Arabella-Marie made her way over to the Hufflepuff table and hoped to find some more friends without paying attention to where she was going she bumped in a girl who was chatting to people and said "Sorry i wasn't paying attention to where i was going"

Hufflepuff.

Well, DUHHHHHH. Noah KNEW that would happen. He hadn't been sure of his relatives, mind, but whatever, there was something more important.

PIRATE SHIP!

He blundered over to the table, realised he'd need to go around it to reach the window, and so climbed UP and WALKED OVER the table to get to the other side. He HAD been beside himself, but now he was just trying to SEE THE SHIP.

"Is it still there?" he asked nobody and everybody once he'd jumped down (stumbling slightly on his robes). "I can't SEE. Stupid dark night."

Grumblemumble.

Waaaaaitttt! There was a boy! He spotted a boy! And one that was...walking over the table to get to the other side? Say whaaaaat?

Treyen blinked, once or twice, before actually walking over to the boy. Eyes falling on the oh-so-obviously first year, "What is still there?" he asked, forgetting to let the boy know that climbing on tables was not the usual stuff to do, it was more...Josh-like, yeah, Josh climbed tables.

"Oh, you mean, the ship?" GRIN. That meant...the boy read stuff. Awesome! "Ah, you'll have to wait until morning," Treyen wasn't going to mention if he'd seen the ship on his way to the Castle, though, nope, he wouldn't.

Yeah, Kaia just couldn't see any point with being here. And the fact the tables weren't yet full up of students made her worry a little. Just because she'd never really been good with lots of people when she felt like this. Lots of new people, actually. And that she worried about lots. Eyes down, on the table, Kai softened a little and relaxed a little into her palms. Of course, she stiffened a little at the touch of someones arm, and she sniffled a little - in an attempt to just pretend she'd been crying over how glorious the Great Hall looked, and not because she was actually depressed, and upset, and still in some kind of shock state.

She didn't dare more. Didn't dare think about anything as sthe arm stayed around her, and instead waited for the person to say something, or just to leave her alone. The arm moved slightly, as the person sat next to her and the fifth year did then - and only then - turn her head slightly to peer at who it was. She had her hopes as to who. Just purely because no one actually understood how she was feeling. Except him.

And it was him. Thank Merlin.

Kai couldn't help the small glint in her eyes that appeared, as she recognised it was her boyfriend, nor could she help the burying of her head into his shoulder, or the mumbles of 'I missed you' and other variations. Though she fell silent after about thirty seconds, and glanced up at him. "I wanna go home...I want my daddy." She whispered up at him.


The voice she recognised as sometimes the most annoying person she knew [not including Chandler ], called over to her boyfriend first, and Kai didn't turn her head to acknowledge it. She rathered leaving her focus with the silence of her thoughts right now, and besides if Treyen looked anything like he had at that Quidditch match, with his mushy eyes and whatnot, she'd have to run out and cry a little. You know. Mushy stuff made her think of happiness, and she wasn't that happy. Not right now, anyway.

But at the call of her own name, her head did turn, and she smiled slightly, raising one hand in recognition of then other fifth year. "Treyen."

Amy sighed. She was MIFFED Katie had been able to tell her sod all about Sammy. Well Sammy wasn't here. End of. Sad and all that but nothing to do, she sighed again before plopping down at the table, it felt weird to be alone. Like proper alone. She didn't like it..but she didn't know anyone in her year in the house. Boo. She looked to and fro up and down the table, looking for anyone she recognised.

Nope. She'd even deal with a firstie she was that bored

The SHIP! THE SHIP!

This kid KNEW about the SHIP! (well duh... Noah was forgetting that other people read the papers too. "It's there?! Sweeeeeeeet..." he smiled to himself and gaaaaaazed out of the window. "Epitome of awesome, oh yes."

Again with his big words.

"We can see the lake from the common room, right?"

She didn't figure other changes. The only change she'd consciously acknowledged was the badge, cause that's all there was to notice, right? Totally. "It is," Was that his way of congratulating her? Hmm.

Things are looking up meant that his summer probably didn't go to well either, which was more internally sad-making. Certainly everyone didn't have a not-so-good summer? "Returning here always has me in a good mood." Heh. It was staying in a good mood throughout the term that was the challenge.

"I don't even know all of the ones I'm gonna take." She leeeeeeaned against the table more, resting her cheek in her hand as she TOO made faces. "Guess I'll have to figure it out quick, and start studying and stuff." Yeah. "How'd you do on yours?"



Mia's grin had Arya's grin growing if such a thing was still possible. "That's great." Really it was. Gave her hope and stuff about... other things. She reached inside her pocket to touch the chocolates thoughtfully.

"The ship is my first stop... or second, maybe second." She tended to get distracted by other things easily, so the ship would probably take longer to get to than she planned. "Hopefully a good mystery, no weirdness or anything." What? She could hope.

Her eyes returned to the staff table with a small sigh. "Saylen is gone." And she was too awesome for words in Arya's opinion. "But at least most of the other professor's are still here, and Tate." Always a good thing and extremely comforting to see that man seated in the center where he belonged.

"I decided that I should make an entrance to show off my badge." She grinned at her jest, tapping the badge lightly. "You should have done the same with me." Hehe. She ran her hand through the strands of hair resting on her shoulder, giving the ickle huffies around Treyen and considerate glance. "We didn't get to talk about our summers on the train, how was yours?"

O____o

Was that even Kaia?! He froze in place at first, before shaking his head in order to regain some clarity. Because, yeah, he was thinking he was seeing and hearing things that were not there.

Though, er, maybe Kai was not in the mood for loudness?

Good. He only nodded her way, and smiled politely. He...was fearing this new Kaia, though.

Dude. Stop moving!

He smiled, brightly, "Yes...that's what I--wait, no, I never said it was," Treyen had a smirk on his face now, he was NOT going to say, the kid could probably jump out the window and check out for himself...or sneak out in the middle of the night.

The latter would be fun, for sure, perhaps he'll do so himself.

"The ship? Awesome? How do you know? What if whoever touched it was doomed to die in seven days or something?" chances were, this was a kid who feared nothing, but he could, at least, scare the ones that were listening. Yeah, kids, away from the ship, you stay.

"Er, actually, not really," very little they could see of the grounds. Gryffindors and Ravenclaws may have better luck at that.

Then the boy stretched his hand out to the boy, "Treyen Lockhart, Hufflepuff Prefect," he said, as he introduced himself.

He laughed, "Right, of course," he seemed to be the only one not to pay attention to entrances? That was so not like a Lockhart to do, though.

Treyen winked at her next statement, "Someone needed to be more on time," and he resisted the urge to stick his tongue out at Arya, but he soooo wanted to do it, except...summers? Oh, right, they didn't talk about that during their ice cream meeting either, "Oh, it was very good, lots of time with Aaron, Rae, Fletcher...and you?" clearly, the Fletcher part was not a major part of the summer, because he'd been able to see him for little bits whenever he came home to eat. That was enough time for him, though.

Kita smiled at the girls sitting near her as her mind started to wander slightly. And what was the one thing that had entered her mind?

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD!

No, no, NO! She shook her head. Thinking about it just makes it harder to wait. Or something like that anyways. And now she was... standing up? Maybe lack of food had gotten to the sixth year's brain. But right at that moment...

"Oomph!" For the second time since she left Hogwarts as a fifth year, Kita felt herself being lurched forwards where her hip collided with the table. And once again someone else was behind it. She wasn't being targeted right? "Oooh..." she whispered, rubbing the sore spot and squinting up at the girl who was apologising to her. "That's ok," she muttered, somehow managing to stretch her lips into a smile, "I'm Kita by the way. Do you want to join us?"

Conan sighed. He had parked himself away from the hubbub of the excited first years. Far far away. He sighed again, and returned to his book his was reading. It was propped on his plate. He didn't need anything appearing on it. And it meant he could avoid seeing the things that appeared around him. Maybe it would help if he had put on his baseball cap. But he had left it in his trunk. SIGH!

Grinning, she played with her hair for lack of anything else to play with. Except her wand. She'd play with that later. Hehe. She laughed, "You can be the one on time, I'll be the one to make an entrance." And if she wasn't around then surely her kneazle would make the entrance for her, so long as he got snuggles and treats.

Listening to his short speech about his summer she nodded her head. "That sounds good." And most she was there for, so it was defiantly good then. Her summer? "Great. Lots of Sable with Aaron, Ivy, my brother.... but mostly Sabel." Treyen knew that though... she'd told him last term her summer would be spent with the Gryffindor.

"Hi Ophelia! Im Belle Lecium!" she said. She wanted to tell her last name to be polite as well. "You know what i do? I take a little of everything and then i eat it all so i won't run into complications." Belle said to give Ophelia a hint. "But im suprised we haven't met either! Well last year was my first year, so i was getting used to the school and all. I am happy to be back that is for sure." she said as she looked around the great hall.

"Thanks." she smiled as she sat down. "Wow i am soo happy to feel back! I mean the atmosphere is making me excited to start classes." She said as she put food onto her plate.

Isobel looked around, and spotted a girl who looked lonely. She looked like someone who wanted someone to talk to. Isobel sent her a cheerful smile. "Hello," she said. "My name is Isobel VonHue. Fourth Year." Hufflepuff. Quidditch Captain.

Amy looked up as she heard someone aproach and talk to her...keep it normal. Which was difficult seeing as how much hyperness was running through her veins. So NO PURPLE DINOSAURS! Darn...hai Amy grinned at the girl.

OHMYGAWSHERS! Fourth year. Who was also one of the YELLOWS! OMG! Like..wayy too essex but stil. Shuttuupp. Amy Samson. Also fourth year and part purple dinosaur

Rawrr....

"It was in the paper, of course," Noah said, looking slightly taken aback that everyone wasn't taking more of an interest. UNCULTURED.

Or something.

He smiled at the 'doomed to die in seven days thing'. Hurrhurr, but he was smarter. "I'm not worried about that... plus, you don't need to touch it to get a closer look."

Yeah.

YEEEAAAHHH.

"No... I'm pretty sure there's a window," Noah pointed out. His sources told him that much. He was preeeeeeetty well versed with the way the school was set out, though of course he foresaw himself getting lost. He was getting old and forgetful, brah.

But then, Noah shook the other boy's hand with great energy and a smile. "Noah Garrison. I'm new here, a first year. My cousin and my brother are new here too, but she's in the third year and he's in the sixth. I'm the nicest of us all, just so's you know."

Chyeah.

Kita smiled in return as Belle sat down. It was funny how she had just met Belle recently and yet it felt like she had known her for years. Ok, maybe that's just Kita and her ability to call someone her friend within minutes of talking to them. Meh! Wait... glad to be back? For... classes? "Wow!" she said, "I've known people to be excited about coming back to Hogwarts, about the feast," Boy, did she get excited about the feast! "But no one has ever told me that they're excited for lessons before." Yep, that was definitely a first. "So which classes are you excited for the most?" she asked.

Jaymie nodded. "My days are very busy." She listened as Maggie talked then looked up at the Staff Table. "I hope we can eat soon."

Jaymie smiled shyly at the older girl. She was obviously used to her siblings, and she had warmed up to Treyen and that Maybelle girl, but she was nervous around people older than her. Teachers absolutely terrified her. "Thank you," she said shyly. "What year are you in?"

Jaymie smiled innocently. "Yeeeea." She drew out the word, making it sound like she didn't want to admit it. "This summer I got to go to France," she said with a big grin. "It was sooooo cool!"

There were things scarier than heights? "Like spiders?" She whispered in a horrified voice. Spiders were scary, and so were spiders. She looked at him suspiciously and wondered what he was scared of, but she didn't ask. "Was it superdeeeduper fun?" It looked fun, but also scary.

Isobel got the sense that this girl was just a liiiiittle hyper. But that was quite alright with Isobel, she was hyper enough herself. "Nice to meet you Amy," Isobel said with a grin. Oooh; she was a fourth year too? Awesomeness! "Don't you wish the Headmaster would say his speech to we can eat." She wished.

And you Izzy..no wait. Full names. Politeness and all that shizzle, Isobel. Though Izzy was easier to say. Her cousin was called Izzy...not the nicest girl in the world. Still. OhMyGawsh. Someone agreed with her about the irritating but high profile man she had to call headmaster. He was getting proper old now, at least 35. He wouldn't be able to handle them for much longer. ESPECIALLY with that random boat in the middle of the lake. Now that had confused her, merlin I thought I was the only one who felt that way she grinned, relativley normally. Well. Normal for a Samson.

Isobel grinned. "I think everyone in here feels the same way." She hadn't eaten for sooooo long, like 6 hours or something like that. "I had a couple candies on the train, but not much else." She half-frowned, because she was hungry. "Anyway...So Amy..." what to say? Hmmmmm "...Do you have any siblings?"

Walking in in his new robes Mikey drops in to an open slot that was goin gto be big enought for EM and Britt to sit also.Seeing the new Huff starting to sit " Hey congrats you made it in.Have you met any of the outhers yet ? Pouring himself a glass of pumpkin juice and hopeing the Tate would do his speech soon so he could eat


Hearing the word Eat Mikey turns to Isobel and her new badge " Hey Isobel Congrats on getting captain,I think we got a real chance at the cup this year. Do you know who all is coming back ?"

This girl ATE candles?

.....

Oh. Right. Yeah. The sweet things...fail. Candle wax actually tasted okay. I mean she didn't eat it on a daily basis but a dare was a dare. She had to. Apparantly. She pushed back her long brown-y red hair off her shoulders. Wow. This was the new term. And it REALLY didn't feel like it. Maybe if Sammy was there throwing pasta...but still. Always look on the bright side of life. And all that jazz.

Awkwaarrddd tuurrttllleee..

Oh. Sibs. Yeah she nodded, a little brother, Noah. For how much longer he'd be her brother she wasn't sure but he was a resiliant little bub. *cheesey grin*. VonHue. That name sounded familiar. Well. It sounded posh and posh names sounded alike a LOT of the time, do you? She asked, reaching for a goblet. Before reliasing there was nothing to drink and promptly placing it back down

Yeah. Totally meant to do that

Cassie eyed Alex a bit, half seriously."Heeeey now, you're suppose to be feeding me, not feeding yourself. You know how it works Alexander." She gave him a wink but then snorted at his response." The song wasn't bad you just...caught me by surprise I suppose." Nod, she opened her mouth for more salad stuff.

She nodded at his comment about Professor Saylen, of course everyone was missing the woman, she taught Care of Magical Creatures and was bloody good at it too, not to mention her feisty spirit." Well, she was a really good teacher."

Cassie beamed when Alex mentioned quidditch. Ok so she really had never flown on a broom before but how hard could it be and plus Treyen was suppose to be helping her with getting prepared for tryouts so she wouldn't suck or anything like that."I totally am! Treyen is going to help me practice in time for tryout...RIGHT TREYEN!" She flicked a grape at him to get his attention.

Isobel nodded. "Cool," she said. "I have six siblings. Three sisters and two brothers." Seven people counting her. Yes. She glanced back up at the Staff table, and saw MisterChadStryker. She made a mental note to go visit him and tell him about getting the captainship. Then Isobel looked down the table, and down the other way, then at the other table. Hmmmmm. Where was Nulu? And Sammy? She saw Nika, and decided she would go talk to her later. Aaaand, there was no Maybelle either, but that definitely wasn't a bad thing. In fact, it was quite a good thing.

Big fam. HUGE fam. Laik proper big. That's um..a lot she nodded slowly. Zero privacy! Was all she could think of. How do you cope? She asked with slight admiration. No. How did her parents cope would've been better but, it was a BIG family. Huge. Too many in her opinion

You're Quiditch captain? She asked, hearing someone congratulte her, wow like major congrats Amy grinned. Wow. She was TOTALLY out of the whole contact thing. That and Sheridan was a little useless