After enjoying my bath, drying and dressing, I stepped out of my room to see Draco leaving Adri's. He heard my door click shut behind me and looked up. He stopped, staring at me. I didn't blink; I didn't move at all.

He sighed through his nose, stuck his hands in his pockets and left. I looked at the ground, uncomfortable in my own shoes. Now what?

I glanced at my Herbology book on the coffee table and decided to finish my essay due next week.

Twenty minutes later, after finishing my assignment, I slammed the book shut, collected my things and went to bed.

I fell asleep fast.

On the sixth floor of the hospital, doors to the left and right were scattered down the hall. A team of doctors and nurses rushed a woman from room 6-119 to the Operating Room

"What's going on? What's wrong with her?" a gentleman with her asked.

"Sir, we're going to need you to wait in the waiting room," a female doctor replied.

"I demand to know! She is my wife!" he shouted.

"Sir, she's having complications with the babies. Baby A is blocking Baby B's umbilical cord and placenta. We need to do an emergency Cesarean Section."

The man stopped in his tracks, blinked in shock, and caught up with the rushing medical team.

"Mr. Mendal, we'll need you to wait in the lounge." she stated. He fumed. "It's for everyone's safety," she finished. He stalked back to the waiting room.

Inside the O.R., doctors proceeded to help the expecting mother. After removing Baby A, a girl, doctors continued to attempt to save Baby B.

While nurses cleaned and weighed Baby A, who was crying quite loudly, the team attempted to reach the second baby.

After over ten minutes of struggling, they pulled out Baby B, another girl. Cutting the umbilical cord, another nurse checked her heart and lungs. She heard no cries.

Baby A was given to her mother, "Mrs. Mendal, here's your first baby. A girl." the nurse said, smiling.

"Amelia. Amelia Landon." she replied. The nurse smiled wider and prepared the birth certificate.

With baby B still not crying or breathing, doctors prepared to inflate her chest.

"Why isn't my baby crying?" the mother asked.

One nurse rushed out of the room to fetch the father and another approached the woman, "Mrs. Mendal, you've given birth to another baby girl. The doctors are working on her and-"

The woman interrupted her, "Adrienne! Adrienne Lynn" she shouted, slowly weakening. The man rushed in with the other nurse,

"Isabelle!" he shouted.

"Edward..." she could barely reply. Her lips continued moving with no sounds escaping.

"Isabelle, oh Merlin, what's happening?" he demanded from a nurse. She quickly explained that Baby A, named Amelia by her mother, had risked the lives of Baby B and his wife. "But she'll be okay, right?" he asked, referring to his paling wife.

With each ticking moment, the lives of the woman and her child were slowly slipping away. With each second that passed, they were dying.

Amelia was being carted out by a doctor and suddenly, another cry was heard.

"Oh, Edward," she said, "Our baby.. she's okay."

Edward smiled at his wife, "That's right, and so are you." he said encouragingly. Her smile slowly faded, her face was pale and wet with perspiration.

"Edward, I'm so tired...I cannot stay here," she replied.

"I know, Isa, I know."

A loud beeping noise sounded from a nearby monitor. Isabelle's heart rate was dropping at a rapid pace.

"Isabelle, stay with me!"

Her eyes slowly closing, Mrs. Mendal squeezed her husband's hand,

"L-love... them" she nearly whispered.

And the noise went flat.

Doctors bustled around and attempted, in vain, to revive the weak woman.

Mr. Mendal was rushed out of the room against his will.

I opened my eyes to see 6:05 in red on my alarm clock. I sighed in bed, rethinking my dream. Or nightmare. Or life... depending on how you looked at it.

Sick of the reocurring "night vision", I'll call it, I stepped to my window and saw a sunrise. Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I dressed and brushed my hair and teeth.

I stepped into my common room and saw no signs of Adri, so I went into her room. Peeking through the door, I saw her pale body sprawled on her bed, still wearing her make-up from the day before.

I laid down on the bed next to my sister, facing her.

"What's going on?" I asked my sleeping sister. I sighed, closed my eyes

Ever since my father screamed at me that I murdered my own mother and nearly killed Adri, I've done everything in my power to protect my sister. Now, I feel like she is spinning out of control and I can only watch from the sidelines.

Those thirteen minutes that I was out of the womb before she was have placed my standards for myself so much higher. I must be everything she needs so she can survive in the world we have been thrown into.

Glancing at her alarm clock, I turned to wake up my sister.

"Adri?" I shook her softly, "Adri, it's time to get up..." I whispered softly.

Stirring slightly, she opened her eyes and gave me a confused look. "Ami? What-... is something wrong?" I shook my head,

"Nope," I replied, "just figured you should get up."

She nodded, stretched, and yawned loudly. Wiping the sleep from her eyes, she got out of bed and stepped into her bathroom. "What day is it?" she asked me.

"Friday." I said, "Double Divination Day".

Adri groaned, rolling her eyes. I laughed, "Oh, no complaining from you, young lady, you fall asleep anyway!" She smiled with the toothbrush in her mouth and held back laughter so she would spray toothpaste all over. I was thankful.

Adri's eyes went wide, "Did you finish the Tarot Reading Chart?" she said in a worried voice.

"Yes, and I finished yours too. It's in your Tarot for Those who Think book." I said, gathering her books from her desk and putting them in her bag.

She spit out her toothpaste, rinsed and changed into her robes while I ran to my room and grabbed my own backpack.

Exiting Adri's room and our common room, we started toward the Great Hall.

---

Sorry guys, I really had to stop there. It was starting to be forced and just didn't sound right. Adri can't start her chapter this second 'cuz she's working on her Criminal Justice paper, but she will update when she can! We love you, please review! -Ami