Chapter 11

Astronomy Tower Escape

"Arghhhh!" Jake screamed lying on the floor of the astronomy tower.

"Jake what's wrong!" melanie squealed helping him up. "Are you okay, you just

fell down during our picnic. Do you have a bad headache or something."

" What, what are you talking about Melanie the meteor..." he began but didnt

finish. Jake looked around the room and saw no meteor, no dead girlfriend, just

Melanie staring at him and their picnic blanket all wrinkled from his apparent

fall.

"What meteor?" melanie asked him with a large tone of confusion. But before

he could answer her with something to change the subject they heard someone

coming up the stairs.

"cmon peeves I defenetly heard someone up here" it was undoubtedly Filtch.

"Quick under the cloak! Grab the basket I got the blanket!" Jake told melanie

in a hushed whisper.

They quickly packed up their things and went to the side of the room.

Filtch and peeves walk into the astronomy tower looking suspicious.

"Theyve got to be up here somewhere. Look peeves footprints!" Filtch noticed

"Little nasties won't be getting nowhere tonight. Hehehe."peeves responded in

a very crude way.

"O shit we forgot our footprints in the snow." Jake thought "LeaVe ThiS

PlaCe!" Jake tried his best imitation of the bloody baron.

"Run peeves! Its the baron!" Filtch said in a fright.

"O cmon Filtch I know the baron and one that's not his voice and two he

doesn't haunt the astronomy tower he haunts the dungeons!" peeves said

matter-o-factly.

"RUN!" Jake yelled and his footsteps and melanies tracked right towards the

steps of the astronomy tower. Peeves and Filtch tried to follow but with

Filtch's "advanced" age he couldn't keep up plus no more snow indoors meant no

more footsteps. They ran back to the common room and finally ripped off the

cloak in the empty common room with only a few ember still burning in the

fireplace.

"Phew. That was fun!" Jake exclaimed.

"Don't get too happy I still want to know what your hiding from me and what

this meteor thing was. Now start explaining!" Melanie wasn't gonna give up on

this.

"Listen it's been a long night cant we just talk about this tomorrow." Jake

asked desperatly.

He could see the displeasure in her face but he knew she was exhausted. "Fine

you big baby, but first thing tomorrow I wanna know the truth of what's been

going on with you, now go to bed!" they separated without a kiss and went to

sleep. All Jake could think about was the meteor for over an hour before he

finally drifted off to sleep.