The Yule Ball

Sonia growled. She helped Maik to her bed. After Maik was settled, Sonia went back to interrigating the prisoner who was seemingly hypnottized by the candle's flame.

Maik bounced happily on the bed watching Sonia. " You see? Stick a guy's finger in a candle and all of a sudden he thinks it's the greatest thing in the world."

Sonia hid her smile behind a book. She began to flip through the pages. The man stopped her and pointed to a picture.

Feeling increasingly sleepy, Maik spun her watch around in circles around her head to entertain herelf. " Find something?"

Sonia's eyes widened. "I...I yes we did." she replied horrified. "ANd as with most curses there's a counter curse. My parents aren't really dead...just mostly."

" Mostly? " Maik found that confusing and somewhat disturbing. MOSTLY dead?? weird.... " How are they mostly dead? Can you bring them back?" Maik hopped off the bed and looked over Sonia's shoulder at the book.

SOnia nodded. "But the countercurse involves black magic. I...It would be difficult, not to mention I could go to Azkaban for trying."

" You could go to Azkaban for a lot of things. Are you going to try it?"

Sonia swallowed really hard. "I...I could try." she said looking at the man who quivered. "it has only been used once to bring back Voldemort." he whispered.

Maik's eyes widened as she stepped away slowly. " You can't do that! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND??!"

"If it brings back my parents, then I will do anything." SOnia said. She was determined to have her parents alive again.

Maik's face hardened into stone and the man looked nervously at the two of them. " There must be another way! You can't use dark magic!"

Sonia's face turned red. "Maik, what would you have me do. Be placed into a foster home!" she seethed. "my parents were all I had."

Unrelenting, Maik glared back at her angrily. " What's wrong with having a foster home? At least you'll HAVE a home!" Maik said furiously "Of course your parents were all you had! Why wouldn't they be? But do you really think they would want you to use Dark Magic to bring them back?"

"Do you think they wanted to DIE! My parents were the only ones that even tried to understand me. If I go to a foster home, more then likely they'll get rid off me. and it'll be an on-going cycle." Sonia yelled.

" How do you know what they will do?!" Maik demanded. " You haven't even tried! How can you allways assume everyone hates you?!"

"Because they do!" Sonia yelled. "You weren't at school when everyone mocked me, cast curses on me, stole my assignments and destroying them. First years cower ecause they think that i'm just going to lash out and kill them all if they breathe wrong around me."

" Your foster parents aren't from your school!" Maik retorted. " Do you think you are they only one who was ever picked on at school? You can't use that as an excuse for hating the world."

"I only hate the world, because it hates me." She said kicking the man before walking out into the wide hall with book in hand.

" Some excuse." Maik grumbled as she watched Sonia leave. " Wait Sonia!"