Chapter Nine
There's something weird about you…
A/N: gosh, I am so sorry I haven't updated in like almost two years! I was really busy (and I forgot my fanfiction password) I'll have the next chapter up before the fourth of July, I promise! And I changed this chapter a lot to make the next few make sense. :
Young girl don't cry
I'll be right here when your world starts to fall
Young girl it's alright
Your tears will dry and soon you'll be free to fly
When you're safe inside your room
You need to dream
Of a place where nothing's harder than it seems
No one ever wants to bother to explain
Of the heartaches life can bring and what it means
Christina Aguilera The Voice Within
"Nicole! Gosh, please wake up!" Selene jerked Nicole awake. "Harry and Ron are here! Pretend you are Ginny. I am so sorry but I have no time to explain. Bye, and remember to act like Ginny!"
Nicole sat up immediately. "Wait! How does Ginny act? What do I do?"
"Just, you know, act like you are mad at them because Ginny had an argument with Ron, so sorry. Bye!'' Selene replied franticly and rushed out of the room mumbling to herself.
Two boys entered the hospital wing and stopped in their tracks, one with dark hair and another with wild red hair that needed combing. Nicole guessed that they were Harry and Ron.
" Umm…" Nicole paused, not knowing what to say. " hi?"
" Ginny! Y-you dyed your hair!" Ron stuttered, not believing his eyes.
" Uh," Nicole's mind whirled frantically, should she say yes? Or should she deny it? Before she had time to speak, Ron opened his mouth again.
" And what happened to your nails?" He looked at her hand.
Nicole glanced down at her nails. They were a shimmery pink color with silver stars and moons. Her mom hired a professional manicurist to do it.
" What's wrong with them?" She demanded.
" Ginny, they are so fancy. How much did you spent on it?" Harry asked, incredulous.
" hmm…" Nicole thought. She remembered the cost was around 500 dollars. "like, 500."
" Galleons?" Ron's mouth dropped open. Nicole stared at him blankly. What the heck were Galleons? " Oh my god! Ginny, you could rent an apartment for 500 Galleons! Where did you get the money? Did you steal it?"
Nicole lost her temper then. " WHAT? Okay, okay, o-kay, lookie here. I don't know what your problem is but I happen to have enough money to, like, hire a manicurist because, like, my family is really wealthy. We can afford it! And $500 is worthless! You can't even buy a laptop! So don't get like, all uptight about it."
Ron looked surprised. " Um, Ginny? We come from the same family. And what's a dollar and a laptop?"
Nicole froze. Ron was Ginny's brother? Oops!
Harry whispered to Ron, " I think dollar is another way to say Galleons and a laptop is a type of clothing, you know lap top? Maybe you can wear it on your lap or something." A/N: I know that Harry comes from a Muggle place and he knows perfectly well what a laptop is, but this makes it funnier, don't you think?
"Oh, shut it Harry! There's something weird about you, Ginny, that is if you ARE Ginny," Ron said, frowning.
"Well, let's go see Dumbledore and ask him what's wrong with your sister," Harry suggested.
"No, I heard he left to handle some business with Muggles," Ron said and shot another dark look at Nicole before saying to Harry, "C'mon, let's go."
They left. Nicole's heart was beating very fast. Ron knows she's not Ginny. What had she said?
Ginny looked behind Cornelia. Her eyes widened in recognition.
"Professor Dumbledore?" Ginny gasped.
"I do not know of this, er, Dumbledore, you speak of," He looked down at her from his half-moon spectacles. "however, you shall address me as Maestro Bondadoso, your new Spanish instructor."
"But-" Ginny began to protest. What was going on? This old man standing in front of her was surely Professor Dumbledore.
"Now, now," Maestro Bondadoso. "Let's not spend our whole day standing around here talking. Come, come, let us proceed with our Spanish lesson."
Cornelia simply nodded and skipped into the chamber. Maestro Bondadoso gestured for Ginny to stay behind.
"Ginny," Maestro Bondadoso looked down at her sternly. Ginny gasped and he continued. "Yes, I know you are Ginny for I am indeed Albus Dumbledore. Now, I am not sure how you and Miss Nicole switched, er, places but I am going to try my best to help you ladies back to where you belong. But for the time being, I must ask you to pretend to be Nicole as much as possible, which means you must address Mrs. Monceau as your mother and Cornelia as your sister. And also,-"
"and also what, Professor?" Ginny asked expectantly.
"Do try to act like a muggle, for these people are supposedly witches and wizards but they chose to live as Muggles," Professor Dumbledore said gravely.
Nicole started blankly at the walls of the hospital wing. What was she doing here and why had she switched places with Ginny?
"Oh my god, Nicole!" Selene burst into the room, holding a piece of parchment in her hand. "oh gosh, you will never guess what I found!"
"What?" Nicole glanced at the parchment. "Looks like a letter to me."
"Wait till you read it!" Selene said excitedly. " It's the key to why you are here and who you are!"
Sorry about the cliffie. Gosh, I have like a weird obsession about cliffies! But don't worry, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW, and I'll post the next chapter real soon!
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