Erin knew her but not personally. She's Jayden's friend. Better talk to her or no one. She walked towards her when she started writing down on her journal. Wouldn't it be too nosy of her to approach her at this moment? Relutantly, she moved towards her and said, "Hello! I'm Erin."

Pam looked up happily. "Hello, I'm Pamphylia Barstow. But you can call me Pam. How are you?" She scooched over, and patted the bed space next to her.

So that's her full name. "It was nie to meet you Pam," she smiled broadly. Erin loves making new friends. She hadn't been that close with Jayden's friends. "You're Jayden's friend right?" Erin is the one person who's got a lot of sensitivity and she can sensed that she's got a problem. "You seem upset."

She nodded. "Yup, I know Jayden. She used to go out with my best friend." She sighed. She really needed to learn how to mask her emotions better. "Well, I have this friend, Nate. I don't know if you've met him. But we've been best friends for ages. And he, at first was going out with Jayden, but quickly after, he started to go out with this other girl." She shifted a bit. "I guess my problem is, is that I like him. I'm jealous because I can't be those girls."

Jez sighed and laid down on her bed. Her kitten Rowena snuggled up on her tummy, her face turned to Jez's. "Something's troubling you, Jezabel."
"Jez," she corrected automatically. "It's nothing, Ro."
"Jezabel Khalida Black, you are a really bad liar," replied the cat.
Jez sighed. "Who needs a diary when I have you?"
"You're avoiding the question, Jez." Rowena was beginning to look faintly annoyed. "I think it has something to do with that boy."
"Maybe it does," said Jez carefully. "What do you know of it?"
"Recon, remember?" Rowena tapped the side of her nose with her paw. "I heard the other girl talking in Hogsmead. And I know you did too."
"I couldn't help it," began Jez, but Rowena interrupted.
"Don't apologise, it's a perfectly innocent thing to do," said Ro with a wave of her paw. "The thing is, you've been dwelling on that since then, haven't you? And what scares you most is that that girl was probably right about your feelings. Your question is, what about his?"
Jez didn't answer. So what if she had been dwelling on it? It wouldn't make him like her ...

That one she knew. Nate and Jayden. So, Pam is Nate's bestfriend. She never knew about that. At first? What does she mean? "So, they're not together now? But they're still civil with each other right?" asked Erin a little confused.

These happenings are just so fast track. She couldn't keep up. And what is this whole honesty thing from the girl she just knew today? Pam confesses her feelings for Nate? "Since when did you realize you like him?" They're little kids and here they are, feeling sad and happy then sad again then happy because of their ability to love someone.

"No, they're not together, but they are friends. Jayden's with someone else I think." She didn't know for sure, but that's what Nate told her. "Ummm, towards the beginning of the year. Not too long ago. I guess I denied it up until a little bit ago. Just because I didn't want to get in the way of his realtionships."

That was fast! With the blink of an eye they're together and just a blink also, they're broken up? Kids nowadays really. "I'm sorry. So you mean, they are both in different relationships now?" asked Erin. That was really confusing. Are they counting boyfriends and girlfriends? Isn't love should be the reason of getting into a relationship?

"Do you love him?" Friendships. That was usually the beginning of true love. It's better to wait for the right time.

"Yup, both ended up with different people." She looked at her when she asked the question. In love? Was she in love? She wanted to say yes, but she didn't know what that felt like. "I'm not sure, I want to say yes, but I'm not sure." That was the best answer she could think of.

Without thinking, Erin asked quickly, "Who?" And then feeling a little embarassed, "I'm sorry." Her voice sounded pretty loud. How could she call their friends? She didn't even know simple stuffs about them. Was the Ravenclaw common room that large enough?

Love was truly a big word. Maybe that's why Pam hesitant to admit ehr feelings. Like is the best fitted word for her emotions towards Nate. And plus they're friends. She should have the edge compared to the other girl. "He doesn't know?"

"Umm Nate is dating a girl named Faina, while Jayden is dating a guy named Cael. That's the last I heard. I know Nate is still dating Faina, but I'm not fully sure Jayden is dating Cael. Probably." She sighed. "He does know. I told him, but I don't think it was the perfect timing. It was right after him and Faina got together. I was going to wait, but he sort of talked me into telling him." She remembered that day in the corridor, and sighed. She didn't even know what his feelings were. But she figured it was just to stay friends. Besides, Faina and Jayden were two really extrodinary people. Were as Pam, was very ordinary.

Faina? She hadn't met the girl yet. Erin couldn't even extract an information about her from her mind. Jayden and Cael are now together? She knew there was something between the two, even back from the Sorting ceremony. And now, they ended up together. It's like these kids are just playing a ball game. Catch me if you can.

"Oh, so you told him," said Erin hastily. She was surprised. How else would this girl be honest about her feelings, to someone she just knew today if she hadn't told the guy yet. She didn't know if this could make Pam feel more comfortable but she said it either, "Those girl, Faina and Jayden, what do you think are common in them for Nate to fall for them?"

Pam nodded. She really would have waited until after he was dating her. Maybe she would have better results. "Well, They seem so extrodinary. And they're pure bloods. And their hair's always different colors. I mean, I can do that. But... Not on my own. It's hard to explain." As if on que, her hair started turning blue.

"But do you think it's because I'm a half blood? If I were a pure blood, do you think he would go out with me?"

Alice grabbed her bag and left the dorm.

Because they're both kids and innocent, Erin answered "Maybe?" And then she laughed at her thoughts in front of Pam. She wanted to tell her, there are many fishes in the sea but Erin learned well from her father. There are unique fishes in the sea destined to meet the right one. "Do you think you have the chance with Nate? You're friends for a long time after all." Pam's stand is really difficult, delicate rather. She's the party who's got the biggest possibility to be hurt.

"I think," She paused for a moment, pondering her answer. "Maybe, If he wasn't dating someone. But if he really is just dating purebloods, than no. I'm a halfblood." She shrugged.

Jez lay on her bed and stared at the ceiling. She knew if she kept on like this, she was going to get hurt. Scott was a one-way ticket to catastrophe as far as dating was concerned. Dating in itself was a one-way ticket to catastrophe. Jez was a first-year, and a Ravenclaw to boot - she was supposed to be smart. Smart enough not to get involved. Smart enough not to open up to anybody, not to show her true feelings. She was usually so good at that ... Jez resolved that she wasn't going to be so open anymore. She would continue on as though nothing was happening inside her - like she wasn't feeling confused, lost and frustrated.

She was full of it ! ARGGH ! Their Divination homework was very frustrating. Veryyy. Not to mention she was not fond of having her future read. That was why she was now on the way to her bed, avoiding the fact that the homework was due on three days when she saw her friend Jezabel lying on her bed and lost in thought.

She can have a little chit-chat can't she ? After all, she was too indulged with studying that she didn't have much time for her friends. She threw her things on her bed and moved over to the girl. She sat on the edge of her bed, "Jez, are you alright ?" she asked.

"W-what?" Jez was jerked out of her thoughts, and looked away from the ceiling to see Beezus sitting on the edge of her bed. "Oh, hi." She tried to smile easily, but she was afraid it looked strained. "How was Quidditch?" Jez hadn't gone because of a ... pressing engagement in the Great Hall.

Her mind is totally somewhere else, she said in her head. What did happen, huh ? She was curious. "I just asked you if you were alright. Is something bothering you ?" Davinci, her cat walked over to her and purred loudly so she bent over and settled him on her lap, "Anything you wanna talk about ?" she added.

"Practices are fine since it's not raining heavily," she told her. It was all cold and breezy but nothing much more that the Quidditch players couldn't handle. Besides, she was not on the field for a long period of time since she was just a reserve.

"It's nothing ... yes, there's something." Jez bit her lip. Her cat, Rowena, woke up from her nap and stretched.
"Am I missing something, Jez?" asked Rowena, walking over.
"No." Jez was so confused. She looked at Beezus. Jez knew she could trust her. "I gave Scott some Hate Potion just now in the common room, and he ... reacted badly to it. It hurt him, after the potion had worn off. Now things are really awkward between us." Jez rubbed her eyes. "He's one of my best friends, and I just threw it away. I'm so stupid!" Oh Merlin's pants, please don't let her start crying.

Oh ? So that means she had already done their Potion assignment which leaves Beezus thinking that she had not done it already. Lafay would be mad for sure. But anyway. She used the Potion on Scott ? And he got angry ? Why ?, "Why ? I mean, why would he react to that badly ?" Jezabel's cat woke up and walked closer to the them, "Hi," she managed to greet the cat and returned her gaze to Jez, "You know, I don't understand it. If you used the potion on him and it worked then that means he cares for you," she said.

Davinci started, possibly because there was another cat. She saw her friend's eyes starting to get cloudy. "What's wrong with him caring for you ?" she asked, her head shaking.

Jez sighed. "Well, there's this little problem of Scott not being able to date until third year, and that's the reason he broke up with his last girlfriend, Chelsea. I saw how that affected Chelsea, and I really don't want to be hurt like that. Scott is my friend, and I need friends more than a boyfriend. I care about him, I really do, but not enough to hurt like that. I've seen what 'love' does to people, and it's just plain scary." Yes, Jezabel Black was admitting she was scared. Once-in-a-lifetime moment, people.
Meanwhile Rowena had sauntered over to Beezus' cat. "Good day," she said. "I take it you're not a talking cat? So hard to find likemouthed animals these days."

Her brows started arching. She was veryyyy confused now. And that was a news. So Scott and that Chelsea broke up. Beatrice only learned it now. "Alright. I think I get the picture. Scott is mad at you for using the Hate potion on him. And you are scared that it might destroy your friendship," she said, nodding. Her Siberian Cat stood on its four legs, facing Jezabel's cat. "But what I don't get is why Scott is mad with that, can you explain that to me ?" She was there to comfort her friend, but she wanted to know the details.

Meanwhile, Davinci was in sort of a trance for this cat in frontwas insulting him. "I talk when I feel like it," Davinci answered.

Beatrice looked at her cat with disbelief, "Davinci, do not be rude !" she scolded her cat abruptly.

"I don't know how Scott feels about it," sighed Jez. "He was certainly mad earlier. But then he said he would have taken the potion anyway because he cares about me ... But what does that mean? That he's angry that I didn't trust him to want to take a Hate Potion? My life is a mess." She sighed. "The potion seemed to cause him severe pain. He ... I think he blacked out or something. He was choking as well. I don't know what made him react like that - I hid the potion in a Chocoball, so he might have been allergic to it."

Rowena was staring at Beatrice's cat in amazement. "I've found another talking cat ..." she whispered. For once in her life, Rowena was speechless. "I'm not the only talking cat in this place!" Oh, where have you been all my life? she added silently.
"Careful," Jez warned the other cat. "Ro's a complete flirt." She narrowed her eyes at Rowena. "What happened to the last one?"
"Fell in the lake," muttered Rowena. "It wasn't my fault!"