How did I end up here? -Piper-

[Ashley Lovegood]

With a sigh, the fifth year straightened up and looked around once again. One moment she had been wandering around the halls and the next she had found herself in the air of the cool dungeons. This was quite aggravating. The Dungeons had been the last place she had wanted to end up in. I guess thats what you get when you don't have a particular place in mind that you would like to go.

She slipped her hands into her jeans back pockets as she randomly picked a path to follow to her right. It had been some time since she had ventured to the Dungeons and she figured she might as well explore the dingy place she had found herself in. Her red shirt clung to her still pale skin as she began to walk around, her footsteps echoing all around her, bouncing off the walls and inside her head.

The sound was lonely and isolated in the dead silence that the Dungeon usually held for it's occupants. The sound mirrored her thoughts. She had found it almost unbearable to be alone for an extended period of time lately and this was turning out to be one of those terrible times. She concentrated on some random bit of information in her mind, not wanting to give her mind time to being wandering into the places in her head that she had stored and locked up.

She had not realized she had shut her eyes, but apparently she had done so for she had to reopen them at the sound of approaching footsteps. Her pace slowed and finally came to a sudden stop as she awaited to see who would come around the corner.

[angelfire1987]

Piper blew her long black bangs out of her face as she looked over at the clock. She had spent most of her day, apart form going to classes, cooped up doing her fourth year homework. It was a lot, and she had a lot to catch up on since she had been absent for nearly two terms. She sighed, looking back down at her potions book. This was her favorite subject, but alas, her mind some somewhere else and she couldn’t concentrate on the subject at hand.

She still wore her Slytherin robes, from a long hard day at school, and hadn’t changed them, mostly because she didn’t feel the need to. Her long black hair was curled, and her bangs had been bothering her all evening, always getting in her eyes when she bent over to read a passage in a book. Piper looked back at the clock, and down at her book, then back at the clock once more. That was it. It was time for a break.

Marking her page in the book with her half written essay, Piper got up from the couch that she was sitting at in the library. She slid her book, parchment and quill back into her messenger bag and headed off to the Slytherin common room, down in the dungeon. Putting her head through the strap, she settled it where the strap was across her chest, so that the messenger strap was on her right shoulder, but the bag was on her left hip, and then she quietly walked out of the library.

Finally, after dodging Peeves, she was in the Dungeon. It was rather cool and damp, something Piper was used to now since she had been here 6 terms already. Turning the corner, she found someone whom she wasn’t expecting, Ashley Lovegood. “Well, hey ya Ashley. I haven’t seen you in awhile.” then the most curious thought popped into her head. “What brings you all the way down to the dungeons? Potions Class?”