Cinderella
Beaner-Bop
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A/N: Someone pointed out that I pretty much went over the fact that the Weasley's did have chickens. *shrugs* They don't here I guess.
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Disclaimer: Nah…
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Chapter Four: That Wretched Boy
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Ginny started the tour off, pointing out different aspects of their house and little things that they may want to know, or are a little interesting.
The tour went fairly quickly, Carminda wasn't one with making interruptions every chance she got. Ginny caught herself asking 'Any questions?' just to get the girl to speak. She was worse than Ginny was when she was younger, and with the stories that the twins used to constantly tease her about, she knew she was bad. Ginny shook her head lightly in pity.
Wonder why she's like that… She thought to herself silently as she ushered the girl into her room, going to see if she can get the girl to talk some more, hoping that maybe her room would give Carminda a 'safe environment' to talk in. The girl walked in slowly, taking her time to look at everything that scattered the room. Ginny ignored the other girl's odd behavior and sat on her bed, waiting for Carminda to do the same. When the other girl did, she began to search for a topic in her mind that both could talk about, but Carminda intervened her train of thought with an idea of her own.
She was pointing at the Hogwarts yearbook, their school small enough that the didn't need one for individual years, or to chop them up.
"May I see that?" Ginny blinked and shrugged, getting up to grab it.. She handed it over to Carminda.
"Knock yourself out." She told the girl. She sat down beside her and watched Carminda stare at the book like she did her room, quietly but taking everything in. 'She hasn't even opened it yet.' Ginny thought to herself.
After a while Carminda finally opened the book and turned to the index, her slim finger working its way down to the students section. She got a little confused at how they were grouped though and looked to Ginny for help.
"What is…Gryffindor?" Ginny looked at the girl oddly then rolled her eyes. She wasn't used to talking to people who didn't already know practically everything about Hogwarts because they had been there…or were currently still there.
"Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw are houses at Hogwarts, I'm in Gryffindor, just like everyone else in my family, so those are the pages where I'd be." Carminda nodded and turned to those pages. Turning three pages she made it to the fourth years. She grinned at Ginny's picture, which was waving and was wearing a huge grin. Ginny rolled her eyes and hid her face in her hands. Carminda smiled at the embarrassed girl.
"It could have been worse…What's with the lion an every page?" Ginny shrugged her shoulders.
"The lion is the symbol for Gryffindor." She said quickly, watching as Carminda grabbed the pages of the book and begin to flip through them. She stopped after about a minute and Ginny wondered what she was looking at. She peered over Carminda's shoulder. She looked confused as Carminda pointed to Malfoy.
"Who's that?" She asked silently. Ginny rolled her eyes.
"A plain ol' bastard. Nothing much." Carminda turned to grin back at Ginny.
"He's a cute one though, isn't he?" Ginny groaned and went to cover her face with her pillow.
"He's a nutcase!" She said when Carminda was able to get the pillow away from her. "I don't care how cute he is, he's a right down jackass!" Carminda laughed silently and turned back to the page. She looked closely at the animal that was silently moving around the page.
"Surely he can't be that bad." Ginny rolled her eyes for what felt like the hundredth time that day.
"Trust me, he is! He's vile, rude, your obvious snake." Carminda looked at Ginny confused.
"But what's wrong with that?" Ginny was about to say something sarcastic when Carminda's question got to her. She looked even more confused than before.
"What do you mean?" Carminda shrugged.
"What's wrong with being a snake?" Ginny blinked and shrugged.
"They're vile creatures, what else is there to say?" Carminda rolled her eyes and began to sit cross legged on Ginny's bed.
"But technically, so are lions." Ginny looked at Carminda like she grew a second head after that.
"What do you mean? Lions are-" Carminda interrupted her.
"The exact same are snakes if you take away the physical differences." Ginny looked at Carminda confused.
"What do you mean?" Carminda took in a deep breath.
"I mean, lions kill just as much as snakes do, both are dangerous if you piss them off. A snake, from what I know, doesn't attack unless given a reason, and from I've heard, neither does a lion - so technically, calling someone a snake isn't that big of an insult…" Carminda was silent for a few seconds before giving Ginny a small smile. "That, and Linette can't stand snakes." Ginny grinned at her and began to laugh out loud.
"I guess your right!"
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It was a few hours before Linette got back and when she did she was steaming.
"That wretched, idiot…" She mumbled under her breath. Ginny and Carminda looked up from the card game they were playing, and while Ginny wasn't sure as to why Carminda began to clean it up the second she saw Linette enter the room, she didn't question it either, seeing the mood that Linette was in.
"Linette, what the heck is wrong with you?" Ginny asked the girl. The blond haired girl looked at the girl angrily.
"Oh, wouldn't you like to know Jenna! Alright, fine, let me tell you something, Draco Malfoy is an asshole! He doesn't deserve to talk to me in the first place! And what does he do when I allow him to talk to me? Insults me! Tells me to get a life - to go away! As though I would stick to that piece of shit! Tell me, Jenna, are you happy now?" Ginny tried her best not to smile, which would show Linette that, yes, indeed she was. After a while Ginny couldn't fight it anymore and a few giggles escaped from her throat, though she tried to stop them.
"You… ran into Dra…co Mal-Malfoy?" It took her a while to say, her giggles escaping more than she wanted them to.
"Yes, that wretched boy. And- why the hell are you laughing, can't you see that I'm traumatized?" Linette screamed. Ginny rolled her eyes, Linette was milking it for all it was worth, though it wasn't worth all that much…
"Linette, Draco insults everybody, every chance he gets unless for some reason it will help him do something. That's how Draco is." She rolled her eyes. "Why don't you go upstairs or something, I'll bring up some cookies that Carminda and I are baking later, okay?" There was nothing Ginny wanted more than to get Linette out of that room. Linette nodded her head.
"Yes, yes…and you think about what you did to me! You're just as bad as the boy!" She said.
When Linette had climbed the stairs and was out of earshot, Carminda walked over to Ginny and grinned lightly.
"I told you snakes aren't all that bad." She whispered before bringing out the cookies and setting them on the counter to cool. Ginny nodded her head and went to grab a spatula to separate the cookies from the pan.
"I guess you're right…" She said. Carminda went silent for a while and while this wouldn't have fazed Ginny yesterday, the amount Carminda talked to today, it practically scared Ginny to hear the girl go silent.
"I think Linette is going to do something." Carminda said after a while. Ginny looked back at the girl confused and the other girl explained. "Carminda hates it when people get the better of her so she practically makes it her lifes goal to get better than the people who did that to her…" Carminda studied the floor, trying to come up with the right words to explain this to Ginny with. "You've been getting the better of her since she got here, and obviously that… Malfoy character did so…" She looked up at Ginny with frightened eyes. "Just be careful." Ginny blinked, but nodded.
"I'll do my best." She said truthfully. Carminda smiled at that before going over to one of the cabinets and grabbing a plate.
"Linette likes her cookies warm at best, so you might want to take them to her now, they'll cool down fully to the point she likes it on the way to her room." Ginny nearly jumped at Carminda's sudden change of mood but did as the girl told her.
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A/N: Hmm…kind of strange chapter if you ask me… o well. Laterz.
Beaner-Bop