Disclaimer: Still don't own it. Please review! PLEASE! They make me happy. chapter 5 is in progress.
Sorry it took so long to update. My computer crashed. Now I have to do these things to make it work, as its loading when the first page opens I have to hit the space bar. I can't use my down arrow on my keyboard or it will go crazy with the scrolling. Fun huh? I know that they shouldn't be just getting out of class at 7:00 pm. but work with me okay? Please?
Tom slowly walked back to his dorm room. the halls were spinning in nauseating ways and he was pretty sure the floor wasn't supposed to move like that. The halls were dark and empty.
This is just the way Tom liked it. Alone to his thoughts with out anyone bugging him or asking him anything. The common room was empty when he arrived. He glanced around once at the ambers dimly glowing in the grate before going into his room.
He collapsed face down on his bed. Too tired to take off his clothes. Sleep immediately took him almost as soon as his head hit the pillow. It wasn't until 7:00 that he woke up. At first he was puzzled as to why it was dark out. Throught the enchanted window he could see a full moon.
Course being underground was why he needed a enchanted window in the first place. He slowly sat up. He was still wearing the clothes from yesterday. Only now they and his long hair was rumpled. Climbing out of bed he changed his clothes and made his way downstairs for his breakfast, which was in reality dinner.
He got to the corridor that led to the Great Hall just as the final class bell rang, and students poured out of class for dinner. Tom tensed when he saw professor Slughorn and professor Dumbledore heading his way.
They were talking and had not noticed him yet. Tom knew there was no point in trying to hide since they both knew he hadn't been in classes today. One of the teachers probably told Dumbledore. Sure enough, Dumbledore looked up and spotted him. He nodded a goodbye to professor Slughorn and came over to Tom with a stern look.
"And just were have you been all day Mr. Riddle?" he demanded. Tom looked down and muttered the answer. "What was that Mr. Riddle?" Tom looked up at him. "I was asleep." he looked back down."The whole day?" Dumbledore raised his eyebrows. Tom nodded. "I went to my room after I left your office, I went to bed, when I woke up it was 7:00.
Dumbledore didn't look like he believed entirely believed Tom. Finally he said. "I'm going to talk with the headmaster about this. Don't let it happen again or there will be consequences." With that he turned and left without waiting for a reply.
Tom reached up and pushed back some of his hair behind his hair, exposing three earrings. No one at school knew about them yet, as he usually kept his hair in that of them. He had gotten them in the end of the last summer. They were just silver hoops; he had two in his other ear.
He sighed and walked into the Great Hall. Most of the students were there, either sitting or finding a seat. He walked over and sat down at the end of the table. He looked up in time to see professor Dumbledore take a seat at the head table. He briefly looked gazes with Dumbledore.
Dumbledore raised a brow before turning to talk to the headmaster who looked up at him as well. 'Gee, I wonder what their talking about.' Tom thought sarcastically.
He turned his thoughts to the beer waiting, hidden, in his room. He had made sure to stack up before he left, and used magic to make more of it with a duplication spell. He could get totally wasted and forgot all his problems. He rather be upstairs doing that, then down here 'eating dinner.'
He sighed and picked at the food he had absent-mindedly put on his plate. He kept on picking at his food till the bell rang an hour later. He got up and made his way up to his room, grateful that he hadn't been called up to the headmaster's office.
He opened his wardrobe and opened a secret compartment in the bottom. He pulled out five beers and opened the first one. He drank it down in six swallows and reached for the next one.
One after the other he drank them down till he could barely stand, because he was so unsteady from the alcohol. He looked up surprised when he heard a knock on the door. He opened it to see both Slughorn and Dumbledore standing there.
"Can I help you?" Tom did his best to keep the slur out of his voice. Even in his drunken state he knew he would be in sooo much trouble if they found out he was drunk.
He kept the door mostly closed, trying to look like he wasn't hiding anything. "The headmaster want you to come up to his office. I'll be going with you." Dumbledore said calmly. Tom nodded and carefully slipped out of his room, and closing the door behind him.
He followed Dumbledore out, careful to act like nothing was wrong with him.