Oliver gave Layla an understanding smile and a nod as the girl denied having chosen a schedule completely different from his, that Auror training was just taking up a lot of her time. "I understand," said the boy. "That doesn't mean that you should make yourself a stranger, though, Layla," he added with a smile. "You know you can always visit us here. I wish it was the other way around, but your House Mum… she's brutal," he added, his expression turning a little more horrified for a second there as he shook his head slightly. And it was true that though Kat was overall a very kind woman, she could get really scary when any boys approached her sorority house.

Jillian listened to Faris with raised eyebrows, her expression blank until she let out the most amused of laughs once the boy was done speaking. Why oh why was it so hilarious to go against the boy's wishes? Perhaps if he wasn't so amusing Jillian wouldn't bother him so much. "Oh enough, you big baby," she said, giving an amused smile as she shook her head. "C'mon, let's go see if they have a pool like Alpha Pi Delta's," she said, turning the boy toward the kitchen and beginning to push him as if he were a very large, heavy immobile object rather than a grown young man.

Sighing rather deeply, Faris pursed his lips before submitting to Jill's wishes, although he forced her hands off of him as he decided to walk on his own accord. "Fine," He grumbled, his hands still defiantly crossed over his chest. "But I plan to keep my shoes on at all times." Forcing himself to put on a semi-cheerful face, he turned back to give Oliver and Layla a parting grin before making his way through the crowd of semi-intelligent oafs. He checked his pocket to make sure that his wand was close to him, just in case another set-up was coming his way.

Jillian rolled her eyes as Faris unwillingly agreed to her request before adding that he planned on keeping his shoes on at all times. "Well good, no one would want to smell that anyway," she said, obviously just teasing around, though she couldn't keep herself from doing so when Faris was being so difficult. She followed his lead deeper into the house and her brows furrowed slightly at the sights that met her - guys, lots of them, all clearly beyond themselves at the moment and acting in ways that could only be described as stupid. That's fraternity boys for ya.
Though it would be rather unfair to assume they were all the same.

"That would be great, I was beginning to feel neglected," Oliver replied with a chuckle as Layla assured him she would make time out of her schedule to visit him. And he couldn't help but chuckling softly once again as Layla continued giggling; something about her girlish giggles was rather contagious, he couldn't deny. "Not that bad? She's terrible!" said Oliver as the subject returned to Kat. "I'm sure she must be an angel to you girls, but to us... she's rather unforgiving," he said, shaking his head slightly for a moment before smiling again. "C'mon; have you seen the Sigma Mu Eta house yet? I'll give you a tour." He held out a slightly bent arm so Layla could wrap her own around it. "We wouldn't want our lovely sorority guest to get lost, now would we? You'd be amazed the things your accent would get some of these guys to do," he told the girl, blue eyes amused.

Faris couldn't help but crack a small smile at her teasing, although he kept his arms defiantly crossed over his chest. Jill wasn't all that bad; Faris just liked to think that Rush Week was turning her a bit mad. After all of the pressure of joining her sorority of choice, she hopefully wouldn't be as pushy as she was currently behaving. Reaching the back of the frat house, Faris uncrossed his arms and slid the screen door open to reveal a lush backyard, the lawn the size of a football field. However, merely feet in front of them lay a pool and jacuzzi almost identical to that of the sorority's, although this one was a bit more beaten and had a volleyball net in the pool's center.

"Oh." Wouldn't that be awkward though? Hailey getting help from the guy she liked Jason with the girl she disliked because she took her man Rosie sitting there as well? But she did need help.

"That'd be great! 'Cept I didn't bring any of my Herbology stuff with me..." She said, her answer trailing off into nothingness.

As they reached the back of the house, Jillian's jaw dropped to the floor. She had not been expecting this, not in the slightest. This backyard was huge! And they had a pool? And a jacuzzi? And a volleyball net?! Wide-eyed, the girl looked around for a moment before speaking, "I can not understand how you can possibly be so willing to turn this away, Patino!" she said, clearly impressed with what she saw. "So what if the guys are idiots? It's a small price to pay to live in a mansion like this!" she said, a grin adorning her cheery expression.

Oliver put on a face of thoughtfulness as Layla pointed out that he must've done something to upset Kat, and after a couple seconds of silence, the boy shook his head. "You mean besides sneaking into the house without her permission after you girls invited us during your parties? Not really, I can't recall doing anything to upset her," he said, flashing the shorter girl at his side a smile before he began to lead the way upstairs, to show her the second floor which was less crowded than the first floor and would allow them to talk without the need to raise their voices too high due to the music the boys had blasted to the max.
"Not impressive?" he repeated Layla's last statement, raising an eyebrow at the girl. "Perhaps not to you, but I can think a good number of people who would disagree," he told her, a smile still curving his lips before he caught sight of none other but Winston Van Valkenburgh of Northern London. "Oh great..."

"Sir Winston is most displeased with you, Catherwood! To lie, to have the audacity to lie to he, who is your senior in this madhouse!" said the blonde boy. "Oh! And what's this? Now you bring a girl up to our rooms too! Weren't you with those two other buffoons, too?" he asked, raising a blonde eyebrow at Layla, clearly referring to Jillian and Faris.

Winston's eyebrows rose slightly as Layla began speaking in what he couldn't deny was a rather fascinating French accent; he quite loved France himself, having spent a couple summers there before. He refused to allow himself to be so easily charmed, though, but it was difficult to do so as the girl continued in her dreamy accent, very formally letting him know that the 'buffoons' were elsewhere and Oliver was simply showing her around the house. However, as she then very sweetly added that he was the real buffoon here, Winston was blank for a second, clearly not having registered this as he was distracted with the girl's accent, but as the words seemed to register through, his eyes widened and his eyebrows rose for a second before furrowing disapprovingly at her.

Oliver tried hard not to, but was unable to stop himself from chuckling softly with amusement at this, and before Winston could really reply, the younger Sophomore boy was already speaking, "We'd love to stay and chat, 'Sir Winston', but I'd like to give Layla a tour of the house before we have to meet with the freshmen and get started on the challenges," he told the boy, keeping his tones polite though there was amusement in the blue of his eyes before he began leading the girl away from the shorter blonde boy and deeper down the halls which walls' were decorated with portraits of past members of the Sigma Mu Eta house, dating back to the days when the university had first been built. "Good work back there, Elzaria," he told the girl, giving her an amused smile before raising an eyebrow slightly, "I didn't know you could have such a sharp tongue!"

Oliver chuckled as Layla shared with him that she was good at coming up with comebacks, before then commenting on the portraits on the wall, and sharing with him how it was different at her sorority house. "Sounds just like your typical sorority house," he said, rather amused by this. "So have you girls thought what you're going to have the new freshmen joining the sorority do?" he asked. "Actually, you're friends with those two freshmen downstairs, aren't you?"

Faris sighed, the backyard seeming to lure him towards the prospect of pledging as Eve had been lured to the eat the apple. "I-I..." He muttered, not sure of what to say. "As long as I can stay in the yard in a tent, then it's a maybe." A small smile curved onto his thin lips as he waited to register Jill's (most likely triumphant) reaction. He wasn't completely sure about this, but if he could somehow work out a living arrangement away from the buffoons, maybe it would work out. Besides, nature was where he really belonged. His magizoology professor would love this.

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Hailey had just gotten out of DADA and she was trying to decide if she should go grab some dinner or go back to her dorm and do some homework. Or possibly paint her nails. Oh but Fliss wasn't around and she really needed HER to help her with her homework. Hmm, what to do?

JAson had been trying to find Hailey all week. He wanted to talk to her, but she was never anywhere to be seen. And when he did manage to catch her, she always managed to get away from him. It was almost as if she was avoiding him.

OMG! She was avoiding him. He knew it. And it wasn't just the paranoid thoughts talking.

He had to know why she was avoiding her, and maybe she would let something slip.

"Hey, Hailey," he said as he walked right in front of her. Yes, he wasn't going to let her get away from him this time.

Hailey had just decided that she was gonna go grab dinner to go and then head back to her room when someone walked right up to her, blocking her view. Oh no! It was Jason. Greaaaaaat.

She had been trying to avoid him all week, and had been doing a pretty good job. Until now--she was stuck. Backing up a little to put some distance between them, she glanced at him quickly before turning away.

"Oh, hey Jason," She said quickly, trying to think up an escape route before the Queen came along or something.

Okay, so he wasn't just being paranoid judging by the way she was now acting like she was cornered and wanted to escape. But he couldn't understand what her problem was really. She had told him that she was his friend. Before then he had thought that she didn't really like him.

"Hey, I've been wondering where you've been. I haven't seen you in a little while."

Hailey was troubled. She felt bad for doing this to him, but then again, he really had broken her heart...although he didn't know it.

"Oh, really? Um, I've been around. Just busy, I guess," She responded, now fidgeting with the clasp of her bag. Why must he do this to her?

"Really? I didn't think that Hailey was ever totally busy with school." He sent her a sweet smile. She always had time to see her friends and hang out too. She wasn't one to be stuck in her dorm all day long.

She glanced up at the sound of her name and saw the smile. Oh dear.

"I wasn't...until I had nothing better to do," She said with a half laugh. Okay, so maybe this wasn't so bad.

He raised his brow at her. "I didn't think you were ever without anything fun to do." Or maybe it had always seemed that way to him because he was a nerd and she wasn't really.

"You have any plans right now?" Maybe they could eat dinner together or something.

He was right.

"Things change..." She said slowly, biting her lower lip. Uhh, plans right now?! Hailey stood there for a second, her mouth hanging open. Then, composing herself again, she responded.
"Uh, no, not really. Why?" Why indeed.

He really hated when girls got like this. He found it rather cryptic really. They couldn't just give straight answers, could they? Females always had to make things confusing for him.

"I was wondering if you wanted to eat your dinner with me." It was dinnertime after all.

Dinner? With him? Was that...technically okay?

"Oh. Um, yeah, that'd be...great," She said, kinda surprised at her own words. But he had asked afterall, and it would've been quite rude to say no. "Were you gonna get it from the cafe, or go out?" She asked him now.