Livening up Teppenpaw- well as much as a ghost can
by Lissy
It didn't take very long for Lissy to see that Teppenpaw Common Room was a very quiet place. So, Lissy made it her duty to keep this place interesting until there came a time that they did not need her to be interesting any longer. And from what Lissy could see, they were going to need her for a long time. Good thing she was dead, and had all the time in the world!
So, Lissy, standing all of her 4'10" tall, with her head held high decided how to enter her new place of supreme hauntingness. As she would put more efforts into being in this house than any other place in the building, it was important to have a good first impression. From what she recalled, Lissy's mother was very keen on first impressions... or was she? Lissy couldn't say.
Starting far from the entrance, Lissy glided straight into the wall, picking up excelleration, where upon entering the common room yelled, "Come out you lazy old Teppenpaws! I thought you were supposed to be the caring people- don't you care that your common room is so dull?"\n\n
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Jake had been up in the boys dorm working on his homework for the evening. He would have gone to the library, but he didn't feel like making the walk. So, he had spent most of the day in the dorm catching up on all the work before the weekend.
He would have stayed there too, except that he heard some voice calling up from the common room. He hadn't ever heard it, but just assumed one of the girls were being over-dramatic again. With a sigh, Jake stood and made his way down the stairs to the common room. Where he was greeted with the sight of a ghost.
"Okay, not really what I had been expecting." He said with a raised eyebrow. His black eyes circled the common room for anyone else, but didn't spot anyone. Making a gestured with his hand, "This is why I don't hang around here. I can care with a group of friends somewhere else." Jake said to the ghost with a lopsided grin.\n\n
Tally had been half asleep in her dorm room when she heard the shout for the neighborhood's friendly ghost. She sighed happily to have something to distract her for awhile. It was almost the end of the year and Tally still hadn't enough care to make friends with the other girls in her house, but she had made friends with the boys, so it didn't really matter.
She hopped out of bed and straightened her clothes before heading out of the dorm. She came down the stairs just in time to hear Jake's comment.
"Our house is a rather big snore, Lissy. But now that you're here, maybe we can liven things up. No offense meant of course." Tally added to the girl as she walked up to join them.\n\n
So, there was a boy who didn't seem to like her very much and Tally. Lissy didn't like the sounds of that boy. He obviously had no house pride what-so-ever. Lissy added that to her imaginary to-do list as well, "House Pride".
"So," she said, gliding up to him, "You don't spend any time here because I'm here? Now that's rude. Haven't you ever been taught to you respect your elders? Tsk, tsk, tsk What's the matter with you living people today?"
She thought she must have been very funny to watch, seeing as she was so much smaller than these first years. But when she died, she had been older than them, and counting years after death, she had decades over them.
"You have to learn to be more like Tally. She understands the shame that comes with having a desolate common room," said Lissy approvingly, turning to Tally, "Now to more important stuff than this kid. Tally, do you have anything at all that you wouldn't mind giving up for the sake of a prank that would make this house more intersting?"\n\n
Jake looked at the ghost in a stunned silence. When did I say that I didn't like her? Did I say that? I don't think that I hate her? I don't even know her...do I? Jake thought as he listened to the ghost turn to Tally and ask her about pranking something. Jake turned to Tally and raised his eyebrows as if questioning her silently about the ghost girl infront of them.
"Hey..." Jake began quietly. He felt the need to rectify things, "Hey!" He said a bit louder to get the ghost's, apparantly named Lissy, attention. "I never said that I don't spend my time here because of you. You misunderstood me. I said I don't spend my time here because...because...I don't care to." He said lamely, finding it difficult to figure the right word to say that wouldn't be rude or offensive to the ghost girl.
"This place is too quiet for me. I need noise, so, that's why I don't hang around here." Jake added, hoping that that made more sense.\n\n
Lissy stared at the boy as if he was off his rocker. Well, she truly did think he was. She just couldn't understand it. Here he was, trying to convince her that he didn't hate her, but didn't want to spend time in his common room because it was too quiet. And Lissy's main goal in death (well, one of them) was to make things noisy, which was why she was there in the first place! Was this firstie saying she wasn't being loud enough? Well, than she would have to be much, much, more louder, now wouldn't she?
"Look, you're weird," she said decisively, "but if you're saying my efforts aren't enough to make this place interesting, you must be on a whole other level of interesting. Which means you obviously know something about prakning," Lissy quickly came to this conclusion, "so, you have to help us in planning a big end of the year prank for the Teppenpaw Common Room that everyone will remember! We're talking big and noisy here people. Oh, and funny for me, of course, otherwise there would be no point in doing this," she added as an afterthought, smiling.\n\n