I see you for who you are (.N.y.n.a.)

[Kaley Prellop]

Hear it, I'm screaming it.
You're heeding to it now.
Hear it! I'm screaming it!
You tremble at this sound.


Kaley had heard of a place where you could use your old muggle technology, not that she had any worth keeping once she came to Trio's. She'd heard about it her first term, but for some reason she never thought to go for a visit there and see what there was to see. Finally she'd remembered teh room on a late Sunday night, probably around 11:00 pm. Whatever time it was, it was definately past curfew. Her mind raced as she hunted down the room, her ears on alert for any noise that might be a wandering teacher. Now wouldn't be the time to get caught.

Kaley was still in her green and silver pajamas with snake socks on when she slipped into the MER. The room was bigger than she'd expected, and there were many lockers that were just around the corner. As she approached hers, she pulled out her dusty key. She couldn't remember using it to put her stuff in, but she knew she must've put something inside to treasure.

Kaley fidgeted with the key until she could finally turn it. The locker was slightly rusty, and it creaked when she opened it. At a first glance in her locker, there didn't appear to be anything in there. Kaley sighed and started to shut the locker door. Something shiny in teh back corner caught her eye, and she opened the door as wide as it would go. Reaching into the locker, she felt a smooth surface with a wire coming out of it. She carefully pulled it out, not wanting to damage it.

Kaley stared at the device in her hand for a moment, shock showing on her face. Then she broke into a wide grin and shut the locker with a loud thud, not bothering to take her key out. She would just have to lock it later. The Slythie was still suprised as she turned her iPod on, but happy all the same. She had completely forgotten about it. She'd blown the last of her money on it right before she came to Trio's not knowing her muggle devices would work.

Kaley quickly stuffed one of the ear pieces into her ear and with the other hand unlocked it and turned it on. One of her favoritesongs immediately started to play, and she couldn't help but smile even bigger. Her favorite band Flyleaf was playing. The song was titled I'm So Sick. She walked in a wide circle around the room as she hummed the song, words unable to express the happiness she felt with har iPod. The Slythie didn't even hear the dorr open and someone else enter the room.

I'm so sick,
Infected with where I live
Let me live without this
Empty bliss,
Selfishness
I'm so sick.

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[Nyna Adustum]

Why she ventured into this room, not even the Ravenclaw herself was sure. This was the last place she saw Indrick. Ever. They had a brief meeting in this very room before one of them had to run off. She couldn’t even remember now, but she knew that was the last place she had seen him. Dang it was depressing. It wasn’t like she had known him for very long. A couple days, tops, but his sudden absence still hurt.

Thank goodness I’m a prefect, she thought as she opened the door. If she was caught, maybe she could just say she was paroling, or that she heard a noise or something. That was what prefects did, right? She desperately hoped as much.

There had been another loud noise in the girl’s dorm room. However, unlike last time, there was no Selene waiting in the common room. In fact, Nyna could not find the source of the noise that had awaken her beyond the potential of a normal sleep. This time she wasn’t as ticked. She had a lot on her mind anyway. So she ventured here.

She wasn’t quite sure if she had anything in the Muggle Electronics room, but she certainly knew that her key was not with her. Darn. Maybe she could just sit and think for a while. At least until she could get back to sleep.

A sound came across her ear. Was that … music? Someone else was in here. She turned and her eyes came upon a red haired Slytherin girl. Kaley. Oh no. What was she going to do? She was a prefect now, so she should dock house points, but couldn’t she just give a warning? Maybe she wouldn’t have to do anything. That would be ideal.

“Hi Kaley,” she said, her voice near a low whisper.

[Kaley Prellop]

Kaley continued her humming and pacing, loving every second of it. She couldn't believe she'd forgotten it in the Muggle Electronics Room. It had been her prized posession just before she'd left. The Slythie hadn't even let it out of her sight when they were on the train, and she was positive it wouldn't get damaged. Or atleast stolen. Her pacing stopped when she heard a small click. She thought for a moment and decided she'd imagined it.

Kaley resumed her pacing around the room until she heard a soft voice, though she hadn't been able to tell what was said. The Slythie whipped around, afraid she was about to get yelled at by Slughorn, yet again. Instead she saw a girl around her height with shoulder length brown hair staring back at her. Kaley pulled one of her earphones out so it dangled down from the wire in front of her. Kaley wasn't smiling, but not frowning either. More of a neutral face, even though she was excited.

Key word: was.

Kaley looked the girl up and down again, deciding Nyna had probably just said hello, though she couldn't be positive. Her eyebrows creased as the song changed and she tried to think of the name. After a moment, she realized it was In the End by Linkin Park. She smiled a small smile before responding back to Nyna. "Hey, what's up?" she asked as she headed over to the couch and plopped down, humming the new song.

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[Nyna Adustum]

"Hey, what's up?"

Maybe Kaley didn’t know she was a prefect. That would be good. Unless her robes betrayed her, they could actually have a nice conversation. Possibly listen to music. That was the only thing the Ravenclaw kept in her locker anyway, a small MP3 player. Twenty six songs had been loaded onto it by her friends before she left. And the tiny device was nearly full. A pity it didn’t work anywhere else in the castle.

“Nothing much. Actually I was woken up, and couldn’t get back to sleep. So here I am,” she shrugged at the last part of her statement. It wasn’t really a bad thing. She hadn’t been sleeping comfortably anyway. Too many dang thoughts.

The Ravenclaw made her way over to the locker where her music was. She had forgotten her key, sadly, but maybe these lockers worked the same way the ones at her old school had. They certainly seemed old enough. The girl took her fist to the keyhole of the door in the way of her music. There was a loud clang, and the side of her hand was obviously skinned, but nothing happened.

Dang. She hoped Kaley didn't think she was too stupid. Maybe her old school had lockers that worked that way. Nyna hoped as much. The Ravenclaw sat down. She wasn't going to get her music tonight.

“Whatcha listening to?” she asked. Maybe Kaley would share with her. Maybe. In her mind she was about to say something cynical about unicorns, but then remembered that they were actually real. She had used their hair and horns in her Potions class. It is possible, she realized with a mental shrug.

[Kaley Prellop]

Kaley only half-heard Nyna's answer, for lack of paying attention. When she noticed that Nyna had stopped, she nodded. "Mhmm," she replied, still not fully aware what they were talking about. The Slythie was pretty sure there had been a long enough pause for Nyna to know she wasn't really paying attention, but didn't mind. Nyna would be obsessed with her iPod if she was in the same situation as Kaley. Only she wasn't.

Kaley looked up from the couch to look at Nyna closer. Something seemed different about the Ravenclaw, but she couldn't quite tell what. Kaley studied her as she walked to her locker. Yes, Nyna was definately acting more unusual than regularly. After she escaped Kaley's sight, she glanced down at her iPod, falling in love with it like th day she'd bought it. She couldn't get over the shininess the white was. It was so pretty she could stare at it all day night.

And she might've except for a loud bang came from back by the lockers. Kaley jumped a mile and clutched her heart, her breathing sped up and eyes grew huge. Finally she realized that Nyna must've been having some problems with her locker. The thought of Nyna punching her locker made Kaley start laughing hysterically. She'd managed to regain most of her composure before the Ravenclaw returned ad sat down, but still had a smile on her usually unsmiling face.

Kaley pulled out one of her headphones and stuck it in Nyna's ear, not paying much attention to being careful. "In the End by Linkin Park," she replied cheerfully. There was something majorly wrong with this picture. A Ravenclaw and Slytherin were sitting next to each other on a couch, listening to the same music. Kaley didn't even know if Nyna like this kind of music. If she didn't, she could just give the headphone back. It woudn't bother Kaley at all. "Do you like this song, or Linkin Park? Actually, do you even listen to them?"

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[Nyna Adustum]

"Mhmm,"

Nyna smiled, despite the fact that Kaley’s response told her that the Slytherin hadn’t been paying attention in the least. The Ravenclaw felt she had probably said something stupid, potentially rambling, and if the other girl hadn’t heard it, hadn’t cared, then she could let it go. She could just forget about it. And that was always good.

The fifth year looked over and saw that Kaley was staring at her, observing her even. Why? Was she looking for something on the Ravenclaw? Perhaps she had noticed Nyna’s prefect badge and was checking to see if her assumptions were right. That wouldn’t be good. Nyna turned away for a moment and noticed as the Slytherin bent her head to look at her iPod. That was a plus. Maybe she could let her guard down for a little bit. Perhaps Kaley had noticed she was being jumpy or something. Nervous, maybe?

Her fist had done nothing to the metal door, except perhaps leave a shred of flesh. The cut stung like heck and the Ravenclaw involuntarily shook her injured hand, bringing fresh air rushing over it. She looked over and saw Kaley was staring at her, no doubt because she had heard the contact of her hand with the locker door and was not expecting it.

The other girl’s eyes were wide and she was clutching her heart, a symbol of fear that Nyna had yet to see on her Slytherin friend. It was actually kind of surprising. Then Kaley started to laugh. Almost insanely. It was quite a change. The Ravenclaw began to laugh a little as well, despite the pain in her hand. It always seemed to happen that when someone else laughed, she did. Almost always.

"In the End by Linkin Park."

Linkin Park! She knew them. And this song, she had heard it before, but knew that it wasn’t one of the few on her small MP3 player. It was good though. She liked it. Her friends just hadn’t known that at the time.

Nyna nodded. “Yes, they’re very good. I listen to them when I can.” That was a good reply. Short, sweet and generally to the point.

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