Carmen and Cammy's European Vacation
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Chapter 11- Betrayal
Getting caught was not in the plan, I thought to myself as I sat in Dumbledore's office. Snape pink hair and all was pacing furiously back and forth.
"She should be expelled!" he shouted, Dumbledore sat with his hands folded on his desk silent. I flinched at the word expelled. Dumbledore raised his hands.
"Severus, please leave us; I assure you Carmen will get her punishment" he frowned and left. He looked at me with his penetrating eyes. "Carmen you know this is a serious offense. Getting into a fight and pulling a stunt like that has dire consequence" I looked down.
"She challenged me! I couldn't let her talk all that trash about my country!" He leaned into me.
"But you challenged her back and said some very nasty things about this country"
"I didn't quite think about that"
"I know" He gazed at me.
"Carmen you are very complex. You were expelled but you still pull stunts, you were hurt deeply but still try to joke around"
"Joking around helps me forget about that"
"But it doesn't work does it?"
"No" This old man had me figured out. He continued.
"Your jokes put up a fake barrier. You try to act tough but everyone can see right through you" I thought of everything that happened and I realized it was true. I was so trapped within my wall I couldn't see how superficial I had become.
"How do I stop it?" I asked "I've always been this way"
"Images are hard to erase, but they can be. Show them you've changed, make them see you've changed" I nodded. "But you have time to figure that out now" I groaned.
"Hoped you had forgotten about that"
"Unfortunately; in all my years I've never seen Snape with pink hair" I grinned. "Your punishment is this, until the end of the year you will be assisting as an equipment manager to your quidditch team." He looked back at me. "But I suggest you make sure that all you've lost isn't just Ms. Bell's friendship" Mystified I left. Snape had saved his piece for me waiting for me out in the hall.
"You think you're a patriot of your country but you're more of an embarrassment" That was all he said and I must say he looked dignified in his pink hair. But I had to fulfill Dumbledore's suggestion and I needed to find Katie Bell. I finally spotted her in the common room icing her eye. She jumped when she saw me, probably thought I was going to jump her. I sat down next to her.
"I won't be long Katie but what did you mean when you said that last comment to me?" She grinned; apparently that girl still had some evil in her.
"Right before our fight I saw Cammy talking to Snape; probably telling him it was you." I stood up stunned, I felt like I had been shot by my own gun. How could my best friend do me in like that? I walked up the stairs quietly to find Cammy in our dorm. How could she act so innocent?
"Cammy" I said half-thinking I was speaking the name of a traitor.
"Heard about your punishment, really stinks" I scoffed.
"You should know"
"Pardon?" I could feel tears in my eyes.
"Cammy I know it was you who ratted me out"
"What!"
"But why Cam why? Was it because I was always talking, taking chances, and making friends?" She paused.
"Carmen I have no idea what you're talking about but I have always been the one that had her sanity, kept to herself and stayed true to herself"
"Excuse me?"
"Carmen, nobody knows you anymore. You try to cover your past experiences by pulling stunts but all it really does is expose your lost self-persona" Everyone really could see right through me. She went on and drove the knife even farther in my back. "You can't take a hint, when I warn you, or even when Oliver might even like you. No, you're too scared to even try that! I don't even know you anymore." My best friend was betraying me. I looked up at her.
"Really?"
"Really. You dug this grave and I can't help you get out of it this time" My heartbreak was instantly replaced by bitterness.
"Like you would. You've grown distant as well Cammy"
"Because you shut me out!"
"No, your conscience tells you that I've become too 'dangerous' of a friend so you'll pull away a little at a time, then disappear altogether." Cammy grew weary and at the moment became the most outspoken I had ever seen her.
"If that's what you want then fine; I won't fight you. I'm leaving for Christmas break, this will be our first separation and even though you think different, I pray it won't be our reunion" Her bags were packed and she looked at me solemnly.
"Merry Christmas Carmen"
A/N: I know this chapter is a little dramatic, but it is a major turning point for Carmen. So please review!
Preview into chapter 12: I walked into my now quite vacant dorm. Without Cammy I felt like I had no arm, but something artificial and my body was rejecting it. I would start working in a few days and I spent my remaining free time in solitude. I sat down onto my bed to only find a letter waiting for me. I read it and felt my last heartstrings being plucked from my chest. Cammy was right, I had dug myself a grave and for the first time in my life I felt like I wanted to remain there…
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