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Zander's eyes shot wide open when Lux mentioned FROSTBITE?! O_____O

AHHHHH, he made a quick grab for some of the clothing items he had discarded. Starting with one of the jumpers. He started pulling his sleeves through and then, AH. She was asking about the girl again! And not just any girl, about Bentley again. GAAAAAAH. ABORT MISSION ABORT MISSION. ABDON JUMPER. ABADON THE JUMPER. Suddenly he could feel himself getting all hot and sweaty again. Boy these layers sure made things real claustrophobic. So instead of putting the jumpers back on, he starting throwing them around again. "Actually-I-uh... I'm uh... I'm getting really hot all of the sudden... Is it just me or... Is it really hot out here," Despite the snow. And the frozen lake. And the other kids who were... ice skating? Zander was feeling the heat take on full force.

BUT FORGET THE COLD. THERE ARE REAL PROBLEMS HERE! How would Zander answer her question?!?! He couldn't just tell her. She'd probably run away. And then tell Bay. And then eventually Zahra would find out. And even worse, Kevin would find out too. No, he couldn't tell a soul. Especially because when he wasn't being distracted by Bentley's beautiful face, he could actually kind of think clearly. And anyone who could think clearly would know that it is very dangerous to be in love with a professor. Especially if you're a student. So no. It had to be a secret. "Uh... Yeah... You.. You might... Maybe..." Oh there was know doubt she'd know who Bentley was. Everyone who took herbology would know. Heck, anyone at Hogwarts would know. She's a hard professor NOT to know. Especially because she's so beautiful and nice and charming and--

NO BAD THOUGHTS BAD THOUGHTS. SO HOT OUT HERE MAKE IT STOP. Out of complete panic, Zander grabbed a handful of snow and shoved it down his shirt. Ah, much better. OUCH SO COLD SO COLD BUT ALSO SO SWEATY AND HOT SO CONFLICTED AHHHHHH! Help him? She wanted to help him? Well she definitely wouldn't want to help him... If she knew who the she was... "Uh... Okay.. Uh... How do I talk to her without... you know... the stomach-the flutteries?" Flutteries: Aka the single cause of his downfall. Those stomach butterflies and occasional stomach stabbies were going to be the death of him.

Peeves? HOLD UP. SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO PEEVES WAS? Only the most annoying ghost at Hogwarts. Only the most nosy most arrogant most annoyingly rhyming... Ahem. "He's the Hogwarts poltergeist.... Super annoying... And mean... And likes to throw pillows at innocent Gryffindor boys..." HMPH. Clearly there was still some bitterness towards that guy. HMPH. And then the ghost HAD THE NERVE to go tell on them to Bentley, BENTLEY OF ALL PEOPLE!

Dates with Bay!? Eugh. Bay was Zander's first real friend and it was crazy weird knowing that he and Lux went on... dates and such. Weird. See, Zander may be helplessly in love, or lust, but he didn't really understand why people would want a girlfriend or boyfriend for that matter. It was all just so foreign to him. Besides he was only 14 for crying out loud! But ooh Centaurs. Yeah. He'd focus on that one. "Centaurs? I saw a unicorn in Hogsmeade... But it ran away," Sigh. He was even being quiet and everything!

Just as Zander was thinking of something to talk about in order to take attention away from his suspicious Bentley doodle... He realized that he had two containers full of delicious macaroni in his bag! PERFECT! He could kill two, or er three, birds with one stone! A) Eat delicious warm food to help get rid of cold weather without making self claustrophobic with clothes. B) Get Ancient Runes Homework done. C) And most importantly, distract Lux from finding out about his crush. PERFECT! It was full proof! Man, Zander should've been sorted into Ravenclaw. "Saaaay, er, Lux? Do you like macaroni? Because I've been meaning to get my Ancient Runes Homework done." [/COLOR]
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Forget about frostbite; Lux was starting to think that Zander was losing his mind due to the cold. First he was scrambling to put clothes back on, then in no time he was removing them again.... to stuff snow down his shirt?! "Are you okay? Or are you getting hot flashes?" Lux heard that older women got those, but she figured maybe boys could too. Zander certainly was acting like a woman with hot flashes as far as she understood it. "Do you want to go to the Healer?" Because even if he was feeling hot, it was very very cold outside, and stuffing snow down his shirt was not helping matters. It made her very very worried to see her new friend like this.

"Why don't you put your clothes back on again?" You know, so that he didn't get really SICK or DIE. As brave as Lions could be, they weren't immortal and Zander was as susceptible to the cold weather as anyone else. "You don't have to tell me who it is if you don't want to." It was totally fine, she was a very curious person, but she wasn't going to force him to tell her who he was crushing on. "Butterflies are amazing though. It's a sign that you are in love." Giggling, she knew that it was a wonderful feeling; she loved it! But maybe Zander wasn't a big fan of the feeling, which was totally fine. "Do you want to get over this girl? Instead of dating her?" Usually people wanted to date the person they liked, but maybe Zander was different. Hey, he was removing his clothes in sub-zero temperatures so anything was possible.

Hogwarts has a poltergeist? That was news to her! Making a face, Lux was glad that Peeves had never shown up anywhere that she was. "I had no idea that we had one of those. I think I will try my best to stay away from him." Was he a fan of the Gryffindor Common Room or something? If so, no one had mentioned that to her as of yet. "I am terrified of ghosts, so I'm not sure how I would feel about a poltergeist." Yes, it might be silly to be afraid of the House Ghosts, but that did not stop her. Even though Tessa and Bay had tried to reassure her about them last term, she still wanted to hide whenever she even thought about Nearly-Headless Nick. And then there was that dead Professor who used to teach Astronomy or something. The only two ghosts she had ever seen, and hopefully it would stay that way.

It was no surprise to her that Zander would skip over the dates part, and that was totally fine with her because she didn't really want to talk about what she did with Bay on dates. Her personal life was personal after all. "I was with a few others in Hogsmeade and saw a mother and baby Unicorn walking down the street. I tried to feed the baby some candy, and the mother got mad. Professor Thompson came and helped us usher the Unicorns away from the street with some hay and grass." It was pretty interesting looking back on it, but she hated feeling guilty for what happened after she had taken Bay's potion. Meh. "I saw the Centaurs in the pathways. One of them came and wanted to speak to the Headmistress. He said that it's getting inhospitable in the forest so they were leaving it. He advised that we seek shelter too." Which she totally wasn't doing right now. Oops. "And then his friend joined and said that this third Centaur had been separated from the group or something. It was pretty interesting, and I learned not to address any of them as 'Mr. Centaur'." A good lesson in her book.

Lost in her thoughts about the Centaurs, it took a moment to register what he was asking her. Did she like macaroni? NO, SHE LOVED IT. "Does it have cheese with it? Because I love macaroni and cheese." It was one of her FAVOURITES and she could eat it ALL THE TIME.
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