Holly's Hide-Out

Holly yawned thoughtfully.

"You know, I wish I had more friends George," she said, to her Spider-Monkey of an Angel.

"You have me dont you?"

"Yes....well I meant actual human friends.....cause this hide-out gets a bit boring after a while. Maybe it wasnt such a stroke of brilliance that we found this deserted shed in the forest....,"

"Mm. Maybe," George agreed.

"But still," Holly said brightly, "You never know, we might find a few friends soon!"

jamie rapped on the door, he'd thought he heard talking and he always thought that Hagrid used this shed to keep animal foods in, but decided to look now while there was someone there to make sure everything was okay to touch

Holly looked up sharply, surprised.
"Who is it?" she called.

"ermmmm.... Jamie! who's this?" he asked more interested by the minute

Natalie turned up at the place she knew was Holly's hide out room. She had brought her some sweet from Hogsmeade. Then she saw Jamie.

"Oh, Jamie hey," said Natalie, "Holly, open up," she called, "It's only me, Jamie and a big tub of effects sweets."

"It's Holly! Come on in Jamie, Natalie, did you say sweets?? You can come in too then!" and she opened up the door.

"Hey," said Natalie, handing her the sweets, "you ok? Why weren't you at Hogsmeade today? Did you do Snapes potions essay yet? Oh my goodness, you'll never guess what....I nearly got caught using my time turner....it wasn't pretty."

Holly took the sweets from Natalie.
"Thanks kiddo. Snape's essay? Me?" Holly laughed, "I dont think so. Did you do it?"

"Yes....twice....I wasn't satisfied with it the first time," signed Natalie.

Shadow and Raven walked by the shed arguing as usual.
"Raven, I'm not doing it!"
"Arias expects you to!"
"She's not gonna come all the way over here just to take me for the dance festival!" The pair shut up as they heard voices from the shed.

Natalie turned.

"Who's there?" she called in a brave but weary tone.

"Natalie?" Shadow asked.

"Yes, and Holly.....and Jamie apparently," said Natalie, "Shadow?"

"Aye... well, Shadow and Raven." Shadow said.

"You guys coming in?" Holly asked, "It's a....party in here,"

"We're in the middle of an argument, but why not. Final word Raven: No."
"You're not gonna have a choice..."
"Don't care." Shadow and Raven opened the door, stepping inside.

"Hi guys," Holly said, squeezing aside to make room for them, "How have you been?"

"Well, I'm ok....I had to walk round Hogmeade all on my own, but hey, anyway.....oh, guess what, there's a roomer going round that they're serving sushi tonight at dinner...I've never had sushi before," said Natalie.

Shadow and Raven smiled, pulling the hoods on their cloaks down.
"Well, it can't be worse than the fish I had in dimension 486, that looked like it had fallen out of some one's nose." Raven said.

Shadow narrowed her eyes, staying silent. Raven smiled though.
"Hey!"

"Arguing, well, Shadow and I are. How about you?" Raven said.

"Oh, um, Im Holly," Holly said quickly, realising the earlier question was addressed to her, "Nice to meet you!"

"Hey Eliza," said Natalie, "how are things?"

"Yeah, wazzzzzzzzap?" Holly asked, then noticed no one responded normally to this, "Um...i mean yeah, how are things?"

Natalie giggled at Holly's welcome, abnormal the some, but unusual to other's.

Shadow smiled slightly at Holly and Natalie, whereas Raven shook her head.

"What's up Raven?" asked Natalie

"People in this dimension are so... strange." Raven replied.
"Get used to it." Shadow said, still smiling.

Natalie laughed.

"You should see us when we're hyper," said Natalie, giggling.

"Do I want to know?" Asked Raven, smiling.

"Absolutely not," Holly said seriously. She remembered the last incident.
The Firewhiskey one.
George shivered.

Shadow snorted with laughter before banging her head off the wall.

"Remember the firewhiskey incident?" asked Natalie, shivering, mirroring Holly's thoughts.

"Oh my," laughed Natalie, looking at Shadow.

"You bang your head off the wall a lot," Holly pointed out, "Um, are you alright?"

Raven sat next to her sister, watching her.
"When ever one of us does that, it means we've just unwillingly looked into some one's head." Raven explained.

"Oh i see," Holly said nodding, "Still no reason to bang one's head off a wal....and that wall isnt even made of rubber or anything. It's solid concrete...,"

"Oh, that has to hurt....um....you both," said Natalie, looking on the verge of another laughing fit.

Holly couldnt help it. The situation was just so strange. And the look at Natalies face was enough to tip her over the edge. And so Holly began to laugh uncontrolably.

"Shadow tends to hurt herself a lot right now. And that's enough Shadow! "Raven quickly grabbed her sister to stop her banging her head any more.

Holly wiped her eyes. "Yeah, dont hurt yourself any more Sh-Sh- Shadow," and she laughed again.
It was the look at Natalie's face again.

"Yeah Shadow....we don't want you knocking all your little brains out, do we?" Natalie laughed.

"Huh?" Shadow said, dazed. Raven shook her head.

"People might take that offensively Natz," Holly said, stopping in laugher, "No...I dont know. So, what do you guys want to do? Pull pranks on teachers? Cause Holly likey,"

"Oh...sorry...." said Natalie, embarrased.

"Let's pull a prank on.....Snape."

"You are so gonna get killed then." Raven said.

"Maybe," Holly said shrugging, "You guys coming?"

"Ok then......Filch......maybe.....oh, Shadow, didn't you buy some dungbombs at Hogsmeade?" asked Natalie