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Harry's POV
"Master?"
I hear no response from the other side of the closed door. I knock on the door until I hear a noise. The door opens and Master is there and he doesn't look happy. I wonder what he would look like if he was happy, I've never seen him happy, his mouth is always a frown or a line.
"Harry, your back sooner than I had expected, I was actually on my way my way downstairs for a drink, I sorely need one."
"Would you like me to get it for you Master,?" I ask, trying to get him to smile.
"No thank you Harry, the other staff members wouldn't be pleased to see someone your age carrying around this sort of drink. Just come in, sit down and wait for me to return. Don't touch anything either, many of these objects aren't safe for you."
I want to ask him what drink that is and what objects not to touch but If I want him to be happy it would be best just to obey. I walk past him into the room, sit down on the ground next to his bed and wait for a response.
"Good, now just stay there until I return I'll be back shortly," he tells me before leaving the room and shutting the door with a click.
Every second in silence goes on forever but when I check the clock it says it's only been five minutes. I crawl under Master's bed in search for something to do. I feel many strange things but I close my hands around a small ball. When I drop it on the ground it bounces up and lands back in my hand. Why would something as awesome as this be kept under Master's bed?
I decide to test this ball by seeing how high it can go. The harder I throw it, the higher it's goes and it doesn't just bounce off the floor, it can bounce off the ceiling too! After many good throws, one goes wrong. It doesn't always go up and down, as I can see when it bounces off the ground and flies onto one of Master's cabinets. Even if I ran as fast as I could I would not have been able to stop the glass containers from hitting the floor.
I see now that everyone one of the glasses had a liquid in them. The floor is like a rainbow now, that is, if rainbows made a sizzle noise. I look to where the noise is coming from and see that the spot where the blue liquid landed starts to fall away until there is a huge hole in the ground.
I go into Master's closet and get out all of his robes, deciding to use them to wipe up the mess on the ground. This works for most of the colors but the red one doesn't want to be cleaned up. When I hear the sound of fire crackling I jump back not wanting to get burned. Within the count of five the robe catches on fire and makes the ceiling spray water everywhere. The fire is almost out but I still get the shoe box near Master's bed and to take it to the bathroom to fill it with water. The box doesn't hold much but when the water hits the fire the last of crackling stops. Soon after the water stops spraying and I use the rest of the robes to try to cover up the hole and the major wet spots. I go back to my spot by the bed and sit down, hoping to make this better.
What seems like a life time later I hear the door open and see Master walk in. With one glance around the room his face goes from calm to shocked within seconds making me feel worse about what I have done.
"What happened in here,!" His yelling instantly makes me cower I try to explain myself but the words don't form.
I watch him as he walks over to go pick up his clothes, cringing when he picks up the robe that is hiding the hole. When he sees the hole his mouth almost drops open at what is before him.
"What is the meaning of this you brat! I leave you alone for a half hour and you completely destroy my room, explain yourself!"
After another failed attempt to speak I give him the little bouncing ball as my response. He twirls it around in his hand while glaring down at me.
"THIS is the reason why my room is flooded and why there is a hole in my floor,?"
"Yes Master," I reply in my quietest voice.
"Didn't I tell you not to touch anything or wasn't that worth listening to?"
"I heard you Master, I just didn't obey." I look down at my lap, unable to look him in the eyes.
"Did you know that some of these potions could have killed you? Not to get into the fact that they are hard to make and very expensive to buy."
I shake my head at this, they just looked like colored water to me.
"I'm sorry Master," I say as if this will make all the problems go away.
"I don't want your pathetic apologies! I thought I was going to have a relaxing night but of course that wouldn't happen, that would be too perfect!"
When he walks to me I cower, ready for his hand to smack my face. Instead he grabs my collar and takes me from the room, tying me to a post outside the bedroom door.
"You've done enough for one night, I'll come for you in the morning," he says in a stern voice , overflowing with disappointment. The door shuts behind him and the lights go off as well, leaving me alone in the dark with the grief of an all but happy Master steps behind me.
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