Looking towards Cassie with her beamy smile in place, Nessa nodded as she listened to her best friend speak. Good, good, the cats would cooperate with them and their lesson. Brown eyes glanced towards the little felines as they roamed the room before looking back at the blonde woman next to her again. “Oh, of course I’m ready!” And she was super excited too! Was it time for class? Brown eyes snapped to the door as she saw a figure starting to enter.

Aww, a curtsy.. wasn’t that sweet? Nessa smiled warmly at the Ravenclaw. “Hello, Eden.”

Hmm, what? Nessa wasn’t sure what skit Angel was acting out, but it did seem interesting albeit confusing. She nodded to what Cassie said to the girl, then gave her a soft smile. “Have a seat, dear. Class will be starting soon.” Was she going to add to the snap cup?

Smiling brightly, Nessa’s eyes followed Lux as she danced into the room, clapping for her when she was finished. “Hello Lux! Well done!”

Hmm.. Nessa watched curiously as Zander entered the room, her smile dimming somewhat. “Hello, Zander,” she returned his greeting with a smile, though she was internally concerned. He was usually one of her more upbeat students. Of course she knew that certain things could possibly be weighing on him, but she hoped that he had someone to talk to since events had happened nearly two months ago. That would be a long time to go without talking things out. Hopefully he’d take Cassie up on her offer if he needed that.

Well, it was nice to see such a happy, smiling face. Nessa beamed back at him. “Hello Adi!”

Nessa had been accustomed to seeing Dante simply walk in without making an entrance other than the literal sort, but that seemed to be the way with a lot of them anymore which was starting to become underwhelming. Still, the boy offered them a friendly greeting and she offered him a friendly smile in return. “Hi Dante!”

Oh but that was a fun and interesting entrance! Nessa smiled widely and clapped for Aubrey as she made her way into the classroom. “Hi Aubrey! Yes, that was wonderful!” She nodded towards Cassie. Aubrey never disappointed her in her willingness to participate.

Beaming brightly as Norah walked in, Nessa gave her a two-handed wave as she made her way over to them. “Oh, just lovely, dear! Hello, Norah!” She always did appreciate the girl’s enthusiasm and happy demeanor, even more so on a day like today when it seemed to be generally lacking in the classroom.

Hmm, Nessa just hated when names slipped her mind, but she just couldn’t always remember the ones that tended to fly under the radar in her own classes. And that made her feel bad anyway. This boy’s mood seemed much dimmer than the couple previous entrants though she tried to resume her normally bright smile. The whole vibe seemed off today for some reason, even if some of the perpetually cheerful ones were here. She allowed Cassie to answer his unique question, then game him a “Hello, dear,” before he went to take a seat.

”Well, hello, Ethan!” Nessa greeted the boy brightly as he walked in. Certainly she had loved his entrances in the past and was slightly disappointed not to see a creative one from him today, but she was too surprised to see him to even think about it. Had he just been skipping her classes or was there another reason that she hadn’t seen him in a while?

Nessa smiled at Zeke as he was the next to enter. She had come to know him as rather mellow anyway, so she wasn’t sure if today was anything out of the ordinary or not. “Hello, Zeke,” she nodded towards him as he moved his attention away.

Nessa gave Brooklyn a slightly dimmer smile than she had had at the beginning of class as it seemed like the entire mood in general was lower than it should be. Not that the girl really did anything wrong, it was just a feeling she was getting and she liked happy, upbeat before class. She was missing the usual entrances too as it seemed to be fewer creative ones. “Hello, Brooklyn,” she smiled a bit bigger before the girl took her seat with her friends.

Was it just her or was the mood getting increasingly lower? Nessa glanced towards Cassie before smiling back at the Ravenclaw as she walked in and nodded towards them. “Hello, Bambi.”

Hm, Toby seemed a little more on the mellow side as well. This just would not do for their joint lesson, not when the majority of their class seemed that way. Perhaps her own cheerful nature would be contagious, she could only hope. “Hello, Toby,” she said brightly, smiling widely before he turned his attention elsewhere.

Oh, that was.. interesting. But Kevin usually was. Brown eyes followed his ‘entrance’ and she blinked before smiling softly. “Good day, Kevin.” Everyone got a greeting regardless.

Nessa gave Hady a wave in return though she couldn’t help but to think the Slytherin girl’s mood was somewhat mellowed like some of her other classmates. They needed to change that and fast or else this lesson might prove to be a bit tedious. “Hello, Hady,” she smiled warmly as her before glancing at Cassie. Were they about ready to start or should they do some breathing exercises? They needed to change the mood of this room somehow.

Nessa thought it was just about that time, but she noticed another entering the classroom first. Oooh, cartwheels! She did love the acrobats. Nessa gave some polite applause as she smiled widely at the girl. "Wonderful job! And hello, Cinna."

Originally Posted by Bazinga

"I'm... okay, Professor." Yup. Dandy. Ahem. And ahhhh, Professor Morgan remembered Bludger. Toby smiled a little at that. "Oh, I think he's wandering somewhere 'round the castle, waiting to attack someone's shoelaces." That was one of the little rascal's favourite hobbies. Generally, Toby just let him go off on his own and live his life in the castle. The last thing he ever wanted was for the creature to be all cooped up. Nah. That wasn't fun.

He stayed quiet and watches as the professor started pulling moments for the snap cup, and at that last one suddenly froze, wide-eyed, as he realised that she must be looking at the one he'd contributed. Toby felt his face go warm, and he sank down a little in his seat as the guilt within him mounted. Like the professor had said... the snap cup was meant to help with positivity and morale, but had his contribution done that? No way.

Toby chewed at the inside of his lip and stared hard at the desk, feeling all kinds of awful. But then... a chance for redemption. A chance to have a POSITIVE impact on someone. He would absolutely take it.

Looking up again once he felt a little less wobbly, Toby picked the first person he set eyes on.

"Eden-" he began, but his voice went all weird and he sort of had to clear his throat before trying again with a little more clarity. "Ahem. Uh... Eden. I think you're a super great friend, and I like the way you try to make others happy. And I like your spirit. And I like the way you clearly love your sn-... pets. And I also think it's a privilege to be your friend."

Yep.

Zander should've known better than to show up to this class while he was in a bit of a weird mood still. Professor Morgan wouldn't like that very much, would she? Clearly not. And though she didn't really mention it, he could tell that she had deflated just a bit as he walked through the door. "Thanks, Professor." It was pretty kind of her to offer up her space to him actually. At least there was one Professor who didn't hate him yet. Not that he was sure any of the others did... Well, obviously Professor Quigley did, but that was-- Anyways.


The Gryffindor found himself staring at the top of the table absentmindedly as he waited. You know, maybe choosing a table in the back all by himself wasn't such a great idea after all... And that's when he heard someone else pulling out a chair and he couldn't help but hope that it was Kevin. Except it wasn't, but he liked AJ too. He looked her way and nodded quietly before her question caught him off guard. Uh. Was he okay? Debatable. He had gotten his badge back and the Headmistress didn't blame him for what had happened. He hadn't been expelled. Things did go up towards the end of the detention, so considering all of that maybe he should've been okay? But he wasn't, not completely anyways. He still watched Gregoire die. Twice technically. "I'm uh-you know, I'm----" the words were hard to form, and for once in his life he was actually thankful that someone took the liberty to WHACK HIM IN THE HEAD????
Saved by the Kevin, essentially. But that didn't mean the whack hurt any less. Geez, Kev. So it was no wonder that Zander let out a LOUD YELP when his head was attacked. "OI!" Reaching a hand towards his head, the Gryffindor turned around so that he was face to face with the culprit. This was it. People were rallying against him.

Oh.

"I've missed you too, Kevin." Wait. That was weird. Did Kevin just admit to that out loud? Uh, what? Zander was still rubbing the back of his head by the way. Ahem. "I haven't been avoiding you," he tried to assure the fourth year, but after a moment, he shook his head. "No well, I've been avoiding everyone, really..." He didn't want to have to answer questions that he couldn't answer, you know? And there was also the fact that he was still super disappointed in himself... And the badge stuff.... And... It wasn't just Kevin, okay? Actually, running into Kevin was pretty much the only reason he had bothered to show up to this lesson in the first place.

And yes, Zander heard Professor Morgan's announcement, but he wasn't expecting to get any of those positive compliment things from Kevin, so when Eden ran up to his table the Gryffindor couldn't hold back a look of confusion? AND THEN HE WAS BEING HUGGED. But it was okay because Eden was really nice. Especially after he had come back to the note and the snake plushie and everything. Made him feel a little more at ease after that horrible detention. His cheeks were starting to turn a violent shade of pink as the Ravenclaw began to speak waitwhat. Why would anyone look up to HIM?

Ahem. Anyways. "Thanks, Eden. I-The stuff you had someone leave on my bed, it was really really nice. I needed something like that," he gave her a soft smile-- something he wasn't planning on doing today, smiling. She was just SO nice.

Yeah, she still wasn't used to the greeting thing that happened here every single lesson. It was weird. The nod was the most Bambi could bend to this odd Hogwarts tradition that she couldn't wrap her head around. Didn't the professors get tired of repeating themselves?! It baffled the blonde.

Oh, hey, that was her thing! Nodding, she smiled at the snaps - it was amusing, after all - and practically beamed when the professor claimed the strawberries were theirs for the munching. And there was going to be BIRTHDAY CAKE. AWESOME. But, she'd have to give someone a compliment first. Didn't sound too hard, Bambi was good at giving compliments.

She had just bitten into her second strawberry when Eden got up and Bambi watched, amused, as she went over to the Gryffindor prefect and hugged him before coming back and saying super sweet, if slightly teasing, things. Bambi mock rolled her eyes at the mention of Bambi the Deer, but saying she was used to it would be the understatement of the century. If anything, she mostly found the cartoon animal's constant mentions funny.

"Right back at you, sweetheart," she laughed and winked at Eden before turning to Lux and grinning at her. "You ESPECIALLY are a ray of sunshine, Lux," she felt this needed to be stressed, "and I am super glad I met you as well."

YAY good feelings whoop whoop. Never mind a kid died not a month ago. But that's probably why the professors were doing this right? Taking all these moody teenagers and pulling them out of their down. She mulled this over when she caught a mention of someone complimenting the Hufflepuff prefect on his guitar skills. Oh? That sounded like something she needed to explore. Not wanting to be caught randomly staring, Bambi shot him a wide smile and bent to write a small memo on her parchment to see if perhaps they could play together. She desperately needed - and wanted - the practice.

But anyways. Lesson.

Kevin did NOT feel bad for hurting Zander when he had hit him on the head. In fact, he was grinning a little bit because he thought it was funny until his friend turned around and said that he had missed him too. The grin faded away and it was replaced with a frown AND a blush on the cheeks. He had just openly admitted that he had missed someone and that was not cool. Not in his book. He cleared his throat as he sat down and listened to him explaining that he hadn’t been avoiding him. That earned him another WHACK on the top of his head though. “So what you call it? Hiding in self-pity? You could have at least talked to me!” seriously, he knew he was horrible and that the death of that kid hadn’t struck him as heavily as the others but come on! He wanted to say some more but then class started and the Gryffindor sighed as he gave his best friend and still Prefect a ‘we’ll talk about this later’ look.

As Adi and Bambi walked in, Lux sent them both waves. "Hey, guys! How are you both doing?" Hehe, their little group at the table was growing but she did have to look away as both Bambi and Eden started eating strawberries.

Oh, good. Professor Cassie was speaking to her. "I'm doing alright considering the circumstances. How are you?" Everyone was sad after what happened to Gregoire, and she was still having a hard time not thinking of how she had almost lost Bay in that stupid forest. The second question confused her for a moment before Lux realized what it was in regards to. "Oh, I'm just highly allergic to strawberries." So no eating them or touching them.

She eyed the bowl of fruit as if daring it to do something.

Proud moments were being read, and she snapped along to them but the best news so far was CUPCAKES because yummy. She would have to wish Professor Glendower a happy belated birthday later. Maybe she would take the allergy potion just to be safe, but she was not going to be eating the strawberries.

Awww, Eden was being sweet with her Positive words . It was soooo adorable and made Lux smile. "Thanks! You're a ray of sunshine too! Everyone is!" But the biggest ray of sunshine was her Lion. "I think you guys are all great friends and I am so happy to have met you!" she told Adi, Eden, and Bambi.[/QUOTE]