Zeke looked over the instructions once again. He started a fire under his cauldron with his wand and proceeded to follow step 1: melt the wax.
He drummed his fingers on the table lightly to pass time while waiting. A watched pot never boils... or whatever. he thought to himself, looking around the classroom at everyone else trying to make their potion.
Ah. Finally. he though, the wax being melted after 3 or so minutes.
"Add flobberworm juice and stir over high heat for five minutes, alternate stirring... ok," he mumbled to himself, adding the flobberworm juice and beginning to stir.
Well. This is going off without a hitch. Good thing I'm good at potions. he smiled to himself. More like good thing nobody is talking to me and distracting me... darn my social butterfly ways! he laughed inwardly. He had a habit of going into mental monologues when no one was interacting with him. My sister told me that Peeves came into her potions class and wreaked havoc. I'm soooo glad that's not happening! Err, knock on wood, he thought. Didn't want it to happen now that he'd thought that - don't want to test fate, you know.