Midnight Memories: A Katie Bell Story
Chapter 3
The night she collapsed Katie way laying in bed, thinking once again about what had happened. She did not want to think about it, but she had shared the whole story with everyone at dinner. Nobody else really knew how to explain what happened, not that she really expected them to know, she just needed to share with someone.
Somewhere in her thinking Katie must have drifted off to sleep because the next thing she knew she saw the same bright blue light. It was different this time though, there was more. Katie felt sore and bruised over every inch of her body. She felt hot tears stinging as they fell down her cheeks and tasted blood. She tried to look around, get up, run away, but she could not move. Somewhere in front of her she could hear something moving, a dark hooded figure came into view, she could not see his face, but he pulled out his wand and began to speak…
Katie did not hear the man's voice or what he said because she was jolted awake by Leanne who was shaking her lightly. "Katie you need to get up, we have to get breakfast this morning."
Katie lay in her bed staring up at Leanne for a minute before processing what Leanne had said. She blinked twice to help clear her head of the dream and sat up. She gave a moan of pain as she stepped out of bed; her entire body ached, but it was only a fraction of the pain she had felt in the dream. She was also relieved to find there was no blood. She pulled on her gray uniform pants and began putting on her shirt when Leanne's voice startled her, causing her to jump.
"How's your arm feeling?" Leanne asked as she put on her tie.
"Huh?" was all Katie could get out, she was feeling groggy and the question did not make sense. That was when she saw the bruise beginning to form on her arm. "What the bloody hell?" she exclaimed snapping back into reality.
"You bashed it on the bed post earlier. You must have been having a crazy dream." Leanne explained as she put her robes on top of her uniform.
"In the only dream I remember having I couldn't move." Katie said putting her tie on.
"Well, you must have been trying very hard because you were definitely moving. That's actually what woke me up this morning." Leanne shared as she began packing Katie's school bag.
"What was the dream about anyway?" Leanne asked.
Katie pulled her robes on, "I'm not sure, I don't remember." Katie lied to one of her closest friends. She did not want to share the dream. It was all too… creepy. "Can we not tell anyone about the whole arm thing? It's embarrassing." Katie asked as Leanne handed her the school bag she had packed.
"Of course." Leanne said simply, "That's what friends are for; to deny anything embarrassing."
"Thanks for taking care of me." Katie said as the pair climbed through the portrait hole.
Katie made her way through her morning classes slowly and without much focus. She knew she had to shake the lethargy before her afternoon classes. She had Transfiguration and Charms and knew she would not be able to make it through those classes without focus, even if McGonagall did not murder her.
Katie made it to lunch, though she was not exactly sure how that happened. She had already forgotten everything that had happened after she left her room. 'Well, the homework's going to be fun' she thought to herself. Joking around with the group and talking quidditch helped raise her spirits. They needed to find a new keeper and discussed the try-outs that would be held next week. The lunch itself seemed to give her more energy and more focusing ability… well, her normal focusing ability, which was not exactly the best.
She had improved so much that she was actually able to get some work from the day before done during her free period after lunch in the library. Leanne helped catch her up with what she missed and lent her notes for the homework. She still needed to do her Potions paper, but she could fudge that one later. Potions was not difficult for her, never had been, just dreadfully boring.
Katie made it through Transfiguration without problems and only ran into a slight problem in Charms when she was hit from behind by someone's ill performed and poorly aimed jinx that put her in a fit of hiccoughs, not exactly what they were supposed to be doing. Every hiccough caused agonizing pain to her aching body, but luckily Madam Pomfrey was able to clear it up quickly.
Dinner was spent laughing about the hiccough incident, Leanne seemed to love sharing it and Katie had to admit, it was pretty funny. They also talked quidditch some more, discussing who they thought would show up at try-outs. Katie's happy mood suddenly lifted when they returned to the common room and she had to face the mountain of homework she had already accumulated. 'Welcome back to Hogwarts for another FANTASTIC year' she thought to herself as she pulled out some parchment to begin her Potions paper. At least her mind was of the weird dream. She had more to worry about now.