"I think we should wait until everybody's done." replied Keeley, eyeing the rest of the table finishing putting the dung into bags and eyed the ruined food sadly.

Ali nodded with approval at the two girls. They seemed to be of the right sort. Maybe. That would have to be found out. She sat down on her seat in a very unprincess like way. *Plomp* "Yes" she said proudly, not even saying thank you to the girl. But at least she nodded her head at her. Even that must send any person into a state of bliss. But she still had yet ot answer her question.

"I am new here, unfortunately" she said. Then, realizing she hadn't explained and would probably leave a worse impression if she left it like that, said "I wish I was here a few years ago...." She now scowled "When there was an only girls school..." She stuck her tiny chin back up "The boys don't deserve to be here, I'm sure they'll only cause trouble."

For the first time, Ali showed a sign of her true feelings. "Oh whhhyyy do I ALWAYS have to deal with BOYS!" At least, she wasn't yelling the whole sentence. Then, noticing that she was still holding her staff and bow, she slung her bow on her other shoulder and staff seemed to grow shorter for the time being and lent against the table. Ali eyed the hairdye bottles on the staff suspiciously, making sure none of them were leaking.


She then shot a very nasty look at the snorting Ravenclaw.

Emily came back into the hall, arakhora wanted Emily to practice her cleaning spell in the bathrooms and the paintings. emily had cleaned anything they found dirty. Emily was a real ace with scourgify now. they wanted to prepare the school for this clumsy girl.

"OK," said Bella. "So what should we do now since the table is, well, icky," said Bella.

"Celandine said that we might have a picnic up in our commen room, if we get teacher permission," said Keeley, with a big smile, thanking about her unfinished desert.

emily walked over to the girls "scourgify" she said pointing her wand at the table and it was cleaned. "my friend said i should practice, ive already cleaned about a hole corridor" she said laughing "a table is nothing."

"I geuss so," said Bella.

"Thank you, maybe we'll get pionts. So is the picnic still on?" asked Bella a little anctious.

i didnt know we could picnic!" emily said "that sounds fun!"

"I'm not sure, it was just an idea, so we might not even have one." said Keeley, hoping they would. Besides, she was dyeing to see the tower!

"Oh good, I'm glad your fine," Bianca said in a rather blunt tone. Actually, now come to think of it, she was actually in a bad mood. FANTABULOUS. Seriously, she had been bowled over like fifty times in the last week, her nails weren't equal, her sister was being less than nice, and she still hadn't made any friends. Curse mama and Camilla for sending me here, she thought to herself.

Widening her eyes as a boy fell on top of the girl, she suppressed a giggle. Looks like two people were taken hostage to this crazy event. Food fight?! Where? She looked around and then realised he was talking about this. Oh har har, Bianca, well done.

"YOU DON'T?" Bianca asked slightly yelling. Her life was over what on earth was she going to do. "Do you have scissors? Anything?" She asked, panic rising in her throat again. This really couldn't be happening. Not now.

"I can't wait to see our common rooms!" said Bella a little jumping. It almost seemed as this feast was going on for days! but she didn't mind, she loved hogwarts!

i heard that they're supposed to be a beautiful blue with silver stars and other things in bronze" emily said smiling at the thought of the common rooms.

Lasca couldn't tell whether she was going to get along with this girl or not. She took in the disheaveled appearance and the unhappy expression while keeping a wary eye on the objects she carried with her. It was odd indeed for the girl to have a staff and bow with her. She became even more cautious as the girl shot her a particularly nasty look. Shaking her head, she tried not to let her temper get the best of her. The Step Monster had that to her. Shaken her world so completely that her almost non existant temper had come back with a vengence.

Taking three deep breath she forced a smile at the peculiar girl. "I'm sorry. But I don't believe I caught your name." Provided she wanted to give her name, she didn't seem in a very hospitable mood.

"I heard that too!" said Bella so happy that someone else have known hogwarts. "Does anyone know when we have to go? I just want to know so I don't get lost reading, or so, and well, be left behind," said Bella. "Its happened to me before," she said in a giggly tone.

Ali eyed the girl suspiciously. She seemed...seemed....what was it exactly? Ah! She remembered. Ali also had quite a lot of experiences with her temper, but, unlike the other girl, she didn't do anything about it. So....she was playing the nice little girl, eh? She hated the little prissy cats who did that. Why couldn't people just let out their thoughts? Hmph.

I guess I'll just play along for now...Ali thought regretfully. It would've been so much fun for her to play the utterly rude French girl. Ugh. But no, she had to play the little polite Japanese princess. Ali obviously had a clash of character. "Oh, my name is Alisha Vinegar, but you may call me Ali. I do hope we become friends." It seemed for a moment she was being sincere, but the moment she finished talking her sweet little Japanese girl vanished and there sat a rude youngling who looked like she had eaten too much sugar.

Skye sat quietly enjoying the food. She looked around at Hogwarts, admiring the decor and ceiling. Everything was so realistic to the first-year. Scanning the rest of the table, she looked around to see if anyone she had previously met was in her house.

"I have candy stashes all around the school assuming Clifford Carden, the old head boy didn't eat all of it." She hadn't shown him all of them but then that particular Slytherin probably could follow his nose as well as Cela could when it came to chocolate.

"Maybe one day we might laugh about this?" Actually, Cela probably would but right then she was still super MAD at Willie and Cam.

They were supposed to be her friends and stuff! Right?

"It is wonderful." Celandine agreed. "You would have missed me if I hadn't come back, right?" She beamed at the new Head Boy.

Hmmm he didn't seem his cheerful self though. Because you know, Dom-in-ick Denton was always cheerful usually.

"Well, I suppose the start of the term could be worse." Celandine shrugged it off and levitated some more poo while she was at it.

Celandine smiled brightly at Keeley and the other first years near by. "See the thing is, sometimes its easy, if you are a Ravenclaw that is," and Cela peeked at Dom-in-ick, Daphne and the other non-Claws in the vicinity, "To get a charm right on the first go, just from theory, but like, there is a much bigger risk at messing it up if you don't get taught it properly, especially when your wand is new and stuff."

Celandine cast Odoris Subsisto to get rid of the smell before she flicked her wand back into her wrist holster.

"Great, I'll ask Professor Vindictus. He's our head of house." Celandine smiled at Keeley, not even noticing that she'd changed something about herself, but then Cela was like that.

"Tipps? Varius?" Cela stared. "What is up with third years this term?!"

She herself had been SO well behaved and didn't get in ANY trouble whatsoever in HER third year.







Ahem.

Oh my god skye!!!! hey how are you? Violet hugged Skye i was at the slytherin table then saw you and ran as fast as i could over here! said the slythrin girl Violet

Lasca inclined her head once again as the Ali gave her name. She seemed a little at odds with herself so Lasca decided not to push. Ali was a little strange to say the least and the last thing the Ravenclaw wanted was to get into an argument at the start of term feast.

Shrugging her shoulders she looked over at Mariel and raised one eyebrow knowing her BF would get the hint. She smiled just looking at her and at once was happy all over again.

i'll be right back skye said violet

Still looking at the slightly intimidating little girl - which was saying a lot as Mariel did not intimidate easily save the occasional werewolf and of course Kazimeriz - a movement seen from the corner of her eye made the teenager turn her head. The familiar face brightened the fourth year's expression considerably. Seeing so many of her friends her made Mariel realize that she had made the right choice in returning to Hogwarts.

"Nia!" Mariel exclaimed, "Of course there is..." She gestured to a seat near her for Nia to sit. "Your hair looks wonderful," she added, wondering if she had continued using the potion she had once lent her yearmate.

"So, did you get to go to any Quidditch matches this summer? ...oh! That reminds me, I got Marco Denver's autograph... He was very nice about it, too" Mariel smiled at the memory. Some of those pro players could be so full of themselves, but she had found him rather sweet. "He gave me a recommendation on a new broom as well," she added, her smile faltering as she remembered she had not brought said broom with her.

Mariel returned Lasca's grin, happy to be surrounded by friends again. She watched her carefully as her expression changed and seemed to be lost in thought. Knowing of Lasca's troubles as well as her own, she thought it best not to ask much but grinned in response as her expression changed again to that of a smirk.

"That's good," she said her grin settling into a happy smile. "I'm alright, I guess... It's good to be among friends. And I really missed you.. It's a good thing we were able to owl each other over the summer though." But she was unable to send her an owl recently to tell her of Professor Forrester's death. That was too painful to put into words. Had Lasca found out? She wasn't sure if she could say and frowned in thought.

Mariel looked curiously as the younger girl then sat down. was Mariel that haughty as a first year? Maybe a little, but she thought not that much. Nodding slowly as she spoke, she said, "Oh, right, that all-girls school was before my time, too. My sister was here then and she certainly complained about it, but I honestly don't see what the fuss was all about." She looked at the girl somewhat appraisingly. "I agree, most of them are troublemakers," she began slowly, "but that's a little harsh saying they don't deserve to be here... The teachers just have their work cut out for them with boys, but they need to learn too. They just seem to be slower about it."

The teenage girl drummed her fingers lightly on the tabletop as she then raised an eyebrow at the girl's sudden lamentation. Shrugging as she was not sure what to say to that, Mariel waved her finger up and down, gesturing to the girl's staff. "So.... what's that about?" she asked, never one to worry about being blunt.

This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her before. The girl was not giving her an answer. She ALWAYS got an answer. And most times it was the answer she wanted to hear. But, being the absolutely Generous girl that she was, decided she wouldn't push it too much. But she would push it a little.

"Soooo....." Ali said, gritting her teeth "What is your name?" This was all said with an insane look in her eyes and a tight grip on her bow. But this was all purposeful. It would give Ali a little something to play on. Perhaps she could go insane and start a food fight, or better yet, she could shoot an arrow into one of the chandeliers. But that would cause more insanity than it would show HER being insane.

Hmm....

She could always try to make friends?

NO. That was against the rules of...of....of her.

Skye looked up as Violet came, and wrinkled her eyebrows slightly as the Slytherin hugged her. Skye wasn't a very hugging person. Before she could get a word out, Violet rushed away. Shrugging, Skye continued her scan of the tables in search for Leanne, while stabbing her fork into her food.

Ali looked up suddenly, all insanity gone. Before her time? That would mean that...that she had NO chance of being there during that wondrous year of separation. She could never pass off as anyone of the girls age, let alone anyone older. Sob. "Oh no, what I mean is that they should be in some other school with other boys, and not have to trouble us with their...their...UGH!"

Ali obviously was very upset. Duh. She was shaking from head to toe that when the girl asked about her staff and her hunting gear it nearly rocked her off the seat. "Why this?" She said, completely out of character, while gesturing towards her pride. She answered accordingly. "It is my pride, passion, and dignity to be one of the most highly regarded archer-witch in the world at such a young age"

Ali was very proud. For one moment, it seemed as if she were an Olympic gold medal winner. But she certainly was right about one thing. She was young. And small. She was TINY. Her head was as high as the next shortest persons shoulder.

Teeny little Ali. *Sigh*

"Hello Emily, Im Zara!"