Chapter five

Detention, why oh why did she have to be stuck with him. On the positive side at least they weren't serving it with Professor Roadan tonight. They were to meet outside the transfiguration classroom.

Annabella found Black already waiting for the professor.

"Bolts." he smirked, she frowned.

She never knew what to make of Icarus but she knew of the Blacks and they weren't to be trusted.

"ah good evening." they both jumped as Professor Dumbledore peered at them through his glasses. "professor Roadan left me instructions for your detention." he pulled out a piece of parchment and read off it. "Albus I want them too clean the castle top to bottom and I advice you to keep Bolts and Black separated by at least two meters if not more." Dumbledore smiled his eyes twinkling.

Both Icarus and Annabella scowled.

"wands please."

Annabella groaned and Icarus shared the sediment.

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Frida leaned against the desk sighing. She had managed to have a good day. She had only tripped up five steps, fallen down ten, surprisingly she had remembered the trick step jumping it only to face plant into the next step. Yes today had been a good day until she meet up with the hysterical Myrtle. Frida was the kind of person who believed in Karma and fate, what was meant to be, be'd. if she was destined to brake her arm then so be it but not Myrtle. The girl was hell bent on revenge. It had been almost a month since Olive flipped them upside down, why couldn'tMyrtle just let it go. A month had past and all they had done was get Annabella a morning detention for the next week to go with her afternoon one. Everything they did backfired which seemed to Frida that fate was trying to tell them something.

The gang had parked themselves in their classroom minus Bella. Annabella introduce the girls to the place and it was perfect. It was on the fourth floor and long since abandoned. The girls had decorated it with muggle fairy lights and floating candles. They had moved all the desk off to the sides. Annabella transfigured a few desks into cushions and bean bags and now the room was the ultimate hideout.

Myrlte wasn't the only one in a mood either or so it seemed as Annabella stormed in.

"I got another detention can you believe that?!" ranted Bella. "it wasn't even my fault, I stuck up for that giant kid when Riddles pals started picking on him and Roadan gave me a detention and you know what Slugghorn did? He said boys will be boys laughed and walked off." defeated Bella dropped dramatically to the ground. "I think I've been jinxed in the muggle sense of the word."

"what about me?" cried Myrtle. "when are we going to get Olive Hornby back?"

Greta's green eyes locked on to Frida's and she rolled them then turned back to the card castle she was building with the exploding snap cards.

"I can't stand just sitting here I am going for a ride." Anna announced jumping up.

"yeah." agreed Greta. "to nice a day to be locked up here."

"what are you on about? Are you both crazy? It's raining." cried Myrtle.

"you've never experienced life until you've been swimming in the rain." Greta grinned as Frida nodded.

"nuts the lot of you."

"yes Myrtle and you are the squirrel that collected us, coming Frida?" asked Greta.

The blonde smiled brightly and followed Greta out the door.

"what about Olive?" yelled Myrtle as it finally dawned on her that Annabella had already slipped out the door and she was now all alone.

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Greta and Frida walked around just past the unicorn pen to the big rocks they liked to jump off.

Greta went first crashing into the water with a splash worthy of Frida's klutziness. Frida however dived gracefully into the water popping up behind Greta.

It was one thing Greta didn't understand, the girl was the clumsiest human alive but put her in the water and she moved like a angel.

"you should have been born a fish."

"I'd prefer mermaid." Frida grinned splashing Greta. And so the games began and the two girls played happily for hours.

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It had been a bad day all round for Annabella. She was now serving the total of three detentions. Professor Roadan had left her with a threat that hung around her head like a bubblehead charm. If you Miss Bolts continue along this path I will be forced to take more serious action. You'll be facing a lot worse then a detention. What could possible be worse then a detention? She thought as she throw the broomstick beneath her and kicked off the ground.

Bella loved flying, it was a hard feeling to explain, that first gust of wind just made everything seem better somehow. It was like when you first dive into icy water crossed between ride a bike when you hit that decline and you just glide.

Flying was like a release and even better today with the rain it wasn't likely she would run into anybody or so she thought.

"fancy running into you here Anna." called his voice.

"are you stalking me now Black?" she growled.

"sadly no, I am on the Ravenclaw quidditch team remember? I am meant to try and kill myself in this weather but what the hell are you doing?" he called to her flying closer.

"running away or rather flying away from my problems. Or you could class it as drowning my sorrows." she smiled grimly through the rain thinking of the extra time Roadan had taken from her.

"I heard about that with Hagrid. For what its worth you did good." she snorted.

"good." she muttered. "yeah bloody lot of good it did me."

"Bella!" Greta yelled.

"Annabella! Come in it's to cold!" called Frida.

Icarus and Anna looked down at the dripping wet pair.

"Merlin their drenched."

"self inflicted, later Black."

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Myrtle began to feel the tears coming on. She was all alone again. She ran the bathroom tears running freely down her face. She flung herself into the toilet cubicle crying for Merlins knows how long until finally there wasn't a single drop left. She opened the stall and walked over the end basin. She looked at herself in the mirror and crumpled to the floor in a heap. She hit her head against the wall staring up at the snake shape in craved on the tap handle. Why her? It wasn't like she was the ugliest person alive. What had she ever done?

Before she'd even noticed she had left the bathroom and was walking along a random corridor. She sighed. Myrtle decided to take Annabella's approach and went up to the raven claw tower to raid the older girl's trunk. She grinned triumphantly pulling out the bottle of fire whiskey.

One and a half bottles down she felt merry enough to go off in search off her friends, singing badly out off tune as she went. Unfortunately her friends were not who she ran into first.

"opps." she giggled jumping back a step to find herself face to face with Tom Riddle.

"what are you doing out at this hour? I have to report you."

"but that's not fair Anna gets away with it and I've got twenty-ish minutes to curfew!" she slurred.

"are you drunk?" he stared at her.

"that's none of your business! You're a stupid Slytherin! You people think you own the place, branding the tap handles. Like that's going to stop the rest of us using the tap if the tap worked that is." she continued to waffling on not noticing that Riddle had actually been paying attention to her, or rather too much attention to her. He walked her to Professor Roadan's office and marched her in.

It took all of two seconds for the Professor to work out that Myrtle was sloshed and that the liquor had come from none other then his favourite student, Annabella Bolts.

The girls laughing, dripping wet entered the Ravenclaw tower. They froze to the spot.

Greta gulped. "busted."