Chapter 11 – I…I think I…
"Hey Kimmy get up, Class is over." Harry whispered into my ear as he shook me awake. I opened my eyes groggily and looked up at him a lazy smirk playing on my features. I wiped my arm across my eyes.
It's been a few weeks since school had started and since the cup was mentioned nothing much has happened.
I plopped all my things into my bag and skipped out of class merrily, I skipped up until I saw Harry and I began skipping in circles around him until he reached an arm out and held me around my waist. I giggled happily and squirmed out of his grasp.
"What have we got before Durmstrang and Beaxbatons get here?" I said as we walked into the great hall.
"Potions, with Snape," Harry said glumly as we sat down at the Gryffindor table. I pulled a turkey sandwich towards me and bit a large bite into it.
"Kimmy? What school did you go to before here?" Hermione said questioningly as I swallowed my food, I took a sip of pumpkin juice and looked at her.
"I was home-schooled, my mum had a teaching degree in Magical Majors, I learnt mostly bout Elixirs, Antidotes and Potions since she specifically majored in that," I said twirling my finger through my glass of pumpkin juice which had now turned a red clear colour.
"So that's why you're so good in potions," Ron said dumbly. I giggled at him and took a sip of my juice. Which was now smoking a pink lite fog.
"Are you sure that's safe to drink?" Harry said concernedly as he eyed the goblet wearily.
"Of course it is, it's just an energy Elixir my mom taught me, and I'm dead tired!" I said sipping more of it as a burst of energy flooded through my blood.
"Are there any side effects?" Hermione said eyeing the elixir in my grasp. I wiped the corners of my mouth and passed the goblet over to her which she held apprehensively as she brought it to her lips.
"The only side effects is that of you drink to much, it's like eating 10 pounds of Sugar mice from Honeydukes," I said happily as Hermione smiled at me over the rim of the goblet. She put it down and than shuddered.
"Mmm that stuff is good, I noticed the raspberry flavour instead of the lion's spine flavour," Hermione said visibly more energetic.
"My own little concoction," I said touching my nose lightly before finishing off the rest of my sandwich.
I looked up and saw Peeves rushing in and nodded at Harry who looked in the same direction as we pulled Hermione and Ron up as we ran out of the great hall once Peeves had had an argument with the Bloody Baron. We walked into class and sat down at our usual table two rows from the front.
"Books out to page 304," Professor Snape called as he swept into the room, he glared at Harry who merely glared back as he made his way behind his desk.
"We will be reading this lesson, due to…" he looked at me glaring "certain events," He said whipping his wand out at the board were a piece of chalk raced up to the board on its point hovering over the blank board.
"You will write 1 roll of parchment about the uses of Powdered Lions spine, write the effects if using in the laughter potion, including all the side effects and the antidote," Snape finished as the chalk behind him raced along the board.
"Begin!" He yells, as Harry and me share a knowing smile before beginning work. I roll my eyes since we had most of our other classes off because everyone was talking so much about the arrival of Durmstrang and Beaxbatons.
I finally looked down on my blank parchment, my quill hovering over it. I sighed aloud and began writing furiously 'if I write quicker this will end sooner,'
"Finally!" I exclaimed as we walked out class hurriedly making our to the Gryffindor tower. "Hailey's comet," I said as we reached the fat lady
We strode through the portrait and climbed up our dormitory stairs. I walked down the corridor Hermione in tow.
"So what's up with you and Ronnie?" I said as Hermione and me put our bags down by ours beds.
"Well he still doesn't really notice me, but he wouldn't know if I liked him if I straight out and told him." Hermione said sighing as we grabbed our hats and made our way to the door. I skipped down the stairs happily.
"Well enough about me, what about you and Harry?" Hermione said causing a blush to creep upon my cheeks as I stopped and she walked pass me smiling widely.
"Nothing, me and him have mutual feelings for each other nothing personal," I said quickly as we made our way down stairs into the common room.
"Yeah? You keep believing that than," Hermione said as we sat down. I squealed out loud and grabbed the nearest cushion throwing it at her.
"Were-just-friends! As-in-mutual-feelings-friends!" I said hitting her with the cushion between words as she giggled at me.
"Who are you kidding?" Harry said as I stopped hitting Hermione in shock, causing Hermione to burst out laughing at me again.
Harry and Ron shared a confused look between each other before looking at us; I blushed if anything a deeper colour of red.
"Come on," I said pulling Hermione to her feet and pushed her towards the portrait.
We walked swiftly to the entrance as to where we had to stand around and wait for Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to arrive.
I saw Cho and walked over to her, I gave her a hug and turned to Sean and gave him a hug as well.
"Hey Darlings', you excited?" I said wedging myself between them and wrapping my arms around each of their shoulders.
"I can't believe Durmstrang are coming, all they ever want is to learn the dark arts and will probably hex the students out of the competition," Sean said staring angrily at the sky, scanning for their arrival.
"Well, I hear that Beauxbatons is bringing a secret weapon, that will fool the opponents into forgetfulness." Cho said looking wearily at Cedric, he caught sight of her and waved at her smiling widely. She waved back happily as I dropped my arms from her shoulder, though I still had my arm around Sean.
"Would you look at that, told you he'd see how lovely you really are?" I said happily nudging Cho in the shoulder until I saw Cho flutter her eyelashes in Harry's direction. I looked at him and saw him give a nervous wave back. 'I thought?…wait, I never thought anything…did I?' I shook my head and slid my hand slightly down Sean's waist, to rest lightly on his hip.
"Something up?" Sean said looking at me searching my eyes. I looked down and saw Harry looking weirdly at Sean.
I leant up to Sean's ear "I need a little help on something," I whispered as Sean nodded his head. "Kiss me," I replied abruptly.
Sean looked at me questioningly before shrugging his shoulders and bringing his lips crashing down on mine, I wrapped an arm around his neck arching my body into his, as soon as we broke apart; I felt a faint smile tugging on my lips. I saw Sean smirking at me as Cho looked utterly bewildered.
"Man, you're a great kisser," I said looking away, I cast a quick glance and saw Harry looking over at us in shock.
"It's in the blood," Cho said weaving through the crowd to Cedric who began whispering in her ear, something that made her giggle.
"Come on let's go over to see Harry and them," I said beginning to pull Sean over until I was pulled back because he wasn't moving.
"Let's just stay here, we'll be all right and we got a better view," Sean whispered into my ear. I looked around and indeed we had a better view.
"Sure, oh look over there!" I said looking at him from the corner of my eye. "Oh look, that must be Beauxbatons!" I said pointing at this large flying house?
"Can you see? Did you want me to lift you up a bit?" Sean said holding my waist slightly.
Before I knew what was happening he had me on his back (so basically he was piggy backing me) I blinked my eyes a few times figuring how he had put me up there, I looked over the crowd and saw them.
"Wow, Sean their headmaster is huge! She looks gigantic beside her students," I whispered as she came into view.
"You weren't kidding bout Gigantic now were you," Sean said as he shuffled a bit beneath me.
"Do you want me to get off? Cause I can see from the ground you know?" I replied getting ready to get off as the students from Beauxbatons swarmed around their headmaster.
"No its okay, hey can you see Durmstrang yet?" He said in a low grumble "Oh that must be them now," He said half-heartedly.
"Oh true, I wonder who their secret weapon is…" I said peering over as the professor and a hook nosed, pale skinned boy walked beside him.
"Oh my god! It's Krum!" I exclaimed as the school fell into hushed whispers again
"Really!" Sean exclaimed as I slipped out of his grasp and landed on my butt on the floor. "Sorry!" He said noticing that I had fallen.
"Do you want a hand?" He said offering me his hand, I placed my hand in his and he pulled me up, as my body hit his our lips met in the crash.
"I could get use to that," Sean said as we parted.
"Too bad I don't fall that often than," I said as he slipped an arm around my waist, I saw Harry and Ron walking a little way ahead of us.
We began walk along with the crowd swarming in the direction of the great hall. I looked at Sean curiously 'Does Sean think me and him are an item now?' I looked up at him and opened my mouth before closing it again 'What if he does? What if he loves me!' I looked sceptically around for a second 'Wait, that's me just being vain, I mean what about Harry?' I felt Sean's arm tense around me and looked up at him.
"Is something wrong?" I said out of nowhere while looking blankly at him.
"Did you want to hang out sometime? And I mean like a…well a date," he said as the other students milled around us since we had stopped walking right in front of the Ravenclaw table.
"Um?…can I think about it?" I said slightly apprehensively.
"Sure, take as much time as you want," He said walking over to his table.
I walked over to the Gryffindor table, with my head slightly bowed. "Hey Hermione," I said sitting down next to her. "I am so confused,"
"No time for that, Dumbledore is going to make a speech," Harry said looking to the front of the hall.
Hermione shot him a look and looked at me patting me on the back slightly, before her head snapped to the attention of Professor Dumbledore.
'What am I going to do? I like someone else? Someone else being?' I looked around the great hall looking at all the prospectives around me. 'Well there is Ron?' I saw him shoot a quick glance at Hermione. 'Taken, plus no attraction to his um? Style…' I turned my head and looked down the table 'no. No. No. Hm? No. Maybe…No. Possibly, but No and No…' I had scanned everyone in Gryffindor from Dennis Creevey to Neville Longbottom. I turned my head to the last remaining Gryffindor.
"Harry," I thought and accidentally said, as the table erupted with mountainous amounts of food. Harry's eyes shot to look into mine, his full of concern.
"Yea," he said dumbly. I blushed and mumbled an incoherent sorry. 'Oh crap, why do I always say things I'm thinking, man I better not be saying this out loud.'
"Kimmy? Is something up, your face is bright red," Harry said trying to look at me as I bowed my face low.
"Um…I've got to go, I need to um? Do my homework for Potions," I said getting out of my seat quickly.
"But we don't have any potions…homework," I heard Harry say as I ran around the corner to go on a walk.
'Please! Why am I falling for Harry? Come on! There has got to be some kind of legit reason why!' I looked up at the roof willing it to just drop an answer into my head.
'He likes Cho anyway, he always has,' I sighed allowed and began walking down the desolate corridor.
"All alone Kimmy? Aren't you scared?" a voice hissed somewhere in the darkness.
"Why should I be scared?" I said looking around in the darkness, I closed my eyes momentarily sensing for any warmth in my surroundings. Nothing. 'my powers…' I blinked my eyes adjusting them to darkness until I heard something.
'You know there is no point, I will find you and of course kill you….' I spun my head around frantically, beginning to freak out.
"Who ever you are, I don't really care to be honest, but stop it this instant! It's not even funny," I yelled, as the corridor seemed to get darker by the second.
"You know, you don't have to yell, I can read your thoughts, don't even bother trying to stop me," the person went silent momentarily until my heart raced at the sound in my thoughts 'see? I'm talking to you…inside your head…' I clutched at my head shaking it as the person cackled evilly. I fell to my knees on the cold marble floor.
"Someone! anyone!" I screamed as I felt as if all the air had been taken out of me. I looked around the darkened corridor willing anyone to come out.
I clicked my fingers nothing. 'Shit,' I clicked them frantically waiting for something to happen. Anything.
"My child it is too late to ask for help," the voice hissed softly behind me. I felt their hand rest on my shoulder.
My eyes widened in shock as I tilted my head upward "mom?" I said barely believing my own eyes.
"So?" she said leaning on one hip. 'So! What the hell is wrong with you woman!'
"So? SOOOO? Your suppose to be dead!" I screamed, blinking my eyes furiously.
"Nice way to greet me after 5 years, and all I wanted to do was see you again," She said softly. Her hand reached out and gently cradled my chin.
"My child, join the dark side, the dark lord is getting stronger, he is alive!" I shook my head limply as I felt energy being sapped away from me.
"No…" I breathed out, 'I can't, I won't, cause…Harry' my thoughts being jumbled "I can't do that to Harry, I…I think I…love him…" I mumbled as I felt the world drown away from me as I blacked out on the cold marble floor.