Chapter 12

"Oh my god!" Jaimee laughed the next morning as Karina whispered to her what had happened the night before. "Shut up! You promised, not a word!" Karina hit Jaimee in the arm, then stood up and made her way to the Slytherin table, giving one last look at Jaimee before laughing.

"Hello gorgeous." George's arm slipped around her waist as she was walking to Arithmancy. All George did was smile the entire day. "Who have you told, Georgie?" Karina asked innocently. "Ron. We made a deal after...the boat house." He shuddered at the memory. Karina didn't mind, afterall she did tell Jaimee, so she told George about that too. George kissed her goodbye, as he left for Herbology, skipping along every few steps.
In Arithmancy, there was a tough challenge Karina was really working on her own, wanting to finish first in her class for once. But memories from her birthday and Draco and Blaise's non-stop happy chatting distracted her. "You're making my brain explode. Shut up before I make you two kiss each other." She said blankly. "Alright, Mrs." Blaise said, holding his arms up. Karina got straight back to work, confident about finishing. "Finished!" Screamed a familiar voice. Karina turned around to see Draco holding up his paper. "What the! No. No. NO." Was all Karina said. "I'm a good multi-tasker. What can I say?" He smirked. Karina stared back at her paper, then back at Draco, then back to her paper again. She snatched it out of his hand and went through it. "Why are you smiling like that?" Draco asked, raising an eyebrow. "Because you're an idiot." Karina answered. Draco walked over and stared at his paper over her shoulder. "Oh. Bloody hell." He muttered under his breath. He had everything done wrong. Professor Vector shuffled over and read their work. "Well done, Miss Lopez, first to complete this problem during one class this year." He smiled weakly and walked off. Karina stood up proudly, looked back at Draco, winked, and made her way out of class.

"You seem awfully happy." Jaimee said, as she ran to catch up to Karina. "I really am." She smiled. To which Jaimee replied, with a horrid face, "Oh. Oh god, Karina. Jesus. Get your mind off it." "What? Ohmygod. No. I didn't mean that. I totally nailed this problem in Arithmancy. Goddamn it Jaimee!" She laughed. "Hey," she started on something new, "Blaise is acting all weird. But different. I don't know if it's just me or..." "Ron too!" Leanne came running down the hall towards them. "What do you guys mean, weird?"Karina asked them, feeling slightly confused. "I don't know about you Leanne, but Blaise...Well he has been kind of rude. Like anything bugged him, just the slightest thing. The other morning at breakfast, he had the BIGGEST purple blotches under his eyes. I asked him what was wrong, and he told me to piss off." Jaimee looked at Karina with worried eyes. "Jaimee. That's exactly like Ron. He has been out of whack, completely not himself. He was all tired and angry. I asked him, and he asked me if I had anything better to do than hassle him all the time." Leanne's lips were in a hard line. "Jaimee, I'll talk to Blaise tonight, and Leanne, I'll talk to George so he can talk to Ron. I'll update you both! Bye!" Karina went off to Divination, which was with Gryffindor. "Blaise," Karina elbowed Blaise in the ribs. "What the hell do you want?" He said roughly. As Jaimee described, Blaise indeed have dark circles under his eyes, and Karina just saw him before, all happy and normal. "Jesus. Nothing. Why are you acting so pissed off?" Blaise went wide eyed, stood up and glared at Karina. She looked around the room to see who's noticed. But even the people behind them were acting as if Blaise was invisible. As Karina looked behind her, in the corner of her eye she saw the figure of Scabior, looking down on her with fierce eyes. Her snapped back up and looked at Blaise. "I'm not pissed off. Now leave me alone, I have things to do." So Karina went off and went to sit by Neville, who was more clueless than anyone in the class. "Did you see that?" She whispered to him. "See what?" He said without looking at her. Blaise's act had to be seen from where Neville was sitting. Apparently not. Karina put her chin on her arms on the table. "Just one minor thing, I'll tell Jaimee...And George." She thought.

As Karina left Divination, to go back to her dorm, she heard plenty of feet running behind her. She turned around and widened her eyes at Luna, Jaimee, Leanne, Ginny and Hermione, who were sprinting towards her. "Karina!" Hermione yelled. "Whoa, whoa. Slow down! What's going on?" Their wands were out, their hair was messy and their hands were shaking. "The boys..."Luna whispered. "What about the boys?" Karina asked, leaning forward. "They've gone insane. They tried to kill us. Harry almost killed me!" Ginny yelled, looking back and forth. Karina chuckled, "You can't be serious? What's the matter with all of you?" "There they are! Darlings, come back!" It was Neville, pointing his wand towards them. With him were Harry, Ron, Draco, Blaise and George. They all had devilish smirks on each of their faces, each sending a message the girls didn't want to hear. The guys began slowly jogging, then running and soon enough they were sprinting their way. Jaimee looked at Karina, who stood there not wanting to believe what she was seeing. So Jaimee grabbed her by the wrist and yanked her towards the rest of the girls. They ran and ran, not knowing where they were going. The boys were leading them in a direction they didn't like, but they had no choice. After 10 minutes of pure running, the girls were entering the Forbidden Forest. Hermione was especially shocked they hadn't thrown spells at them. Karina and Jaimee whipped their heads towards the guys, who were lurking towards them, not looking physically tired, but instead, they looked revived. Jaimee looked so scared, as she watched Blaise stare at her with deadly eyes. Karina couldn't keep her eyes off George as she watched him look at her with a face she had never seen before on a Weasley. "We have to keep going." Ginny whispered. In a second, the rest of them agreed, as the guys got closer. They ran deeper into the forest, not looking back at what was coming after them.