Unexpected

Chapter 5

I was laying on the ground. Underneath myself I felt moss and leaves. I opened my eyes and found myself in an eerie forest. It was dark and cold. The wind was rustling through the leaves above my head. I was wearing a T-shirt and immediately began to shiver after a new breeze of cold air was coming out of the woods that felt like an autumn breeze.

How had I gotten here? Where am I? What am I doing here? Had Amanda Slughorn brought me here? How?

I started shivering more, because by now I was frozen to the bone.

As I sat up and looked around, I realized that the forest looked familiar. I've been here before, I thought. In my dream. It was the exact clearing where the four animals and Amanda Slughorn appeared.

„Okay, don't panic. Just don't panic. I definitely must have fainted and this is just another hallucination." I tried to calm down, but I failed.

It was probably night, because the forest was dark and I could hardly see anything. I was still sitting there and tried to make out where I was, when I suddenly heard a rustling and voices in some distance behind the trees.

I startled and got up quickly. Too quickly, because I got a little dizzy. I looked around with my heart pounding in my chest, desperately trying to find a spot to hide while holding onto a tree to get my balace back.

The voices fell silent and the rustling also stopped. I thought I had imagined the voices and that they weren't real, but suddenly two figures jumped into the clearing.

The two people had drawn out something out of nowhere and were holding it in their hands while they were pointing it at me. "What the hell?" I thought and realized they were pointing their wands at me. I was too stunned to speak so I just stared at them. Both of them wore black robes, had bright red hair and were tall.

"Lumos!" they both shouted at the same time and the tips of their wands began to shine.

They stood there, looked at me and looked at each other, then they lowered their wands and looked at me again. One of them opened and closed his mouth speechlessly, as if he wanted to say something. Obviously he was too stunned to speak as well.

"Who are you?" they asked together.

„Who are you?!" My voice sounded a little higher than usual.

Both started to grin. „Well, If you don't know us, you really weren't paying attention and were walking blindly through Hogwarts."

What?  

I was still too bewildered so I just stared at them blankly.

„You know, the school you're going to." said the one redhead in confusion noticing my expression.

That didn't make sense at all. Why should my hallucinations take place in the wizarding world? Did I fall too hard on my head? I couldn't remember falling, only that Amanda Slughorn had put a feather in my hand. I looked down at myself and saw the feather in my hand.

"But who are you guys?" I asked, shivering from the cold. I assumed it was the cold.

The two persons - I couldn't really recognize their faces - looked at me with a sceptical look.

"We are Fred and George Weasley. This is George and I am Fred, Nice too meet you here in the forest." said the other redhead with a wide grin on his face.

"What are you doing here in the woods anyway?" the other twin, George, asked me.

But I didn't respond but called: "Fred and George?! You must be kidding me! They don't even exist!"

"We're not. And yes they do exist. They stand right in front of you." said both again as if from one mouth.

I shivered more, because it got colder each minute that passed. I started to hop from one leg to the other because of the freezing air. It felt as if in the past few minutes the temperature has fallen rapidly.

"Why are you here in the Forbidden Forest? We have detention, I don't think you look like you have detention as well." stated George while looking down at my T-Shirt and my jeans.

"I'm actually asking myself the same question." I said honestly.

"Here, take that." Fred took off his robe and handed it over to me. "It's way better than walking outside with a T-Shirt."

"How can you walk around wearing a T-Shirt? It's bloody October!" George shook his head.

"Oc-October?" I asked, chattering my teeth. It had only just been June, hadn't it? Was I actually in coma and it's been already four months?

"I am Cassie by the way. Cassie Jones." I answered their question late.

"Hm, weird. Your Name, your voice and your face doesn't look familiar to me, do they George?" Fred asked his brother.

"Nope. What year are you?" George asked me.

"Y-Year?"

They looked at each other again, frowning.

"Did you fell and hit your head a little too hard? Or did you sleepwalk?" George - I assumed it was him - asked me.

"Come on. No matter what has happened, you should come with us instead of staying here in the Forbidden Forest all alone." Fred glanced at his brother. "Yeah, we're gonna take you to the Castle and to Dumbledore." Said George shrugging his shoulders and Fred took my arm and pulled me forward.

"Castle? D-Dumbledore?" I brought out with chattering teeth.

Both looked at me again in a weird way, as if they didn't quite know whether everything was okay with me or not. Or if I really had fallen too hard on my head.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Fred asked me.

"Great Freddie, that really comes to your mind very early to ask that. " said George sarcastically.

"I asked after all!" Fred interjected outraged.

I just shook my head in confusion and together we started to make our way out of the forbidden forest. George was walking on my left side holding my arm gently, Fred was walking on my right side holding my other arm carefully as if they were both scared that I would fall again.