While it might have been wise for Josephina to head to Staff room and use the loo in there, the Arithmancy professor wasn't exactly sure she could hold it that long. Besides the convenience of having a loo right down the corridor from her classroom and office was far too tempting. When you gotta go, you gotta go, after all.

As she washed her hands, the brunette took a glance in the mirror, splashing water over her eyes. Maybe it was just her but she could have sworn she looked about a decade older than she really was; at least compared with the other night. Sighing, she pulled her hair hastily back into a ponytail, twisting it around to form a loose bun.

Caroline's hair was a right mess. It was fizzy, and stick up everywhere and it wouldn't hurt if she went in the powder her nose either. She step into the bathroom digging though her bag for a brush and her compact. She was in no shape to be seen by anyone at the moment, even professors? She looked up and almost talked into Professor Hadley. Whoops. She halted smack in front of her.

"Sorry Professor Hadley." She smiled slightly at her. She thought that professors had there own bathrooms. So she was quite shocked to see her standing a the mirror. There were always some girl in here crying over a boy, or being picked on, or friend trouble but this was new. A professor fixing her hair.

Just as she finished setting the loose strands from her bun just right, Josephina heard footsteps which was a reminder to her why she often didn't use the main bathrooms despite the convenience of this particular one.

As the footsteps got closer, she turned to see who it was and winded up face-to-face (quite literally too!) with one of her students. A sixth year, whom needless to say, seemed surprised by her presence. "Oh no worries, Miss Scott, I'm just about finishing up."

Hannah Came into the bathroom with a laod of fandation.The arm tattoos took a lot of work to be done atfer a shower.nah I'll let people see them for now on.she took off her sweater and there she was with all her tattoo showing.

Toby walked trough the castle, because he wanted to know all the ways and places at Hogwarts. He walked for, what it seemed to be, an hour or something more. Then he needed to go to the bathroom. He saw one when he was on the Third Floor. He walked into the room, but when he was in he noticed that it wasn't a bathroom for boys. He looked around, a bit in panic, and wished that nobody has seen him. He walked out as quick as he could.

Nika let out a scream as she saw a boy. She liked boys. But not in the girl's loo. Even though he quickly retreated after his mistake it still didn't make it any less weird.

Dude i'm going to your head of house.You should not be in here you Nosey little runt.Sorry i was kinda getting mad that a boy was in the girls bathroom.cover your eyes.

Cass walked into the girl's bathroom with her Slytherin robes slightly billowing behind her. It made her look rather formidable really.

She turned into the girl's bathroom and looked around cautiously for any sign of Myrtle. She was in no mood to see the pessimistic little ghost who wailed about nothing else except how miserable she was. No, her mood shall not be ruined.

She stepped in front of the mirror and started humming softly as she sorted through her curls, trying to untangle them carefully.

Lexi EXPLODED into the girl's bathroom and after conjuring a blanket she plopped herself onto the floor, tears still flowing down her face. She was SO sick of people being mean to her... She was beaten and battered emotionally as it was.

She really, REALLY wanted to go home... or to the house in France more likely. She wanted to get away from this wretched place.

|Holding her head in her hands, she sort of pulled at her own hair a little as she ran her fingers up into it, and just wailed and cried...

Ella pushed open the door to the girls bathroom. Flicking her hair back she wandered in and suddenly stopped dead.

An older girl was sitting on the floor, head in her hands. Oh dear.. Maybe better to not talk.. Ella tohught to herself. Walking a bit quicker now, Ella headed to the toilet cubicle furthest away, her robes flying behind her. Trying to be as quiet as possible, she shut her door.

Cassie never ever used any other bathroom than the one in the hufflepuff common room but this was an emergency. She needed to gooooo! She raced into the bathroom on the second floor just in the nick of time.

As she was about to leave the cubicle she heard loud crying from outside. She froze for a second thinking she would give the girl some time to pull herself together and leave. It would save them both the awkward moment.

She grew bored after a moment though and decided she would just quickly wash her hands and leave before they even had time to have that awkward moment. When she saw who it was though she was instantly thrown into an emotional whirl pool. She was not particularly fond of the girl, so she figured she should be pleased to see her crying but she wasn't. Instead she really just wanted to find out what was wrong and attempt to comfort her. Damned Hufflepuff trait.

What to do what to do. The dilemma.

She walked to the sink quietly and washed her hands, then dried them. After a moment she took a cautious step towards the girl, mentally steeling herself against a verbal attack from the girl.

"Lex...you ok?" Dumb question..clearly she wasn't.

Lexi didn't even care that she was making a spectacle of herself... she was upset... she was broken down.

Hearing Cassie's voice ask how she was... didn't even make her angry... she was relieved that there was SOMEONE there. Not looking up, hands still wrapped in her hair she shook her head. "Not at all... No one understands... " she said through sobs.

What was this? There was no snapping no teeth baring...She was shocked, but perhaps she shouldn't be considering the state that the girl was in. She had not seen the girl like this before now, even though she was aware of the fact that she had left the Yearbook office crying.

She moved over to her and gently moved her hands away from her hair. accidentally ripping out her hair would not make the situation any better.

Cassie looked at her with a mixture of confusion and concern on her hair."No one understands what Lexi? Look I know you have no reason to trust me...but..I wouldn't wish seeing my worst enemy like this....if I had one."

Lexi sobbed harder as Cassie moved her hands from her hair. She allowed it, no hesitation. Not meeting the girl's eyes she said, "No one understands what I have been through this summer... what happened to me. Hell, what I have gone through in my life, period... how it affects me. I have had a harder life than most people can even imagine... and they dun understand that even though I seem like I am so confident and whatnot... that I am BROKEN. I am destroyed inside. Jim and Salander are the only people that get it... They help me when no one else can..."

She cried harder after having said it all. She was broken for sure...

Cassie adjusted herself so that she was sitting next to the girl and listened as she briefed her on what was bothering her so much for her to be crying this hard in the girl's bathroom.

Which was kind of freaking her out considering the whole moaning myrtle dying in the bathroom thing. She didn't want to witness anything of the such even if the basilisk had been destroyed years ago. Who knows, it might have had babies or something.

She understood what she was saying though because Cassie too had a very rough life at home, what with her dad loving money and only money and her mom's partying and drinking habits, but she wore a nice little facade and never took anyone home, so no one knew. She supposed it must be the same with Lexi...or worse actually, considering the state that the girl was in.

"I do get what you're saying Lex, but you see James and Salander are the only ones who can help you because they are the only ones who knew about this stuff. So when you get like this they know why and know how to handle it, but for people, who don't know that you're going through crap, they won't know how to react to you being how you are." She sighed. There was not much Lexi could do about that though because it would be ridiculous telling everyone her business.

She pulled the girl in closer when she started crying and tried to comfort her.

"If you ever feel like things are getting too much and you just need to blow it off, you can come find me, I have no problem listening at all and trying to help however I can. We can even go blast trees by the way if you feel like venting. I like to do that sometimes too."

Nika saw a girl who she had recognized from the train going home last term. Hmm but this time she looked different. Was it the hair? No. Was it the humming? No. WAs it the clothes? No. AHA! She isn't crying this time. Well whatever brought this change of attitude Nika felt happy for the girl. "Hi! I talked to you on the train last term, but I don't know if you remember me. I'm Nika." Just a refresher. The loo, great place for conversation?

"Well I can't really share all of my mess with everyone. It is not pretty and I don't care for everyone to know my personal business. Enough of it is already known as it is," she said as she started to try to control her breathing. "And Jimmy and Sal are not the only ones that know... they are the only ones that seem to be able to deal with me though. The only ones that can talk me down when I get so upset."

Letting the girl pull her closer she cried a bit quieter now, but the tears streamed still.

"I appreciate it, but I am not ready to share this stuff with you, no offence of course. B-b-but... I like to set things on fire... or just blow things up," she said weakly.

Cassie nodded as the girl spoke. Sure she got her point and stuff but the only other option left to her if she didn't want other people being mean to her is just not be mean to them first. But that would mean putting her problems on the back burner and putting up a front of the sort, something Cassie had become really good at.

Cassie smiled."None taken, actually I didn't expect you to start spilling your guts to me, I just put it out there" And really she just wanted the girl to let it all out and crying was a good way to get rid of some of the built up stress, especially when you have someone there with you."Well you should consider the ROR. You'll get everything you need for a pyrotastic evening."

Cass turned in surprise as someone suddenly spoke from behind "Oh, Hi!" She said happily, if she remembered correctly, she was the girl who talked to her last term when she ran out of her compartment, crying. "Yes, Nika, I do remember you." Then she smiled brightly at the girl "Thank you for talking to me last term. It really meant a lot."

Then she realized she wasn't able to introduce herself properly when they met. She held out her hand and said "I'm Cassandra Prewett, Third Year Slytherin. But you can call me Cass."

"I always act like nothing is wrong... this term has already busted that facade to bits. Everything is getting to me right now. And I am REALLY trying to be less... well you know how I have been," she said as she wiped her nose on her robe sleeve. "It's just become SO much to handle and keep some normalcy," she muttered.

"I really appreciate the sentiment and perhaps in time I will be able to open up to you," she said honestly. There were just so many secrets... not just hers, but so much that involved the whole GROUP.

The RoR was her special place with Sal. They could be alone there with no interruptions. They usually danced and played and whatnot. Heh. Shaking her head she said, "I just set stuff on fire wherever I am really... I have gotten good at putting the fires out. I set one last term with a... friend... down in the dungeons inside a cauldron. And one massive one out on the grounds." Talking about fire actually quelled the crying girl a bit.

Nika's eyes lit up when the girl had said she remembered her. It was a bit surprising to Nika that she would remember. Maybe because it was just such an emotional time for the girl. "I was only trying to be a good person. Besides I couldn't leave you there like that." She replied with a smile.

Cass had never explained why she was crying, but Nika could tell it must've been a big deal. Nika wanted to ask whether everything was fixed but she decided against it in case they weren't. "So Cass we didn't really get to talk much on the train. So tell me a bit about yourself."

Cassie nodded, yeah the level headed person she thought Lexi was, was blown clear out the window and replaced by well...earlier she found the girl to be a twitchy arrogant psycho but now that she saw there was a reason behind her actions, a different opinion was formed. She wasn't one hundred percent clear on it though, but obviously the girl wasn't pure evil like she thought."The only thing I can tell you is to talk about it, whether to James, Salander or Ivan and vent your frustrations out, so that you don't end up blowing up at people, so they aren't mean to you and add to your stress level."

"Hey no rush Lexi, I was just checking in on you. I don't need to know your business, I just don't like seeing people crying...anyone at all...I just..I don't know..." What she was, was a big fat softy but she would never tell anyone that.

Cassie kind of looked at her with a surprised expression on her face. Set fire any where? Yeah that ish was risky. Cassie knew that if she was to spontaneously light anything on fire, it would not end well at all."That's crazy, I would end up setting the whole place on fire and getting so nervous I would forget the water spell."

"Thank you." She said gratefully with a nod.

"Me? Nothing much." She answered as she leaned back on the counter behind her "I play the guitar, I have a cat named Ice and I'm really scared of Lafay." She added jokingly. "You?"

Lexi shrugged and said, "Sometimes I think they get tired of dealing with my crazy. I would rather just keep it to myself this time around really. Thank you very much for your advice though. And please do not think I am discounting it... I am just... you have no idea." Cue a little wibble!sniffle.

"Now that other girl in the Yearbook office... I was being nice to her... very much so. Introduced myself and welcomed her. Her attitude with me was highly uncalled for. That was what set me over the edge. I will not deal with disrespect or mocking in any way shape or form," she said with a bit of her Gryffindor firmness coming back.

Lexi frowned at having her actions being called crazy. She didn't like that. At all. "I am quite practiced at the both of the spells actually. Proficient in them. Fire conjuration is my strongest spell," she said plainly. She was careful. Mostly.