I Watched My Friend Make History Today

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A/N: Chapter two! YAY! ...There's actually a second chapter to one of my newest fics... *insert loud audience gasps here* ...Heeh. I know, I know. So here it is! I got so suggestions, so I had to come up with, erm, weird shtuff ;_; Okay, so they were weird and stupid stuff, but...ah...well...

I shall now shut up and let you resume your reading. Enjoy! :D

Chapter Two: Jumping Jehuzhalet

"Best friend...never gonna let you down.
Best friend...always gonna be around."
 --S Club 7, Best Friend

I looked around the bathroom uneasily, feeling tired. Slumped against the wall, I stared around, wondering what was Tom's purpose for making us wait a few minutes more before showing us the main feature of this uneasy trip.

I suppose he wanted us to get a good look at the bathroom before he shows us the pathway or something. Tom thought it was good for, as he called it, dramatic effect. Rom thought it was boring and annoying and was just a way for Tom to stall. I personally thought it was pointless, and was fighting the urge to whine like some Hufflepuff duffer.

"'Kay, Tommy, listen up," I started finally after a few more seconds. "I am tired of looking around this bathroom. Can we please just get on with it?"

"Amen," Rom muttered, standing up from his squat position on the ground, but I wasn't quite done talking.

"Who knows what might happen," I added, "if somebody...I dunno...walked in on us or something? And this is Peeves' toilet, you know. I heard he doesn't like to be bothered when plotting his latest dastardly acts." I nodded earnestly to emphasize on this, even though I was almost positive that Peeves wasn't in at the moment.

Tom nodded seriously, and me and Romulus straightened up on our spots. If he was going to be serious about this, then we might as well be, too.

I watched intently as Tom Marvolo Riddle started to walk towards the centerpiece of the bathroom: this round...thing...that has the sinks and mirrors on it. He walked towards one of them and said something in parseltounge. A hiss from somewhere followed, then several loud thuds.

I frowned slightly as I watched, transfixed, while the centerpiece broke up, sliding slowly but steadily, forming a huge hole on the floor. With a last, loud thud, the moving stalls stopped, and Romulus stepped forward for a closer look at the crater.

"Pardon me," he said casually, "but what the hell is that?"

"Oh, well, that's just the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets," said Tom sarcastically, his voice lined with smugness.

"Eh." I glanced at my two friends before looking back at the hole. "Slytherin was a lunatic, then, building the entrance in a girl's bathroom, out of all places..." I ignored Tom's scowl and stepped forward for a closer look myself, then added, "Hey, what if Slytherin wasn't a male? Maybe he was a girl!" I grinned lopsidedly at Romulus, who snorted back, a smile on his face.

"Or maybe he was both!" he joked. "Both a girl and a boy, I mean. Weird folk, those Slytherin lot are--"

Tom cleared his throat loudly. Have I mentioned that Tom was a direct descendant of the oh-so-great Salazar Slytherin? "Oy, I'm right here, you know. You two don't have to be so callous--I'm hurt," he stated dramatically, "Bashed. Wounded. Annoyed, even." The last fragment was said with a hint of impatience.

Rom and I shrugged. "Sorry."

"Forgiven." Tom walked towards the crater on the floor once again, then sat on it's edge, his feet dangling over the empty space. "Erm...I actually wanted to, you know, explore the Chamber, maybe. But I wasn't sure how to enter it, exactly...." He glanced down into the darkness, then added, "I'm not really sure what's down there, either."

"Snakes, probably," I said.

"You can jump," said Rom, and Tom and I turned to look at him incredulously. "What?" he asked defensively.

"Jump in?" I repeated. "Are you mad?"

"Obviously," said Tom, scoffing.

"'Ey, well, it was just an idea," said Romulus, shrugging. "I'll try it, if you want, and one of you can always just Wingardium Leviosa me back up if I happen to shout that I'm being eaten alive by a Runespoor or two..." He laughed slightly at his own joke.

I turned to Tom, who shrugged. "Let's give it a try. S'not my skin that's going to get fried, anyways."

I just nodded and sat down next to Tom. Romulus walked up to Tom's other side, but didn't sit down as we had expected him to do. Instead, he put one hand on each of Tom's shoulders.

"What're you--" Tom was cut off by Rom.

"Aw, c'mon, it's your bloody chamber. Owners first--" And before either of us could stop him, Rom had pushed Tom into the crater.

I twitched and stood up automatically, staring at Romulus as though he was a maniac, trying to ignore Tom's threats as he fell through the hole (which, now that I think about it, looks sort of like a huge part of the school's plumbing).

Now was the part where I start berating Malfoy angrily about being irrational. "Jumping Jesufalet--!" I started.

"Jehuzhalet," corrected Rom.

"Whatever! What the heck were you thinking, pushing--"

"Pfft...c'mon, Rans, don't be so touchy," he stated with a grin. Then, in one swift motion, Romulus Insed Malfoy grabbed my wrist, then pushed me into the hole right after Tom.

"Sorry if I fall on you!" was the last thing I heard before my ears were filled with a loud shooshing sound as I slipped headfirst through this, what I now know to be a, rather humongous pipe.

"You're my brother.... Stick together,
No matter what...
So don't worry about a thing my friend,
'Cause you can count on me if you're bad,
'Cause you can count on me 'till the end.
Till the end."
 --S Club 7, Best Friend