I feel quite excited as the end of the school day approaches and can’t wait for the final lesson to come to an end.

Then I go to the prefects’ common room and wait.

There are six or seven others there getting their books sorted and such things,

but by ten past four, they’ve all gone.

I decide that a little rearrangement of the furniture might prove useful.

There’s a big table in the center of the room and at first, I’m tempted to make use of it,

but then I decide one of the chairs arranged around the table might be a better prospect.

It’s an old dining chair,

but has a woven cane seat which I think has certain interesting connotations.

I’m in the process of dragging everything around when Joanna Tomkinson taps on the door and peeps around the corner.

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