Cameron had - in attempting to escape Oliver and dancing ended up at the food table. It was rather comforting now that she was surrounded by treacle and muffins and such. She fet better. Food was warm and gooey and didn't run the risk of er ending up face first on the floor because of her supremely lacking dancing skillzz.

Holding her heels in her right hand Nancy more like tip-toed over to the Food Table to save her feet from too much contact with the rather cold floor. Would it look strange if she summoned her boots? Probably yes, what with this being a BALL and it being quite warm outside actually. Meh.

She had literally fled from the Dance Floor to escape the whole dancing-thing and was now eyeing all the yummy food for apple pie. They had to have apple pie, right? "Apple pie, apple pie, where are yoooou?" Nancy mumbled to herself as she slowly moved forward, her eyes scanning the buffet for the desired food. Smack!Ouch! "Oh, sorry 'bout that." She apologized to the girl she'd run into. Probably not too clever to move without actually looking where she was moving to. Or who she was moving into.

ooc: you know who you are plus the crazy chocolate people

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Josh laughed loudly at Carter and Destiny, mostly at Destiny, as they proved to be crazier than he was when it was about chocolate. And their imagination was something to admire; chocolate rain hehehehe.

Turning back to Patroclus he made his hand a punch and showed it to him ''Not this kind'' he said laughing. He knew that was a stupid joke but whaaat...who cared while there are people around crazier than himself. Then looking at Evelyn as she walked back near them an idea hit him Chocolate Dance... Dance Chocolate. Dance and Chocolate. ''HEY!'' then he yelled ''WHO WANTS TO DANCE WITH THE MASTER OF DANCE AND CHOCOLATE??!!'' and he hoped Evelyn would say 'Me!'

Cam had been finishing off the last slice of Apple Pie when she heard someone approach singing a little self- composed melody about said dessert.

Errr...oopsies

Gulping down the mouthful, she didn't see the Singer!Girl approach and only realised she'd been hit when she started to choke.

AaaaAadhzndnsmfkdjsnd!

*gag*

Wheezing heavily she realised who her attacker was and her eyes watered from exertion.

"Oh.. *wheeze* no worries.. I'll live .. barely." Hitting herself against the chest, she wheezed. Eeek!

Rubbing her shoulder where it had collided with the other girl Nancy's attention was already back to the Food Table, searching for apple pie. They couldn't not have put it there. She was quite certain Aiden had been on the Food Committee so they HAD to have apple pie. Only WHERE?!

Wheeze! She whirled around at the sound of somebody dying...err...okay, probably not yet but pretty close. It was the girl she'd run into. Oops. "You okay?" Okay, OBVIOUSLY she was not, what with her being on the verge of choking on whatever she'd just been eating. "Anapneo." Nancy muttered while pointing her wand at the other girl. Hopefully this would work. She didn't want her dying because of her after all.

Obviously.

Words of rain and chocolate reached her ears as she was just about to reach for the strawberries. Glancing over at Destiny, Evelyn sighed. For one, it was a silly concept, and two, her friend had more than enough chocolate as it was. Two cup fulls! She was soooo not hungry for strawberries anymore.

But the look on the Slytherin's face, had Evelyn smile. What made her smile even widen more was what Josh said; or yelled out to the world for that matter. "Master of dance?" she asked, tilting her head to the side slightly. "I will be the judge of that since I have yet to see you dance. Even at the lessons..." And that Ravenclaw was nowhere to be seen near him now, thank Merlin.

Snickering, she took Josh's hand before taking a quick glance at Kylie. "Kylie, meet Patroclus." she said, looking over at her second favorite Gryffindor. "Patroclus...this is Kylie." Raising a brow, Evelyn looked at Josh before tugging him lightly to the dance floor.

"For good reason too." Nicholai agreed and gestured at Tommy and himself, adding a small smirk. It wasn't like it was misplaced pride, he supposed. Still they weren't terms often tossed about, it was pride of the unspoken variety and the kind where they all just knew they were better than everyone else.

He nodded. Nicholai was quite aware that he was an enigma to most. It was just the way he was. Even Kayla hadn't ever quite managed to figure him out. The brief thought made his smile falter just slightly and he glanced towards the dance floor, quite aware that she was there. He had been since the moment he'd arrived only he hadn't allowed himself to think about it. His attention was caught by others on the dance floor though. His sister first, in a gold dress that was hard to miss, then Evolette of course, looking stunning as usual. Honestly it would be more surprising if she didn't look stunning. Both of them though, they'd manage to look good in sackcloth so he wasn't surprised. The odd part was that they were in some kind of a group hug with Copernicus and Plymouth. Not a bad sort of odd, Nico supposed, though he raised one eyebrow. Evee had an almost unhealthy fondness for Ravenclaws apparently.

Looking back to Tommy, Nicholai had recovered himself completely and he smiled again. "I'm sure they'll turn up. Hopefully nowhere that might cause an incident that muggles will notice." It sounded like an interesting conundrum though. "Yes, Anna and I had the company go public a few months ago and the contract we won with St. Mungos pleased investors somewhat." Which obviously meant that Nico himself was pleased. "let me know if you're interested in investing, and I'll see if I can work out a deal." He winked at her and glanced around disapprovingly. What was with all the... oh. Yes.

Hogwarts students. He'd contemplate murder if any of them got chocolate on his suit.

Jay walked over to the food table, alone. He wasn't use to this, but hey- new school means you have to make new friends or you'll be alone. He sighed as he finally approached the table. He figured that they'd have all the fancy food, since he was no longer in America. But as he scanned the table he saw PIZZA! NO WAI! As he made his way over to grab a slice, he accidentally pushed someone. "Sorry!" he shouted over the music.

OCC: Pooey. And now she meets someone new. Here comes epic descriptions!

Whoa. WHAT?! Kylie had JUST gotten herself untangled from Evelyn's arm and her own dress. She still looked gorgeous, model-like, as always, in her baby blue, shimmery dress with a dark blue strip around her chest. Her hair was a little... flopped on her face after being dragged from point A to point B.
And as soon as Evelyn left, she got shy.
WHAAA?! She hadn't been shy for YEARS. Then again, she hadn't really met new people for years. First impressions weren't her thing. Second impressions were more her thing..
Well. She couldn't just stand here and look like a doofus (spelling?) forever.

She hesitantly stuck her hand out, hoping he would as well. "Well, I'm Kylie." She was going mentally blank here.


Ugh. First impressions. NOT fun.

Josh grinned at Evelyn feeling happy that she was the one who wanted to dance with him as he wished. ''Yeah'' he said when the Snake girl repeated his 'master of dance' title, now looking so sure of himself as he generally did. ''But of course only you can try judging me'' yes try. And he knew his Rose was not going to stomp on his foot like that mean Ravenclaw girl did.

When the girl took his hand, he held her hand and slowly walked to the dance floor with her.

She raised an eyebrow at him. "Are you including me in that?" she asked him. Or was he just doing that to be nice because she was standing in front of him.

She looked at him as his attention was pulled away from her to the dance floor and she knew where his eyes were going. It did irritate her that she was never enough to hold Nico's attention. Just as it had when they were kids. It always bothered her and it made her question everything about herself and she always found herself lacking. And Tommy hated that feeling. She sighed and tried not to let it show. The more things changed the more they stayed the same.

She let the feeling past really wishing that she wasn't feeling as exposed as she did at that moment. "Yes I hope they turn up. They were some of our best testers." And no one else was willing to test out the brooms now that people had disappeared. She nodded as he was obviously pleased with the turn of events. "You and Anna?" she asked him curiously. "I just might take you up on that. It would be nice to invest in some wizarding stock."She had heard rumors about Gringotts opening up a stock market glad to see that for once the rumors were true. His wink still made her blush and she quickly shook her head. She wasn't going to keep letting Nico gt under her skin. She wasn't that little girl that had wrote him that silly letter.

Oh Merlin help her.

Now Destiny was going to do that silly dance too. Did she seriously think Carter could make it rain chocolate?

Whatever

She was not going to take part in their little show, nope, she would just stand back and watch. Watch her boyfriend and best friend make fools of themseves that is.

"Um, you two go ahead, I think I'll stand back and watch," or not. She really didn't know if she could stand there and watch the two of them looking like fools. Maybe she would go see if Headmaster Hottie Tate wanted to dance.

Cameron gaped (well.. gasped/gasped) at the girl as she seemed oblivious to her dying choking and went on with her persual of the food table.

Now she didn't feel so bad for her eating her pie.

"Do I sound OKAY?" Cam asked with as much sarcasm as she could muster under the circumstances. She looked a little frightened as the girl pulled out her wand but sighed a little as she heard the charm. She gave a loud cough and sighed in relief when it dislodged. "T-t-thankyou." Hmph. She was thanking her for choking her. How polite.

When Sage's cheeks brightened, Lexi realized that her sudden idea to depart the dance floor may have been taken the wrong way. She didn't want him to think she hated his dancing style and wanted to leave for those reasons. She'd honestly decided to leave to make him more comfortable, but...there was really no easy way to tell him that. It'd probably just make him even more uncomfortable.

She paused en route to the food table and turned toward Sage. "I really enjoyed the dance. Thanks again," she said, smiling brightly at him.

...and that was that. Anything else might just make things worse. She proceeded on toward the food table and paused when she came across a fruit tray. Grabbing a strawberry, she turned to face Sage. "Oh, it was no problem letting you two use the kitchen. I'm glad I---or my kitchen---could help out in some way," she said. She paused to take a bite of her strawberry. "The setup looks really nice. Oh, and I love that chocolate fondue fountain!"

She .... She was just saying that, wasn't she?

She was trying to spare his feelings by stating that she enjoyed the dance. He perfectly understood if she hadn't really enjoyed it - after all, he must've been an awful dancing partner.. it was nice of her not to tell him that though, he decided. Especially infront of everyone. He was shy enough without being known as Professor Dodson the crappy dancer.

Right.

"Yeah, the kids worked really hard on coming up with something different," he said, spotting the biryani, cataplana and poutine. It all looked great. "The yorkshire puddings were a special request of mine," he told her, picking one of them up and nibbling on it. "Love these things."

Travis smiled as he walked with Scarlett over to the food table. He felt like one of the luckiest guys in the world to be dating such a pretty girl, "Here we are darling," he said with a smile as they arrived.

"You don't have to announce our arrival." she giggled. She got a little sandwich and tried some thing she had never had before. She got a cup of water and sat down at the seating area.

Max reached the food table and glanced at everything. The food was displayed nicely but nothing really appealed to him. "Looks edible," he said to Neo. "Fanciest thing here is the chocolate fondue fountain."

"Well that dance is the same as the stupid dance I was just doing." Carter said. "And I don't know if I want to teach you that if you keep calling it stupid." he said crossing his arms over his chest.

"But maybe if you asked niccceeelllyyyyyy." he said in a sing-song voice. "I might be willing to teach you then."

Vashti was not happy with her parents right now. If it wasn't for them (and their strange, mysterious ways of finding things out) she wouldn't have been forced to go to the dance. Rawrg. Why oh why didn't they listen to reason? She hadn't wanted to go, but oh no, they wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. Ugh, and then they'd bought her this dress and shoes and all that stuff and she couldn't say no then because pretty, formal dresses are expensive and it wasn't like they just had money lying around so she'd feel absolutely horrible if she made them waste it. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. She loved her parents, but they were soooo frustrat-

FOOD.

No way. Lots and lots and LOTS of food! Vashti suddenly felt quite happy because, hey, even if she didn't care for balls and dancing, at least they had FOOD. And food is ALWAYS capable of brightening any day or night.

But just as she rushed up to the table and was trying to decide if she could possibly pile all the foods onto one plate, someone suddenly pushed her. "EEP!" she cried, stumbling to the side, tripping over her own feet in the process and falling to the ground. "Oof!"

After blinking in surprise a couple times, she looked up to see who it was that had pushed her and saw that it was a guy she was certain she hadn't seen or met before. And he had PIZZA. "Pizza good?" she asked, far more focused on the food than the fact that she had fallen to the ground.

"I'm really sorry about that." he said as he flashed a small smile and stuck out a hand to the girl on the ground. "Here let me help you up." he said as he struck his hand out farther towards the girl, and leaned in some more. "I'm Jayce by the way. And you are?" he asked curiously and chuckled as she commented on his pizza. "Oh, yes. I love Pizza. I didn't get to have it often, but hey- it's still pretty awesome, eh?" he asked.

Vashti nodded and smiled. "It's alright, no problem! I'm really very clumsy anyway. I've tripped over chairs before. Lotsa times actually." Oh yes, lots and lots of times. Most of the time it was because she was rushing to get to food of some kind and/or to be the first one in line. She did love to eat. "Thanks," she said as she took his hand and pulled herself up. "I'm Vashti. Are you new here?" He definitely didn't look like a first year though. Hm. Eh, well. There was food and pizza to be talked about, which was far more interesting. "Pizza is incredibly awesome," she agreed, grabbing a plate and taking a couple slices herself. She grinned. "Yum."

"You're sure? You didn't get hurt or anything did you?" he asked, concerned about her. He never knocked over a girl, if anything, it was always a guy. He found girls to be so.. fragile looking and didn't want to hurt them. He chuckled "I've tripped over stuff as well. People have tripped over me, i think we live in a world where gravity hates us." he chuckled. "No problem, anything to help." He was happy to help people in any way he could. Even if it was his own fault that this person was on the ground. "Uh, yeah. Just transferred in a couple of days ago from America, i'm a fourth year. It's very different here, nice, but different." he smiled. "Ah, so you like pizza too?" he asked. "Favorite topping?" he shot out a question at her. Oh merlin, Jay could talk forever, especially about food.

Vashti again nodded and smiled reassuringly. "Not at all. I may not look it, but I'm quite a tough little cookie," she added teasingly. Ooh, cookies sounded good right now... Oh wait, he was still talking. So she listened then she nodded in firm agreement. "Oh yes, gravity is quite evil like that. Thankfully it seems to decide to be nice when I'm on a broom though. Most of the time anyway." She wouldn't deny that she might've slipped - or nearly so - off a broom once or twice. Thankfully it never was extremely high so she never got seriously hurt or anything. Mum would probably ban her from flying if something like that ever happened.

"Oh, that's cool," she said. "America. Neat! What's it like over there?" And then when he asked if she liked pizza, she answered with a bright grin, "I love pizza." Favorite topping?! "Pepperoni! No, wait, no....sausage! No, no...um..." She paused for a moment thinking hard. Finally she said, "Yeah, I think my favorite is pepperoni, actually. But I love pretty much everything else as well. What about you?"

Oh.

No.

They.

Are.

Not.

Destiny glaaaaaared at the Professor's that came over and started talking about HER chocolate fondue fountain. Technically it wasn't hers yet, since she had yet to steal it, but it would be hers by the end of the night, oh yes it would. Professor Carlton, Dodson and Vinny..Destiny WILL be watching you.

But right now she had to learn this chocolate rain dance.

She rolled her eyes at Carter as he went on..and on..and on. "The dance is still stupid and..you're stupid, too." Which he was, since he had used that word so many times in a matter of seconds. "Fine, don't teach me, I don't care." she LIED. She really DID want to learn this dance, and not only was Carter stupid, he was mean!

And once again he proved his stupidity. Trying to get Destiny to ask nice, no way! Picking up one of the paper cups, she squashed it in her hand and threw it at Carter's face, "Teach me!'

Next time, it will be the fondue skewer.