A/n: Hey guys! Sorry for the last chapter. I was tired when I wrote it sooo yeah. This one might be pretty darn random too because once again I'm listening to Mugglecast. Come on. You know you love it! So anyway, I'm gonna stop talking and start typing. :p
Chapter 14
8ishy I think
I still don't know where anyone is. It's kind of depressing seeing as I'm bored. But I have nothing to do because tomorrow's Saturday and I could just sleep then too. Merlinl, I'm good.
Okay, this is really getting on my nerves, I want to know where they are. GAH!
9
I found them. They were in the locker rooms. Go figure. Well, they weren't in the locker rooms when I found them. They were coming up to the Common Room. So, me being me, I asked. Yeah, I walked passed them.
"Katie," Angelina said. "We're going to Hogsmade tomorrow. Want to come?"
"Bloody hell, yes," I immediately jumped at the chance. I've been cooped up inside for like 3 days. Merlin, it gets boring after a while.
She laughed. "I thought you would. You've done nothing all day."
"So tomorrow let me know when you guys are going," I said to her. Merlin, I'm glad I can get out of this castle. I mean, yeah it's huge and all but I think I'm going insane. I can't stand another minute in here.
"Okay, I'm going to get Alicia because she takes too long to get ready. So I'm going to stone her to hurry up," Angelina explained.
"Ha, um right Ang," I said to her. She's one crazy pineapple. "I'll see you later then."
Angelina walked away. After a few seconds of looking around, I was attacked by three very, very sweaty boys. It is quite scary, especially when one isn't even on the Quidditch team.
"Gah! Fred, George, Lee!" I shouted, causing Harry and Oliver to look over from where they were talking. They kind of just shrugged at me and turned away. Honestly, why would they listen or turn their heads or whatever when I don't yell their name?
"Yes, Katie?" they asked politely. Oh Merlin. I had better run right now. Like now. RUN KATIE! RUN! Oh well I just see what they want.
"You can stop attacking me, you sweaty little leprechauns," I say to them.
"We're not that sweaty," George commented, wiping the sweat from his head on my hand. That's disgusting.
"Gah! Gross! George sweat!" I shout. It dripped off of my hand. Gah, that's really gross.
"It's not that bad," George said. I backed away.
"Do you have any idea how much you guys smell?" I asked them. I'm still baffled at why Lee smells horrible too….
"Not that bad," Fred said. Merlin, was he wrong.
"Why are you a sweaty pig too, Lee?" I asked Lee. I need to start making sense of this conversation before I die in the mass smell of this awful odor.
"Well, they needed someone to play a Chaser in the practice. Otherwise their plays wouldn't work," Lee said, smiling.
I walked up to Wood and smacked him in the back of the head. "Just replace me with Lee why don't you!" I yelled at him. Then I walked away.
I love making people's lives suck. I think that's what I'm here for. To cause chaos and mass destruction. Yeah, that has to be it.
"So anyway, guys," I said when I walked back to Fred, George, and Lee. "Why did I get attacked by you and your sweat again?"
"We have a plan," George said mischievously. Oh geez.
"And that would be?" I asked, not sure if I wanted to know the answer.
"We're going to find a boggart!" Fred said happily. Well, that's not as bad as the time they wanted to go find the giant squid so they threw me into the lake….
"Oh, okay," I said calmly. "When?"
"Now," the three said together.
"But… but you guys smell!" I complained. And they do. Really bad.
"We can fix that," Lee said. "Don't you have some of that smelly spray crap in your locker?"
I thought for a moment. I had extra clothes, deodorant, and hey! I have this peachy crap my mum bought for me! "Yeah," I said happily. "My mum bought me it a while ago. I stashed it in here."
"Toss it over," Fred said. I tossed it to him. He sprayed every single little inch of him. God, I think he smells worse now. Fred tossed it to George, who tossed it to Lee.
Great, now they all smell like demented peaches. It doesn't even smell like peaches. I think the people who designed this crap have a bad sense of smell.
"Merlin, guys, you smell even worse," I said. "It's like a mix of sweat and spray. Ew……."
We walked out of the locker rooms, me a couple steps to the side due to the smell.
"So where is this boggart you speak of?" I asked them after five minutes of walking. I wasn't even paying attention to where we were going. That's probably not the wisest thing to do when the twins are involved but oh well.
"In the forest," Lee said in a whisper. Why he was whispering, I may never know.
"Why's it in the forest?" I asked. "And how do you know its there?"
"A long story, my dear Katie, that I will someday tell you," George said, pushing some branches out of the way. "But not today."
We got pretty far into the forest by now. It was really thick so I stood in the middle of Fred, George, and Lee and, Merlin, they smell horrible. George was in front and Lee and Fred were by my sides. So I was surrounded by the smell of demented peaches.
"There it is," George yelled. I pushed his head to the side and saw a trunk. Nothing else but a trunk surrounded by trees. How lame was that. It could at least have like some creepy moon light shining on it. Oh, wait…. It does.
"Hey, look!" I pointed up to the sky. "It's a full moon. All the quacks are out tonight."
They laughed at me. I thought about what I just said. Wait… we're out tonight. Darn you brain!
"So who wants to go first?" George asked.
"LEE DOES!" I shouted, pushing Lee out into the moonlit circle thing. Well, what else could I call it? I mean really. It's a circle lit up by the moon. What a better thing then a 'moonlit circle thing'.
George muttered a spell and it opened the trunk. At first there was a poof of smoke and a box appeared around Lee. I see the walls of it shaking due to his pounding on them. George quickly muttered the counterspell and Lee was out of the box. Apparently, he was a claustrophobic.
"Who's next?" I asked. But I didn't have enough time to listen to the response because the twins pushed me into the moonlit circle. And into a puddle. A tossed your cookies puddle. I swear this thing is following me. One day I'm going to dry it.
Anyway, I could hear George mutter the spell to open the trunk and out came billions upon billions of little crawly bugs. Well, me being me, I screamed and jumped to the ground. I put my hands over my head and got in the fetal position. I could hear them snickering at me. It's not my fault I have this uncontrollable fear of bugs. Darn you little things with many legs.
George did the counterspell and the bugs poofed away. I got up, breathing rather heavily, and walked over the George. After hitting him rather hard on the shoulder, I pushed him out into the moonlit circle thing.
I muttered the spell under my breath and everything went silent. You couldn't hear anything. Not even your own thoughts. George is afraid of silence. Whoa, that is pretty scary. His fear kicks mines butt man.
I somehow undid the spell without talking and George walked back flinching and pale.
"You okay?" I asked him as he leaned up against a tree.
He was breathing deeply as he responded, "Yeah, yeah I'm fine."
I don't blame him by being freaked out. It is really creepy when you can't hear anything. Even the wind, or your heartbeat, or your own breath. And then you just want to scream but you can't let out a sound. I shivered.
"Okay," I said. "Good, because you're really pale."
"Who's last?" George asked, ignoring my comment. Eh, I'm used to it by now.
"That would be me, dear George," Fred said, stepping out into the moonlit circle thing.
I made Lee do the spell seeing as George was glued to a tree at the moment…. But not in the tree hugger way… in the whole 'I feel like I'm going to toss my cookies and I need to stay steady' way.
The trunk popped open and out popped…
Mrs. Weasley?
She appeared to be yelling at him. Fred's biggest fear was his mum. Well, how strange is that. I joined Lee in the laughter and George closed the trunk for his twin. Eh, at least Fred didn't have a heart-attack or something.
I was now leaning on Lee so that I could stay up. I'm not even afraid of my mum. Me. Katie Bell. Who's afraid of bugs! Merlin, that's great.
Fred walked back with a weak smile and said, "Well, how bout we get back up to the castle?"
We all laughed and agreed to go because being in the forest at ten at night is slightly unhinged. I mean, there could be werewolves.
So once again I was surrounded by the icky smelling peach boys as we walked through the forest. It's a good thing they know where we're going because I sure as hell have no idea.
Fred was humming some song, but not loudly enough that we didn't hear the twigs snapping to the left of us. I looked at Lee who shrugged his shoulders and then looked at Fred, hoping he'd be more help to me.
He didn't even notice. So I poked George. He gave me a 'we're almost there, don't worry' look and turned back around.
"Lee, what do you think it is?" I whispered to him. He's the only one who knew what I was talking about.
"I don't know. Should we stay back and check?" he asked. Is he crazy? We don't know what this thing is! It could be a centaur for all we know. Those things aren't very nice.
"Yeah," I whispered. "Sure."
We let Fred and George walk ahead of us a couple of steps and we both said, "Lumos," to light up our wands.
Lee moved a couple branches so we could get a good look at whatever was behind there. I pointed my want in there and said…
A rabbit?
"Merlin," I said to Lee, picking up the rabbit. "It's just a bunny."
Lee on the other hand looked horrified.
"Lee, what's wrong?" I asked him, confused. Why would he be afraid of a little rabbit?
"Katie," he said cautiously, taking a step back. "I don't think 'bunnies' are supposed to have blood stained fangs."
"What do you mean?" I asked. I looked down and saw that he was right. The bunny had two humongo teeth with blood all over them. I don't know that much biology but I think rabbits only eat plants. So I threw him (don't worry, he landed safely in a nice fluffy puddle) and me and Lee ran like there was no tomorrow.
Once we caught up to Fred and George we slowed down. I don't even think they realized we were gone.
I grabbed onto Fred's shoulder to keep my balance and Lee sat up against a tree.
"Evil rabbit," I managed to pant out. Hey, I'm not the best runner. So sue me.
"Big fangs," Lee panted as well. Apparently neither is he.
"GAH!" I shouted. Okay, that felt better.
"What are you talking about?" George asked, helping Lee up from his tree.
"We heard a twig thing snap," I started to explain. "But you two gits weren't listening. So we go to check it out…."
"And there was this evil rabbit," Lee said.
Merlin, that sounds pathetic. Very pathetic. Like pathetic to the extreme. So what if me and Lee are scared of a rabbit.
"Oh, we thought you just went off sno-" George started.
Fred elbowed him. I have a feeling I'm never going to know what they were about to say. But I think it has something to do with snorkeling.
Once we got back to the castle, we decided to make a pit stop into the staff room. No one would be in there so we thought we'd check it out, just because we can.
"Look at all this wine they have stashed in here!" Lee whispered happily.
"Forget the wine, look at the fire whiskey," Fred said with a bounce.
"How about some butterbeer instead, guys?" I asked, holding up four bottles.
"Yeah, sure," they all said. I know they're not stupid enough to drink that stuff. I know it.
"What do you thinks in here?" George asked, looking at the giant wardrobe.
"Clothes, maybe?" I said sarcastically. Merlin, George can be really thick sometimes.
George, being George, just had to open it to see what was inside because it couldn't be clothes. No. Never. Never clothes. That was just impossible.
So, he opened it. And guess what was inside. You got it. A boggart. But it didn't change into just one fear. We got it confused and it changed into a Mrs. Weasley, in a box with bugs around it, screaming, but you couldn't hear anything because it was silent.
Go figure, eh? So it was more funny then anything else. We all laughed (but you couldn't hear us because of the silence). Lee ended up closing the wardrobe and our laughter was now heard.
We walked out of the staff room and up to the common room, only to sit in front of the fire.
"So Fred," I said casually. "You're biggest fear is your mum?"
We all laughed. Well, Fred didn't laugh. He turned more of a red color down in his neck and said, "Well, you know, she is very scary once you get on her bad side."
That only caused more laughter. It's almost as funny as 'Weasley, Weasley'. Almost. That was just too funny. All they need now is Ron and it would be 'Weasley, Weasley, Weasley.' Or even Ginny too! Then there'd be four. One day I'm going to get the entire Weasley family and just call them Weasley one by one.
"I have to agree with you there, bro," George said. Aha, he called Fred 'bro'. I'm not going to get over that. "She is quite scary. Remember what happened when we gave Ron that acid pop?"
"Oh, yes," Fred said with a smile. "That old table will never be the same." The two sighed with happiness.
Lee and me glanced at each other and laughed.
"Well, I'm off to bed," I said to them. Hey, Hogsmade tomorrow. "I'll see you three tomorrow before Hogsmade."
We all said our goodbyes and I walked up to my room.
Saturday November 6th 7:30ish
Hey, today I go to Hogsmade. I just woke up by the way. Merlin, it's early. It's only like seven thirty. Why am I up so early? Merlin, I'm going back to bed.
A/n: Sorry for the shortness. It's only thirteen pages this time. I feel bad but I promised to get this chapter up today. Besides, Hogsmade will be too long for only five pages. So, you'll get it in the next chapter. If you want anything to happen, let me know. Leave it in a comment, email me, and throw bricks through my window with notes on them. Well, not that … But tell me somehow. Okay, well I'm off until the next chapter or whatever…
Snuffles
