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Hey...well
I dun even know why I'm posting this, since no one decided to
read the first two chapters *tear* But...whatever I'm bored to
no end. Maybe I'll discover a plot?
*sparkliez*
Chapter
Three:
Dreams
Genieveve
woke early the next morning before the sun had even come up. Too
restless to fall back asleep, she crept slowly down into the common
room and sat in a squishy armchair. She was extremely rattled
about the dream she'd just had. What did it mean? Genieveve covered
her face with her hands and tried desperately to think.
In the
dream, she'd been seeing things through the perspective of a different
girl, but this girl felt familiar, in some way. She really couldn't
explain it.
Anyway,
she'd been in a very large house, a mansion, in fact. She'd looked
through many different, old, dusty volumes of books - they seemed
to contain dark magic. Then, suddenly, she was sitting on a man's
lap, his sleeve was pulled up, the pale flesh of his left forearm
explosed. Her finger slowly traced around the mark that seemed
to be burned onto his skin. Some kind of...brand, like farmers
did to cows. It was a skull, with a serpent slithering through
its mouth. In the dream, she felt herself smile widely, pleased.
But now, thinking back, the very thought of this icon repulsed
Gen. She couldn't even begin to comprehend it.
Suddenly,
she felt the sparse hairs on her neck stand up. She had the strange
feeling someone was watching her. Whirling around, her eyes darted
around the dark common room, and anyone watching would've been
shocked to see that they turned a bright shade of violet. But
no one was watching. Turning back around, she grabbed
a book someone had left sitting on a table. It was titled, The
Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts.
Mildly
interested, Genieveve skimmed through it, catching the words "Voldemort",
"Death Eaters", and "Harry Potter." Wait a
second...Harry Potter? She flipped back to the page where
she'd seen his name, him, that boy who'd been so kind to her the
night before, the one with the piercing, shockingly bright green
eyes...
"...The
Dark Lord showed up in Godric's Hollow on Halloween night when
Harry Potter was just a year old. He first killed James Potter,
then Harry's mother, Lily. When he tried to kill little Harry,
however, the curse rebounded upon himself and Harry was left with
nothing but a scar shaped like a lightning bolt upon his forehead.
We have him to thank for the fall of the Dark Lord..."
Genieveve
was shocked, to say the least. Harry Potter, this teenage boy,
so youthful and vibrant, had caused the fall of a great dark wizard
when he was just one year old? Wow.
Great,
I'm probably the only one who doesn't know about this.You are
so dumb, Gen!
She realized
that as she'd been reading, the sky had lightened considerably,
and she was still in her pajamas. Not wanting to be late on her
first day of school, Gen shut the book gingerly and sprinted back
upstairs to her dormitory. Taylor needed a good loud waking anyhow.
--
Sitting
at the breakfast table and staring up at the ceiling (which was
sky blue and cloudless) Gabbi couldn't help but let her thoughts
wander. Her new "friends", Kassandra and Paula, were
discussing their first class. Potions to prevent boils were fascinating
and all - but she had other things on her mind. The odd dream
she'd had last night, in particular.
It was
as though she was seeing everything through the eyes of another
girl, but the weird thing was that she felt she knew this
girl. Kinda like deja vu, maybe. She had been sitting in her "room"
bawling her eyes out, and holding a locket...a picture of a woman,
it seemed, had been the cause of her sadness. Suddenly she had
been sitting in church (Ugh, what a horrible place! Gabbi
thought) and been weeping uncontrollably, staring at that picture
in the locket again. In the background, there was a large black
coffin and some person was reading a sappy poem.
As Gabbi
thought about the dream and this unknown woman, a sense of knowing
dawned on her and the word "mother" came to mind. A
picture, as well, materialized in front of her eyes - she had
long, dark black hair and wide eyes. She also had a beauty mark
on her upper lip. Gabbi shuddered uncontrollably and shut her
eyes. This woman, whoever she was, was a carbon copy of what Gabbi
assumed she would look like later in life. This simply could not
be.
"Uh...Gabbi?"
Gabbi's
eyes snapped open, and Paula was amazed to see that they were
such a light purple that they were almost white. It took Paula
a second to regain her composure, after which she informed Gabbi
that breakfast was over. As they left the hall for their very
first classes, Paula glanced nervously back at Gabbi. Her eyes
were still that eerie shade of light purple, but deep plum streaks
were starting to appear. Thoroughly freaked out, Paula turned
to Kassandra and started a conversation to try and forget Gabbi's
bizarre eyes.
Okay
yeah, so that was short, but I think I have an idea of where this
story's going now...I know I said I was a bit scared of reviews,
but please do, cuz it'll surely make my day :) Even if you didn't
like it, at least I know you've read it...