"It's....big." Brody shrugged. There wasn't much she could see yet. It was dark and they were in a hall. She'd see more of the school tomorrow.
"Ask me again tomorrow." She chuckled, as she noticed that there was now cake on the table. Yey. She liked cake.

But then what Torin said caught her attention. Xander wasn't going to ask Sylvia out? Aww. That meant she couldn't flirt with him anymore.
"Zomg Sylviee!" She giggled. She KNEWW Sylvie liked him!

HE couldn't help but smirk as Xander whined at him. It was mean he knew but it was also so obvious. Did they really think they were being subtle? And Brody so knew about it too judging by her reaction.

"See? You guys are so obvious. Even Brody knows. So really.. why don't you two get together?" He smiled at Brody, hoping that things were good again between them.

"I would concur! So where should our haunt be?" Lannes asked, he then pondered for a second, musing through his thoughts.
"A Coffee shop perhaps or maybe a boite of some kind? Or possibly..." Lannes soon remembered that he was in school, so there was a lack of freedom. He then resigned himself to that fate and said
"Well perhaps there's some corner or crevice in the castle."

He looked around the halls, gazing at the high ceilings with his dark blue eyes. The castle was rather large, how big he didn't know yet. The amount of students was also a mystery, there did seem to be a great deal of them, though not many social ones. Such thoughts took control of his mind as he sat in silence.

"One can hope it is someplace undisturbed. Someplace quiet... There are many halls in castles, but unfortunately, this one is full of ghosts and people... I certainly hope we have corresponding classes!"

Chris sat in silence for awhile, following Lannes gaze. The thoughts of Bast Castle returned and he thought for a while about Tim and his own secret hideaways at Bast. Maybe there were places like those here as well...

Sooo Blake was thinking the same thing eh? That Lena was going to show him around. Alright Kaplan come on calm down now. All this guy is doing is trying to be nice. He put his hands in his pockets. "Yeah. But I'm sure she wouldn't mind it at all." He said his expression lightening up a bit. He took deep breath and thought about that question. "Oh I don't know two years now." He said looking at Lena making sure that was right. Though he knew it was.

Chris turned back to Lena. "Don't feel sorry for me. It's the last thing I want. But the way I look at it. We still have a good ten or so years. Soooo it's not like anything will happen soon. Can we drop this subject now?" He asked and actaully gave her a small smile. It wasn't forced but it wasn't his normal big happy-go-lucky one either.

So awkwardness should be what Xander is used to. Except when it happens in front of his friends, it's different.

Especially pretty blonde girls named Sylvia.

"I wasn't even fully tickling you!" he said, laughing slightly as he spoke. She kept swatting at his hand as if he was an annoying bug. Eesh, woman. And now she was making comments about him getting fat. He wouldn't! "I'm not going to fat, thanks." He playfully stuck out his tongue at her.

Now that Torin had opened his mouth about him liking her, it was definitely kind of an awkward silence. Both him and Brody wanted him to ask her out right then and there, but it was complicated!

"I..." What was he going to say? Fine, time to be honest. "I wasn't planning on it yet, because I don't know her that well, plus I don't want to rush..." And he hadn't even thought of a way to do it yet, for Merlin's sake.

Then he focused on what Sylvia had said about being stupid. What? "What do you mean 'sound stupid'?"

Helena looked back up at Chris and nodded slightly, a very, very small smile. That sounds about right, she said, her eyes edging back to their normal bright blue.

Yeah - of course - sorry, Lena said, picking up her fork for something to do and swirling around the remainder of her mashed potatoes while she let Chris and Blake talk.

Evelyn looked around when she started to hear an annoying noise, almost sounded as if someone was snoring. She rolled her eyes when she looked over at the Gryffindor table again. 'Course it's him.' she thought, then smirking as a thought came to her. Standing up, she headed over to the other table.

Tavelon nodded, "Yes, the castle is rather large, but I'm sure there will be a good place to hang out." He eyed a piece of cheesecake, pondering it he should eat it. "I don't think we can go to Hogsmede umtil third year, though. That's the only coffeeshop I can think of."

Tavelon's stomach protested, so he left the cheesecake alone. "Yeah, Chris I hope our classes correspond. But either way we're spread across three different houses so we won't all be in the same class."

Sylvia scrunched her eyes together as Brody squealed her name like a little girl. She liked to be the centre of attention, but really, not like this. Not at all. Not when Torin and Brody were pressuring poor Xander to say something to her. When, to be honest, Sylvia wasn't sure if she was ready for a boyfriend. She'd never had one before.

Sylvia nodded her head quickly a few times in agreement with Xander. He was right, she didn't really know him, and he didn't really know her. She didn't want to be in a relationship with him yet, and she wasn't sure if Xander wanted to ask her our right here right now. Oh, everything had been so mysterious and fun between them, and now everything had become so awkward.

Torin and his big mouth.

"With all the .. who is she? Do I know her? .. stuff." Sylvia felt inredibly silly now, and didn't bother to laugh. Instead, she stood up and smiled at them all. Sylvia had had enough of the awkwardness. "Errr... Well, this was nice." She said in an obviously not smiley, though she was trying to be smiley.

Raven figured that she may as well make use of the time that she was sitting here, so she took out a folded piece of parchment and a quill then began writing different numbers and ingredients which to her made perfect sense but to anyone else who read it, it looked like jibberish.

Kloe was already done eating and was just sitting there wondering when they could finally go to there dorms. If they were going to have to wait this time every time they ate she wouldn't eat at all.

Xander wasn't quite sure of what to say in this situation, really. But why was she getting up? This was her table, after all.

"No no, you stay," Xander said. "I need to go talk to Issy to make sure she's still alright..."

He got up from the table and fixed his pants. Gah, they were giving him a wedgie. Not cool. He needed to adjust his robes anyway. Maybe he should have rethought what he was saying. Making it seem like Issy needed him more might make Sylvia jealous. He was on thin ice right now, since Torin had a big mouth.

"I'll be over at my house table if any of you need me," he said. Before he walked off though, he made sure to hit Torin on the back of his head.

Big mouth.

Eva sat down at the Slytherin table, and looked around for a familliar face.
Since she couldn't find one on the sea of green and silver, she helped herself to a plate and began to eat, cursing herself for her disobliging shyness.

What with Kazimeriz's not-a-veiled-threat-at-all announcement and the headmaster's speech, Kiri had lost her appetite. She spent a minute or two pushing mashed potatoes and peas around on her plate, then, with a sigh, gave up. Shouts and laughter seemed to echo from every corner of the Great Hall. Peeves was cackling somewhere overhead. Everyone seemed to be having fun!

Hoping to distract herself, she swivelled around on the bench to take a look at the other tables. Yes, there was Jake Upstead, something icky clinging to his hair. It looked like... cake? No surprises, then. A person Kiri hadn't seen before was skipping from table to table, handing out cookies. Kiri watched the woman for a few moments, wondering who she was. A new teacher? She very much hoped it wasn't. An unknown person and an Astronomy vacancy led to... unwelcome conclusions. The woman looked as if she were more at home teaching children to announce when they needed to go to the bathroom than explaining the workings of the Universe.

Kiri glanced at the Ravenclaw table. Her mood did not improve. Raiden was there - that was good, of course, in a way - but he was with Daphne. And Celandine.
And... Daphne was giving Raiden a kiss.

A...

Just on the temple (Just?! a voice in her head clamoured), but an actual... Part of Kiri wanted to take her wand and send her plate flying at the girl's head. (She could demonstrate her levitating charm to Kazimeriz.)
But, no, why should she bother? That would not impress Raiden at all - and it would most definitely not make him like her more. He was, well, friends with Daphne and Celandine.
Feeling thoroughly miserable now, the five points all but forgotten, Kiri turned around again and went back to playing with the remains of her food, hoping that the feast would end soon.

"Meh. At least the classes will be interesting. I'm looking forward to flying...and Potions...and Charms! What about you? I hope the homework isn't too hard, because I'm horrendous at spelling." Acalia laughed loudly, attracting the attention of several Gryffindors.

Bianca arrived at the Slytherin, and pulled out a chair to sit into. Pulling a plate towards her, she piled vegetables onto her plate, crinkling her nose up at the meat that was sitting on the table. Yes, she indeed was a vegetarian. Placing her vegetables in a row, colour coded, she placed her fork on the edge of her plate, and drew herself a glass of water, bringing it to her lips, and taking a small sip.

Nikki rolled her eyes at Blake and chuckled softly. Wow the guy was an airhead at times, more than her! But still he seemed like a great friend to have around. "Hopefully it'll come off soon." She mumbled staring at her hand for a couple seconds before looking away from it.

"You better not call me a dieter." She said smiling at Blake. She bit into her drumstick and then looked back at Blake, thinking he might say more. But he was just staring at her....uh, weird! "Why are you staring at me like that!" She asked wiping some barbecue sauce of her mouth.

She resumed her eating but slammed her fork down onto the table. "I do not drool!" Nikki said looking at Blake sternly. "Take it back!" She said. "Take it back or twist your arm into a pretzel!" Nikki added. She wasn't a very violent girl, but she could be violent if she needed to be.

"I can see that she does." Nikki said smiling back at Chris. "And its nice to meet you to Chris." She added. She looked at Helena, who was glaring a Nikki again. But who cared, Nikki would talk to Chris if she wanted to, no sixth year with freaky eyes was gonna get in her way. And now Nikki understood Helena's problem, she liked both guys, sweet! 'Make up your mind. Take Chris or Blake!

Nikki rolled her eyes at the 13 year old. God she was so annoying, Nikki wanted to slap her. "I'm not stupid Shana, so you can put your stupid little 'blondes are stupid' thought out of your mind." She snapped, ready to chuck food at the girl, but she kept calm. 'She's just a third year Nikki, act mature.'

OOC: I probably won't be on a lot on the weekend cause I'll be working on like four projects. But if I am on, I'll take a while to reply, just thought I'd let you know.

Fallon was going to answer Evan's question when him and Iris started to argue. She sighed and waited until they calmed down. Iris ended up leaving. "See ya later Iris!" She called after her friend. She then turned back to Evan.

Fallon decided not to bring up what they were arguing about and just decided to answer his previously asked question. "I've not really been up to anything since the last time we saw each other in Diagon Alley." She smiled at him. "What have you been up to?"

Oh, oh. What was that? Was Woodson snickering at his words? Well, they seemed to have worked, at least the girls weren't bothering them anymore. Result! See ... Sebastian Whitcomb always got what he wanted.

Enough with the girls, though ... and back to the food.

Once his brother began talking, Sebastian stopped trying to check out for germs on the food using his bare eyes and looked over at the dark haired boy. There was a reason why he was the one that was always at home reading or practising his violin. Woodson always came up with the best ideas. "That sounds perfect to me. Daily food packages from Whiltshire will keep us from getting sick and starving." Perfect. And just to prove how impressed he was, Sebastian gave his brother a niiiice pat in the back. "Very well thought."

Even though woodson and Sabastian were being rude they didn't deserve to starve Violet didn't want to eat this food eather so that's why she made a spell that brung food from home whenever she wanted so she didn't have to wait for an owl so then she said 'I know a spell that brings food from your home to here i can tell you it if you want said Violet

Sophia was not at all offended by the poor boy.

"Oooh, do you need counseling?" she scoffed. "Or anger management, perhaps. Together, we can find a cure."

She rolled her eyes and refocused on Arianna.

"So, got any pets?" she inquired, smiling.

Chris followed Tavelon's eye as it settled on the cheesecake. As he saw that Tavelon did not pick it up, so he took it for himself. Taking a bite of the interesting cake, which did not taste like cheese like he had expected it to, he smiled. "Hopefully we can all meet up somehow... After our first classes, we should get together and discuss what times work best for all of us. We can ask a teacher were a good place is if you guys want!"

Chris finished the rest of his piece of cheesecake, grabbed a few rolls and another pint of pumpkin juice, which he despised, and put them on his plate.

Nuuuuu!!! He watched as Lena turned back around. That's not what he wanted honstely he didn't come over here to talk to Blake but to Lena. Now he only had to talk to Blake. Oh no. This might not be good. He gulped. "Thanks. And you don't have to be sorry." Chris said even though her back was turned to him.

Chris watched Lena look at Nikki. Wait just a minute! Was she now getting jealous of him talking to her. Oh this wasn't good. But well she had already said to just be friends rightttt? So why the heck were the two freaking out???

He then turned back to Nikki. "So what year are you?" He asked see her robes he already knew she was also a Slytherin. All he was trying to do was make small talk right now and be nice. Maybe talking to someone who wasn't Blake or Lena would calm him down. Maybe this could be a good thing then to talk to her. But not if it meant Lena freaking out....

"So, how's the cheesecake?" Lannes asked as Chris was eating it en masse.
Lannes was never huge on cheesecake, but now and then he got in a cheesecake mood and tried some. Today was not a cheesecake day however so he kept away from it.