A/N: Heyheyhey! Another chapter! This one is a personal favorite of mine.

The next chapter might be a little late. I'm juggling a few things right now. Thought you should know.

I hope you enjoy!

Noah was in the restricted section of the school library. There were books scattered everywhere, nothing on the shelves.

I've never been here before. How do I know what it looks like? he wondered.

In the middle of the suddenly expansive room, there was a huge leather-bound tome that was open to a page bookmarked with what looked like Noah's wand. He started towards it, but a three-headed dragon suddenly appeared out of nowhere. One head was Cody's, one was Duncan's, and one was Justin's .

"Run, Noah! Before they take you!" the head of Cody called out, before it disappeared in a flash of blue flames. Duncan's head just laughed.

"Guess you're stuck with us, Noah. No going back to those nerdy friends of yours. You'll be alllll alone." Duncan and Justin spoke at the same time.

"No! I have other friends that aren't in Ravenclaw!" Noah yelled.

Professor McLean's head suddenly appear in Cody's place. He was wearing the Sorting Hat, and was laughing maniacally. "Don't you get it, Noah? You have no friends. You will spend the rest of your days here alone, no matter what the Hat decides! All of them will hate you!"

"Little buddy! It's time to go to dinner!" a voice penetrated the dream for a second before Noah was pulled back in.

The forms of all his friends appeared in front of him, and the dragon disappeared. His friends slowly started to fade. He heard laughter, eerie laughter. He quickly grabbed his wand from the book.

"Silencio!" He shouted as he waved his wand, but nothing happened. The laughter continued.

"Stop it! Stop tormenting me! Silencio! SILENCIO!" The voices got louder, louder, LOUDER...

"AAAAHHH!" Noah woke up screaming. Owen, Geoff, and Trent were surrounding him.

"Dude, are you okay?" Trent asked with a worried tone in his voice. He was sitting ac

"You were freaking out in your sleep, man, yelling 'Silencio! Silencio!' willy nilly. You nearly shut up Izzy!" Geoff explained.

"Little buddy, it's okay. We're all here for you." Owen squeezed what little break Noah had out of him.

"Thanks, Owen. And thanks to you guys, too." Noah said with the slightest reservation that no one picked up on.

The four guys made their way down the staircase, with Noah in tow, still being partially crushed by Owen. The common room was nearly deserted, except for a few.

"We were really worried about you, Canada. Don't scare us like that again." Eva punched Noah's shoulder, then gave him a one-sided hug.

"Let's go already! It's munchie time! We can't pry information out of Noah on an empty stomach! To the Great Hall!" Izzy declared.

They all cheered, and Izzy led them out of the common room to where everyone had gathered to eat.

At the Ravenclaw table, Cody had been waiting for Noah to show up, not even grabbing any of the sumptuous food laid out in front of him.

"Gosh, Cody, aren't you gonna eat?" Harold asked through a mouthful of bread and pumpkin juice. He was sitting across from Cody, facing the Slytherin table. Ezekiel was next to Harold. Cody was facing the Gryffindor table, and was sitting uncomfortably close to Gwen, who was slowly scooting away from him as his attention was focused elsewhere, towards her friends.

"Not until Noah gets here." Cody didn't bother to tear his eyes away from the large doors at the front of the hall as he spoke.

"C'mon, he's not even going to sit with us. He's with the Gryffindors right now. We'll get him back eventually, gosh!"

When Noah did enter, Cody waved, but Noah didn't seem to see him. He kept his eyes on the five other students he had entered with. They were all talking excitedly, but it was hard to discern what they were saying in the echoey hall. Noah was simply rolling his eyes every once in awhile, his arms at his sides.

Dessert was just being served as the newly entered six sat down with their fellow Housemates and began to eat. Cody once again tried to grab Noah's attention, as Noah sat down directly across from him, by waving. Noah still didn't respond. His eyes were directed at Geoff, who appeared to be telling a weird story to the group while eating a pie at the same time. Noah had a fork in his hand piercing a slice of cake. Owen was next to Noah on his right, and he was laughing at Geoff's story, his face already covered in frosting. Izzy was next to Owen, or rather on top of him, holding a sloshing goblet of pumpkin juice. Eva was next to Geoff, throwing him death glares with one eye and envying the pie in his hand with the other. Trent was next to Noah on his left, and was trying not to stare at Gwen.

"See, dude? He doesn't even see us. He didn't wave or anything. He's just a backstabbing little traitor, that's what he is. You should just dump him." Harold spoke bluntly.

Something hit the back of Harold's head with a spalt. He turned to see Duncan laughing his head off, and a few other guys as well, including Geoff. Noah was failing to hold it back, but he broke. He quickly regained his composure, unlike the others.

"Agh! Idiots!" Harold wiped off some of the cake off his hair, but most of it smeared so his hair was more brown than orange.

"What's wrong, nerd? Can't handle a little slice of humiliation?" Duncan high-fixed Geoff. Noah rolled his eyes.

"Duncan, keep your food to yourself." Cody chided.

Duncan turned back to his table. He yelled "Hey, Noah, why don't you tell your little nerd friend to back off? We were just having fun."

Noah shrugged but still didn't look over. "You're the one who started it." he simply said.

Duncan let out a large sigh. "Fine. I'll keep my precious food away from the nerd section." He shot a quick glare at Cody, then turned back to his plate and commenced eating again.

"I told you he was a jerk, GOSH!" Harold crossed his arms.

"C'mon, Harold, it was pretty funny, eh?" Ezekiel cut in.

"Shut up, Zeke. No one asked for your opinion." Cody bit back.

"That's pretty harsh, eh?"

"Not as harsh as Harold saying I should 'dump' Noah as a friend! That's ridiculous! Just because he laughed, doesn't mean he's not a nice person!"

"Oh, really? Then why'd he do it?''

"Uh..I don't know!" Cody needed to clear his head of this emotional confusion. "I need to get out of here. I'm going to bed." He grabbed a fistful of candy from a nearby bowl, stood up, and walked out of the Great Hall.

Noah was getting bored with Geoff's story telling, Owen's grossness and Duncan's jerkiness, so he too began to vacate.

"I'm gonna head upstairs, guys. I think I'm getting a headache from incessant boredom."

"Aw, man, you should stay! We're gonna try and get some of those Ravenclaw girls to 'study' with us later." Duncan snickered as Geoff said it. They high-fived.

"Yeah, that's not my thing. They'll probably reject you anyway." Noah replied. "Just do your own homework. I'm outta here." He grabbed a few cookies from a nearby plate and headed out.

He stopped when he saw Cody sitting against the wall with his head down outside the huge doors.

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