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Carrie pulled herself slowly out of bed the next morning. All of the other girls in her dorm room, including Hermione, were wide-awake and catching up from over the summer.
"How can you be so…so awake in the morning?" Carrie asked groggily as she grabbed her robes for the day and climbed back onto her bed and pulled the curtains around herself.
"What are you doing?" Hermione asked Carrie through the curtains.
"I'm changing." Came a muffled reply.
"In your bed?" Hermione asked smiling.
"Yeah, it's not like there is any room in the bathroom."
"Point taken."
Carrie then emerged from her 'changing room' ready for the day. She wore the traditional black robes the school made you ware but there seemed to be something different about Carrie. She appeared to be the same as normal but her eyes were a dull gray. She must be homesick Hermione thought.
"Come on! I'm starved!" Carrie announced as she smiled. The other girls just rolled their eyes at her early morning cheeriness. Carrie bounded down the stairs to the common room where she found Fred and George.
"Morning Carrie," Fred said.
"Mornin'….I'm starved, who are we waiting for?" Carrie inquired as she made her way over to one of the many big armchairs.
"You, ironically," George said as Fred shot him a nasty look.
"Oh, ok," Carrie said a bit shocked. AJ and Luke had never waited for her in the morning; they had always saved her a seat at the table though. "Well ok then, lets go." Carrie followed the twins down to the Great Hall for breakfast and their list of classes. As they made their way to the Gryffindor table Carrie literally ran into Draco Malfoly.
"Sorry," Carrie said apologizing. "You know we just keep running into each other." Carrie smiled friendly.
"Yeah, I don't find it a good thing. Oh look this time you don't have you little body guards to do your fighting." Draco sneered.
"They don't do my fighting for me little boy…they hold me back," Carrie said coolly shooting Draco a nasty look, her eyes were flashing a crystal blue.
"Yeah right, like you could hurt me," Draco said pulling himself up to his full height.
"You caring to find out?"
"Come on Carrie," Fred said pulling Carrie away from Draco. "You don't need to waste your breath on him. Let's eat."
Carrie looked over her shoulder at Fred who was pulling on her arm. Suddenly it seemed as Carrie totally changed personalities; the air around Carrie became less tense and she relaxed. Her eyes flickered to a tranquil blue and she smiled at Fred.
"Ok, yeah I AM starving. Come on." Carrie then just walked off with out another look at the blond youth behind her. Fred and George exchanged puzzled looks and sat on either side of Carrie at the table.
"Morning you all," Ron said as he, Harry, and Hermione sat down across the table form the trio.
"Morning," Carrie greeted grinning as the owls flew into the Grand Hall. An owl dropped a piece of paper in front of each student.
"Good, our class schedules," Hermione said grinning.
"Oh yey! So fun!" Ron said with false enthusiasm. Hermione rolled her eyes as she looked over her schedule.
"Oh no." Harry groaned. "We have Potions with the Slytherins first period."
"What else is new? We always have Potions with them?" Hermione inquired.
"Oh good," Carrie said looking at the slip of paper.
"What's good?" Ron asked.
"We have Potions first," Carrie replied shortly as food appeared on the table.
Ron's mouth hung open in disbelief. (Have you noticed that I have a lot of people gawking in this story?) "Why is that good?"
"Because we'll get it out of the way and not have to worry about it," Carrie answered her eyes fading into the dull gray color. Ron shrugged, couldn't argue with that. "So Fred…" Carrie began to say when she looked over to her right then looked quickly to her left. "Oh no….don't do this to me!"
"What?" The twins both asked.
"Which one of you is which?" Carrie asked slowly.
"Don't worry Carrie, even our mom has trouble telling which one of us is which," George said smiling.
"I got it! You're George, and your Fred….I think." Carrie bit her lower lip as she tried to figure it out. "Oh never mind!" She shouted tossing her hands up. "I give up!" The twins laughed and food appeared on the tables. Carrie shrugged and piled her plate high with bacon, scrambled eggs and pancakes.
"You weren't joking when you said you were starving," George muttered. Carrie shrugged and smiled. Then a moment of silence arose among the six students as they stuffed their mouths with food.
Soon the time came for all the students to make their way to their first class of the day. As Carrie followed Harry, Ron and Hermione around the dungeons to the Potions class room she ran into Draco, again. Both of their books and thing went sprawling across the floor.
"I'm sorry…" Carrie began to say when she noticed whom she had bumped into. Awww what the heck, it never killed anyone to be nice to EYERONE...or at least try to be nice to them; even if it is Draco. Carrie thought. "Here lemme help you."
"I don't need help from the likes from you," Draco snapped as both of them sank to the floor to pick up their things.
"No you need help from a shrink," Carrie muttered under her breath.
"What was that?" Draco asked shooting her a nasty look.
"I said…nothing." Draco eyed Carrie and stood up and walked into the classroom.
"Can I do something about him for you?" Ron asked Carrie glaring at Draco's retreating form. Carrie sighed, Hermione could tell something was up with Carrie and she wasn't as happy as she let on.
"You're starting to remind me of Luke and AJ. No I can handle him myself, but thanks anyway," Carrie said smiling warmly. She wasn't too sure but she could tell that Ron had wanted to get his hands dirty. Harry remembered what AJ had told him about Carrie and hoped that she would stay her happy self.
(Short chapter I know but hay! At least it's here! Anyway….sorry I haven't posted it sooner but I've had internet problems…(( those being I couldn't log on)) but now I can so YEY!!! Well I hope you review!)