Ronnie skipped down to the duck pond, her bright orange hair flying behind her. Her kitten Oliver bounded after her, trying to keep up.

As Ronnie got closer to the duck pond, she spotted Harvey at the pond edge feeding the ducks.

*gasp*

HARVEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY!

Ronnie ran up to him and almost knocked him over in a large hug. "HARVEY!" she squealed, squeezing him tightly. "I haven't seen you in forever! Well that's what it feels like." she said with a laugh as she let him go.

Harvey was just there minding his own business feeding the ducks, when suddenly he heard a girl squeal out his name. He wondered who that could be there were hardly any people that squealed like that especially when saying his name. He turned around to see who it was that was squealing out his name for the whole world to hear, when suddenly he was covered in red hair as he was nearly knocked over from the force of the hug. Now there was only one girl he knew that squealed out his name, had red hair and was known to try and knock him over with her hugs. Just then she talked and his suspicions were confirmed it was Ronnie Weasley, her trademark hugs included trying to knock him over,, he laughed as she let him go "I know.. I know.. yeah it sure does feel that way. But thats a nice way to meet up again.. trying to knock me into the pond with ducks!" he continued laughing as he shook his head "How you been?" he asked her.

Ronnie grinned as he said it was a nice way to meet up again. She chuckled. "Yeah, it suuuure is!" she smirked, bouncing on her heels. She was feeling rather energetic and excited today. Maybe it was because she finally got to see Harvey. Yeah, that was probably it.

"I've been great, thanks for asking!" she said with a smile. "What about you?" she asked. She smiled. It was real nice to talk to Harvey again, she missed hanging out with him all the time.

Harvey smiled as she agreed with him before he saw her bouncing on her heels like she always did, she was her cheerful self as always. He smiled as she said that she had been great "Thats good.. I have been good! hanging out around school and stuff" he smiled .. "So what have you been upto in this time that you decided you needed a break from Harvey?" he chuckled as he asked her jokingly. They hadn't hung out in a long time and he guessed it was time to catch up on what was going on with Ronnie, if he had to be honest he had just realised that he had kind of missed hanging out with Ronnie.

Ronnie laughed at his question. "Ohh just hanging around school. Doing work. Making lots of friends." she said with a smile. She had made a ton more friends this year, and was very happy to have done so. She loved them all and was really glad she had met them. "What about you?" she asked.

Harvey smiled as she laughed at his question before answering it.. "You made new friends? thats great! Me too.. I made a few new ones.. actually I already knrew them we just hadnt hung out properly.. but now we have" he smiled as he thought about Ella, Taylor and Ariana too. Even though he was in his third year.. it still felt good to be making new friends, he was now busy hanging out with friends

Taryn was confused. "Alright. I don't get it. Why is he jealous?" Not that she was saying that he had no reasons to be jealous, but Taryn didn't know the exact reasons.

Or what in the name of Merlin had been going on when she wasn't around.

She glanced at Milton, quite aware that she was sort of not helping at all right now. She nudged his arm lightly and smiled, "Do you want a hug?" Hugs always made things better, right?

Why was he jealous? Ugh. Milton made an 'ugh' face. He'd told this story too many times. "I stole his girlfriend, kind of, and then we broke up and she's psychotic. And he's just... stupid." Milton realized that his very brief story probably didn't clear things up for her, but oh well. He didn't care, really. He was too grumpy.

Milton plucked some grass out of the ground and threw it at a duck.

... Hug? Did he want a hug? Milton looked at Taryn with a strange face. "No." But his face quickly turned a little sly. "But if you've got a kiss, I'll take one of those." Wink.

Heh. Heh.

Theodore flinched as he heard someone sneezing behind him. Sheesh, if you were ILL, stay indoors where your infection could not spread. Theo was always a clean freak. And now the girl was putting her infected feet into the same pond as him. Instinctively, the first year pulled his out and sat on his knees.

"Mind keepin' your germs to yourself?"

He called over, then looked away, feeling rude. Theo wasn't really rude. Promise. He just had his ways and people simply HAD to oblige to those.

After all the time she had spent studying, mostly for subjects she didn’t really like, the Ravenclaw decided to take a break. So she found herself walking around the grounds, having no plans of where she should go in mind. Though, while walking, the fourth year could spot the duck pond from a considerable distance. Hmm. That was one place she hadn’t seen in a while. Hmm. And when was the last time she had been there? Gwendolyn couldn’t remember the exact time, but it had to be sometime at the beginning of the term.

As soon as she got there, the girl gave a quick look around, hoping that she would manage to come across some of her friends. Sadly, the fourth year wasn’t able to spot any familiar faces. Instead of continuing to look around, Gwen simply drew her attention towards the duck pond. Wonder why I never came here with the sketchbook… Perhaps she would have come up with an idea for a drawing. While thinking about actually going back to the Common Room to get her sketchbook, Gwendolyn glimpsed in the direction of the castle. Naah. She wouldn’t go back now. Definitely not.

Erin was startled by the boy's sudden action removing his feet from the pond. It wasn't like, the infection from her nose would be transferred to someone from her feet. He's exactly being paranoid and extremely exaggerating. "Sor--," Erin started but sneeze in an instant. "...ry." she hardly finished blowing her nose on to her handkerchief. Her sickness was making such a horrible thing in her lifestyle. She needed to get well sooner or later.

"Er...We're quite a few inches away from each other. Don't think germs travel...that long." He was clearly being rude. Rude person. And look at that, a rude Slytherin. No explanations needed.

"Oh." Well that was more like it then, finally she knew what was going on. "You can't really 'steal' someone's girlfriend, you know. She had to have made some kind of decision on her own at some point. It's not like you tossed her over your shoulder and carried her to your hut like a caveman, right?"

..RIGHT?

THAT would be stealing.

Ah, but then Milton was back to being Milton. Taryn didn't bother to point out that he was in a mess for 'stealing' another guy's girlfriend already and now he was asking her for kisses. Uh Huh. She gave him a look, but he WAS her friend and he was upset (or he had been at least, now he was all sly looking) so she leaned over and kissed his cheek.

There. A kiss. "Feel better?"

"Yeah I get whatcha mean!" Ronnie said with a nod. "That's very cool!" she said. "How are classes going for ya?" she asked.

Alec clutched his bag tightly as he walked down to the duck pond. No matter what anyone else said about him being around ducks a lot, he still cared for them quite a bit. His Dad wouldn't be too happy if he left the ducks for a long time without feeding them at least once. So that's why he was here. He was going to feed them for the first time since he stepped foot into Hogwarts.

Deep... breath...

The Hufflepuff continued walking until he was close to the edge of the water. Here, he bent down, a grin spread across his young face. For some reason, he had been keeping a grin spread across his face for quite a while now and he didn't really know why. It had nothing to do with ducks, obviously.It had more to do with one person in particular...

Alec shook his head. He couldn't be thinking like this! And... no one could see him like this! The boy turned his head to the left and then the right. Okay, no one was there apart from... some older students. He didn't know them and they probably didn't know him so... that was fine. Alec reached into his bag, took out some pieces of bread and started to feed one of the nearby ducks.

Whistle. Whistle. Whistle.

Darwin bounced along, digging bread out of his pocket as he neared the Duck Pond. He stopped by the edge and tossed bits out to the ducks as they neared him, and then glanced around. There weren't many people here, a couple of older students, and someone who looked around his age stood near to him.

Someone he recognised. Someone he couldn't forget.

"HEY. Tackling boy!" Was it bad that he couldn't remember his name? Probably, but names often eluded him, and it wasn't strictly HIS fault he didn't have the memory for them. Although maybe this time he should have done, especially seeing as the boy had thought he was saving Darwin's life.

He glanced around again. Hopefully this time he wouldn't get wrestled to the ground. He could only see that ending with him in the Pond.

O_O

More sneezes. Theodore made a face of disgust.

And he also covered up his mouth. He guessed the girl was a Ravenclaw, because they always annoyed him in a matter of seconds. "Ugh. If you are sick, then why are you outside?" Seriously, the weather was kind of cold and crappy still, so shouldn't she be tucked up in bed. The boy soon took his hands away from his mouth and sighed, before giving a quick look to those ducks again.

"I'm sorry... if I'm being mean..." He wasn't that sorry. Theo offered her a smile, but it did look a little forced.

Harvey nodded "Yeah it is cool! " he smiled as she asked him a question .. he rubbed the back of his neck.. "Erm.. I kind of... dont go... to them." he said hesitantly hoping she wouldnt go all Minnie-like on him "how about you?" he asked trying to take the heat off of him.

"You don't go to them?" she asked, cocking her head. She burst out laughing. "I DON'T EITHER!" she answered, still laughing. "Well, I do sometimes but...I kinda have been skipping them a lot." she said, smiling shyly. Sneeeaky Ronnie. . .

Little Chelle trotted towards the Duck Pond, perhaps the only place in the Hogwarts Grounds that she hadn't visited so far. Clutching a story book in one hand, she went on towards the ducks. It was so pretty here. Everything was so pretty at Hogwarts. She did miss her home, and she missed Jake dearly, but she liked it a lot here. For the first time in several months, she had a feeling she would actually be sad to leave this place after the term ended.

Looking around, Chelle saw a lot of people spending time. There were couples, and other people who had come with friends, and people who were sitting by themselves. Good thing I brought my book, she though. Then she spotted another girl. She looked a little older than her, and she had certainly seen her around. But she had never talked to her. The girl looked a little lost, and she was alone. Chelle decided to approach her. "Beautiful sight, isn't it?" Chelle said, smiling at the girl.

OOC:Going to bed after this will post more tomorrow if and when I have a pc.. its nearly 7am here so feeling tired now.. you should be going to bed soon too! so you go to bed too!



He watched as she cocked her head before bursting out laughing, he was relieved at least she would allow him not to go to class. He laughed too as she said that she didnt either "So we are two teens that skip classes" he chuckled "Well even if you go to some, its better than my none" he chuckled. Well at least he wasnt the only one that was skipping classes so that was good.

"Well, it looks really good,'' Jory replied nodding. "Red is common but no as common as blonde so it stands out a bit.'' He paused wondering ow Alex looked as a blonde and then joked, ''I wonder how I would look with blue hair,'' Yeah right, his mom would kill him. In any case, he didn't want to dye his hair. At least not for now. All this hair talk reminded him of the time in Transfiguration where they had to change their hair style and colour. What fun that was!

"So, your parents have been together for a ling time,'' he said. "My parents are awesome. They're not the over protective types. Mom is basically a stay at home mom and Dad is a detective,'' Jory told Alex. "I miss them, think I'm homesick,'' he added. He hadn't been homesick since first year. "Tell me about yours.''

Tossed her over his shoulder and carried her to his hut like a caveman...? Milton narrowed his eyes for a moment. Figuratively, maybe a little. But... "No. I don't have a hut. And I'm much more civilized than a caveman, thank you very much." That was a little dramatic.

"So, I didn't really steal her... She just dumped him out of the blue and came running to me. So I swept her off her feet." Milton snorted. That was partially true. It wasn't at all romantic though. He didn't even like her that much. He just wanted to tick Kennedy off. And he succeeded. Smirk.

So... a kiss? Pretty please? Milton continued smirking... until she kissed his cheek.

... "You missed, love."

"You don't? I thought everyone had a hut?" Taryn grinned then, feeling like Milton needed to lighten up a bit and stop brooding over some girl who it didn't even seem like he liked very much to begin with.

"I don't really see that as stealing at all. She made her choice, right?" She definitely wouldn't want some girl to move in on her boyfriend. Not at all. She could definitely see the jealousy issue there. But to Milton, it seemed all just to be for the pure sport of it all. Though Taryn hardly thought that was a good reason to breakup a couple.

Missed? No. Actually she had not missed. "Not quite." She was sort of saving all of her real kisses for August. It had taken them a whole year to have their first kiss. She didn't just go around kissing every boy she saw! Even the thought of it was making her blush.

Even though this was probably not one of her favourite places at Hogwarts, the fourth year had to admit… the duck pond looked rather well. She had been willing to go back to the Common Room and grab her sketchbook, but even if she had inspiration for a few drawings, it would be too cold to hang out there for long time, so she canceled her plans of sketching.

As she kept looking at the duck pond, Gwendolyn heard footsteps approaching the place where she was standing, but didn’t mind to see who it was. Meh, probably not even someone she knew. But then that other person started talking. ‘Umm… guess so’, the fourth year replied simply. Meh. Not much of a fan od the duck pond. Not really. After having said that, the Ravenclaw finally drew her attention to the other person. It was a girl who looked younger than her, but Gwen couldn’t really tell in which year she was.

She was drawing her attention back to the duck pond, but stopped as she spotted something. Something the other girl was holding in her hands. ‘Don’t you think it is a bit too cold to be reading outside?’, Gwendolyn said with a calm voice and raised an eyebrow. It was February, after all.

Chelle was a little surprised that the older Ravvie didn't think the pond was that pretty. Because Chelle loved it. She wasn't really used to such sights. London was not particularly boring, but Chelle wasn't the outgoing sort anyway. And the girl's unenthusiastic response surprised her.

As the girl asked about her book, she frowned. It was cold, undoubtedly, but Chelle was warm enough. She pulled her collar tightly over her throat and felt her earmuffs in place. "It is cold alright, but not too cold to be reading out here," she replied, sweetly. "What brings you here?" she asked. Was it the cold?