Louisa watched his every move recalling every adrenaline rush she went through few minutes earlier. Her concentration on the tire rose ridiculously when he eyed it and was about to jump. If she wasn't holding it, she would've closed her eyes in case he fell and died and she was the only witness to that tragedy.

Who's making things dramatic?

But he didn't! He even did it more gracefully than she did... maybe? If not then she looked pretty good jumping back on the swing! Regardless of the insecurity her skirt provided of course.

Louisa giggled at his triumphant cheer and clapped for him, "We're very awesome!" a hint of giggle was still there. "I'm tempted to do a fireworks spell!" HEHE... better not though. She didn't practice it enough. "So.. now that we reached the swings.. what shall we do?" She asked looking around for any other adrenaline related adventure. It was her first and she loved it! It was good to do things so far away from your life with someone who didn't know about you that much.

It felt hopeful.

Dallin continued to grin as Louisa clapped for him. When she mentioned a fireworks spell, he laughed. "I feel like doing one too, actually," he said, only partly joking. He felt good. It was a nice adrenaline rush, and he couldn't remember a time when he'd really gotten one at Hogwarts. He usually only got a rush from surfing, and of course it'd been months since he'd done that.

At her question, his grin faded and he looked around, as if he expected another adventure to fall from the sky and shoot 'ME!' Sadly, that didn't happen. He looked back at Louisa, shrugging one shoulder although she probably couldn't see it because the tire was in the way. "I guess it depends," he said, shifting his weight back and forth so that his tire started to swing. "Since we worked so hard to get up here, we can hang out for a while." It made sense. But that sounded sort of boring to Dallin after the fun he'd just had getting up here.

"Or," he added, his smile slowly reappearing as his tire started swinging higher, "We can go find something else!" Because there had got to be some fun things around Hogwarts, if you tried hard enough to find them. And Dal was in the mood to do just that.

Definitely hanging up here for more than just a minute! She's made her way up here with the very last of her nerves. "We can stay here for a little more. I like the view. The upper view." She grinned AGAIN at him. Okay now that was getting suspicious. Why was she smiling so much today? -_- Vashti's constant lectures must've paid off at last.

"How about.." Louisa started, hanging tightly to the thin ropes that held the swing and moving herself back and forth strongly, ".. we try to bump our feet together this way." And then maybe they could do something even more daring? Like slapping hands or... something?

"Unless you were too afraid to swing this way!" She teased and the branch above her was making rustling sounds as its leaves moved along with her swing. She tilted her head back so her pony tail flailed with the slight breeze the 'flying' caused. It would've been rather impolite to stretch your legs in front of someone facing you... Louisa's mom would be furious if she knew about it. But not today, Louisa was feeling good and... FREE!

Ah, the treehouse. been awhile since she'd last been here. Heather, without as much as bringing her rather temperamental moving panda doll with her as well as her pretty cat, Seraphina, opted to go for one of the rooms at the tree house and to just be left alone for a few minutes or so to at least think. Her new cat and her doll needed to get along, but it would seem Seraphina had taken a liking to the doll and vice versa so there wasn't much problem.

She climbed the treehouse and found the usual room she and Kurumi would be in quite empty. She sighed as she went in, good memories flocking her mind, about the time she and Kurumi turned into canaries. Then. out of the blue, she'd remembered Valentine's day would be near, but...she didn't have a sweet heart, still she had friends to celebrate it with. Valentines is about love, right? And friendly love is not an exception. What bothered her thoughts would be of Edward, whom has not kept in contact with her right after the first and last letter he sent to her at the start of the term. Had his owl been intercepted? Lost? or did he no longer desire to remain in contact with ehr even though he said, he missed her dearly?

She became sad. Just when she was realizing, it was sad to know he was no longer at her reach. It was foolish she had not realized sooner, but, alas, she was a naive little girl who did not understand its concept fully well when he did.

Removing her thoughts about Edward, Heather moved to the center of the room and pulled out a parchment from her pocket. Scribbled were some things she had to do, like the DADA longterm assignment. The only thing she needed to do was to find a dancing partner and learn to dance.

"Great." she groaned. She knew a bit of dancing...but she wasn't that good at all. "I have to find myself a dancing partner." and she didn't know enough people who could dance or would be willing to do so.

For all she knows, half of the student body might have given up and forgotten the homework long after the holidays were spent.

The upper view? Dallin laughed. Right. Because the lower view showed you how high off the ground you were. The upper showed you how much closer to the sky you were. And that was much cooler and less scary, to be honest.

Back to the matter at hand, though; swinging. And bumping their feet together. Exciting, dangerous... ha. But no, it was fun. "Afraid?" he scoffed, shaking his head as he leaned back, trying to get his tire to go even higher. He closed his eyes for a brief second and smiled at the feel of wind on his face. When the swing swung away from Louisa Dal leaned back and stretched his legs out. He leaned to the side as he neared her, but made sure he bumped his foot on hers when he could reach. Then he swung back, his tire turning because of his shifting body weight.

"High five!" he called out, grinning toward her as he looked through the middle of his tire.

When his foot gently touched hers she responded with a sliiiightly stronger bump sending her swing turning around like crazy. She was forced to close her eyes while laughing, begging her head not to get too dizzy. On this height, it kind of might be a problem. "That's crazy!" She kept her cheerful attitude when she shouted it.

Getting used to the So-Much moving tire, she opened her eyes and tried to look at Dal despite the unsteady ride. Her head moving around to keep him in her vision, "You got it!" She replied excitedly to his highfive request and started increasing the speed of her swing and letting her right arm free, toward him. Well not specifically since she still was turning and flailing in her tire but he could extend his and they might get a palm slap considering it a highfive.

Right?

Dallin pulled his legs into the tire, trying to slow down the speed of his swinging. The tire swung wildly for a while and he felt as if he was going to fall out. Thankfully though, it stopped after a while, and he was no longer swinging. And at right after he stretched his legs out again Louisa responded to his high five idea. So he started swinging his legs again to get a momentum going.

When he was going forward enough, close to Louisa, he stretched out his hand. "Come on," he laughed, waving his arm and swinging his legs. "Almost there!" Just a few... more... inches... and... WOO! He grinned as their hands slapped together. Mission accomplished.

"Now what?" he called as he swung away from her.

Louisa pushed her luck to the top and almost jumped to slap his hand but there was no need to. They already did it! She 'Wooohoo'ed loudly afterward. She was having a blast and she admitted it! With all the excitement in her chest, she didn't slow her swing down when he asked 'Now what'. She didn't want this flying feeling to stop, not even for a second.

Tilting her head to the back again and breathing in deeply she spoke dreamily, "I don't know. Maybe we pretend to fly." And nope, brooms never counted. The seats were so uncomfortable and Louisa never managed to connect with a broom before so this was her only chance.

Only she forgot about the thing ropes holding the tire, the swing was moving crazily around and the speed was great. Louisa, being shut off from her surroundings and all, didn't feel something was wrong until the tip of her shoe touched something solid. When she opened her eyes, her eyes got crossed. She couldn't see anything properly! The sight was moving so fast and.. "Dal..." She called terrified, "..I thi--" She started before stupidly letting her right arm off the rope to hide her eyes and getting it caught on something in the process.

A huge force jerked Louisa off her swing and her arm was wrapped around something. Her mind wasn't fast enough to think and her instincts worked. But it was no brilliant skill to know that she was dangling from Dal's swing O_o Her arm hurting ALOT slipped easily after only two seconds of grabbing the edge of his swing and naturally she let out a terrified scream.

Connor took a walk out to the treehouse. He felt really alone right now. Valentine's day was coming up and it seemed everyone was in love, everyone it felt like, but him. He sighed softly and climbed the ladder up the tree. He sat on the rail outside the room that he didn't know his little sister was in and looked out. He felt as happy as it was possible for him to feel. He smiled softly and hopped down from the rail. He closed his eyes for a minute and began to softy sing The song that he and Kurumi had written No Boundaries. He Began to pretend to waltz with an invisible partner because no one had danced with him all term, well no one but Dani...once.

Wait...what was that she was hearing? It was quite a familiar voice-too familiar to pass up as someone else's and be ignored as she went about to problemize over her worries.

She turned around, and walked out the room to see who else but the very owner of that singing voice strutting about in the tree house porch, dancing on his own. She laughed. It looked silly that he was dancing on his own, but it was good to see that her 'big brother' had caught her attention and cheered her up. Perhaps he sensed she was feeling down, she doesn't know, but it doesn't matter.

"Big brother..." she tried to suppress a couple of giggles escaping her lips. "what are you doing dancing by yourself?" Very much so, why by himself, when the assignment stated a pair?

Connor blushed and stopped singing and dancing. He looked at the ground. "It's easier to do the assignment by myself then have to talk to a girl and get turned down." He'd gotten a really serious pair of cold feet after the last few months. It was hard to explain but well his personal bravery had taken a big hit as of late. Something inside him was broken after the fire, he wasn't as brave toward the ladies as he once was.

He walked toward his little sister. "What about you? Do you have a dance partner little sister or is your dance card all filled up too?" He asked softly. He walked over to her and hugged her close. "Dance with me Heather Please?"

By himself? Is he ignorant? It said it needed to be done by pairs, but the look on his face made Heather sympathize. He must have had a lot of rejections lately. "I don't have a dance partner." she said as an answer to his question. Unfortunately, she doesn't really have a dance partner as of the moment. Not since the homework began. No one has asked her and she began to think that maybe girls do the asking nowadays and that is something she is terrible at; she can't walk up to a boy and ask him to dance with her.

She let out a surprised squeak as Connor moved and gave her a hug. It was probably because she was caught off guard, but this is one of the few times she did get surprised at him hugging her and it made her think, what is it, why is she acting surprised when she should have been getting used to such now?

She decided to set it aside, those thoughts had their time, soon, maybe. in the meantime, she hugged Connor back and let go, in time to hear him ask if she could dance with him. A certain glow was upon her face as she smiled back at the older boy. "Okay." she did need a dance partner after all, and here was Connor a willing volunteer. She laughed a bit, remembering she couldn't dance well, but she atleast knows how with a few steps. "I'm a bit rusty....i barely know how to dance though."

Hearing Louisa's 'wooohoo,' Dallin laughed. He was glad she was having fun now, opposed to just a little while ago when she, well, wasn't. He watched her curiously, wondering what she was planning on doing. When he heard her tone change, though, his eyes widened. "Louisa-"

Before he could comprehend what was happening, she was holding onto his tire. A few thoughts went through his head at the exact same time, very quickly. There were;
1.) Louisa is falling! Help!
2.)Get your wand out, stupid!
and 3.) The ground is cushioned!

By that time her hands had slipped, and she was falling, though. So Dal ignored the logical part of his brain that reminded him that the ground was soft and that she wouldn't get hurt, and he pulled himself onto his feet on the tire and pulled out his wand. "Wingardium Leviosa!" he yelled, pointing his wand at the girl. He couldn't tell if she had already hit the ground and his spell was now lifting her, or if he had caught her just in time. He held the wand on her for a few more seconds before taking off the spell.

He didn't waste any time in getting down to her. The problem was that no matter how much time he didn't waste, it still took him a while. He had to swing the tire enough to get it close to the railing, and then he had to pluck up enough courage to jump out of the tire swing, over the railing, and land in the tree house. And he did it. With a very unskillful fall onto the floor of the tree house. He stood up quickly, grabbed Louisa's bag, then hurried out of the tree.

"Louisa," he exclaimed, slightly out of breath as he jogged over to her. "You alright?"

Nika beamed at the girl, who just said her name and kicked her feet back and forth. "What year are you in? I don't think I've seen you around last term so I'm guessing your a first year?" Either that or a transfer student from another school.

Nika swung back and forth and nodded her head as she tucked her hands inside the sleeves of her sweater. "Yeah, it's really cold." She wasn't sure if Isobel was referring to the weather or to Luke. She looked at the boy and nodded her head slowly as they both explained. Was he going to ask her to Hogsmeade?... But no? Instead he asked her to go on the treehouse? Well that was rude. Couldn't he see that she was hanging out with Nika before he interrupted!? "So Luke what year are you in?"

Connor smiled at her, but his smile was more wistful than the brilliant mile that he used to have. He began to hum them a tune and he pulled her into his arms and slowly began to waltz with her. "I can teach you, if you like." He spoke in his usual soft voice. He noticed some things about Heather that well he normally wouldn't have. She was growing up and becoming very beautiful. He blushed and looked down as his veela scent rose up and engulfed them and surrounded them in a cloud of Cinnamon-Vanilla sweetness. "I-i-i'm so sorry." Connor blushed and whispered. "I-I Didn't mean to do that." he stammered.

No sooner when he started to hum a tune was she pulled close into her big brother's arms and they started to dance. Heather looked at her feet at the entirety of it though, afraid of stepping on Connor's feet. Still, she was grateful for offering to teach her and showed no reluctance. It would be nice to show her mother she could dance now when the summer holidays roll over soon.

Step, step, step...she took note of each. one, two, three, one two three, she counted in her head. Dancing wasn't easy but, with enough concentration, one can learn...

And then she started to smell something...sweet...like cinnamon..and vanilla...mixed together. Was there something sweet-smelling nearby? Her head shot up and looked around, trying to look for where the scent came from, but the source, as her nose was telling her was right in front of her.

And Connor was apologizing to her. She let go of his grip from hers and tilted her head. "why are you apologizing, big brother?" she asked curiously. Naive little Heather had most likely thought he was wearing a sweet-smelling perfume... "Big brother...are you wearing perfume?" she asked. Silly girl. She did not know about his veela scent that much, very much like so.

Whaaaat!? Eh, why did she have to bring Destiny into this? She had nothing to do with this!

Okay, she did. "Maybe." she muttered, shrugging her shoulders lightly. But, moodoo sounded interesting! Wait, Mia just said moodoo right? And that's what SHE said. [[rofl]]. "Why don't I want to know about it?" She read stuff about it! It didn't seem all that bad.

Maybe she wasn't reading the right stuff...

Hmmm, she tried to ignore the look she was being given, but it was difficult. However, Mia was going to try the spell herself, so it wasn't SO bad anymore. Really, it wasn't terrible where she learned the spell from. It was just the here figuring it out part that was horrible. Anyways...the moment of truth was upon them! Evelyn was expecting some HUGE burst of green flame that would surround them in it's almighty beauty but...it wasn't green nor huge. They were blue and small.

Taking the jar, she stared at the flickering flames, before looking up to Mia. That was it? "That's the best part though!" Didn't she know that!? The wood and the flames = BIG FIRE!

Well no offense, but I guessed you were not in a great mood" William told Ronnie." I like helping you" Wiliam said to Ronnie. " Well, I heard the Ministry has a security, well police department and I bet they could help find your father" Wiliam expalined to Ronnie. Wipw your tears friend, everything will work itself out" William smiled.

When someone thinks about death and how a soul would leave their body, he thinks it is either painful or pleasant depending on how good the person was. That was Louisa's theory anyways and considering the feeling she had a second ago, she must've been considered REALLY good because she felt nothing. That was when she knew she wasn't right.

She lied on her back on the wet grass, her mind was fuzzy and her eyes were wide open. Far above two black circles were moving like puppets on strings- the swings. It took her a minute to concentrate and feel her hands against the ground, her legs apart from each other, and her head moved to the side.

She saw Dal jogging over with a flying bag on his shoulder, she should get up.. scratch that, jump up and tell him that it was totally fine and painless so he couldn't be worried. BUT nooo, she stayed still and stared at him faking confusion. Who said fun was bound to physical activity? *shiftyshifty* "What's going on?" She said, her voice was beating along with her excited heart. Louisa straightened up slowly and looked up at him frowning, "Where am I?" She demanded in the most serious tone she could get in that situation. Giggles were held down by all of her force.

Dallin stared wide-eyed at Louisa and didn't say a word. Was she being serious? Did she really not know what was happening? He kneeled down by her, staring at her face and trying to determine if she was seriously hurt. The ground is cushioned! He reminded himself. She can't be hurt! But... she definitely sounded like something was wrong. Maybe shock. Ya know, falling like that was probably really scary.

That's it. She was in shock.

"On the ground," he told her, patting the grass. "You, uh, fell." But you're okay now because the ground is soft and I saved you. Right?

He couldn't tell that she was faking it! Wow she was a good liar XD... should she be ashamed of the fact? Anyways, she was enjoying it so far.. and no harm would be done with such a small joke. Keeping her face blank, she looked at his hand that patted the ground. "What the heck are you talking about?" She kept her gaze on the grass, if she made eye contact she might burst out giggling. So..

Louisa moved her legs checking whether they were scratched on anything. For real. Luckily, even the ground was wet and smooth. Merline the groundskeeper was such a caring person! Not that he planted wet grass or anything but still... "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go and change this hideous clothes." She looked at her uniform, dirty one now, and didn't have to fake the disgust. Good. "Why am I wearing them in the first place?" She shook her head and lowered it so much to hide a hiiiiiint of smile. Dal shouldn't suspect anything... for as long as she can handle this act.

Rebecca walked up to the giant tree house ready to do some well needed climbing. She made sure that her bracelet was still on and then she began her climb.

A little while after she began her climb, a cold breeze blew by her which made Rebecca zip and button up her coat. The bad thing about her trying to keep warm was that it caused Rebecca to let go of where she was holding on to making her fall to the ground. "Ugh," she said to herself when she hit the ground. "I'm so stupid. Well at least it didn't hurt when I landed..." She looked over and saw another girl who also fell to the ground and a boy kneeling next to her. "I should go say hi or something," she thought. "They seem nice so maybe I should get to know them a little..." So she walked over to the two people and introduced herself. "Hello," she said to the two of them. "I'm Rebecca Hammer. What's your names?"

Now his mouth actually dropped open. He leaned away from her when she said she was going to change her clothes. "They're your school robes," Dallin said, still staring. He couldn't believe that she was so confused. It didn't make any sense. "You're wearing them because they're the uniform." People generally wore school uniforms when they were supposed to. Even though Dal only wore his when absolutely neccessary.

"Look," he said seriously. "Are you okay?" Because if she wasn't, he was going to get the groundskeeper or something.

Hearing a voice close to them, Dal looked up to see a young-looking girl by them. He glanced at Louisa once before looking back at the other girl - Rebecca. Why not? He thought, half-smiling at the girl. "I'm Dallin McKinley," He told her with a small wave since he wasn't going to stand up. He looked at Louisa again, debating whether or not he should go and get someone. "This is Louisa."

"Oh it's fine!" laughed Ronnie, hicupping loudly. "And thank you." she said, wiping her ginger hair out of her face...it always got in her face! "And yes...I heard that about the Ministry too. They're trying to figure things out....." she said. "Thank you for making me feel better. You're really nice." Ronnie said, smiling.

Okay, the worried look on his face was priceless. She couldn't keep the straight face anymore but he was looking at the new girl when she allowed a faint smile on her face. Once he introduced them, Louisa burst out laughing throwing her back down on the ground again and holding her stomach for dramatic effects.

"Merline!! You were... turning into.. a yellow sheet!" She managed to say through her giggles, she didn't even introduce herself to the girl officially. The situation was hilarious and Louisa couldn't just overlook the serious way Dal was acting! She kept laughing and tears stuck in the corner of her eye. Still on her back since her clothes were already dirty and so was her hair, her so-called brilliant mind didn't think of the way Dal would see that joke. He might get angry or just take revenge... perhaps she should get up and start running?

Nope, she was still laughing. Not as hard as before though. Good thing she didn't drink too much Pumpkin juice this morning. Just sayin'.