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::