Lex had had all she could stand in that wretched meeting... that pirate girl had been so mean to her... and she was putting forth an effort to be nice. It made no sense. When Lexi was mean and didn't care nothing got to her, but she had CHANGED SO MUCH. And yet... no one could see that... Clearly.

Finally having walked enough she leaned heavily against the wall and let the silent tears fall. Why was she even trying anymore... maybe France was the best option...

That office had been a little bit awkward, and when Lexi had left, looking really upset, Finn did feel like getting out of there. He wanted to try and find her, make sure she was okay. He hadn't really heard what had gone on to make her cry, but it couldn't be good. He was her friend, and part of him told him that he had to make sure she was okay.

He really had no idea where she was. Finn wandered along the fourth floor corridor, not really knowing if she'd be here. But there she was, and she didn't look too great. "Lex..." He called out, wandering over to her. Maybe she needed Sal....he could go find him for her.

Hearing her name from a familiar voice caused Lexi to immediately begin mopping at her eyes... no need for even more people to see her crying. "Hey Finlay," she said in a weak voice. Finally looking at him with puffy red eyes to go with the nasty bruise... she spoke again, "What's up?"

Attempting to deny there was anything wrong...perhaps.

Woah...her eyes were really puffy. Finlay felt bad for her, and instantly wandered a little closer. His first thought was that she was going to make him think there was nothing wrong. But he knew her....or at least had known her really well. Finn figured that he could probably tell when there was something wrong with Lexi, and right now he had a feeling that there was.

Finn offered a small smile, and reached into his pocket, pulling a hankerchief out. "You know whats up with me." He spoke softly. She knew all too well. "But....whats up with you?"

Lexi smiled weakly and took the offered handkerchief and wiped at her eyes. "Thanks, Finlay." Then heaving a sigh she just slid down the wall and sat in the floor.

"Oh it's nothing, really. I wouldn't want to burden you with my silly issues. Besides, you have your own problems, yeah? Wanna talk about it? I promise not to talk about her in a bad way. I don't do that..." she said looking up at him and blinking a few times.

Take focus away from herself. Besides, Finlay loved to talk about himself... so this may just work.

"It's no problem..." Finn shrugged, sitting down next to her. Now this was a ltitle weird. Sitting with his ex-girlfriend. But things were better between them now. And Finlay liked it. They'd been good friends before all that mess, and he'd like to get back to that.

"I dunno....I haven't really talked about it with anyone." Jimmy was the one he would've told, and well that wasn't going very well. "You sure you won't?" He grinned at her, resting her head against the wall. "I feel kind of stupid Lex....I mean, I screwed up things with my best friend, and what for? Just to get dumped?"

"Well you have to talk to someone about things... or you will explode," she said softly as she dabbed at her eyes again. Thinking about whether or not she would talk badly about Marie... she shook her head. "I never have with Jim. Simply that I don't care for her. And that is no secret. But otherwise, nothing bad," she promised.

"Can I be quite frank here? And you know I will anyway so there is no need to try to stop me... You sabotage your own relationships, Finlay. I mean, you muck them up... Look at us. You pushed me away. Not that I was without fault in all of this or anything, but you know. And as much as it pains me to say this, Marie probably broke up with you because you made her feel unimportant or... you made her feel as though her feelings didn't matter," she said very reluctantly. Saying things that were not negative about Marie was a very difficult thing for her...

And Jim... she would be frank with him on that one too. "And personally, I CANNOT believe you did that to Jimmy. You deserve to be beaten for that. He was your best friend, Finlay. You don't cross a line like that. But I am sure you already know that," she said with a sigh.

"But... are you okay?"

"The thing is...who do I talk too?" There wasn't many people around here that he trusted really. The thing was he knew he trusted Lexi. He could talk to Lexi...and know that she wouldn't lie to him. Not at all. Lexi was like that. "i think everyone knows you don't like Marie..." Finn grinned at lexi, stretching his legs out infrotn fo him.

"I know..." Finn nodded, sighing a little. He was really bad with relationships. He hurt girls, and he really never intended too. "Yeah...I'm bad at relationships." Maybe he should just stay away from girls altogether. "I don't intend too...it just happens. It's bad..." If this was anything to go by he was never going to end up with anybody. Not if he couldn't stop being selfish. "Marie's probably gonna stop any girl coming near me away." He frowned, crossing his arms. This really did suck. Sure he'd done things wrong, but still. He hadn't meant too.

He agreed with what she said about Jimmy. "I'm surprised he didn't punch me you know...so so suprised." He looked at her. It was clear in his eyes how much he missed Jimmy. It was like part of him was missing. It was really weird. "I regret that more than anything...." He did. It was such a horrible feeling.

Was he okay? " Probably Not..." Of course he wasn't. "But I have to at least look like I am. I'm the headboy....people are depending on me."

Simon had decided that he would go for a little walk and so had left the Hufflepuff Common Room and had somehow got to the fourth floor corridor how he had gotten there he couldn't remember, he had left the common room for some reason but what that was he couldn't remember.

Simon decided that he would sit down and so he did he sat down on the floor next to a statue, he couldn't be bothered to go any further taking out a letter he hadn't yet openned he decided it was the right time to read it, maybe after that he could go and try and make a new friend, maybe one would come whilst he was reading the letter.

After spending what felt like FOREVER in the library trying to find something that would change her cat to his normal color instead of blue, Destiny decided she should probably head down to the great hall. She had lost track of time and all that POINTLESS reading left her practically starving.

But then again, she seemed to be always hungry.

Shrugging to herself, she made her way down the corridor, only to stop when she noticed a boy sitting there. Was he hiding behind that statue? Or was he..up to something?

Being the nosy person that she is, she decided to investigate.

Starting with that letter he was reading. "Why you reading behind this stature, freak?" she asked, snatching the letter from his hands. "Reading in the dark will hurt your eyes."

Simon was reading when suddenly someone took the letter out of his hand, now the person had better have a good reason for that. "Give me my letter back, you dumb Slytherin." Simon said, he wasn't going to scream unless she made him and hopefully she wouldn't.

"I might be a freak but at least I don't look like I've been dragged though a hedge backwards." Simon smiled evily. "Anyway you shouldn't be here, you should be with a prefect you look like a firstie." Simon was sure she wasn't but it wasn't as if he wasn't allowed to say that. "I can show you where they are if you want me too." Simon got up and gave the Slytherin a pat on the head.

Destiny had absolutely no idea what the letter was talking about and she was just about to hand it back over to the boy when he started calling her names. Why did they always have to throw being a Slytherin in these things? Pfft. LAME!

Rolling her eyes, she took a step forward before crumbling up his letter and tossing it at his head. Hopefully it hits him. "At least I don't look like I just got back from taking a swim in a toilet." HA! The funny thing was, the boy wasn't even wet.

If she would have known he was just going to be all mean and grouchy with her because she took his letter, Destiny wouldn't have even bothered taking the thing. People and their possessions, jeez! "I am a sixth year." she said smugly pushing his hand off her head as he patted her head.

What was she? A dog!?

"If you want, I can show you to the dungeons? Isn't that where you trolls are supposed to live?"

Simon looked at the sixth year and then gave her another pat on the head. "If you didn't act like a firstie I wouldn't get confused would I." Simon smiled evily, he didn't like this girl. "I've got something that would improve that face of your, I can get you it if you want?" Simon laughed, now they were even.

Simon then turned to the girl. "HA HA HA very funny, I'm laughing my head of here." Simon stared at the girl. "Well you sleep down in the dungeon, so what your saying is your a troll." Simon got up daring the girl to say anything back, saying that he knew he'd best go soon or a Professor might come and they'd both be in trouble.

Whistling. Yes. He was whistling, until he heard two voices down the corridor. One of them sounded extremely familiar, and the other one sounded familiar too, but it was not the same kind of familiar.

Either way, he kept his pace, and that's when Treyen saw them, genius Destiny and opinionated Simon. He already had a smile in place to greet them both until he heard Simon calling Destiny...a troll? What the--

"Simon!" he exclaimed, and his pace turned to a faster one, the boy was next to them in no time, "Hi Destiny," he smiled and then frowned at his fellow Hufflepuff, "Why are you calling her a troll? That's not very polite, especially when she doesn't look or acts like one," yeah, Simon, apologize to the nice Slytherin girl. His eyes were back on Destiny, though, "Is he annoying you?" because there was nothing he could do about that.

WHY was he patting her on the head?

It was annoying and Destiny could feel her brain moving all around inside her skull. Once again, she moved his hand and she was tempted to make him slap himself in the face with it. How funny would that be!? Much funnier than what he was saying, that's for sure. She was NOT acting like a firstie, but if the boy wanted her to, she would. Totally.

She was just a little curious as to what he had that would improve her face. Pfft, not that she needed it.

"I do NOT sleep in the dungeons." Merlin! "Just because my common room is located IN the dungeons.." Why did all the Hufflepuffs tell her she slept in the dungeons? They were making it sound like she sleep in the corridor or something.

Rolling her eyes when he stood, Destiny was just about to knock him back to the ground..

..when she heard whistling.

Hopefully it was a Professor because she would LAUGH as she watched the boy get dragged to their office. And if it was a Professor, she hoped it was Lafay. She would teach him..

Taking a step back as she waited for the figure to appear, she was tempted to roll her eyes when she first noticed the Prefect badge. It was a Hufflepuff Prefect. It was Treyen! She liked him. He KNEW she was a GENIUS! "Treyen." she nodded in greeting, crossing her arms as she waited for the reprimanding to begin. He was a PREFECT. This other boy was in sooo much trouble.

Calling her a troll, pfft!

"He IS annoying me. You're a Prefect. Give him a detention." Because she thought they could do that kind of stuff.

He smiled widely after hearing his name. And here he was thinking that Destiny had always left before hearing his name, like, in previous conversations and such. But, nope, the genius knew his name. AWESOME!

But, by the way she was standing...well, Simon will probably get a long talk with Treyen. It didn't matter if the boy in question was one of his best friends, he'd been acting out lately and he was CERTAIN that Destiny didn't need to be called anything other than her name or 'genius'. It was safe to say that Hufflepuffs shouldn't come close to a She-Snake, just in case.

The fifth year sighed when he heard the TRUTH about what was going on, and then shook his head at Simon, "I...don't think detention will be necessary...," because he can't give away detentions, yeah? "...because Simon will be moving on, right? And apologizing," or he'll apologize in behalf of his friend.

Eyes on Simon.

Simon looked from Treyen to Destiny, Well at least he knew that if he was in any trouble then he had to hope Treyen wasn't around because if he was then it would just mean he would get into trouble because Treyen for some reason was defending the Slytherin.

"Fine, I'm off." Simon snatched his letter back. "And Treyen I was here first, she came and took my letter so I wanted it back." Simon snapped at his so called friend Treyen.

Simon turned back to Destiny. "I'm sorry I called you what I did." Simon said as he appologised to Destiny and then without looking at Treyen, who he was sure was in love with this Slytherin, he put the letter back into his bag, he would read it somewhere else, and then he stormed off, he would go somewhere else, well away from his so called friend Treyen and Treyen's Girl friend.

Wait, what?

Simon was agreeing in a peaceful manner? That was...kind of new. Treyen frowned slightly and in the same instant that Simon had been taking a paper back from Destiny he'd looked back, entirely missing that action. The boy only looked at Simon again at the sound of his name.

She'd taken his letter? That was highly unlikely, why would Destiny do that? Unless, perhaps, Simon had said that she was mentioned in there or something. Actually, that piece of paper resembled one of Aparecium papers, and she'd been mentioned in there a couple days ago, no? For all Treyen knew, she was only trying to make any evidence of Aparecium disappear, and he couldn't blame her.

Simon didn't give him time to ask more questions, because then he was apologizing to Destiny. GRIN. See? That was a very proper thing to do.

And then the Hufflepuff was...gone...blink.

"Well, I guess everything is okay now, right?" he said to Destiny, slightly nervous, the next time he'll see Simon, it was going to get loud, probably, on behalf of the fourth year boy, of course.

Dani walked down the corridor slowly as she read her book, she twirled a blonde curl around her finger in thought as she read through the muggle literature. She looked up every so often to make sure she didn't bump into anyone as she did so- because knowing how clumsy she was. She wouldn't be at all suprised if she did to be honest. She turned a page as she kept on walking- not quite sure where she was going, she just knew she liked the quietness.

"Walnut!? Walnut?!" Kurumi called through the corridors with her hands cupped around her mouth. The cat had run off that morning and she was a bit worried that he was getting himself into trouble somewhere else. She really wouldn't be surprised if he had wandered into another common room and was peeing in first year's shoes. She really needed to talk to Professor MacFusty about that.

As she continued her somewhat frantic search through the castle, Kurumi ran right SMACK into someone. Knowing her luck, it was an older student that she didn't know. Falling backwards onto the ground, Kurumi looked up and felt a small sense of relief when she saw it was an older student that she KNEW.

"H-H-H-Hello, Dani," she stuttered from her spot on the ground.

Dani nearly half jumped out of her skin when someone suddenly bumped into her- she just knew that would happen. She looked down wide eyed at.... oh, it was Kurumi. She smiled and waved a little, which was silly- why was she waving? before extending her hand to help the poor girl get back up onto her feet. "Hi Kurumi... sorry about that, shouldn't have been reading and walking. Probably not a good combination" she smirked as she smiled warmly at the rather shocked looking girl.

"N-N-No, it's my fault," Kurumi apologized as she pulled herself up off the ground and dusted herself off a bit. "I have been looking for my cat, Walnut. He has been running off more than usual."

Kurumi eyed the book in Dani's hand and was reminded of the conversation about literature she had had with Luke in the common room the other day. "What are you reading?"

Dani nodded and smiled- "It's okay- doesn't matter- but thanks" she said softly as she heard Kurumi mention her cat. "Oh no!" she said softly, thinking of her Gracie at home. "My cat has a habit of disappearing at home. But I'm sure she'll turn up" she said reassuringly to Kurumi before looking down at her book.
"Oh! This is a Jane Austen novel" she said softly. She loved these books- so romantic and pretty. "Sense and Sensibility" she said softly, showing Kurumi the cover. "You should check it out if you haven't read it" she said with an encouraging nod.

Kurumi covered her mouth to hide a giggle. "Walnut is a he and he is probably down at the Care of Magical Creatures area. He really fancied Professor Saylen and I think he still thinks that if he goes down there enough he will find her."

Poor cat.

"I have read it, just not in the original English," she nodded. "Jane Austen is an amazing author."