Author's note – I haven't updated this one since November of last year! That is like two months since I last updated! D:
Hermione's Cousin Maribel
Felling Deeply Dark
Eventually the other girls managed to go to sleep while Maribel simply found herself lying on the bed unable to sleep. She had her hands folded behind her head and didn't want to think about everything that had occurred back home. Home... that was a place that honestly didn't exist anymore and that was possibly for the best.
At first she blamed her inability to get to sleep on the fact that Hermione was staying up late herself and sitting at the desk working on her homework. She let out a deep sigh about thirty minutes after her cousin hit the sack and she could hear her snoring droning away in her ears. She turned over onto her side but finally sat up and grabbed a notebook. When worst comes to worst you write it into song.
There is this feeling
Of trepedation for the future
Where you're left wondering
Wondering, wondering, wondering
When will thing again be calm
There is this feeling
That you'll never meet again
That everything will be broken
Broken, broken, broken
And never ever fixed again
There is this feeling
That comes from the fact
Your enemy watches from behind
From behind, from behind, from behind
Never knowing where they come from
Maribel flopped onto her back and let out a deep sigh. She wondered how she would do in the classes tomorrow. She also hoped that the band she had been a part of wouldn't be mentioned that much. She hadn't known that their music had just started getting popular over here when that whole mess went down which involved the economy going south. Jynx would likely never reform though because of hurt feelings.
The next thing she knew the other girls were shouting for her to get up. She brushed out her hair as quickly as possible and while she spent more time then Hermione in doing so she could say for a fact that she wouldn't be taking as long as Hermione to do if her cousin simply took the time to care for her looks. She hurried down the stares and bumped into a boy.
A hand reached down and helped her up. "You're the new girl in our year. My name is Michael Corner. It is nice to meet you."
Maribel found herself suddenly blushing as she normally wasn't a person to be klutzy. Then again she never wanted to go to a different school in the first place. The memory of the other students laughing at her filled her head for a few seconds and then she shook her head. "Maribel Stanley is my name. I'm Hermione Granger's cousin."
"I wonder why neither one of you ended up in Ravenclaw..." The boy frowned as he looked at her.
"Excuse me?" The girl blinked a couple of times.
"Well... your cousin makes the best grades in your grade level and a lot of the Ravenclaws are miffed that she didn't end up in our house. Even if you don't make it into the top ten, if you are related to her that means you have to be intelligent yourself."
"Likely... yes... I made good grades. I don't know how I'll stand up this year. It depends on how close my curriculum at my old school and Hogwarts was..." Maribel waved her hand at the boy before hurrying off to the table to sit down.
Glancing around nervously she suddenly saw a boy at the table who looked like what Edward Cullen might look like. "Whose that?"
"Cedric Diggory..." Lavender let out a chuckle. "You have a good eye actually. He is the most popular boy in his year. That isn't normal for Hufflepuff students."
"Some of the girls say he's what Edward Cullen would look like." The female twin from Gryffindor let out a laugh.
It was then that the letters came flying in and an owl landed near Maribel's plate. She picked up the envelope.
Dear Stanley I think you know who is writing this letter so I won't even bother signing my name. I wasn't surprised that you weren't coming back to school this year and that you were going to go to a different school. I hear that your family is so dirt poor that they had to ship you off to family in another country. I wonder how long they will let you stay in their house. As I recollect you come from a Muggle lineage. I wonder if your Muggle school will kick you out if an owl suddenly shows up out of the blue. Actually, I was thinking that it is so wonderful that you won't be able to go to wizarding school anymore. And not, I'm not saying this because I believe Mudbloods shouldn't be a part of the Wizarding community. As far as I am concerned you 'are' the only Mudblood in existence and you don't deserve to come into our world. I also heard your friends are looking for a replacement for Jynx. I bet I'll prove that I am a better singer then you ever were.
Sincerely You-Know-Who and not THAT You-Know-Who...
Maribel suddenly found herself scrunching up the paper. Ron spoke though a mouth full of food. "What ever is the matter?"
"Nothing." She glanced down at her place and stired the food she had piled on having lost her appetite. "I didn't think that she would find me hear of all places. She is such a witch and not the magical type it isn't funny."
Hermione glanced over at Harry and then at Neville. Before she could speak up Neville did. "I find the fact that owls can find a person anywhere unless a charm is put into place is amazing. I guess it can be a draw back at times?"
Lavender blinked a couple of times. "That is strange. I would have thought you were popular at your old school."
"I was." Maribel continued to stir her food.
"You have a Draco Malfoy." Ron said through a mouth full of food.
"Who? I think you mentioned him before. Wouldn't that Pansey Parkinson person be the most likely candidate to be a bully? I can understand though why she might like him."
"He's the resident bully. He's never nice to us. But..." Hermione glanced at the blond haired boy. "He was raised by one of the strictest Pureblood families. His father isn't someone anyone really wants to cross in the wizarding world."
"Doesn't excuse his behavior."
"This person isn't a Pureblood fanatic." Maribel wondered how to put what the girl was like but honestly wasn't sure. "I think the best way to put it is she is overly interested in popularity issues."
