"In the broom cupboard?" Hayden asked, thinking well thats kinda weird. "What are they doing in there? And what do you mean you scared her friend?" Hayden asked giggling, "You look so worried!"

"I think there in there cause I scared her friend. I don't know how I exactly scared her. I tried introducing myself but she just ran", said Ginny.

Tyler nodded as Cadence mentioned Nate said 'I love you' to her. "That's so cute," he chuckled and smiled. But he did fond it kind of strange Nate said I love you so early in the relationship. Not even Tyler had said it to Lucy yet. But he wanted to be sure he felt like that before saying it. But then she went to the prank incident. "What do you mean Kat should consider herself lucky?" he asked and raised an eyebrow.

What was she trying to say?

"Thanks!" Cadence replied, tucking her hair behind her ear. Oh, now they were back on Kat. "I just would have been really, really angry if that dress had been ruined. It's very special to me." she replied, playing with the ends of her hair. Tyler had heard of what had happened when Cadence got really really angry. She was getting better about controlling her emotions, but she was pretty sure she wouldn't have been able to control her anger if her perfect, beautiful waltz dress had been ruined; that would have been practically unforgivable.

"But can't you always get the dress dry cleaned or something? I'm sure it would've been looking to same as it did before if the pie hit it," he said and stomped on his board to bring it up towards him. "Maybe I just don't understand what a dress means to a girl,"

Cadence played nervously with the ends of her newly shortened hair again. "Wellll, it's not as easy as just sending it to the dry cleaners. If my grandparents found out that Nate had summoned that dress... that I was wearing it, they would be really upset with me. Besides, that wasn't just any dress. It has a really amazing, important story behind it." Cadence smiled to herself as she realized that her grandparents were already going to be angry with her for chopping off her hair, so what if they found out Nate had summoned that dress from her dance instructor's house after they had specifically told her she couldn't have the dress?

"Then why'd you summon the dress in the first place? Just to dance with Nate? In the Grounds?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. But then Tyler noticed something else. Cadence had cut your hair. "Looks like someone's living on the wild side," he smirked and pointed to er new short hair. So she finally took his advice to come out of her shell. All it took was for her to start dating Nate.

Strange? Always.

Cadence sighed and then giggled a little at the comment about her hair. "The dancing thing just... sort of happened. He likes photography and he wanted to take pictures of me. He asked me if I had any fancy dresses, and I showed him this picture," she said as she pulled the picture out of the pocket where she always carried it and showed it to Tyler. Yep, she was going to have to explain all of it now.

The picture showed her in a flowing, dark purple ball gown with sparkles and a sheer, glitter fabric that attached to her arms and the back of her dress to accentuate the flowing movement of her arms. Her hair was pulled up elegantly, and she had on evening makeup. She was posed in the picture with a man who was older than her with dark hair and pale blue eyes, dressed in a black suit with a purple tie that matched the color of her gown. Around both their necks was a gold medal hanging on a black ribbon."That's me at a ballroom competition." she said, smiling down at the picture.

"My dance instructor just showed up at my grandparents' house all dressed up and said he had a surprise for me, said he was busting me out of prison for a little while. He took me to his dance studio by side-along apparation, and he had all these people fit the dress on me and do my hair and make up, and then we left for the ballroom competition. I competed in waltz, and I won. Then when we got back to my grandparents' house, they told me I couldn't keep the dress, so Jonathan kept it for me." Finally she took her eyes off the picture and smiled up at Tyler.

"Oh, I guess that explains some things," he chuckled and looked at the picture. Cadence wearing a purple dress, standing next to a man. "So you used to compete in dancing," he said and gave the picture back. "Do you still dance even after all that stuff about being locked up?"

"Well, that was the only competition I went to. I convinced my therapist to convince my grandparents that I needed exercise and that ballroom dance lessons would be the perfect solution. So, I had dance twice a week in my grandparents' ballroom. When they realized that I was actually really good at it, they basically started using me for entertainment at their parties. They'd dress me up in this stuffy, over-the-top ball gowns and make me and Jonathan dance at their parties, then send me right back to my room. Jonathan sort of just... came and whisked me away the day he took me to the competition; took my grandparents completely by surprise. Grandmother wasn't pleased that I went with him, but it was the best day I had had in a really long time." Cadence didn't know how to explain to Tyler would it had been like. It was like, glimpsing freedom. After that day, she had never been the same, she realized that she could go out in the world and be safe and happy. That was the point she had really started fighting her grandparents and wanting them to let her come back to Hogwarts.

"Anyway, yes, I can still dance. Very well actually. Waltz is my speciality, but I also love tango, fox trot, rumba, chacha, and east coast swing." She smiled as she remembered teaching Nate to waltz in the Room of Requirement. Looking back down at the picture, she suddenly felt a pang of guilt in her stomach. She had promised Jonathan she would write to him. She should go do that later.

Cadence had been stuck in her room for so long, Tyler started to feel bad for her. But then he really didn't. If that would happen to him, he take that and grow from it. Not cry or get mad for any little thing. But Cadence was finally getting rid of that. Hopefully. "Ohhhh, so now you know other dances but the Waltz," Tyler chuckled and sat on his skateboard again.

Cadence giggled a little. "Did I ever say waltz was the only dance I knew? It was just my favorite and the one I was the best at. Tango is also very fun, but it's kind of weird to just... dance the tango, especially if there are people watching. Tango is one of those things where you have to put yourself in a little bubble in order to get into the character of the dance. And if you're not in the character, you can't do the technique." Cadence loved to dance. She missed it so much. She used to dance for hours with Jonathan. He was the only bright spot she had had in her grandparents' house. Jonathan always made her laugh and snuck her candy and did nice things for her. Perhaps he had pitied her, but Cadence had always seen him sort of as a big brother. She missed him and she missed dancing. "Um, so, anyway... how have you been?" she asked him, brushing her newly cut bangs out of her face.

"Oh ok. But do you only dance when you're alone with Nate and by yourself? You don't dance in front of people anymore?" Tyler was curious so he asked.

No. He wasn't going to ask Cadence to dance with him.

He was just wondering since she was dancing with Nate in the grounds and used to dance in front of people. But after she told him her life story, it's something that came to mind. "I've been fine. Just getting a bit busy planning the trip back home with Luce and other stuff. How about you?"

Cadence giggled a little again. "Well, opportunities to just do ballroom dancing in front of a large crowd of people haven't really presented themselves since I've been at school. Ballroom dancing isn't exactly a popular choice of activity for teenagers. Nate wanted me to teach him to dance, so I did earlier this semester. I taught him the basic waltz step and some swing steps. Then after he summoned the dress and asked me to put it on, he asked me to dance with him, so I did." Cadence tucked her hair behind her ear and blushed a little, smiling. That situation probably seemed really silly to Tyler, but to Cadence it had been really really sweet, like something out of a fairy tale.

"Oh! You're taking Lucy home with you? That's fun! Nate and I are going to Florida to stay with his grandma over the holidays." She laughed, then, and said, "How about that! We're leaving for a different country, but we'll still be in the same country at the same time. Though I'll be much warmer." and she gave him a little smirk. Cadence didn't mind winter or the snow and cold at all, but she had never spent Christmas someplace warm before. It would be an interesting experience.

So her instructor had taken Cadence out of her misery. He took her ballroom dancing but she was still trapped. The sad life of Cadence...uhhh yeah. Tyler didn't know her last name. Or maybe he just forgot after all these strange events.

Shrugs.

"Yup, Luce and I are going to my home for Christmas," he said. Florida for Christmas? The heat versus the cold. Tyler would take the cold weather anytime. "You might be warmer, but New York City is more romantic then Florida," Tyler smirked back.


Ha! Take that!

"Well, I kind of wanted to stay in England for Christmas and go meet his parents, they're going to have another baby, but I don't think he really wants to go home. He doesn't get along with his parents very well. Plus he said something about wanting to take me to a drive-in movie in Florida... whatever that is..." Cadence said with a shrug. "Besides, I don't think a place can be romantic in and of itself. It's what happens there that makes it romantic." She paused for a moment and then said. "It will be weird, though, opening presents on Christmas morning when it's 60 degrees outside. I didn't even bring any summer clothes with me, so I'm going to have to write to grandmother." At the thought of this, Cadence grimaced. She hadn't wanted to speak to her grandmother again until she had to go back for the summer holidays. "Anyway, I'm sure you two will have fun in New York."

Cadence just drained Tyler's energy but getting all logical and stuff.

Sad/Annoyed Face.

"No teenager gets along with their parents. It's just the way some people are," Ty said and fiddled around with his shoelaces. Was he the only one in school who never wore the school robe? He was usually in uniform but wore sneakers, jeans and a hoodie. Shrug. "It does sounds weird, but make sure no crocodiles are around when you do," he said and chuckled a bit. Did she even know that? It rains almost every day in Florida. But Tyler hadn't been there in a while anyway.

"We'll try to find something to do,"

Cadence's eyes grew wide. "TyTy, what's a... crocodile...?" Cady had no idea what that was, but it didn't sound like anything pleasant. It sounded like something terrifying that could eat her face off.

"A crocodile is a animal with sharp teeth, long tail and scaly skin. It's extremely dangerous. Didn't Nate tell you about them?" Tyler asked. Hello!? If you're going somewhere you haven't been before, arentyou supposed to know what you're getting yourself into? "But it depends where in Florida you're going?"

Cadence was pretty sure her face had just been drained of it's color. Sharp teeth? Dangerous? She held her breath as Tyler explained this animal. It did not sound nice at all. "I... I don't think there are any where we're going. Nate... Nate would have told me..." Cadence said, not entirely capable of convincing herself at the moment. She reached up and tucked her hair behind her ear and her ring caught her eye. No, Nate wouldn't put her in danger. "Nate won't let anything bad happen to me. He wouldn't take me somewhere dangerous." she said, now completely sure of herself. Nate would take good care of her. "So, how far away is New York from Florida?" Cadence asked, simply trying to get the conversation off of scary animals with big teeth.

"I sure hope he doesn't," Ty said and looked up at Cadence. Maybe the crocodile will get Nate instead Moving side to side on his skateboard, Tyler began humming as he tried to think how far Florida was from New York. "Pretty far since I'll be way up North and Florida is at the tip of the country,"

"Oh... okay." She knew America was big, but Tyler made it seem like they'd be days apart. Odd. For some reason, that made Cadence a little sad. Oh well, she'd probably get to Florida and have so much fun at the drive-in movies, she wouldn't even think about it. She smiled and blushed a little as she remembered Nate's description of what happened at drive-in movies; it made her a little nervous to think about. Sure there had been times that she'd' wanted to kiss Nate that much, but she had always known they couldn't and so she'd never been nervous about it. But in Florida, they would be allowed to...

Cadence suddenly realized Tyler thought she was going crazy again as she stood there smiling and blushing about nothing that he had any clue about. She tucked her hair behind her ear again. "So... uh... what were you humming?"

"Well, if you travel by car from Florida to New York, it'll take a few days. But by airplane just takes a few hours," Ty said, since he kind of sensed Cadence's emotion by the look she had on her face. But then it brightened up and she even blushed a bit. Tyler arched an eyebrow and looked down at his sneakers.

Time to get new ones.

"A song named 'Thanks for the Memories,"

"I actually know that song!" Cadence said with a smile. "No one ever knows what songs I'm humming. I'm so weird!" she said with a giggle. It was true, she was a very weird person, even for a girl. But that was okay, she was kind of starting to accept that part of her personality. Cadence watched Tyler as he just played around on her skateboard. "You know, I probably can't even stand on that thing without falling off!" she said, pointing to the skateboard.

"Ha! I'm not alone!" Tyler laughed and stood up. "Everyone's weird in their own way" he said as he started skating around again. Tyler began spinning on it when Cadence said something else. "Do you wanna try? Or do you want Nate to help you?" He asked, looking at her.