Bound

Chapter 4

5th year at Hogwarts

Cassie's POV:

"Cassie! Come on, wake up!" Pansy Parkinson annoyed me like bloody hell. Since I was not going to open my eyes, she poured a wand full of water on my face. I immediately sat up and bonked my head on the top of the bed.

"What the f*** Pansy? I was bloody asleep"

"Are you mental?! Did you f***ing forget about your detention? Cassie it's 4:30, you are going to be late!" Oh my God she annoyed me so much. If she hadn't reminded me I could have truthfully told Umbridge that I fell asleep. UGH!

I happily pushed Pansy off of my bed and tiredly slipped on my slippers. I went to the bathroom to button up my robes and add some highlight to my nose and water line. Who am I kidding, I don't need to impress a teacher, but what if I see... its okay, i'll just keep it on. I splashed my face with water and applied a dark nude colored lip stick, as I stared at my ugly self in the mirror.

Why did I look like this? Ginny and Luna and Hermione are all so beautiful, why did I have to be so ugly? Was it my punishment for being put in Slytherin? Just because I was put in Slytherin doesn't mean I have to look so tired and angry all of the time. The life less bags under my olive green eyes just reminded me of the sleep less nights, and non-stop worries.

Before I could begin tearing up Pansy started knocking at the door telling me that I was going to be late. I almost grabbed my wand and broke her bloody arm for goodness sake, but I refrained, and kept it hidden in my robe pocket. I opened the door and told her to f*** off, before I started down the girls dormitory stairs.

Blaise Zabini, Gregory Goyle, and Theodore Nott were goofing off on the couch so I just gave them a quick glare before heading out of the Slytherin common room. I could feel their gaze following me out the door but I didn't give them the satisfaction of looking back.

I found Umbridge's office pretty quickly and as soon as I entered, I immediately wanted to turn back. I would rather hang out with a bunch of nasty Slytherins than stay here but before I could run away I heard a high pitched clearing of a throat and I took a seat in the middle of the cat filled, pink room.

"Um, excuse me, Ms. Umbridge, what will I be doing for detention today?" I asked politely and to my delight, she told me that I'd just be writing some lines, until the message began to.. sink in. I asked her what I'd be writing and she replied in a high pitched "I will not interrupt." I responded with a simple "okay" before I picked up my black quill and began to write. Soon after she realized what quill I had been using, she traded it out with one of her own quills, which I thought peculiar. I started on the first word but soon after I realized I wasn't using ink, my left hand began to hurt tremendously. I looked down at it and gasped at what was happening. Etched in my sensitive skin were the words "I will not interrupt." All of this for spitting a spitball at her?! I stood up, pushed the chair towards the desk, and headed towards the door.

"You're mental, woman, surely you know that. Either way the pen definitely sunk into my skin so I guess we are done here". I practically screamed at her. I screamed at a minister afficient, how could I be so stupid!

To my surprise she just smiled at me and said, "5 points from Slytherin'' and closed her door in front of my face. Flustered, I left the corridor and found my way to the Slytherin dorms.

"Pure- Blood" the Slytherin common room door opened on my demand and I majestically stepped inside. Still confused about what had happened with Umbridge, I mindlessly sat down right next to Zabini on the couch.

"Well hello there Cass the bass" "Adam the Madam"  "Cassie the fatie"

First went Nott, then Goyle, and finally Zabini.

"That's the best you could come up with?" I snapped back at them and motioned to get up and leave but before I could finally get away from those brats, Zabini slapped my a**.

"Like I said, Cassie the fatie" I wanted to strangle Zabini so much, UGH!

I could still hear their nasty snickers long after I had left the common room for the girls' dormitories.

Pansy was very loudly gossiping with Millicent Bulstrode on her side of the dorm and it took everything I had in me not to throw the both of them out the window.

I sat down at my desk and wrote a quick letter to my mum about the detention and sent it off with my owl, Hina. I knew she wouldn't respond or even read it, because she hasn't responded to any of my letters in 5 years. I still live with my family, but they all seem distant from me, like none of them trust me anymore. I even still have nightmares about that horrid night, the day before my first year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. The night that made my moms perfect life plan for me go up in flames.