Author's Note: Sorry guys that this took so long, I've been overloaded with homework again! *grumbles* Anyway I'll try to have another chapter in the next couple of weeks before I go away on holidays with my family to New Zealand.

So yeah thanks for being patient (or un-patient as in some cases).

This chapter is dedicated to patience.

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Amanda was still fuming. "I hope they get into a lot of trouble!"

"Amanda I think detention is a lot of trouble". Sally muttered.

"She's right you know". Laura intervened. "Detention is pretty serious".

"There you go!" Amanda flung her arms into the air. "Always taking her side!"

"I do not!" Laura shot back.

"You do so!"

"I don't!"

"Yes you do!"

"QUIT IT!" Sally suddenly shouted out. People passing by turned to stare at her.

Laura and Amanda stopped yelling at each other and looked guiltily at Sally.

"Thank you! Now look McGonagall knows how to punish people properly and if you ask me at least they're all going to get a detention and not just a warning!"

"That's true!" Laura voiced her agreement.

"And another thing Laura doesn't just side with me all the time! She's always being treated as the one who really has to decide it all and that's not fair!"

"You're right Sally!" Amanda calmed down. "Sorry Laura".

"I'm sorry too!" Laura hugged her. "Friends?"

"Friends!" Amanda grinned.

"Now that we're all friends again let's go have something to eat". Sally started walking.

Amanda and Laura hurried after her.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Char was already seated at the table when they arrived.

"Hey Char!" Laura gave her a wave.

"Oh hey!" Char looked up from her conversation with Amy.

"Is that the new chapter?" Laura noticed the notepad.

"Yes". Char pulled the notepad behind her back. "Not to be read until tonight".

"Awww! No fun!" Laura was disappointed.

Char just laughed.

Amy was pouring out some pumpkin juice. "Anybody want some?"

"Yeah". Laura pushed her goblet closer. "Yes Please".

"Here you go then". Amy poured her some.

"Thanks! Mmm pumpkin juice!" Laura took a sip.

Cathy, Lessa and Donna suddenly joined them. Cathy seemed a little angry which made Char wonder what had happened. "What's wrong Cathy?"

"Have you seen Crikman?"

"Um no not since breakfast, wasn't she with Alexis playing cards?" Char was confused as to why Cathy was trying to hunt down Evie, what had she done?

"She was but she left" Donna replied.

"Nicola was with her too". Lessa added.

"No I really haven't seen either of them since this morning, why do you want them?"

"She won't tell us". Donna mentioned. "Well except that they ruined something".

"Crikman and Mercer ruined everything! It was going too, well!"

"Yes?" Lessa, Donna and Char begged Cathy to continue.

"No! Not telling!"

"Damn! Sounded like a story!" Donna was disappointed.

"Yeah!" Char added her thought.

"Hey there they are!" Lessa pointed them out as they came racing across the hall.

"What are they laughing about?" Char wondered.

"I don't know". Donna watched them arrive at the table.

Evie and Nicola stopped laughing when they saw Cathy. "Oh oh!"

"CRIKMAN! MERCER!" Cathy cried out.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "That was so funny!" Nicola yelled back at Evie.

"I know her expression was priceless!"

"The way she yelled at you like that! I nearly died!"

They stopped running in the corridor and collapsed against the wall laughing.

"I can't believe she was flirting with him!"

"He was flirting with her, I wonder if he likes her?"

"So she does like him hey? Well!"

"Yes she does but don't tell anybody else, something tells me she doesn't want the others to know anything about it yet".

Nicola nodded. "Yeah ok but it was still pretty funny".

"Yeah". Evie started laughing again. "That's true".

"Hey where is everyone else anyway?"

"Um library I think, not too sure".

"Well let's go check and see if anyone is there".

"Sounds like a plan".

Nicola and Evie moved on through the corridors towards the library. None of their friends were in there.

"Should we keep looking?" Evie wondered out loud.

"It's lunchtime so maybe we should go and check the Great Hall, what do you think?"

"Makes sense". Evie followed her. "Do you think she'll kill us?"

"No but she's definitely angry".

"Yeah she sounded pretty angry when she shouted".

As they walked into the Great Hall a few moments later Cathy's voice reached their ears from the other side of the room. "CRIKMAN! MERCER!"

"How'd she get here ahead of us?" Evie was shocked.

"She must have gone the direct way just after we left".

"We're in trouble now!"

"Maybe!" Nicola walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down. Evie followed.

"Ah yes hi Cathy!" Evie sat down opposite her. "Lovely day!"

"Tell anybody about what you saw and you die!"

"What do they see?" Donna was interested.

Cathy looked at her. "Nothing you need to know".

"Hmmm ok". Donna was getting suspicious.

"Look Cathy, just chill out! You can trust me, I won't tell anyone". Evie gave her a wink.

Cathy glared at her. "I don't trust you!"

"You never did so don't worry yourself about it". Evie replied.

Cathy continued to glare at her.

Nicola overheard what was being said. "Don't worry Cathy, we'll tell everybody".

"Don't you dare!" Cathy started shrieking.

"Um Cathy, I think she's just kidding. Right?" Evie looked at Nicola.

"Well no actually I'm not".

Cathy hid her face in her hands and pretended to sob.

"Now look what you've done!" Evie turned to try and comfort Cathy.

"Why do you always do this to me?" Sobbed Cathy.

"I didn't do anything". Nicola started laughing.

"Tell me what happened?" Donna begged.

"Yeah!" Everyone else cried out in agreement.

"I'd better not". Nicola saw Cathy's threatening look.

They all groaned. "Awwww!"

"Maybe when Cathy wants the story told then you can hear it". Evie tried to look at the bright side. "Then you will all know that nothing really happened at all".

"You're a liar aren't you Evie?" Lessa accused.

"No Lessa, no I'm not".

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Later that night in the Dormitory Cathy lay awake thinking. Everyone else had gone to sleep ages ago, even Evie who sometimes suffered from insomnia.

Sighing she remembered how she felt when he had asked her about her Japanese cartoon pictures. It had been good to know that he noticed her, not that she'd ever admit that to anyone else.

"The cookies know best". Lessa murmured in her sleep.

Why did Evie and Nicola have to ruin that almost perfect moment for her? Damn them both! They always ruined everything. Always.

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"EVANESCENCEY GOODNESS!"

"Great thanks a lot Lessa! Now I'm really awake!" Nicola half grumbled.

"Evanescence where?" Char woke up with such a jolt that she fell out of bed and onto the floor. Everyone started laughing at her.

"Where's evanescence?"

"Lessa just likes screaming that to herself over and over". Evie came in from the corridor dressed in her Hogwarts robes already. "See now she's twitching".

Lessa had started twitching over near her bed but only as an act of fun.

Cathy didn't come up til a few minutes later, a big smile on her face.

"What are you smiling at this morning?" Evie asked her, almost dying of curiosity.

"Nothing" Cathy replied as innocently as was possible but her guilty expression gave it away.

"82?" Evie asked in return just as innocently.

"How dare you mention him!" Cathy turned red like tomato.

"82?" Lessa was confused.

Char fell onto the floor again laughing.

"82, you know her boyfriend". Nicola started laughing.

"You have to die now!" Cathy directed at both Nicola and Evie.

Evie pointed out the obvious. "We all die sometime Cathy".

"I meant soon you fool!"

"Fool of a Took!"

"That's not a good comeback Evie you do realize?"

"Yep!" Evie started laughing.

"Hopeless! Absolutely hopeless!" Cathy had her head in her hands. "Pathetic!"

"Why thank you!" Evie took that as a compliment.

"Aiye!"

"Amy?" Lessa asked hopefully.

Char finally got up off the floor and dressed quickly. When she was done she grabbed Cathy's anime folder. "Yoink!"

"HEY THAT'S MINE!" Cathy was annoyed.

"Mine now!" Char started moving around the room laughing like mad. She started to head off towards the stairs.

"No give me back my folder!" Cathy chased after her.

"Mine!"

"No Mine!"

"Mine now!"

"No it's mine, it has my name on it therefore it belongs to me!"

"Ha ha ha!" Char ran down the stairs.

"NO!" Cathy chased after her.

Evie looked from Lessa to Nicola. "I'd better go sort this out before it gets nasty".

"We'll come too". Lessa had finally calmed down. "Once Nikki has her shoes".

"It's too early! I want to go back to sleep!" Nicola muttered as she tied up her shoes.

"We all want to go back to sleep!" Lessa replied.

"I don't". Evie added. "I like being awake this early and anyway we have classes today".

The others looked at her funny. "What?"

Evie shrugged. "Well I do".

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Cathy had to chase Char all the way to the Great Hall before getting her folder back.

She gave Char the evil glare she usually reserved for Evie.

Char just laughed before falling into a seat. "That was fun!"

"That was not fun thank you very much!" Cathy sat across from her.

"Well it was for me! Think of all the possibilities I could have given this to!"

Cathy started whimpering as she clutched her folder with tightly gripped hands.

"There you are!" Lessa, Nicola and Evie came running over.

Char started laughing again.

"It's not funny!" Cathy protested.

"Oh yes it is!" Char gasped between laughs.

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Sorry to the real Cathy, sorry about 82 but it was a colourful joke of ours that I just had to put in! Please forgive me!

- Alatariel Aldarian = )