Genieve woke suddenly

Genieve woke suddenly. "Oh no! Oh no!" She shrieked. The sunlight was shining on her and it was…."MORNING!" She shouted getting up and running. She ran out the doors and kept on running.

"AHH!!! Watch OUT!" Harry yelled diving out of the way as the ghost girl ran down the lawn barely missing him. Hermione turned right into the face of the girl. She screamed and fell rolling out of the way. "Jeez! That girl needs to slow it down!" Ron shouted. "Don't you see, Ron? She obviously wasn't supposed to be here…I mean she's in her pajama's! Obviously she ran away last night and she expected to be back in time for morning." Hermione said dusting herself off and continuing down the lawn to the greenhouse.

Genivieve looked at the floor as Madame Mavis, yelled at her. She wasn't exactly yelling…she had a loud voice…but Genivieve could tell that she was mad… "Where were you? This morning when we woke up you weren't here! Can you imagine how nerve wracking that is child?" Madame Mavis said looking at Genivieve's nodding head. "I'm sorry, Madame! It's just…" "Silence!" Mavis interupted loudly. Genivieve fell silent. "You are now going to be living in the Isolation Quarters, You are hereby grounded for a week! Yes, miss Genivieve a week! You will not be allowed to go outside or downstairs. The only time you will be allowed OUT of that room is to use the bathroom! Your assignments will be carried up to you by one of the girls. Now go!" Mavis said pointing up the stiars. "Collect all the things you will need from your room."

Genivieve winced slightly as the girls snickered behind their hands as she marched up the stairs slowly and collected her clothing. Mildred watched her, every once in a while throwing cruel comments at her back. Genivieve decided that it would be a good idea to ignore them for now. It wasn't hard…in the back of her mind all she was thinking about was her mansion. She was planning another visit tonight. Maybe when she'd saved up enough she would go away and live there…but she shook her head. It was a childish dream. It would never work. Madame Mavis would get the police to search for her and they would find her. She had to content herself for now with nightly visits.

The room was dark and dusty, Genivieve had done her best to clean it up a little. Really this was a blessing in disguise. Now she could sneak out anytime she wanted for a week without anyone seeing her. She smiled to herself and sat down to wait…three hours passed like three years. Then finally the house was silent. And it was safe to go. This time she wore pants. She climbed out the window carefully. For one minute she thought she would be caught. She heard footsteps at her door. With her head still in the window she listened. A knock. "Genivieve? You had better be in bed!" It was Mavis. "Yes! I am!" Genivieve said through the window. And finally Mavis walked away. Genivieve sighed and for a moment she was thinking she should go back inside….but it didn't last long…there were so many rooms in the mansion that she hadn't explored yet! Think how many wonderful things she might see. She had brought a flashlight this time.

Finally she reached the mansion. She opened the door and walked inside. She closed the door, it made a loud creaking noise.

"What was that?" Harry said suddenly. Ron jumped and looked at Harry. "It's the girl." Ron said. Harry waited a minute and then laid back on the pillow. Both he and Ron and Hermione, Harry knew, wanted to go down and see her. It was so strange thinking of her as sort of being in a different dimension or something. But he had broked too many rules. Ron sighed and tried to fall back asleep. They both had suceeded in falling back asleep in a matter of minutes…but in a moment they were awakened.

"WHAT!" Ron yelled when someone shone a light in his face. Harry jumped and sat up almost bumping his head on the headboard. She was in their room now. She was shining a flashlight all over the room. Ron had woken up the other boys and they were staring as well. The girl looked around the room a few more times and then moved out of the room. Ron surpressed a giggle in his pillow, "Next stop…Girls room!" He said giggling uncontrolably. Everyone waited for it silently. Then they heard it. It was Hermione's scream…undoubtably. It was followed by the other girls screams. Everyone erupted into gales of laughter. "Let's hope she never finds the bathroom interesting enough to explore." Ron said. They fell back on their pillows and smiled until they fell asleep.

Genivieve had suddenly become part of the school. Everyone was used to her walking about…and it had only been four days. Once she walked around the entire classroom while Snape was conducting a potion's lesson. He eyed her, obviously annoyed, while he droned on.

Once in a while she even managed to come at free time from school, her punishment was over now and she was allowed outside. She made sure no one ever followed her.

She would bring Lunch and books, and Harry, Ron and Hermione would sit beside her reading over her shoulder and making jokes like she could her them. Once in a while they even read aloud.

"Weird we know her but she doesn't know us." Hermione said one day while they were all walking with Genivieve down the hall. "Yeah, I know what you mean." Ron said nodding. "I wonder what her name is?" Harry wondered. "I bet it's….Betsy." Ron said laughing. "Jenny." Hermione said. "Alice." Harry added laughing.

Genivieve looked around…she had heard something…or thought she had. Something like someone calling someone's name…but not really calling…like someone was stating a name. She shrugged and continued walking.

Harry, Hermione and Ron looked at each other. They had all seen the girl look around when Harry almost shouted the name Alice. It was at the exact moment he had said it. "Maybe she heard something else at the same time I said it." Harry suggested. They all nodded. But something told them this wasn't the explanation.

Everything was going well, Genivieve thought. She visited the Mansion everyday…and even Mildred had stopped bothering her…she knew it was too good to last.

She was walking down the hall reading, almost bumping into walls when Mildred ran by her making her drop all her books. "oh dreadfull sorry!" Mildred said laughing. Genivieve ignored her. Mildred bent down, pretending to help, when she was really leaning forward to whisper in Genivieve's ear, "I know where you go everyday…and I know that Mavis wouldn't like it." She whispered. Genivieve's heart almost stopped. "I don't know what you're talking about." She said standing as tall as she could trying to seem intimidating. "Oh yes you do, Genivieve. You know your not supposed to be in condemned buildings…Mavis would see that as a dangerours….rebelious act…wouldn't she? Which would mean a more severe punishment then just giving you your own room."

"Mildred…leave me alone." Genivieve said pushing past her. How did she find out? She must have followed her, Genivieve didn't know how. She knew that she was careful everytime she went to the mansion. She knew Mavis would forbid her to go again….her heart beat a little faster as she walked to her room.

Several minutes later…she was in Mavis' company once again.

"Where do you think she's gone?" Hermione wondered, the second day the girl had not been in Hogwarts. "I dunno…maybe Mildred or Mavis found out she was coming here." Harry said. Ron ran a hand through his hair and sighed. Hermione at first had protested, but they had said it was the only way to find out more about her…they read her Diary behind her back while she was writing. They knew all about Mildred and Mavis, and the other snobby girls at school. They had grown to hate them as much as the girl did. Hermione put her hand in her fist angrily. "Boy, I would love to punch those girls…one by one." Melinda, the DADA teacher, came around the corner and beckoned to them. "Come on guys…class is starting."

Genvieve was now being watched..she was being watched like a hawk. She wasn't put in the isolation quarters this time. It would be too hard to keep an eye out for her. Locks were put on the windows, and one dog was kept outside at all times. Genivieve felt like a prisoner. She sat on her bed studying almost every day, but her thoughts were on the mansion. She didn't know why she liked it so much….but she did. She stared out the window, her math lost.

"Dreaming of your manison?" Mildred asked smugly. Genivieve continued looking out the window, ignoring Mildred. What had she ever done to make Mildred mad at her?

"Guess where I was?" Mildred asked smoothly. She wasn't expecting an answer because she continued right away. "The Library…not the library in the school…the real library, I asked Merri Donahue if I could go with her this time. She said yes of course…and I did a little research. On the Martin history…." Genivieve couldn't help but turn and stare at Mildred. "Yes…Martin as in Genivieve Martin." Mildred said smirking. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a newspaper strip. "Mrs. Lara Martin and Mr. John Martin, died January 3rd 1986, in a tragic car accident. Mr. Martin was apparently drunk from the party he and Mrs. Martin had just attended." Mildred paused looking at Genivieve. "Parking on the railroad tracks isn't a very smart thing to do is it, Geni?" She asked. Genivieve couldn't help the tears that rolled down her cheeks. Mildred went to the library to get this to torture her…she went to all that trouble just to make Genivieve cry. Genivieve stood, her books falling to the floor and her pencils and pens rolling under the beds. She balled her fist and punched Mildred in the face. Mildred screamed and fell over onto the bed and then on the floor. She was crying like a baby. Genivieve grabbed the clipping and ran, blinded by tears,down the stairs. She tripped on a basket holding polished shoes and fell on the ground. She pulled herself up again and ran out the door. She heard Mavis' yells for her to come back and Mildred's howls of pain from the room upstairs. She didn't care about the dog or Mavis or anyone. She just ran as fast as she could.

Finally she reached the mansion. She ran in and slammed the door. She ran up the stairs, and then into a room. She leaned against a wall and the slumped into a crying mess. She knew she wouldn't be safe here for long…they would be coming soon. Mildred had explained exactly where the mansion was…and now Mavis' knew where she would go.

Hermione walked into his room to retrieve a lost book when he saw the girl crying. She stared for a moment, she saw clipping clutched in her hands. se was about to get the others when the girl dropped the clipping and it slid across the floor to Hermione's feet. She read it slowly, when she was finished she looked up at the girl in horror.

She knew what she wanted to do…and she was going to do it. But first…a permission slip…to the forbidden part of the library. She need a spell.