Lewilyn and Mins
 

Well, at least he wasn't the only one that was hungry. "Hopefully the Sorting starts soon. And Tate doesn't give a super long speech." Not that Tate was prone to pontificating. But he could still hope.

"So... either of you seen any promising first years?" As in, are they all going to be upset at being put in Hufflepuff? Because he still didn't like whiny first years. Also, do any of them look like Quidditch material? He was still looking to replace Treyen.. And speaking of which..

He nudged Lewis. "Are you coming to tryouts this year?" As in.. you're coming to tryouts this year. Yes.



He heard a call to 'Captain' down the table and looked up. Yes, it was meant for him. "Hey, Min!" he called, giving her a friendly wave.

Evelyn looked a little amused. Why was he blushing? She didn't really say anything to embarrass him now..did she? Now, she started to feel a little nervous..because she felt like she DID say something to make him flush like that and he wasn't even looking at her. "Me too." Glad that he was there, that is. Evelyn frowned. "Erm..Lewis..did I say something to offend you?" Evelyn asked, softy. 'Cause it wasn't really normal to blush like THAT. He seemed really jumpy as well..uh. Something was wrong. Unless, that was his normal behavior. She didn't know.

Promising first years? Evelyn shrugged. "Not, really." Although, she was keeping a look out for Blue. She liked that girl and it would be nice if she was sorted into Hufflepuff. She settled herself more comfortably on her seat before she leaned forward again. Tryouts? Oh. She turned towards her co-Prefect again. "You play quidditch?" She asked, surprised.

Keefer was slightly distracted by Minerva, so he didn't hear the personal exchange between Evelyn and Lewis. Which was good, or he might wonder why Evelyn had said to offend Lewis. He turned back to their conversation.

So she hadn't really seen any either. Unfortunately. He wrinkled his nose up a bit in a sign of being let down. "Me either. Oh well, I'm sure they're around here somewhere. We had a great crop last year." Yup, he perked right up again. After all, Alec had been a first year last year, and he was great! But wait, he had thought she was a Quidditch fan. Cue another confused look. "Of course he does! He played Chaser for us last term! And quite well, might I add." Hint hint, Lewis. You best be coming back this year.

"Alec." Evelyn said, simply. Honestly, he was the best seeker ever. To be able to perform match after match.. that was just brilliant.

Wait. Evelyn stared at Keefer before her eyes shifted to Lewis. OHHH. Of course, he did. Yeah, she'd seen him play before but..he seemed really different in person. Probably because of he seemed awkward most of the time?...Erm. Evelyn flushed bright red before she mumbled, "Yeah. I guess I forgot. You played great, Lewis." She turned to look at the Staff table, thinking she'd made a complete fool of herself. She was so stupid. So stupid, sometimes. Of course, she'd seen him play..uughhhhh.

As the hat yelled Hufflepuff, a boy walked over, looking like 14 or so, and said down on the table, staring at his feet.

Lewis just stared at Evelyn for a moment, blinking quite rapidly. Oh crap. She actually thought SHE had done something wrong. "N-no. Not at all." Seriously, he seemed to be really really good at making people uncomfortable around him without good reason. What was wrong with him?! "You didn't do anything wrong." There no stutter and he even reached out to pat her shoulder.

Because that didn't make things awkward again or anything.

Buuuuuut back to Keefer. "I think it just started." Lewis pointed out with a nod towards the hat which was surrounded by quite a large number of new students. Promising first years?! He glanced up and down the table again a little frantically at the Captain's question. Was that what he'd been supposed to be doing?! "No. I...guess we'll see when they get here." Since they would be in Hufflepuff and all, you know.

And there was a question he'd dreaded already. "I...err..." Truth was he wasn't sure if he wanted to play again. Yes, it had been fun - LOTS of fun really - but now with Treyen gone and the fact that he hadn't been able to play the last match. Lewis just wasn't sure anymore. Only how to tell Keefer that?

Evelyn's question provided some good distraction though and he just nodded when Keefer informed her that he'd played Chaser. Blushing a little when both of them complimented his Quidditch skills, he just averted his gaze down again while shaking his head a little. "Thank you." Now hopefully they would just go on talking and forget about tryouts. Yeah, not very likely but you know.

And there was proof that the sorting HAD already begun. Lewis caught somebody walking up to their house table out of the corner of his eyes and - glad for some distracting - waved at him. There was even a small smile playing around his lips. "Hello. Welcome to Hufflepuff!" There, he could totally do this whole Prefect thing. It wasn't THAT difficult it seemed.

Not up until now anyway.

'Aaaaah, Hogwarts and food,' Daisy smiled to herself, waving at a couple of people as she slid into a seat at the table. First years were being sorted, as usual, but she was more interested in the usual feast. It seemed the House Elves in the kitchen knew her needs well by now, for there were more than several bottles of ketchup on the Hufflepuff table. Laughing to herself, she took some food and started loading ketchup onto it, noticing a boy who had just arrived at the table. He'd just been sorted, by the look on his face, but looked older than most of the other tiny first years. Smiling, Daisy remembered her first year, and how everything had felt so strange...
'Hi,' she grinned at the boy, 'you're new, right? I'm Daisy.'
He looked lonely... or maybe just shy.

First Bear was approached by a boy who welcomed him to Hufflepuff. "χi" was all he could mumble in a thick russian accent. But when a girl, on top of that an older girl, spoke to him he just blushed. :blush:

Anyoone? xD
 

Gahh! This thing was so uncomfortable. Walking slowly Ness entered the great hall. Her back was in such pain and the back brace she wore underneathe her clothes wasn't helping either. It felt odd and all she wanted to do was take it off, but she knew better then that and so she left it. Instead she continued walking untill she reached her house touble.

As always all the yellow people were talking away with eachother and it was quite noisy at the table. Sighing, the red head sat down and began rubbing her temple with her fingers. A headache was coming she could tell. After a few moments she took her index finger and then felt the disguised pink scar on her forehead. It didn't feel like rest of her skin, it felt a little harder and not as smooth. Just as long as her make up covered it, she didn't care what it felt like.

The food hadn't appeared yet and beggining to get a little bit restless, the Nessie turned around and looked at some of the people. She focused her attention on Lewis, Keefer and the girl sitting with them. It took her a while of staring, but then she saw it. From where she was sitting she could barely see the badge that was now on Lewis's uniform. So he was prefect eh? She wasn't too surprised, he seemed like a good guy. She squinted a little bit more and noticed that the girl too was wearing a badge. Yep..these two had to be the new prefects.

A small smirk formed on Renesmee's face. Ooh! Did she have plans for these two...

"Yeah, Alec." Speaking of which, where was the boy? Keefer craned his neck to look up and down the table, but he saw no sign of his favorite second year. His face looked a bit crestfallen for a moment. He'll show up eventually.

Keefer smiled. "Don't worry, it's hard to tell who the blurs are way up in the sky. We move so fast that it's nigh unto impossible.. unless you know what you're looking for." Like Keefer. Because he was the Captain and therefore recognized his players from the air.



He followed the new Prefect's nod toward the Staff Table. Sure enough, small students were milling around an ancient stool with a frayed hat. Keefer was instantly on high alert for the new Puffs, just in case he could see any Quidditch skill. "True. It's hard to tell just by looking. They're mostly all just nervous anyways." Like Lewis. He was definitely nervous. Keefer gave him a friendly elbow. "Lighten up, Badge Boy! You look like you swallowed a bunch of U-No-Poo. You're going to do fine." At least, the Captain was assuming the Prefect was nervous about his new responsibilities. He had certainly seemed to be on the train.

But now it was Keefer's turn to be nervous. I.. er..? What's that supposed to mean? Was Lewis not planning on returning this year?! But the boy was replying to Evelyn's compliment. "Yes, he was great, wasn't he?" Lewis couldn't get out of answering that easily, though. "And he will be great again this year! Right, Lewis?" Keefer waited anxiously for the Prefect's reply.



Out of the corner of his eye, Keefer spotted Oakey. He had been such a great help last year, pinch hitting.. er, Beating... for their first match. Keefer was inexpressibly grateful to the boy, especially given how accident prone he was. "Hey, Oakey!" he hollered down the table. "Good holiday?" And what was wrong with his face? It looked like he'd had an accident. "Been practicing up for tryouts?"

Louisa was energetically moving from one spot on her table to the other, checking up on what's left of her friends. Heh. And guess what? She actually found herself heading for the Huffie table to see Evelyn and find out what happened to her peed-on shoes *giggles*. As soon as her eyes roamed the table, though, she saw an awkward girl sitting a bit stiffly and massaging her temples. Louisa approached her slowly from the back and squinted at the red hair, "Nessie?"

Why, of course. Without permission, Louisa slid down next to her and peered down on the tired girl. "Are you okay? Are you in pain?" Louisa had no idea what was wrong with the younger Hufflepuff but she still cared about her...

... for a very weird inexplicable reason.

Minerva laughed "Okay.. Welcome to third year." she cheered toward him happily. Her mood was better then the train and she was glad.

Stiiiill watching the Sorting Ceremony, Sophie looked back at the Hufflepuff table all the time. She wanted to watch the whole ceremony, but talking to her friends was always a kind of... priority.

In one of the looks she gave around their table, she spotted Oakey coming in and sitting down. "HELLOOO, OAKEEEY!!!" She beamed not noticing the cuts on his face. "How was your summer?" She did notice, though, the look he gave to the Ravenclaws. Mehehe, he was probably thinking about the same thing she was. "Weird thing they always sit here, isn't it?" She whispered.

At the corner of her eye, Sophie saw someone else coming to join them. And this time the person was coming from the other idrection, so that meant he was just sorted! But he... looked a LOT older than the others! Or maybe he was just... tall. "HIII THERE!!! I'm Sophie!" She waved. "Welcome to Hufflepuff!!"

As the second Girl spoke to him, he was able to answer. "χi, myn name is Bear." It was a wisper but it was a answer. Anyway he was glowing red blushed, and staring at his hands instaed of his feets.

For everyone. Too many to mention. Welcome Bear!!
 

"Hi Sophie and Jory. It's great to see you guys again. How was your summer. As you can see we have an unhappy firstie who isn't too happy to be in our house. So we all need to make him welcome and soon he'll love our House like we do. So it's really great to that all of us are trying to make him feel welcome."Alyssa smiled at her friends



Alyssa smiled glad to see her old friend."Minnie. It's really good to see you. I hope you don't mind copying you, but as you can see I decided to change my hair color and style too. A lot of stuff happened during the summer, so I just felt that I needed to do something different to try keep me sane. My summer didn't go too well but I'll tell you about it later. I don't want to spoil everybody's mood right now." Alyssa explained.



Alyssa smiled at her Ravenclaw friend"Hey there Harvey. It's been a while since I've seen you. I'm doing okay I guess. How about yourself?"



Alyssa's spirits perked up a bit when she saw another familiar face. It was Oakey and so she waved him over. "Hi Oakey. Would you like to join us? You know all of us here, and I'm sure that even if you don't, knowing you, you will by the end of the feast. So we didn't get to accomplish our bet for the summer. Want to start one this year? Something that doesn't include eating." Alyssa grinned at him, recalling the bet she made with him last year that had backfired.



Alyssa saw another first year joining their tabl and heard him introduce himself as Bear. So she leaned over and stuck out her hand. "Hi there. Welcome to Hufflepuff. My name is Alyssa but you can call me Lyssie if you want."



Alyssa leaped up from her seat when she saw one of her best friends and Quidditch team mates."Nessie!! It is so good to see you back here. How was you summer? Are you looking forward to Quidditch tryouts."Alyssa hugged her friend.

two different timelines
 

Laura looked at Min and smiled. "I didn't have much choice did I, and I'll try not to lose to many points and I'll let you in on the fun as long as you behave." Laura giggled that would be interesting.

Laura looked at Sophie and giggled. "I AIN'T Deaf you know, I can hear you without you SHOUTING." Laura smiled as she walked up to Sophie and sat down next to her. "This term is going to be fun you know."

Cloning xD
 

Yeah. This wasn't getting much better. All the chit chat was just too loud, and the more Nessie tried to tune away from it the louder and more recognisable it became. She was so tempted to leave, right that second and maybe attempt sleeping or even just laying in her bed. That was considered rude though, so she stuck to her seat like glue.

It was at that moment through all the noise that, the now fourth year Badger heard someone say her name. She stopped rubbing her touching her head and then turned just a tiny bit to see someone rather familiar. Louisa it was, but why in the world was the eagle at the badger table? Almost at once Nessie's lips formed their usual pout. Hmm..maybe the ravenclaw was here for a friend, or something. Whatever the reason was, it didn't bother Nessie.

This back brace did though...

Letting out a small sigh, Ness turned her usual a pout into one of her weak smiles, but then almost at once it faded as Louisa spoke again. Okay? Yes..well maybe in pain? Merlin yes! Her whole back was screaming pain! In fact it was so bad, it was even worse then the headache that was having. She bit her lip. "Yeah, I'm fine..just wish I could take this silly thingoff." Oops! The last bit slipped out on its own. Nobody was supposed to know about the back brace, but clearly Louisa would now ask.

Oh well, too late now.

The longer Nessie looked at the Prefects the schemes she began thinking of. Problem wa, would she be brave enough to do any of them? Time would tell, right? Yeah it would and that might be in quite a lot of time. Nothing to worry or stress about now. She had a whole year ahead of her right? Yep she did.

Pouting, the Hufflepuff looked around the great hall some mall. Nothing too interesting going on, or at least nothing she could see. Just a lot of noise and talking. It was so loud that when Lyssie called out Nessie's name, she barely heard it, but then she saw her friend and got up to hug her. "Lyssie!" she said with a small smile on her face. It was good to see her Hogwarts friends again.

Summer..well it was kinda a bummer. Only the end of it really to be honest. Ness wasn't the kind to complain though, so instead she continued smiling and decide to be just a little bit more positive. "Well it was good, I went to France for a while." That was after all the best part of her holiday. The country was beautiful and it was great seeing her family again. "How about yours?" she asked smiling a little more.

Quidditch? Ness groaned just a little as she was reminded of her back brace again. Well..yeah she was excited. Question was would this thing be off before then? She honestly hoped so, cause she didn't see how she'd fly with it on and she was really hoping to make the team again. "Yeah course I am." she said trying her best to sound enthusiastic. "and you?" The answer to that was rather obvious.

Louisa frowned at the girl. She placed a gently feather-like hand on her shoulder as a comforting gesture - no, really, she was gentle to people in pain. Most of the time. "No, Nessie. There is a reason healers asked you to wear it. Whatever that is. Just try to focus on something else like..." Errr...? Louisa looked around quickly expecting clowns or a circus to emerge from the ground or something.

With a sigh, the Prefect just turned to look at Nessie and attempted to make a friendly conversation, "Let's chat, okay? It'll help you forget about it alright and with time, you won't even remember you're wearing it." And no, Louisa had no idea whether that was true or not. But it was like every other new habit, it takes time to get used to. Right? "Like.. let's talk about your new year at Hogwarts.." Louisa paused thoughtfully, staring at the red head, "... I don't think I know what year you're in now." She remembered Nessie from when she was an ickle little firstie but the girl grew up so much, she was almost as tall as Louisa. D:

Minerva shrugged trying to play it cool. The new Min was suppose to not care about points. "Well if you do no big deal." she grinned and then put a sad face on "Why do I have to behave if your not?" she winked and smiled at Laura.


[qoute=]Alyssa smiled glad to see her old friend."Minnie. It's really good to see you. I hope you don't mind copying you, but as you can see I decided to change my hair color and style too. A lot of stuff happened during the summer, so I just felt that I needed to do something different to try keep me sane. My summer didn't go too well but I'll tell you about it later. I don't want to spoil everybody's mood right now." Alyssa explained.[/quote]

Minerva shook her head. "Why would I mind. Heck it won't stay like this long, you know me." she smiled. "Well you know these feast we will be here awhile if you want to talk."

He sighed, "More like distant." He knew how this was going to turn out for him. He wasn't going to lie to himself and even hope for a chance that she felt the same way. He knew what he was to her, a friend, a cousin... a brother practically. There wasn't anything romantic between them, and he knew there probably never would be.

Laura looked at Min and giggled, this girl wasn't the real Min Surely. "Who are you and what have you done with Minerva?" Laura shook Minerva by her shoulders, "Oh I know what we can do stranger, we can wrap you up and post you to Professor Hadley and then you can scream at her when she opens you." Laura giggled.

Sophie saw the boy's mouth moving but couldn't hear him. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" She said smiling and leaning forward to get closer to him. He didn't seem too comfortable around... people. "Are you looking forward to this term?" She asked kindly. Maybe some small talk would cheer him up?

"Summer was great! But being back here is better!!" Sophie said happily. "What about your summer, Alyssa?" She hoped the girl had had a good time too!

She nodded at Alyssa's next comment and sighed. She coudn't understand how people didn't like Hufflepuff, really. They were all so nice, weren't they?? They were!!!

"I was just making sure you could hear and see meeee!!" Sophie said grinning. "It IS!! I can't wait for classes and everything else to start!!" HOGWARTS WAS SO COOOOOOL!!!

Then she glanced back at the Sorting Ceremony. OH! THERE THEODORE WAS!!! She waited for the Sorting Hat to shout 'Gryffindor', but her eyes widened when it placed her new friend in Slytherin instead. "Hopefully he will like it!" she thought watching him go to the green table.

Train's closed. So..here you go!
 

Trying not to think about the scrumptious food that was going to be served, Mordred stood up from where he was seated and made his way down to the back of the hall. Crossing his arms, he examined the hall—and was quite pleased with what he saw. The boy scoured the tables for familiar faces and his eyes landed on an old friend-- more of a sidekick actually.

He made his way to their table and found a seat beside Oakey. “Y’know, that gash on your forehead really suits you. You should thank your owl for that.” He said as he eyed the first year that seem to be having tantrums. “And I thought they were the cheery sort.” He thought to himself.

“How’s it going?” Mordred wanted to know what happened to him. The last time they talked was during their first year when the old pirate ship made its appearance on the black lake. Has it really been three years already?

Laura looked at Sophie and then Alyssa. "Okay then where is this unhappy first year?" Laura wanted to have a few words with them. "Maybe we should tell them we won all three trophies last term and that will cheer them up." Or maybe Laura could pie the person.