Chapter 7 - Unspoken, Unseen

It was a well-known fact that English was the most BORING of all subjects, especially if you had Mr. Jenna as your teacher. Lyndsay was sitting in the back row, next to Nathan, listening to Mr. Jenna go on about verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Lyndsay turned to Nathan, he was leaning back in his chair spitting his gum in the air and trying to catch it.

"NATHAN TUCKER!" Mr. Jenna roared.

Nathan fell back on his chair and the gum landed in his hair. Everyone laughed, including Lyndsay.

"Er...yes Mr. Jenna?" Nathan stood up and began yanking the gum out of his hair.

"How many times do I have to tell you? NO GUM IN CLASS!"

"A lot sir?" Nathan picked up his chair.

"That's an afternoon detention Tucker" Mr. Jenna turned back to the class.

Lyndsay not looking at Nathan because she was snickering at him.

"Shut up Lyndsay, look at how many detentions have you've had?"

"I always used to get them for talking with Carlie, since she left I haven't gotten that many."

"You still have got more than me."

Lyndsay turned to face Nathan "Carlie still holds the record though."

Nathan's eye's widened.

"What's your problem?"

"Lyndsay, you're not moving your mouth."

Lyndsay's eyes widened as well "Neither are you."

The two of them screamed and everyone turned to look at them.

"Tucker, Gareth, what's wrong?" Mr. Jenna demanded.

"I---saw a spider, a huge one. It went under the bookcase," Lyndsay stammered.

"Mr. Tucker, is that what you were screaming about?" Mr. Jenna looked at him.

"Yes sir, it was enormous. Biggest spider I've ever seen" Nathan said.

"Well you and Miss Garet better get your arachnophobia under control or I'll kick you out"

"Yes sir" Both of them mumbled.

For the rest of the lesson Lyndsay and Nathan didn't speak or look at each other.

Potions was Carlie's worst subject, even if she had a teacher who liked her she would still be dismal at it. She was partnered with Fred, neither one of them was paying attention to the potion; Carlie and Fred were just adding random ingredients to the caldron. Lee and George were doing the same; they were trying to compete with them to see who could make the worst potion.

"Where were you last night?" Fred asked as he added a handful of God knows what it was.

Carlie threw in some blue powder. "What do you mean?"

"We saw you coming back in the portrait hole," he answered.

"It doesn't matter where I was" Carlie said sharply. While she liked Fred and George, like most Gryffindor's, were very weary about Slytherins.

Fred looked at her "We were just wondering, that's all"

"Well it's none of you business," Carlie growled.

"You don't have to get so touchy" Fred's voice loudened.

Carlie could feel the anger burning inside her; she was staring hard into Fred's eyes when he let out a scream.

"IT'S BURNING," He yelled, clutching his head.

All anger Carlie had disappeared instantly."What's burning?" she asked.

The whole class was looking at them and Professor Snape came and stood in front of them.

"What's going on here?" he said. His cold black eyes fell on Carlie.

Fred got off the ground. "Sorry sir but it was as if the insides of my head were on fire"

Snape looked at Carlie and then at the caldron. "Fifteen points from Gryffindor for disrupting my class over nothing"

Carlie hadn't noticed but Jess was watching her intensely.

Lyndsay burst through the door of her house and ran up the stairs to her room. She had successfully avoided Nathan for the rest of the day. It was freaky; they had had a total conversation without opening their mouths. Lyndsay flopped down on her bed and stared at the ceiling. After a few minutes the ceiling began to blur and she found herself watching Carlie next to two red headed twins. From the looks of it they were in class but there was something wrong with the classroom. A stern looking woman stood in front of Carlie, she was speaking to her but couldn't hear any words. It was like watching a silent movie. Carlie had picked up a stick and waved it at a feather on the table while saying something. The feather turned into a long stick of candy.

Lyndsay blinked and the vision shattered. "Holy cow! I'm psychic!" Lyndsay gasped.

Nathan was waiting for the bus with a few other people from school when he heard someone saying,

" The words are Casaria mallanomia."

"Casaria Mallanomia" Carlie's voice sounded loud and clear.

He heard a faint fussing sound and then the connection was broken.

"Hey Tucker, look it's a spider" Alan Kirby laughed with his friends.

Nathan rolled his eyes and went back to his book.

"Holy cow I'm psychic!" Nathan looked around hoping to see Lyndsay but she was nowhere to be seen. Maybe he was just going crazy.

The sun was going down and many Hogwarts students began to go inside but not Jess. He crept out and walked bristly across the grounds to tree tucked behind a shed.

"Hello Carlie" Jess said.

Carlie turned to him, "Hey Jess how's it going?"

"Okay. What happened it potions this morning?"

Carlie shrugged "who knows, one minute Fred was talking to me, the next he was screaming about the inside of his head burning."

"Probably inhaled something from that concoction you were making" Jess said.

"Probably."

Jess and Carlie were silent for a while when someone called "CARLIE!"

She spun around to see Fred and George coming across the grounds. "Jess, hide" She hissed.

He walked around the back of the shed and leaned back then he fell to the dusty ground. He sat up and looked around, everything was dark. He heard Carlie talking to the twins.

"What you doing here Carls?"

"Yeah this is were all the kids who drink hang out"

Carlie's voice was muffled by the wall "Just was wondering what was here."

Jess stood up and walked towards the wall.

"Come on, you can see us try out for Quiddich" Fred said.

Jess put his hand on the wall and to his surprise; it went straight through it. Ready for his face to hit it Jess walked straight at it. He never felt it. Opening his eyes he saw he was outside again and Carlie had left. Not thinking about anything else, he ran up to the castle.