The Sheerwood girl muttered a string of curses(That she heard her father use) under her breath as she walked down the path heading towards the lake. Ravenclaw was in dead last for the House Cup. Worst of all, Hufflepuff was in first. "I really hope we catch up soon..." She said, kicking a rock with her foot, "I don't wanna lose this bet to Ethan, or the other, for that matter..." She and her soon-to-be stepbrother, Ethan Salems, 2nd year transfer Hufflepuff, made two bets. The first was who would win the House Cup, obviously. The second: She bet her dad would pop the question to E's mom during the summer, He bet before school ends. "Well, we'll just have to see, won't we?" A small smirk crossed her lips at the consequences of the loser of the bets...


ooc: Yeah, I have NO ideas for consequences, heh...

Belle walked down the paths, wondering where Ryan was. She wanted to show him something. She sighed and sat down on the nearest bench, pulling her bag off of her shoulder. She fiddled with her necklace, wondering if she should show him all of her drawings. She opened her bag, pulling out the sketchbook and layed it on her legs.

Ryan walks slowly down the paths. He was happy that all his homeworks was done. He had to admit himself that one of them was rather hard and wonder if they all would look like that. Noticing that Belle was sitting on a bench with something that was looking like a sketchbook, he decided to walked toward her. "Hey Beautiful. How are you doing today?" Still remembering what she's was going through he wanted to be sure she was still ok.

She looked up and smiled, blushing slightly at the word 'beautiful. "I'm doing...okay. I found an old sketchbook and there's a few pictures of her in there. It's really hard to look at them." She bit her lip and turned to a recent picture that she had drawn of her little sister. "We were taking a walk and she had just gotten done swinging. That's why her hair is all messed up." She giggled a bit and ran her fingers over the face in the picture.

She held up the sketchbook, so he could see the picture. It was of a girl about five with long black hair and deep saphire eyes. The little girl had on a light pink sundress and she was smiling in the picture.

OOC: She looks exactly like Belle except darker eyes.

Ryan smiled at her as he sat next to her. He was glad that she was doing okay but was hoping to help her feel better. Looking at the pictures that she was showing to him, he had to admit that the girl he was looking at was looking exactly like Belle except for her eyes and the fact she was younger. "She looks totally likes you, except she looks younger and her eyes is a little different." Looking carefully at the pictures, he add: "You two really looks close."

"I drew it myself." She said, quietly. She sighed and bit her lip. "She liked this picture. She said that this was one of my best pictures so far." She shrugged slightly and flipped through a few other pictures. She leaned against him and ran a hand through her hair.

Ryan was really impressed with her drawing. Everything he was looking at was extremely well down, he was hoping that he could draw like that but he didn't have that skill. "You are awesome at this. I totally understand why she like it." Looking at her for a second, the idea of the reason why she wanted to change her hair was probably that she wanted to separated herself from her in order to make it easier.

She smiled a bit and rested her elbows on her knees, her fingers interlaced and under her chin. "Thanks. Professor De Luca likes them too. She has one of the first pictures I drew. I even had to autograph it for her." She bit her lip again and rested her face in her palms. "How're you doing?" She asked, not looking up at him. She had a splitting headache and the light wasn't helping.

He noticed something different about her attitude and notice that she was sad talking about it. He knew that all this was fresh but in time everything would be back ok but it was depending on how strong she was since he was still graving on his father's death. "I think you are going to have a huge success with that. You should think about doing this as a career when you will leave here. You have outstanding talents." Smiling at her and thinking about her question but not too much since it wasn't that hard. "I'm fine. All homeworks that I had are done and I have to admit that History of Magic was a little hard but other than that it's ok."

Belle sat up straight and stretched, trying to get her back to stop aching. "I'm sorry it was hard." She layed her head on his shoulder. "I haven't really been focusing on it. It's been too hard to focus. But, you like my pictures?" Him liking her pictures made her feel a little bit better.

Ryan took her hands and warmly held them between his. He understand what she meant and was trying to be strong for her if she needed him to be. "You don't have to be sorry. It's been hard days and you have to pull yourself back together. Once you will be ok, everything will fall back together." Looking once again at her pictures, he was more than impressed. "I don't just like them, I love them."

Belle pulled one of her hands away from his hands and tucked her sketchbook back into her bag. She closed it up and put her hands on top of his, turning to face him. She looked him in the eyes and grinned. "Really? You love them?"

Ryan winked at her and smiled. "I really love them. They are awesome. What's not to like." He was surprise that she was doubting her talents and thought that she should be more confident. "I'm sure you will be very famous for those. I don't know why but I have an instinct that's what is going to happen."

"Ooooh. I don't think I'll be famous. My pictures will go out of style soon." She nodded and scooched closer to him, wrapping her arms around his neck. "Where's Mego? I think Shayna really liked him. She keeps pacing and looking around for him in the common room. It's really quite cute."

Ryan shook is head and he really believe that she was going to be recognize one day for her work. He thought that she had too much talents for not making her marks. "I'm sure you will. But then again you have time. Maybe you can consider this after Hogwarts. Who knows." Wrapping his arms around her waisted, he realize that he forgot to bring Mego with him. "His in the common room. I think his having fun with one of his toys. I think he like her too. I notice that he really like her last time."

She relaxed when she felt his arms surround her waist, her problems slowly floating away. "Maybe. I might actually do that. Or I might go for a Ministry job." She shrugged and kissed his cheek. "Thanks Ryan. You just being here is making me feel better."

Ryan felt at slowly but surely Belle was relaxing and was glad to be there for her and be someone to make her feel more comfortable. "Both jobs seems very good. You have plenty of times to think about it." Knowing that she had two other years left to do, he wasn't worried for her to find something after her schooling and already have something for him in mind too. "I'm glad to be some recomfort for you." With that said, he kissed her on her cheek.

"What do you wanna do after school?" She asked, reaching up and brushing some hair out of his eyes. She ran her fingers over his temple and down to his right cheek, caressing it gently. "Any idears?" She asked, smiling a bit more.

Ryan think about it for few seconds. He knew approximately what he wanted to do but wasn't sure exactly what. "It's a good question. I know it's something related to sport since I love to move and sport is my things but I'm not sure if I want to try out as a Quidditch professional or something else." He had to admit that Quiddich was his life and he enjoyed every seconds he was on the brooms.

"Ooooh. That's so cool!!" She squealed, bouncing in her seat slightly. She giggled and leaned her forehead against his, grinning. "You'll do good in that. I know you're good at Quidditch."

He chuckles just seeing the reaction that she had. "I always play Quidditch and it's like a tradition in our family to play." Gently hugging her as thinking that it was so fun to be around someone that easy, he add. "I know that If I want to be pro, I have to work very hard but I'm sure it's worth it."

Belle shnuggled as close to him as possible, shivering slightly. She suddenly felt cold. "You would have to, but I think it'd be worth it too." She giggled and rubbed her nose against his. "I also wanna try out to be a professional Quidditch player, but not as much as I want to be an artist."

Dan silently walked along the path , hes robes flapping around in the wind. Hoping not to run into Katelyn he pulled his Slytherin scarf over his face , walking absent mindedly he realised he was heading for the orchard shes likley to be there he said to himself, he turned on the spot thinking of somewhere to go, not really wanting to head back to the common room. He headed back for the castle hoping to find a deserted classroom where he could sit in peace

It was bright as they entered the grounds, and Rae put her hand to her forehead as she peered around them. "Where do you think they'd be, Trent?" Stumbling over roots as she walked, Rae was clearly distracted.

As they exited onto the grounds, Trent covered the top of his eyes to block the suns glare. He gave a quick glance across the grounds to see if he could catch a glimpse of them from this far away. How hard was it to spot two (three if you include the nanny) midgets amongst all these big students. He couldn't see anything. "Erm, lets try the courtyard over there," he pointed in the direction as if Rae were stupid, "I don't see any sane nanny taking the likes of babies to the depths of the lake.