RAFT tip of the day: When in doubt use parley.
Mashed Potatoes
"—And this will save me from a wrackspurt?" The strange blonde girl nodded enthusiastically. "I see." Alex nodded wisely before being yanked toward the door. "Oii!"
"You can't be in here! This is the Ravenclaw common room, go back to the Slytherins!"
"I am not a Slytherin, you yellow-bellied scallywag! I have no house therefore I belong to them all! I have deemed this my sleeping place for the night; you will now guide me to a bed!" The Ravenclaw prefect stared at her incredulously before the funny blonde girl led her up to her dormitory.
"My name is Luna. You are Alejandra, right?"
"Yeah, but call me Alex."
"Okay, you can sleep in our dorm; there are stars on the ceiling." Alex oohed in appreciation.
"This here looks like a right fine place to set up camp." And with that Alex pulled a tent out of nowhere and began to pitch it.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With Charlie & the Slytherins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Charlie had decided that the Slytherin common room was too dreary looking, and decided to redecorate, much to the Slytherins displeasure.
"Okay Goyle, move the fish tank over to the right! Your other right! Oh Crabbe hang the lavender drapes over by the fuchsia pillows, good."
"What are you doing?"
"Hi Blondie! Here hold the puppy posters they go over by the bean bags. I'm redecorating this place." Draco stared befuddled for a second and then started yelling at Charlie.
"What!? You can't do that! Put it back to the way it was, this is disgusting."
"No, no Blondie, I'm making it pretty now. Oh here you can pick where to put the teddy bears and flowers. I even baked cookies!" Draco stared at the odd American girl. Those cookies did look delicious, and the puppies were adorable. No! He was a proud pureblooded Slytherin! He would not be swayed by puppies and cookies! "Blondie do you want to hold the Anne Gables pictures, while I distribute the cookies?" Draco stared at the picture of babies dressed in flower costumes. He was done for.
The Next Morning…..
"I like the pink, it's pretty." Charlie walked up to Alex and Draco, all of whom now had flowers in hair.
"Um, Charlie why does every single Slytherin have flowers in their hair?"
"Well, we had some touching moments last night, and they got to know themselves better. They had to grow up to quickly, and never got to experience life. Did you know most of them grew up in large cold homes, never being hugged? Well I fixed them and soon they will become well rounded individuals."
"So the flowers are helping them get in touch with their inner child?"
"No I thought it would be funny to make them wear flowers. I told them if they didn't I would release the tapes I made of them crying and cooing at the puppy pictures."
"Well, time to go back to the dungeons again." The girls trudged back down to the dungeons, and sat in the same place they did yesterday. However, the funny red-haired boys were not there, and everyone looked a little younger…..
"Hey, what are you kids doing in here?"
"They're taller than you are Charlie."
"Shut up. Why is it every time we go somewhere it's 'Oh Charlie they're taller then you.' Or 'oh Charlie the pigmies are the same size as you could pass as twins,' oh Charlie you need stilts.' You know what Alex how's the weather up there, you stupid bean poll?"
"It's lovely."
"Goddammit."
"What, may I ask, are you ladies doing here?" They blinked and looked up at Professor Snape.
"We're here for your class." He sneered.
"I think you need to check your schedules again."
"No, no we had this first thing yesterday. Don't worry Professor we learned our schedules really fast." Charlie and Alex walked over to where they sat before, only to discover that they were already occupied.
"You're in our seats move." Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked up at Charlie and Alex.
"It's you!" Harry pointed at Alex.
"Um, yeah, yeah it is. Since you're not going to move….." Alex went and sat on his lap. He gaped wordlessly. Charlie took her cue and went and sat on Ron. She finally took note of Ron and stared at him.
"Its you! But there's only one of you! Where's the other?"
"Um I don't know what you mean?"
"Yesterday there were two of you."
"Um" Ron just continued to blush as Charlie examined him.
"Ron she's talking about Fred and George."
"I knew that!" While Ron and Herminie were fighting Harry was currently having an internal panic attack about the Death Eater spy currently sitting on his lap. She was going to hex him without anyone noticing! Then she would try to take over Hogwarts! He was the only one that could stop her.
"I know you're secret." He whispered. Alex blinked.
"I'm sorry, what?"
"I said, I know your secret!" Alex blinked. How did he know she was secretly a practicing tango dancer?
"Don't tell anyone."
"Oh okay…wait a minute!"
"Mr. Potter five points from Gryffindor."
"What? She's the one that's in the wrong class and plans on destroying Hogwarts!"
"Ten points."
"But she's-"
"I thoroughly doubt Miss de le Vega could take over a paper bag let alone all of Hogwarts. You however are currently disrupting my class, another five points." Alex shook her fist.
"Hey! I took over Nevada once! Seriously! They had to send in the marines to get me out!" Everyone looked at her strangely. "What?"
"Alex you fool we were never to speak of the Nevada incident again! You all heard nothing! Nothing!" Charlie angrily threatened everyone in the room. Snape sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"We have block classes at Hogwarts. You do not usually have the same class two days in a row." Both girls ohed and got up, Ron and Harry sighing in relief. It was then they noticed all the Slytherins on the other side of the room had flowers in their hair. They started laughing, offending Charlie.
"Well it's not our fault we didn't have block classes in America! We didn't have classes in America!" They both grabbed their things and headed for the door. The Gryffindors were now laughing hysterically at the Slytherins, and Snape had just took a swig of what looked like brandy before hiding it again. Alex opened the door and Charlie waved.
"Bye Professor Huggleton! We will be back!" Snape paled, and every student in the dungeon broke out in laughter.
"DETENTION!" Snape raced out of the door and found Charlie and Alex. "You two you will report for detention tonight at 8:00." Charlie raised her hand.
"Um Professor Huggleton, I already have detention tonight from the creepy cat lady."
"Double detention then!" Alex sniggered. Snape looked at her. "You too!"
"What I didn't do anything!"
"Ten points!"
"I get ten points? In your face Charlie!"
"No you don't get points. You—" Snape paused; he forgot she didn't have a house. "You are going to detention, both of you."
"Just cause she called you Professor Huggleton?"
"You disrespected a professor and disrupted my class!" Alex looked at Charlie.
"This is all your fault."
"What you said he gave good hugs." Charlie turned and looked at Snape. She gave him her best puppy dog eyes. "I'm sorry Professor. It will never happen again." Snape stared at her. What was this feeling he was experiencing? He wanted to retract his punishment and pat her on the head telling her everything would be alright. No! He was a proud wizard he would not succumb to this little girl.
"I really am sorry Professor. I promise I will never ever ever do it again." Dammit, Snape was weakening he was willing to give her whatever she wanted. He had to get away from her, before he lost it. These damn Americans had the strange power to influence his will with their damn big sparkly eyes and innocent expressions. Alex stepped up.
"Sorry Professor, you know, Charlie is dyslexic, she can't remember names well, please, we can't have two detentions tonight." She leaned forward with her arms behind her back and smiled, her eyes sparkling. He leaned back in horror.
"I---" He blinked and stared at the two of them with their sparkling expressions. "I-I have to, to go…" He ran back down the hallway to his dungeon. The girls shrugged.
"Huh. Oh well. So, what did you do with your schedule?"
"Oh it's in my bag hold on." Charlie started digging through her bag. "Here hold this." She pulled out a notebook. "and this." A book. "and these." More books and pens. "oh and this." Charlie pulled out a role of paper towels. "okay hold on." Charlie kept on digging through her bag, pulling out a GPS, make up, a map of Europe, a rubber duck, and a smoothie.
"How are you doing this?"
"Oh here we go, the schedule. Let's see, we have Transfiguration. That better not have anything to do with math." The girls started walking. "So um you know yesterday how we had to have some kid show us where Huggleton teaches?"
"Yeah so?"
"How are we going to find this class?" Alex stopped.
"Oh. Huh. We'll figure it out."
"Okay doky." They walked up to the great hall and looked up. There were floors upon floors of moving staircases above them.
"Okay, so we came from below, so we have to go up. Pick a number!"
"Three!"
"Okay! Floor three here we come!" They raced up the stairs up to the second floor, but just as they were going to cross the staircase, it began to move. Alex stared in horror as the staircase slid out from under her feet, causing her to do the splits. She shifted all her weight forward and landed on the upper part of the staircase before it split in two. Charlie was right behind her, but was not able to reach the other part of the staircase.
"Shit! What the hell is this?"
"Earthquake!"
"Since when do they have earthquakes in England?"
"Like I know. Jump!" Charlie was getting farther and farther away as her staircase started swinging towards the wall. She took a running leap to Alex's staircase, but just as she was about to reach the staircase, Alex's started moving too. She tried to grab at the stairs, but missed and started falling.
"Shit!" Alex made an attempt to reach her in time, but was too late. "Fuck!" Alex pulled a whip out of her robe and wrapped it around a rod iron wall sconce and jumped, swinging down to catch Charlie. It was at that moment classes let out, and students started streaming out into the hallways and pointing up at them.
"I'm coming Charlie!" She grabbed her hand and they swung toward the other staircase, unfortunately, their momentum ran out before they reached it.
"AAAHHHHH, OOOHHHHH." They began swinging back and forth between the two staircases, finally coming to a slow stop, Alex holding onto her whip and holding Charlie's hand. They both blinked at the horde of students staring at them, before Alex's grip started slipping. The girls began falling. Suddenly they landed on something much softer than the floor. They looked down and saw someone with black hair and glasses.
"Hey Alex isn't this the kid you were sitting on earlier?"
"Yeah I think it is."
"Mmph ugh." They just stared at him, before getting off. Both girls looked around before they figured out what happened. When they were falling the staircases must have started moving again shortening their fall to only to twenty or so feet. Harry just happened to be on the staircase when it started moving. Suddenly everyone rushed over to them.
"Harry are you alright? Oh Harry you saved them, you're so brave!" The girls gaped as a crowd formed around Harry, singing his praises, while hoisting him up on their shoulders.
"Harry! Harry! Harry!" They carried him away, his head lolling dangerously. Charlie and Alex just stared, their mouths hanging open.
"What the hell? He didn't do anything! He broke our fall! That was it! What about all the death defying leaps, and swinging from the ceiling stuff we did? He was just there!" Some of the Gryffindors at the end of the parade turned and shook their fists at them.
"Harry's the best!"
"Yeah he's the boy who lived!"
"Yeah, the boy who broke our twenty foot fall and lived!"
"Why does he get all the credit and glory? What's so great about some boy we landed on?"
"I feel so ashamed. We've been outsmarted by a staircase, then we land on some kid, and suddenly he's a hero. How did this happen?"
"I don't know. I just don't know." They walked dejectedly to the Great Hall for lunch, passing the Hufflepuff table, which erupted into screams when they passed. They headed straight for the Slytherin table and scooted in so they were on either side of Draco. They listlessly filled their plates, and sighed dismally. Draco looked at each of them in turn. Alex wasn't as sparkly and Charlie's hair was drooping. He cleared his throat.
"So, umm, how was your morning?" Both girls pinned stares at him and he shrunk.
"I hate British earthquakes."
"Damned four eyes getting credit, where no credit is due." Draco looked over to Gryffindor table and heard chants of praise for Potter.
"Are you two mad at Potter?"
"Is that the kid's name? He broke our fall and suddenly he's a hero. The way everyone's telling it he jumped from the staircase and grabbed us both and saved us from a thousand foot drop. He's making it seem like we're helpless. Fucking whore." Draco grinned.
"You know I also happen to detest him." The girls didn't acknowledge he said anything.
"Stupid whelp."
"I think I'm going to be sick from the shame of it all."
"You know, we could work this to our advantage. There isn't a person at this entire table that doesn't hate Harry Potter! I'm sure if we work together we could----" Suddenly Alex screamed. She gestured to her plate in horror. Charlie gasped. Draco looked around wildly.
"What?!"
"I wasn't done with those! I was eating my mashed potatoes and then they just disappeared! Damn table stole my food!"
"Oh they're just clearing up for the next course." They both turned to him.
"They?"
"Yeah the house elves. The kitchens are right below us, and they magic the food up onto the tables." Alex's eyes narrowed and she stood up and began striding toward the Gryffindor table. She swept around, grabbed both twin's arms, and dragged them out of the Great Hall. Charlie watched them leave, then turned back to Draco.
"She took my twin!" Charlie eyed Draco. Oh well, blondes were just as good. She winked at him.
"So, you say you also hate Harry?"
"Yes I do."
"Well we should do something about that." Charlie started thinking. She looked at Draco again; his flower was still in his hair. Suddenly she got an idea. "We should form a club!" Draco blinked.
"What?"
"A club, it will be great! We can get matching jackets and have code words and we can hold the meetings in a tree house! Every Tuesday will be pie and punch day! I'll get started on the posters!" Charlie pulled a sheet of paper and a box of magic markers out of her bag and began drawing.
"Um I meant something else." Charlie looked up from her drawing and smiled at him. She handed Draco some paper and a green marker.
"After the poster making we can do something else. Something fun. Whatever you want." She winked at him again. He gawked at her and she shoved the marker into his hand.
"Where are we going?" Alex sighed; this was the third time they had asked that in unison. She spun them around.
"I need you guys to help me in the kitchen." They ohed and slid their arms through hers. One of them started speaking. Alex couldn't tell which one it was.
"Alright. We'd love to help you in the kitchen, but I'm not sure the house elves would appreciate it." Alex stared at him.
"Which one are you?" She untangled herself from them and walked behind them, then stopped, and looked hard, she walked up close to him and pinched his butt. "Never mind I know." She walked back up and grabbed his arm. "Hi Fred." She smiled and let him led her to the kitchen. After entering through the portrait, Alex straightened up, and began yelling at the house elves.
"Alright! Which one of you took me mashed potatoes?" They all looked nervously at each other. "Well? We can do this the easy way or the hard way." One of the meek elves stepped forward.
"Please miss, we're not sure which one of us took your food." She eyeballed all of them, before walking up to one of the tables and stealing a ladle.
"I then hereby commandeer this kitchen in the name of…me!" The twins looked at each other.
"Cool."
Charlie and Draco walked into the great hall, both of their hair was messed up. Draco had an odd look on his face, and followed Charlie to the Slytherin table. They sat down and Draco pulled his chair closer to her. Charlie noticed a girl with black hair giving her a nasty look.
"Can I help you?" The girl just kept on glaring at her.
"What is it Pansy?" The girl pursed her lips.
"Where were you? I was looking for you." Charlie suddenly spoke up.
"We were hanging up posters for our new club."
"You're in a club?"
"Yeah D.F.E."
"D.F.E.?"
"Destroy four eyes." Pansy was about to ask what she meant by that, when Charlie noticed something.
"Where's the food?" Draco scoffed.
"Hm those house elves must be slacking off. Dumbledore should be stricter with them. If my father knew—"
"Why is the food gone?" Charlie was hungry, she worked up and appetite, all she wanted was some food and the house elves were on strike? Some one coughed at that moment and they all looked up at the to the Head table to see Dumbledore about to address them.
"It seems that dinner will not be served tonight, as Miss de la Vega has, in her words, commandeered the, hem, kitchens. Unless we meet her demands, she said she shall withhold all meals." Pandemonium erupted, teachers and students alike began yelling, demanding dinner, and demanding she be punished.
"THAT BITCH!" Charlie stood up. Everyone stopped and stared at her. "Fucking hell! Oh I'm going to fix this! She has to tell me when she commandeers things! God fucking dammit! Oh she is going to get a piece of my mind!" She stormed out of the great hall intent on making Alex pay for holding her food hostage. Everyone in the great hall stared as Charlie left. McGonagall turned to Dumbledore.
"Shouldn't we go and stop her?" Dumbledore just smiled.
"I think Miss Brown will handle the situation just fine. Besides she will have the best chance of stopping her friend."
"You're finding this amusing aren't you?"
"Endlessly."
Charlie stomped down the hall to the kitchens. She was hungry and dammit why the heck didn't she think of it first. She tickled the pear and was about to step through the portrait when a hundred little hands pushed her back, one set grabbing her feet out from under her.
"Dammit Alex what the hell?" A face poked around the corner.
"It's just Charlie, tie her up and bring her in." She began cursing as the house elves tied her up and carried her over their heads into the room, dropping her in the middle of the room. She peered up to see Alex wearing a pan as a crown and Fred and George lounging at a table, eating cake. Her stomach growled. She looked over at the house elves.
"Why are you listening to her, I want my dinner dammit!" One of the house elves pointed behind Alex. All of their cooking supplies were suspended over a boiling pot of what looked like lava. Alex was holding onto a pull string that would send it into the cauldron.
"No. No food will be given unless my demands of my colleagues and I are met." She gestured to the Weasley twins, who grinned and waved. Charlie gaped.
"No fair I want in!"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"Three's a much better number for a band of kitchen commandeers than four is."
"They're twins they count as one person."
"Hey!"
"Shh. I'm negotiating a deal here."
"Hm you maybe right. All right boys untie her." The house elves released Charlie, who went over to where the twins were sitting and started eating cake with them.
"So what are your demands anyway?"
"I want my mashed potatoes back."
"You took over the kitchen and refuse to feed anyone because you want your mashed potatoes back?"
"Yes." The twins glared.
"Oh, that and they want a stand in the great hall so that they can conduct puppet shows." Charlie blanched.
"Puppet shows?" George winked.
"Special Puppet shows." Charlie inched away from them.
"Ooookay then. Well, what do we do?"
"Whenever someone tries to breach the kitchen, I pull this string a bit," The house elves cooking supplies rattled and they all gasped in horror. "And the house elves attack them and we take them as our prisoners." Just then Alex had an idea.
"Hey, hostages, yeah that's it! Fred, why didn't we think of that?" Fred shrugged casually.
"Dunno. We could use her as a hostage." He pointed at Charlie.
"You know as much fun as that sounds I'm not digging the idea at the moment."
"No it's perfect they don't know you're on our side. They'll listen to our demands if we have a hostage."
"That might work except everyone knows we're friends."
"You never know what we might do with our friends."
"Not in front of the house elves." They all looked over to the horde of cowering house elves, and then shrugged.
"You haven't heard a thing; you have no idea what we're planning." Alex rattled the bundle threateningly and the house elves gasped and nodded. Charlie was surrounded by house elves again, and tied up for the second time.
"Dammit I just wanted my freaking dinner."
"Well that will teach you."
"Yeah make sure to have snacks in case some redheaded jerks decide to commandeer the kitchen."
"Lesson well learned Charlie."
"I hate you….will you at least feed me?"
"Hm. All right let it never be said that Alejandra de la Vega is unkind to hostages. George go take Charlie and make sure she's full."
"Will do." George winked at Charlie and slung her over his shoulder. Fred stared at Alex for a few minutes before she blinked.
"Oh right. But no-" Just then there was a banging on the door.
"Miss de la Vega open this door immediately! You can't commandeer the kitchens!" McGonagall's voice rang out, followed by Snape's.
"Miss de la Vega, if you do not return order to the kitchens you will be forced to spend the night in the forbidden forest!"
"Why's it forbidden?"
"All sorts of creatures dwell in the forest. It is a dark and dangerous place."
"Does it have talking trees?"
"Huh?"
"I'll go if they have talking trees." McGonagall got fed up.
"Miss de la Vega open this door immediately!"
"You heard 'em boys." The house elves opened the door and pounced on Snape and McGonagall. A fight broke out. Snape and McGonagall were able to take out several house elves before being subdued and tied up. Alex opened a bottle of rum and took a swig, and put on her large feathered captains hat.
"Now then matey's, there will be order in this kitchen, after you have met our demands. She gestured to the twins and Charlie, who had just returned with George. Snape sneered.
"Give in to your demands? This is a school Miss de la Vega, students are not allowed to commandeer anything or make demands!"
"Hm, well I gotta be saying matey, you be in no position to be telling me what I can and can not do. Besides my motto is 'Take what you can--"
"Give nothing back." Charlie chimed in.
"Miss Brown I thought you were coming down to settle this mess." The twins and Alex looked at Charlie.
"Oh that's right I forgot she was a hostage too. Tie her up again. How did you get out of the ropes the second time anyway?"
"George and I couldn't properly eat if I was tied up. No sportsmanship or fun in that." Everyone but George gawked at Charlie.
"Um…well anyway. Tie her up and put her with the rest of the hostages." Charlie found herself once again tied up by house elves.
"Damn scrappy little buggers." Charlie cursed. Alex sighed and sat down and perched her feet on Fred's lap.
"This could be a long night. Anyone want to play charades?" She looked at the twins, then over at Charlie, Snape, and McGonagall, all of whom were glaring at her.
"Rest assured, you will pay for this." She looked at Snape.
"Do you prefer gold or silver?" He narrowed his eyes.
"Eh, our guest's are too noisy, gag them please. McGonagall and Snape looked shocked as the house elves tied gags around their mouths and sat back, waiting for Alex's orders.
2 hours later…..
Charlie had fallen asleep, and snored through her gag, somehow. Alex and the twins were engaged in a rowdy game of charades.
"A buffalo! Austin Powers! Charlie on crack!" George blinked.
"I was a zebra!" Alex snapped her fingers.
"Damn, I should've known. Oh well, me next!" Just as she was going to act out Dancing with Wolves, someone knocked on the door. Alex grinned.
"Excellent. Boys, hold down the fort." Fred and George saluted and Alex opened the door, surrounded by house elves. Dumbledore stood in front of her.
"Howdy Professor."
"Good evening Miss de la Vega. I see that Minerva, Severus and Miss Brown have all failed in their attempt to reclaim the kitchen." Alex nodded wisely.
"Indeed. I assume you are here to negotiate their return?" Dumbledore nodded.
"Yes, now let's get down to business."
"I see, if you'll step into my office." Alex went over to the table where George and Fred were sitting, she pulled out a chair and sat down. Fred and George stood on either side of her. Dumbledore sat down across from Alex.
"What are your demands?"
"I want my mashed potatoes back, and my mates be wanting to host puppet shows in the great hall." Dumbledore nodded.
"Anything else?" Alex nodded.
"A rum supply for Charlie and me, random dance parties in the Great Hall, and for these guys," She gestured to the house elves. "To not take my food away until I'm done with it!" The house elves nodded in fear. Dumbledore stroked his beard.
"I see. I will be able to return your mashed potatoes to you as a sign of good faith if you will release one of the hostages."
"I want the mashed potatoes and the rum supplies as a sign of good faith."
"Well Miss de la Vega. I'm not sure I will be able to meet your rum needs. Students are not allowed alcohol on school grounds."
"Well we have a problem here, but I'll be willing to substitute the rum supply for not having my food removed before I'm done."
"Alright we have an accord."
Dumbledore waved his wand and Alex's mashed potatoes appeared in front of her.
"Alright boys release Charlie." George walked over and untied Charlie, who had woken up during the negotiations.
"Finally my ass was getting sore." Charlie walked over to Alex's 'office' and stood beside George while Alex finished her mashed potatoes. She finished and sat back.
"Well, good doing business with you." Alex got up and walked away. Charlie sighed.
"She was never very good at negotiations." She sat done in Alex's chair and took over.
"I still have two hostages and a room full of house elves to barter with. The boys want the puppet shows and I want the rum."
"Puppet shows in the great hall would be disruptive."
"Hm well is there another place they could hold them?" Suddenly Fred piped up.
"We could hold them before Quidditch games." Dumbledore appeared in deep thought.
"Alright that is acceptable. However Miss Brown as I explained to your friend I can not allow students to drink on school grounds."
"How about you just look the other way?" Dumbledore's eyes twinkled and Charlie knew she got her answer, looks like she would be having a victory celebration tonight. Suddenly Alex walked back in with a piece of pie.
"What about the dance parties?"
"We allow the students a ball on Halloween."
"Hm how about four balls during the year?"
"Two."
"Three."
"Alright Miss Brown. Three balls, and puppet shows on the quidditch pitch." Charlie smiled, and shook Dumbledore's hand.
"Very good. It was wonderful doing business with you professor. Release the hostages, and return the kitchen utensils to the elves." The twins got the kitchen supplies back to the house elves, who immediately started worshipping them, and Charlie untied her professors. They were not happy. McGonagall sputtered.
"Shame on you both! Tying up your teachers and treating the house elves so! Why, you should have detentions for the rest of the year." Dumbledore shook his head.
"Alas no my dear Minerva. The negotiations went smoothly, and since detention was not part of them, I must do nothing." McGonagall looked shocked. But that was nothing compared to Snape. He was stalking toward Alex like an angry grizzly bear. She looked unconcerned.
"Professor." Snape snarled and bent down in order to whisper in her ear.
"You will pay for this, I'll make sure of it. Don't be surprised if you wake up to find tarantulas in your bed." Alex gasped and spoke loudly.
"Professor! It's inappropriate for you to sneak into a girl's dormitory! Shame on you!" He turned red as every one turned to stare at him, and he turned and stalked out the door.
"This is not over." Alex shrugged and walked up to Charlie.
"So, rum?" Charlie nodded.
"Let's go." They walked out of the kitchens and down the corridor. Alex paused.
"Hey, weren't we supposed to have detention tonight?" They both blinked.
"Oh well."