- Are you coming?

- Do you even know where to go?

He quickly took the front and started leading her. Severus' legs were much longer than hers so she had to make small runs to keep his pace. She was still pouting a little bit after his sarcastic retort.

Finally they arrived to her chambers Snape hesitated in front of her room and slowly turned around to look at her.

- Well are you gonna say something? Or let me pass. I didn't lie when I said I was tired and when I'm tired get cranky and you wouldn't want to see me like that…

Lara was giving him a tired look. She was thinking about the professor standing in front of her he looked to be older than she. He was clad in dark robes that made his pale face stand out. His greasy hair or his big nose didn't call her attention but what it really did, as cliché as it sounded, were his eyes. Even he had an impassive look in his face and his eyes for someone wasn't as perceptive as her and who hadn't looked into many eyes trying to decipher what they were hiding for many different reasons, they would have been emotionless but she could see a little bit through the shield he had put up. She saw a tormented soul and also saw raw emotion fighting to get out. His control over himself must be impressive, she thought, is one of the best I've ever seen. Even I can see very little through the cracks of his shield. He was also looking into her green eyes with a penetrating gaze trying to discover if she had any secret agenda or if she was a threat to the school. The first one to look away, for incredibly it sounds, was Snape.

-I thought you would like to know that sadly we will have to share bathroom seeing as our rooms are connected by it.

Hearing his voice snapped her out of her thoughts

-Oh well thank you

She answered. Even though she hadn't heard what he had said it seemed like the appropriate answer.

He moved out of the way letting her pass to get into her chambers and started walking to the next door. He was about to open the door when he heard someone shouting his name and turned around.

- Professor Snape! – said Lara with only her head poking out of the door- Goodnight!

Then she gave him a quick smile and a small wave with the hand and closed the door. Snape stood for a few good minutes standing in the middle of the hallway puzzled looking intensely Professor Rider's door. Finally he entered to his room. As he was preparing to go to bed, he heard a thump coming from the room next to his but he thought nothing of it.

He spent a long time awake lying in his bed before he finally fell asleep. Every time he closed his eyes he saw a pair of green eyes looking back at him but they weren't the ones he usually saw, no they weren't Lily's eyes, they were Rider's ones. The reason they kept popping into his head wasn't a romantic one, it was because he couldn't decipher the secrets hidden behind her eyes. When he looked at them, he couldn't see past the happy façade she had put on. She wore an impenetrable mask that even he couldn't break. There were very few people that he couldn't see through them or read them like an open book being Dumbledore one of them and now she was too. He could not unveil all the secrets hidden in her green eyes.

Unknown to him the thump he had heard wasn't something falling or anything like that. Lara had quickly brushed her teeth, changed into her pyjamas and as soon as her knees made contact with the soft mattress of the bed she fell asleep and fell that was the thump heard in the adjacent bedroom.

The next day, the Great Hall was being filled slowly by hungry students. Snape was already sitting in the teachers table, when the headmaster entered in the Hall with Lara. Lara was making circles around Dumbledore as he walked

-You know it's a good idea – said Sara.

- But we already have a choir

- I know I know, but these kids could use a little of knowledge about muggle music

-Yes but a lot of parents wouldn't agree

-Well then his kids wouldn't attend to this classes, make it optional

-I don't see the point in all of this

- This kids have no idea what the good music is!

- The ones who desire to know have signed up in the choir

-Yes but they are always the same old songs and you have to admit that the wizard music isn't of a great quality.

- There is good wizard music

-I know I take it back but c'mon let me have my fun…

And the discussion went on and on until Dumbledore had to leave because some urgent matters

- What do you think Professor Snape?

- About what?

- C'mon don't give me that look I know you've been listening to us like a great part of the students what do you think?

- Such a waste of time

- Why?

- Sirius black on the loose and you are teaching kids about music, what are they gonna do if they stumble into him? Sing him to death?

- You don't know the power of music even though they have nothing to fear- Snape's raised eyebrow made her continue- there are Dementors watching every entrance.

- And he hasn't escaped before under the watchful eye of these creatures?

- Well it was a small mistake

- That has freed one of the most dangerous Death Eater

- Well it was bad luck, I mean, it could have been anyone else

- Well it was nice talking to you but I must go

- To do what? You have nothing to do

- Oh well I think I'll visit the Forbidden Forest they told me it's lovely

- Are you crazy? A lot of dangerous creatures live there. It's called the FORBIDEN Forest for a reason

- But I'm not a student. I'm a full grown woman and I know how to take care of myself

- I not so sure about that

- The Dementors don't follow my orders just because my pretty face.

With that she started walking towards the door.

- Do you know the way?

- Umph! I'm sure it isn't difficult to find. Thank you.

She followed the hallway of the last night and when she found the junction from yesterday and decided to go through the other path because the other leaded to the dungeons. After some junctions, doors and stairs she was absolutely lost. She sat for a while on the ground. When some second year girls passed in front of her, she asked them how to get outside. They looked frightened but gave her the right directions. Finally she managed to get outside and got into the Forbidden Forest. She walked around the forest totally mesmerized by it and lost the track of time.

I just wanna say that I'm not a ¡n english speaker so it's possible that there are mistakes and I'm sorry for it. If you tell me where are they i'll try to correct them.