Secret
Ginny is scared of many things. Mirrors, her mother, kiwis, eating carrots and such. But the thing that scares her the most, is her twin sister. Unlike the others, Ginny didn't completely submit to her sister, yet she didn't cross the line to going against her sister either.
After that nickname event, Ginny understood the limitation better and learnt to behave herself. She has never confronted her sister ever again, not even kidding.
Ginny barely calls on her sister's name. Usually, she just yells "Oi".
"Aquamarine". Somehow this overly ostentatious name made an inappropriate image related to something like girls without much fabric on, which was even more inappropriate for Ginny's age, popped up inside her head. It gives Ginny chills down her spine. Ginny swore to herself that if she had a name like that, she would be hiding in a cave forever.
A few years back, one day when Ginny was feeling extremely bored, her mind wandered to her sister's name.
She thought: everyone else in this family has a common name that's easy to pronounce, easy to remember, how come you have one that's so... hard to understand?
Then she went talking to her sister. Oi, isn't your name Aquamarine? Means blue or something like that? Can I call you Smurfette?
After that, she was thrown and locked into a cabinet by her sister.
If it's a normal cabinet, Ginny could've picked on the lock. But this one with unlimited space, which was used to collect hundreds and thousands of books Aquamarine has read at lightspeed, belonged to Aquamarine. Ginny had no choice but to wait. She found a stack of books and sat down to make herself comfortable.
She searched her head for happy memories to kill time. Then a pile of memories that were not from her own, has suddenly crossed her mind. She saw herself in Diagon Alley, joking with a man called Snape; she saw herself in Twilfitt and Tatting's, trying to please the Malfoys; the most ridiculous one was that she saw herself brewing potions in an unfamiliar dungeon. And there were some more fragments of memories, every one of them filled with compliments about how incredible of a genius she was.
Ginny immediately realized, they're her sister's memories. She had no idea when or how did they come into her mind. These extraordinary experiences became her entertainment in the dark. She replayed them over and over again, trying to figure out her sister's secret. But even till she was set free from the cabinet a few hours later, she still got nothing.
Ginny was sitting on the floor, Aquamarine was standing in front of Ginny with a smug on her face. Let's see if you dare to tell Mum.
Nope, I'm taking all the blames anyway. Every time.
Ginny ran to the kitchen, feeling quite down. She got her share of dinner and blame from her mother.
"Since when were you allowed to come home after 6? Next time see if I'll let you in. You're a big girl now Ginny, why can't you be a little more like your sister? She never let us worry."
Like my sister? Locking other people in their closet?
Ginny is not someone who holds grudges. When bedtime came, she could even talk to her sister, who was also lying on the bed, without getting tension in the air. They were making small talks, Ginny was observing her sister's face, with a strange feeling building up inside her. How come she never treats me that nicely like the way she treats that Mr. Snape?
By the way, who is Mr. Snape?
Words had burst out of her mouth before Ginny realized, "Who was that Mr. Snape? The one who taught you potions? You know it's kinda dangerous going to a stranger's house alone."
These words somehow lighted Aquamarine's fire unintentionally. She jolted up towards Ginny, dragged her up by the collar, "How did you know?"
How am I supposed to know exactly how did I know? Ginny was just about to complain, a new wave of memories came flowing into her. Aquamarine's personal clothing company, her own vault in Gringotts, the password of the vault, the location of the key… Ginny was shocked. She must look terrible, terrible enough to made her sister thought that she might accidentally murder her. Ginny was released.
Aquamarine calmed herself down in a few seconds.
"If you know you know, whatever. But-" she lay down, "don't meddle with my affairs."
Ginny nodded in compliance and curled up in her blanket.
She didn't care if karma comes. At that moment she was secretly delighted by the fact that Aquamarine might know everything single thing in the world, but there's one secret that truly belongs to Ginny, to her alone.
Hmph, I would definitely not care to meddle with your affairs. Whatever you want or get in the outside world, if you touch me again, some of these things you do behind our backs might just magically come to me.
