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Author's Note: WHEE!! It's been soooo long since I posted -hides from people throwing tomatoes- I'm sorry! Here it is!
P.S. Yay!! More edited-ness!(this is the edited version)
The Friend
Hannah Gallagher tossed and turned. She had dozed off not less than 6 times, each time to wake not 2 minutes after she had fallen asleep. The dream haunted her. She saw their faces clearly every time she slept. All summer, those malicious faces would not leave her in peace. She could not fight...
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It was her. Her blond hair with the two red streaks at the front. Blood red. Her emotionless face was there in her mind, her thin eyes, piercing her with a mere glance. The girl was looking up, though, not at Hannah. So Hannah looked up too.
They were on the Quidditch field. Ravenclaw and Slytherin. A Bludger was zooming down to the stands. It was going to hit her! Hannah tried to scream, but the scream came out of the Bludger instead. The girl with the blank face laughed, a cold, cruel, malicious laugh. The Bludger turned back to the Quidditch field without hitting Hannah. It zoomed about the field, still screaming Hannah's scream for her. After a while, the Bludger disappeared and the screaming ceased.
Hannah watched the game, forgetting about the unnerving girl sitting beside her. Slytherin made a quick shot, but Hannah saw Jade make a great block, and the goal was not made. Ravenclaw scored, and Hannah clapped. Everyone in the stands stared at Hannah. She realized, in horror, that she was sitting in the middle of the Slytherins.
Suddenly, Cho was there, sitting next to her, staring at Hannah. The girl with the red streaks was gone. The two girls sat silently for a moment. Cho looked scared, and had a sort of pleading look on her face. Then, the screaming Bludger appeared in front of her and smacked Cho right in the face. Cho fell back, and fell down onto the field, where a gaggle of blue and black-caped vultures swarmed upon her and began to feast. Then the malicious girl was back, sitting next to Hannah. She laughed at Hannah. Her laugh turned into a high-pitched cackle, and her thin eyes turned to a fiery red. She grew taller, thinner, like a shade or phantom. The cruel red snake eyes looked out from under the dark hood. The apparition spoke commandingly, yet in a strangely high-pitched voice.
"See, little girl? I am winning now...."
A thin, deathlike hand reached out to her face...
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Hannah started. Her short brown hair stuck to her face, and her round brown eyes were darting back and forth, as though expecting an attacker any second. Her many freckles practically stood out on her face, like eerie, colored goose bumps. She stared fearfully around the dormitory. The room was silent.
She slid back the curtain just a crack; enough to see with one eye. Cho was sleeping quietly. Suddenly, there was movement on the far side of Cho's bed. Jade's curtain was pulled violently back, and her face poked out. Hannah remained quiet. Jade was staring at Cho, sweat dripping off of her face.
When Jade had closed her curtain, Hannah reached up and wiped the sweat off her own face. She lay back down, and pondered for a few minutes before falling into another restless doze.
Note: Whooo.... so little Miss Gallagher is having funky dreams too...what's happening, hmm? Okay, I know this chapter's a bit short... but REVIEW pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!!!