CH 5: The Return

Esmeralda's POV:

"Are we going to duel or are you going to chicken out?" I guess that Ravenclaw, Jenna Charlisse made it clear that she wanted to duel me. I not going to back down but I seriously don't feel like a duel right now. I had enough to worry about. Luckily, her Hufflepuff friend, Melissa Abrielle, was really tired and didn't feel like dueling so I guess it's fair.

"We're dueling and you're going to lose!" Jenna yelled.

"We'll see who loses," I muttered and whipped out my wand.

"While you're dueling, please do not disturb the pleasantness of a good night's sleep, or else," Melissa yawned and fell asleep.

Jenna started the duel. "Incarcerous!" She shouted as ropes shot out from the end of her wand.

"Incendio!" Flames shot out of my wand, burning the ropes and heading for Jenna.

She shouted, "Evanesco!" The flames disappeared. Jenna and I dueled for only a few minutes though.

"Impedimenta!" Luckily, we both ducked out of the way just in time as Melissa's spell hit the trees around us. We turned around slowly to face Melissa. She was not very happy. "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT NOT DISTURBING? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M KINDA TRYING TO SLEEP HERE? THIS TIME, SHUT UP OR ELSE I'LL KILL YOU!!" She screamed. I don't think she meant to do the last part but she sounded pretty angry. I guess we were making too much racket. We decided to shut up after that. She went back to sleep after a few seconds. We decided not to duel anymore, just in case.

After a FEW hours, Melissa FINALLY woke up.

"Good morning or afternoon or whatever time it is, Mel," Jenna said. "Are you still going to kill us? We didn't make any noise."

"Since when did I say I wanted to kill you?" Melissa said.

"Do you suffer from any kind of memory loss?" I asked.

"No, of course not. I think I might've mentioned that in a dream," Melissa said, rubbing her eyes.

"Are you awake, because if you are, we can finally find a way to get out of here," Jenna said. "Or perhaps we can first find out how we got here."

"Umm…I…don't…know…" I said slowly. Jenna and Melissa, who was now wide-awake, looked at me suspiciously.

"Well…obviously somebody wanted to get us here," Jenna said, accusingly.

"Uh…yeah…I just…uh…wonder who that…person is…don't you?" I said. They looked at me again. "What, what did I say?"

After an hour, I ran out of excuses and gave them the scroll, which Malfoy had given me. We spent hours studying it.

"Are you sure you didn't see anything on it?" Jenna asked for the fifth time.

"I told you I didn't open it until after five o'clock," I replied.

Jenna pointed her wand at the blank scroll and said, "Aparecium." Nothing happened.

"Well obviously it's not written in invisible ink. Everyone with a wand or invisible ink eraser can read it that way." I said.

"What did Malfoy say when he gave it to you?" Melissa asked.

"He said something about not opening it until midnight," I answered.

"And you obviously did not listen," Jenna said, accusingly.

"Hey, who would trust a dork like him and his other so-called friends!" I argued.

"Obviously not you. Honestly, and I thought Slytherins actually trusted each other," Melissa mocked.

"Hey, if he wasn't a pureblood, he would be just another stupid Hufflepuff," I countered.

"Hey, are you saying I'm stupid!" Melissa shouted.

"Break it up already, you guys are sounding so immature," Jenna said.

We studied the scroll by the light of our wands for another hour before Melissa got impatient. She picked up her wand and started poking it with it.

"GRR! WORK YOU STUPID THING AND SHOW ME A WAY TO GET US OUT OF HERE!" She yelled. Surprisingly, that actually did something. The scroll rolled up and then the thing happened again.

I opened my eyes and looked around to see where we ended up. I did not see Jenna or Melissa but I did recognize the place. I looked again to make sure I was right. It turned out I was. I was in the Slytherin common room. I went up to my bed and looked at my watch which had not been working while I was in the wherever place. It said 12:00 pm. I guess the scroll only works at midnight as Malfoy said. I think it just transported us to where we are supposed to be at midnight.