Disclaimer: I own Castella, Abby, Crystal, and Lisa.

A/N: I officially have too much free time. Sirius: You can never have enough free time! Me: I know. Sirius: But you— Me: To others. I have to much free time to others. I know I can never have enough. And I stand by what I said earlier. Everything sounds screwed up now. @.@ And I just realized that I screwed up on Andromeda's age. She's supposed to be five years older than us. Oh well. Responses are at the bottom. Don't ask me why.

We sat in the common room with some new friends. Abby, Crystal, Lily, and Andromeda were kinda pissed at Sirius. I guessed that the Slytherins had chased them too.  Abby was up her dorm washing hair for the six hundredth time. Crystal was talking to Lily. Andromeda was sitting listening to James and Sirius plotting, helping them out every now and then. I was showing Lisa and Castella how to work a CD player (Remus told me the spell to make Muggle stuff work around fifteen minutes into our captiveness, thing. If you know what the word actually is, review and tell me please!) Abby walked down the stairs.

"How does it look?" she asked. The pink wasn't washed out of her hair completely, but it looked like that's wanted. The very tips of her hair were still pink and so were her bangs.

"Very good," I said.

"Yeah," Castella said.

"Do you think Laura would like it?" she asked.

"Definitely," Crystal said.

"Who's Laura?" Megan asked.

"She is my older cousin," Crystal said, "her sister," she pointed to Lisa, "her sister-in-law," she pointed to Castella, "and one of the scariest people in the world."

"She could top that," Nicole said pointing to Megan. "Or maybe Nicole could. Another Nicole," she said.

"Really?" Crystal said in interested.

"Yeah," I said. "She is just a plain psychopath who tried to stab me once."

"She did WHAT?!?!?!?!?!" Sirius shouted jumping up.

"It's okay," I said, "she was kidding." He sat back down and glared at Megan. "Anyway, Nicole on the other hand, thinks Marilyn Manson is hot." Me, Megan, and Nicole shivered.

"Who's Marilyn Manson?" Remus asked.

"Hold on a sec," I said getting up. I went up to our dorm. Yeah, I did have two pictures on Marilyn Manson. So what? I tormented Nicole with them. And they did turn out pretty good. I had printed them off of my grandma's computer. I knelt down by my night stand and opened up the drawer. I pulled out a folder labeled 'Bands'. I flipped though the pictures I had. KoRN Disturbed, Ozzy, Alice in Chains (I really like how that one turned out), where the hell was Marilyn Manson? Oh yeah, on the other side of the folder. I grabbed the two pictures, one was a head shot and the other was a full body shot. Nicole didn't know about the full body shot, thank God. I ran back down the stairs. I held up the two pictures. "This," I said, "is Marilyn Manson."

"Eww..........."

"I think they tie," Crystal said.

"Do you have a picture of your cousin?" I asked.

"Yeah," Crystal said. "I'll go get it." I thought crossed my mind has she disappeared up the stairs.

"We're in Gryffindor, right?" I said.

"Last I knew," James said.

"Then why are we hiding in the common room? Gryffindor is for brave peoples and we're sitting doing nothing! We must stop the evil Slytherins!" Castella nodded.

"She's got a point," she said. "I'm with in stopping the evil menace."

"You have got to be joking Jessica," Nicole said. "You couldn't stop them if you even tried!"

"Well," I said, "at least I'm not the one who was afraid when we went into the hunted house."

"They're supposed to scare you!"

"Look who dragged me out of a fire exit. Must I remind you of what happened when we went into the rock star wax museum?"

"You were scared too!"

"Not half as much as you!" I stood up.

"Oh shut up you stupid lying bitch!"

"Me? Lying? I covered up for you! I'm the one who took the blame for when you got lost!"

"I would've if you had told me!"

"I didn't want you to get in trouble! I wanted you to have fun! So did my mom! I don't think she gave a damn about how much fun I had!" I screamed. I turned on my heel and walked out of the common room. I climbed out of the portrait hole. A few seconds later Castella followed. "What are you doing?" I asked trying not to sound like I wasn't glad someone was here.

"Just helping you," Castella said. "I said that I would help you out with the evil Slytherins and that's what I'll do."

I smiled. "Thank you," I said.

"No problem, by the way, I grabbed your CD player."

"Why?"

"In case we got bored and wanted to listen to music."

"Good enough for me," I said.

"What were you and Nicole talking about?" she asked.

"Oh," I said, "that. A couple years ago we went to Niagara Falls."

"Did you have fun?" she asked.

"Loads," I said, "but I ended up getting in trouble for a lot of stuff." I smiled wearily. "But that doesn't matter."

"So," Castella said, "according to Sirius, the potion would wear off in about six hours. How long has it been?" I checked my watch.

"Almost seven hours," I said.

"So," she said, "we're pretty much screwed?"

"Yup," I said. "But, we might as well try to defeat them."

"Got nothing better to do any way," Castella said. I sighed.

"We need bait." I grabbed my CD player, set it on the floor, and cranked it up as loud as it would go. Then I turned it on. I looked at her. "Let the fun begin." We waited for ten minutes. Then the army arrived. "Oh my God....." There had to be thousands.

"They got reinforcements," Castella said.

"We should run," I said.

"Aye aye captain," Castella said. I grabbed my CD player, turned it off and ran.

"Where are we going?!" I shouted.

"The forest!" Castella said. We ran to the edge of the forest and turned around.

"They're multiplying!" I shouted.

"No shit Sherlock!" Castella said. She considered the options quickly. "Quick, into the forest!" I didn't need telling twice. I stopped a ways in.

"I can't go on," I said panting.

"We've got to move!" Castella said, although she looked just as tired as me.

"Listen, I'm sure I've twisted both my ankles, I can't keep running!" I said.

"We don't have to run...." she said looking around. "C'mon!" She grabbed the branch above my head and jumped on to it. She held out her hand. I grabbed it and she helped me up.

"We have to go higher," I said. Castella nodded. We climbed up to almost the top of the tree and stopped.

"Go ahead of me," she said. I nodded and moved across the branches, a few snapping underneath me. I got to the edge of the forest and looked around. There weren't any Slytherins in sight, but they would find us. I climbed down. Who am I kidding? I fell down. Loudly. Castella jumped down, knees buckling. There was a snap as she grabbed a branch. "C'mon," she said racing toward the Womping Willow. I ran after her. She stopped inches out of reach from the branches. She held up the branch and poked a knot of the trunk. I run up to her.

"What next?" I asked.

"Though the hole," she said pointing to a small hole in the base of the trunk. I raced over to it and climbed though. I stumbled through it, and then had to grab the wall for support. Castella jumped though behind me, lost her balance, grabbed the back of my robes, and fell. On top of me.

"Well," I said, "this is just wonderful."

"Can't get much worse, can it?" she replied. Oh how much it would. She stood up and then helped me up. "You okay?"

"Eh, nothing life threatening," I replied. I brushed some of the dirt off my robes and walked down the tunnel. We hurried a little, but not that it helped. I was still wearing heels, although not as big. Castella brushed past me and pushed open a trapdoor that I would never have seen unless some one had showed me. I climbed though, walked up to the second floor, and sat down on the bed. She shut the door and looked around.

"Wonder how long we're gonna be here," she said.

"Probably an hour, at the most," I said. I grabbed my CD case and opened it. Then burst out laughing.

"What?" Castella asked. I handed her the case.

"That CD," I said, "I borrowed it from my neighbor and as soon as I got back I was supposed to return it to her."

"So?" she asked. I only laughed harder.

"W-We're supposed to be back tomorrow," I said, still laughing.

"You're easily amused, aren't you?" she said. I nodded. "Thought so." I got up and walked to the nearest window. The sun was beginning to set. I looked toward where I thought the moon would be and gasped. "What?" Castella said walking over to me.

"Full moon," I said. She looked out the window.

"Oh God," she said. Just then the door opened. Remus stood there. He stared at us.

"Wha—" he started.

"Just leaving," I said hurrying to the door. Castella quickly followed me, but stopped next to Remus.

"Are there millions of Slytherins outside?" she asked.

"No," he replied, "why—" She ran out the door.

"C'mon!" she said grabbing my wrist. She threw open the trapdoor and jumped down. I followed her and closed it. We ran down the tunnel. She climbed out of the hole and I followed her. Just as we got out a downpour started.

"God," I said, "Today's just been wonderful, hasn't it?" She smiled.

"NOW it can't get worse," she said. I nodded. We raced toward Hogwarts. I opened the door for her and she raced in. "Thank you," she said. I ran in and sighed.

"I think we missed dinner," I said.

"I know we did," Castella said. "C'mon, I think we can get something in the kitchens."

"You know where the kitchens are?" I asked.

"Of course I know where the kitchens are," she said smiling. Just then I bumped into something.

"What the frick?!" I said spinning around.

"Watch and learn," Castella said. She walked forward three steps; too the left two, extended her arm, closed her hand, and lifted her arm. There stood James and Sirius.

"Hey Kat, Jessi," Sirius said. I sighed.

"You will never believe what happened," James said.

"What?" I asked, my head starting to hurt. No, they we're annoying me. I was just have a *wonderful* day.

"These three girls showed up saying they knew who you were!" Sirius said. My eyes went wide. That couldn't be good.

"What did they look like?" I asked.

"One had short brown hair, one had dark brown hair, around the same length, and one had blonde curly hair," James said.

"Were they named Autumn and Ashley?" I asked.

"Yeah," Sirius said. "Oh, and to add onto that, Abby, Crystal, Andromeda, and Megan are going to France for a student exchange thing!"

"Okay..." I said. "Um, I'll just go up there and say hi... Can you grab something small for me?"

"Sure," Castella said. I started toward the Gryffindor Common room, wondering who the third girl was.

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End of chapter ten! Yay! Okay, responses:

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