Weltschmerz

Chapter 4

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Everything was happening so fast yet so slow. One second she was verbally fighting with the Kordei girl and the next Camila was attacking her.  All Lauren could do was watch, as Camila pulled a raging Normani back by her jersey, before the girls eyes rolled into the back of her head and her wand produced a greenish spark.

The brunette fainted, falling backwards, but the steady stream of green smoke kept coming out of the tip of her wand, creating some sort of green smoke that formed into the image of a snake. The snake like smoke grew, stretching its snake like head, before moving in an wavy motion swiftly towards her. It didn't stop for Lauren as it opened its mouth wide, bared its fangs and swallowing her in one bite.

Lauren was rooted to the spot, unmoving and wide eyed she watched as the snake exploded around her into a green cloud of smoke, that pushed the people close to her backwards.

Goosebumps was running down her arms as she felt every eye on her. She released a shaky breath, also taking a step back, glancing at Dinah who was staring back at her in half confusion and half fright. She awkwardly ran her hand through her hair, looking back at the girl who had cast the spell who was now laying back on the ground unconscious, before glancing at the dark skinned girl next to her, who looked as shocked as the rest of the students around them.

The only difference between her and every other student present was that Lauren knew the meaning of the spell and the meaning of it not effecting her... but amongst everybody else she wished she wouldn't, wished she could purge it from her brain. She swallowed hard, as she looked around at the students staring at her open mouthed and wide eyed. She risked one last glance at Camila, before literally taking off in a run.

Lauren was sure that Dinah had called after her but with her heartbeat drumming in her ears she couldn't be sure. She felt dizzy and her hands were shacking she wanted to vomit. She had known it... the moment her eyes had meet the girls brown ones... she had known. Her eyes were burning with unshed tears as she made her way into the Griffindor common-room. She had hoped everything had just been some sick joke, lies told to better control her... to put her down. That prophecy that 'thing' had told her was coming true and there was nothing she could do.

She wanted to call her mother or maybe even go to Professor McGonagall, but she felt ashamed. What would they think? Or worse, what would they do? Her mother would probably lock her up in St. Mungo's or something.

With shaking hands she reached out for the brown potion hidden deep in the confines of the chest at the end of her bed and finished it in one quick gulp.

For the next two weeks Lauren was desperately avoiding any questions regarding Camila and the girl herself, not that Camila had made any advances on her, even though Lauren had almost expected it.

It wasn't hard to avoid the girl, since everyone seemed to cower away from her in fear again. She had everybody convinced now that she was a follower, if not more to You-know-who. She was the daughter of the executioners herself and after what the first years all had witnessed and the information that was told, had spread like herpes, the information got more ridiculous the more Lauren heard about it, but the essence of it was never lost amongst translation. Camila was worse than a deatheater, she was a Cabello after all.

The students in the Griffindor common-room were the worst. They were already discussing how Camila would kill every one in the castle one night when everyone was sleeping and made her out to be a real monster, scaring even more of the students.

Even though everybody seemed to be afraid of the girl again, that Normani chick still stuck to her side. Every meal they shared she found the girls angry eyes on her and Lauren could only imagine what she was thinking. Even Dinah was noticing and it was thankfully the only think she cared about talking to Lauren about.  The raven haired girl had been convinced that Dinah would grill her about the spell and the meaning of it, going over 100 possible meanings, yet the only thing that seemed to leave Dinah Jane baffled was the fact that Kordei was still sticking to Cabellos side.