He jolted up with a start and almost sprung to his feet. Looking around quickly he drew his wand and pointed it in all direction of the gloom. A small glow shone ahead of him, he could make out what was left of the fire, the small pieces of wood were glowing a dull goldish red. "Lumos" he muttered and flicked his wand, a light exploded from his wand like it was suddenly daylight, even though this was just because it was so dark. Squinting he looked around, the silvery green room reflected the light. It was amazing, not many people would have the opportunity to see such a room, a banner hung from the closest wall, a long snake slithered up and down the banner hissing and turning to look at him as if trying to tell him to turn the light out. He let out a small sigh of relief, 'it was just a dream...' he thought quietly to himself though, to be honest, that didn't convince him. He moved towards a small window and sat on the windowsill, looking out into the night. Rain poured outside, he could hear it this deep down in the dungeons. He stared at his reflection, it didn't look anything like him, his deep dark brown eyes which were normally full of energy, flickered slowly, with tiredness and fear. His normally slightly tanned skin was a ghostly gray, and his normally long straight golden blonde hair was messy and wavy.
He felt like shit. It had only been a few days since school had started yet, for those few days his nights had been haunted with one dream, one nightmare. Although to be honest it felt real. A lot of his friends were worried he could tell by the way they looked at him, he guessed this had been why he was distancing himself from them. Well that and the fact that he had a massive headache that seemed to dig deep into his head. It was like someone was drilling into his temple. He blinked and looked around. Suddenly he wondered what the hell he was doing in the common room, and then it came to him. He had arranged with his sister Beth to explain his dream to her, he knew she would understand as she had been very worried about him, sometimes skipping classes to come see him. Yet he had waited for over 4 hours for her to arrive and she didn't show.
He sighed and thought quietly to himself. He knew what she was doing; she had gone to see Marcus, her new boyfriend. Joseph shook his head and got up, he knew she would be back by now but he dare not try seeing her in the girls dorms as she would be asleep.