“Hey, Bridget, are you there?” A young student with freckles quietly knocked on the door and paced the halls, wondering how to approach her. ‘Maybe I should wait until tomorrow...’

“What do you think you’re doing out here this late at night?” A voice startled the girl.

She turned around and as Glenda stood right there in front of her. “Oh, Miss Glenda, I—”

“It’s late; you should be in your room, young lady. Why are you not there?”

“Well, you see... I wanted to return something to Bridget after I finished borrowing them.” The girl replied as she showed the teacher a makeup compact and a spell book.

“And why didn’t you give those to her beforehand?”

“I’m sorry, but I didn’t find the right time to do that. I know I should have—”

“She’s probably in the bathroom or sleeping soundly.” Glenda guessed. “You can always try again tomorrow...”

“Hey, wait, can’t you do that for me?”

“Are you sure you’re okay with that?”

“Yeah, she’s in your class; unlike me.” The freckled student said solemnly.

Glenda smiled at her. “I’m sure you’ll be in similar classes with her if you just study hard and think positive as she would.”

The student smiled back and handed the older woman the book and compact. “Thanks, I’ll be heading back to my room now.”

“No running.”

“Got it!”

Meanwhile, Lauren peeked out from a corner of the girl’s dorm. She had left her room and escaped down a few floors when she noticed Ms. Glenda out on patrol, making sure no one was out and about. Lauren hid with her back against the wall.

“That’s odd,” Lauren said to herself. “Bridget is usually a light sleeper, especially with that much noise, and she never leaves in the middle of the night. This whole thing seems suspicious.”

Aoguro floated right beside her and nudged the girl to get her attention.

“Oh, hey.” Lauren greeted with a whisper, “Did you come to help me out? It won’t be easy, but I feel like with you by my side, we can get this done in a cinch.”

“Is someone there?” Glenda called out.

“Come on; let’s hurry,” Lauren whispered. “We don’t want to get caught, or keep him waiting any longer!”

Lauren ran down to the ground floor and checked if anyone else walked out here. When she saw the coast was clear, she went over to open one of the windows and jumped out.

Closing the window, Lauren snuck over to the boys’ dorm, making sure nobody noticed her through any of the windows. When she arrived over at the dorms, Lauren sat on Aoguro so he could lift her to the floor that had Troy’s room.

Lauren opened the window and rolled inside. She and Aoguro searched around the area for a while.

“Let’s see. Where could it be? If I was a missing page that got ripped out of a spellbook, where would I be?” Lauren said to herself.

She glanced and saw a portrait just lying there on the table and went over to pick it up and inspect it. Aoguro nudged her to look at a piece of paper that got stuck to the side of the closet.

“Ah, you found it; good work.” Lauren patted Aoguro on the head before taking the paper and reading it to herself. “Awesome, that'll be helpful for what we’re about to do next.” She muttered.

Just as Lauren was about to leave, however, the doorknob to Troy’s room moved. Lauren rushed over to hide under the bed while Aoguro followed suit. She held her nose as the linger of dirty gym socks filled the area. Horace opened the door and searched around the room for a while. Lauren then heard the door close.

“Hey, could you go check and see if he’s still there?” Lauren whispered. Aoguro turned invisible and crept out from under the bed over to peek. Drat, if only I remembered what that invisibility spell we learned back in class is... Ao soon came back and nodded as Lauren got out from under the bed, breathing a sigh of relief. “That was close; let’s get back ASAP.”