Chapter Eight
"We have to tell Angel, Kates, and Leesh about this, Gin" Hermione said. She was still freaked out about the moment that she and her best friends had to share a cabin with those five arrogant Slytherins.
"Mione, I think we got this all wrong... what if Dumbledore... uh made a mistake?" Ginny asked, quickly. She hoped that Dumbledore meant someone else. It couldn't be them, it just couldn't. Could it?
Hermione didn't say anything, and just stared at the letter. Only we can see? Why not anyone else? Can the professors see? What if they do something to us? Hermione thought, quickly. She felt light-headed, and wanted to believe this was just a really, really bad dream.
"Mione are you alright?" Ginny asked, worriedly.
"No. I think I have to rest" Hermione said, as she laid on the couch.
"What if Malfoy and Zabini, see and find us here?" Ginny whispered.
But Hermione had already fallen asleep, feeling terrible.
Angelina, Katie, and Alicia walked to their favorite spot, outside. It was the five girls' favorite tree where they spent time together.
"Where are Hermione and Ginny? We've been looking all over Hogwarts for them! They told us they'd be in the Gryffindor Common Room, and they aren't there" Alicia said, frustrated.
"What if something happened to them?" Katie asked, worriedly.
"Hey what's that cabin over there?" Angelina asked, walking nearer.
"Probably something that Hagrid built" Alicia said.
But Angelina had already opened the door, and there were their two best friends.
"Ginny? Mione?" Angelina cried.
Ginny and Hermione immediately woke up, and ran over to hug Angelina, Katie, and Alicia.
"You guys were here all this time, and we were all worried about you!" Katie scolded.
"We didn't mean to" Ginny said.
"Yeah, we found this cabin and couldn't help, but explore... and we found something" Hermione said, as she handed Angelina the letter from Dumbledore.
Katie and Alicia huddled around Angelina, reading the note along with her.
When they finished, Angelina dropped the letter to the floor, gaping.
"This must be a mistake. Surely, Dumbledore meant someone else. I-I think we should talk to Dumbledore" Angelina stuttered.
"Yeah, Dumbledore can't possibly mean us" Alicia said, weakly.
"But he did" Ginny said, smiling weakly, though it was more like a grimacing smile.
"But it can't be them, at least make it not them! I must be having a bad dream right now! Someone pinch me!" Katie said, horrified.
Ginny pinched Katie hard.
"Ow! Not that hard, Gin!" Katie grumbled.
"Sorry?" Ginny said, offering a weak smile.
"Why us? Why? They're going to ruin everything! They're going to ruin my life!" Angelina whined. "Especially Pucey!"
"Hopefully they won't find out" Alicia said. "Any by the way, why is it that only we can see this, and no one else? Is this a stupid joke or something?"
"To hell with that!" Hermione said, angrily. Then she slapped her hands over her mouth for such language. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be. We say things we don't mean to say when we're angry" Angelina said, soothingly placing an arm around Hermione.
For a moment, everyone was quiet.
"There's a cabin over here" A voice said. Draco Malfoy's voice.
Ginny peeked through the corner of the window and saw Blaise and Draco leading Adrian, Marcus and Terrence into the cabin. The cabin the girls were in!
The girls panicked, and wanted to hide, not wanting to get into an argument with the boys.
"Quick, under the bed!" Angelina whispered, as she slid under the first bed that she could find.
Thank God, that there are five beds! Hermione thought, and slid under a bed.
The remaining three girls followed Angelina and Hermione, and slid under their own individual bed.
"We didn't go in yet, but we did see it" Blaise said, as he opened the door.
"Whoa, this is a neat place" Adrian said, as he looked around the place.
"Agreed" Marcus said.
"Yeah..." Terrence said.
"Hey what is this?" Draco asked, as he picked up a letter on the floor. "Hey guys its addressed to us and... Johnson, Granger, Bell, Weaslette, and Spinnet too?"
"What are you talking about?" Adrian asked, as he grabbed the letter, and read the words. "Dumbledore has to be freaking kidding! No way, I'll be in the same room as Johnson... hold it! Hey guys, this could be another way to get revenge on the girls..."
"I smell trouble" Angelina whispered to Hermione.
"Did you hear something?" Draco asked.
Everyone shook their heads, and Draco shrugged thinking it was his imagination.
Draco hopped on the bed that Hermione was under.
"Oh, great" Hermione whispered to Angelina who looked at her sympathetically.
All Hermione wanted to do now was kick Draco Malfoy off of the bed, and strangle him for choosing this bed.
"If we stay here the rest of the year, then why are there five beds and not ten beds?" Blaise asked, as he sat on the bed under Ginny.
Ginny grimaced, and glared at Blaise's feet that were resting on the floor. Ginny felt like kicking him in the shins and give him a taste of her bat bogey hex.
"Dumbledore probably wants us sharing beds with them" Terrence said. "Speaking of the girls, where are they?"
"I haven't seen them, after Potions class" Adrian said, as he tried to remember where Angelina went.
"Oh yeah! I heard them talking about where Granger and Weaslette are" Marcus said.
"We were looking for Granger and Weaslette all over the place. We as in Blaise and I. We couldn't find them though" Draco said.
Katie started getting cramps on her back, and quietly positioned herself to the side, which on;y made her cramps worse. She wanted to burst out, and just run all the way to Gryffindor Common Room with her friends, and take a warm shower. Accidentally, Katie's foot slipped, and she inwardly screamed and tried to drag it back in. Katie looked at Alicia, who gave her a look that read, "What the hell are you doing?"
"Help!" Katie mouthed to Alicia.
Alicia's hands crossed the boundary, of where the Slytherins could see her, but they didn't seem to see her or Katie's foot.
Alicia tried to push and shove Katie's foot in gently, but it was no use. She mouthed to Katie, "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to do this" and with that she roughly pushed Katie's foot in.
Katie tried to not yelp in pain, but she couldn't help but give a tiny yelp, which Marcus shot a strange look at the bed.
"I'm sure there is someone in here" Marcus said, as he started to look under the bed.
We're doomed! Katie thought. She tried as hard as she could to blend in with the dark, but it was no use, since she saw Marcus smirk. He grabbed Katie's wrist, and pulled her out, gently. Katie was surprised at how gentle he was.
"Hey guys, look who I found" Marcus said, as he led Katie to his friends.
"Let me go, Flint!" Katie shrieked, and stepped hard on his foot, in which he immediately let her go. "Run guys!" Katie screamed to her friends under the bed.
The girls scrambled out of under the beds, and headed to run out of the cabin.
Unfortunately, Draco caught Hermione, and pulled her into him.
"Don't touch me, Malfoy!" Hermione screamed, and she directed her wand at him, screaming, "Aguamenti!"
Draco was soaked, and he immediately let go of Hermione.
Hermione took this as a chance to escape, and she followed after Ginny who had just escaped Blaise, by kicking him in the shins hard.
However, Angelina was struggling with Adrian, who was, not surprisingly, strong.
"Pucey, let me go!" Angelina said.
"So you were hiding under there the whole time, Johnson huh? For some reason that sounds sexy on you" Adrian smirked.
Angelina glared at Adrian, and shoved Adrian away from her. She followed Hermione outside.
Fortunately, Alicia outsmarted Terrence by purposely acting like Terrence had broken her leg.
Terrence had gotten worried, and started coming towards Alicia, when she stepped on his foot, hardly and escaped safely following Angelina.
"Quick let's go!" Katie shouted, and the girls ran, laughing as they remembered the boys' pained expressions.
Author's Note: Was it funny? How do you guys like it? Please review! Love you guys! :)
