Chapter 12
Disclaimer: As you all know, Harry Potter is not my idea...which is a shame really. The only characters/things I have introduced are Trinity Narcia, Kristi Lazuli, Aurora Moonstone, Joel, The Mummy and George. Though, I doubt that some of you will ever see this! However, if by some chance certain people mentioned above do stumble upon this text, of the Three teenage girls on the dig (2003), I am the small blonde one with the glasses. And I think that you are all damn cute!!!!
Tom opened the door. Hovering in the doorway was a large owl, wearing sunglasses and a bandanna. It was carrying a letter, addressed to OB. Tom alleviated the owl of its load and went inside putting the envelope on the table top. The owl followed, resting on top of the Cupboards. The dormitory door opened, and OB emerged and flopped down onto the sofa. His hair was wet.
"What the hell have you been doing?" Tom said, raising an eyebrow.
"Me? Oh, I've just used your shower...mines busted. Aura said I could"
"Oh right...there's a letter for you over here."
OB stood up and shuffled into the kitchen. He caught sight of the owl on the cupboard and raised an eyebrow. Tom threw the envelope at him. He caught it, and sat back down on the stool.
"Oh....it's from Johnny"
"Ooh. What's it say?" Aurora's voice drifted across from the sofa.
"Not a lot...I think that he's talking about another sortie to Isla de Muerta...and something about Rum. He says hi to everybody, and sorry for setting your friend on fire at the barbecue."
Everybody laughed, fondly remembering the End of Site barbecue last August.
"So, what are we doing about eating tonight then?" OB asked as he accioed a bunch of menu's from the shelf.
"I'm not entirely sure. I think that we're having Pizza again tonight" Tom replied, appearing to be more focused on what was going on beneath the Dresser in the corner.
OB turned and stared at him. "What are you doing?"
"Me? Lucifer has escaped again!"
"Lucifer!?!"
"Yeah, Danny's rat- he's always escaping from his tank"
"Oh My God! a Rat?" Krysti shouted jumping onto the sofa.
Tom and Aurora laughed, "Yeah...he's bin on the windowsill for the past 3 days, we're looking after him. Didn't you notice?"
"nope"
"GOTCHA!" Tom yelled triumphantly, as a squeak emitted from the corner. Picking the rat up, he carried it over to where Krysti was standing. "Look, he ain't gonna hurt you...he's rather placid...look at his little eyes."
"For God's sake man, it's a rat! You know I hate the bloody animals."
"Oh Well...he's going back tomorrow- Danny gets back from Rome, or wherever it is he's gone"
The next day, Danny arrived to collect Lucifer. As a result, Krysti was now a lot more mobile, her phobia of rats having hindered her movements somewhat. It was now mid December, and a thick blanket of snow covered the castle grounds. Christmas and Yule were fast approaching, and everybody was getting into the festive spirit. Because it was the final year in which the gang would actually be at the school, there was to be a Ball on Christmas Eve, the idea of which was to represent a Prom. As a result, the opportunity for a shopping spree arose.
The next Hogsmeade Weekend was conveniently organised for the next week, so the gang took the opportunity to split up and go shopping for informal robes, and also to do a little bit of Christmas shopping.
Saturday soon arrived, and the gang arose early in order to do the maximum amount of shopping. They split up into 2 groups- boys and girls.
The girls headed straight for Madame Malkins Robery, where they indulged in some serious retail therapy. They disappeared into the changing rooms to try on some dresses. Trin emerged first wearing a Black, Gothic Dress, and had somehow dyed her hair to match- jet black with flame red streaks. Krysti followed her in a Midnight Blue Dress with tiny silver stars embroidered on the bodice. Finally Aurora appeared, dressed in a Blood Red strapless dress. Her hair was now significantly longer, and redder, but it was still braided. Paying for their robes, they left the shop and headed to the Coffee Shop in the high street to meet the boys for lunch. The boys, as usual were late. By the looks of it, they had already bought some suitable clothing for the Ball, and in addition, plenty more. After lunch, the group split up once more and went their separate ways. By 6 o'clock, the gang was back at the castle, having done all their Christmas Shopping. It was literally the first time that Aurora and Tom had spent the day apart, so for a while, they were literally stuck together, much to the disgust of the others, who were moaning at them.
"Get a room you two" Krysti shouted, rolling her eyes.
Aurora turned round and laughed as Tom stood up and they headed towards the dorm.
"On second thoughts, don't...you haven't forgotten the other week have you?"
Aurora and Tom blushed a deep shade of crimson and sat back down. This time, they just sat hugging and poking each other. Laughing nervously, they looked at a book they had found in a junk shop a few weeks previously. It appeared to be about Dragons, a favourite subject of everybody. It was Tom's dream to have a pet dragon, but because it was illegal, he decided just to have paintings of dragons instead, so he spent much of his time drawing dragons instead.
2 weeks later, it was the last day of term, and the gang found themselves wandering around the castle grounds having a snowball fight, with only a few hours to go until the Ball began. The younger students and those choosing not to remain at the school had already left, and out of Slytherin House, only members of the gang remained, as did OB, choosing not to go home for the holidays, but instead promising the gang that they would have a new years eve party to remember...
At 8 o'clock, the girls made their way down to the main hall, wearing their new dresses, ready to meet the boys. They weren't disappointed. Inside, Dumbledore, who, it had to be said, had great taste in music, had somehow hired Good Charlotte for the night. How they hell Good Charlotte had been persuaded to play at the school, nobody was sure. They were also unsure what a Muggle Band were doing at their school. By the looks of it, the last question was being thought by the band too. After they had finished playing, they were left to wander the hall, and join the festivities. At their table, the gang noticed that the group were looking totally confused. In fact, the entire band was huddled together, watching the Townie members of the year dancing to their Townie Music, with a look of disgust in their eyes. In the whole of the year, in addition to the gang, there were only 6 other Punks/Greebs. They were Ben, Phil, Bradley, Jess, Emma and Dan. All of whom were seated on the next table.
"They're looking pretty freaked out...reckon we all should go and talk to them?" Krys whispered to Aurora and Tom. Tom, especially was extremely, 'Punked Up' for the occasion, his hair tonight was Flame Red Spikes, and he was sporting yet more piercings. In his lip, he now had 2 rings and a stud- one in the centre, and one in each corner. Everybody nodded and they stood up and made their way over to the corner where the Band stood talking amongst themselves.
"Erm, excuse me.my name's Krysti..we just wanted to say that we thought your show was great back there!"
The real Joel turned round, "Oh my god! You're the kids from the Edinburgh Festival last summer! What are you doing here?!"
"Oh, this is our school" Draco explained. Behind him, Aurora, Tom, Trin, Pete, Joel, George and McD were staring goggle eyed at the band.
Benji turned round, seemingly interested by the fact there were 14 kids who enjoyed the show, and even more, seemed to be Punks also. He caught sight of Tom's piercings "Dude, I like your piercings!"
"Erm, thanksss " Tom mumbled blushing. Since the two side rings had been added, he had developed a lisp again.
"Ah, you've got a lisp.is that 'cause of your lip?"
"Yep"
"Ah man, don't worry 'bout it, it soon goes" He said. This attempt to reassure Tom failed miserably, owing to the fact that Benji had one hell of a lisp himself.
Everybody laughed. In the background, Paul and Billy stood nervously, eyeing the townies with suspicion. Pansy Parkinson shouted something toward the group. Malfoy heard and made a rude hand gesture. By the looks of things, the Band had heard also. Benji was grinning madly and shouting insults back at the townies, accompanied by the others. GC Joel saw what was going on and rolled his eyes, "Man, not again.they're always doing this" he said, referring to his bandmates making flippant hand gestures towards the townies.
"Maybe you should tell them to stop.there's 19 of us including you guys, and there's 107 of them.they start a fight, we'll be mincemeat." Aurora said nervously, casting her mind back to previous engagements between the townies and the Greebs. If she could remember rightly, Tom had come off worse when he'd got involved.
"Yeah.Guys, you should stop it, they'll try and start a fight!" Joel warned the others.
"Man! We're starting to have fun" Benji yelled back to him, whilst cracking his knuckles in a menacing manner.
"Benj.you said you wouldn't fight them no more, not after last time"
"Last time, I wasn't provoked!" Benji snarled.
All of a sudden, a eerie quiet descended upon that corner of the room, the only sound was, "Oit.wannabes!"
Benji turned round and glared at the townie who had been throwing the most insults. "What was that?"
"I said, Oit Wannabes" The boy replied.
Benji looked at him. He was about 5'11", skinny.too skinny.and he looked like a Neanderthal .he could take him on. He looked at Joel who shook his head. He was always too sensible. Then he looked at Billy, Paul and Chris, who first looked to see Joel couldn't see before egging them on. Benji laughed.
"So townie..what's the problem?" He shouted smiling innocently
"Well.you're a total wannabe! You got all the tats n the metal.you trying to prove something?"
"Erm, no.I think they're gnarlie.anyway, what are you trying to prove?"
"I ain't got nothing to prove mate. You ain't punk you know.you're just another wannabe!"
"Watch what you say you little townie" Benji retorted glaring.
"You starting on me or summat?" the boy said. Aurora and the others recognised him to be Marcus Flint, who, so much like a Neanderthal, had to be held back 3 years. She rolled her eyes, as did the others and GC Joel..
"now that would be fun, wouldn't it!" Benji said in a voice tinged with sarcasm. As he spoke, he removed his beanie and passed it to his brother, who grabbed him.
"Benj, for God's sake, don't do anything stupid.do you want to be banned from Britain as well?"
"Nope" came the reply. Benji removed his hoodie to reveal a muscle top, which showed off his tattoos, placed his guitar carefully on the corner of the stage, and surveyed Flint. Flint too was staring malevolently at Benji, 'warming up'. "Come on then wannabe!"
"Right, that's it!" Benji moved forward towards Flint, cornering him before headbutting him violently.
"Jesus!" A gasp went round the assembled crowd.
"Holy Crap!" Joel shook his head sadly, "He's always doing stuff like that.that's why we're banned from Asia and most of Europe!"
Aurora nodded, "Why can't you stop him?"
"Because, there is nobody mad enough to try it.hang on.the others are gonna try and stop him"
Aurora turned round to see that Billy, Paul and Chris were running towards Benji, and trying to restrain him. In the process of doing so, they dodged the fists of an angry mob of drunken Townies. Giving up on keeping the peace, they went for them, and so started off a mass brawl. Meanwhile, Joel just sat with the others drinking Rum. The teachers had made the rather foolish mistake of leaving the Students to enjoy themselves, stupidly believing that they were responsible. As a result, pandemonium broke out in the great hall.
Suddenly, out of Nowhere, OB jumped out from behind the curtains.
"Oh My God!! You're Orlando Bloom!!!" Joel yelled excitedly
OB laughed, "Unfortunately I am.what the hell is going on in here?"
"Well, Flint insulted Benji, so Benji told him to lay off, but he wouldn't, so Benji nutted him, and then Flint's mates started on him too, so Billy, Chris and Paul tried to pull him off of Benji, but the Townies hit them too, so they said 'Fuck It' and joined in."
"Right.well, if you get the Townies off them, we can sort things out then?" OB replied, stifling a laugh.
After 10 minutes, the fighting ceased, and the crowds dispersed. In the corner, Benji was sitting, trying to stop a nosebleed, whilst the others were searching for various parts of their body jewellery. In another corner, Flint was unconscious, having taken a beating from Benji. OB helped the others up.
"Oh God! You're that guy from Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings aren't you!" Billy shouted when his vision had returned to normal, "I'm like, your biggest fan!"
"Dear Lord" OB muttered under his breath, "Yes I am.I like what you're doing with your music. and the heavy eyeliner really works!"
Billy looked at himself in a mirror, "Hey! That's a black eye.one of them little runts thumped me!"
Benji and the others stood there, still laughing. Joel also reappeared, carrying a medical kit. "Man, you're uncontrollable.you'll fight anybody wouldn't you!?"
Benji grinned widely, "Hell Yeah.anybody.except you.and him.and them kids over there- they're decent!"
Everybody laughed.
"so, how long are you over here for?" OB asked Joel, picking up a bottle of Rum
"We're meant to be going home next week, but I think this country rules, so we're staying on for a while."
"We're having a New Years Eve party up in their Dorm" OB said, pointing to the gang, "
"Really? Just out of curiosity, how do you know these kids?"
"I'm the DATDA teacher here, and just before I started here, they got me out of a hole, and I stayed with them for a month, and now when we aren't doing anything, we hang out."
"OK, so you're their teacher, and you hang out with them!?"
OB laughed, "Basically"
Joel stared first at OB and then at the gang, "Man you're weird!"
"You should see us on a Saturday night!" he replied still laughing.
"I have an idea.do you and the others fancy coming to our New Years Eve Party?" Krysti said nervously.
Joel opened his mouth to speak, but was distracted when Benji and the others returned to the corner, Benji being supported by 'Joel', evidently slightly drunk, a bottle of Rum in his hand. "Good God!"
"Oh.hi!" Joel said, "Nice T-shirt"
"Thanks."
"You look like my brother!" Benji interrupted, looking at the two boys with a look of confusion on his face, "What's your name?"
OB and the gang burst out laughing. Joel blushed, "Erm, my name's Joel"
Benji gasped, "Crap! You look the same, and you have the same name!" Everybody laughed.
Joel turned to face Krysti, "About the invite.I'd love to come, Benj will too, but I have no idea about the others"
"Cool"
"What time do you want us then?"
OB sat thinking for a while, "You can come any time after lunch, we won't be up much before midday, so probably some time after 3ish. Would that be ok?"
"Sure!" Joel replied smiling.
Aurora grabbed Krysti and headed for the corner, "Nice one Krys"
"Why, thank you !" she replied grinning
"New years eve is gonna rule!"
"Naturally.do you think Benji's ok?"
Aurora smiled slyly, "in what way do you mean?"
"You know what I mean"
"I think so, his nose has stopped bleeding, and you can't really see any of his bruises.and apart from being a little tipsy, he's fine"
they rejoined the others in the corner. As usual, Aurora found Tom, but for once she just hugged him. George and Trinity sat talking to Chris, and Krys, Draco and OB were talking to Billy, and Paul and Benji were tormenting the two Joel's, who were sitting next to each other, looking extremely nervous.
By midnight, the party was over, and the gang, followed by OB and GC went to the Slytherin Prefect Dorm. Immediately, the formal clothing was stuffed into the wardrobes, and was replaced by the usual Hoodie/Baggies combo.
By 2:30am, the party was finally over, and the gang collapsed into their Beds. GC had been granted last minute temporary magi-passes, and so returned to the US via a portkey, promising to return to the Castle on New Years Eve.
Everybody woke relatively early on Christmas morning in order to see their fellow students who weren't staying at the school for the holidays, return home. As usual, the gang were the only students from their year to remain at the school.
Flint, who after the previous nights run in with most of Good Charlotte, had only recently fully regained consciousness, limped past and made an obscene hand gesture at the gang, who cracked up.
The days that followed Christmas were spent just lazing around the Prefect common room, occasionally the gang would venture outside into the grounds for snowball fights. The Boys from GC returned the day before New Year's eve, throwing everything into chaos. Because it was only the 3 couples from the gang who had chosen to remain at School, there were only 3 beds left free. Eventually, it was decided that Krysti and Malfoy would have to share each other, as would Trinity and George. Of course there were no objections.
For some strange reason, everybody was tired, and so retired to the dorms at midnight, in search of a good night's sleep. Like that was gonna happen.
Disclaimer: As you all know, Harry Potter is not my idea...which is a shame really. The only characters/things I have introduced are Trinity Narcia, Kristi Lazuli, Aurora Moonstone, Joel, The Mummy and George. Though, I doubt that some of you will ever see this! However, if by some chance certain people mentioned above do stumble upon this text, of the Three teenage girls on the dig (2003), I am the small blonde one with the glasses. And I think that you are all damn cute!!!!
Tom opened the door. Hovering in the doorway was a large owl, wearing sunglasses and a bandanna. It was carrying a letter, addressed to OB. Tom alleviated the owl of its load and went inside putting the envelope on the table top. The owl followed, resting on top of the Cupboards. The dormitory door opened, and OB emerged and flopped down onto the sofa. His hair was wet.
"What the hell have you been doing?" Tom said, raising an eyebrow.
"Me? Oh, I've just used your shower...mines busted. Aura said I could"
"Oh right...there's a letter for you over here."
OB stood up and shuffled into the kitchen. He caught sight of the owl on the cupboard and raised an eyebrow. Tom threw the envelope at him. He caught it, and sat back down on the stool.
"Oh....it's from Johnny"
"Ooh. What's it say?" Aurora's voice drifted across from the sofa.
"Not a lot...I think that he's talking about another sortie to Isla de Muerta...and something about Rum. He says hi to everybody, and sorry for setting your friend on fire at the barbecue."
Everybody laughed, fondly remembering the End of Site barbecue last August.
"So, what are we doing about eating tonight then?" OB asked as he accioed a bunch of menu's from the shelf.
"I'm not entirely sure. I think that we're having Pizza again tonight" Tom replied, appearing to be more focused on what was going on beneath the Dresser in the corner.
OB turned and stared at him. "What are you doing?"
"Me? Lucifer has escaped again!"
"Lucifer!?!"
"Yeah, Danny's rat- he's always escaping from his tank"
"Oh My God! a Rat?" Krysti shouted jumping onto the sofa.
Tom and Aurora laughed, "Yeah...he's bin on the windowsill for the past 3 days, we're looking after him. Didn't you notice?"
"nope"
"GOTCHA!" Tom yelled triumphantly, as a squeak emitted from the corner. Picking the rat up, he carried it over to where Krysti was standing. "Look, he ain't gonna hurt you...he's rather placid...look at his little eyes."
"For God's sake man, it's a rat! You know I hate the bloody animals."
"Oh Well...he's going back tomorrow- Danny gets back from Rome, or wherever it is he's gone"
The next day, Danny arrived to collect Lucifer. As a result, Krysti was now a lot more mobile, her phobia of rats having hindered her movements somewhat. It was now mid December, and a thick blanket of snow covered the castle grounds. Christmas and Yule were fast approaching, and everybody was getting into the festive spirit. Because it was the final year in which the gang would actually be at the school, there was to be a Ball on Christmas Eve, the idea of which was to represent a Prom. As a result, the opportunity for a shopping spree arose.
The next Hogsmeade Weekend was conveniently organised for the next week, so the gang took the opportunity to split up and go shopping for informal robes, and also to do a little bit of Christmas shopping.
Saturday soon arrived, and the gang arose early in order to do the maximum amount of shopping. They split up into 2 groups- boys and girls.
The girls headed straight for Madame Malkins Robery, where they indulged in some serious retail therapy. They disappeared into the changing rooms to try on some dresses. Trin emerged first wearing a Black, Gothic Dress, and had somehow dyed her hair to match- jet black with flame red streaks. Krysti followed her in a Midnight Blue Dress with tiny silver stars embroidered on the bodice. Finally Aurora appeared, dressed in a Blood Red strapless dress. Her hair was now significantly longer, and redder, but it was still braided. Paying for their robes, they left the shop and headed to the Coffee Shop in the high street to meet the boys for lunch. The boys, as usual were late. By the looks of it, they had already bought some suitable clothing for the Ball, and in addition, plenty more. After lunch, the group split up once more and went their separate ways. By 6 o'clock, the gang was back at the castle, having done all their Christmas Shopping. It was literally the first time that Aurora and Tom had spent the day apart, so for a while, they were literally stuck together, much to the disgust of the others, who were moaning at them.
"Get a room you two" Krysti shouted, rolling her eyes.
Aurora turned round and laughed as Tom stood up and they headed towards the dorm.
"On second thoughts, don't...you haven't forgotten the other week have you?"
Aurora and Tom blushed a deep shade of crimson and sat back down. This time, they just sat hugging and poking each other. Laughing nervously, they looked at a book they had found in a junk shop a few weeks previously. It appeared to be about Dragons, a favourite subject of everybody. It was Tom's dream to have a pet dragon, but because it was illegal, he decided just to have paintings of dragons instead, so he spent much of his time drawing dragons instead.
2 weeks later, it was the last day of term, and the gang found themselves wandering around the castle grounds having a snowball fight, with only a few hours to go until the Ball began. The younger students and those choosing not to remain at the school had already left, and out of Slytherin House, only members of the gang remained, as did OB, choosing not to go home for the holidays, but instead promising the gang that they would have a new years eve party to remember...
At 8 o'clock, the girls made their way down to the main hall, wearing their new dresses, ready to meet the boys. They weren't disappointed. Inside, Dumbledore, who, it had to be said, had great taste in music, had somehow hired Good Charlotte for the night. How they hell Good Charlotte had been persuaded to play at the school, nobody was sure. They were also unsure what a Muggle Band were doing at their school. By the looks of it, the last question was being thought by the band too. After they had finished playing, they were left to wander the hall, and join the festivities. At their table, the gang noticed that the group were looking totally confused. In fact, the entire band was huddled together, watching the Townie members of the year dancing to their Townie Music, with a look of disgust in their eyes. In the whole of the year, in addition to the gang, there were only 6 other Punks/Greebs. They were Ben, Phil, Bradley, Jess, Emma and Dan. All of whom were seated on the next table.
"They're looking pretty freaked out...reckon we all should go and talk to them?" Krys whispered to Aurora and Tom. Tom, especially was extremely, 'Punked Up' for the occasion, his hair tonight was Flame Red Spikes, and he was sporting yet more piercings. In his lip, he now had 2 rings and a stud- one in the centre, and one in each corner. Everybody nodded and they stood up and made their way over to the corner where the Band stood talking amongst themselves.
"Erm, excuse me.my name's Krysti..we just wanted to say that we thought your show was great back there!"
The real Joel turned round, "Oh my god! You're the kids from the Edinburgh Festival last summer! What are you doing here?!"
"Oh, this is our school" Draco explained. Behind him, Aurora, Tom, Trin, Pete, Joel, George and McD were staring goggle eyed at the band.
Benji turned round, seemingly interested by the fact there were 14 kids who enjoyed the show, and even more, seemed to be Punks also. He caught sight of Tom's piercings "Dude, I like your piercings!"
"Erm, thanksss " Tom mumbled blushing. Since the two side rings had been added, he had developed a lisp again.
"Ah, you've got a lisp.is that 'cause of your lip?"
"Yep"
"Ah man, don't worry 'bout it, it soon goes" He said. This attempt to reassure Tom failed miserably, owing to the fact that Benji had one hell of a lisp himself.
Everybody laughed. In the background, Paul and Billy stood nervously, eyeing the townies with suspicion. Pansy Parkinson shouted something toward the group. Malfoy heard and made a rude hand gesture. By the looks of things, the Band had heard also. Benji was grinning madly and shouting insults back at the townies, accompanied by the others. GC Joel saw what was going on and rolled his eyes, "Man, not again.they're always doing this" he said, referring to his bandmates making flippant hand gestures towards the townies.
"Maybe you should tell them to stop.there's 19 of us including you guys, and there's 107 of them.they start a fight, we'll be mincemeat." Aurora said nervously, casting her mind back to previous engagements between the townies and the Greebs. If she could remember rightly, Tom had come off worse when he'd got involved.
"Yeah.Guys, you should stop it, they'll try and start a fight!" Joel warned the others.
"Man! We're starting to have fun" Benji yelled back to him, whilst cracking his knuckles in a menacing manner.
"Benj.you said you wouldn't fight them no more, not after last time"
"Last time, I wasn't provoked!" Benji snarled.
All of a sudden, a eerie quiet descended upon that corner of the room, the only sound was, "Oit.wannabes!"
Benji turned round and glared at the townie who had been throwing the most insults. "What was that?"
"I said, Oit Wannabes" The boy replied.
Benji looked at him. He was about 5'11", skinny.too skinny.and he looked like a Neanderthal .he could take him on. He looked at Joel who shook his head. He was always too sensible. Then he looked at Billy, Paul and Chris, who first looked to see Joel couldn't see before egging them on. Benji laughed.
"So townie..what's the problem?" He shouted smiling innocently
"Well.you're a total wannabe! You got all the tats n the metal.you trying to prove something?"
"Erm, no.I think they're gnarlie.anyway, what are you trying to prove?"
"I ain't got nothing to prove mate. You ain't punk you know.you're just another wannabe!"
"Watch what you say you little townie" Benji retorted glaring.
"You starting on me or summat?" the boy said. Aurora and the others recognised him to be Marcus Flint, who, so much like a Neanderthal, had to be held back 3 years. She rolled her eyes, as did the others and GC Joel..
"now that would be fun, wouldn't it!" Benji said in a voice tinged with sarcasm. As he spoke, he removed his beanie and passed it to his brother, who grabbed him.
"Benj, for God's sake, don't do anything stupid.do you want to be banned from Britain as well?"
"Nope" came the reply. Benji removed his hoodie to reveal a muscle top, which showed off his tattoos, placed his guitar carefully on the corner of the stage, and surveyed Flint. Flint too was staring malevolently at Benji, 'warming up'. "Come on then wannabe!"
"Right, that's it!" Benji moved forward towards Flint, cornering him before headbutting him violently.
"Jesus!" A gasp went round the assembled crowd.
"Holy Crap!" Joel shook his head sadly, "He's always doing stuff like that.that's why we're banned from Asia and most of Europe!"
Aurora nodded, "Why can't you stop him?"
"Because, there is nobody mad enough to try it.hang on.the others are gonna try and stop him"
Aurora turned round to see that Billy, Paul and Chris were running towards Benji, and trying to restrain him. In the process of doing so, they dodged the fists of an angry mob of drunken Townies. Giving up on keeping the peace, they went for them, and so started off a mass brawl. Meanwhile, Joel just sat with the others drinking Rum. The teachers had made the rather foolish mistake of leaving the Students to enjoy themselves, stupidly believing that they were responsible. As a result, pandemonium broke out in the great hall.
Suddenly, out of Nowhere, OB jumped out from behind the curtains.
"Oh My God!! You're Orlando Bloom!!!" Joel yelled excitedly
OB laughed, "Unfortunately I am.what the hell is going on in here?"
"Well, Flint insulted Benji, so Benji told him to lay off, but he wouldn't, so Benji nutted him, and then Flint's mates started on him too, so Billy, Chris and Paul tried to pull him off of Benji, but the Townies hit them too, so they said 'Fuck It' and joined in."
"Right.well, if you get the Townies off them, we can sort things out then?" OB replied, stifling a laugh.
After 10 minutes, the fighting ceased, and the crowds dispersed. In the corner, Benji was sitting, trying to stop a nosebleed, whilst the others were searching for various parts of their body jewellery. In another corner, Flint was unconscious, having taken a beating from Benji. OB helped the others up.
"Oh God! You're that guy from Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings aren't you!" Billy shouted when his vision had returned to normal, "I'm like, your biggest fan!"
"Dear Lord" OB muttered under his breath, "Yes I am.I like what you're doing with your music. and the heavy eyeliner really works!"
Billy looked at himself in a mirror, "Hey! That's a black eye.one of them little runts thumped me!"
Benji and the others stood there, still laughing. Joel also reappeared, carrying a medical kit. "Man, you're uncontrollable.you'll fight anybody wouldn't you!?"
Benji grinned widely, "Hell Yeah.anybody.except you.and him.and them kids over there- they're decent!"
Everybody laughed.
"so, how long are you over here for?" OB asked Joel, picking up a bottle of Rum
"We're meant to be going home next week, but I think this country rules, so we're staying on for a while."
"We're having a New Years Eve party up in their Dorm" OB said, pointing to the gang, "
"Really? Just out of curiosity, how do you know these kids?"
"I'm the DATDA teacher here, and just before I started here, they got me out of a hole, and I stayed with them for a month, and now when we aren't doing anything, we hang out."
"OK, so you're their teacher, and you hang out with them!?"
OB laughed, "Basically"
Joel stared first at OB and then at the gang, "Man you're weird!"
"You should see us on a Saturday night!" he replied still laughing.
"I have an idea.do you and the others fancy coming to our New Years Eve Party?" Krysti said nervously.
Joel opened his mouth to speak, but was distracted when Benji and the others returned to the corner, Benji being supported by 'Joel', evidently slightly drunk, a bottle of Rum in his hand. "Good God!"
"Oh.hi!" Joel said, "Nice T-shirt"
"Thanks."
"You look like my brother!" Benji interrupted, looking at the two boys with a look of confusion on his face, "What's your name?"
OB and the gang burst out laughing. Joel blushed, "Erm, my name's Joel"
Benji gasped, "Crap! You look the same, and you have the same name!" Everybody laughed.
Joel turned to face Krysti, "About the invite.I'd love to come, Benj will too, but I have no idea about the others"
"Cool"
"What time do you want us then?"
OB sat thinking for a while, "You can come any time after lunch, we won't be up much before midday, so probably some time after 3ish. Would that be ok?"
"Sure!" Joel replied smiling.
Aurora grabbed Krysti and headed for the corner, "Nice one Krys"
"Why, thank you !" she replied grinning
"New years eve is gonna rule!"
"Naturally.do you think Benji's ok?"
Aurora smiled slyly, "in what way do you mean?"
"You know what I mean"
"I think so, his nose has stopped bleeding, and you can't really see any of his bruises.and apart from being a little tipsy, he's fine"
they rejoined the others in the corner. As usual, Aurora found Tom, but for once she just hugged him. George and Trinity sat talking to Chris, and Krys, Draco and OB were talking to Billy, and Paul and Benji were tormenting the two Joel's, who were sitting next to each other, looking extremely nervous.
By midnight, the party was over, and the gang, followed by OB and GC went to the Slytherin Prefect Dorm. Immediately, the formal clothing was stuffed into the wardrobes, and was replaced by the usual Hoodie/Baggies combo.
By 2:30am, the party was finally over, and the gang collapsed into their Beds. GC had been granted last minute temporary magi-passes, and so returned to the US via a portkey, promising to return to the Castle on New Years Eve.
Everybody woke relatively early on Christmas morning in order to see their fellow students who weren't staying at the school for the holidays, return home. As usual, the gang were the only students from their year to remain at the school.
Flint, who after the previous nights run in with most of Good Charlotte, had only recently fully regained consciousness, limped past and made an obscene hand gesture at the gang, who cracked up.
The days that followed Christmas were spent just lazing around the Prefect common room, occasionally the gang would venture outside into the grounds for snowball fights. The Boys from GC returned the day before New Year's eve, throwing everything into chaos. Because it was only the 3 couples from the gang who had chosen to remain at School, there were only 3 beds left free. Eventually, it was decided that Krysti and Malfoy would have to share each other, as would Trinity and George. Of course there were no objections.
For some strange reason, everybody was tired, and so retired to the dorms at midnight, in search of a good night's sleep. Like that was gonna happen.
