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Author's Note- O.K. sorry about the wait. I was busy (really I was...) anyway, thank you to Chocolate Monkey/Miss Lady Padfoot Your name is in this chapter, be proud!

I am going to repeat the last sentence of the last chapter for added effect ...!

Chapter 10 – No one knows what rose

James turned and cried out in horror. The room was filled with misty, smoke like gas, and out of that gas, spirits were appearing. They were flying around the room and were screeching a loud mournful song. James looked at the walls of the room and saw a slime sliding slowly down the beautiful cream coloured walls. The floor was dusty and the furniture was old and torn apart. The spirits had turned the room into a ghost room.

"Come on James." Sirius shouted urgently. But James couldn't move. He stood there watching the spirits with a look of terror in his eyes. The screeching singing continued and the spirits were starting the swoop closer to the boys. But as they got closer James noticed that they were actually singing words. He started to move further into the room, entranced by the spirits.

"James" yelled Remus. "What the hell are you doing, come back."

"They're singing words." James replied mysteriously. "I need to find out what..."

Sirius shook his head in amazement. "He's mad." He whispered to himself before turning to Remus. "Come on, we need to go and get him out."

Remus nodded and they started walking carefully into the room, to where James was standing. The spirits were right above his head. They were floating in a line and singing their screeching song. James was listening with curiosity.

"What rose?" James said suddenly. "I don't know what you mean." The spirits suddenly stopped singing. The room was quiet. The silence was broken only by the footsteps of Sirius and Remus who were getting nearer to James with every step. And then suddenly, the spirits swooped at James. James yelled and tried to run. But it was too late...

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"James, are you sure you're O.K.?" Remus asked for the hundredth time. James nodded weakly and lay down on his bed. They were up in the dormitory. When the Spirits had swooped at James they had knocked him to the ground. Remus and Sirius had managed at help him to the door and down the corridor before the spirits could swoop again. James hadn't been badly hurt, but his shoulder ached from when he had hit the ground.

Sirius was sitting at the edge of James bed. Peter was on a chair in the middle of the room. Remus was standing over James.

"So..." began Sirius. "You were talking about a rose before those crazy ghosts realised you were there and decided to attack you, what rose?"

James stayed silent for a few second before answering. "Bring us the rose, and we will be free..." he recited softly.

Sirius looked at him strangely. "I thought you fell on your shoulder. You sure you didn't hit your head?"

James smiled. "No, those were the words they were singing."

"What words, they were singing words?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah," said James, sitting up. "They were singing words, that's why I had to get closer; I wanted to hear what they were singing."

"Is that why they attacked you?" asked Remus. "Because you said you didn't know where the rose was?"

"I didn't think of that." James became silent in thought.

"We're not going to go down there again?" Asked Peter quietly. This was the first time he had spoken since the trip down the corridor.

"Of course not," James answered quickly. "Well, at least not until we find out what the rose is."

Peter stared at him. "We can't go back."

Sirius looked at James, "Do you have any idea what the rose is?"

"It's a flower." Said James smiling.

"No." Sirius exclaimed. "You know what I mean."

"Yeah, what is the rose?" Remus sided with Sirius.

"I don't know." James admitted. "But maybe we can find out."

Tap, tap, tap. Came a noise from the window. They turned and saw an owl on the other side of the glass. "Bob!" James exclaimed and hurried towards the window to open it.

The owl flew in and landed on James' bed. It stuck out his leg, there was a letter attached to it. James untied it and read it. He smiled at the end.

"What is it?" asked Sirius. James passed the letter to Sirius and stared patting his owl.

Sirius read the scanned the letter and smiled too. "You have such a nice little sister." he concluded.

"Yeah," James replied. "But she can get on your nerves sometimes." Sirius passed the letter back to James.

"Hey," Remus said. "Why don't I get to read it?" James passed the note to Remus. Remus took one look at it. "I can't read it." he said.

"What." Sirius stated. "You can't read?"

"No" Remus replied. "The writing's too messy. How did you too read it?"

"Guess I'm used to Hailey's writing." James shrugged taking the letter from Remus. "And Sirius just has messy writing." James smiled at Sirius."

"Hey!"

"Anyway, can you read it too me" Remus asked, "I want to know what she wrote."

"Ok... Um. To James, you left your owl at home. How could you forget your owl? Anyway I sent him over for you. I really miss you. Wish you were home. Can't wait till you get back. From Hailey." James put the note on the table and let his owl fly out of the window to the owlery.

Remus smiled. "She sounds nice."

"Yeah." agreed Peter.

"Did you call your owl Bob?" asked Sirius suddenly.

"Yeah, his full name is Bob the second." James replied.

"Why the second?" asked Remus.

"Well." James looked embarrassed. "I sat on Bob the first when I was little. But I think he's still alive, my mum and dad just gave him away, I kinda damaged his wing. Then they got me another owl."

Sirius was in fits of laughter after James' speech. "How can you sit on an owl?"

"I don't know, I just did." answered James protectively.

"Still, I mean, wouldn't you see it?" Sirius asked again. He was rewarded with a pillow in the head from James.

They forgot about the rose for a while.

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