Chapter Nine

Tons of homework was coming in again and Teri was busy answering millions of questions.

Rita was glazing at a dim lighted lamp holding her quill.

"What are you doing, Rita? You hardly have half of your homework done!" yelled Teri.

"Huh, What- oh. Yeah, I was just thinking about the question…" mumbled Rita.

Teri eyed Rita suspiciously and kept on talking. "What has gotten into you, you've been like, day dreaming the whole week!"

Rita hesitated to reply to what Teri had said.

Hermione, Harry and Ron was out to The Three Broomsticks, Teri wanted to go too, but the three of them told her how much homework she had.

The two of them were sitting by a big window, and it had made Teri's hand red because it was so cold.

It was almost 9:00 and Rita and Teri had droopy eyes and bags under them.

"Well that's the last of Potions class homework." Said Teri sleepily. "If only Snape wouldn't give us so much bloody homework all the time…"

They set off to bed to the girl's dorm, half asleep. Teri quickly changed into her pajamas and climbed into bed.

When she looked down, Rita's white stuffed cat wasn't there anymore.

Instead, there was a little see-through crystal box with a snitch that had rusted a bit where the carved in patterns were.

It was what Harry gave her for Christmas. Out of the corner of Teri's eye, Rita was just pulling her blankets out.

"What?" said Rita, with innocent eyes.

"Oh, nothing… Is that Harry's snitch? Didn't he give it to you for Christmas? Where's your stuffed cat you used to love? Where'd you get that crystal box? I've never seen it before, and you don't like Draco, who do you like now? I know you like someone. So who is it this time?"

"Okay, Okay! Stop asking so many questions! Yes, Harry gave this to me for Christmas, and I got this box from my trunk, and…" Rita stopped there. She knew she wouldn't be stupid enough to blurt out whom she had liked.

Teri had almost a murderous grin on her face. "Why do you stop there? Come on, I'm your best friend! I've kept the Draco secret! Please please please!"

"Okay, fine. But it's pretty obvious." Said Rita, turning her head and looking at the snitch carefully set in the crystal box.

"Ohhhh…" Teri started giggle, and soon burst into laughs.

Rita was laughing too, and both of them were told to be quiet from the other girls in the dorm.

When the two girls were calmed down and fell asleep, Teri was awakened by a rattling noise.

Now that Teri's eyes had adjusted to the darkness, she could see everything perfectly clear.

Rita was still asleep, she had always been an extremely deep sleeper.

Shade was restless in his cage, and many of his beddings were flying out of the cage and poking Teri's eyes repeatedly.

"Shade, Shade! Calm down Shade!" whispered Teri, opening Shade's cage to pick him up.

Soon Shade was carefully standing on Teri's finger.

Teri began to feel half asleep again, and everything went into a blur.

Next chapter.