The Midnight Feast

It's 12 o'clock

Everyone's sound asleep in their bed chambers….

The corridors were completely deserted…

Every girls were tucked in their white blankets for warmth.. It was, indeed, a very cold night at Cackle's….

And with the darkness that filled the place.. No one dared to roam at night for the fright of encountering the ghastly ghost of the evil Baron Overblow and its former followers…

None of the girls has the courage to roam in the castle in an ungodly hour…

Well… almost…

Six figures tried to conceal their selves in the darkness as they tiptoed their way towards the closed chamber door of a certain student…

Mildred Hubble…..

~0~

Someone's knocking at her door….

Mildred took a matchstick from her bedside table and lighted it. She was half-blinded by the light that illuminated from the flame that's slowly consuming the matchstick. She carefully placed the matchstick near the candle wick and watched as the flame touched and lighted the candle..

She can lighten the candle magically, however, she's afraid that she just might aim the spell at the wrong object, since it is very dark at night.. and even darker when she keeps her windows closed to keep the room warmer.. And most of all she didn't want and would never want to burn her own belongings.. so just to be safe.. use the matchstick..

"Millie are you awake?" Maud said behind the closed door, trying to keep her voice as low as possible. The blonde gently pushed the door open and then poked her head.. she saw Mildred sit up..

" Maud? Is that you? " Mildred asked drowsily, " What are you doing in here?"

Maud opened the door to reveal the other D.O.B.S. outside. The girls entered Mildred's room and the last girl who came in closed the door..

"Tahimicus-Silencio-quarteut!" Fenella casted out the silencing spell..

Mildred noticed that her friends were actually carrying snacks for their midnight feast next Saturday. But why do they brought it in this midnight?

Enid pulled Mildred's blanket and laid it on the floor, were too crowded.."

with Grizelda's snap of fingers, Mildred's bed disappeared."Not anymore.." Grizelda replied with a grin on her lips..

" We-we-we-we-wait! What are you doing?" Mildred asked Enid and then turned her attention at Maud who was standing beside her, " And what are those?" she asked Maud while her eyes fixed with the tray container that the blonde was holding.

Enid paused from what she was doing and then turned her attention to Mildred who was standing behind her, "Laying our picnic blanket? " Enid replied with a smirk on her face and a hint of sarcasm, "And what Maud had been holding happened to be a cookie tray.. A cookie tray is a container for cookie and if you didn't know a cookie is a-"

"-I KNOW WHAT A COOKIE IS!" Mildred is begginnning to feel annoyed with her friend's smirks and sarcastic talking, "What i want to know is that, why do you have those? were not supposed to have our midnight feast 'till next Saturday."

"Well, according to Fenny and Griz, they have learned something that they ought to tell us.. and that something can't wait 'till next week.." jadu said just before she sit on the blanket where the other girls were alreadey sitting. Her legs folded like Enid's..

"Yep, and I am sure, you didn't want to miss it, " Fenella tapped the floor that was covered with white blanket, "Come on take a sit."

Mildred reluctantly sat in between Fenella and Grizelda.

The snacks were laid down before them, Enid stood up and went to Mildred's drawers where three packs of chips were hidden and the went back to her sit.. The third years brought the snacks while the two fourth years brought cans of sodas.

"Wel.. were not supposed to just stare at all these food.." Grizelda said after noticing that none of them were actually taking anything from the snacks, "What are you all waiting for? Everyone Dig in!"

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"So what is it?" Enid sucked her cheese smothered fingers..

"Better be good," it was Ruby, "'Cause it seems like Mildred's not in a very good mood.."

"Who wouldn't be! I was in the midst of my wonderful dream when I was woken up by someone knocking at my door," Mildred replied with a scowl on her face.

"Come on, Mills.. Lighten up ," Fenella smiled wickedly," I know.. we know," Fenella shifted her gaze to Grizelda, then back to their friends, "None of you could afford to miss this.."

" So much for the cliff hanger, Fenn, "Maud said with impatience, " Come on.. Spill it out.."

"Well..." Fen lifted her brows and then stared at Gr izelda as if the two weere talking telephatically,"Have the floor, Griz."

Grizelda turned her head to face the third years..

"HB got a date.." grizelda said excitedly.

there was silence..

Everyone was shocked.. None of the younger girls spoke.. their jaws dropped in disbelief..

Fenella and Grizelda burst out laughing in hysterics..

"LOOK AT THOSE FACES!" it was Grizelda, "Better close that mouth, Millie, before an insect comes in to that open entrance.."

Mildred Closed her mouth and tried to collect her senses..

"Are you sure about that?" Enid's lip curved in tro a smirk, her brows lifted..

"Ofcourse." Fenella reached out for the snack that Enid was holding, "Give me some of those please." Fenella took a handful of chips.

"HB?" Mildred asked with disbelief, " You mean 'Hardbroom', Constance Hardbroom?"

"The one and the only," Grizelda took a bite of a cake, " The deputy-headmistress of the school.."

"Does anyone would like to ask who the unlucky man is?" It was Fenella who was munching a mouthful of chips.

"WHO?" the girls asked in unison.

Fenella stared at the girls before her who were waiting for her answer with anticipation.

"Come on, Fenny, Spit it out.." Maud who has shown lack of interest about HB's whereabouts turned out to be curious on whose man was brave enough to ask their potion-mistress for a date.

"Well...if you insisted..its.." Fenella sucked her cheeze-smothered-fingers,"Mmsy Stmfs."

"Who?!"it was Jadu.

"Mmsy Stmfs," Fenella replied.

"WhAt?" Ruby asked, her brows knitted as she tried to understand what Fenella was saying... but all in vain..

"FOR GOODNESS SAKE FENELLA! STOP SUCKING YOUR FINGERS LIKE A TODDLER! ITS GROSS!" Grizelda barked, she roled her eyes then sighed, " It's Mr. Icey Stevens."

"You've got to be kidding us, " Mildred breath out, It can't be possible, Mildred thought, " There is no way she would say yes to him."

"But she just did!" Fenella said haltingly.

Mildred shofted her gaze from Fenella to Grizelda,"How come?- I mean, did he went here personally to asked her out."

"Ah-ah.. He did not came here,,, And he did not asked her out.."

"Well... would you just tell us the whole story? We had so much of the cliff hanger here.."

"Very well," it was Grizzy, she took the last piece of cake into her mouth and then drank the remaining liquid in her can container, "Gather around girls."

Mildred who was sitting in between the two fourth years crawled towards Maud and Enid.. So, she was now facing the duo..

"Okay.."Grizelda's gaze traveled from Ruby who was sitting at her right, then to the girls before her,then to Fenella who was sitting on her left... Funny.. it was just then when she noticed that they had actually formed a circle, " Once upon a time.."

The girls laughed..

" Cut it out, Griz.." it was Jadu who's hugging her beloved stuff toy she named Cackle.

"Alright! Alright!... this is what happened..

~0~

She can't believe it's actually happening to her …. So much humiliation! So much mortification! And it's all because of that farcical radio programme!That-that- ridiculous radio…. Whatever they call it!

And for goodness sake! What will all those other people would think of her? A woman who's very desperate to join such contest?Hah! never!

Anyway,, why on earth was she being so defensive? It isn't her plan to be the so-called lucky (but she rather call herself unlucky) girl..

This is all because of that good-for-nothing culprit who sent that certain rubbish with her own name on it! Once she figure out who did such action.. that- prank on her…. She swear that person will most certainly suffer her punishment the worst way possible…

~0~

Constance sat up from her bed, her eyes shifted on the antique clock on her bedside table that was formerly owned by her late sister. It's 12:55 in the morning it only means she'd been lying on her bed for about more or less, four hours…

She swung her legs to the cold stone floors, her feet groped for her slippers.. It's time to stop brooding and get moving.. She had to make herself productive..

She have decided to leave her room so that her most beloved cat (since she only had one) wouldn't be disturbed in it's peaceful slumber… And there's a certain room wherein she knows she can do anything she had to do without disturbing anyone….

Her very own lair…. Her potions laboratory..

~0~

"So… HB stormed out of the staffroom," Fenella drunk the remaining liquid from her can, then smiled like a Cheshire cat, " and even now, I can clearly recall her face." Fenny paused as if reminiscing the scene she had seen hours ago, "I swear I could clearly see the smoke coming from HB's nostrils..And if not for the eyelids, her bulging eyes would've probably rolled onto the floor."

"Extreme!" the girls said in unison..

"Good thing, we were able to make ourselves before Miss Hardbroom even noticed our presence… or else.. were dead!"

Their snacks were all eaten , can's littered on Mildred's chamber floor but they still enjoyed theirselves by the gossips that the two seniors were feeding them..

"But if none of the staff members actually sent the "so-called" entry to the radio station, then who did it?" Mildred's eyes were confused..

"A student perhaps." Maud guessed.

"It can't be possible, surely," Enid retorted, "None of the girls were brave enough-NO- Foolish enough to do such thing! I mean it's HB were talking about here.. not Ms. D or Miss Cackle or Miss Crochet but HB! The girls were scared of her, even Ms. Cackle I think.."

"Everyone in this school perhaps.." A mischievous grin illuminated from Grizelda's lips, " but not the D.O.B.S."

"What do you mean-NO WAY!" Ruby breath out as she finally realized what the two was trying to tell them.

Fenella and Grizelda looked at each other with mutual understanding, then they turned their heads towards the younger girls sitting across them with their crooked grins..

Grizelda lifted her left and right brows consequently while Fenella winked with her left eye.

"What were the two of you thinking!" Jadu exclaimed, trying to suppress the smile forming from her lips, " Have you rather gone MAD?"

"HB would've probably turn you into a frog for the rest of your life once she figure it out!" Maud added, "or worse!"

"Come on you two, " Grizelda replied in a playful tone, "We've been in this very place for the past three, turning four years .. And those transfiguration punishments were just empty threat.. A hoax.. to keep the girls at bay from doing any misconducts in her presence…. HB may be mean at times but she would never do harm against any student in this establishment, we already proved that when we've been attacked by the fake Lucy Fairweather."

" I may have agreed you on that one.. but you two have crossed the line! You shouldn't have done that," Mildred said with a hint of guilt in her voice, as if she was the one who did the mischief, "it's pretty unfair for Miss Hardbroom's part."

"Well she always is ! on us!"Enid frowned.

"Enid!" Maud glared at the brunette to stop her from talking.

"Fine!" Enid replied, " why cant we just look at the brighterside..If HB falls inlove with Stevens…. The old-maid population of withches will decrease a little…" Enid smiled smugly, " just imagine this HB and Icey, snogging each other…"

"eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww" the girls said in unison… they don't know why it seems so romantic when two people kiss at each other on the t.v screen, but imagining their very own potion-mistress kissing a man…. It seemed so awkward…

"But do you really think Hb will fall for him?"

"Dunno, maybe…. Maybe not" Fenella shrugged her shoulders.

"Maybe…" Grizelda said, letting her words hang up in the air….. the girls waited for anything that the blonde was about to say, "maybe we should go to bed… I'm sleepy.." she yawned…

"right… I'm sleepy now as well," Maud replied, " I think we better go."

"what?- wait! What do you mean by that? You can't just leave me here? With this trash all over my place.."Mildred protested.

"Don't worry about that, I can manage.." Fenny said smugly, and with a wave of her hand, Fenella proudly demonstrated the spell and within a wink of an eye, Mildred's room was now again back in its proper form..

"Come along girls, time to bed, G'night Mildred."

"G'morning, Grizz" Mildred replied as she slid herself back to her bed , and when she was once again alone in her room with her cat, she turned out her light..

She better get some sleep, tomorrows going to be a very interesting day….

*A/N*

Alright! okay! i know this chapter's pretty boring... but i promise i'll do better next time.. literary criticism will be welcome.. it will surely help me.. thanks!

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