Louis nodded in submission at his apology, leaning back and folding his arms, content with the meal, trying with some difficulty to keep from laughing. "I'll try to keep my jealousy down," said Louis a little soberly soberly. Then he cracked a wide grin, "Assuming you get yards within her."

Albus had knew before he even added the broom that James competitive edge wouldn't allow him to ignore the challenge. "Cheers," he said, excited in genuine, about how in the world James would pull this off. Or perhaps attempt to. A flicker of fear crossed his mind at losing his broom, but his face stayed intact. "Impossible, yes, but you're a Potter, James." Albus and Louis toasted, both grinning ear to ear.


Perla watched him intently, still gliding across rocks and rubble without thought. He, however, did not return her gaze. She did not puzzle over it. Her piercing eyes were not always sought for in stressful situations, or otherwise. She registered his surprise, or even shock, and something, if only a flicker, else. She also registered the lie. Had the seriousness of the moment been lifted, she might have rolled those piercing eyes. When he turned away, Perla followed suit, defeated.

The anger and resign changed to surprise when he continued. She was slightly reassured by his words, and she reached for his hand. She looked at him sharply after he finished. "The Siren's did not change the seamen, they shipwrecked them." She took a small breath, ready to go on, but calmed herself by gripping his hand a little tighter.

The wind ruffled her brothers hair, in her eyes making him the better impersonator of their father. She smiled in a small way, comforted by the fact that her father was almost standing next to her, in a much better form with all the goodness of Scorpius. She returned his smirk with her own, and replied softly, "Yes. I'm tiring of it, too."

As they neared the Great Hall she stopped. She was not one for food, but she turned to her brother, "Shall we?" She secretly hoped they could skip the feast, possibly because of the subject of their previous talk, or perhaps because of the gawking Perla received that was magnified each welcoming feast by the coming of new students, and the returning of old. But, though she ate almost as much as she cried, Scorpius might be hungry.

Albus caught Lily's smile, and grinned back. He reached over with a long toned arm and rumpled his sister's hair at her teasing. "What are you talking about, I am the cool kid." As she cautioned him, Sev grimaced visibly. He quite enjoyed being given his newfound attention, and he enjoyed perhaps more thoroughly, girls. Addy was great, but she seemed a little selfish after Lily's shpeal. He would need to spend some quality time with her to narrow his playing field so completely. "That puts a damper on it." He grumbled, taking a gulp of pumpkin juice.

"Well I've got this feeling that I'll die trying but if I wouldn't want to pass on to the afterlife any other way."

"Ah indeed, It might be impossible but making the impossible possible is what we Potters do best."As James said this an impressive tune played off in his mind and a heroic scenery flashed trough his mind, though other's watching him might think strangely about his daydreaming.

"Oh and about your broom, I wouldn't dare to break my little brother's heart by taking his broom.....You can keep it, even if I succeed."

"Do enlighten me, why are girls so selfish actually?"James asked his sister."I don't get it why they wouldn't want to share their boyfriends, I mean at our age you should enjoy life there's plenty of time to be in a monogomous relationship when you're old and get married."

James stopped after this, he knew Lily would probably get mad at him for saying stuff like that and besides, it seems fans had just arrived at the table, giggling fans were always the most easy to please.
"Why hello ladies."

Rose looked back up from her food, her red hair in her dark eyes, to see Lorcan staring at her, then turning away. Rose crossed her arms in a huff. "You're so-" She paused, tryring to think of the right word to describe him, annoying...odd...perfect. Her eyes grew wide, did she honestly just think that? This was Lorcan Scamander . The same guy she has known all her life. The same guy that annoyed her very being. "-infuriating." She finally said, a small blush at her cheeks.

ooc: I realllllly hope you don't mind if I took a bit of license with their summer and Lily & Krystal with a K. ( I can change it if you want...but I think it adds some depth to Lily & Albus )

Albus listened to Lily's defense of Addy warily, he guessed a few of the words before they came out of her mouth. Bimbo, annoying, share a guy... He had to grin at her stubborn hate of his usual choice (not to mention James's CONSTANT choice) of arm-candy. "What?! You didn't like Krystal with a K?"
Louis perked up at the mention of Sev's immensely hot, immensely dumb, summer fling, whom Lily had...erm...HATED. "No, no, I think she mentioned something about that this summer--"
"Possibly--"
"Yes, I definitely heard something about that--"
"A bit of yelling--"
"Krystal might have heard a shard of it--"
"'Twas rather loud--"
"Ahhhhh," said Louis, closing his eyes to remember the little blonde scampering out of the Potter's home amidst Lily's bimbo-induced psychological break. "So cute..."
"So dumb." added Albus affectionately, then turned to Lily. "I'm loving the hard-to get Addy, you have good taste in friends, Lil, but I'm not loving the hard to please Addelaide." He shrugged, smiling at his sister in an irresistible puppy dog guiltiness. He regarded the giggling girls with a cocked eyebrow at her suggestion, but James seemed to have the fangirls covered. He waved and winked, but then looked with a bored, mellow face back to Lily. "Louis and James have got that covered. Well, Louis, I s'pose, after James is occupied with Malfoy."

"Cheers to that, mate," said Louis nodding and lifting his goblet. Before he sipped, though, his eyes twinkled and he had a shifty moment where barely audibly he muttered, "But better you than me."

Albus bowed to his brother, "Your mercy astounds me." Thinking twice, and about how Malfoy's were not known for this Potter quality, he added..."Somehow I don't think I'll have to give up anything."

Albus choked a little on his pumpkin juice, "Smack him!" He said to Lily out loud, and My point exactly, he concur-ed silently.

James tore himself away from his 'fans' and raised his goblet as well and as he took a sip he could swear he heard Louis say something but he couldn't quite make out what.

"Don't be so sure little brother."James said as he placed his goblet back on the table again.
"All I'm saying is don't start crying when I've pulled of this miracle."

"Heey, what the."James was surprised by this, he had expected a girl to get mad at him or something but to be stabbed in the back by his own brother.
"Who's side are you on, we charming guys should stick together."

Holding Perla's hand lightly, Scorpius kept his mouth closed as she wrapped up the topic of Lily, not trusting himself enough to speak anymore. He knew that, should he speak of her, he would probably let more emotions slip. La Perla was bound to have noticed the emotion that had already passed over him several times today.

Stopping with Perla, Scorpius looked at the great oak doors that opened in to the Great Hall. The recent subject had left him with no appetite, and he turned his head away from them. 'I might skip the feast tonight. I have no appetite,' he told her, dropping her hand. 'You can have something if you wish, Pear. And Alex, where ever he is,' he mumbled.

Taking a few steps back, he leant against the marble staircase. 'Are you going to eat?'

"Believe me, I won't have enough breath to cry if you pull it off," Albus assured him.

"Well, she's been up my tree about this all night...all summer actually, since Krystal with a K. You deserve a bit of the lecture, you're way worse than me." He said, kind of apologetically. He was inflated a bit by being called charming, and clapped James on the shoulder. "Sorry, bro."

The mention of Alex made Pear knit her eyebrows slightly. It wasn't strange that he had been so quiet on the train, unnerving, as always, but not strange. It was however, that he had been missing for nearly an hour. The Malfoy's weren't exactly ravenous, but they didn't skip the feast usually, either. She pushed it from her mind, and smirked at Cor's question from the marble stairs. "No." Scorpius was polite like that, even if the last time their family saw Pear eat was hard to recall, he asked.

Perla resisted the sudden urge to ask what he was thinking, or delve into it herself. She respected her brother's privacy of mind, even if they were the only ones. Her mother was an accomplished Occlumens, and her father was nearly always honest with her, though it was true, at the dinner table he would suddenly find himself thinking quite abruptly about anything Perla was curious about. Thus, Hogwarts was a sort of treat, not because of the students, no. They're minds, however entertaining at evening meals, were far too simple and trivial to be true practice. It was the professors' minds she really enjoyed. Perla had been on more than one occasion, reprimanded for answering a question before it was asked. Nevertheless, she simply looked at Scorpius a little quizzically, then suggested their departure to the Common Room.

"I forgive you, but only because I'm so kindhearted."James said and then stood up to glance down the Slytherin table, he could find no trace of Malfoy he was challenged to date but the Slytherin table was all the way over the other side of the Great Hall so he could've looked past her.

"You know I'm starting to wonder how I'm gonna pull this off, I don't know her, have no classes with her and she's in Slytherin.....It will be a task itself to even get to talk to her."James gave a sigh as it had just sunk in how slim his chances were.
"Does any of you have any helpfull suggestions?"

Lily looked at her brothers, somewhat flabbergasted.
"Are you actually serious? You know that little about women? I don't believe anywhere in my description of Addy did I say she was hard to please. And if by that you mean she doesn't like being one of the many girls you would be kissing, spending time with and doing god-knows what else with, excuse me for thinking that most normal girls would not put up with that. And don't get me started on that bimbo of a girl you brought home this summer. I seriously don't understand why you two seem to be the only ones who find commitment a scary term. I guess that just shows immaturity." she said, slightly annoid.
"And you!" she said rounding on James. "How can you call a girl selfish jsut because they wouldn't want to share their guy? Oh right, I forgot, it's because you know nothing about committment. How could I forget that you have never even been in a committed relationship so you of course wouldn't understand this. You know for all your infinite wisdom on the opposite sex, you really know nothing. You just wait James Potter, someday you will actually, really, really like a girl. And you will be green with envy if you see her with some other guy. Just wait, then maybe you will understand where we come from. It's really not that foreign of a concept, but apparently it is to you too." she said, crossing her arms.

Lorcan looked at her and smirked. "You love it." he said winking at her, taking another sip of juice before leaning back in his chair, quite content from his meal. He leaned back on the chair, placing his hands behind his head so that his strong arms were quite obvious. He smirked at her again.

Louis turned to scan the Slytherin table with James, but it was immediately obvious that the two platinum blonde Malfoys were not there. Perla was easy to spot, and it was blatant that she was missing. "Hmmmm, helpful suggestions..." Louis thought for a moment, screwing up his boyish face with mock consideration, "No. None. Well, you might try not to make an **** out of yourself." He shrugged, being of very little help, and dishing into what he vowed was his last helping of treacle tart.

When Lily was completely done with her rant about Addelaide (whom he had started to refer in his mind to as Lily's Girlfriend) and "normal" girls, Albus was slightly cross as well. "Have you two set a date, then? Picked the colors for the wedding invitations?" He folded his arms, sick of...whatever this was. A reprimand? A slap on the wrist? A wake up call? Possibly an advert for Addelaide? Where in the last meal, had the fun Lily gone? Clearly, Albus wasn't about to juggle-date, and CLEARLY, he was not going to cheat on anyone. Keeping his options open had never upset Lily so much, just as Lily had never upset Sev so much.

He was really stung by the immaturity bit. Lily could not understand, simply could not comprehend, James' shadow. It fell a little to her right, being a girl, and just over Albus. Maturity was the reason he wanted a bit of time in the limelight, a bit of the girls, a bit of the Quittitch acclaim, and a bit of fun. Fun, was clearly no longer a priority of Lils', and he wanted dearly to throw something on the floor and tell her that if she was mature, then he wanted no stuffy bit of it. He contented himself with glaring holes into the air a little above her shoulder, and muttering, "Maybe I just can't handle normal girls, like you, Lily." He put stress on normal and looked at her with a bit of his temper still stamped on his face, cocking an eyebrow.

"You know Lily I don't get why your getting so worked up about some 'bimbos' to put it in your words, we're guys, we're young let us be shallow if we want to be.
Some people, including me, are satisfied enough when dating an airhead with a gorgous exterior.......I don't get you, it isn't as if we're planning to marry girls like that."James said as he let out another sigh, he was aware that he was playing with fire at the moment but he couldn't help himself besides it was fun at times to tick off your sister.

"But what in Merlin's sake are you talking about, me becoming green with envy someday when the girl I'll really like will be with another guy."James couldn't help but laugh a little at his sister's words.
"What have you been smoking?"

"As if that would happen, even if I fall deeply in love someday why would the girl I'll love be with another guy, I mean with the undivided attention of me why would she want some other....You can't get any better then me"As James said this, his face had an expression of just look at me.

"Well thanks for the helpful advice mate."He said sarcasticly."But I have a better idea, I just need my dad's old invisibility cloak and the password of the Slytherin common room, can't be that hard."