ooc: Nadia, your post cracked me up.

Taking a deep breath, Alex tried to control herself. And once again her quick-temper got the best of her. ACK. She noticed a few people staring at her and Nadia looked rather embarassed. Truth was, she wasn't trying to make Nadia feel bad at all -- it was just, well, soon they would run out of questions to ask, no? Erm, although, with -- nevermind.

Sighing, she scanned the room once again and rested her eyes on Nadia, awaiting for her to talk again. She was almost sure that she had more questions. Although, Alex had a question of her own. But before she could say anything, Rae had taken away five points from Slytherin. Because of her. That wasn't the point. It was only five points, she was sure that she managed to win Slytherin a lot more points than that in class. But still. It was because of her.

She was ready to smack herself. Really and truly. The only thing that kept her from doing it was that she was around people. Blushing furiously, she gazed down at the floor and closed her eyes, trying to keep her tears in.

No ... no .. she couldn't lose it in class. Not NOW. Not in DADA class. Her quill was clutched in her hand, and as she wrapped her fingers around it tightly, she snapped it in half. With a small nod at Professor Rae, she gazed up at her, her eyes obviously full of tears, but had managed not to say anything else.