Celebration Tent
 

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A large white tent has been erected on the vast patch of green grass located between Hogwarts Castle and the Quidditch Stadium. As you approach the tent, you can hear music playing on the WWN and you decide to go in. Inside the tent, there is a large table containing a Snitch-shaped cake, platters of sandwiches, bowls of chips (crisps), and pitchers of ice cold pumpkin juice and lemonade.

A large banner is seen hanging on one side of the tent, which is decked out in the colors of green and silver.
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Come on in and celebrate the conclusion of the Quidditch season!

Amethyst trotted in, skipping rather. Sure, she wanted to win, but she was happy for the Snakes. Perhaps Sarah would be here? Anywho, was hungry. She strolled to the table of food and took a hand full of crisps.

Angelina walked into the tent with a smile on her face. Slytherin had won and now it was time to celebrate, one of her favorite things. When Angelina arrived inside the tent she saw the big banner for Slytherin winning and a snitch shape cake nearby. Angelina was very thirsty so she walked over to the pumkin jucie and the lemonde. She wasn't sure if she could get a drink now, so she waited for the others to arrive.

Maddy really skipped into the tent. She took some lemonade and wondered why the cake was not shaped like a snake.

Jai went up to his dorm and changed quickly, in a fresh t-shirt and jeans. He was waiting for Captain Kit to get here. She did great and really wanted her to feel like a champion as she did guide her team to the championship.

He stood outside with his hands in his pockets, waiting to see her pop up.

Whooptie freaking do. Slytherin won. Lexi could care LESS to be perfectly honest, but perhaps there was FOOD here. So peeking her head she looked around for a moment... SCORE!

Shuffling in she made a beeline for the food tables. The FIRST time she heard anymore of those chants or shouts or whatever they were: SHE WAS LEAVING. Period. Grabbing up some crisps she began to shovel them into her mouth.

NOMNOMNOMNOM.

Having not known what to wear, Kita ended up dressing in the same thing she wore for the pep rally. For once, she wasn't in the mood to dress up specially. Well... she kind of was and her outfit was kind of special but it just wasn't the same.

Kita approached the door of the tent and looked around. Where... OH LOOKIT! There he was! She couldn't help grinning. Look at him looking so casual. She walked up to him, trying not to skip or do anything too weird. "I take it you were waiting for me?"

... She can be so stupid sometimes.

Salander entered the tent, beaming with such pride and joy. They nailed the Quidditch Cup! And news of the Gobstones win soon reached him and practically got the Head Boy cartwheeling in. It has nearly become an obsession of his staring walking by the Hourglasses and if they keep that lead....

..... Slytherin would nail another threepeat.

... Which as far as he knew (and he honestly did try to do some fact checking) that hasnt been done before.

A DOUBLE Threepeat! Incredible!!

He made his way towards the food table and spotted Lexi, giving her a quick peck on her cheek, his head abuzz with excitement and the euphoria of the possibilities he couldnt pick up on anything else. He grabbed himself a cold drink and started snacking on the chips, grinning and waving hello to just about anybody and everybody walking by.

Blech. Salander was all moony eyed and happy about Stupid Slytherin's win. Of course he was... she didn't want to be around people... all HAPPY and stuff, at the moment. Giving him a kind smile she patted his hand with hers and after grabbing up as much food as she could she made her way to the entrance to the tent. Hmmmm... where would she go from here?

Snackin' away he was but then felt Lexi move away from him. Eh where she going? "Babe...?" he uttered between mouthfuls. What's up with her? He looked around, it was open invite for everybody... naturally the Snakes would be the happiest of the bunch. And so far, nobody else acting all too annoying to spoil the party.

He grabbed himself another handful of chips and kept snacking away....

Lexi heard him call out to her and sighed. Turning she made her way back to him and smiled apologetically. "Sorry, love... I need to get back to the yearbook office. I have something to take care of. And... I don't want to be around happy people right now, okay. I will catch up with you later. I have to send out messages to my team and get them together." Truth. She had things to do.

Leaning in to kiss his cheek she winked and waited for him to start the moaning about her leaving. Heh. He was cute and predictable.

Ronnie walked to the tent. So Slytherin won! Brilliant! She had been rooting for them. She looked around once she got inside. Not many people were there yet. Just a few. "Hello everyone!" she called out.

Jai looked up when he heard someone speaking to him. When he saw Kita he smiled and said,"Hey Kit.You look great." as he walked toward her."So, shall we go in? We stay as long as you want, ok?"

He held out his arm to her, waiting for her to take it so they could go in.

Kita couldn't help but grin. And to think she was upset a moment before. "Thanks! Cassie chose my outfit," The girl was great like that. "You look good as well." But then again, he always did so that wasn't surprising. "Oh, but i don't want to keep you there for too long in case you want to go somewhere else..." 'Cause that's just sad!

Oh look! He was holding his arm out for her. She took it before smiling up at him.

"Oh Yearbook stuff..." Salander nodded crestfallen. "That thing better be made of solid gold with all the time you spend working on that." he mumbled as he stuffed his mouth with more chips. "Well, in case you need me or anything, I'll be right here." he added and used his drink to gesture around the tent. It wasnt just a Slytherin win, it was a school celebration, all the more reason why he has to stick around.

Lexi put her hand on his shoulder and smiled apologetically once again. "This is not for the publication. It's for the staff. Something I have to do. Anyhow you enjoy it and all," she said softly. "And I won't need you. You spend the night with your friends and I will spend my night with my team, love."

With that she winked at him once more and blew him a kissy before heading on out of the tent.

Isobel did not want to be there. Truthfully, she was kind of a sore loser. Okay, that was not right. She could be nice to the Slytherins, but she did not like to lose. She had not technically lost, since she had not played, but she had been there in spirit. The only reason she was at the celebration was to find the Hufflepuff team, especially Kita. She had looked in the common room, but they had not been there. When she got there Isobel smiled when she discovered that Kita was there. Isobel flitted over to her and gave the captain a biiiig hug. "You're awesome Kita," she said. And Isobel was sad, because she would be leaving.

After taking a quick shower in the locker room and looking a lot more presentable than before, Evelyn made her way down to the celebration tent, a little hop in her step. This was her final year and they won the quidditch cup! And gobstones! And, from the last time she remembered walking by the hourglasses, they had a clear shot at the house cup as well!

Thinking about it again had another huge grin appearing on her face as she ran her hands through her recently dried hair, letting the dark waves play across her shoulders and down her back against her quidditch shirt. Alas! Entering the tent, the Slytherin looked around...

Just to hear something about yearbook stuff and seeing Lexi leave.

Ugh. That was one thing she was not going to miss at Hogwarts. Being on the yearbook team. Smirking at the idea of leaving it, she stood out of the way as the Gryffindor girl left. Hehe. "Salander!" Making her way over to the Head Boy, the Slytherin girl beamed before eying the drink in hand....and the fact that he was near the snack table. Boys. "Saving some for the rest of us?"

Nevermind the fact that it could have all been poisoned somehow...

somebody wanna fix Tori's nose? :D <3333
 

Tori skipped into the celebration tent, one hand holding a scrap bit of cloth to her nose, the other in a fist in the air. Like a CHAMPION. A THREEPEAT CHAMPION.

She had managed to clean up a bit after the match, but her nose just would not stop bleeding. It was kind of becoming a problem but eh, at least it didn't hurt anymore. It seemed that the first bludger had pushed the nose in the opposite direction from the second bludger so.... Tori wasn't even going to try to LOOK at the thing.

The redhead made her way over to the food table and started trying trying to load up a plate.... one handedly. Er.

Alyssa didn't think that she was going to the party because she had no one to go with but then she decided that Aaron would know where to find her if he wanted to, so she decided to come on her. Despite the fact, that she was feeling sad, she put on her party dress and was now standing at the entrance to the tent.

Taryn wore a happy little grin on her face as she hurried inside the tent, keen on finding her BFF. The Slytherin girl stepped around, slid past and squeezed through the growing crowd until she spotted the redhead at the... food table.

Of course!

"Congratulations!" She squeaked and went in for HUGS. That was, until she noticed all the blood. Er... hugs could wait... she supposed. "Didn't you get that fixed yet?" Ewww!

Tori put down her plate and turned at the unmistakeable sound of her BFF's voice.

"TARWHEN!!!!!" she squealed, throwing open her arms for a hug and then realizing that some blood had squirted on the grass. Ooops. Tori quickly went back to cradling her injured nose and shrugged.

"I candt seem to find anybuddy to fix it," she sniffled. Ew. Ew. Now that hurt.

Wrinkling her nose delicately, Taryn nodded, "Well that is a shame, but don't look at me! There's a reason why I'm not headed in a career to be a Healer." She lowered her voice and tried not to look too much at her bestie's nose. "Blood makes me squeamish."

SOMEONE should FIX her BESITE, though! Taryn looked around to see if she could spot anyone helpful.

Like a brain surgeon, or something?

TORI, and LOLA and anyone else.....
 

Caroline was still in the outfit she wore to the match, in her excitement over her team winning the championship match, she just wished that she had played stupid NEWTs and having to study for them. It better well worth that Healers job for Tutshill to miss the most important match.

Walking to the tent she noticed Tori who's nose still was bleeding. She walked over to her. "Great match, Tori." She patted her on the shoulder. "Do you need help with your nose?" Caroline knew that the hospital wing was closed, so she figured that Tori didn't have anyone to take care of it for her. But before she could get Tori's answer Lola came into the tent. What in the name of Merlin was she wearing.

"Lola?"

"You can take stuff Angelina" Maddy giggled, as more people started to file into the tent. Maddy reached for a handful of chipps, or crisps as they called them here.

Maddy turned her head in the direction of the door as Ronnie, the Gryffendor entered with her big hello everyone then turned back."Theres not many Slytherins here yet" Maddy noticed "Mostley Puffs, and Gryffs"

Ev, Tori, Taryn, Lola Caroline, and Chandler too....
 

Dejectedly he watched Lexi leave the tent, just as more people started coming in. He plastered a welcoming smile at Chandler and raised his drink "Thanks man! Come on in!" he said as he waved the Hufflepuff over and gestured towards the food table.

He shifted his eyes at the sound of his name. Oh heck yeah Evelyn! "Hey Ev!" he beamed at the Head Girl. She knew that Quidditch win wasnt just a Quidditch win right? "Oh theres more than plenty for all of us" he chuckled being fully aware of the voracious appatetite most Hogwarts boys have "What drink would you like? Theres this pumpkin juice-- its great-- and theres lemonade over there I think." He grabbed a few more chips and popped them in his mouth "Chips are pretty good too."

Then he saw Princess Tori bounding up. "Hi Tori!--" he started then realized that she was still holding onto her nose. Yikes! "Your nose still broken?" he muttered at her and looked at her friend he heard her call Tarwhen. "Well I'm no Healer but I could try to fix that up for you... if I could just remember the spell..." he added muttering.

Oh more people coming in! He saw the unmistakable Slytherin Quidditch Captain, of which he nearly ran over to give her a big hug. Ahem. "Captain Lola!!" he greeted cheerfully as he beckoned over to the food table, then nodded his head as he spotted the Slytherin blonde "Hi there Caroline!"

Taryn, Sal, Caroline, Lola.... ALL YA'LL
 

Tori made a face at Taryn. Like she was ENJOYING this whole broken-nose-nasally-sounding-speech thing. HMMPH.

Lola made her entrance then, effectively keeping Tori in a state of speechlessness at her outfit, and Caroline followed just behind her. Oh yes! Yes! A trusted seventh year and housemate who could fix her up!

Of course, Head Boy Salander was offering too, so...... Tori just looked between Caroline and Salander and shrugged. "SOMEBUNNY FIX ME PWEEZ!"

ASAP! STAT! NOW!

Angelina smiled and said, "oh okay. I wasn't really sure." She took a lemonade and started to drink it. When Maddy said there was mostly Hufflepuffs and Gryffindores where there she looked around and said, "yes I have noticed that to."

"Ya I wasnt really sure either but this time it seemed like we could" Maddy replied "I took a cookie at the Slytherin studdy meeting before we were allowed to and Salander snapped at me". She glanced arround to make sure none of the prefects heard that comment. "I diddnt even know we werent allowed".

"yeah I was worried about that, so I didn't take any." Nicole said. "how much trouble did you get into?" Nicole woundered

the snakes....
 

Caroline heard Salander say something about not being a healer and that he couldn't remember the spell for it. "Hey, Sal. How you been?" She said with smile and nod. The head boy must be pretty hungry hanging around the food table like that. Then turning to Tori her grin widen. She wasn't offically a healer.....yet. And she was going to have to get used to these types of injuries.

"Let me take a look at it. I'm not a healer... yet. But I should be able to fix it." Caroline took a look at it. It looked easy enough to fix it with a spell. She took out her wand. "Episkey!" Yeah that should take care of that broken nose.

Tori closed her eyes and braced for the impact of the spell fixing her nose. Amazingly, it didn't hurt THAT much. The only disgusting part was the blood that splattered out when her nose audibly CRACKED back into place. Heh.

All better!

"Thank you thank you thank you!" Tori sighed in relief, finally able to speak like a normal person again. She gave Caroline a hug/squeeze, and then Salander and Lola and Taryn one too. Tori didn't even BLINK at the glitter up her nose, though she did GRIN.

SHE WAS JUST SO HAPPY OKAY?!

Then it was back to the food table for Tori, tugging Taryn with her.

Alyssa first hadn't thought that she would attend the party but decided that despite the fact that she was feeling like her heart was breaking, she knew that she had to attend to represent the team and to show that they believed in good sportsmanship. So she got dressed up and now was here at the celebration tent, to congratulate the winners.

Considering he hadn't congratulated Lola, as he should have, Treyen decided to stop by after changing and after he'd made sure all the birds were gone. Or the chirping was gone. Or whatever had happened on the Pitch...but...then he noticed the glitter...and decided to stay away from the Slytherin Captain.

And what was farther away from Lola? The food table, of course. Which he didn't mind heading towards considering he was actually thirsty.

"Victoria." He said, as soon as he got close to the table, and close to the opposing Keeper. "Congratulations are in order." There was a smile on his face for some reason, he was clearly alright with the fact that Hufflepuff hadn't win. And even more to see her nose had been fixed.

By the way, "Do you know you have glitter on your face?" Just in case she had failed to see it.

Alyssa stepped up to the Headgirl "Hello, Evelyn. I didn't get a chance to congratulate you and your team for a great game. You guys played very well. Would it be okay, if I took a picture with you. I am keeping a memory journal of my time here in Hogwarts and it would be an honor to have a picture taken with the Headgirl of the school," Alyssa said smiling up at Evelyn and showing the camera in her hand.

to all of snakes ;)
 

Yay!! Slytherin became the Quidditch Champion these year! Raven dressed herself to show her Slytherin pride.

"Yay!! Congratulations for all of you!! We are slytherins! We are the champions! Slytherins are the champions! But you, all of the Quidditch players you are our hero now!! " she shouted with a full spirit.

Then, Raven sang a song.

"We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fightin' till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world"

Kimalia after the match made a beeline straight to get freshen up for the celebration and then entered in her party dress. They had done a triple-victory again! Kimalia looked around at the lovely decorations and sorted food before taking some chips to munch on. Yummy!

Everyone else too, though.
 

OH YAY! Her bestie wasn't broken ANYMORE. Wonderful. It could now be time for hugs! Or... later, because it seemed that she was being tugged away. She smiled at the older girl, the one who had fixed Tori's nose, and glanced in the direction of the BOY. (hehe) But quickly looked away again and giggled to herself as she let Tori tug on her.

"I watched the whole thing." Taryn chirped happily to her friend, "And Vivian and Simba watched too. He was so happy. I think he just KNOWS that you did a GOOD JOB." Of course. They had the smartest pygmy puffs EVER.

Until they were stopped by someone else. "Oh hi!" Taryn said to the other boy, "I know you." Yep. He was the one who said something about house elves... or something. Yeah!

Grinning, she glanced towards the drinks on the table, debating whether or not she actually wanted any, much less wanted one of the choices. No tea she saw. That was a pity. "I'm fine, thanks." Regardless that she was thirsty, she wouldn't chance the fact that someone COULD have tampered with them. There were too many students around and not enough supervision.

"I'll chance the chips though. Before they're all gone." she chuckled, taking two and eating one of them. Alas though, her appetite may have decreased when Victoria came into the tent...still all bloodied up. And once the girl's nose was fixed...

She lost her appetite.

Thankfully her attention was dragged elsewhere. To...this girl. One of the players on the Hufflepuff team who...wanted a picture? "I umm..." Glancing towards Salander, the Slytherin girl's eyebrows were raised a little in surprise as she thought about it. Picture for a memory journal. That seemed reasonable enough. "I suppose so."

It was a good thing she cleaned up before arriving at the party tent then.

"I lost house points, so not too bad, at leat I diddn't get thrown into the dungon like Sky did" Maddy explained.

Minerva went into the celebration tent. She scanned it to see if anyone she knew was there. She felt her anxiety build when she didn't see anyone she knew. Maybe none of her friends came.

Well, Sierra wasn't big on parties and loud music, but she supposed she could make an exception seeing as her team had just won the championship match.

Quidditch. Gobstones. House Cup.

Merlin, it felt good to always be the winner. She was well aware that most people believed that sharing good fortune was the right thing to do. Who cared about 'the right thing to do', though? Certainly not Sierra. Edging inside the tent, she dangled her personal beater's bat, Scarlet, by her side. Seeing a Puffer across the room, she smirked and beat her bat once against the palm of her hand.

She then peered around the tent. Who in here was worth standing by? Hmm? A Slytherin, of course. A Ravenclaw at the very least. She overlooked a group of Puffers and headed more towards the back.

Arya and Treyen and co. maybe
 

Ellie awkwardly stepped into the tent with Arya. All sorts of nervous habits were being displayed. One hand was twirling a piece of hair, the other was pulling Treyen's jacket closer around her (she felt cold), and her lip was sure to develop a blister or two from all the chewing.

Her eyes scanned over the crowd until she saw him. "Oh. He...He is here," she said to Arya. Part of her would be happy to leave now that she's seen him. Now that he was standing and talking and seemed to be much more okay than when he was on the ground. But since she was already here, she should probably go up to him, right? And congratulate Tori and the rest of the Slytherins.

She looked at Arya for her opinion. Because she was willing to stay, if Arya wanted, or accompany the Prefect back to the Castle.

"Oh wow! That's great. Just smile into the camera and wave. That's a great smile. Okay. ONE, TWO,THREE," Alyssa snapped off a few shots. "If you want I can get them developed and give you one. Thank you again for letting me take your picture. And again congratulations on winning the game," Alyssa said sticking out her hand to shake Evelyn's. '[i]I hope she shakes hands now,[/b]'Alyssa thought to herself.

Now that she was able to use both hands, Tori was definitely loading up her plate with crackers, cheese, little ham squares, veggies, cookies, crisps, and more. She almost dropped her plate when Perfect Prefect Treyen suddenly appeared by her, though.

"Treyennnnnnn! THANK YOU!!!!" the redhead squealed happily, grinning back at him and resisting the urge to give him a hug. She DID still have a whole plate of food, after all.

Tori wrinkled her nose at mention of the glitter and her eye twitched a bit. "Er, yeah, I guess that would be Lola's doing... can you get it off me, please?"

She turned toward her BFF Taryn, then, who had YAY watched the GAME!!!

"I'm so glad you brought the puffs!" she chirped back, kind of looking around Taryn as if she were hiding them. "I hope Simba saw me score that goal, when I got knocked through the hoop by the second bludger, you know...." It had been AWESOME.

She grinned as two of her favorite people seemed to know each other and took the opportunity to stuff a cracker in her mouth. Ommm. Yummm.

Angelina thought of what maddy said about the dungons. "That's good you only got lost a house point. And we are in the lead by alot so orient make a difference," Angelina said

Maddy got confused "Who's orient?" she asked "Uhmm, Slytherin is so far ahead, that we won't get afected if only a few house points are lost" Maddy agreed.

For anyone who is not afraid of a sick kid ~
 

Daichi had hated it to be sick on THE day of the year. When the Quidditch Final match had started , he had been in bed. His nose was red , his skin was paler than ever and his hair seemed to have lost it's volume. Daichi Katharos was sick and he seriously hated it!

He had wanted to come to the game but found that he had fallen asleep in the dormitory before it so when he woke up , he had missed it.

He was a baaaaad fan~! So when he had heard from fellow Slytherin's that Slytherin had won again he went to the celebration tent not caring if he was sick. Having missed THE game was bad enough..

Once inside, the now thirteen year old looked around. He coughed with a hand against his mouth and wiped his hand on his jeans. It was disgusting , he knew but like he cared.

"SLYTHERIN!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME~" He suddenly tried to shout but his voice came out hoarse so maybe no one would have heard it.

oh well... he moved to the left and saw the snacks on the table. Normally he would have dived right in but this time, he had to gag even thinking about it.

Minerva was just about to leave, but then she saw a Slytherin that looked sick and was standing alone. She felt her nerves start, but she shook her head. Minerva you have never been afraid to meet knew people before. She walked up to the boy and said "Hello my name is Minerva are you ok?"

Treyen and friends
 

Miss Puff prefect wasn't as awkward as her Claw captain friend was, and couldn't figure out just why the girl was much more anxious than she had been in the stands. Treyen was fine, or at least was playing the 'fine' role when they last saw them, so Arya was just a bit confused. She didn't say anything though, she scanned the crowd of green until she spotted Treyen.

And he looked even better than he had on the pitch.

"We should say hi before we get food." Arya lopped her arm through Ellie's and gently tugged the girl over to Treyen, smiling at her co-prefect. "You played good, Treyen." Right up until he ran into the other team. She looked him over for injuries, and only acknowledged the snakes surrounding them after she was somewhat satisfied with his persons. She smiled at them all, "Congrats on the win guys."

Jai smiled and said,"Yeah, she did a good job picking it out, but you make it look great." When she complimented him on his rather simple outfit, he blushed and said,"I'm alright, but thanks."

As they made their way in and she accepted his arm, he leaned down and whispered,"It's your night. You decide how long we stay. But remember I do have a surprise for you."

The tent was already alive with music and celebrating snakes.

Man, Slytherins were far too happy today, weren't day? Was the world supposed to end today? No one told him.

Actually, he's never seen Victoria as happy as today, which was a good thing, his hair was safe from the girl. "You're more than welcome. You did awesome up there, by the way." And she even managed to score while being Keeper, didn't she? Too bad that didn't really count.

Oh, he noticed as much, that's why he didn't go close to his future colleague for fear of getting glitter on himself. One time was enough.

Treyen chuckled. "I was merely informing you. It suits you." So, no, he was going to let Victoria keep the glitter.

And he smiled again. "So do I." Wink. He didn't know she was close to Victoria, for whatever reason he supposed she was a close friend of Sierra. Well, weren't they all friends and teammates anyway? "I'm afraid I don't know your name, though." And the Slytherin Keeper failed to mention it while she spoke.



It was safe to say that he hadn't noticed any more people entering the tent since he wasn't looking at the entrance, but the voice that spoke his name was one he recognized in an instant, he didn't even have to turn around to see who it was, but he still did...and it was a good thing he turned to look at his Co-Prefect..or he'd failed to see who was standing next to her.

"Thanks Arya." He'd blocked a few shots and, unlike Victoria, didn't go through the hoops holding a Quaffle, which was good, right?

His smile did falter a little when he took in Ellie's face and went to stand next to her, "You okay?" he asked, as he placed an arm around her shoulders and kissed her forehead. By the way, "My jacket looks good on you."

Cheering was a tough job. It consisted of pride, a strong pair of lungs, a clear throat, and LOTS of energy. Kennedy definitely had all those... about an hour ago. He was still all giddy because of Slytherin's win over Hufflepuff, but his stomach was grumbling at him. So, when he stepped into the tent his feet automatically dragged him over to the food table. He grabbed a plate and stacked it with three sandwiches and chips. Now, for a drink.

Before getting to the pumpkin juice pitchers something, more like someone caught his attention. She was holding a beaters bat and staring at a Hufflepuff. Was that safe?

Then she was making her way to the back where he currently was. Gulp. He's never spoken to a Quidditch player before. This was his chance. Kennedy took a deep breath to relax and not look like a weirdo. He didn't want to get whacked by a beaters bat.

"H-Hi," he said, with a kind of lame wave of his hand. "Congrats on the win." Yeah, he was a Slytherin too, but the players deserved a bigger congrats because they're the ones that actually won the game.

Sierra was still peering around the tent when she heard the sound of a nearby voice. At first, she didn't think the person was talking to her. After all, she didn't have very many friends, so with the few she did have, she'd come to know the distinct sound of their voices. So she didn't turn toward the boy, nor did she acknowledge she'd heard him at all. It was only when she tilted her head in his direction that she noticed he was looking right at her. "Oh," she said, dropping her bat down by her side. "Hi..."

It was a sort of awkward moment for her. She wasn't very good at being friendly and outgoing, so it sometimes took her a while to get warmed up to someone. This boy was a Slytherin, though--her own kind. For that, he got a small smile. The corners of Sierra's mouth lifted up into a smile as she said, "Yeah, thanks. It gives up a threepeat of last term. Feels good to always be the winner, doesn't it?" If he was a Slytherin, he'd understand the need to win. She looked down at his plate and playfully smirked. "Three sandwiches?" she asked. "Did you save some for me over there?" She nodded toward the table. Of course she was only joking. He'd know that. Right?

Alyssa spotted a friendly face in the crowd. "Hi Minnie, are you here by yourself too? Me too. I was hoping that Aaron would come, but I haven't seen him so I guess he must be busy finishing up packing or something. Are you having fun yet? I don't know about you, but this has definitely been a weird term for me and I'm really looking forward to going back to Salem and seeing my family. I hope that I'll be able to come back to Hogwarts next term."

Minnie smiled when she saw Alyssa she breathed a bit easier as well. "Hi Alyssa. Yes I am alone. I thought I would come and see who is here. You did great today. Oh Aaron I haven't seen him, but I can't believe he wouldn't come here." Minerva smiled she got the feeling Alyssa was starting if not already liking Aaron. He better not screw it up. Minerva thought. She is a great girl to have. The Minerva looked at Alyssa with a bit of a worried frown. "Not come back, why wouldn't you come back? Oh Alyssa you have to come back. You are a brilliant Wizard and a great friend. You would be missed so much. Yes it was a very weird term between all the homework, all the newness of magic, elves, magical creatures, talking photos, and then the crazy social parts I had it has been weird. I can't lie that I am happy to be going home for some normal muggle things for at least a little while, but I am going to miss all of this and all of you." Minerva looked around.

At first, Kennedy thought he was being ignored, but to his relief he wasn't... and she lowered her beaters bat. "I've heard," he said, returning the smile. Although he wasn't there to experience those wins, he was very proud of his house. It sometimes felt like if he had been here for a longer time than he's actually been. He didn't even need to think twice to answer her question. "It really does," he nodded with an even wider smile. Sure, he was raised to learn how win and lose, but he liked being on the winning side. It sometimes made him feel guilty.

He looked down at his plate, then at the food table and then back at her. "Plenty," he grinned sheepishly, secretly wondering if he had gotten too many. "You're welcome to take one," he said, offering her the sandwiches on his plate. That's the least he could do to show his gratitude for her helping the team win.

Daichi looked around , away from the delicious but not so delicious food and towards a girl that had walked up to him. Brave girl for walking up to someone that was sick. "Yes, i'm fi-" but he couldn't finish his sentence for a long cough came out.

He held one hand against his mouth and the other in the air , as if to say , wait a minute. Before he stopped coughing. He sniffed and smiled , though it wasn't the usual bright smile he normally got. "I'm Daichi, nice to meet you Mi-" another tickling coughing fit. "sorry , i already missed the game so i'm not missing this" he chuckled and saw another Hufflepuff student walking towards them.

He moved back and forth on his heels as the two girls talked, not sure if he should interrupt.

Angelina nodded and said, "yes." she paused and then said, "did you go to the Quidditch game?"

Harlow bounced into the party in her finest white robes, with her Slytherin tie hanging out. This was her first year at Hogwarts and Slytherin was on top and it was a great feeling. She waved to the few people she knew and looked around for someone to talk to.

Minerva stopped talking to Alyssa for a second. "Alyssa do you know Daichi? When I didn't see any of you around I was actually going to go back to the common room, but saw him standing alone and thought I would introduce myself." She looked back at Daichi "Do you really think you should be out? You don't want to get worse. Do you play on the team usually?"

Aaron finally made his way to the celebrations. Not that they were celebrating after their lose, but still; a party was a party.
He grinned as he spotted Alyssa, she didn't look too happy. He knew he was probably being a royal pain in the ..., but relationship stuff was like... REALLY confusing and stuff. Most of the time, Aaron didn't know what he was going to be doing five minutes from now, but relationships were all serious and stuff. And all the seriousness was too serious. Seriously. He shook his head and climbed onto the table.

Was he going to get in trouble for this..? Maybe. Aaron shrugged. Worth it.
'OI! ALYSSA!' He shouted out as loud as he could. 'SO.. EH, GUESS WHAT?! I LOVE YOU.'
There. Now he'd said it right? And she wouldn't be all confusing and stuff about whether or not Aaron liked her? Cause he did. A lot. He was just weird about showing it, probably, but that was what Aaron was most of the time anyway; weird.
Also, he'd always wanted to climb onto a table like this.

Daichi looked over at the girl named Alyssa and smiled before turning back to Minerva. At the question , he pouted his lips and held his arms over each other. "Yes" he said simply. "i've been in bed for a day! not including the night time... and it's booooring"

on the team usually? How did she know? He shifted from foot to foot and looked down at his feet. Biting his lower lip, Daichi nodded his head. "Y-yeah" he answered and was happy there wasn't a cough coming. "I mean, i was in the team last year" He looked up to look at his house mates and then back to Minerva. Feeling the heat in his cheeks he knew he was blushing so he pretended a cough. "I also signed in this year and i was chosen as a chaser but...i wasn't fast enough.. to play during matches..." he heaved a deep sigh. "what about you? are you in the Hufflepuff team?"

Well, good. At least he was in agreement with how she felt about winning. He was a Slytherin, after all. She'd be surprised if he wasn't fond of being in first place. Then again, there were always the bad apples of the bunch--those who ended up in Slytherin house and always wished they were a Puffer instead. This boy didn't seem to be one of those kind, though. Thank Merlin. She'd likely have to gag and leave if he were.

"Good," she said. "Walk me over." Then she turned and headed to the food table, fully expecting the boy to follow. "Thanks for the offer, but I can get my own. Besides, I don't mind if you eat three sandwiches." It just showed he wasn't as wimpy as some of the boys she knew. Hmm... "Do you play Quidditch?" she asked. "I mean, on your own, or something?" Anyone eating three sandwiches should be an athlete.

She bit into her sandwich and washed it down with some punch. "So, what's your name?" she asked.

Minerva saw Daichi blush and she acted as if she didn't see a thing. "Oh well I bet you will be playing matches next term." Then he asked her about the puff team. "Oh no I wasn't on the team. I only learned to fly here so maybe in the future, but right now I like my feet on the ground. I tried to play gobestones, but that didn't go over well either. All this magic stuff is a little new to me." She had never met a slytherin yet this year and she had heard rumors so she wasn't sure what he would say to her not being pureblood. "I'm half muggle. My mom is a wizard, but never told us until I started showing signs. Well I guess my dad knew, but the just didn't say anything. Are you pureblood?" All of the sudden their conversation was interrupted with Aaron getting on the table and yelling. Minerva beamed at Alyssa. "Oh My Goodness Alyssa. What a romantic." Minerva couldn't help but laugh at saying that. Aaron a romantic, he was more of a goofy older brother then a romantic Minerva thought, but she could tell Alyssa like him so she was happy.

"Ah, gobstone thing is so confusing~!" he said and threw his arms in the air. He had seen one match but just didn't get it. Apparently, it was a simple game but Daichi prefered Quidditch. Though, the only thing he could remember was how the flying Professor and the Herbology professor were screaming and shouting like little kids..... that was funny.

Hearing her talking about her family a bit nervously, Daichi figured that she had heard that all Slytherin's were evil or something. Bleh , he hated stereotypes. "No, i'm a halfblood too" He said and a a little bit of himself hoped that the girl would be surprised. "My dad is a wizard and my mom is..." He gulped as he looked away. "Was a muggle.." he finished and was about to turn back when a random guy jumped up on the table.

Okay, so normally he would have laughed at the sight. Maybe even aplauded for the newly couple but now? Daichi coughed as he looked up at the table , the shouting voice of the boy was ringing in his ears and then went up to his head. Before he could stop himself he held a hand against his forehead and shouted. "YAH! i've got a headache! can you pleeeeeaaase not shout?!"

atleast he said please.

Maddy squinted her eyebrows when Angelina diddn't answer her question, she kept asking even though Angelina seemed to want to change the subject."Does orient go to Hogwarts?"

Maddy waved to Harlow as she walked by.

Alyssa happened to glance up and saw Aaron walk in with a determined look on his face. But what he did next, surprised her even more. He climbed on the table and then called out her name and then, and then, and then he said that he loved her in front of everyone. She started to laugh and cry all at the same time. Blushing a beet red, she quickly ran over to the table where Aaron was standing and tried to coax him down. "Aaron, Come on and get down from there. I don't you falling off that table and I definitely don't want you to get into trouble. And by the way I love you too." Alyssa smiled up at him.

It seemed like he didn't have a choice, so he followed her. It was't like he had anything else to do. As she turned, Kennedy shrugged. More sandwiches for him. "What if I eat five?" he asked, curiously with a playful smirk. Would she mind then, eh? He tended to always be hungry, but that was because he was a growing boy. He needed lots of energy.

He momentarily paused when she asked if he played Quidditch, but then continued to move. "I, um, no...but I love watching it," he said. "But I do fly." He's never actually played the game, being that barely discovered Quidditch this term. He's read about it and watched it, but he hasn't had the opportunity to play it. He didn't even know you could play Quidditch on your own. How does that even work?

The boy had just finished his first sandwich when she asked for his name. Great, he forgot about introductions, again. He should just buy himself a tag that said, "Hello, my name is Kennedy". Problem solved. He placed the plate on the table and cleaned his hands on a napkin. "Kennedy...Kennedy Escalante. Yours?" he said, extending his hand to her.

Minerva watched as Alyssa ran to Aaron. She smiled happy for her friend. "WOOHOO ALYSSA" she managed to yell and then she heard Daichi say his head her. She put her hand on his shoulder. "I think you need to go back to bed. You don't want to be sick for the ride home." Minerva looked concerned for him and a little surprised. "Your half, but I thought. Oh forget what I thought." She caught the was for his mom. "I'm sorry did your mom pass.. umm sorry that is probably way to personal for someone you just started talking with."

As she took a second bite out of her sandwich, Sierra looked at the boy with one raised eyebrow. He wanted to eat five sandwiches?! That wasn't a growing boy--that was a growing mountain troll! "Erm, do you want to eat five sandwiches?" she asked. Or was just wondering what would happen if so? She shrugged. "I guess I wouldn't mind then either. I mean, you look..." She paused, grew slightly wide-eyed, then looked down at her sandwich. "...pretty fit for a...how old are you now?" He didn't look like he needed to stay away from five sandwiches.

"Oh," she said, when he admitted to not playing Quidditch. "You should." I mean, you eat six hundred sandwiches a day! She grew quiet as she ate a little more of her sandwich and finished the punch. She tossed her plate and cup into the bin and turned back to the boy. "Well, Kennedy, I'm Sierra," she said. She looked down at his hand. Hmm... He seemed harmless. She reached out and enclosed her tiny hand around his and gave it a shake.

Aaron burst out in laughter as some Slytherin he had NEVER seen asked him to stop shouting. 'I'm done anyway.' He said, making an odd sort of bow to the boy.
He felt gooood.

Aaron gave Alyssa the thumbs up, this was good right? For a second he thought he'd managed to do another thing wrong as he saw her cry. And laugh? He shook his head, he really needed to figure that stuff out some time soon.
'I'll get down in JUUUUUST a second,' Aaron said with a grin on his face. They were as far from winning the House Cup as Aaron was from being a genius, and he was probably going to get in trouble for climbing up on the table already, so this could hardly make it worse.
He glanced around the tent, it really would've looked better with Hufflepuff decorations..
'I know you lot won and all, but Hufflepuff is still the AWESOMEST HOUSE EVER. EVER.' He called out, it was true. To him, at least.. 'Just putting that out there. Now, by all means, carry on!'

With that he jumped off the table, making a weird stumble and falling over onto his face. Nice touch. He climbed up, rubbing his face of before hugging Alyssa.

He could eat five sandwiches, but he wasn't about to do that. He was only curious what her reaction would be and since she didn't mind, then there was no use in getting stuffed. Kennedy paused mid-bite of his second sandwich when she began to do...THAT. He bit into the sandwich and looked down at his plate, trying to hide his red cheeks. He wasn't used to being complimented on his figure. He swallowed and drank some pumpkin juice before answering. "Er, thanks. I'm fifteen," he said.

"I would," he said. "How is it possible to play Quidditch on you own?" he asked, tilting his head to the side. If the game consisted of seven players, how could one play all those positions. He figured the only role that could be played by oneself is seeker. Why was she looking at his hand? It was clean after all. Maybe he should have brought some Purell? But, it wasn't needed after all. He shook her hand and retrieved his cup of pumpkin juice. "Nice to meet you, Sierra," he grinned.

Kennedy and Sierra :)
 

Harlow was peering at the Huffies having a shouting match for no reason when she spotted dots of green in the crowd.

She darted over and stopped short when she saw it was Sierra. She stared up at the older girl and thought about cutting tail and running. Any time she had run into Sierra the girl was terrorizing the neighborhood.

Harlow sidled closer to Kennedy. "Hey," she said making sure Kennedy was between her and Sierra.

When Sierra finally glanced up from her sandwich, she happened to noticed that Kennedy was now glancing down at his sandwich. Her eyebrows narrowed inward and she tilted her head just a little to try and see what he was doing. It didn't look like he was simply eating. "Are you blushing?" she asked. Yes, she was bold enough to ask that. Although, she couldn't imagine what he'd be blushing for. Maybe it was... "Oh, I..." It was her comment on his figure, wasn't it? "I didn't mean it like that. I mean, not that your figure isn't nice, but I didn't mean..."

"...nevermind," she said, and just because she didn't know what else to do, she turned around and snatched a brownie up off the table. It was a good thing there was a food table nearby. It was a good distraction for moments like, ...well, that one. Then he was asking about playing Quidditch on your own, which confused Sierra a little. How had the topic changed to that? Oh, ...right. "Well, some people practice in their own back yard with their brothers and sisters," she explained. "I've never done it, but...I don't know. It was just a question." She shrugged. Maybe it didn't make any sense. She didn't know.

"Fifteen, ...right. Well, I'll be fifteen my next birthday," she said, happy for another change of topic.

Kennedy looked up and blinked several times. Did she just ask that? Couldn't she have ignored it like most people did. "I uh, what?" he said, fumbling with his cup. He set it down before he dropped it. He didn't do well when he was nervous, and people noticing him blush --especially pointing it out-- made him extra nervous. "No...It's just, um...warm in here," he said, tugging at his shirt collar. Then she continued talking. Without thinking, he picked up his cup and took a large sip.

Yeah, his mouth was too busy to talk. He was relieved when she skipped over to his topic. Phew. "I don't have siblings," he said, setting the cup down again. Was she changing the topic? Yes. Thank goodness. "That's great..." he said, but stopped when Harlow approached them. Woohoo for interruptions!

"Hi, Harlow," he smiled. For a minute there Kennedy was sure the young snake was hiding from Sierra. Maybe she pointed out her blushing too? He looked from one girl to the other. Or maybe they didn't know each other? "Sierra this is Harlow, Harlow this is Sierra," he introduced both of them.

Sorry, Tisha! I missed your post before! *glomps*
 

Erm...did she say something she shouldn't have? Did she have crumbs of brownie all over her shirt? She blinked in response to Kennedy's blinking. "Is something wrong?" she asked, looking down at her shirt. No. There were no brownie crumbs there. She looked back up at the boy standing across from her. It was..warm in here? "Yeah, it is getting sort of hot in here," she agreed, especially since she'd been out on the pitch playing the game.

"I have one...and a half," she said. It was sort of weird referring to Alex as her half-sibling, but the truth was the truth. "My sister is older with a family of her own, and my brother goes to school here. You may know him--a Hufflepuff named Alex?" Or maybe he didn't. Alex didn't really get out much. She may have said something else, but a tiny movement just behind Kennedy caught her eye.

"Yeah, I know Harlow," she said. After all, the girl was on the Quidditch team and had played a few of the games with Sierra. "She's on the team, too." Oh, and there was that little episode with Tori Bunbury at the beginning of the school year. Harlow had been there for that, too. "We've run into one another a time or two," she added. "How ya been, Harlow?"

Its ok :)
 

Harlow smiled up at Kennedy and held onto his leg for protection.

One could never be too cautious around Sierra. "Hi Kennedy." she told him with a slight not. She giggled once he introduced them to each other. "Oh I know Sierra already." Harlow told. Knew her better than she really wanted to know. Spitting in someone'd hand was way too much information for Harlow.

Harlow nodded, "Yeah I played chaser." she announced happily. And some for someone smaller than a 8 year old that was a feat. "A time or two." she echoed. She could only remember the one time officially meeting Sierra.

She looked at the older Slytherin with wide eyes. She was actually being nice to her. Her hands flew up to her hair to make sure she hadn't spit anything in there while she was talking. "I'm fine. Just looking forward to going home is all." Yep, she wanted to be back in her own room. With a bed made for normal sized people and not the giants that Hogwarts thinks their students ought to be. "How are you?" That was only nice that she return the pleasantries.

Alyssa laughed, and quickly helped him up when he fell down on his and hugged him back. "You are one big doofus, but I do really love you. Are you okay. You didn't hurt yourself did you. Thank you for doing that although I really didn't expect you to do it. As for the part about Hufflepuff being the most AWESOMEST house ever, I have to agree with you on that. I thought the sorting hat had made a mistake when they put me in that house. But now I know that it had it's reasons. I've found the best friends I could ever find here...and now I have you too. If your face okay, does it still hurt? Come let me kiss it better."Alyssa smiled at him before looking around to make sure that no one was looking at him and quickly kissed him on the lips before anyone noticed.

Karla, Colley, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
 

Tori blushed a bit at Treyen's compliment. "Aww thanks. So were you though." Shame Slytherin's chasers were just a taaaaad faster than him. Hehh.

Oh, the glitter looked good on her? "If you say sooooo," Tori teased in a doubting voice, noticing that Treyen was sort of talking to her BFF now. "Oh, this is Taryn, by the way," she added. "My BFF!!"

She noticed Treyen's girlfriend come in then sooo Tori kind of just.... scooted away from them a bit and gobbled down some more food.

Kennedy shook his head, "No, um...just forgot to blink," he said, feeling stupid the second he allowed that sentence to escape his mouth. What kind of person would forget to blink? Good going, Escalante. He nodded at her comment. Sierra was probably going to think that the "heat" was going to his head.

He secretly envied people who had siblings, and Sierra was another person added to the list. He's wanted a sister or brother ever since he could remember. Being an only child was too lonely. Kennedy shook his head, "No, I haven't met him." Now that he thought of it, he only knew one person from that house.

Kennedy smiled down at Harlow. She really seemed afraid of Sierra, but why? Sierra wasn't scary looking or anything. Eh, if Harlow felt better holding onto his leg then she could go for it.

He should have known they knew each other since they did play in the same team. "Right," he nodded. "How come you didn't play today?" he asked Harlow. Maybe she was busy with finals too?

"Okay..." Apparently, they were going to say hi. And eat. Ellie...didn't much feel like eating. She felt a bit sick, to be honest.

Her eyes were glued to Treyen, moving up and down his body, as if she could see a bruise or bump or something through his clothes. It seemed Arya had the same idea, and Ellie smiled as the Prefect did a much more thorough investigating job than herself. Which, in her defense, was because Treyen hadn't exactly wasted much time in putting his arm around her, and limiting her mobility.

But she couldn't care less. He was standing and very much acting like himself, rather than someone who needed Healer assistance. He was okay. And therefore, so was Ellie. "Yeah," she smiled at him and dug her head into his shoulder for a moment.

His comment/compliment/whatever made her blush. She didn't say anything, but she disagreed. She looked terrible in yellow. Treyen pulled it off much better.

She turned her attention now to the snakes. One of whom seemed to be inching away? Why exactly? "Tori." You. Don't leave. "Congratulations. You played really well." Not as well as Treyen, though, in her opinion, but she's been known to be biased.

It was only when Harlow spoke for a second time, that Sierra noticed the girl was still clinging to Kennedy's leg. She tilted sideways, trying to get a better look at Harlow, but didn't exactly see anything that would justify the clinging. "I take it you and Kennedy are pretty tight friends?" she asked. In other words, why are you clinging to his leg?

...but the conversation was moving on now, so for the time being, Sierra gave up on trying to figure out the motives behind Harlow's actions. "Yeah, I'm just happy finals are over for another year. That Arithmancy exam liked to have killed me," she admitted. Come on! A person for all nine numbers of every core!? It was brutal! She shrugged. "I'm doing alright. Even better now that we're a triple crown winner."

Speaking of blinking, Sierra did just that when Kennedy told her that he forgot to blink. "You...forgot to...blink?" she asked. She wasn't aware that was something you had to remember to do. Laughing lightly, she added, "Well, it's good thing you made it for it then." She had a feeling something else had happened, but she wouldn't ask him about it just yet. She'd already caused him to blush at least once during this conversation.

She shrugged when he admitted that he hadn't met Alex. "Its okay. Even I haven't seen him but once this school year," she said. "He lives with our sister, and I live with my dad and his fiancee. So at my house, it's really only me." Sierra really did have a confusing family life. "She your...girlfriend?" she asked, nodding once at Harlow, who was still clinging onto his leg.

Amy and Lara <3
 

Josh and Carter were both being silly little lion cubs, NOT wanting to come to the celebration party but Cassie had managed to convince them to come. It wasn't easy though...silly boys and their hurt egos. In any case, she couldn't not attend a party and she most certainly could not attend said party alone.

That is why the brunette walked in with both Josh and Carter on each arm. They were such lovely accessories, but more importantly they were good friends of her..and well after tonight she would be Carter's slave for a week. Sigh..

She still couldn't believe HufflePuff had lost..oh well there was always next year..even though she wouldn't be at Hogwarts to enjoy it.

Anyways..the tent looked amazing, she was ready to boogy.

"So you boys ready to dance?" She asked grinning at them alternately. How lucky was she right noww?

Harlow grinned up at Kennedy and clung to his legs. "Lola said she didn't want tiny people playing in case we got really hurt." She wanted to pout about that, but she didn't want to seem like a baby. Plus she wanted on the team next year and pouting wasn't the way to do that. "But it was a great game and I had a banner and everything." she nodded. It was too big for her to hold but it filled out the stands nicely.

Harlow nodded, "Yep. I taught him how to dance and everything." she admitted. She thought that was a pretty big feat. And it had been a lot of fun. "He's really shy sometimes but I think he's loads better than he was when school first started." At least he wasn't blushing every time someone talked to him. "Im his bodyguard." And that's why I'm clinging to him like he is the last quill on earth. She noticed Sierra looking at her all weird for clinging to Kennedy like she was.

She smiled, "It is pretty neat that we won everything this year. I got a lot of house points myself." she puffed out her chest proudly about her house points. "I didn't do so well on Arthimancy its my worst subject." Numbers just weren't her thing. Words, colors, flowers she got. Core numbers and all that jazz went in one ear and tumbled out of the other in her world. "But MoMo did great in the student gardens. He's so big now I'm going to show Professor Bentley before the summertime. He's too big for me to carry back home so I want him to stay in the gardens." she rambled like little kids did when they were excited about something.

Carter did not want to be here. He did not want to be here at all. But... leave it to Cassie and those puppy dog eyes of hers to make him come. That Hufflepuff could get away with anything.

And so here he was... linking arms with Cassie. And on the other side of Cassie stood Josh doing the same thing.

"Well... you didn't just drag us down here to stand around and look pretty, did you?" he replied with a smirk.

He was fine with dancing. As long as he did get sample one of everything from the food table, of course.

Besides. He was about to be in charge of Cassie soon. He might as well let her get her fill of fun out of the way.

Yes, she knew how to take a picture.

Resisting the urge to sigh as she was instructed on how to do so, Evelyn put up a smile and waited for the younger girl to take her pictures. Good. Now she could go back to glaring being neutral. Neutral because the girl was being NICE. "Sure. One would be nice." she nodded, smiling a little again at the congratulations.

Hand shaking?

Looking at the hand, Evelyn hesitated momentarily before shaking the girl's hand and letting go. There. All was good.

Kennedy took a cookie and shoved it into his mouth, nodding. Yeah, blinking... People forgot to do that, right? He looked up, after swallowing, and smiled sheepishly. At least she was laughing and not thinking he was dumb.

The boy was having a bit of a hard time understanding how Sierra didn't see her brother so much during school. It wasn't that big of a place, kind of. "So you two aren't close to each other?" he asked, but her next statement somewhat answered that. Being the curious person he was, Kennedy wondered why she didn't mention their mom, but asking that may be too personal so he left it at that.

His eyes slightly widened, again, then grinned and shook his head. "No, we're friends," he said. He looked down at the girl clinging to his leg and smiled at her and patted her shoulder. "She was my dance partner for that Dance Lesson we had earlier this term." Yeah, she had somewhat taught him how to waltz.


Kennedy was glad he was next to the table for balance. Harlow wasn't heavy, but with her clinging to legs it was a challenge to just stay still. "She had a point," he said. The game had been a bit rough. People crashing with each other, bloody noses... Yeah, dangerous for a small girl. "Oh yes, I saw." He did see her painted hair and all. It was quite adorable.

He chuckled when Harlow said she was his bodyguard. It was more like his was her's right now.

Cassie smirked at Carter's reply. Josh was being a bit quiet but she knew that he would loosen up a whole lot as the night wore on. The boy was like that..just unpredictable sometimes and that was one of the things she liked best about him. There was just never a dull moment.

"Well I won't lie to you that is half the reason I brought you two along." She stuck her tongue out playfully at him.

She led them both to the dance floor and very efficiently started dancing with both boys. Yes she was good like that and yes they were going to enjoy it. Right, right???

"I think you ought to take the lead now Phillips.." She smirked at him...and then they could break and get some nom nom and mingle.

"How to dance?" Sierra questioned. She looked over at Kennedy with a pleased smirk. "You know how to dance?" That was something Sierra didn't really know how to do. Maybe it had something with the social aspect of things, though. Once you told her she had to stand that close to someone and put her arms around them, she panicked and bailed.

She shrugged. "Meh, I wouldn't worry about Arithmancy. Not too many people are good at it. I might even drop it next term. That and Ancient Runes." Neither were Sierra's strong points. Her eyebrows creased inward in confusion. MoMo? "Who's MoMo?" she asked.

Merlin. This boy could eat, couldn't he? He really should be a Quidditch player. With a food he took in, he'd likely be beast out there on the pitch. Maybe she'd talk to him about it when the new school year started. "No," she answered, in reply to his question about her brother. She should have known he'd ask about it. After all, not every many people weren't close their own siblings.

"We don't have a mother, or...at least...I don't know where she is anymore," she continued. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other, and her eyes cast a cautious look toward both Kennedy and Harlow. Why was she suddenly being so honest with them? "Alex and I don't have the same father, so when our mother disappeared, he went to live with our sister. I chose to live with our father and his fiancee."

It sounded like a sad story, but no. "I'm happy, though," she said. She didn't want it to seem like a hurtful situation.

"Now I do," he grinned. "Thanks to Harlow being patient with me," he said, smiling down at the small girl. Only she knew how nervous he had been that day, especially about the part of having a partner of the opposite gender. At the end he did well and didn't step on Harlow.

He looked from one girl to the other. Who was MoMo? Kind of sounded like a teddy bear.

Kennedy listened to what Sierra said. This time he didn't ask why she didn't have a mother. He was familiar with that expression, but at a different end. Then he understood the reason of why Sierra and her brother weren't close. "I don't have a father." He said it as if it was the most normal thing in the world. "But, I'm totally happy with just my mom and I," he smiled. Why was he talking about this at a celebratory party? Maybe it was because Sierra was the first person that had a strange, but cool family like him? It could be.

Sierra wasn't going to admit to not knowing how to dance. She'd likely be pretty good at it if she tried, buts he'd never really wanted to try. Then again, she was only fourteen-years-old. It wasn't like many children under fourteen liked to dance much anyway. Except Harlow, who apparently was good enough at it to teach it.

Her brown eyes moved quickly to Kennedy as he admitted to not having a father. Sierra wasn't expecting that. She'd gone years thinking her life behind closed doors was so different from everyone else's, and now here she was meeting someone in her very own house with the same situation. Well, sort of. "Oh," she said, and then it was her turn to blink. "I sort of want to say I'm sorry to hear that, but..." She shrugged. "I'm not sorry that I don't have a mom." There were times when it was hard to be a young girl without a mother, but that's what her father's fiancee was for. She provided the necessities, at least.

Then she laughed. It was one of those laughs when things had gotten too serious and a tension breaker was needed. "Listen to us, so serious at a celebratory party," she said, still laughing. She turned to face the table, scooped up another cup of punch, and started sipping on it. If nothing else, it was to try and move to the conversation to something not so serious.

Kennedy and Sierra :)
 

Harlow grinned as Kennedy patted her shoulder. It was nice to have him as a friend. "We did the waltz and he told me about this party that girls go to in Mexico when they turn 15. Its like a sweet 16 but they have it 15." She didn't really remember the name, but she understood the concept. "It was a fun class and Kennedy didn't act like a poophead because he had to be my partner." She added. HArlow noticed him wobbling from her clinging to him and she relaxed her grip on his his legs so he wouldn't fall over. If he fell on it that would hurt. "Yeah it was pretty dangerous, but I still would have liked to have played." She got that people wanted to protect her because she was little, but she was going to be little her whole life.

Harlow looked at Sierra, "My mom won't be happy if I get bad marks in it. Well I won't be happy either. I don't like not being good at something, but just trying to read that book makes my eyes water." She had tried to study, she really did, but it ended with her using her Artimancy book to battle that spider at the bottom of her wardrobe.

Her face brightened at their question about MoMo. "Oh he's a singing pumpkin. My dad gave him to me for a present and he's the size of like a small crup or something. MoMo will sing you anything if you let him hear it once and he likes it when you tickle his leaves. And he likes his dirt mixed with crushed egg shells." She was really proud of MoMo and how big he had gotten. "I named him MoMo after the flying lemur in the Last Airbender. He's my favorite character." she beamed. Well Sokka was her favorite but that didn't seem to fit her pumpkin. Plus he liked being called MoMo.

Harlow looked from Kennedy to Sierra, back to Kennedy as they talked about their families. How said that they didn't have both parents. Especially cool parents like Harlow had. She liked having both parents and she couldn't imagine life without one of them. Now her brothers she could go through life without them. Well she liked Omari and Bryce. Just not Adrian and Carmelo.