"It's, well... It's uh, well," Ned began, stumbling nervously around his words. He'd never been so inarticulate, so graceless of nervous in his life. He wet his lips, looked down at his shoes, and felt just as foolish as McGit, but he was going to get through this, this was it, this was the moment.

"Vianna, y-" Ned started to say, before the very object of his desire cut him off to say hello to a bloody ghost. Ned wanted to smack his head into the nearest pole. He watched with annoyance as Peter the Precarious floated over to them, a large goofy grin on his translucent face.

"Where have you been al night gorgeous?" Peter asked, phasing through Ned and Vianna to pop out behind the young girl. Ned recoiling at the cold feeling, which caused him to involuntarily let go of Vianna's tiny waist. His intimate moment with Vianna was definitely over.

"We were kind of talking here mate," Ned said, glaring at the ghost, who shrugged apologetically, though it didn't seem very sincere.

"I'm sorry, I could leave if you two like?" Peter asked, glancing back from the peeved looking Ned to Vianna.

"Yes, please," Ned curtly replied.



Anxiously taking one last look at the sad figure of curled up Robert, Airi wondered if she had made the right decision, however, it was already too late to changer her mind, especially considering that Victor was now leading her through the shack and the remains of the wild party.

It seemed her earlier clarity had been something of a fluke, because she was quite light headed now, maybe she ought to have had another glass of water before leaving with Victor. Sweet Hermione Granger, she was leaving the party with Victor Vincenzi and he was holding her hand (The girl oddly enough had forgotten that she had been the one to initiate the hand-holding).

As they walked in silence through the darkened tunnel to the castle, Airi tried to think of something to say to the boy, it wasn't that the silence was uncomfortable, but being drunk made Airi feel chatty. "Hey um... I just wanted to say, thank you," Airi said, her voice echoing slightly in the tunnel.