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Rated: M for sexual content, language, adult themes
Chapter
Four
"Unfamiliar Ceiling"
Bella looked at her class
schedule as she hurried down a hall holding her book bag in her lift
hand. "Darn," breathed Bella. Her first class was Charms
with—Bella groaned—the Gryffindors. Not at all how she would have
liked to start her first day at Hogwarts. Bella hurried down the hall
towards the classroom. As she walked she noticed Malfoy and his
bodyguards (as Bella called them), Crabbe and Goyle, were just up
ahead of her. She purposefully bumped shoulders with Malfoy as she
pushed between him and Goyle.
"Hey, Grundy!" she heard him
call.
Bella used her right hand to flip her hair over her shoulder
as she turned around. "What, Malfoy?" she said haughtily.
"I
think you owe us an apology." Said Malfoy mirroring Bella's
tone.
Bella raised her eyebrow. "Oh, you do, do you?"
"Yes,
don't think you can get away with anything just because we're in
the same house and your mother was a—"
Before Malfoy could
finish Bella was right up in his face. "Don't," said Bella in a
deadly whisper. "Don't you ever talk about my mother. Unlike you
I am not at all proud of who she was or what she did." That said
Bella turned on her heel and marched into the Charms classroom.
"Then
why are you in Slytherin?" called Malfoy after her with a
laugh.
Bella was steaming through all of Charms class and
didn't pay much mind to the short little Professor Flitwick.
Needless to say she didn't do very good at all in her first class.
But as she was walking to Transfiguration (they had that class with
Ravenclaw) she over heard Malfoy talking to his bodyguards.
"That
Grundy girl is a shame to our house." He said. "She'll be the
downfall of us all, you mark my words."
At that Bella walked up
behind Malfoy and said, rather loudly, "That's rich coming from
you."
Malfoy wheeled around. "What do you want, Grundy?" he
snapped.
"Oh, nothing," said Bella shifting her weight to her
right foot and putting her hands on her hips. "I was just passing
by is all."
"Is that so?" said Malfoy with a sneer.
"Yes,
though I do hope talking to me isn't to much of a shame for you,
Malfoy." Said Bella sarcasm thickly coating every word.
"You
know what, it just might be."
Crabbe and Goyle sniggered.
"Don't
hurt yourselves laughing." Said Bella with more then obviously fake
concern and walked away.
Transfiguration, being the difficult
subject that it was and taught by Professor McGonagall, proved not to
be the best class to have after having a verbal fight with Malfoy.
Bella found her concentration lay more on what he had said in the
hall then what Professor McGonagall was teaching. Therefore, Bella
found herself unable to transform the match on her desk into a nettle
like she was supposed to. She, however, was determined not to fight
with Malfoy again as she left Transfiguration but she found it quite
hard. Just seeing Malfoy strutting down the halls with Crabbe and
Goyle was enough to make Bella want to slap him.
Just who does
he think he is! thought Bella as she angrily jabbed her food
with her knife that day at lunch. I don't care if he's in my
house he's still a prick!
Later that day, as Bella
walked across the Grounds to the Green Houses for Herbology, Malfoy
and company passed by her. Bella had expected to hear Malfoy make
some snide comment but he just walked silently across the Grounds.
Bella shrugged it off as she entered Green House Two with the rest of
the class (this time they had class with Hufflepuff). Bella actually
found that she rather enjoyed Herbology, she found it quite good fun
to learn about different magical plants and such. As Bella walked
back up to the Castle after class she looked at her schedule again.
Potions with…GRYFFINDOR AGAIN! Bella stuffed the schedule
back into her bag. Darn, why couldn't we've had Ravenclaw
twice or Hufflepuff? But why Gryffindor! But Bella didn't get
to harp long on this because she heard a now all too familiar voice
behind her.
"Grundy. Hey, Grundy!"
Bella turned around
ready to rail at Malfoy at the top of her voice when her eyes met his
and she was blinded by a flash blue light.
His back was flat against the cold hard wall; he was helpless. He felt his father's breath against his cheek.
"Bend
down."
"Wh-what!"
"You heard me, bend down."
Panic
filled his body.
"Obey
me!"
He felt a rough hand push him down and then forward so that
he was on his hands and kneels. He was shaking uncontrollably and
near the point of tears. He yelled and tried to get away as he felt
his father's arms around his chest. He heard a cold laugh as he
tried to get away. He could feel his father on top of him and his
shaking became worse. He felt a sharp tug at his belt and yelled
again but was only answered by another cold laugh as he felt his
clothes torn off him. He made to try and get away but was stopped by
a sudden intense pain that shot through his whole body. Tears rolled
down his cheeks as he screamed in pain.
Another flash of
blazing blue light blinded Bella again and suddenly she was lying on
a bed looking up at an unfamiliar ceiling. Wh-what did I
see?
"Good, you're awake." Said a woman's voice.
Bella
suddenly realized that a slightly aged woman was bending over
her.
"Where am I?" asked Bella.
"You're in the Hospital
Wing." Said the woman. Bella noted she was wearing something like a
nurse outfit.
"How'd I get here?"
"Young mister Malfoy
brought you to me, said you'd fainted after Herbology
class."
"Malfoy brought me?" Bella was in a bit of a
shock.
"Yes." Said the woman.
Bella blinked. Prick-head
Draco Malfoy brought me to the Hospital Wing? It can't be.
"B-but what about classes? I need to get to class." At that
moment Bella realize that outside the windows the sky was darkening.
"I haven't missed classes have I?"
"You've been out cold
for almost two days now."
"Two days!" I can't have been
out that long!
"Get some rest," said the woman. "Lord
knows, you could use it." Without another word she disappeared out
of view.
Before I passed out…what was that I saw? It can't
have been…a memory. I've never seen a memory that clearly. But if
it was then that would make it…Malfoy's memory!
