Chapter Ten: Lunch
An hour later, Harry walked into Jo's room to see if she wanted him to walk her to lunch.
Harry said. "It is just time for lunch. Then you have potions and charms. Then you eat supper and go to Astronomy." Harry said, looking down Jo's schedule.
"Whatever." Jo said. Harry nudged her in the ribs. "OW!" She said and gave Harry an evil look. He mouthed 'watch your tongue'. Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley come walking into the room.
"It's time for lunch Harry, ya' comin' or not?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, can I bring my sister and her friend with us, or do they have to walk ten steps behind like your sister does?" Harry asked grinning.
"I vote for walking behind us, but that's just me." Ron said grinning back.
Harry smiled back. "Then behind us it is." He exclaimed. Then he and Ron began to walk off and out of the dorm.
"Wait. What 'friend' are you talking about, it is just you, me, and Weasley apparently." Jo said.
"No, we are going to pick up Sabrina on the way." Harry called back of over his shoulder.
"What?!" Jo yelled. When no reply came from the boys she walked out of the dorm. "Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" She growled under her breath. Finally Jo caught up with them. They were already going into the Ravenclaw common room.
"Wait, I am coming too." Jo yelled as she hopped through the door at the last moment.
"Sabrina!" Harry called. "Time for lunch!"
"Ok, I am coming, hold on a second. Let me shut down my computer." Sabrina called back. They all heard the click of her computer turning off and then saw her hopping down the stairs.
"She has a computer?" Jo asked looking at Harry with that 'she is a computer geek' look.
"All right. I'm ready, let's go. Wait, who are you, I don't believe we have met." She said looking at Ron.
"Oh, I am Ron Weasley." He said sticking out his hand.
"Nice to meet you. I am Sabrina Spellmen." She said shaking his hand.
"Well, now that y'all have met, can we go to lunch now?" Jo asked in the irritated voice she got when she was held up by a polite moment.
"Yeah, we're going. Sorry you weren't here to take the poll Sabrina, but Ron and I decided that you are to walk with Jo about ten steps behind us." Harry said.
"Whatever." Sabrina said as she shrugged and started to grab her robes from a chair. Harry nodded and he and Ron walked out of the room.
"Hey, wait. Is that hardly fair?" Jo yelled after them. No reply. "Fine, let's go Sabrina." Jo said and stormed off. Sabrina followed in her usually quiet manner.
"Why are you always so quiet?" Jo asked in a kind of demanding voice.
"Well, where I came from, you shouldn't talk unless directed to talk. Otherwise, you could end up in the cellar." She said and Jo could see that a chill ran down her back.
"Where do you come from?" Jo asked, a little nicer this time, after the reaction to the last question.
"I, well, I come from." her voice trailed off. She kind of lowered her head, her golden bangs falling over her shoulder.
"That is the secret my brother has been keeping from me about you. Where you come from. But it is okay, you can tell me. It's not like you come from an orphanage or something."
Sabrina brought her head back up, a sad look in her eyes.
"Or do you?" Jo asked in such a low voice, it was almost a whisper.
Sabrina's head slowly nodded up and down.
"Oh." Jo mumbled. "Sorry, I didn't know."
"It is okay, I figured you find out sometime or another, with Cho Chang spreading it around school." Sabrina said, lifting her head completely to look at Jo.
"Cho Chang?" Jo asked, trying to change the subject. "Who is she?"
"Oh you must have seen her once or twice, she always wondering all over school." Sabrina said in a bit happier voice, obviously for the change of subject. "Come on, I will show you." She began to wander up the stairs again. Jo hesitated to follow her. I wonder if she knows I am a Slytherin, Jo wondered to herself. Then she shrugged and followed Sabrina up the stairs. Sabrina strode over to a huge vanity supporting a large mirror with two small picture frames on the side, no pictures in them. There was a tube of Chap Stick lying on the top of the vanity. There were also several blush compacts sitting in a peculiar order on top of the vanity. Sabrina stood over it, and then placed her fingers on top of some of the compacts. She pushed them down altogether and the mirror flashed. The reflecting mirror plunged into a black screen instead of a piece of glass. Then a sign in screen appeared.
"Wow," Jo mumbled. "It's some type of computer."
"Yes it is. I built it myself." Sabrina said, still watching the computer and typing in things on the blush compacts.
Then a list of people popped up. Sabrina scrolled down and clicked on Jo's name. A picture of Jo popped up along with several paragraphs.
"I guess you could kind of say it was your files." Sabrina said, turning around to face Jo, as if she could read her mind. "I can get pictures and stories on anybody I want from here. I am going to find Cho Chang, and show you her picture." Sabrina scrolled down the list of kids with the tube of Chap Stick, and stopped when the cursor on the screen was on Cho's name. Then Sabrina twisted the end of the tube with her finger and a page on Cho Chang popped up. Jo had just begun to read it when Sabrina shut down the whole computer at the sound of knocking at the door.
"Hey, are y'all comin' or not?" Harry said as he and Ron stepped in to the room.
"We are Sabrina and I were just chattin'"
"Oh, we should have known Harry, we can't expect any less, their girls, they can't help it." Ron said and then he and Harry began to crack up. Jo glared at Ron, but when Harry saw her, he gave her 'the look', and she stopped.
"Well, let's go if we're going, we don't want to be late." Sabrina said, a little hint of annoyance in her voice. Jo looked over at her, and Sabrina looked back. She had a 'are we going or not?' look.
"Right," Harry said, "let's go." Then, at the same time, Harry and Ron spun around on their heels and walked away. Sabrina looked down and just shook her head. She began to walk after them. 'She seems like a nice person, maybe she isn't as bad as I thought she was.' Jo thought to herself as she jogged after Sabrina. 'Wait! What am I saying?! She's a Ravenclaw, I'm a Slytherin and Slytherins and Ravenclaws are almost worse rivals than Gryffindors and Slytherins. And who does she think she is taking off without me, I thought she was going to try and be my friend.' Jo then finally caught up with her. She jogged past Sabrina and stood next to her brother. But the conversation that he and Ron were having stopped as soon as she walked up. They both looked down at Jo and just stared. 'They act as if I am an alien or something,' Jo thought to herself, 'they are just staring at me. They just kept staring'. But Jo noticed Harry look at her, backwards to Sabrina (who was walking about five paces behind them), and then back at Jo. She got the message.
"Oh come on guys, you didn't really mean that I had to walk behind you." Jo said, a little begging sound in her voice. Harry just looked back to Sabrina and back at Jo again. Ron, on the other hand, just glared at her, his eyes narrowing.
"Did you?" Jo asked in a small, squeaky voice.
"Gee Ron, maybe she didn't hear us clearly, what do you think?" Harry asked, looking at Ron, a slight hint of bullying in his voice.
"I just don't think she was listening." Ron said, still staring at Jo.
"Then maybe I need to say it again, you should walk behind us, you haven't made any new friends, why don't you go talk to Sabrina." Harry said, and he and Ron engaged in conversation again and sped off toward the Great Hall.
"Guess I don't have a choice." Jo muttered angrily. Then she turned around to see what Sabrina was up to, and gasped. She was standing there, right where she was when Jo had passed her up, talking to Harry's Quidditch captain, Oliver Wood. She was smiling and she giggled a couple times. Then Jo heard him say he would walk her to lunch. And they took off, without even looking back at her. A whole lot of nerve, the both of them, Jo thought.
"What are you doing here, just standing in the hall with your mouth hanging open like a catfish?" Someone asked behind Jo. "Are you lost, you are a tad late for lunch." Jo spun around to see who had been talking to her. And she saw him. Cedric Diggory was standing in the hallway with a little half smile on his face. Jo could feel her face getting hot, it was a little embarrassing, especially since it was him that had to see her standing there with her mouth hanging open, staring at nothing and no one.
"Oh, hi." Jo forced out, putting her head down, to embarrassed to look at him.
"So, are you lost or what?" He asked again, a little impatiently this time.
"Oh, no my brother kind of took off with out me. He and his friend were talking and I kind of.Um."
"Zoned out?" Cedric asked, suggesting the answer to her staring and gawking problem.
"Yeah." She replied looking up.
"Well, do you need some one to walk you to lunch, since your brother walking off seems to be the problem." He asked staring down at her.
"Um.sure." Jo replied. Cedric began to walk forward, Jo had to kind of jog to keep up with him. "Oh, this is my friend by the way. Cho Chang." For the first time Jo noticed a girl that looked Cedric's age was standing beside him. She was very pretty, with short black hair that framed her perfectly made face. 'That's Cho Chang, that's his girl friend' Jo thought as she said hi to Cho.
"You must be Jo Potter, Harry's little sister." Cho Chang said in a very girlish voice. 'She would make a perfect tea party girl' Jo thought as she stared at Cho.
"Yeah, Harry's sister." She said dully. She hated to be called Harry's sister, everywhere she went that was her name. She was always Harry's sister ever since she showed up with her older brother on the Dursley's doorstep.
"So.McGonnagall tells me that you are going to be playing Seeker for me now. Or do I have you mistaken? You were the one who caught that snitch outside my window right?" Cedric asked, obviously trying to break the silence that fallen. But, while he spoke, he didn't look at Jo.
"Yeah. At least I want to be, McGonnagall told me to 'really think about it'." Jo asked, now feeling more comfortable on such a common topic.
"That sounds so much like her. She should really give up her 'it can be a rough time' act; it's starting to get old. I lose more and more players that way."Cedric started trailing off at the end.
"Well, I really want to play Quidditch. And I have made up my mind that I want to play, despite McGonnagall's act." Jo asked excitedly.
"Now see, that's what I wanted to hear. You have no idea how many 'Well Professor McGonnagall said' I get from new players. Welcome to the team Seeker."
"Wait, you can't be Seeker, I am the Seeker for Ravenclaw and no way would Cedric let a Slytherin play on his team, Right Cedric?" Cho Chang piped up.
"Well, I'm the Seeker now. You got some hold over the position." Jo snarled back in response.
"Actually, I do. I am the Seeker, making it impossible for you to be." Cho Chang said in a less Girlie voice.
"Do you know how to play Quidditch?" Cedric asked.
"Well, actually, I don't, but if that is a problem, I can get my brother to teach me." Jo said ignoring Cho, now that Cedric was talking to her.
Cedric shook his head and ran his tongue around his teeth. "Jo, can I ask you a question?" He asked still not bothering to look her in the eyes.
'Why won't he look at me?' Jo asked herself. "Um, sure, shoot."
"What exactly do you think my job is as Quidditch captain?"
"Um, I don't think I know exactly what you mean."
"Ok well think about. I am not the captain of a Quidditch team to have the Seeker of an opposing team teach one of my players how to play, am I?"
"Well, no I guess not."
"And did you know that I used to play seeker and was the best of my class for three years?"
"No I didn't."
"So put that together, why would I have your brother teach you to play?"
"Um, you wouldn't?"
"Exactly. Practices are before breakfast every Monday and Wednesday mornings." Cedric ended the conversation as they reached the Great Hall.
"Ok, I think I can do that." Jo said.
Cedric scoffed. "No you think Potter, you will be able to do that or you won't be on the team."
"Okay, but be where?" Jo asked, figuring he should have known that she didn't know where she was supposed to go.
"Well, I am sure that your brother will want to come to your first lesson, he can show you where, I will talk to him at dinner." Cedric said, still not looking at her.
Cedric and Cho walked into the Great Hall with Jo and then split, but not before Cedric said "Don't forget about practice."
"Okay." She murmured more to herself than to anyone else.
"Earth to Jo, Earth to Jo!" Jo spun around to see Sabrina talking to her.
"What are you staring at? Air isn't that interesting."
"Oh, nothing. I was just thinking about something."
"What?" Sabrina asked. Then she got an odd smile on her face. "Or who?"
She asked in a sly voice, her smile not moving a bit.
"What's it to you?" Jo asked coldly. Sabrina just shook her head. She sat next to Jo.
"Hey, you can't sit here. You are a Ravenclaw." Jo said, upset that Sabrina just intrude on her lunch.
"I was invited to sit here by someone." She said. Then the boy who Jo had seen in Transfiguration sat down next to Sabrina.
"Hello. Glad you could sit with me." He said.
"No problem, my friend over here let me sit with her. Oh yeah, her name is Jo Potter, she is in Slytherin with you Jason." Sabrina said.
"Who said I was your friend." Jo growled behind Sabrina. Sabrina elbowed her in the ribs. "Ow, why does everyone do that?" Jo groaned angrily. 'I am going to have a bruise before the day is done.' She thought.
An hour later, Harry walked into Jo's room to see if she wanted him to walk her to lunch.
Harry said. "It is just time for lunch. Then you have potions and charms. Then you eat supper and go to Astronomy." Harry said, looking down Jo's schedule.
"Whatever." Jo said. Harry nudged her in the ribs. "OW!" She said and gave Harry an evil look. He mouthed 'watch your tongue'. Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley come walking into the room.
"It's time for lunch Harry, ya' comin' or not?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, can I bring my sister and her friend with us, or do they have to walk ten steps behind like your sister does?" Harry asked grinning.
"I vote for walking behind us, but that's just me." Ron said grinning back.
Harry smiled back. "Then behind us it is." He exclaimed. Then he and Ron began to walk off and out of the dorm.
"Wait. What 'friend' are you talking about, it is just you, me, and Weasley apparently." Jo said.
"No, we are going to pick up Sabrina on the way." Harry called back of over his shoulder.
"What?!" Jo yelled. When no reply came from the boys she walked out of the dorm. "Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" She growled under her breath. Finally Jo caught up with them. They were already going into the Ravenclaw common room.
"Wait, I am coming too." Jo yelled as she hopped through the door at the last moment.
"Sabrina!" Harry called. "Time for lunch!"
"Ok, I am coming, hold on a second. Let me shut down my computer." Sabrina called back. They all heard the click of her computer turning off and then saw her hopping down the stairs.
"She has a computer?" Jo asked looking at Harry with that 'she is a computer geek' look.
"All right. I'm ready, let's go. Wait, who are you, I don't believe we have met." She said looking at Ron.
"Oh, I am Ron Weasley." He said sticking out his hand.
"Nice to meet you. I am Sabrina Spellmen." She said shaking his hand.
"Well, now that y'all have met, can we go to lunch now?" Jo asked in the irritated voice she got when she was held up by a polite moment.
"Yeah, we're going. Sorry you weren't here to take the poll Sabrina, but Ron and I decided that you are to walk with Jo about ten steps behind us." Harry said.
"Whatever." Sabrina said as she shrugged and started to grab her robes from a chair. Harry nodded and he and Ron walked out of the room.
"Hey, wait. Is that hardly fair?" Jo yelled after them. No reply. "Fine, let's go Sabrina." Jo said and stormed off. Sabrina followed in her usually quiet manner.
"Why are you always so quiet?" Jo asked in a kind of demanding voice.
"Well, where I came from, you shouldn't talk unless directed to talk. Otherwise, you could end up in the cellar." She said and Jo could see that a chill ran down her back.
"Where do you come from?" Jo asked, a little nicer this time, after the reaction to the last question.
"I, well, I come from." her voice trailed off. She kind of lowered her head, her golden bangs falling over her shoulder.
"That is the secret my brother has been keeping from me about you. Where you come from. But it is okay, you can tell me. It's not like you come from an orphanage or something."
Sabrina brought her head back up, a sad look in her eyes.
"Or do you?" Jo asked in such a low voice, it was almost a whisper.
Sabrina's head slowly nodded up and down.
"Oh." Jo mumbled. "Sorry, I didn't know."
"It is okay, I figured you find out sometime or another, with Cho Chang spreading it around school." Sabrina said, lifting her head completely to look at Jo.
"Cho Chang?" Jo asked, trying to change the subject. "Who is she?"
"Oh you must have seen her once or twice, she always wondering all over school." Sabrina said in a bit happier voice, obviously for the change of subject. "Come on, I will show you." She began to wander up the stairs again. Jo hesitated to follow her. I wonder if she knows I am a Slytherin, Jo wondered to herself. Then she shrugged and followed Sabrina up the stairs. Sabrina strode over to a huge vanity supporting a large mirror with two small picture frames on the side, no pictures in them. There was a tube of Chap Stick lying on the top of the vanity. There were also several blush compacts sitting in a peculiar order on top of the vanity. Sabrina stood over it, and then placed her fingers on top of some of the compacts. She pushed them down altogether and the mirror flashed. The reflecting mirror plunged into a black screen instead of a piece of glass. Then a sign in screen appeared.
"Wow," Jo mumbled. "It's some type of computer."
"Yes it is. I built it myself." Sabrina said, still watching the computer and typing in things on the blush compacts.
Then a list of people popped up. Sabrina scrolled down and clicked on Jo's name. A picture of Jo popped up along with several paragraphs.
"I guess you could kind of say it was your files." Sabrina said, turning around to face Jo, as if she could read her mind. "I can get pictures and stories on anybody I want from here. I am going to find Cho Chang, and show you her picture." Sabrina scrolled down the list of kids with the tube of Chap Stick, and stopped when the cursor on the screen was on Cho's name. Then Sabrina twisted the end of the tube with her finger and a page on Cho Chang popped up. Jo had just begun to read it when Sabrina shut down the whole computer at the sound of knocking at the door.
"Hey, are y'all comin' or not?" Harry said as he and Ron stepped in to the room.
"We are Sabrina and I were just chattin'"
"Oh, we should have known Harry, we can't expect any less, their girls, they can't help it." Ron said and then he and Harry began to crack up. Jo glared at Ron, but when Harry saw her, he gave her 'the look', and she stopped.
"Well, let's go if we're going, we don't want to be late." Sabrina said, a little hint of annoyance in her voice. Jo looked over at her, and Sabrina looked back. She had a 'are we going or not?' look.
"Right," Harry said, "let's go." Then, at the same time, Harry and Ron spun around on their heels and walked away. Sabrina looked down and just shook her head. She began to walk after them. 'She seems like a nice person, maybe she isn't as bad as I thought she was.' Jo thought to herself as she jogged after Sabrina. 'Wait! What am I saying?! She's a Ravenclaw, I'm a Slytherin and Slytherins and Ravenclaws are almost worse rivals than Gryffindors and Slytherins. And who does she think she is taking off without me, I thought she was going to try and be my friend.' Jo then finally caught up with her. She jogged past Sabrina and stood next to her brother. But the conversation that he and Ron were having stopped as soon as she walked up. They both looked down at Jo and just stared. 'They act as if I am an alien or something,' Jo thought to herself, 'they are just staring at me. They just kept staring'. But Jo noticed Harry look at her, backwards to Sabrina (who was walking about five paces behind them), and then back at Jo. She got the message.
"Oh come on guys, you didn't really mean that I had to walk behind you." Jo said, a little begging sound in her voice. Harry just looked back to Sabrina and back at Jo again. Ron, on the other hand, just glared at her, his eyes narrowing.
"Did you?" Jo asked in a small, squeaky voice.
"Gee Ron, maybe she didn't hear us clearly, what do you think?" Harry asked, looking at Ron, a slight hint of bullying in his voice.
"I just don't think she was listening." Ron said, still staring at Jo.
"Then maybe I need to say it again, you should walk behind us, you haven't made any new friends, why don't you go talk to Sabrina." Harry said, and he and Ron engaged in conversation again and sped off toward the Great Hall.
"Guess I don't have a choice." Jo muttered angrily. Then she turned around to see what Sabrina was up to, and gasped. She was standing there, right where she was when Jo had passed her up, talking to Harry's Quidditch captain, Oliver Wood. She was smiling and she giggled a couple times. Then Jo heard him say he would walk her to lunch. And they took off, without even looking back at her. A whole lot of nerve, the both of them, Jo thought.
"What are you doing here, just standing in the hall with your mouth hanging open like a catfish?" Someone asked behind Jo. "Are you lost, you are a tad late for lunch." Jo spun around to see who had been talking to her. And she saw him. Cedric Diggory was standing in the hallway with a little half smile on his face. Jo could feel her face getting hot, it was a little embarrassing, especially since it was him that had to see her standing there with her mouth hanging open, staring at nothing and no one.
"Oh, hi." Jo forced out, putting her head down, to embarrassed to look at him.
"So, are you lost or what?" He asked again, a little impatiently this time.
"Oh, no my brother kind of took off with out me. He and his friend were talking and I kind of.Um."
"Zoned out?" Cedric asked, suggesting the answer to her staring and gawking problem.
"Yeah." She replied looking up.
"Well, do you need some one to walk you to lunch, since your brother walking off seems to be the problem." He asked staring down at her.
"Um.sure." Jo replied. Cedric began to walk forward, Jo had to kind of jog to keep up with him. "Oh, this is my friend by the way. Cho Chang." For the first time Jo noticed a girl that looked Cedric's age was standing beside him. She was very pretty, with short black hair that framed her perfectly made face. 'That's Cho Chang, that's his girl friend' Jo thought as she said hi to Cho.
"You must be Jo Potter, Harry's little sister." Cho Chang said in a very girlish voice. 'She would make a perfect tea party girl' Jo thought as she stared at Cho.
"Yeah, Harry's sister." She said dully. She hated to be called Harry's sister, everywhere she went that was her name. She was always Harry's sister ever since she showed up with her older brother on the Dursley's doorstep.
"So.McGonnagall tells me that you are going to be playing Seeker for me now. Or do I have you mistaken? You were the one who caught that snitch outside my window right?" Cedric asked, obviously trying to break the silence that fallen. But, while he spoke, he didn't look at Jo.
"Yeah. At least I want to be, McGonnagall told me to 'really think about it'." Jo asked, now feeling more comfortable on such a common topic.
"That sounds so much like her. She should really give up her 'it can be a rough time' act; it's starting to get old. I lose more and more players that way."Cedric started trailing off at the end.
"Well, I really want to play Quidditch. And I have made up my mind that I want to play, despite McGonnagall's act." Jo asked excitedly.
"Now see, that's what I wanted to hear. You have no idea how many 'Well Professor McGonnagall said' I get from new players. Welcome to the team Seeker."
"Wait, you can't be Seeker, I am the Seeker for Ravenclaw and no way would Cedric let a Slytherin play on his team, Right Cedric?" Cho Chang piped up.
"Well, I'm the Seeker now. You got some hold over the position." Jo snarled back in response.
"Actually, I do. I am the Seeker, making it impossible for you to be." Cho Chang said in a less Girlie voice.
"Do you know how to play Quidditch?" Cedric asked.
"Well, actually, I don't, but if that is a problem, I can get my brother to teach me." Jo said ignoring Cho, now that Cedric was talking to her.
Cedric shook his head and ran his tongue around his teeth. "Jo, can I ask you a question?" He asked still not bothering to look her in the eyes.
'Why won't he look at me?' Jo asked herself. "Um, sure, shoot."
"What exactly do you think my job is as Quidditch captain?"
"Um, I don't think I know exactly what you mean."
"Ok well think about. I am not the captain of a Quidditch team to have the Seeker of an opposing team teach one of my players how to play, am I?"
"Well, no I guess not."
"And did you know that I used to play seeker and was the best of my class for three years?"
"No I didn't."
"So put that together, why would I have your brother teach you to play?"
"Um, you wouldn't?"
"Exactly. Practices are before breakfast every Monday and Wednesday mornings." Cedric ended the conversation as they reached the Great Hall.
"Ok, I think I can do that." Jo said.
Cedric scoffed. "No you think Potter, you will be able to do that or you won't be on the team."
"Okay, but be where?" Jo asked, figuring he should have known that she didn't know where she was supposed to go.
"Well, I am sure that your brother will want to come to your first lesson, he can show you where, I will talk to him at dinner." Cedric said, still not looking at her.
Cedric and Cho walked into the Great Hall with Jo and then split, but not before Cedric said "Don't forget about practice."
"Okay." She murmured more to herself than to anyone else.
"Earth to Jo, Earth to Jo!" Jo spun around to see Sabrina talking to her.
"What are you staring at? Air isn't that interesting."
"Oh, nothing. I was just thinking about something."
"What?" Sabrina asked. Then she got an odd smile on her face. "Or who?"
She asked in a sly voice, her smile not moving a bit.
"What's it to you?" Jo asked coldly. Sabrina just shook her head. She sat next to Jo.
"Hey, you can't sit here. You are a Ravenclaw." Jo said, upset that Sabrina just intrude on her lunch.
"I was invited to sit here by someone." She said. Then the boy who Jo had seen in Transfiguration sat down next to Sabrina.
"Hello. Glad you could sit with me." He said.
"No problem, my friend over here let me sit with her. Oh yeah, her name is Jo Potter, she is in Slytherin with you Jason." Sabrina said.
"Who said I was your friend." Jo growled behind Sabrina. Sabrina elbowed her in the ribs. "Ow, why does everyone do that?" Jo groaned angrily. 'I am going to have a bruise before the day is done.' She thought.