Disclaimer: See first chapters as I am too lazy.
Rude in my Awakening
I took a sharp intake of breath as I shot up into a sitting position in the hospital wing bed.
"OW! SHIT!" I grabbed my back. Apparently the loss of pain in my back had only been temporary while I was dreaming.
"Language!" scolded an irate and once again scandalized Madam Pomfrey.
"Oh, sorry!" I apologized.
"Just don't do it again." She said seeming to not be able to stay mad at me. "No get up and be off with ya!" She continued motherly. "You're allowed to leave today."
My jaw dropped in surprise and I nearly burst with joy. "I'm out of here! I'M OUT OF HERE!" I celebrated in my head.
"On one condition…" She started looking at me through the corner of her eye while she attended to making a bed.
"DAMN IT! There's always a catch!" I thought and my face fell.
"Well," Started Madam Pomfrey. "The swelling's gone down and the bruise is getting smaller, but I still thing you should use this." She finished handing me a jar.
"Bruise 'B' Gone?" I questioned.
"Yes," She replied. "Get someone to put this on at for you for a week and that bruise will be gone in no time!"
"That's it?" I asked surprised, wondering what else she had in store for me.
"Yes!" She said simply, but in a rather joyful manner. She must have been happy to have finally been able to get rid of me. "Oh! I almost forgot. There was something left for you while you were sleeping. I'll go and get it."
Madam Pomfrey walked into her office and fished for something in the drawers of her desk. "Ha! Got it!" she shouted and hurried back to me.
She held her hand out to me and there in the palm of her hand laid a key. A beautiful golden key that was of medium size and its handle was encrusted with very rare baby blue diamonds. I couldn't help but gape in fascination at the beautiful key that shimmered in the light.
I took the key and headed full speed towards the door. Curiosity getting the better of me, I turned to face Madam Pomfrey.
"Why was your only condition the 'Bruise 'B' Gone'?" I questioned.
"Have you taken a whiff of it dear?" She grinned evilly.
I looked from her to the jar before opening it and taking a sniff of the yellowish-green ointment. I my face retorted in disgust and I nearly fainted.
"OH MY GOD, that smells like CRAP!" I choked out.
"I was right." I thought. "The devil IS a girl."
I closed the jar, my eyes now turning glassy, nearly in tears from awful smell before I took off out of the infirmary. It took every ounce of my strength to ignore the still ever present twinges of pain.
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Within no time, I had reached the Ravenclaw common room. My time in the infirmary having taken its toll, I couldn't for the life of me remember the password. After giving it several serious attempts that all failed, I was reduced to yelling out passwords that to any passer by would have been rather odd.
"Monkey Butt!"
"Huzzah!"
"Nut Munch!"
"Scallywag!"
"PURPLE WENCH EATER!" I yelled at the picture and still the raven wouldn't budge.
"Unicorn horn." A voice I recognized rang from behind me.
The raven flew around the portrait and the door opened. I turned around and standing there with a face confused between amusement and disappointment was… Garrick.
"Perfect!" I thought sarcastically. "Just, perfect! Just the person I wanted to see right now!"
"Thanks." I said feeling the enemy force of butterflies invading my stomach and trying to force them down.
"No problem." He said his tone of voice quivered as he tried to hold back what I suspected to be anger towards me and disappointment. "After all, what are 'friends' for?" He said emphasizing friends and crossing his arms across his chest, looking pointedly at me.
"Yes, what else are they for?" I questioned wondering where he'd go with this.
"Well, lately it's hard to say. Especially since some friends as of late have been saying they're my friend and then 'stabbing' me in the back!" He said heatedly.
"Oh, really?" I said in a tone of innocence and anger about being accused of something. "Well, if I've done something 'that' bad, then let's cut the crap and you can tell 'exactly' what's wrong because this is 'obviously' NEWS TO ME!" I shot back the anger in my voice soaring to an unseen high.
Not wanting to step down and look like he was scared of me he shouted back angrily, "You 'kissed' Percy Weasley! What 'isn't' wrong with that?"
"My kissing Percy has 'nothing' to do with this!" I reasoned.
"It has 'everything' to do with this!" He said desperately back.
"Oh, really, well then tell me. How the 'fuck' does my kissing Percy got 'anything' to do with my stabbing 'you' in the back as friend?" I raged at him, my tone of voice lowering as came to the brink of tears.
He could only look at me regretfully and occasionally open his mouth as if to speak before closing it.
"That's what I thought." I said with finality, staring at Garrick intensely in the eyes before turning and walking through the portrait opening. The waves of my fury acting like a shield, barricaded me away from interaction with the other students in the common room. When I walked up the steps it didn't even seem as though my feet were even touching them. I soon reached my dormitory and turned the knob hard and let the door swing in on its own accord.
I walked in placing the key and 'Bruise 'B' Gone' on the table. I continued walking towards my part of the room, unhooking my cloak and letting it fall carelessly to the floor before I flopped down hard on my bed and fell asleep in my uniform. My mind soon raged with anger filled dreams and the waves of anger that had first been there continued to grow.
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A/N: WAH!!! Sorry it took so long for me to post this… I've just been really weighed down with homework lately… :S I'm gonna try and keep posting chapters as often as I used to but, I have exams coming up so my teachers are really loading on the homework… As always, I'd like to thanks those of you who have been reviewing and well, keep it up… lol… Till next time!!!
Jenny,Lee McD