Chapter 10

When school was over we all said bye and went our separate ways. I couldn't wait to get home, I wanted to practice with Madam Octa so much thats all I kept thinking about in class. Well when I arrived I yelled out a "I'm home and I'll be in my room studying!" As I ran up stairs to my room then locking my door.

I threw all my stuff on the bed and went to my closet to take out Madam Octa, as I did, I put her cage in the middle of the room and I sat beside her. I grabbed the tiny flute that was tied to the cage and started looking at it, it didn't look all professional, but I think I could play it. So first I practiced a little, then when I knew I had the hang of it, I started to play for Madam Octa. At first she didn't do anything, but when I played again she started to sway side to side. Then in my next commands I told her to take a little bow and she did do it, then I asked her to do a back flip and she did. After awhile of doing little tricks like that, I think I was finally able to communicate with Madam Octa, which I for one was pretty amazed I didn't know I could do it.

When I was about to do more tricks I heard a knock at my door. "Hilary is that you?" My mom said outside my door.

I pushed Madam Octa's cage under my bed then got up and went to unlock my door. "What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Were you just playing?" She said.

"Oh you mean the music? Yeah that was me, sorry am I being loud?" I told her.

"Oh no it's just...I thought you said you were never going to play an instrument ever in your life." She said.

"Oh mom, thats when I was little. I changed my mind. Besides I kind of found this in the street and picked it up and yeah I wanted to give it a try." I said while doing hand movements.

"Oh Hilary that's gross! I hope you cleaned it really good you don't know where thats been honey." She said.

"Yeah I know I did, I washed it really good then I washed it with alcohol so yeah it's squeaky clean." I told her.

"Oh okay, well me and Bloom are going to the store would you like anything or would you like to go?" My mom asked.

"Um...no thanks, but could you get me some Hot Cheetos and Lucus." I said.

"Yeah, okay sure we'll be back in a few." My mom said.

When she left, I rushed out to the garden with my jar to get some bugs for Madam Octa. After I did that I went back up staris to do something crazy LIKE maybe taking Madam Octa out of her cage. When I was back in my room I was practicing the flute, when I was so sure I wasn't so nervous, I decided that I was ready to take out Madam Octa.

As I stood up with the flute ready at my lips, I reached for her cage and unlocked it, then I began to play. At first she just stood in the middle of her cage looking at me with her beady little eyes, but then she started to sway side to side. As I commanded her to step out of her cage she did, then when I had her in control she started to do tricks and such. I let her crawl over my body and all and jump from me to my bed, but then this is were I just had to call it quits!

When I was making her jump back on me from my bed I kind of lost focus and she went crazy on me! Her beady little eyes were locked on me and came at me with her little fangs out, but I swatted her to the side and just as she was going to lunge again I had the time to refocus and made her stop then I commanded her to go back in her cage.

*sigh*(Man that was close! I thought I was a goner for sure.)

After my freak out, I decided to put up Madam Octa, but first I fed her. When I did that I decided to go down stairs and watch some T.V. When I sat down I turned on the T.V and changed it to Cartoon Network and Ben 10 Alien Force was on so I watched it. By the time it was over my mom and sister were home with groceries in hand. I asked if they needed help, but they said no so instead I continued to watch my show.

Later that night my dad got home went to change and came down for dinner. When we were all done eating I washed dishes, dried them, and put them up. Then I told my family good night and went to go take a shower I was to lazy to take one in the morning. Then I went to my room and put on my red silk pjs and went straight to bed.