Disclaimer: if I owned the HP charries do you think I'd be a high school
student sitting in front of her computer while she eats ramen noodles for
breakfast at 3 pm? No, I wouldn't, I'd be in a mansion sitting in from of
my computer while I eat ramen noodles for breakfast at 3 pm. Duh.
Chapter 5: the oh so powerful Marimana
"Mari. Mari? Mari! Are you sleeping again? What is wrong with you?!"
That is what woke the sleeping asian girl up. She was having a marvelous dream,
kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream [1], but Hermione had to wake
her up so she could go on about homework.
"Hermione, I'm sorry, but I am exhausted. How do you do it? Seriously, I
mean, we are up doing homework and extra credit until midnight every night, and
then you wake me up at six o'clock so that we can prep for a quiz that isn't
being given for another two weeks. Don't you think we're overdoing it just
a bit?" she said sleepily as she propped her head up on her hand.
The bookwork stared at her friend quizzically before tilting her head to the
side ever so slightly. "Overdoing? Don't you want to make good grades?"
"Of course I do, but I also want to sleep. And I promise you, with the
holidays coming up my parents won't let me get any sleep, it'll be a
yelling festival. Woo." She made a small circle in the air with her finger as
she sarcastically celebrated.
"Oh, ok, well, I'm sorry Mari, I'll just study by myself."
"No you won't. We're taking a nap. This is study hall we can do
whatever we damn well please to do, and we're taking a nap." Mari said as
she folded her arms on the table and placed her head on her forearms, closing
her eyes and letting out a sigh.
~*~
The day went by painfully slow. The potions room was freezing, supposedly to
keep everyone awake and on their toes, but somehow Mari's eyes drifted shut,
only to fly open when she heard a loud resounding smack on the table and looked
up into the pale face of Professor Snape.
"Taking a nap Miss Himura?" he asked, his cold voice sent a shiver down
her spine, definently awake now.
"Um, no Professor, I was just trying to remember the ingredients
for a, um, love potion, yeah, a love potion." She lied through her teeth.
"Oh really? Well, would you care to share with the rest of the class what
those ingredients are?"
Hermoine's breath caught in her throat, she obviously knew the answer and was
going to burst if the right answer wasn't given.
"Peppermint, wolfsage, femanan root, and a dash of cinnamon, just
because," Mari recited in a monotone.
"Ah, you know it well, you might want to keep that one in mind, you'll
need it." Snape added quietly as his pacing took him by the table she was
sharing with Hermione.
The Slytherins snickered, all but one. Kitana wasn't too pleased that he had
just said her identical twin was ugly, inadvertaintly calling her ugly as well,
not a smart move.
Mari let out a quiet snarl at the professor and went back to letting her mind
drift, she was making a good grade in this class, missing one day wasn't going
to make a difference, besides, Hermione would surely be talking about the lesson
until the next one. As her eyelids drifted shut once more she felt that tingly
sensation in the back of her mind, Kitana. She focused in on the feeling and
felt a troubling sensation, as if something was wrong, but exactly what it was
didn't make itself clear. She blocked out everything around her, pulling back
completely inside her mind, her entire focus on this one sensation, this one
feeling. Then the bell rang.
As she pushed through the hallways she felt Kitana was close, she could smell
her cucumber melon body spray. She blindly reached through the crowd and grasp
an arm, pulling the person towards her, ta da, it was Kit.
"What are you doing?" the Slytherin member asked as she pulled her arm
back.
"What's wrong? I felt it." Mari explained, they both knew what the
conversation was about (they're twins, what d'ya expect?).
"I don't know what's wrong. Just stay out of my feelings, ok? I have to
figure things out before I can help you to understand them." With that she
went with the crowd, being swept downstream with the current.
~*~
That night as Mari sat on her bed with her legs pulled to her chest and her
chin resting in the dip between her knees as she stared at the dying fire in the
fireplace. Something didn't feel right. Something was going to happen, and
Kitana knew it too. A sense of foreboding just kept washing over Mari's tense
body. Night passed and the short-haired girl fell asleep in her seated position
on her bed in one of her father's oversized t-shirts and a pair of leopard
print pants for pajamas.
~*~
Author's Notes: [1] if anyone can tell me what song this is from you get a
cookie! Woo! Cookie!
Well,um, I'm not particularly happy with this chapter, but I should just
go fuck off, I mean, seriously, I suck. Anyway, I'm going to go be a loser
in my corner now. ::grabs her dunce cap and heads for her corner, sits down,
and turns off the spotlight that's shining in her face::
student sitting in front of her computer while she eats ramen noodles for
breakfast at 3 pm? No, I wouldn't, I'd be in a mansion sitting in from of
my computer while I eat ramen noodles for breakfast at 3 pm. Duh.
Chapter 5: the oh so powerful Marimana
"Mari. Mari? Mari! Are you sleeping again? What is wrong with you?!"
That is what woke the sleeping asian girl up. She was having a marvelous dream,
kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream [1], but Hermione had to wake
her up so she could go on about homework.
"Hermione, I'm sorry, but I am exhausted. How do you do it? Seriously, I
mean, we are up doing homework and extra credit until midnight every night, and
then you wake me up at six o'clock so that we can prep for a quiz that isn't
being given for another two weeks. Don't you think we're overdoing it just
a bit?" she said sleepily as she propped her head up on her hand.
The bookwork stared at her friend quizzically before tilting her head to the
side ever so slightly. "Overdoing? Don't you want to make good grades?"
"Of course I do, but I also want to sleep. And I promise you, with the
holidays coming up my parents won't let me get any sleep, it'll be a
yelling festival. Woo." She made a small circle in the air with her finger as
she sarcastically celebrated.
"Oh, ok, well, I'm sorry Mari, I'll just study by myself."
"No you won't. We're taking a nap. This is study hall we can do
whatever we damn well please to do, and we're taking a nap." Mari said as
she folded her arms on the table and placed her head on her forearms, closing
her eyes and letting out a sigh.
~*~
The day went by painfully slow. The potions room was freezing, supposedly to
keep everyone awake and on their toes, but somehow Mari's eyes drifted shut,
only to fly open when she heard a loud resounding smack on the table and looked
up into the pale face of Professor Snape.
"Taking a nap Miss Himura?" he asked, his cold voice sent a shiver down
her spine, definently awake now.
"Um, no Professor, I was just trying to remember the ingredients
for a, um, love potion, yeah, a love potion." She lied through her teeth.
"Oh really? Well, would you care to share with the rest of the class what
those ingredients are?"
Hermoine's breath caught in her throat, she obviously knew the answer and was
going to burst if the right answer wasn't given.
"Peppermint, wolfsage, femanan root, and a dash of cinnamon, just
because," Mari recited in a monotone.
"Ah, you know it well, you might want to keep that one in mind, you'll
need it." Snape added quietly as his pacing took him by the table she was
sharing with Hermione.
The Slytherins snickered, all but one. Kitana wasn't too pleased that he had
just said her identical twin was ugly, inadvertaintly calling her ugly as well,
not a smart move.
Mari let out a quiet snarl at the professor and went back to letting her mind
drift, she was making a good grade in this class, missing one day wasn't going
to make a difference, besides, Hermione would surely be talking about the lesson
until the next one. As her eyelids drifted shut once more she felt that tingly
sensation in the back of her mind, Kitana. She focused in on the feeling and
felt a troubling sensation, as if something was wrong, but exactly what it was
didn't make itself clear. She blocked out everything around her, pulling back
completely inside her mind, her entire focus on this one sensation, this one
feeling. Then the bell rang.
As she pushed through the hallways she felt Kitana was close, she could smell
her cucumber melon body spray. She blindly reached through the crowd and grasp
an arm, pulling the person towards her, ta da, it was Kit.
"What are you doing?" the Slytherin member asked as she pulled her arm
back.
"What's wrong? I felt it." Mari explained, they both knew what the
conversation was about (they're twins, what d'ya expect?).
"I don't know what's wrong. Just stay out of my feelings, ok? I have to
figure things out before I can help you to understand them." With that she
went with the crowd, being swept downstream with the current.
~*~
That night as Mari sat on her bed with her legs pulled to her chest and her
chin resting in the dip between her knees as she stared at the dying fire in the
fireplace. Something didn't feel right. Something was going to happen, and
Kitana knew it too. A sense of foreboding just kept washing over Mari's tense
body. Night passed and the short-haired girl fell asleep in her seated position
on her bed in one of her father's oversized t-shirts and a pair of leopard
print pants for pajamas.
~*~
Author's Notes: [1] if anyone can tell me what song this is from you get a
cookie! Woo! Cookie!
Well,um, I'm not particularly happy with this chapter, but I should just
go fuck off, I mean, seriously, I suck. Anyway, I'm going to go be a loser
in my corner now. ::grabs her dunce cap and heads for her corner, sits down,
and turns off the spotlight that's shining in her face::
