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."

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.

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'.

"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...

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.

Sophie walked into the Common Room with her bag over her shoulder and her wand on her right hand. That had been a fun spell practice outside, yep! She came in with her hair a little messed up and was out of breath. The young badger had decided to ruuun back to the Common Room for no apparent reason. Running was fun sometimes, y'know!

Smiling at some random people as she passed them, Sophie dropped her bag on the ground while flopping down on a chair close to the window. She looked through the window absentmindedly, resting her chin on her hand as her wand waved around, shooting tiny, colourful sparkles in front of her.

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??