Back by popular demand and serious boredom.
Quick Note: My humblest apologies for taking so long to complete this new chapter, the delay was completely unintentional.
I'm not going to make excuses (What would be the point nobody who knew me would believe me anyway). *grins*.
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Lessa was the last to wake up in the morning, although this was most probably because she had been dreaming about going on a shooting spree with Amy-Lee, Legolas, Haldir and Alexis. "Why was Alexis driving the car?" Lessa mumbled as she fell out of her dream and into reality. "Alexis isn't even old enough!"
She focused her eyes at the dormitory around her, everything seemed normal enough. It wasn't until she found clothes to wear that she realized she was still wearing the clothes from the night before.
"I don't think I'm meant to sleep in my clothes". Lessa was confused.
There was an odd noise coming from her pocket that strangely reminded her of pieces of paper being crumpled. "What the hell?" She pulled them out and looked them over. "An autograph of Amy-Lee!" This sent her into screams and frantic leaps around the room. "Oh the precious, precious Evanescencey goodness!"
"Is there a troll in here or something? I distinctly thought that I heard a troll". Nicola peered in cautiously from the doorway.
Lessa was still jumping around in a semi-delirious state of mind. "EVANESCENCEY GOODNESS!"
Nicola stood back a little. "Are you okay?"
Lessa bounded over and grabbed her arm tightly as she obsessed over what she'd seen the night before. "Evanescence was here and we saw them, LIVE!" She screamed the last word so loudly that Nicola fell backwards even more.
"I think you've gone mad!" She pulled off Lessa's tight hold on her arm.
"Mad? No not mad, but EVANESCENCE!" She started jumping again.
Nicola was getting really worried now. "I think Lessa's gone mad". She called down the staircase.
A door on the level below them opened and Evie stuck her head out. "What's with all the noise?"
"I think Lessa's gone mad". Nicola repeated.
Evie closed the door and came up the staircase. "What else is new? Anyway is she more mad than usual?"
Nicola nodded before looking at the now twitching Lessa. "I'd say so".
Evie sighed as she took a look. "I say we just leave her be for a while so she can calm down, what do you think?"
Nicola had to agree with her point. "Ok let's go down and find the others".
"They're in the library, Char wanted to write some more of her story and Amy's reading books".
"Well let's go meet them all there". Nicola followed her down the stairs.
Lessa found herself alone again savoring the memories of last night. As they left the club someone had slotted a piece of paper into her hands, Amy-Lee gave her a wink and ran off to join her band members who were packing up to go.
Once they had all gotten safely back into their beds in the dormitory Lessa had waited until the others had gone to sleep before igniting her wand tip with the lumos spell and looking at the piece of paper.
She nearly screamed when she realized that she was holding Amy's private writing address and autograph.
After that she just must have fallen into a deep sleep.
So hurriedly she opened up her top drawer and pulled out her special black box that contained all her evanescence CD's and gently placed the precious paper into it. After that she simply calmed down and changed into a fresh set of black clothes and her Hogwarts robes before going off to look for the others.
The next dormitory door opened and Alexis waved Lessa inside. "Want to play cheat?"
Lessa grinned. "Yeah ok, have you seen the others?"
"Evie said something about Library but other than that no".
"Ok". Lessa followed her inside.
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Char was in the library adding final flourishes to her Rigella story with her blue calligraphy pen. She wasn't sure how she should end this part of the chapter but she knew that her friends would really appreciate it being finished soon so that they could quench their desires to read more.
Amy sat next to her quietly reading from a Traci Harding book that she had brought from home.
Char sat patiently for a while, tapping the notepad with her pen.
Amy looked up. "Having trouble finding the right words?"
Char nodded. "One could say so".
"Can I see what you've written so far?"
Char's eyes glazed up. "Hang on I have an idea!" Suddenly she was writing again.
Amy returned to reading her book.
After a few more minutes Char flung down her pen and smiled. "That is such a cool way to end off!"
"Can I read it?" Amy begged.
Char held the document away from her pleading eyes. "Nope! Wait till the others have a chance then I'll read it for you all".
"No fair!" Amy laughed along with her.
Char looked at her watch "Hey it's lunchtime, no wonder I'm hungry! Come on Amy let's go!"
"Alright!" Amy closed her book and hurried after Char from the library
Together they hurried towards the Great Hall for lunch.
"What happens to Rigella?"
Char grinned back at her. "Nice tactics but like I said you'll find out".
"Awww come on!"
"Nope!"
"Alright then but you're last chapter was brilliant!" Amy smiled.
"Aw shucks!" Char was pleased.
"Hey there's Nicola and Evie!" Amy pointed them out.
"Hey yeah! NICOLA! EVIE!" Char ran after them.
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Laura was standing near the lake watching a group of idiotic classmates playing games with the giant squid.
She privately thought they were all a bunch of brainless beings, poking the squid with a long sharp branch wasn't such a clever idea for entertainment still it was funny when one of them was hauled in by another tentacle and came up spluttering.
The brainless ones all laughed and reached out with the branch to pull him back in.
Laura shook her head in annoyance, why couldn't some people be sensible when it came to giant sea creatures and branches?
Her friends Sally and Amanda were seated under a nearby tree going over some of their homework.
"Hey Laura what are you looking at?" Sally called her back to reality.
"Huh?" Laura snapped back to attention. "Oh just some people being dragged into the lake by the squid".
"Really? Where?" Sally was excited.
"Over there". Laura pointed at the group of students with the branch. A girl was being dragged in screaming this time.
Sally started laughing in uncontrolled fits. "Oh that is so funny to watch!"
"I think what they're doing is horrible!" Amanda stared aghast at them.
Laura shrugged. "I guess it's both seeing as they aren't getting hurt".
"But that's the fun part!" Sally couldn't stop laughing.
Amanda glared at her. "How can you say that?"
Sally stopped laughing. "Ok so it's mean of them to poke the poor squid but seeing them scream is hilarious!"
"Hopeless!" Amanda began shaking her head. "Absolutely hopeless!"
"I'm going to go get something to eat". Laura started piling together all of her things into her bag.
"Yeah great idea, you coming Amanda?"
Amanda was staring transfixed at the group of students who were poking the squid.
"AMANDA?" Sally started waving her hands in her face.
"Look!" Amanda pointed.
Professor McGonagall came striding across the grounds with an angry expression on her face. "DETENTION!"
"They're in trouble now!" Sally started giggling at the thought.
"Serves them right!" Amanda replied.
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Cathy sat alone in the dormitory at one of the tables with her sketchbook; she was really good at drawing Japanese cartoons.
Right now she was finishing off one of her favourite pictures that she'd drawn of Elijah Wood.
"Hey great picture!" One of the 3rd Year Gryffindor boys, Sam, came up and had a look. "That's really good!"
"Oh…umm thanks!" Cathy blushed.
"Have you drawn anything else?" He sat in the empty chair nearby.
"Yeah heaps actually but this is one of my favourites".
"It looks a lot like the real thing, only it's in a cartoon form".
Cathy shrugged. "It's supposed to look like that, I mean it is anime".
"True!" he grinned. "Can I see what else you've drawn so far?"
"If you want". She handed him her sketchbook. "It's all in there".
"Sweet!" he picked it up and started to look through it.
"How come you're not with your friends?" Cathy picked up the courage to ask.
"They all went outside to fly their brooms but I had homework to finish".
"Don't you just hate homework?"
"Definitely! Hey this picture is great! How do you draw like this?"
"From how to draw books, I have quite a collection now".
"Really? Cool!"
Nicola and Evie were just about to step into the common room when they overheard Cathy and Sam talking.
Evie realized that they were alone instantly and pulled Nicola back.
"Hey what was that for?"
"Nikki Cathy is talking to Sam; I don't think we should disturb them right now".
"Oooooh she likes him does she? Wants to go out with him huh?"
"Something like that, let's just creep across quietly without them noticing okay?"
"Alright! Alright!"
Together they began creeping towards the portrait hole.
"These are all really terrific! You have a lot of talent for this!"
"Ummm…..thanks". Cathy was bright red like a strawberry again.
"My friends should take a look at some of these; they'd get a kick out of it".
"Wow you think so?"
Sam nodded. "Yeah I think so".
Just then Evie tripped over her shoelace. "Ouch!"
Cathy whirled around. "CRIKMAN!"
"Now you've done it!" Nicola helped her up.
"Thanks!" Evie brushed herself off. "RUN!"
"EVIE!"
"No time Stevenson. Gotta run. Catch you later!" Evie ran out after Nicola.
"What the hell?" Sam was shaking his head.
"She's a weirdo! On second thoughts they're all weird!"
Sam just laughed.
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Alexis was in her dormitory playing cards with Donna, Sarah and Kiera.
It was fun when nobody was playing cheat by the rules; Alexis always accused people of being a cheat every round and so ended up with the pack most of the time.
"Cheat!" Donna accused.
"No fair I said cheat first!" Alexis cried out.
"Here take the card packet!" Donna passed her the box. "What were the cards Sarah?"
Sarah turned the cards over. "Two 4's just like I said".
"Damn!" Donna took the pile while everyone else was laughing.
"People's I'm going to go find Lessa to come play cards".
"Ok Alex we'll just play a round without you". Kiera replied offhand as she reshuffled the deck.
Alexis went quietly out of the door.
"Let's play go fish this time, cheat is getting boring". Donna started yawning.
"Hey let's play a game of poker but we can play with Bertie Botts instead of real money or counters".
"Yeah good idea Kiera!" Donna reached out for her candy supplies. "You in Sarah?"
"Um ok".
"I'm dealer!" Kiera started to deal the cards out after they'd all placed their bets.
Alexis came back in along with Lessa as they started a second round. "Lessa's playing!"
"Ok". Kiera handed them both out some cards.
"Oooooh poker! Gambling is fun!" Lessa sat down.
"Ok…" Sarah gave her a funny look.
Alexis won the round. "Oooooh candy!" She started moving around in a sort of happy dance.
They were halfway through another round when Cathy came in. "Where's Crikman?"
"She's not here Cathy, have you tried the dormitory?" Donna suggested.
"Yes I've tried the dormitory! The library too!"
"Why are you looking for her?" Lessa wanted to know.
"Co's! She's a weirdo and she messed up everything! Both her and Nicola!"
Kiera was interested now. "What did they do?"
"Messed up everything! I'm going to go down to lunch then I'll find Char".
"I'll come with you!" Lessa stood up to follow. "Anyone else want to come?"
"Yeah why not?" Donna came as well.
They all left the dormitory. "Let's play snap!"
Sarah nodded. "Ok".
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I'm bored now…..
Well some of you may not actually know this but I base everything in this chapter on real experiences.
Also I had the strange yet funny idea that I should start dedicating chapters of my work to special people (or fictional depending on my state at the time of writing, no Cathy I am not on drugs ok!).
Lessa truly is an Evanescence obsessed fan who has a seriously great collection of stuff (can you blame her? They rock!).
Cathy really is a great anime/manga/chibi artist (good luck with Sam! *winks* Oh oh! *runs*).
Nicola has such a great personality that I sit here for ages trying to write it in and yet I can't seem to get it right.
Char really does write fan fiction (no surprises there as regular readers of her works know Rigella).
Alexis you absolutely love penguins, I should write that in somehow. Also how do you like driving a car in a dream?
Amy you'll never read this but you've been a great friend even if you can be excruciatingly annoying at times!
Donna, Sarah and Kiera are real people, great people, we have some great conversations at lunch don't we?
Laura, well you saw me write quite a lot of this so I want to say thanks for the help. Not just with my fan-fiction but for everything.
J.K.R. One of the smartest people ever to write a fantasy novel for both children and adults. I mean has anyone here tried to take a deeper study into the hidden meanings in her creation? I have and it was really interesting.
Wow I really can drone on can't I? What a pain!
-Alatariel Aldarian
P.s. Thanks guys because believe me without the funny/quirky things you do each day I really wouldn't have written this at all.
P.s.s. Thanks for all the reviews; you give me something to think about when my mind is empty.