Witch Business

The Theater

We go through the doors of the dining hall and are impacted with incredible smells from the food being served. Miranda leads me toward our Gryffindor table to where her group was.

When we get to the dinner table, I could see that all eyes were on me. Luckily since I was with Miranda, I already felt comfortable.

"Everyone, this is Summer. She's our new roomie" Miranda introduces.

Everyone says hi and we sit down to plates and plates of delicious food.

"What are all of those, Taylor?" Alison asks.

"I found all these compliment sticky notes and I took them. I'm going to give them to random people"

"Seems like fun!" I join in.

Taylor looks at me and smiles. She hands me a few of them, and looks at a guy a few people down, "Hey Justin" she reads, "you have a great smile!"

"Shut up, Taylor" Him and his friends look over at us.

In my old person's voice I yell, "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!"

Miranda chimes in, "HAVE A GREAT DAY!"

"I can't take this anymore" Justin and his friends get up and starts running toward the exit.

"I LOVE YOUR OUTFIT" Taylor yells, chasing after him.

All of us get up and chase after the guys as well, following them through different corridors.

We were all laughing when we lost sight of them. Suddenly, we looked ahead to a huge door in front of us. It had intricate patterns and two gargoyles on their hind legs on each door. Almost as if they were shielding people so one would not enter.

"Where do you think this leads?" Becky asks a little nervously.

"It's the restricted section..I remember this part from the school map" Alison retorts.

"Only one way to find out" I smirk, "who wants to go in with me?"

"I'm down" Miranda replied, with Taylor agreeing a quick second later.

"I don't know about this.." Alison mentions, but doesn't disagree and walks toward the door with us.

I reach with my hand for the big nozzle to open the door. It instantly falls off the door making a loud crash noise scaring all of us. Becky screamed for a second and we all look at each other and break out in a laugh.

The door creaked open slightly after that and we push through.

Inside, were rows of dusty chairs and a circular platform at the end of them. It was an old theater of some type. Except the ceiling was space, with stars sparkling in the distance.

We all sort of split up to explore on our own. In one area I was in, the chairs were wrecked, like something was thrown against them making a destructive path.

"Hey guys, come quick!" Miranda says, motioning us behind the ripped curtains on the stage.

We all rush toward the back of the stage and see where she headed. All in the back were wondrous costumes from all around the world.

Taylor put on a huge hat that had a peacock feather hanging out from it. We all start grabbing random clothes and put it on.

Alison found a whole knight set, and Becky found a giant tree to wear. I found a grizzly bear costume that made me look huge. Taylor was an old rich lady looking type, with a gorgeous long stretched out dress, while Miranda was a werewolf type of person.

"Miranda! That's creaturist" Taylor accuses.

"What?? It's not like I'm making fun of them or anything" She defends, "I just found this"

There was a sudden noise from the back of the theater. We turn and look to see a dark creature moving in a huge cage in the back. It made a screeching noise and we all jump.

"What is that!?" Alison stammers.

"It looks like..a bird snake thing.." Taylor explains.

Suddenly we hear a creak of the doorway that we came in from.

"Everyone hide!!" Becky exclaims.

We all scatter and Miranda and I jump into the pile of clothing. We hear footsteps walking up the steps of the stage. I felt like I could hear my heart about to burst from my chest from anticipation.

"I know you're in here.." Says a croaking old voice.

I peeked through some of the clothing to see one of the night walkers with his two headed grey hound. It was sniffing around when it looked right at my eyes. I quickly ducked a little when two booming barks in unison was heard throughout the theater.

I could hear Miranda gulp next to me.

"So, you 'ere in here, 'ere ya"

Suddenly, there was a bunch of ruckus going on near the front of the theater where the entrance was.

It was the guys. They came back for us; or were creepy and followed us the whole time. But it didn't matter, we were saved!

"Sneaky lil twerps are ya! Get 'em Sheila, Shawk!"

I could hear the night walker rush toward the entrance with his barking grey hound(s).

The sound of the guys laughing was heard in the background with one "you're welcome!" Heard as well.

We all uncover ourselves when we knew the coast was clear.

"Let's get out of here!" Becky exclaims, looking nervously back at the cage animal that now was disappeared.

We all shake our head agreeing and run back to the Gryffindor common room.

We all go toward the fireplace and reminisce of what just happened.

"What was that creature, and why hide it in the theater? In the restriction section as well!?" Miranda asks knowing nobody had an answer.

Out of nowhere, our prefect Torey comes out and walks towards us. We all grow silent and stop our conversation for the moment.

"Uh oh, it's Torey, you know what that means" Taylor giggles breaking the silence.

"What does it mean?" I ask.

"It means you girls are in trouble" Torey exclaims, crossing his arms.