reckon I'm alright, what about you George?" Fred was on the other side of me, he looked at George

"I'm pretty good myself, thank you for asking" George smiled at his twin. Felt a bit like a third wheel at the moment.

"So what's the point of you two being here?" I asked, my eyes darting between the two.

Their grins turned into small smiles. "We need to talk to Abi-"

"Angelina wants her to come to the first practice-"

"Quidditch that is-"

"But Abigail is nowhere to been seen and since you're pretty much the only one she talks to-" George looked at me then to his twin.

"We need you to talk to her!" They had both said together this time.

I frowned a little. Their twin speak was a little bit annoying at times and it was an effort to keep up with what they were saying. I nodded my head and stood from the table. "Fine! I'll talk to her"

I left the Great Hall and started walking towards the Potions Classroom which was in the dungeons. I looked down at my uniform and dusted the crumbs off my cardigan and skirt. My tie wasn't straight; I frowned at the thought of Abi. It was just another reminder that she wasn't alright. I stopped to look at my reflection through a window and tried to straighten my tie. I shook my head at my reflection and kept walking.

Abi was already in the classroom, I was two minutes early so I had no idea how long she was there for. I sat next to her and she looked at me with her glassy blue eyes. She then looked down at my tie and frowned.

"You tried to straighten it yourself, didn't you?" She asked quietly as she fixed my tie. I looked at her glumly. "Yeah, didn't work out too well though" Abi took her hands off my now fixed tie and looked at me, a little smile formed on her face. "You silly git, you know that it's my job. You're hopeless with ties"

I smiled a little bit too. Her sense of humor was coming back. Every time I looked at her hand I got a little worked up though. I did restrain myself in front of her as I didn't want her to get any worse. By now students were walking into the Potions classroom and Snape was sitting at his desk, reading. He didn't even acknowledge the fact that we were in the room.

"Hey, Abi?" She looked at me and blinked a little. "Yeah?" I looked back at the twins who were both looking at me, their faces were telling me to hurry along and ask the question. My eyes reverted back to Abi who was looking at me; she was also waiting for me to ask her a question.

"Do you think you'll go to the first Quidditch practice? I have a feeling you'll be playing this year" I looked back to the twins who had their thumbs up in approval.

"I don't know Cass. My hand is a bit sore still and it'll be hard beating with my left hand." Abi sighed while she held up her bandaged right hand.

Just before I was about to speak, Snape decided it was time to get off his negative ass and actually teach us something.

"Good afternoon, class. We are going to practice making a cure for boils. Yes, I do know that we have done this several times before. But it seems that some of you may have forgotten how to make a potion." He said in his dull, monotone voice. "The instructions are in your book, on page 22." He then retreated back to his desk.

The classroom erupted into conversation. Abi had gone to get our ingredients while I tried to put the heavy cauldron onto the desk. I placed it on the ground, before nearly dropping it on my toes. I wasn't very strong and I had difficulty lifting heavy objects, like this stupid cauldron for example. I looked over to Abi who was still picking the ingredients. Of course she got the easy job.

I looked back to see my cauldron on my desk and a red-headed boy grinning to himself. "Is Cassandra Blackwell having difficulty lifting a cauldron? I would of never thought I would see the day" He bared his teeth, he didn't grin after I hit him on the head with the potions book.

"Hey! I just helped you out Blackwell!" Fred exclaimed while he rubbed his head.

"Well thank you Fred. Aren't you just the gentleman?" I tipped my head to the side and batted my eyelashes.

"Thank you dear Cassandra. Have you talked to Abi yet?" I frowned at him then nodded my head.

Abi was walking over now, trying to hold everything at once. She dropped a horned slug and bent down to pick it up, hoping no one saw her. "She said she may have a hard time beating with her left hand but by the time the first practice starts I'm sure her hand won't hurt" I said looking back at Fred.

"Better be getting back to George, Alright thanks. Try talking to her more" He said walking away.

"I'm Cassie, not Cassandra. So don't call me it!" I yelled after him, he turned around and winked. I glared at him; I got a giant fright when Abi came behind me though.

"What did Fred want?" Abi asked softly, the stuff just fell out of her arms and onto the desk. I jumped and turned around to look at Abi.

"Oh nothing. So what about this Quidditch thing? You going to go to the practice?" I asked while I preheated the cauldron.

Abi stayed silent, she put the snake fangs into the mortar. "Cass, do you think you can crush this up for me? I'll check on the temperature." I nodded and we swapped sides. I started crushing up the snake fangs. Abi looked at me and sighed as she went to speak.

"I'll go to the practice, okay Cass?" Her voice was gentle and calm. I smiled at her; she smiled a little bit back.

This could be the start of Abi becoming herself again! I was quite excited and happy. It was after Potions and Abi was going to Herbology while I was walking by myself to Divination. I heard footsteps behind me and I turned around to see Fred, George was a little bit behind the two of us. What did he want now?

"Hey, Cassie. Um, did you convince Abi to come?" He asked me. I looked up at him and nodded.

"Brilliant! How's she been?" George was starting to catch up now. I looked down glumly before looking up again and answering.

"She's been getting better, soon enough she'll be back to normal" I said nervously. I was going to be late for class and then Professor Trelawney will start saying that she predicted that I would be late and stuff, that will drag on for about thirty minutes.

"That's good! George and I were wondering if you two wanted to go to Hogsmeade in the weekend, to cheer her up and stuff" George had his hands in his pockets and they both looked at me with hopeful eyes. Hurry up Cassandra! You're going to be late for class!, my brain yelled at me.

"Sounds good, we'll talk about it later. I have to go. Bye!" I walked away quickly to Divination.

Just my luck, Professor Trelawney saw that I was late and decided it was time to tell the class about her dream that she had last night. "I was then in this classroom, this one right here and an eagle swooped in and stole my tea cup. I'm still trying to look into what it means..." She babbled on. That's when I decided that no progress would be made in this class.

Was I seriously going to Hogsmeade with the Weasley twins? The ones who laughed at me when I announced I was scared of flying a broom! What the hell has gotten into me? I bet Fred has a thing for Abi and were going to be going a stupid 'double date', George would be his wingman and I would have to kept at bay while Fred tried to get Abi to eat some Canary Creams or try to snog her senseless. Yeah, that's their plan. No one can keep Cassie Blackwell at bay and I'm sure as hell one step ahead of those gits.

Class had ended with Professor Trelawney talking to the class about the importance of tea cups and tea leaves. I had walked down to the Great Hall and saw Abi finally sitting and eating. I sat next to her and looked at her with hawk eyes, slowly observing her actions. Abi caught on and looked at me strangely; her fork filled with chicken meat was raised above her neck.

"Cassandra Blackwell, do you mind? I'm trying to eat" She couldn't help but look at me before she tried to take a bite of her food again. "Cassandra!" She yelled. I looked down the table to see the Weasley twins both wink at me. I have those boys plan all figured out. "Sorry, Sorry." I raise my hands up and sighed.

I looked at her once more and smiled, hopefully she won't get angry at me. "Abi, the twins asked if we wanted to go to Hogsmeade in the weekend. I said yes." I said quickly, hoping she didn't stab me with her fork. She didn't even react. "Alright" She said as she went back to eating. "You aren't bothered the slightest?" I questioned her. That's when Abi looked at me; her eyes were a bit narrow. "I do think George is cute you know" She giggled and went back to eating.

Wait! She giggled? Oh Merlin! She's coming right again! And since Abi reckons George is cute, she'll never go for Fred. Their plan was ruined now and I couldn't help but smile. Things were starting to come right. Except that I didn't eat dinner that night because I was too happy and excited to eat, it all came back to me once I went to bed starving. Abi was brave enough to take off her bandage now and show the world what Umbridge had done. I feared for the next person that would receive a dentition from her.