"I'd go as far as saying that they do feed us enough at Cooper's, to be honest with you," Tancred said to Amelia, adding one for thing to his pile. "But by the time Thornton gets through there isn't much left. So ... I take this as a perfect opportunity to get plenty. Anyway, then I won't have to get up for seconds." He paused for a moment and then quickly added in a joking tone, "And you're one to talk, Miss Rose! You seemed to be light as a feather when I carried you in. Does that mean that Belle's hasn't been feeding you either?"

He couldn't help but chuckle at Amelia's little joke. Honestly, she had nothing to be worried about that. "If I ever turn out to be like that man, I give you permission first to beat me with a beater's bat over and over until my senses come back to me," he said with a wink. "No. I'm not saying that at all. I bet it was just as painful as it was for me," he replied back seriously. Then a wide grin spread across his face, "I bet I missed you more."

When the Hufflepuff heard Amelia gasp, his eyes darted right in the direction she was looking at. Josh. Oh, Tancred thought, smiling weakly at Josh. Didn't Mia hit him? ... Uh oh." He gave Josh an aplogetic look and then looked back at Amelia. "Oh really?" he replied, smirking a bit. "Something tells me that you can't resist but to look up at my eyes. Just like I can't help but look at your bewitching ones...."

Vannie smiled as she pulled out of the hug. "I'm gonna miss you too Cora," She nodded, although she had already told her this. She hadnt known the girl that long but she knew that they were good friends. She'd be able to come down when they were at hogsmeade wouldn't she.

Vannie saw that Miles seemed a little more relaxed now, that seemed better and she would probably relax now that he was. Squeezing his hand she gave him a smile before she looked around at the others. Hopefully it would get less awkward and they would be able to enjoy the party.

Chuckling slightly as Tancred defended his reasoning for piling food onto his plate, Amelia put the rest of her cookie into her mouth. She frowned when he called her out again for being light as a feather and poured some lemonade to wash down the cookie quickly before speaking. "Well to be honest Mr Adara, I was too busy thinking about exams and new quidditch plays to worry about eating much. Besides, sitting on those awful splintery chairs in the Great Hall kind of deterred my appetite. Oh and of course I do need to watch my figure too," she smirked, patting her stomach gently.

A mischievous sparkle appeared in Mia's eyes when he gave her permission to beat him senseless with a bat if he ever became like Thornton. "Can't I beat you with a beater's bat anyway?" she joked, but knew she could never do that. The Captain shook her head when he suggested missing her more. "Nuh uh! I totally missed you more!" she replied quickly with a smirk, and tickling his sides.

"My eyes are bewitching?" she asked Tancred, pretending to be slightly dumbfounded at this realization. "But nope, i could resist if I wanted to. I just don't want to."

Cassandra walked in proudly. And looked over at Mia and smirked. She looked around for Ryan Lee. Ravenclaw or no, he played a good game and tossed that annoying suck up badger of an ex prefect Rose off her high pedestal.

"Yes,it is our thing.And it will always be our thing,"Reese said with a smile."And,by the way,you are so invited to my party this summer."

She sighed and looked over at the poor boy. "I wonder how bad he's hurt. Probably really b- Wait..Did you say that you were sitting near him?" She asked, her eyes wide. He could've been hurt. All because he was out there, watching her. She looked down and chewed on her lip, feeling guilty that he had almost gotten hurt.

Her heart jumped into her throat and she looked back up at his face. He had to be kidding, but as soon as she saw his face, she knew he was being serious. Her face, for the third time, flushed a bright pink and she giggled nervously. "I'm fine. Just a couple of scratches and bruises." She shrugged and grinned. "Nothing big."

She looked down at his fingers around her arms and shook her head. "I'm fine. Just kinda...light-headed. It's all good though." She nodded and smiled up at him. "Fine..fine."

The Hufflepuff rolled his eyes when Amelia went on about her reasons why she didn't worry about eating much. Food was a good thing and it surely shouldn't be wasted. "I'm not going to argue with you about those seats. The ones at Cooper's aren't exactly ones that are fit for a king; but you really shouldn't worry about your figure too much, you know. You're stunningly beautiful no matter what."

Tancred then saw the mischievous sparkling eyes. If anyone elses eyes had that look about them when they were looking at him, he'd have mightmares for sure. but Amelia was different - way different. he couldn't help but smile. "Do I honestly deserve a beating?" he questioned her jokingly with a sad puppy looking on his face. The puppy face then went back to the smirk. "I bet on Merlin's pants that I missed you more." Was this little battle going to end? Probably not, but it was one of those battles that was fun to have.

She did then did something Tancred never had expected to do. She tickled him on the sides. At first he didn't laugh at all, but she started to tickle harder. Then the laughter was practically BEGGING to burst out. After trying his best to hold in the laughter he started to laugh. "Okay ... HA! ... Stop! ... HA! HA! ... Please! ... HA! HA! HA! ... You know ... HA! ... that I'm ticklish there! ... HA! ... So not fair!"

"My eyes are bewitching?" Tancred mimicked Amelia, after he had gotten his laughing moment under control. "Of course they are! Why wouldn't they be?" he paused and grinned. "I guess the same goes with me. I could resist, but I just don't want to. In fact, I don't have a good enough reason to resist...."

"Yeah, I guess we are really sneaky," Anna replied, giving Reese a shifty smile. "If it works, though, at least we get to go home to Hogwarts! I don't even want to think about the plan not working, though. I'm too confident that it will! Only time will tell, though!"

Was she just imagining things, or did Cora just silently tell Miles with her eyes that being around Cale and Anna made her a tad uncomfortable? Anna wouldn't blame her if she did feel that way, though. Hopefully someday the three of them could be close friends without having to worry about being uncomfortable at all. Anna didn't expect that "someday" to be anytime soon, though.

That was when Cora proceeded to happily greet her and throw her arms around her in a hug. Wow, surprising. A happy surprise, though. "Cora!" Anna greeted again, this time with a lot more emotion and feeling behind it. Last time she'd been so unsure of the outcome that she'd pretty much mumbled a greeting to Cora. "I'm actually doing great myself. Thanks for asking. Congratulations on your house's third place Quidditch finish! Gryffindor didn't fare so well at all. It's okay by me, though. We did our best, and I guess that's what counts." It suddenly hit Anna that this was actually Cora's last school year, and that she'd be graduating any day now. "So where are you off to now that your school years are over?" she asked.

"Thought so," Anna replied. "Well, nice to see you again, Vannie! Everything's alright, I guess. I've been a little swamped with final exams, though. That Arithmancy final liked to have gotten the best of me! Now I guess we just relax and wait around to see what surprised the End of Term Feast will bring," she continued, thinking about the letter she and the others had sent off to Minister Cooper.

"It's alright, Miles. I don't really expect you to remember my name after only seeing me once before anyway. Especially since we attend two totally different schools," she continued, rolling her eyes in disgust at the thought of them having to attend Belle's and Cooper's. Hopefully the letter would change all that, and they'd be able to go home to Hogwarts really quickly.

"So, how's your school year been?" she asked, addressing everyone in the group. She didn't expect very happy, exciting answers. If their school year had been anything like hers, it'd probably been miserable. Well, not everything had been miserable. Once again, Cale had been her saving grace.

Savannah, too, was definitely excited about summer. Mostily because she was starting to really miss her family, even more than usual with the lack of communication this term. The younger ones would probably be upset with her till she explained, Katie would be the one to stay mad for abit but she too would get over it. And then, of course, there would be a week with her friends in Ireland at a cousins house. "It'll be the usual, chaotic, sort of week." Vannah said, smiling surely of that. "So what's been going on with you, Jor?" She asked the sixth year, curiously.

Maddox smiled and poked her on the nose. "Well lets not talk about that now. Huffies got 2nd place, we need to celebrate!" He chuckled and tickled her sides.


Maddox smiled and said, "You couldnt even try not snogging me for one day let alone a week." He wiggled his eyebrows and winked at her like he was kidding.

"Okay," she said laughing as he tickled her. She would have punched him on the arm for that if he hadn't have just gotten an injury. Instead she said, "I'm getting hungry."

She laughed harder and said, "I could if I wanted to. You are the one that couldn't." She stuck her tongue out at him, enjoying this game.

Maddox smiled and said, "Well, there is definatly food here." He winked at her and poked her nose again.

Maddox smiled and said, "I dont know about that one. Your the one that threw me up against a wall." He chuckled at that memory. It was...wow.

"Well then, lets get some," she said grabbing his hand and leading him to a food table. "You should eat some good food now dear," she said kindly. It was a bit hard for her to completely stop mothering him now.

She smirked and said, "you liked that, didn't you?" Personally she thought it was a bit funny.

Maddox laughed and said, "I like a girl with a healthy appitite." He wiggled his eyebrows and tried not to laugh at her next comment. "Yus mummy i will." He smiled, he was completly kidding. He grabbed a plate and filled it with an assortment of different foods.

He smiled and said, "Im not answering that." He chuckled.

She laughed with him and said, "well, I certainly have that." As she was speaking she had grabbed a plate and had started heaping it with food. Though she looked up and glared at him when he made that next comment. Waving a spoon in his face she said, "someone has to take care of you now, mister. And you need to rest."

"I'll take that as a yes," she said wiggling her brows at him.

Amelia snickered when Tancred admitted about the seats being similar to the style she described at Belle's. Good that they didn't discriminate on gender, only houses. However it was the next comment that caused the seventh year to blush slightly. "Oh Tancred, but you know that I do need to watch myself... you think that I'd be as fast a chaser if I didn't?" she suggested, winking.

Noting her beater's sad puppy face, she was tempted to agree that he didn't deserve a beating. But her mischievous side got the better of her. "If you tempt me, then possibly," she replied smartly. She just shook her head and continued to tickle his sides harder though when he tried to convince her he missed her more.

"No stoppy! Not until you agree with me that I missed you more," she grinned, enjoying this moment a tad too much.

Through the fits of laughter, he still managed to mock her and make her cheeks more red. "A good enough reason not resist?" she asked, curious about what his reason for not looking away from her 'bewitching eyes' was. However, before she could ask, someone entered the shed, deterring her away from the handsome seventh year badger...

It was that smug look that Cassandra Trelawney, which caused Mia to notice her. Probably all up in her high glory because she had actually lost a match. Sighing, she gave Tancred a worried look before addressing the Slytherin Prefect. "Is that CassCass?!?" she called over, her eyes widening in shock and her mouth grinning at using the name she heard Cora use for her prefect not long ago. "I thought you didn't like quidditch or flying. What gives, Miss Snake?"

Maddox smiled as she pilled her plate with food, and grinned mischeviously raising his left eyebrow when she waved a spoon at him. "Yus mumma." He said again backing an inch or two because he knew he would get hit for that one.


He could barely hold his plate from laughing when she wiggled her eyebrows at him. "Ha...that was cute..." He kissed her forehead and laughed.

When he made that second cheeky comment she hit him on the arm with the spoon. "Well, I'm your mum now then. So I guess that means that I shall not kiss you at all during the party." She had a smirk on her face.

"Cute, you say? Nothing more? I know you, Mads." She winked and then started laughing hard.

Tancred was getting slightly annoyed right now that Amelia kept on tickling him. Why did she have to know where he was ticklish most? There was only one way he'd have to stop it and he knew the reason before Amelia had even told him. No. He wanted to win for once. "No ... HA! ... Mia! ... Come on! ... HA! ... Please!" he said, not giving in to what her deal was to stop the tickling. It wasn't fair! Not one bit. "HA! ... You know that ... HA! HA! ... this isn't fair!"

Then Amelia asked him a question. Binggo! He had a way, an escape from the Hufflepuff Tickle Monster. He was simply not going to answer her question. "I think ... HA! ... I missed you ... HA! HA! ... more and that ... HA! HA! HA! ... I can remain ... HA! ... silent about that one ... HA! HA! ... until you stop ... HA! ... tickling me."

Then Tancred saw Amelia's eyes widen. Uh oh. What is it? He looked over, still laughing, and noticed that Cassandra Trelawney was here. The Hufflepuff didn't really know her at all, and from the look in Amelia's eyes he didn't want to know the Slytherin. he then looked back at Mia, a worried look now on his face.

Cora shook her head. "Nah, I was studying at the time. I hear it was pretty great though!" She exclaimed, beaming at Cale. "Did you see it? I wish I had..." She shrugged. And she DID wish she had seen it. She missed Quidditch. A lot.

"Oh shush Miles, you'll make me all teary." Cora teased, sticking her tongue out at him. Eeeeek! He was crushing her! Meh, she didn't mind that much. "I'll owl you guys like...all the time! And I'll come visit. And maybe see you on your Hogsmeade weekends." She beamed at the two of them, and then turned to Anna and Cale. "I'll write to you guys too." She grinned at them. So yeah, it was sort of awkward now but the two Gryffindors were still a big part of her life.

Cora kissed the top of Vannie's head happily. "I'll miss you SOOOO much munchkin." She said, giggling. Wow. She felt so...HAPPY. Maybe these were Melita's cookies. Oo-er.

Cora noticed that Anna seemed to have acknowledged the exchange between Miles and her, but she let it go. She expected the younger girl felt the same; it was all rather uncomfortable, but she was determined for it NOT to be. Her eyes sparkled with delight as Anna returned her hug with enthusiasm. REAL enthusiasm. "Aw, thanks. It was a good game, you played really well. It was tough competition this year; everyone's really upped their game." She smiled. It was true; the game against Gryffindor hadn't been an easy one, and the lions had fought very well.

Ah. What was she going to do now her school years were over? "Good question." Cora laughed, nibblnig her lip. "Well I think I'm going to go back to Paris to sort things out with my mum. That's WELL overdue. Then I'll probably see my sister and visit my dad's grave and then..." She stopped. Then what? "...Try and get a job I guess. Maybe something Quidditch based."

"Yeah. its better than last place." he agreed as he knew a certain gryffindor that would have a cow knowing they had gotten last place. they tried though. he listened to him as he smiled." yeah dada exam was a piece of cake." he said as he realized dan was eating cake. oh well. he shrugged a little," Yeah it is a bit, but its over now for me. I just hope the others dont have to go through this again. or the new first years. Its pretty bad when your expecting hogwarts and you get this. Not the best idea. I hope its not this way for you next year. Ever thought about changing schools?" he asked curiously.


Josh over heard Mia talking to cassandra."excuse me james." he said to him as he wouldnt force rhiannon to go with him..but seeing as she was holding his hand he had to kinda drag her over to the scene." Cass cass?" he asked cassandra as he looked over at mia." Since when were you two so cuddly?" he said sarcastically as he smirked. he looked at mia as he trying to find what words to use. " Hows your broom?" he asked.

Miles laughed. "It will always be our thing." He agreed. Parties ruled, especailly when Reese was there.
"Really? Oh wow. Cheers, Reese." He smiled.

Miles looked down at Vannie and smiled at her. If he was going to Reese's party, he would need the best company.
"Err .. Can Vannie be my plus one?" He asked Reese, squeezing Vannie's hand back.

Miles laughed uneasily and looked at the ground. He didn't really care if she was ok with it, he still felt immensly stupid and careless.
"Yeah I know." He shrugged. "But .. I remember other people's names, it was odd that I forgot."

Miles laughed, slightly evily, and let go of Cora. He bit into his yummeh cookie again, letting it relax him, if possible to be more.

"Oh cool." Miles smied when she said she would visit them in Hogsmede. He would NEVER miss a weekend then.

She growled low as she called her CassCass "Going to congratulate a real winner, Rose." She smirked, "And that is not you." She smirked. She looked at the big oaf with Amelia and raised an eyebrow... she must like'm big and stupid... cause that was what he looked like.

"Moonson," she said looking at Josh. "CassCass? Oh I didn't notice..." she lied. "She must be having a seizure..."

"It's going to be a big party,"Reese said."All my friends are invited.And that's a ton of people."She nodded.

"Yes,only time will tell,"Reese said.

Punzel could have smacked herself in the forehead right then - nowww she knew what Tupperware was! "Oh right. So, I'm a good keeper, eh?" She raised her blonde eyebrows playfully and grinned. Keeper was actually as fun as chasing....and much less stressful than seeking.

Speaking of stressful, she could have squealed right then and there as Ryan led her over to the groundskeeper....

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"Mr. Lee!" he said when the boy had come into view. "Congratulations on the match and the win. It was an excellent game from both sides," he nodded to him and his friend, who looked a little dazed at the moment.

"She wanted to meet me? Well, this is new," he chuckled. "Usually students want nothing to do with me...but no matter, it's nice to meet you Rapunzel," he smiled warmly at her as he extended a cookie free hand out to her. "I'm Constantine Masterson, the groundskeeper for the boy's school."

Rapunzel gulped, hoping it wasn't too obvious that she found a teacher dashingly handsome, and shook his hand eagerly, not wanting to let ever go. Heck, even his hands were nice looking. She couldn't possibly understand why students would want nothing to do with him....it was a good thing Rapunzel didn't go to Cooper's or she might have been following him around all day long, gawking at him. "Oh Mr. Masterson sir, I was just, um, curious who you were," she replied faintly, trying to calm down a little and stop staring at his pretty face. But Punzel couldn't help herself as usual and blurted, "and you're probably a much better groundskeeper than that horrid Dion woman. Uggggg."