Kassandra
Outside Gryffindor Tower
Wednesday
8:00 am
Kassandra emerged from Gryffindor tower the next morning stuffing her school robe into her bag. Looking up she saw Blaise grinning at her from across the hall. She smiled and looked down to adjust her dark green halter top and her dark wash jeans. She looked up again when she reached him and smiled, "Hey."
Blaise chuckled at her, "What's with you and your sister and not wearing the uniform until you have to?" He gestured to his own black Hogwarts robe.
Kassandra shrugged in response. "Hold on a second." She said dropping her bag to the floor and flipping her head over.
"What are you doing?" Blaise asked in an amused voice.
Kassandra stood back up straight, holding her hair up on top of her head. She pulled a black elastic from her wrist and tied her hair into a pony tail. She smiled and picked up her bag, "I didn't have time to finish getting ready," She explained, "I have to go get Kierston so I can copy her potions homework."
She pulled her wand out of a compartment in her bag and conjured a mirror that floated in front of her face. Reaching back into her bag she pulled out eyeliner and a tube of mascara. As they reached the Slytherin dormitories she was just finishing putting the black makeup around her dark brown eyes. "How did you not poke an eye out?" Blaise laughed and said the password so they could enter.
"Talent." She grinned, "I'll be right back."
Blaise watched her run up the girls staircase. Just as she reached the top Draco started descending the boys. "Hey man." He greeted.
Draco, not being a morning person, grumbled in response. Minutes later Kassandra stood at the top of the stairs with a worried expression pulling a scowling Kierston. "Hey Kierston." Blaise called.
Draco looked up, finally coming out of his trance. Kierston was wrapped in her Hogwarts robes and her hair was pulled in a messy bun. She glared at Blaise and hurried out of the common room. Kassandra gave an exasperated sigh and hurried out of the room after her sister.
Blaise and Draco exchanged glances, "Maybe she didn't get enough sleep?" Blaise shrugged.
Draco just stared after the girls, "I wish." He mumbled.
Kaitlyn
The Great Hall
8:15
Kaitlyn was sitting at the end of the Ravenclaw table finishing her essay for her advanced Transfiguration class that was due tomorrow when Kierston burst into the Great Hall. Kaitlyn looked up to see Kassandra chasing their sister to the Slytherin table. Kaitlyn stood up and hurried over to her sisters.
"What's wrong?" Kaitlyn asked.
Kierston looked up, glaring from beneath her lashes. "She's in a bad mood." Kassandra said nudging her sister, "Kierst, calm down."
Kierston exhaled loudly before slamming her head on the table. Kassandra exchanged worried glances with Kaitlyn before she noticed Draco and Blaise standing at the door to the Great Hall watching them. "I think I should tell them." She murmured to Kaitlyn, nodding her head towards the boys.
Kaitlyn nodded and put a comforting hand on Kierston's back.
Kassandra, Draco, and Blaise
The Great Lake
8:20
"What's up with Kierston?" Draco asked
"Is she okay?" Blaise added
Kassandra exhaled sitting on the grass beside the Great Lake, "When you this information, you are never to tell it ever again, got it?"
Both boys nodded, "Last year, Kierston got a new boyfriend, Tyler. He was part this evil cult type thing that wanted to rid the world of dirty blood. He didn't tell her he was in it and she fell in love with him, and she fell hard. He apparently fell in love with her too and so he told her about his cult. She broke up with him but she was depressed because she had thought she was in love with him. They got back together because Kierston couldn't handle being without him. She started hanging around with him and his friends and they weren't having a good effect on her. She started wearing only black and would take care of the cults members when they got hurt. She knew what was going on was wrong but she thought she was too in love with Tyler. Katie and I finally got her to look at what was going on and what was happening. She went to confront Tyler and he was torturing a fourteen year old half blood because she wouldn't tell him where her Muggle father and 'blood traitor' mother were. Kierston stunned him and saved the girl. She started avoiding him then she finally broke up with him. When she did and he found out she was the one who stunned him, he got some of his cult members and they caught our house on fire. Our parents were asleep inside and they could not stop the fire by magic and they didn't get out fast enough. When we came home for Christmas holiday we found our burned down house. There was a note on the frame of where the door had been and it had in Tyler's hand writing that she was next. We fled the island where our school was and we came here a couple of ago. Kierston blames herself for being the reason our parents died and she thinks she's putting us in danger. She wont let herself get close to anyone and ever since then she goes through major mood swings. One minute she will be happy- that's how she was before she met Tyler and before she found out he was a cult member- then the next she'll be depressed or extremely angry. She feels the need to take care of me and Katie and she feels like she ruined our lives."
