Moaning Murtle Closed

Suzy stumbled into the abandoned bathroom, she was following a girl that was frantically running from someone.

"V-verla? Are you in here?" Suzy called out. The bathroom was cold and water a few centermetres deep all across the floor. This was the first time Suzy had been at here since she started her time at Hogworts. She usually liked to explore all over castle but this was one place that she tried to avoid. She had heard rumors about a highly depressed ghost that lived in the bathroom. Moaning, groaning and screaming at anyone who said something to her that she didn't like.

"Verla?" Suzy whispered, she found herself frightened and slowly creeping further into the room, closer towards the toilet stalls. Suddenly she heard talking and gathered all of her courage to look around the corner to investigate the voices. "Come on, Suzy! You can do it." She whispered, this wasn't the first time she had to talk to herself to make herself sure if something. "1 2 3" She murmured. She took a large step forward and with all the courage she had she leaned forward and peered around the corner. A ghost that was hovering over Verla turned to Suzy and let out a piercing scream. Suzy feel to the floor clutching her ears to block out the noise and the pain.

Horace was just going down the hallways to nowhere in particular. He was just roaming around looking for something interesting enough. As he was on his way he heard a very loud scream coming from the abandoned toilets. He went to investigate but stopped at the door as the scream seemed to be of a girl in there and he can't walk into a girl's toilet. But then he just told himself these are the "abandoned" toilets anyone can enter of course and what if that girl needs some help he is a gentleman after all. 

He bust in as he saw a ghost screaming and a girl lying on the floor covering her ears to stop the noise. Horace being around the castle a bunch of times knew about this ghost. He never met her in person but he heard that she is a mischievous one. He couldn't handle all the screaming himself as he stepped forward covering his ears. "Shut up Myrtle!" He commanded. The ghost girl stopped screaming but was now staring straight at him with a rather scary grumpy look. 

"What? Do you want me to bring the prefects in here? you can't harm the students you know that right?" He seemed confident in his words as he has read about the rules the castle ghosts have to obey. Myrtle just growled and flew back to sit and cry on a high ledge. Horace walked to the girl and helped the girl get up as he saw another girl just round the corner. "You both are fine right? Don't worry about her she can't do anything. I don't even know why the ministry even allows such ghosts to be in the castle among the students." Horace complained with a angry look which was rather uncommon for him.

Verla didn't know what had just happened, she just knew Murtle had began to scream and she covered her ears. She looked at the boy in here, and a sudden, strange feeling entered her. Her face began to blush and her eyes widened. She turned from him but nodded to his question. Murtle had disappeared some where, and the girl who was looking for her looked scared. 

She felt like screaming too, but she didn't. She was so nervous, she felt her legs to begin to shake, and she fell, catching herself on her side. She began crying because of embarrassment, and curled into a ball. She must seem stupid. Then she noticed he was annoyed by Murtle "they let her stay here because she was murdered here." She sniffled. She got up to walk out and hide her crying face. She wanted to go home. She wiped her eyes and turned to him and the girl "I'm sorry, I just, I have horrible anxiety. I..." she said nothing more, turned around and began walking again. Great, she thought, they must think I'm such a jerk. She muttered to herself, cursing herself for ever thinking of going into the abandoned bathrooms.

Suzy glanced at the boy and was hoping he would go after Verla because she herself wasn't very good at comforting people. But he just stood there and watched her walk away crying. Suzy huffed and ran after her. "Verla, I'm sorry I came in and startled Murtle. I just saw you running and thought that you might need some company."

Suzy was embarrassed by what poor effort she had to try and support Verla considering what had just happened.
" Sorry, I'm usually pretty useless at comforting people in need. I can't help it, I just really don't know what to do." Suzy had become curious in what 'Moaning Murtle' might have wanted to say to her that required screaming at somebody of they came in.

Suzy decided that it would be best to let Verla leave and go somewhere private to think it out. "I'll see you later I guess." Suzy called after Verla as she continued on her way. Suzy went back to the bathroom to try and talk to Murtle about what she was saying to Verla.

And to her very surprise that strange boy was still in the bathroom standing in the exact same spot he was in when she last say him.

After a while, she came back to the bathrooms from the lake since she calmed down and cleared her head. She felt better now, and she decided to keep talking to Murtle, since Murtle liked her. When Verla went in, Murtle was sitting on her own, reading a page in a book, she looked at her and said "hey, could you flip the page for me? I've been reading the same page for hours" she exaggerated. 

"Um, sure" she said replied and flipped the page.

Verla sat down in front of one of the sinks and began to read, but when she leaned back, something broke and a little opening appeared. Verla looked shocked, wondering what it could be. "I wouldn't go in there, the last guy who went in, never came out. I've never been down there since."

"What's in there?"

"I-" Murtle started, but then began to shriek and disappeared. She was half tempted to go in there and see where it leads, but she didn't want to go alone. The stair way seemed long, and she saw a long serpent shadow moving. She gasped and took a few steps back. Maybe she shouldn't go down there at all.

Suzy was wandering back to the Ravenclaw dormitory when she heard something smash. Not the abandoned toilets! Suzy thought. "Oh why not," she murmured heading back towards the door. Suzy headed in the bathroom.

Verla was there gazing into a deep dark hole that had formed there since she had last been in the bathroom. Murtle was lingering on a long window sill reading a rather old looking book. By the looks she hadn't gotten very far in it. "Ummm, hi Murtle." Suzy said cautiously. "Youuuu?" Murtle screamed at her visciously. Suzy was surprised by her reaction and stumbled back. She tripped on a loose tile and fell back. Suzy landed on her butt and she let out a huge scream of pain for she had landed on the exact same tile she had tripped on. She stared at Murtle and gave her a sour look. Murtle giggled and continued on reading her book.

Suzy turned her attention to Verla who was still standing by the huge hole. As Suzy looked into it she felt a freezing chill rush down the back of her neck and along her spine. Finally she announced her thought. "Very creepy," she said. "So Verla, How did that happen." She asked pointing to the hole.

"I-I don't know what happened exactly. I came back in here once I'd calmed down, I sat down in front of one of the sinks and the hole appeared. I think I read about an underground hidden tunnel in the history of hogwarts, but I'm not sure. Let's figure out how to close it, something big is crawling down there" Verla replied politely. 

Oliver didn't like seeing what she saw, the thing crawling down there. It was scary. Maybe she would want to go down there, then she'd have to go. She knew enough spells in order to protect her self. Plus the rare one she'd learned from home. Where could she find a book to do research on that? She even looked in the restricted section for anything abnormal. 

Verla looked at the girl, then Murtle, who laid rereading the book page over and over. So she went over and flipped the page for her again. She felt bad for Murtle's back story, the fact that she was murdered here. Must be really depressing not being able to pass over. Being stuck in the one place you would rather avoid, but being forced to stay in the place you were murdered. How sad.