Justin watched and listened as Ella told him what was going on with Harvey. He saw the tears forming in her eyes. He felt awful for her. He wrapped an arm around her and gave her a reassuring squeeze. Wow.... this was alot to take in... Why was Harvey holding off on letting himself realise that ella was perfect for him.... She enjoyed his quirky sense of humor and everything....
" Ella, I think he's worried about getting rejected by you... I've seen how he looks at you and he's smiled more with you then anyone.... give him time. I know how much it hurts to see the one person you like with someone who could care less for them.... It'll work out... If you want I can talk to him and feel out the situation for you... Without mentioning you?..." Justin said

Anyone?
 

Ella sighed as Justin gave her a squeeze, turning to look at him as he spoke. "Justin he doesn't like me...like that. He told me he wants to meet whoever I like...I mean, people who like like you aren't excited to do that, right?" It just didn't make a lot of sense to Ella. She did give her friend a weak smile when he told her Harvs looks at her and smiles at her a special way. Did he? And if he did...he shouldn't, not when he has a girlfriend. "It isn't fair. I wish I didn't like him so much. Now I can't even be around him because he wants to know all about this guy I like..." Which was awful. "I...erm how exactly could you do that?" It seemed like it would be hard to not mention her.

" Ella... Harvey goes with me sometimes on my workouts.... We talk quite a bit when he does join me... Cause it's private... We can talk about anything out there without anyone over hearing..." Justin said reassuringly... " And I could figure out where he's at with Ameliah.... As for his question about who you like may you should just say something like... ' If you 'd like to know who I like... Maybe you should look in a mirror....; Ya know keep it cute.... But I gaurantee it'll take him a minute to riddle it out... He's a bit slow on the uptake if you know what I mean..." Justin half joked.... The honest truth wasthat Harvey was not known for picking up on things too quickly...

Ella listened, appreciating Justin's words but not fully believing them. "If you'd like to ask him that then I guess...it's okay with me." She said a bit uncertainly, looking down at her hands. "As for...telling him. I can't. I just...don't feel right doing that when he's got a girlfriend. I think it's better if I just maybe don't hang out with him...you know, for a little bit." Even if it meant hiding out in the common room some more. Yeah sure it was cowardly, but it was certainly less confusing! And hey, she was sure Sophie would bring her ice cream and sweets if she asked. Yeah, just classes and common room...that would totally work.

" Well, if I talk to him and get him to realise that it's you he'd rather be with... Without saying anything about you... he'll realise how much he likes to be with you and how much happier he is just to have you near him..." Justin smiled... " Then you tell him who you like..."

Ella returned the smile with a small one of her own. "I guess..." She said with a shrug. The question on her mind though was why Harvey didn't realize this already. Was she meant to just wait around until he liked her? That seemed kind of sad and quite unfair, really. Why should she be stuck liking him when he was off liking someone else? It was dumb. Really dumb. "Do you think I can just like...stop liking him? I think that might be easier." She was being completely serious too, looking at Justin and expecting some kind of answer to that ridiculous question. In all honesty, she hoped he said yes, that she could simply stop liking him. That would make life a lot easier for the second year.

IJustin nearly burst out laughing at her question , but luckily he was able to stifle it... " No one can just stop liking someone they're attracted to.... But if there would be someone who could I suppose that it'd be you, Miss Bishop...." Justin said supportively.....

Ella raised her eyebrows at Justin as he seemed to try and contain his laughter. She didn't blame him though, not really. She knew it was a ridiculous question. She groaned, bringing her hands to her face, when Justin confirmed her thoughts about the subject. Her hands dropped just as quickly at what he said next though, a small smile appearing on her face. "I um...well yeah. I think you're right. I could totally stop liking him." And she nodded, crossing her arms. "I have to." She said more seriously, tilting her head to look at Justin. "Mostly cause I'm not sure if I can just be his friend. I act like a complete crazy person around him now..."

For Elijah/Lee
 

Alyssa walked into the Common Room. It had been a tough day at Quidditch practice. She hadn't played in months and she was already sore just from swinging the bludger.

Alyssa flopped herself onto the sofa too tired to drag herself up the stairs to the Girls' Dormitory. She looked around to see who else was in the Common Room. It looked a little empty right now and quiet. 'Good quiet is good.' Alyssa thought to herself as she closed her eyes.

Elijah was sitting at one of the tables in the common room, getting cosy by the fire. Attractive people had to keep their bodies at just the right temperature to increase their chances of continuing to be attractive in old age. He had read it somewhere in some magazine by some beauty therapist whose name escaped him now. So, basically, it was utterly TRUE.

He was in the process of writing a letter to his Mum to let her know how he was getting on (because even hawt boys checked in with their mothers). He was telling her all about that horrible Hufflepuff boy who attacked him with his boots (although in this particular version Elijah had whopped HIS behind and not vice versa); his amazing developments in Charms class; and even felt the need to tell her of the different runes he had 'learned' recently, also.

Elijah found himself stumbling on a particular word, though, much to his frustration. He just wanted to get this over with and owled so he could keep his Mum quiet for another fortnight and then he could continue his everyday life being gorgeous without any hassle.

Deciding to call on help from one of his fellow 'Puffs, he shouted out toward the rather sweaty girl who appeared to be melting into the sofa. "Oi, you! How do you spell catastrophe?"

" Ella... I was joking.... You can't just stop liking someone... The whole chemistry of attraction is at work..." Justin said sweetlyas he put his hands on her shoulders once more, " But maybe don't wait around for him either.... See if there's anyone else that strikes your fancy. That'd show him you're just as unavailable.... Making him like you more.... "

Psh. You could totally stop liking someone. You simply...stopped, right? I mean she could totally do it...if she was determined enough. And she was. Mhm. "I'm still gonna try though." She said with a frown, watching as Justin placed his hands on her shoulders again. Huh? Unavailable? So wait, Justin wanted her to be with someone else too? That seemed like a stupid game to play...and it wasn't very fair to the other person, was it? Ella could never hurt someone like that. "I don't know...I'm not good at stuff like that...I don't get the whole games thing. Aren't games meant to be fun?" She said uncertainly. "But I guess I do get the not waiting around bit. I mean I shouldn't...do that. Only I don't like anybody else...like that."

" I only meant keep your options open... If you find yourself liking someone else as well... go for it.... that's all.." he smiled. " Make sense now?" Justin asked realising that she just didn't understand how boys worked...

"Okay..." Ella said, thinking this over. She would keep that in mind...if she did end up liking anyone else. This seemed really unlikely though, especially now that she knew how much trouble liking someone could be. WHY couldn't she just like someone who could and did like her back the same way?! That would be so much easier. Like Laura and Oakey. They clearly liked each other! Sigh. Did it make sense now? Ella smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I guess it does. I still think boys are confusing though." She added honestly before laughing. "...No offense." But he wouldn't be mad, right?

Justin started laughing along with her, " I suppose we are.... I never realised it until I was trying to explain how to get with Harvs...." he said through his laughter.

Oh Merlin...rather sweaty girl melting...ROTFL
 

Alyssa was enjoying the nice peace and quiet when suddenly someone practically shouted in her ear. She slowly opened one eye to see who it was. If the eye were opened she would have rolled that one as well. It was that boy who had commented about her bottom in CoMC classs. Alyssa wondered whether it would be possible to maybe fake snoring, so that he would think that she had fallen asleep or something. But then figured that if she did that, he would go around telling everyone that she snored in her sleep.

So she peeked out of one eye and said, "First of all my name is not Oi, it's Alyssa. And catastrophe is spelt C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-E."

"Would you like me to spell anything else for you while I'm still awake?" she opened her other eye to look at him. 'Merlin's Beard he is hawt.' she thought to herself before quickly closing both eyes again. 'Better not let him know that I think that or his head will get even more bigger than it is now. Even if it is a cute head.' Alyssa chuckled to herself.

LMAO! YES! Alyssa has succumbed to Elijah's powers of gorgeousness :P
 

Oh great, another sassy girl. Hogwarts was too full of these sassy girls. He made note to try and figure out where the Headmaster's office was and tell him of this over-sassy-population problem. He needed girls who would just succumb to his amazing charm and simply help him because they wanted him to LOVE them. He couldn't be bothered with all this denial stuff.

He suspected Aspen was the Queen of the Sassy Elite club and had probably informed all members to be extra unhelpful to him so that she could have him all to herself. She really was a smart girl.

"I never said your name was Oi, Alyssa, I just didn't know how else to get your attention," hmph. Oi suited her more, though. Alyssa was much less aggressive sounding.

He quickly jotted down the word as she spelled it out for him, mouthing the letters as he went. He inspected the word after he was done, trying to work out if it actually was correct or if this girl was making a fool of him.

When she offered him further help that was when Elijah noticed she had been staring at him with only one eye open. What a weirdo. Or maybe she had some eye condition and couldn't afford a patch for it? Maybe he could offer to buy one for her? Girls loved gifts and maybe she'd be a little less hostile towards him.

"Would you like me to buy you an eye patch for your bad..." oh wait, the other one opened now. Oops. "I mean, um. Nevermind. No more help needed here, thanks. You can go back to slouching on that couch over there."

The one eyed-sloth monster was a good look, indeed.

Minerva walked into the common room and smiled as she heard a familiar voice that she liked to hear. Walking over to Damon she didn't interrupt his song she just sat in a chair in front of him and smiled listening to him play. Setting down her bag she leaned back and closed her eyes as she listened. When he song was over she smiled and opened her eyes, "Nice song Damon, for Taylor I take it?" She noticed something was wrong, "You okay?"

Minerva smiled, "Well it is a wonderful song and she is gong to love it." she looked at the locket, "Damon it's wonderful. She will love it." Minerva looked at her friend with concern. "What have they been doing? I haven't even seen Ameliah for so long I didn't know if she was even around anymore." Minerva shrugged not having a clue what Ameliah had been up to. "I figured now that Ari had Justin she would calm down."

Minerva gave a smile, "What is the joke if I'm allowed to know." she was curious, but it was okay if he didn't want to tell her. Then she frowned at the Ameliah story. "What on earth did Ameliah get mad enough about to turn you into badgers? I swear she is going to hurt someone she is not old enough to be doing those spells. I don't care how good she thinks she is this is ridiculous." Minerva shook her head not happy with Ameliah at all for doing that. "Is Mel okay?" She thought of the puff and frowned more thinking of her own puff up in her room. Rolling her eyes, "Oh wonder what is up Ariana's behind. I swear at times she is bio polar. She can go from happy to crazy in 3 seconds."

has she succumbed? Hmmm...maybe...maybe not...xD
 

Alyssa looked up at him this time with both eyes open when he objected the fact that he had called her "Oi". So he wanted her attention. Well he got it especially after she heard him mention something about getting her an eye patch for her...

"You were going to say buy an eye patch for my eye? Why does it look like there's something wrong with it? " Alyssa felt around both her eyes. She blinked them both a couple of times. "Nope nothing wrong with them." she grinned at him.

'One thing for sure, I know that they are both working fine because I still see this hawt guy standing in front of me....unless he is right and there's something wrong with my eyes and he actually looks like an ogre.' Alyssa silently thought to herself trying to hide her grin.

"I do not slouch. Did you want to sit here? Sorry if it's sopping wet from my perspiration. I just had a very exhausting Quidditch practice." Alyssa patted the seat next to her.

"What have you been up to? Have you had any success with any of the girls here yet?" Alyssa grinned before she burst out laughing. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be laughing. It's just that you look like you're trying so hard to impress us girls, when all you need to do is smile and just let your good looks do all the work for you....O_o...I mean...."Alyssa stopped laughing when she realized what she had just said.

'Merlin's Beard, I didn't just say that to him. Now he's going to really have a big head. ' Alyssa quickly looked away trying to act normal and hoping that he hadn't heard what she had just said.

Damon chuckled, "Actually, it goes back to when Maxwell and Taylor dated." He smirked, "I couldn't tell you how many times he called me a theif or accused me of trying to steal her away." He replayed the third verse, "I'm a theif," He smiled, "And it's not an insult to him, just something coming back from the past." He looked at her, hoping she wouldn't take it as him trying to rub anything in, "And because she promised Dad she would she saw Taylor and I together. As for Mel... I'm sure she's fine, it wasn't enough to kill the poor thing, just hurt her." He sighed, "There was no happy with Ariana though, she just plain and simple hated me and made it quite clear that I'm not her favorite person."

Sassy AND cheeky. Hmph. "Well, I am not normally accustomed to people usually staring at me with only one eye. I just assumed... wrongly, obviously. I'm sorry to have insulted your very normal working eyes," just not a very normal kind of person who was using them.

He watched on nervously as the girl was obviously thinking to herself. Elijah didn't want to be anywhere near her head right now. She then kindly, sort of, offered him a seat next to him, "Um... no thanks. I'm good here," where the seats were a little less... moist.

When she RUDELY started laughing at him and questioning his success with girls he put his head down and pretended to be concentrating heavily on his letter. How DARE she!? He had plenty of success with girls. He had girls OWLING him everyday almost... kinda... sorta... not really. But what business of it was HERS?

And then she said it. Oh yes, she did. She wasn't laughing anymore.

Elijah grinned.

The panic that had overtaken the girls face was simply delightful. Elijah took a moment to bask in the glory that the girl's little slip had caused for him. "It seems YOU can't even deny my obvious gorgeousness."

"Oh, and just for the record: I don't try to impress girls. I try to make girls feel good about themselves by paying attention to them. My looks, as you have so rightly stated, speak for themselves."

Hmph.

Alyssa started getting flustered. 'Darn it he did hear what I said. Okay Alyssa play it cool here.'

"uh...uh.....wait wait wait...I said that you had good looks I didn't say that you were gorgeous. Let's that real clear." Alyssa tried to explain herself before trying to change the subject.

"So you get lots of OWLs huh? Wow! you must be really busy reading all of them. So when you say nice things to a girl, it's because you're trying to make them feel good."

"Okay, I get that. Sooo....what were you trying to do when you were commenting about my bottom to my friend at CoMC class? If you wanted to make me feel good, why you didn't you tell me that? Did you really like it that much cause honestly no one has ever told me said that before." Alyssa grinned at him.

'Hah! now I've got him' Alyssa thought to herself.

Minerva sighed, "You lost me. Who's dad did who promise?" she was confused and not sure how to take the Maxwell comment. "I never really understood the adoption for Ameliah so I'm not sure how she is related." Minerva shrugged sometimes such a big family confused her. She tried to run it through her head, but was lost. "Well I'm glad Mel is okay." Then when he talked about Ariana, "Well she will work out whatever is going on and I can talk to Justin and make sure everything is okay on that end. Maybe she was just upset about something I wouldn't let her bother you to much."

Damon looked at her, "Ameliah promised my Dad that she'd do something to Taylor and I if she ever saw us together." He sighed, "And I don't understand it either..." He shook his head to the next part, "I'm not letting her bother me... She thinks she is, but I really don't care what she has to say to or about Taylor and I any longer, or her personal opinion of me. She doesn't want to even give me a chance to explain it, why should I care?"

Minerva shrugged, "I still think it's odd that Ameliah did that even after seeing everything at Christmas and it's been how many months. Time to get over it or just walk away from it." She tried to smile to give him a reassuring I'm on your side look. "Well Ariana is Ariana, I think she just has parent issues that make her crazy and unstable and with all the changes going on with her only stable person she is taking it out on anyone she can and I guess her target is you and Taylor." She frowned, "I really haven't even seen her around school lately." Minerva tried to think of the last time she saw Ari around school.

Damon looked at her and nodded in agreement, "I figured she would've by this point." He smiled, "I know she has her problems, that was apparent at her birthday party and when Millie and Rowan announced them having a baby... I do feel bad for her, and I do understand, I did the same thing when Mom passed, took my anger out on everyone else."

Minerva smiled a bit, "Well just avoid Ameliah for awhile until she gets over whatever she needs to get over and hopefully she won't be an issue anymore." Minerva then thought for a few moments about Ari, "Well if anyone can help her in whatever issue she is having it will be Justin. He is great guy and he can deal with a lot, so I think he will be able to break her tough issue and maybe help her through things." Minerva felt sure of that she knew her friend and knew if anyone could he could.

Ella smiled, shaking her head in disbelief. "You never realized before? That's silly, especially because to me, it seems boys do crazy confusing things all the time." And she shrugged, tucking some hair behind her ear. They'd been talking about her quite a bit though, which was kind of rude, yeah? The second year wouldn't mind picking his brain for a bit. "So what's going on with you these days, anyway? Haven't seen you around much?" But things were good, yeah? Ella hoped so. She pretty much wanted everyone in her life to be happy all the time...which was a little silly but ehh...She couldn't really help it.

Good looks? Gorgeousness? Was there really a difference? Were they really going to get that pernickety? Elijah knew that this girl thought he was gorgeous, she had practically just admitted it out loud! She was just facing denial obviously.

The next thing about owls had thrown him. He hadn't made any mention of receiving owls. Not out loud at least. Was she just assuming? "However many owls I receive from girls or otherwise is nothing you have to concern yourself with." Maybe Elijah would start calling her Mrs. Nosey.

He quickly signed off his name on the letter to his Mum and simply nodded in agreement with her statement of how he did things to make girls feel good. But the next thing threw him COMPLETELY.

He had said she had a nice butt? What!? When!? WHO!?

Then it clicked. He knew exactly what she was talking about and then he grinned. "I think you'll find what I said to your friend," he had no clue she had even known Sophie or whatever that girl's name was, "was that you had been talking about how I had a nice butt. Not the other way around."

Oh, how this girl had misread THAT situation completely. "But don't be ashamed. I do have a good butt. It was kind of you to notice."

O_o sorry about that mixup with the Owly thingy
 

Alyssa blushed when she realized that he was right. He hadn't told Sophie that he was admiring her bottom, it was the other way around. He had told Sophie that he had caught her admiring his. 'How did he know I was doing that? It wasn't like I was actually staring at it that long?' Alyssa tried to think of a response to his comment. As for her comment about him receiving lots of Owls, she had assumed that someone as gorgeous as him would be getting lots of love letters. She hadn't meant to say it out loud. But she allowed him to think that she was nosey rather than let him think that she wished that she had sent him one too...which wasn't a bad idea...only anonymous of course.

But back to that earlier comment. "wha....wha....so you thought I was admiring yours? I just happened to be looking in your direction. It doesn't mean anything. I mean you have a nice one and who wouldn't like looking at it and....." and Alyssa quickly clammed up. She had done it again. What was it with this guy? She had never been flustered like this before talking with other guys. Alyssa wanted to smack her head, or better still sink into the sofa cushions and totally disappear.

"With pleasure." Damon had never really cared for Ameliah anyways, so it wasn't going to be hard for him to avoid her, "I'm sure he can. If anyone finds that right person who can always make them smile they'll be good to go."

He had obviously given her a lot to think about because Elijah could practically FEEL her brain processing all he had just said whilst her face got redder and redder with the embarrassment of it all. Elijah wanted to laugh, he sooooo did, but he stopped himself. The girl had obviously suffered enough.

And then she had went and made it even worse for herself.

She had just admitted that she liked looking at his backside and all of a sudden all of this butt talk was starting to make Elijah uncomfortable. His FACE was worth looking at more than any other part of him, after all. He was so damn gorgeous that people shouldn't be able to NOT look at his face.

He decided, again, just to ignore her comments and try not to embarrass her further since she was obviously doing such a spectacular job of that all on her own.

He melted some wax over the candle on his table and when it was nice and soft he placed it on his letter and pressed it down firmly, sealing it. He placed the letter in his bag, intending to send it off to his mother as soon as he got to his dorm and could send Axel with it.

"So, why are you so sweaty anyway?" Elijah asked, curious.

" I suppose we do, but to be honest I never thought about it much before... I mean to say that in our brains it's really quite simple. Just like I suppose you girls don't realise how confusing you are to us guys.." Justin chuckled. Then he smiled as she had asked him where he'd been and so on..." Well, if I'm not working out or going to some classes. Then I'm hanging out with Ari.... Though most of my time is spent with her... And sometimes with Maxwell and Minerva.." he shrugged. " You should hangout with us sometime..." he smiled.

Ella shrugged. "Oh I totally know I'm confusing...sometimes I even confuse myself." And she smiled sheepishly at her friend, mostly because she was being completely honest. "I can only imagine how confusing I am to others..." Shudder. She didn't want to be that confusing girl at Hogwarts. Please Merlin don't let that be her legacy.

"You sure do like to work out, huh?" Ella said after listening to Justin's response. Not that there was anything wrong with it, it just seemed like a lot of work. "I like to eat mostly." Shrug. "A lot of ice cream..." Grin. "Though running is great too!" She couldn't deny that. She smiled at him as he spoke of his girlfriend. "You really like her, yeah?" She could totally tell. His eyes seemed to smile when he talked about her. And then he was inviting them to join them all sometime..."I...yeah sure." Though wouldn't she be like a ....fifth wheel?

Justin laughed as she said she confuses herself. She'd be perfect for Harvs if he would just stop being blind and a bit daft. " I love to eat.... To be honest I eat so much I'm surprised that they haven't run out for the rest you lot..." he joked. " But yeah... I workout alot, calms my nerves it does... So I make it a point to get out regularly." Justin shrugged. But he also saw her uneasiness when he invited her to come along and hangout with everyone. " You could bring whoever you like if you'd prefer... The more the merrier." he smiled warmly.

The second year smiled, happy to hear Justin also ate a lot. "I'm surprised I haven't seen you in the kitchens more often! I'm always in there stocking up on cookies and ice cream!" GRIN. It was the truth, she had become a kitchen regular. Hmm...Did the house elves know her name yet? She giggled about the food shortage comment but then sobered up just as quickly. EEP! That would be horrible. "Imagine if they ran out of food!" O__O Worst Tragedy EVER. And oh, the working out calmed nerves? Hmm. Interesting. "Maybe I should work out more often then..." Even though she probably wouldn't go through with it.

It was nice of Justin to say she could bring a friend. She must have let on she was a bit uncomfortable hanging with the two couples on her own. "Yeah, that would be fun. I wouldn't mind getting to know Ari and Maxwell better."

Justin chuckled as she reacted to his joke.... " I go to the kitchen every once in a while, but my mum sends me a parcel of stuff a week.... Biscuts and the like. All my favourites..." he beamed... " Every Tuesday in fact." he hinted.. " We're great lot to hang with... Always food involved as well..." he smiled.

Glad that Elijah had chosen to ignore her accidental slip of the tongue, Alyssa quickly sat up. "Sweaty? Sorry for sliming the sofa. I was at Quidditch practice and it was a tough one."

"However, since this has been only my second practice since term started, I'm just glad to be back on my Firebolt and flying out there." Alyssa told him.

"What about you? Do you play the game? Someone who looks as fit as you, I bet would do great in any sport." Alyssa asked Elijah.

I thought I replied but I guess not...
 

Jordon nodded "It's one of the most peaceful places on the grounds I've found." He smiled, "Oh yeah. Me too. There's that one tree that kind of curves over, it's like a cave, I guess."

Jordon stopped awkwardly and listened to her description of the tree. "N-no. Never." He said, stuttering slightly. He probably wasn't doing a very good job of hiding his fear of the tree, but trying was all he could do. "Yeah I probably should. My last year maybe..." He added in a whisper. Nodding at her saying 'a safe distance'.

Sorry I took so long D:
 

"Don't apologise to me for sliming on the sofa. I could care less. It is the sofa you should be apologising to," he smirked. "I guess quidditch practice can be enough to make you sweat," he nodded his head slightly as he agreed with her. Despite that, though, Elijah sweated anytime he went his runs, but he made sure to sweat in an attractive way. It took time and practise to perfect, but it wasn't impossible.

"You have a Firebolt?" Elijah enquired since this seemed like the correct thing to say in this situation. Truth was Elijah had no care for flying or quidditch. Why would he use a broom when he could practically floo anywhere and would soon be able to apparate when he became of age? As for quidditch, competitive sports never attracted him at all and he tried to stay clear of it as much as possible. All the hostility and ugly competitiveness from both the players and spectators was extremely unattractive.

"I don't play, no," he said simply to her, "There are other ways in which to stay fit and I prefer to do those than play quidditch." Flying about on a broom was less intensive than going out a power run. In fact, flying about on brooms was practically lazy in itself.

He removed his History of Magic homework from his bag and pretended to be looking over the questions the Professor had set them. He at least hated History of Magic more than quidditch...

No worries. I was busy studying for Quidditch
 

Alyssa was surprised that Elijah didn't play Quidditch. Everyone she knew did in one way or another. "Yes I have a Firebolt and the way it moves is totally amazing. So what do you do to keep fit then, if you don't mind me asking. I run and swim when I'm here but back home I also surf and go canoeing."

Then Alyssa noticed him pulling out his History of Magic homework from his back. "Are you going to be working on your History of Magic homework? I've already completed mine. I totally love History of Magic. It was totally cool being able to go to Atlantis."

The girl began YAPPING on about her Firebolt. Oh great. Elijah kind of deserved it since he had kiiiindddaaa, sorrrrtttaaa diiiiiiidddd teeeeccchhhnnnniiiccallllyyy ask. But that didn't mean she had to take him UP on his disinterested interest. He simply nodded along to what she was saying about her broom and when she was done he even gave her a, "Sounds cool," because he was a nice guy like that.

He lightened up a little when the conversation turned back to him and she started enquiring about his work out regime. "I mostly just run every morning. Occasionally i'll swim if it is a hot day or I feel like a change, but mostly just running."

"Um what...?" Elijah had been in a bit of a daydream imagining himself running by the lake and how, obviously, gorgeous he must look whilst doing so. Then his mind jiggered something about History of Magic. "Oh this," he said pointing down at the parchment, "Well... I was just gonna have a look at it. Will probably do it later." Yeah, probably last minute and to the worst of his abilities.

Iaaan!
 

Ian had been busy lately. He spent most of his days and nights studying so that he could catch up with is peers. It was exhausting and he'd finally had enough. Returning from the library, he entered the common room and was about to head to his chamber when he saw someone he recognized. He had to suppress a giggle as he saw her shooting absent-minded sparkles in front of her.

Being as stealthy as he could, he came up behind her chair and placed his hands over her eyes. "Guess who..." he said as he leaned close to her ear and whispered in her ear.

Those were some pretty, pretty sparkles...! Sophie lazily looked from them to the grass outside. It was also quite pretty. The nature and everything that was colourful was very beautiful actually...

The second year jumped a little when someone covered her eyes and automatically grabbed the hands of the person with her left hand, while her right hand stopped her wand from shooting sparkly thingies. "I have no idea, really!" She chuckled, trying to take the mystery person's hands from her face so she could look at s/he. Sophie kind of recognized the voice but... nahhh, it couldn't be. He had left a while ago, why would he be back now??

Ian felt his hands clasped with hers and then the pressure of her trying to remove them. He was a little deflated when she said she had no idea. He removed his hands and came up beside her, looking a little more saddened to show her. "I guess I should have expected that. I haven't been here in some time." He gave her half a grin and said, "Hi, Sophie."

Sophie didn't let go of the hand of the mystery person as he uncovered her eyes and she jumped up when she realized who it was. "IAN!!" She gave him a warm hug and bounced up and down after releasing him. "It's great to see you!!"

Wait. Whyyy the sad look??? "Are you okay?? What happened? Where have you been??" Oops, lots of questions! She quickly looked around and pointed her wand at another chair that was a few meters away from them. "Accio chair!" A big smile spread across her face as the chair dragged itself in their direction. YAY! It had worked! "There you go!" Sophie gestured towards the other chair as she sat back down on her own near the window, holding her wand tightly as she placed both hands on her lap. "When did you get back??"

His sadness quickly changed to joy when he realized she did remember him and he was quickly covered in a hug and then the girl bouncing up and down screaming his name. That made him feel much better.

"Well," he said blushing "I thought you didn't remember who I was so it made me feel a little sad." As the chair came close to him, he felt it hit his legs and he sat down. "I'm mostly ok," he told her. "Mum and dad had some questions and concerns so they made me stay home. Now I'm trying to catch up." As she sat back in her own chair, he smiled at Sophie and said, "I got back a little over a week ago I suppose. I've been buried in books ever since." He was very glad to see this particular Huffie.

Oh, and now he was happy again? Haha! Cool! Confusing, but cool! Sophie smiled when he said the fact she might not remember him would make him sad. Aw. "Of course I remember, you, Iaaan! My memory is not that bad!" She said jokingly while chuckling.

'Mostly' ok? that comment made Sophie frown a little and she listened carefully as he told her what happened. Sort of. "You mean questions about you being a wizard?" Because she knew he was a muggleborn. Maybe his parents were still a bit confused about his magical abilities? "Are they okay about everything now?" Since Ian was back... they probably were, right?

"Oh, I haven't been out lately... I was kind of ill last week, so I didn't even go to classes." The second year told him casually. It was no big deal, really, but it had been enough to make her stay in the dorms for a whole week. She didn't mind it, having such great besties! And obviously, that gave her even more time to practice spells! "If you need any help catching up, let me know! Especially with spells and this kind of things." Grin! She did love spells!

Ian sat down close to her and resisted the urge to give her a great big hug. It meant so much to have people who remembered him and she seemed to think he was an ok guy. Grinning, he said "I'm just not too sure that I am worth remembering at times."

He nodded at her question. "A little bit. It seems to have caused a bit of a row between mum and dad. Dad thinks I should be normal and go to regular classes, mum says I'm special and should be where they can help me control whatever I have. It's been so bad lately that they talked about parting ways. I'm hoping that doesn't happen, but they let me come back."

He didn't resist the urge this time. "Aww...that's awful." He hugged her to let her know that he was here and would be happy to help if she needed it. "Thank you. I may take you up on that. I didn't have a lot of friends at Hogwarts, but I'd hate to have to be a year behind them."

Whaaat?? "Of course you are, Ian!" Why would he think he wasn't worth remembering! Everyone was worth remembering! That was so sad he thought that of himself! "Why do you think that?? You have friends who care for you, you know!" And those friends would always remember him! especially if they were Hufflepuffs. Yep!

Sophie listened as he told her about his parents. Oh no! That sounded really sad. "I hope this doesn't happen either..." She said still holding her wand tightly. Watching a family fall apart was one of the saddest things that existed... "And how are y-"

Before she could finish her question Ian hugged her. Ohh noo! Was he that sad??? The poor boy... Sophie patted him on the back, feeling sorry for him. "It's okay, Ian..." Everything would be fine, yeah? She really hoped so. "And you still have your Hufflepuff family if you need!" Grin.

When he released her and thanked her she gave him a smile. Helping out a friend would be nice. Especially if it had spells involved, hehehe! Spells were always great! "Don't worry, you won't need to stay a year behind." The subjects weren't even that difficult. If they had to take Alchemy, then it would have been a problem... but since they don't, it was all good! "Just let me know whenever you need help and I'll see what I can do, alright?"

Did he want to learn any spells now? Teehee! She twirled her wand in her hand as she looked through the window. She was just out there practicing, but she wouldn't mind practicing more. Practice makes perfect! Isn't that what people say?

Oakey.
 

Laura was really upset after the detention, the slime in her hair, being chained to the wall wasn't as bad as losing the one chance she had with Oakey, she had promised him she would take him to the Hospital wing but she had gotten distracted with a few other things and had forgotten to take Oakey to the Hospital wing, which had caused him to get Detention, so now she was sure that he wouldn't even want to even look at her again let allow speak to her.

Laura took out a book and started to read, she was trying to fight back the tears that she knew would come if she thought about him much longer, why did she feel like this, she felt like she had let him down and that she deserved everything she got.

Oakey came slouching back into the common room, He was still in his Team uniform after their loss to Slytherin, only it was now slightly filthy with slime on it's sleeves. He was hoping that Keefer wasn't here at the moment, but would eventually apologize to him.

The person he was actually looking for at the moment was Laura. She couldn't have gotten to far from him. They had both just come from the same detention, he searched the room until he spotted a slime covered girl. He walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. He wanted to speak up, but was unsure what to say. So he just stood there with his hand on her shoulder.

Laura had tried to escape from Oakey but obviously she hadn't done a very good job because there he was and she was still covered in slime and her Hair was totaly ruined, she had mention that before right, she looked at him when he put his hand on her shoulder, that was a great feeling maybe he wasn't going to stop being friends with her, well anyway.

Laura looked up into Oakey's eyes, and looked at his handsome face and decided it was time to appologise. "Oakey I'm really sorry I didn't take you to the Healer, as she said to me everything was my fault, all the world troubles are my fault, everything, and if you don't want to speak to me again I understand." Laura looked away from Oakey so he didn't see her cry.

Oakey wasn't ready for a crying Laura, He wasn't sure if he was ready for Laura after this detention at all. He gripped her shoulder tighter not out of anger but because he was now trying to hold back tears as well.

Laura was convinced it was all her fault. Maybe it was, but Oakey didn't want her to feel that way. No-no, I'm sorry. He shot back at her. I promised I'd be there for you no matter what and I couldn't do anything while Evil Healer clearly abused her authority in the Torture Chamber. He let go of her shoulder and dashed off to the boy's dorm.

He had a lot going on in his mind right now. His broken promise to Laura, and his broken promise to Keefer with the resulting loss in their Quidditch match. Keefer had confidence in his ability to play today so much so that he convinced Hadley and Tillstorm to let him play. Of course Oakey had to go and injure himself during the match, poor Keefer must be devastated.

For Laura....Different timeline from above xD
 

Alyssa came down from the Girl's Dormitory looking for Laura. She was supposed to meet her here to help her with something. Since she wasn't anywhere to be seen at the moment, Alyssa plopped herself on the sofa and started to work on her Arithmancy Homework assignment. This would be the last for the term and she was determined to do well on it.

'Might as well stay busy until she shows up.' Alyssa thought to herself. Looking up every couple of minutes from what she was doing to see whether the 2nd year girl had shown up.

Laura ran into the common room she was late for her meeting with Alyssa, she had been really busy trying to get her owl to stay still, whilst she tried to tell it, it couldn't go far but the owl wanted to go with the others, but she had managed the get it to stay somehow though she had no idea how.

"Lyssie I'm sorry I'm late." Laura ran upto her friend and hugged her, she hoped that Lyssie wasn't mad with her it wasn't her fault she had lost track of time.

Alyssa looked up when she heard a flurry of running feet. She smiled. She knew that it had to be Laura. "No worries, Laura. I was doing my homework while waiting for you. So what's up? What did you want to see me about?" Alyssa asked the younger girl.

"Is everything okay with your owl?" Alyssa still remembered the splint that she had placed on its wing when it had gotten damaged. She had been wondering whether the splint had worked.

Laura looked at Lyssie and smiled. "Well I was wondering... Well it's sort of hard to ask." Laura blushed a bit, why was this hard. "Well I was hoping you could help me put some make-up on." Okay so Laura had asked her now, all she had to do was wait for Lyssie to laugh at her but she hoped she wouldn't after all they were like sisters.

Laura smiled at Lyssie. "The owls okay but it still annoys me when it wants to fly for ages but I won't let it until it has flown a bit longer, I want it to be strong before it flies even further.

Alyssa listened as Laura told her about how her owl was doing and was glad that it was doing better. "That's a smart thing to do, Laura. You were right to keep it from flying long distances right now. It needs to slowly get stronger before it does that." Alyssa smiled at the younger girl. She was getting so matured now in her thinking.

Then Alyssa blinked. Laura wanted her to teach her how to put make-up on? Alyssa grinned. "You want me to help you to put make-up on? Is this about Oakey? You do know that you are already beautiful and don't need to put make-up on to get him to like you right? If he doesn't like you the way you are, then he needs to get his eyes fixed."Alyssa told her, but she could understand Laura feeling the need to do that. So she nodded.

"Sure I could teach you, although as you can see I'm not putting on any at the moment. With all the running around we do in school, I just felt that it wasn't necessary to do so. But I don't mind teaching you, so that when you get back home, you can try practising putting it on yourself. We should do it in the Girl's Dorm though." Alyssa advised her.

"We don't want the boys seeing us doing that down here. They will most likely roll their eyes and say that we're putting on war paint or something." Alyssa grinned at the younger girl.

Louise went down the stairs, she was just going to meet her friends for dinner, then she was going to do some homework,as she was about to leave, she frozen, she could not speak

Ella was headed towards the stairs to the dormitories, needing to grab her Arithmancy text book for homework, when she almost knocked over a girl she hadn't talked to before. O___O "I'm SO sorry." She said, taking a step back, feeling quite bad about it. "Um...hello?" What was up with this girl, anyway? "Erm...earth to badger?" Merlin's beard! She'd killed her! She'd killed this girl! EEP! Was anyone else seeing this?! The second year slowly waved her hands in front of the girl's face, hoping to snap her out of whatever trance she was currently in.

Lyssie here as well
 

Laura was about to reply to Lyssie when she said she was beautiful without make-up on but she still wanted to be taught it would be a fun thing to do to turn up in a class with loads of make-up on expecially if the Professor was hot, not that Laura thought any Professor were hot, but you never know when one was going to turn up did you.

She was thinking about what Lyssie was saying when she saw this girl come in and then her Bestie Ella, who had this feeling she had done something to the girl since well she had basically said earth to badger, Laura giggled that was a good one from her bestie.

Laura walked upto both girls before grabbing the other girl that Ella was talking to by her shoulders. "Hello anyone home?" Laura was going to get this girl to speak if she could. "Hogwarts we have a problem." Laura was hoping the girl was listening to her.