She sniffed and whiped her eyes. "I know." She smiled a little, but it fanished when she looked at him. She instead looked at him with sad eyes. She took a deep breath before continuing. "So, w-what do you think?"

Jade nodded. She had been asked that question for the past couple of days. Why she was called that nickname and such. It made sense to her though. "I love to skateboard actually, but I haven't been able to for a couple months or so." She frowned a bit. "Have you ever tried skateboarding?" She missed it actually, feeling the wind in her hair as she skated down the muggle streets, felt just so relaxing. She even trained herself how to skate with her high heels on. "I'm a bit of a tomboy when it comes to that, however, I'm truly a girly girl. Being boy crazy, is what I'm usually known for." She laughed.

This was awkward, but nice. They were getting along, even for house rivals. "How about this whole 'house rivals' thing is pushed away? I'd rather not make another new enemy at this school because of house prejudice." She said, wondering if Mackenzi would agree to it.

"What about, Pam?" he asked.

She sighed. "I dont' know. Everything? Do you think I'm crazy? Would you rather not talk to me ever again?" Everything she said, was why she bottled up her feelings. Why she wouldn't admit that she liked him. She was afraid of what he would think of her afterwards.

"I would rather..." he paused, "... you stayed by my side like you have for the past 11 years," Nate said.

She buried her head in his chest, and started crying a bit more. Weither out of relief or sadness, she couldn't tell. But she couldn't help it. She just wanted to stay here in his arms forever. "Good." Was all she managed to say.

Nate held Pam, seeing as she needed it, and simply waited for her to show any signs of change.

Pam took a deep breath to calm herself. She didn't know what to say. She just didn't want to move. But she had one question on her mind that she was so scared to ask. Even more scared than telling him she liked him. She took another deep breath before saying: "D...Do you like me back at all? Even just a little?" Her voice broke a few times. She didn't really care though.

"Yes," Nate said briefly. No, you idiot, you were supposed to say you don't know! said that cold voice in his head.

Pam backed off a little to look at him. Her eyes still blue, and her cheecks stained with tears. "How? If you really did you wouldn't have kissed Fai." Tears formed in her eyes as she said it. She ended up curling into a ball, wanting more than anything to collapse into the ground.

"Well, I don't know exactly... It's all muddled," he said. The commanding voice said, There you go, you're starting to work this out, Nate, but your work is cut out for ya!. Nate shot back at this voice with his very own, No, shut up! Arguing with himself? Perhaps Nate was indeed crazy.

She looked over at him. "I assume so."

Lorelai smiled back. "Me too" she replied.

Everett almost was thinking of humming to fill the silence, staring at the wall as he thought. Then a voice brought him out of his own thoughts of what to say.

Breathe from one- WHAT? So it was random fact time was it. Time for Everett to speak knowledge. "Did you know sharks are attracted to music from AC/DC, and calm down when listening to it?" True fact. He had been told it once by his cousin. Although he didn't really know anything about AC/DC, he did know it was some old muggle band from ages ago that had apparently been really famous.

Basically, Everett didn't know if Jack was gonna know the band, or care really, EVerett just wanted to say something.

.....Amy looked to the floor, chewed her upper lip and shuffled her foot. Awkward. That was the only way to describe the situation. The atmosphere could be chopped into 20 and chewed like cake it was that thick. And so, obviously to break an atmosphere you start spewing random facts, it was quite obviously the most normal thing to do. And then Everett responded. Well, their went her nice normal, cosy little chimwag with the fitty from Slytherin, which had been disturbed by the other fittie from the year above. Most people would of been all YAY whose gonna snog who, but not Amy. No, instead Amy was stuck with two fitties quoting random facts. Brill.

Errr, kay Amy muttered, thinking up a weird fact of her own did you know that the Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump? Yeah. Amy had been impressed when she'd heard that, but she couldn't really of gone, "this is weird, shut up"

Jack knew that one of the three of them would have to break the painfully awkward awkwardness of the situation, so he decided to do it himself. "Well this isn't the least bit awkward." He said lightly. "So, Everett, what house are you in?" He asked, automatically putting his hand to his loosened Ravenclaw tie. "I'm, er, Ravenclaw."

Anna was on the floor, not paying attention to anything except her textbook on the History of Magic, and that one-third of it she have already read, but could not stop herself. It was one of her favorite classes. She stopped just to turn the page and looked around...

"So I'm in the corridor of the seventh floor. Where to go next?" She mentally asked herself. "Do as usual." She just absorbed in reading and walked on. Her luck today if she didn't push anybody.

Kurumi was still recovering a bit from her Potions assignment with Selina. A LOT of things had been said to one another and her mind had been racing ever since. While she could put a lot of the blame on the potion itself, Kurumi knew what the woman had said. The potion brought out some of the person's deepest emotions, perhaps even ones that they were not aware of...the thought sent shivers down her spine.

Holding her essay about the assignment in her hands, Kurumi walked down the corridor with the woman's office in her mind, but her legs were practically dragging across the cobbled floor.

Adam strolled along the corridor,trying to find his way back to the common room,but he seemed to have gotten himself lost on his way there.He began to spin around,trying to find some piece of object in the corridor that could give a suggestion as to where he was,but nothing showed up.

No candles,no paints,no carved wooden doors,nothing.It wasn't his lucky day,an there was no one to point out the direction for him.So,he did the best he could,he walked farther along the corridor,lost in his own confused mind when he hit something,or someone.

"Sorry about that."He said unconiously not looking up but kept walking,though he had to go back when he saw he had dropped his wand in the collision.But once bending down to pick up his wand he saw her.He stood there in spot.They hadn't had any contact since the night at the feast,but had seen each other at Quidditch Practice an in some classes,but no contact at all.

EEEEEEEEEEEK!


Kurumi's small frame made contact with someone who was spinning through the corridor and went sprawling backwards into the wall. Her shoulder whacked into one of the window panes, which hurt quite a bit, but nothing too serious. At least, she hoped not. Carter would kill her if she injured herself before the match.

"I-I-It's alright," she squeaked, not looking up to see who it was but instead bowing in apology like she always did. However, something in his voice...she knew that voice. It was one that had haunted her for most of last term and one that she had tried so hard to forget. Kurumi froze...afraid to look up and confirm who she already knew was standing in front of her.

He just stood there,his bottom part of his mouth covering his lower to upper lip.

It was awkward.Everytime they tried to avoid each other they would always seem to bump into each other which ensued the awkwardness of their conversations.

He didn't know how to break the tension.It was all just too much.What would happen?Neither of them knew.How it would happen?Neither of them knew.How would this affect their future,as friends,or even distant friends?Neither of them knew.

"Sorry..I hope you're not hurt enough to stop you from being seeker on the match Saturday.."Adam mumbled quietly,not wishing to start the conversation with a typical 'how are you' or 'what happened to us'?Quidditch was the only thing that might make this less,or if possible even more awkward.

An there is was,his incredible knack to make things worse.It just spilled out of his mouth like hot coffee he had decided to not read the warning label on an spit it all out,"I'm the last person you should be bowing to."

Kurumi kept her gaze on the floor, her body stuck at a perfect forty-five degrees as she listened to him speak. Funny, she thought he would have had some sort of insult to throw back at her. Something about how she needed to suck it up because Slytherin wasn't going to go easy on her - which she already knew. She wasn't entirely looking forward to the match. Cookie Hater, Sierra, the girl from Care of Magical Creatures who had tried to burn a hole in the back of her head...and Lola...all the cards were stacked against her already.

"I've...been through worse," she finally managed to whisper as she took a small baby step backwards away from him and finally lifted her gaze to meet his.

Her eyes widened for a moment at his next comment, and the words came out before she could put up her own filtering system. "I know." Could she take that back? The words, not the bowing.

It was understandable why she wasn't looking up.It was no mystery.If he hadn't need to pick up his wand,he'd probably be pretending to be the longest shoe tying person in the world,taking a good 5 minutes just to make one loop.

"I'm gonna be there also..As reserve Keeper..So,yeah..But I wouldn't know how it his to get butched up during a game.Saturday will be my first,if I am lucky enough to be put in."He mentioned on adding in.Good,good,Quidditch could keep both of their anger levels at a barely boiling point before something terrible happened.Somehow,he must be the one to slip it in,but the thought of that only made him think what Kurumi would think.Of him bring up a situation he created himself an wanting to talk about it.

They knew it wasn't something they couldn't talk about.No matter how difficult it would or could turn out to be,it couldn't be avoided further,or everything would be more than lost.

The both of them had reached their peak in friendship/relationship an he plummeted faster than an asteroid heading towards earth.Had put the situation for itself to happen because he allowed it to happen.

He nodded his head at the "I know." He couldn't deny her saying that,she had every right to."Good..Good."

"I know...I saw the roster," she said with a small nod. They did share the same locker room. It wasn't as though Quidditch things were kept secret from the team. Besides, Carter like another big brother to her, especially now that both Simon and Patroclus were gone. "And...I wasn't referring to Quidditch." But there was no need to go into that. "The only time I have been sent to the hospital wing because of Quidditch was when I crashed into the stands at try outs."

She stood there, awkwardly, and began playing with her long black hair like she always used to do. It was...strange being in his presence. In some ways, nothing had changed in terms of how she felt. In others...it was as different as night and day. She had to wonder what he was feeling...thinking right now...

"Good that I have very little respect for you at the moment?" she asked slowly, tugging on her hair some. That seemed...like an odd thing to say.

"Excellent."[COLOR="Red"]He said at the mention of the roster.It seemed with her that they were being awkward,yet,at least for the moment,trying their hardest not to over exaggerate things.Unlike how it had gone with him an Selina.He didn't have his hands up in a defensive blocking manner,he was swinging them at his sides,as he always did when he was nervous.Selina had thrown it way out of porportion an she hadn't even let him speak."The hospital accident..Not excellent at all."He slipped in,hoping that his small comment could at least make the corners of her mouth move.

"You have all the respect right now.Besides I'm the one who completely disrespected you,disregarded you,tried to forget you,while you stayed here trying to hope an cling onto everything we are,or were..You deserve the respect after what I've put you through.That's the least I can give you at the moment.Though, you'll probably tell me that I can give you more,at the moment I just don't know exactly what more is.."Adam completely regretted that last comment.He knew,then an there,that was her cue to begin 21 questions with him.