Louisa chuckled, rather nervously, with him. "Yeah. Enthusiasm's good though." So he didn't have to worry about it. Besides, that meant they were going back to normal, right? And even if Joao saw them, Louisa would've explained. That Slytherin boy was nowhere to be found after all. Hmph.

"Umm.. I-I was heading back to bed because I'm really tired and I think you are too." He was carrying loads of books and such. "What do you say we meet this evening? At the Grounds? To accomplish our Vashti-Mission?" Hopefully he didn't forget or change his mind.

Adam had forgotten how tired he was right until the moment Louisa mentioned that she was going to bed to take a nap. Oh, a nap sounded lovely. "Yeah, that sounds good to me," Adam said with a little nod of the head. He had forgotten about their prank against Vashti, but he was still all for it. "I'll plan to meet you at the grounds at 7:00 then?" Adam offered, figuring it would be good to have a meeting time set so that Adam didn't accidently over sleep and forget to meet her. That would be awful.

She nodded with a smile, "Yes. That's cool." Talk about being nervous with her own best friend. It was natural, though, meeting up with him after a quite forceful fight. They both needed some few minutes to absorb this meeting, right? That'd be great.

Louisa took a few steps backward, "See you then. Bye, Adam." And still backing away, part of her was afraid of turning her back to him. Maybe when she turned around the corner, she'd be able to walk like other humans do. Maybe.

"Great...I'll...uh...see you then Louisa. Bye!" Adam said, his voice kind of cracking on the goodbye. He started the head towards the common room, noticing that Louisa was walking backwards, almost as if she was afraid to turn her back on him. He gave her a reassuring smile. "Don't worry Louisa...we're gonna be alright," Adam said with a nod, more for himself than her. With that he rounded the bend and headed towards the Gryffindor Common Room Portrait.

Seriously, what is it with her and high places these days?!

Cass loosened the gray and green scarf around her neck as she slowly made her way up the castle to meet up with Heather at the seventh floor corridor...over exertion was something that isn't advised for people who had just recovered - like her - but hey, she was feeling very energetic and she wanted to see how high she could climb without getting tired...

and apparently, she the seventh floor was not a place she could climb to effortlessly.

"How do these Gryffindors do it?" She asked no one in particular as she huffed and collapsed on to the seventh floor corridor before dragging herself to the wall and leaned on it, catching her breath.

Coming from the owlery, Heather brushed off a couple more feather she had acquired, visiting her owl, Sythe and went to the corridors in search of one particular friend she heard had been in an illness for sometime.

Removing the signature scarlet and yellow scarf, she held it in her hand and let it be dragged on the floor as she walked in the corridors. Her hair cascading over her shoulders was enough warmth for her neck seeing that it grew a little longer, if not, perhaps because of the curls, it looked twice thicker than before.

Finally, she stopped and a small smile adorned her face. There, seated on the corridor was the familiar blonde-haired best friend of hers to which, she approached, her other hand not holding the scarf in her pocket and a playful grin on her face. "The stairs really are tiresome having to come up to the seventh floor, but once you look out the window and see the whole castle, it changes everything you feel." she said. "Hi Cass. Been a long time. How are you?"

Cass looked up at the sound of nearing footsteps and saw that it was simply Heather, doing whatever Heather does. She then pushed herself off the floor and fully removed her scarf. Was it warmer here than the dungeons or was she just really tired?

Then she glared at the brunette in front of her venomously as if it was her fault she was sorted in a house which was at the top of the freaking castle.

"I don't think so." Cass replied tiredly as she glanced at the window for a moment "I still like the view from the dungeons." She added with a grin. Who would want a boring sky if you had the view of the black lake in your common room?

Then she smiled once more and stuffed her hands into her pockets "So, mother told me Auntie Leandra sent your dad a howler to get you home."

Heather nodded at Cass's words. Well, it wouldn't be far off that she would know seeing their mothers were close. "I was beginning to wonder why my summer holidays were taking so long, and as i was about to ask dad and send mom a letter, she beat me with the howler...you wouldn't want to know the details of how horrible it was when dad got it. I stayed out of the hotel room." she sighed, but the smile remained in her face. "I can't figure out why dad wasn't aware-or how he could lose tracks of the months." giggling a bit, she paused and went back for a serious conversation. "I read from mom's letters you got sick...it wasn't terrible...is it?"

Cass rolled her eyes as she gripped her stomach and laughed loudly. "Honestly, with just the two of you and your cameras, I wouldn't have been surprised if you didn't come back till the start of summer and not notice that you just missed a whole year." It was true! Heather was always in her own world when she had that camera of hers hanging around her neck. Then she grinned "I think I know enough. Mother refused to tell me what it said said claiming that it was 'inappropriate' for someone my age." She then crossed her arms and asked "How could your dad not notice that it was snowing though?"

"Oh yeah. I'm fine now, don't worry." Cass said with a smile "I was ill for a few months, but of course if I had just went to the hospital wing in the first place, I would have been fixed up by the healer quickly." Her face then scrunched up in disgust at the mention of the infirmary "I hate it there though, it stinks there."

It was a funny thought, but Heather wouldn't dare want to miss an entire year. Still, she was glad that Cass knows enough. If she were pondered about it, she wouldn't know what else to say except she heard the shouts even if she was a good ten meters away from the hotel room. "Dad wouldn't notice," she laughed along, "we were in Hawaii taking shots of the volcanoes...it's amazing he didn't take notice of the Christmas decorations people were putting up. Thought it was some sort of local festivity."

She then let out a huge sigh of relief hearing Cass was doing better now. "I'm glad." she said and laughed at the comment that it stinks in the infirmary. "Why would it stink?"

With her bag swung over her shoulder, Mina made her way back to the Ravenclaw Common Room. She kind of wanted her fellow housemate to see her new hair style before she removed the enchantment and when went back to her boring dark hair.

She had received a few odd looks on her way up from the library, but she thought little of it. For a few hours, she was just a little bit different and that excited her.

Flipping on of her blonde pigtail over her shoulder, she practically skipped down the corridor.

Maybe it was really true that blonde had more fun after all.

"Merlin." Cass said with a roll of her eyes "It must have been embarrassing." Then her eyed widened in alarm and she asked "Wait, were you staying in a muggle hotel?" Oh dear, Aunt Leandra might get in trouble with the ministry if she sent a howler with muggles nearby...

"Ah, Hawaii, that's in America, right?" She asked, she's never been there of course, she found them a bit too....liberal for her taste. It was better to stay in Europe.

She then cringed and answered "Well, is almost always smell like medicine in there!" She complained "It's like this sickening combination of medicine, alcohol and boredom." She said as she crossed her arms over her chest and frowned.

"We did...and dad like, had an entire penthouse to himself the entire duration of our stay in Hawaii...don't know how, but i figured he must have pulled some muggle connections for us to be able to stay in a penthouse, and dad didn't want to have any 'hotel neighbors' so he could still use magic...that's how lazy he can get at times-and it wouldn't be awkward to see owls flying in and out of the windows." answered Heather as she pulled her scarf over her neck-it was becoming a bit cold inside. "Yeah...somewhere in America...we had gone through so many places other than America so..."

placing both her hands inside her pockets, she listened to Cass go on about the infirmary-she does have a point, that smell is a bit sickening (except, she didn't know boredom had an actual smell) "I understand. I don't like staying in places like that...but i do like lying down on the bed-it's really comfy." she laughed.

"Ah..I see." Cass said with a nod "Still, it was pretty risky of your mum to send a howler when you were staying at a muggle hotel." She could have been arrested! Imagine Aunt Leandra in Azkaban, mother would be distraught!

She perked her eyebrow at the girl, noticing that she had put her scarf back on, seriously? Was she getting cold? At this heat? Well, okay, it was a bit cold, but this is comfortably warm compared to the temperature done at the dungeons.

"I've never been to America." Cass admitted carelessly "Not that I want to, it seems barbaric there! I'd rather stay here, in Europe." She sniffed. Ok, she was probably being prejudiced, but hey, Lyra went there during her travels, and even if she did hate the french blonde, she believed her stories of cramped, underground trains, dirty sidewalks, and careless witches and wizards who aren't as cautious as them.

Then she laughed "You like lying down on anything, Heather." She said teasingly as she grinned at her cheekily and laughed again.

"It sure was." Laughed Heather. "I guess mom was so mad she forgot that little detail...but it's over and done with now." she added as she smiled gently. "America's...okay...it's nice." was all she could comment. "Well, i'm glad that i'm able to travel with my dad...it's the moments we spent together that matter..."

And Cass went on about Heather liking lying down on anything. She blushed and pouted. "Hey now!" she sighed. "Of course i do...except lying down on something hard and pointy."

"Yeah, moments spent with your dad..." She said softly, looking back out the window, as her thoughts flashed to her own dad for a moment, leaving as fast as it had come. "Although, the two of you should be left alone together." Cass said with a light laugh "It would have disastrous consequences."

"No one likes to lie down on pointy thing, Heather." Cass commented as she rolled her eyes "That's natural."

Jade paced back and forth down the seventh floor corridor, awaiting Mr. Adam Burn, to come meet her. She was early, but she had a lot on her mind and pacing seemed to help. She didn't know why, but it just did. She remembered how they were talking on twitter and how he was sad. And that he might be able to use a girl's opinion on it or something related to that. Maybe she could help? Eh, she didn't really know, but she did know that gave great advice...usually. However, that was a while ago, so maybe it was over with now.

...Where was he?

Adam took a turn on the seventh floor,which luckily for him was not hard to find or get lost in since his Common Room was a few short steps away.He spotted Jade pacing back an forth.Now,was she anxious or meeting him or was she just doing her best to exercise to try an lose some weight,because it almost look like a fast jog.

"You rang?"He asked from far away,striding up to her.Stupid,Adam!Stupid,Adam!He had been the one mentioning to her that he had the problems an that perhaps she could help since his problem consisted of girls,all the time."I rang,actually.Stupid girl problems I'm having.Not that you are one of them..You guys seem to be attracted to it."

While Jade was pacing back and forth she didn't hear Adam coming up to her. Once he did though, he scared her and she jumped back, laughing. "Adam, you scared me!" She said, lightly pushing him on his shoulder. "At least warn me if it isn't on purpose." Or was it not an accident? Eh, she doubted it. Adam was too nice.

Okay good, so she wasn't one of his 'girl problems'. Which was a good thing, right? She shrugged. "So it is girl problems; I guessed so. It seems like a lot of those problems have been going around lately with most of my guy friends." She nodded. So now, to become the muggle therapist her mother always wanted her to be. Where were her smart glasses when she needed them? "Alright, well, what's going on? Is it that you like this girl and that she doesn't like you? Or is it more complicated then that?" She asked. Probably more complicated; it just had to be. If it wasn't, then there would be an obvious conclusion to that situation.

"I wasn't trying to scare you....Or was I?"He asked himself nodding his head forward almost looking at the ground.

Yes.It was so much more than a girl not liking him back.It could be that but the situation was much more than that.Besides,he was a guy,he could've easily figured that out with some eavesdropping an asking of his friends."Extremely long story short,I left Hogwarts for one year an my ex best friend purely hates me because I made up with my ex girlfriend-Kurumi-she forgave me.Now the ex best friend is hating me because she sees I don't know what I did to her an that I ignored her..What I'm trying to say is,this ex best friend is going to tell Kurumi to have not forgiven me...But I don't want Kurumi to hate me again,I just apologeized to her an things are going great,but I feel like Selina is going to ruin our friendship-Kurumi an mine.Selina is the ex best friend."His words were tripping on each other as if they were running a marathon an he didn't have to think about what to say it just came naturally,even like in a marathon he had run out of breath at the end of the explantion.He hoped Jade had understood him.He wouldn't doubt it if she did,he didn't understand it himself at times.

Jade listened very carefully as Adam started on his could-be speech about this girl situation of his. Many people could tell you that Jade is a very good listener, but she couldn't just keep up. She was getting confused. Once Adam was finished talking, Jade had to gather her thoughts.

"Okay, let me get this straight; because I'm a bit lost. Selina, your ex-best friend, is mad at you because you and your ex, Kurumi made up. And now Selina wants to tell Kurumi to not forgive you and not be your friend anymore? Is that right or no?" She asked. She wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't right, she could have missed out on a couple things, because she was extremely confused at this point.

He raised an eyebrow as she did the best summary she could make up from his fast rambling.For the most part,she had actually gotten the jest of it.Granted,it was much more complicated than she had made it seem,but the mere fact that she had understood what he had told her had him surprised.

"Yeah..That's pretty good,actually,you got the jest of it.Selina an I actually made up with her-but we aren't really friend friends right now,we are more like 'hey,nice to meet you friends'.As with Kurumi,we are on a better boat but she hasn't completely forgiven me like Selina has.Honestly,I'm gonna have to jump through hoops to prove to them they can trust me again."He told her nodding.Things were better than they were at the beginning of the school year,but that didn't mean his whole life an Kurumi an Selina's were completely complete an back to normal.It would not be that way for months to come.

It was so cold outside that Minerva didn't really want to be out there. She wondered around the castle trying to find new places when suddenly she wasn't really sure where she was or what floor she was on.

Harvey was walking along the seventh floor corridor to get to his common room, when he suddenly noticed a loney figure who looked a bit lost. As he got closer he realised it was Minnie, he rushed to her
"Hey Minnie! what are you doing here?" he asked looking along the corridor.

"Oh Hi Harvey. I didn't want to go outside from it being so cold so I decided to wonder around the castle to find some new places. What are you doing up here?" She thought she was up seventh floor maybe, but she didn't want Harvey to know she was lost.