Cornelius's smile fell just slightly at Aspen's reaction to his words, really not having expected it. "N-No, of course you're not doing anything wrong!" he immediately replied to her, shaking his head just slightly and therefore shaking her own head a bit in return, since their foreheads were still together. Realizing this, Cornelius couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle, amusement filling his once-concerned features again. He shared an amused glance with her before separating their foreheads just slightly so he could see her better.

"I'm having a great time," he assured her, in response to her earlier concerns. He brought up his free hand to place a strand of her hair behind her ear as he seemed to be doing a lot recently. "It's a good nervous, I promise," he explained further, allowing himself to look over her features. He allowed his hand to rest near her ear, still tucking some stray strands of hair back from her face so he could see her expression. Cornelius couldn't help but find her worry rather endearing, watching as she grew concerned with anything she could do to make him not nervous.

As he watched her, he seemed to be a bit more at ease, his nerves seeming to calm slightly as his smile grew once more. Stretching across his entire face, it lit up his expression as he turned his full attention to the girl in front of him. "It's just...the nervous-ness that comes from.. me, not wanting to mess things up with you."

And he wasn't exactly sure what 'things' were, or what this entire 'thing' was, in general. But he did know for sure that he didn't want to mess it up, because he enjoyed spending time with Aspen quite a lot. And he wanted to show her a good time but he also didn't want to do anything stupid, because above all else, Cornelius was realizing he wanted Aspen Odessa to like him.

Minerva looked around and sighed. "Well I probably will just get my usual milk chocolate fudge, a chocolate dragon, and of course gum balls." gum balls and chocolate are my addiction, well that and Diet Coke she thought. "That is a lot of candy. Aaron is going to be flying around school without a broom." she giggled.

Laura stepped into the shop. Wow!! so many candies. She stood there thinking about what to buy. Everything looked so good!!

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Cornelius's smile fell just slightly at Aspen's reaction to his words, really not having expected it. "N-No, of course you're not doing anything wrong!" he immediately replied to her, shaking his head just slightly and therefore shaking her own head a bit in return, since their foreheads were still together. Realizing this, Cornelius couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle, amusement filling his once-concerned features again. He shared an amused glance with her before separating their foreheads just slightly so he could see her better.

"I'm having a great time," he assured her, in response to her earlier concerns. He brought up his free hand to place a strand of her hair behind her ear as he seemed to be doing a lot recently. "It's a good nervous, I promise," he explained further, allowing himself to look over her features. He allowed his hand to rest near her ear, still tucking some stray strands of hair back from her face so he could see her expression. Cornelius couldn't help but find her worry rather endearing, watching as she grew concerned with anything she could do to make him not nervous.

As he watched her, he seemed to be a bit more at ease, his nerves seeming to calm slightly as his smile grew once more. Stretching across his entire face, it lit up his expression as he turned his full attention to the girl in front of him. "It's just...the nervous-ness that comes from.. me, not wanting to mess things up with you."

And he wasn't exactly sure what 'things' were, or what this entire 'thing' was, in general. But he did know for sure that he didn't want to mess it up, because he enjoyed spending time with Aspen quite a lot. And he wanted to show her a good time but he also didn't want to do anything stupid, because above all else, Cornelius was realizing he wanted Aspen Odessa to like him.

Aspen wasn't completely convinced, but he was doing that hair tucking thing again so naturally she smiled. She couldn't NOT smile when he so casually brushed his fingers across her forehead to put that strand back where it belonged. He did it as if it was now his job to do.

Maybe it was his job? Aspen wouldn't hate that.

"Okay. Okay," she removed the sugar quill from between her lips and made another decision for the Aspen-Cornelius...ness. "If I'm not supposed to worry," which he'd said, "then I prefer you not to be nervous. Good or bad." She reached up to her ear where his hand was tucking in her hair and she captured his hand. It was a little awkward with her sugar quill still in hand, but hopefully he didn't mind. She held BOTH of his hands in front of her. "Because... for one, it makes no sense. I'm almost at home when you're around - at ease because of you. And two, what could you possibly do to mess up..?" Things? Whatever THINGS were? Aspen was a little confused on that part, but didn't want to ask about that.

Yet.

She gave his hands a small tug, her little conspiracy-theorist-at-work-grin in place. "You were trying to read my thoughts again, weren't you? With the direct forehead to forehead connection. You hear any of them?" she asked, total sneaky whisperings.

It took Alyssa a second to understand what Minnie was trying to say before laughing."He already does even without the added sugar. I believe that he constantly has a secret stash somewhere because I don't know where he gets all that energy. Well I'm not going to give this to him all at once. It's going to be in bits and pieces."Alyssa winked at Minnie.

"On second thought, I think I'd better get some more chocolate frogs and fudge and a couple of those chocolate dragons that you're getting. I won a Honeydukes gift card at the Fandango Fair and might as well use it to pay for some of this stuff and your's as well."

Justin walked in to Honeyduke's and was about to head straight to the Licorice when he saw Minerva talking to Alyssa. " Hey, min. Did you get your fudge yet? "
" Hi, Alyssa. good to see you. I haven't seen much of you lately. I see you're stocking up for a while , huh? " Justin said as he eyed all the candy she was holding.

Ella walked into Honeydukes with wide eyes and a huge grin on her face. "Wowwww!" She said aloud as she walked along the rows of candies. She really wanted to purchase some Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans and was on the hunt for them. She also had her eye on the chocolate frogs but they were so darn cute and she wasn't sure she'd actually be able to eat them. Something about food that looks and acts like a real animal freaked Ella out. She continued to stroll along the aisles taking in the massive amount of candy that was in this shop. "Mom would never allow me in here by myself with so much money!" Ella thought, smiling.

Nate walks into the famous honeydukes. Wow this was a big store. He knew exactly what he wanted. A chocolate frog, bernie botts every flavor beans, two licorice wands, and a sugar quill.

"OH you don't have to get my stuff, Alyssa. Save your card for the next time we come." she giggled at the comment about Aaron. His energy was great at times to see. "Well we need that energy to cheer us on this year." Then Justin came up to her she kissed his cheek. "No I haven't yet, I have them right here though." she smiled "What are you getting pumpkin." she winked at him teasingly.

HONEYDUKES!! OH! The wonderfull shop with its chocolate frogs and liquorice wands, the shop had it all! She scanned the shelves for basically anthing sugary and fun looking, the only upseting thing about the shop was that LuLu loved to buy things especially sweets and that's basically the end of that!

She stared at the ickle firstie that seemed just as eager for sweets as she, but since she was there the whole candy rush would have to wait "Hi there," she smiled

"Yeah, I am." Adam didn't want to get into how their parents might've reacted to the news of him an Kennedy. He kind of hated talking about his parents, especially when it was Hogwarts related.

0____________________________o? He was kidding, right? Adam wouldn't try that thing even if they gave him 10,000 galleons. That could seriously be made out of blood, any blood. Cow, dog, cat, but worse human blood. Slowly, Adam grabbed the little pop an stared at it. He could feel his stomach lurching, an his throat received an odd lump right down the middle. Surely, there would be a way to get out of this.

"Ok." Adam said slowly lifting the pop near his mouth. The red little 'treat' came closer an closer, but Adam stuck out the very tip of his tongue, touched it barely an then held it dangling between his fingers. "UGHHH...Did it." He said with a disgusted tone.

Nate went over to the chocolate frogs. He grabbed two of them. One in case any body else wanted. And two to get two cards. Then he grabbed a box of bernie botts every flavor beans. He wasn't tempted to eat all of them if they literally meant every flavor. He then reached for two licorice wands. Again if any one else wanted one. Finally he grabbed two sugar quills for the same reason again. He then went up to the counter. And gave the shopkeeper the twenty four sickles and twenty knuts he owed them for the stuff. After that he went for the door and headed back to the three broomsticks to sit back down at his table with the gryffyndor.

Kennedy hid his that's-so-cool expression and smirked at Adam's expression. Yes, Mr. Gryffindor Prefect that was a dare. He didn't necessarily need to do it, it was just his pride on the line is all. "Wait-" he began, but stopped. He wasn't going to stop Adam from eating the blood pop, just tell him that he needed to pay for it first.

The Slytherin chuckled. The sight was just too funny. "So..." he said, "How'd it taste?" Clearly by Adam's expression it was awful...unless he did like it.

Wait? That wait came along way too late. Adam had already tipped his tongue onto the edge of the candy. He expressed a deeply annoyed, serious look towards Kennedy.

"What'd you think it taste like? if your so interested go on, have a try..." Adam urged him a iritated tone. Sure, Adam hadn't exactly tasted it, but if Kennedy were so interested by it he should have a go too. "It'll only make this fair for me if you try it too.." Adam continued with one raised eyebrow.

Would Kennedy fall for it? Or would he seek past Adam's little playful lie.

All Kennedy could do was shrug and smirk. "We should pay for these first," he said. "I don't fancy landing in Wizard jail for some sweets." That and if his mom got word that he was eating candy that wasn't paid for she would most likely ground him for the entire summer again.

"You didn't even fully try it," he said, crossing his arms on his chest, but still holding a playful smile on his face. Then an idea popped into his head. He wasn't sure if Adam would go for it, but since he was a Gryffindor and all maybe. They were brave and daring right? Kennedy wanted to see if that was true.

"How about this," he said, his green eyes shining mischievously. "We buy four gross looking candy items and BOTH have to eat them." Would Prefect Adam do it? Kennedy was sure up for it.

Hehehe.

Cornelius gave a brief nod of agreement as Aspen decided that she didn't want him to be any kind of nervous, whether it was good or bad. Thing was, Cornelius wasn't really nervous. He just didn't have any other way to verbally describe the fluttery feeling in his stomach when he saw her, or when he took her hand, or any of that. And that was what made him not want to make the wrong move, in fear that Aspen might decide to spend her time throwing her pet bat at someone else.

But in the next moment he couldn't really think about any of that, as he was completely distracted by Aspen informing him that he made her feel sort of at home, a comment he hadn't been expecting but immediately lit up his expression. He eased her? Cornelius suddenly felt very important, like he'd just been made aware of a job he'd luckily been given.

As she pulled at both of his hands gently and asked if he had heard her thoughts, Cornelius playfully leaned down towards her again. "Not one. Your mysterious thoughts still remain entirely unknown to me," he answered in an equally conspiratorial tone. He let out a laugh at the little meeting they were having in the middle of Honeyduke's, whispering as though afraid the over-talkative inhabitants of the shop would hear them. And then, something kind of...happened.

After he'd spoken, there was a moment. If asked about it, he wouldn't have had any idea how to explain exactly what it was. But he was looking at her, and she was looking at him and they were both smiling and he was still letting out a few chuckles and for the smallest moment following his words, it seemed as though Cornelius was about to kiss her. It seemed like the most natural thing to do in the world, he had just instinctively leaned a bit closer to her and his mind hadn't quite registered what he was doing yet.

That was, until a second later when he finally realized what he was about to do and he stopped right in his tracks, his light brown eyes widening just slightly. What was he doing?! She must've thought him to be the weirdest person on the planet! Half an hour into the first date study engagement and he was about to kiss her?! He had no idea what he was thinking!

He had two options - play it off as nothing, or recognize that he almost kissed her. Cornelius decided for somewhere in between.

His eyes met her own and in the next moment he had flashed her a small, almost sheepish smile, straightening up just a bit but keeping her hands in both of his own. "See, I wouldn't want to do something like that," Cornelius explained aloud, referring to her earlier question, when she'd wondered what he could do to 'mess things up'.

Wizard Jail? Where would wizard jail be? Did all deliquients an criminals stay in the same jail as little children who eat candy off from a store shelf without paying for it? Surely, they wouldn't put little wee ones in the Prison of Azkaban with all the dementors floating about. "Right, right." Adam said agreeing with the paying aspect of their situation.

So Kennedy had seen Adam use the trick rather than eating it fully. "C'mon-I'd rather have a coackroach then guess if this was human blood or not." Who would want to eat human blood? That was plain gross.

But the minute Adam mentioned cockroaches Kennedy suggested something along the lines about it. When he heard the suggestion he swallowed hard. He wasn't one too get quesy or have any allergies, but the candies in this store were definetely questionable. Reluctantly, almost throwing up by just saying it, Adam slowly said, "Fine. I''ll do it." Although his voice didn't sound like he was up for it.

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Cornelius gave a brief nod of agreement as Aspen decided that she didn't want him to be any kind of nervous, whether it was good or bad. Thing was, Cornelius wasn't really nervous. He just didn't have any other way to verbally describe the fluttery feeling in his stomach when he saw her, or when he took her hand, or any of that. And that was what made him not want to make the wrong move, in fear that Aspen might decide to spend her time throwing her pet bat at someone else.

But in the next moment he couldn't really think about any of that, as he was completely distracted by Aspen informing him that he made her feel sort of at home, a comment he hadn't been expecting but immediately lit up his expression. He eased her? Cornelius suddenly felt very important, like he'd just been made aware of a job he'd luckily been given.

As she pulled at both of his hands gently and asked if he had heard her thoughts, Cornelius playfully leaned down towards her again. "Not one. Your mysterious thoughts still remain entirely unknown to me," he answered in an equally conspiratorial tone. He let out a laugh at the little meeting they were having in the middle of Honeyduke's, whispering as though afraid the over-talkative inhabitants of the shop would hear them. And then, something kind of...happened.

After he'd spoken, there was a moment. If asked about it, he wouldn't have had any idea how to explain exactly what it was. But he was looking at her, and she was looking at him and they were both smiling and he was still letting out a few chuckles and for the smallest moment following his words, it seemed as though Cornelius was about to kiss her. It seemed like the most natural thing to do in the world, he had just instinctively leaned a bit closer to her and his mind hadn't quite registered what he was doing yet.

That was, until a second later when he finally realized what he was about to do and he stopped right in his tracks, his light brown eyes widening just slightly. What was he doing?! She must've thought him to be the weirdest person on the planet! Half an hour into the first date study engagement and he was about to kiss her?! He had no idea what he was thinking!

He had two options - play it off as nothing, or recognize that he almost kissed her. Cornelius decided for somewhere in between.

His eyes met her own and in the next moment he had flashed her a small, almost sheepish smile, straightening up just a bit but keeping her hands in both of his own. "See, I wouldn't want to do something like that," Cornelius explained aloud, referring to her earlier question, when she'd wondered what he could do to 'mess things up'.

Really? If a person couldn't hear thoughts when they were connected at the forehead, then it must not be a possible task. Though, Aspen was pretty sure that without finger OR forehead connection, Cornelius was able to decipher some of her thoughts. He almost always said exactly the right thing and even when he said (or did) something peculiar, once he explained... it made perfect sense. So there had to be SOME connection, right?

It wasn't that Aspen missed this moment that Cornelius was having, it was just that she didn't quite recognize it for what it was. Perhaps given a few moments, she'd have figured it out, but it was so sudden - one minute they're smiling and whispering and Aspen's off thinking about loud thoughts again, then the next Cornelius is leaning-then-not-leaning and looking sheepish and on about something like that.

She looked over her shoulder to see if something had happened behind her. Had he observed something that HE didn't want to do behind her? Someone fall down? She didn't SEE anything, so Aspen turned back and gave him a questioning look. ??? What happened? She didn't ask out loud, but the question was there on her face, settled there on her furrowed brows and slightly open mouth.

"Are you sure sure you're okay? Would you mind if we took this study engagement outside?" Cornelius might would benefit from some cold, wintery fresh air. She just went ahead and dropped one of his hands and began to lead them through the maze of the candy aisles.

Kennedy dug his hand into his pocket. Hmm. He would have to pick wisely since he didn't have much money left. He tapped his lips with his index finger while he scanned the Oddities and Rarities shelf.

"Fine, the blood pop is optional since...you don't want to," he shrugged. He wasn't going to force Adam to eat the entire blood pop, and that was mainly because he didn't want to be responsible for any strange reactions.

He nodded his head in acceptance when Adam agreed to this deal, game...whatever it was. "I choose two candy options and you choose two that you want me to try," he said. "And I'll do the same for you." He raised his hand with his selections. "Here's mine Jelly Slugs and Fudge Flies." Those shouldn't be too bad, right?

"Thank you." Adam said gratefully setting down the candy on a shelf an shoving it all the way to the back. At least he didn't have to eat it, either if Kennedy called him a pathetic loser or not for it, Adam would still not eat that 'treat'.

Adam's eyes popped out when he saw the flies an slugs. Why did Kennedy have to pick something that had actually lived. He didn't mind the wizarding world, he loved it, but the types of sweets they thought of in the world was plain bizarre. The slugs were slippery, even if it wasn't alive. Adam grimaced as he picked it up with his other fingers, he arched back his neck an tipped the slugs into his mouth.

"Eww..Ewww...Groosss..!" Adam said in a frantic voice as he munched on it as quickly as possibly an began to dance as he wiggled his arms an legs all over the place. "Now I wish I ate dirt when I was little, this...ewwww...would've been easier." Adam admitted. He heard that some kids ate dirt an worms when they were little. He opened his mouth an showed that his tongue was clean

Once shaking everything off, Adam made his pick. "Cockroach clusters. Enjoy." An for an greater effect, he picked out the rather more juicy bigger cockroaches, an evil smile on his face.

Gustav walked into the shop, hoping to buy sweets and candies he could could bring back to Hogwarts to share with his friends. He browsed through the shelves and took:
Drooble's Best Blowing Gum - 2 sickles x 3
Toothflossing Stringmints - 3 sickles x 2
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans - 8 sickles per packet x 1
Chocolate Frogs - 5 sickles x 2
Licorice Wands - 10 knuts a piece x 2

That was quite a lot for one person to consume. He wondered how much did all of these candy items cost. But he didn't mind he had plenty of sickles and galleons. He took them to the Honeydukes salesperson.

Kennedy nodded. Yeah, he wasn't planning on eating that blood pop. What if it had some strange disease in it or what it belonged to a wolf and then he became one. Not happening. So, he didn't judge Adam for not wanting to try it.

After paying for the sweets he had chosen he watched as Adam ate the Jelly Slug. He hid the amusement from his face when Adam began to do this weird dance thing. He scrunched his face at the mention of eating worms. Who would do that? "See...it wasn't that bad...was it?" he smirked playfully.

From what he's read about the Wizard world some sweets imitated certain characteristics of what they were named after. For example Chocolate Frogs...or at least he hoped. He didn't want to eat REAL frogs. Ew.

Kennedy's eyes slightly widened at Adam's choice. Did he really have to choose something that swirmed all weird. Where was his mom with her broom when he needed her. "Okay," he said, taking the sweet and quickly shoving it into his mouth. It was better to get it over with as quick as possible. "Ugh," he mumbled while chewing it. "It's horribly crunchy!" And he didn't LIKE IT!

Finally swallowing it, Kennedy wore a thoughtful expression on his face. "It has a nutty flavor," he announced, but there was NO way he was going to try another one. He looked down at his other choice. "Fudge flies for you then," he said, handing them over.

Justin blushed as she kissed his cheek. " umm, I'm gonna get some licorice wands i think...and anything else you might want to go along with it. " he smiled.

"No..Of course not" he replied back in a falsetto voice, with his arms spread out as if he were happy about what he had just accomplished. Maybe because it was a slug it reminded him sour worms, the candies covered in sweet sugar an a rainbow back. "It reminded me a bit of sour worms-not literally worms-wait, you're muggleborn, you must know what a sour worm is." Adam said hitting his head for forgetting such a simple fact he had just learned.

"Yeah-I never wanted to know that cockroaches had a nutty flavor." Adam revealed as he began to laugh his head off at his own joke, sad really.

Taking the flies in his hand Adam looked at them then back up to Kennedy. "I think we're the only guys in the world that are sane enough to do something insane." An this was the friendship he had with Kennedy, yep, it was something else. He quickly stuff them into his mouth an did his weird dance thing again, while he screeched out as he ate the flies.

He could feel the eyes an the body's juices squirting out an washing all over the inside of his mouth. What was he doing? Honestly, was this safe, the dare they had put on each other.

"Ummm...juicy." Adam spoke up in a fake, satisfied voice. He then grabbed his last treat for Kennedy. "Don't let the taste be too sour." Adam smirked as he plopped an acid pop into Kennedy's hand.

Kennedy pressed his lips together, trying to hold from laughing, but Adam flailing was a fun sight. "I know what they are," he nodded, smiling. "And they're my favorite." Yes, it was one of Kennedy's MANY favorite treats.

"Well...they did." He thought Adam should know that. Now, the bad thing was that every time he saw a cockroach from now on he would think about the nutty flavor. Not that he would like to eat the insect...it was just weird thinking that it didn't tast bad. It juts felt weird inside his mouth.

"In that case, I'm glad I'm not the only insane one here," he laughed. Plus, he was curious about all these sweets since he would definitely never encounter them in the muggle world. Seriously, he would never be so willing to try new things if he was alone, but somehow, Adam's funky presence made him feel...daring.

Strange. Did Gryffindors have that effect on people? Meh.

This time Kennedy couldn't help, but laugh. This was just too funny. Adam and his weird dance. "How was that one...better?" he asked. Was it worse than the slugs?

Kennedy gulped, but took the acid pop nonetheless. "I hope they don't do what I think they do." He unwrapped it and shoved into his mouth.

O_____O

"Sis ish howwible!" What he meant was "this is horrible" but he couldn't speak properly since his tongue felt EXTREMELY weird. "I gan feel 'ongue!" He couldn't feel his tongue and it was CREEPING HIM OUT.

And now, he began doing Adams dance...'cause he was FREAKING OUT!