Thea smirked at his eye roll. 'Yes. I am.' Thea nodded in agrement, and smiled triumphantly.
The smile soon disappeared as he began to talk about her being crazy.
After thinking about it, the fourth year shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'I must be crazy then..'

Her eyebrows shot up. 'You sounded like a full on old man there!' Trying to keep a straight face, Thea failed and began to laugh. Looking to the side, Thea squinted against the sunshine. Placing her sunglasses back on her face, she turned back to Paulosaurus.
'Was your summer good?' Thea chewed her lip.

Ellie tilted her head to the side. "Sure it is." She thought so, at least. She shrugged, did she not? A silent 'I don't know', which was very much the truth. She had no idea if she was alright. She supposed she was. Things could be worse, as they always could. However, that wasn't a thought that kept away the pain in her chest.

Funny, though, how she presumed that Stella was talking about the one thing she really was NOT alright with.

"That's not answering mine, though," Ellie pointed out. Like, at all, though. That was called 'avoiding the question'. But she really wasn't going to prod. "Just figured....we're in the same circumstance, right?" Or was it just her that felt this pathetic? After all, Arya did this for three years and always had a smile on her face.

The redhead rolled onto her stomach and poked her finger out at the pygmy puff for it to bite...or sniff...or whatever it was pygmy puffs did upon greeting.

Jezzabelle wandered along the pathways in no general direction. She just wanted out of the common room and away from the school. If that meant she had to possibly wander around in a circle she would. It was nice though, to be outside. The fresh air cleared her mind and gave her a moment to think about...well everything.

She let her mind roam off with the breeze that was moving through the trees, something she had been avoiding since her trip to the Owlery. She pushed back on those thoughts and occupied her mind with thoughts of greenhouses and plants and the feel of soil in-between her fingers. Happy things like jelly beans and licorice. She was gone to the world at that point. The real world was no longer in focus.

FOOD! That was all Carson could think about. He was absolutely starving and yet he'd been eating cookies and chocolate since he started walking along the pathways. Why was the third year still hungry? It was insane. It was almost as if he was a human food machine or something. There was just no filling him. Maybe he was just eating for the sake of it. Or his metabolism was just really short. Either way, there was no way he was filling himself up at this point. He dug through his pocket finding a full packet of gummy worms. A smile quickly quivered across his lips as he opened the packet and took out a gummy worm dropping it in his mouth and munching away. "This tastes so good" he mumbled to no-one in particular. There were a lot of people walking along the pathways, some going in the same direction as him, others in the opposite direction but none of them seemed to be bothered by his talking to himself.

He wasn't really talking to himself though. Not when he thought about it. Really he was just talking to anyone and everyone if anyone was even taking notice of him. But even if they weren't, it really didn't bother him. He had his gummy worms to keep him company, that was all he needed. But how was he supposed to eat gummy worms if he didn't have a drink to wash them down with. Maybe he should summons a drink. If he could remember the summonsing charm that was. Yeah, there was no way he was going to remember that with a brain full of sugar and random thoughts. Whoever spoke to him was going to be in for a treat. So to speak. They were going to end up in a conversation with a twelve, nearly thirteen-year-old acting like a four-year-old. But that was all he was really! Or at least to him he was. He was all about living life to the max. YOLO! That was his motto. And even if acting like a four-year-old was his way of living life to the max, he was sure going to keep going. He was only having fun, after all.

Jezzabelle pulled herself away from her thoughts when she heard someone speak that had walked past her heading in the opposite direction of her. She turned not sure if she had been addressing her or not, and the latter seemed to be the more obvious choice. It was at that exact moment that the boy pulled out a bag of gummy worms. Oh, the sweet delicious joy of gummy worms. It had been so long since she had one of them.

Turning on her heel she jogged and caught up with him keeping up with his pace. What was she supposed to say? "Erm..." She watched as he kept eating the gummy yummy and she wanted to just grab one for herself. "You wouldn't mind if I had one of those would you?" It wasn't like she was asking for the whole bag just one...or two...maybe even three. No, she would stop with one.

Too. Good. To. Stop. Eating!

How could Carson just magically stop eating? For him it was definitely an impossibility. Especially when it came down to such sweet foods as ice-cream, cookies, chocolate and GUMMY WORMS! That was to name a few. There were so many other things he could eat and never stop eating but if he was to list EVERYTHING, he'd be there all day. He didn't want to be there all day. No way. He glanced at the person he'd just walked past. Someone was taking notice of him? YAY! Although the girl probably thought he was completely insane for walking down a path eating gummy worms to himself and talking to himself the whole time. Who wouldn't? He knew he probably would if he wasn't so crazy himself. But craziness was what made him... him! Without it, would he be Carson McIntyre? Probably but he would be really boring if he didn't have at least one crazy trait. And his crazy trait was... Was... WHAT WAS IT?!?!?! O wait, it was EVERYTHING about him.

He took another gummy worm out of the packet and dropped it into his mouth chewing away not taking notice of the fact that someone was trying to catch up with him. The girl he'd just passed? Alec? Bethan? ANYONE he knew?!?! Well he didn't know the girl he'd passed not a minute ago but hey... Where was he again? O yeah, GUMMY WORMS! Yum! Yum! Yum! He looked to his side when whoever was trying to catch up with him finally caught up with him, a gummy worm hanging out of his mouth. He must have looked like an absolute weirdo standing there like that. Or in his case, walking like that. So it WAS the girl he'd passed. He listened as she opened her mouth to speak realising he STILL had a gummy worm hanging out of his mouth when she asked if she could have one. Why not? Sure, he didn't know the girl but he wasn't going to let that stop him from giving her a gummy worm. He could have eaten them all to himself but then that would make him greedy. "Sure" he mumbled with a nod holding the bag out for the girl to take as many as she wanted.

And this, this right here was why she still had a slight aversion to boys. No matter how old they were, they were weird. And this boy right here just reinforced her thoughts. The gummy worm hanging out of his mouth and the way he just kept going proved how weird he was and Jezzabelle had a feeling that he could and possibly was weirder. HOWEVER, he did offer her the bag of gummy yummy worms and she was more than willing to shove her hand in there and take the three...or four...she wanted. She bit the head off one and chewed on it savoring the sweet flavor. Yea, she had missed eating candy like this.

She tossed the rest of the worm into her mouth and gave herself time to chew on it before she swallowed because she only had three left at this point and if the boy were to eat them all before she finished the three then there would be none left and if there were none left then she rushed too fast and didn't get to enjoy the gummy worms. So in conclusion, she wouldn't only be sad but she would be mad at herself for rushing and not enjoying one of the little things life had to offer to her in that moment.

She smiled and said to him, "Thanks." She hadn't forgotten her manners, no sir she had not. She popped another into her mouth and chewed it over while they kept walking and she felt like she should say something else....like her name. She swallowed and gave a big grin, "I'm Jezzabelle by the way." Yep. Aaannnddd..."I'm a second year lion. And who are you mysterious boy with gummy yummies."

Carson eyed the girl out of curiosity. Was it him or was she thinking? NO! That could be dangerous. If she thought too much into this... This... This meeting, he'd probably have to run away before she made a drastic conclusion. People often made drastic conclusions about him. They were usually true but still, they were... They were... They were... DANGEROUS! Yeah, dangerous. Hadn't he already used that word once? O well. Dangerous was the word he was sticking with. And no one - not even this girl - was going to stop him from thinking conclusions were dangerous. Especially if someone was making a conclusion about someone they didn't even KNOW! That made it all the more worse. Possibly even the worst possible thing he could ever possibly think of. Why was he still using the word possibly? NO! NO! NO! He'd finally gone loopy. But loopy was goooooood! Yes. Loopy was very good. He liked loopy.

Maybe this girl was just as loopy? But the way she was looking at him said different. Why you look at me like that? he asked himself silently. Or was he asking her? He didn't know! He was asking someone. But they didn't hear him. He was asking in his head where nobody could hear him and would probably never hear him. That was good. It... was good... Right? RIGHT? Yep, he was definitely loopy. Yes sir, and he was LOVING being LOOPY! Very much so. He was NOT going to stop being loopy if he enjoyed it. He watched as the girl took a handful of gummy worms from the packet and took another one out for himself. Was she... savouring? She was! She was savouring EVERY bite. But he had more! He had another... three... maybe four packets in his dorm room. Yeah! Something along those lines. He forgot. O well. He still had more so she didn't need to savour every bite of what gummy worms she had taken from the packet.

He threw the gummy worm in his mouth chewing once more. But then she spoke... AGAIN! What was it with people speaking when he was eating? He didn't like talking with his mouth open... much O well. She'd live, right? She would live with it, wouldn't she? If not, she didn't have to see the Slytherin again. But then she introduced herself. Now he had to swallow the gummy worm and answer her. He finished chewing the gummy worm finally allowing it to slide down his throat so he could speak without seeming rude. "Carson..." he responded, his voice a slight mumble. He wanted... no... he NEEDED another gummy worm! He took one out of the packet just as the girl spoke again. Well, at least this time he didn't have a gummy worm in his mouth. Mysterious? Carson? She was talking about him, right? But he wasn't mysterious. He was just... strange! And he wasn't afraid to admit it. "Like I said, Carson. Third year Slytherin" he told her just before tossing the gummy worm in his mouth.

She couldn't help but chuckle while he managed to wave while catching his breath and saying 'hi' to her. He had probably run really fast or a long way! "Oh, I see! The wheather really is nice today, isn't it?" She said while looking up at the trees around them.

Sophie giggled at his answer. "I'm good too!" Who wouldn't be with this lovely wheather and a whole new term ahead of them?? She grinned. "It's because I aaaam!!" Excited, that is! She coudn't be happier by coming back to Hogwarts. This place was just awesome! And YES! That was going to be a GREAT year! Sophie nodded and nodded! "Second year is awesome so far! I've met some new people around, a lot of first years. They're really nice!" And some older people, but not all of them were that nice... but oh well. "What about you? I hear you're trying out for Quidditch this term!" She said happily. She hoped he made the team, so she would have two friends from her own year - because Alec was obviously going to be the seeker again - on the team and it would be brilliant to cheer for them! "What position?"

Ah, it explained everything! And by everything she meant his streak of pure strange. She didn't mind strange though she was just wondering why it was every Slytherin she met that had to be so...so...strange. Jezzabelle popped another worm into her mouth and she chewed over it slowly. It was awkward to have a conversation with someone while they were both eating and she could never fully understand why that was so.

So instead of talking she just ate the next gummy worm in line. The last gummy worm in line. Oh well, she'd live without the gummy yummy for now at least. She looked down and felt less like a lion and more like a badger, silly little shy Hufflepuffs. Though she was stereotyping which was rude and she really should get to know the person she was mooching off of. Instead she remained silent.

Aha! NOW she was stopping the savouring! Why was she doing that again? It wasn't as if he was going to eat them all to himself! Okay, maybe he would if he was more obnoxious than he was. But he wasn't obnoxious. Or at least he didn't think he was! He hoped he wasn't. Great, now he was being paranoid. What if the girl he now knew as Jezzabelle thought he was obnoxious. She'd be getting the wrong end of the stick because he wasn't. He was far from it. He may have been very a little insane, but he most certainly was NOT obnoxious. Nor would he ever be. He took another gummy worm out of the packet and tossed it in his mouth chewing again. By now his jaw was starting to ache from all the chewing he'd done since he got out into the fresh air let alone the entire time he'd been at Hogwarts. But that wasn't going to stop him from enjoying the sweet taste of gummy worms! They were too tasty! WAY too tasty!

AWKWARD!

Yes. There was an awkward silence between the two. But how was he going to eliminate the silence when he'd only just met her, they were both eating and not one them knew what to say. Or at least that was the way it appeared. Surely one of them had something to say. Right? But he didn't have a lot to say. He was too busy chewing gummy worms to even try thinking about something to say. He glanced at the girl holding the bag out for her to take another handful of gummy worms. If she wanted anymore, that was! If she didn't then... Then... Then SHE was just as insane as he was. Yeah! That was what he was going with. Though he wasn't entirely sure why he was going with that. What was he saying about conclusions not five minutes ago? That was it! They were DANGEROUS!

Time to break the silence. Even if he STILL didn't know how to break that barrier he hated to call a silence. But that was exactly what it was. And it was so... So... ANNOYING! "So, it's nice meeting you" he smiled after finishing the gummy worm he was chewing on. At least this time she wasn't speaking when he had a mouth full. That was a good thing, right? He thought it was.

There it was extended to her again, the bag of gummy words and who was she to pass up such an offer. She took another handful of five this time and ate one chewing it over and over again. She smiled as she chewed. Carson couldn't be too bad right? I mean he had a love for gummy worms so why should she fear talking to him?

He broke the silence though by saying it was nice meeting her. She gave another smile smile and thanked Merlin she had an empty mouth to respond with. "Well, It's nice to meet you too." She was actually really glad to meet people outside of Gryffindor no matter how strange. "So, do you always walk around with candy in your pockets?" She popped another worm into her mouth.

YAY! He was sharing! And he wasn't complaining about it! See. He WAS able to share without complaining about the idea. EAT THAT! was all he had to say on that note. But like he was going to say that out loud and allow Jezzabelle to think he was even more insane than he was already proving to be. But it wasn't his fault! That was just the way he was. And it had absolutely NOTHING to do with the people he had met in and outside of Hogwarts. He was all himself and no-one else. Except some of his traits. They came from his parents. In fact, EVERYTHING -but his insanity, of course- came from his parents. He was possibly the most insane person in his entire family and he wasn't afraid to admit that. No, sir! Why should he be afraid of admitting the truth? It wasn't as if anybody was able to change the way he was. He'd change as he got older. Whether it be to end up crazier or a little more serious.

SERIOUS! NO! NO! NO! He couldn't even BEGIN to imagine what his life would be like if he was serious! How boring would that be? How was he supposed to get his little perks out into the world if he was serious? BLEH! That idea was soon to be thrown out the window and never to be seen again. He wanted to remain the person he was until he was told otherwise. Or forced otherwise. Since when did he do as he was told? Even THAT was boring! There was no fun in doing as he was told. Nope! None. At. All!

YAY! They had a conversation going. Sort of. They'd said a couple of sentences to each other! Could that be counted as a conversation? He hoped it could! This conversation was taking a while to get started and once it had gotten started, the randomness was almost destined to role from him to her. Yeah! If there was one thing he wanted to do, it was to meet people he could have fun with WITHOUT there being any sort of awkwardness between them. Awkwardness was bad. Awkwardness should have been BANISHED! YEAH! Why wasn't it? Everyone hated awkwardness, didn't they? They did hate it, right? He wasn't just imagining that? HE'D BETTER NOT HAVE BEEN!

AND SHE WAS SPEAKING BACK! Duh! Her lips were moving and words were coming out. So yeah! She was speaking back! "The pleasure is ALL mine" he responded in a very hyper, sugary voice. O boy! He was crazy! And Jezzabelle was sure to have noticed that by now. He nodded shoving another gummy worm in his mouth pushing it to the side so he could speak. This was bad! He was about to speak with his mouth full. O well! "Always! I'm kind of a sugar addict" he admitted. Kind of? That wasn't the word.

She placed another in her mouth and kind of started to sway as she chewed only because walking in a straight line, well walking in general, seemed to bore her after a while when her mind wasn't going out and being weird like it normally is. It was okay though right, that she was swaying because she was positive that she wasn't hitting Carson. No she would never intentionally sway into a person.

There it had officially started. The sugar was starting to course in her system and cause her to become hyper and she was expressing it through her swaying.She nodded as he spoke and she laughed. "Kind of a sugar addict." No he was she could tell. Could he not hear it in his voice? Then again maybe he sounded like that naturally. She shrugged, what difference did it make anyway? "What would you say your favorite candy is?" If he said black licorice she would freak out. who liked that stuff? It was gross.

She was swaying? Swaying? SWAYING! SHE WAS SWAYING! YAY! Yep, he was definitely insane. Hadn't he already clarified that? O well! He was clarifying it again. It wasn't as if Jezzabelle could hear what he was thinking. Or could she? That would be so COOL! He'd love to have the power to listen to what people were thinking! Imagine all the things he'd discover. But imagine all the nasty things he'd learn. He'd probably learn that a lot of people thought he was some sort of crazy person and were hoping he'd shut up. He'd probably end up crying if he heard those thoughts! But if anybody had a problem with the way he was, they'd tell him, right? They would tell him, wouldn't they? PLEASE, TELL ME! he thought to himself. Not that anybody could actually hear what in the world he was thinking. But maybe the look on his face said what he was thinking! NO! POKER FACE!

Hehe. Poker face! That made him giggle!

But the girl was SWAYING! Again, he'd clarified that! But if he joined in, he'd look even crazier than he thought he already did! But then he didn't really care what people saw! As long as he was having fun, that was all that counted, right? Nobody could tell him what he could or couldn't do in his own time. He could eat as many sweets, cookies or ice-cream as he possibly wanted and not one person could tell him NO! NOT. ONE.

SUGAR HIGH! The sugar seemed to be kicking into Jezzabelle's system. YAY! More fun! In a way! But if the sugar was kicking into her system, it just meant he wasn't the only person on a sugar high. And that was ALWAYS a good thing! It meant more than one person could relish on the advantages of being hyper. All the fun came when one was hyper. At least for Carson it did. He always had fun if he was hyper from eating too much sugary food. And that was almost everyday of his life! Yep! His life was AWESOME! And he wasn't afraid to admit it. He liked his life. No! He LOVED his life! Very much so! And not one person was going to try to change the way he lived his life. Not even his parents or even his sister. Not one of them understood why he lived the way he did. Not even his own mum. Or maybe she did! A little bit! A VERY little bit!

"Okay, I AM a sugar addict. But hey, who doesn't like sugar? It's possibly the most amazing thing that was ever invented. I love sugar! It's the key to my world" he nodded before taking another gummy worm out of the packet and tossing it in his mouth just as she spoke again. Had he eaten too much sugary food today? NO! He could never have too much sugar! NEVER! And nobody was EVER going to take his sweets off him. He'd be unhappy if they tried to! Very unhappy. "How can I possibly choose a favourite candy? There are so many. But ice-cream definitely ranks at the top of ALL foods I've ever eaten" he answered as a matter of factly! YEP! Ice-cream was the BEST! Even Alec would agree with that.

Jezzabelle laughed and swayed some more. He really wasn't all that bad and she could handle this hyper person. She ate another gummy worm, her...third in this handful...and chewed it over as he admitted to being a sugar addict. "I knew it," was all she said. And she did know it. Mmhm. She knew without a doubt.

Ice cream. Everybody seemed to love ice cream but she, she would always be a chocolate frog kind of girl. Yes, chocolate frogs and peppermint toads. He had a trouble choosing a favorite though. "Well you have to eat one sweet more than any other right? So wouldn't that be your favorite?" At least, that's what she thought would label something as a favorite. She ate another worm and began to sway even more. Great, now she was never going to go to sleep. Oh well, her dreams were nightmares and she didn't really wanna sleep anyway.

OMNOMNOMNOMNOM! Yep. These worms were that tasty! Tastiest worms he'd EVER had! Probably because they WERE the only worms he'd ever had. But they were still tasty. And nothing was going to get away from that! NOTHING! GOT THAT EVERYTHING? NOTHING! He smirked like a cheshire cat digging into the bag for another gummy worm tossing it into his mouth chewing down vigorously but excitedly enjoying every last ounce of flavour that was in it. He was completely hyper but that wasn't going to stop him from eating MORE gummy worms out of the packet. He glanced at Jezzabelle to see if she'd eaten all of her gummy worms. It didn't look like she had. But in case she had, he held out the bag for her to take another handful.

But now he had the BIGGEST craving for ice-cream! Maybe Alec had some ice-cream! But Alec wasn't anywhere to be seen. *pout* WHERE WAS ALEC! AND WHERE WAS ALL THE ICE-CREAM AT! If he was going to get ice-cream, he HAD to go to the kitchens. But he didn't want to go to the kitchens. He was happy outside wandering around the pathways talking like the hyperactive twelve year old he was.

"I eat a lot of ice-cream! Does that count?" answered Carson. Surely it counted, right? It had sugar in it! It was sweet! And most importantly, IT TASTED AMAZING!

Jezzabelle had just popped the last gummy worm into his mouth and she beamed when he extended the bag to her AGAIN! She took another handful this time not counting but just eating and with her sway there came a bounce and with that bouncing sway came the hyper run of sugar. Great that's what she needed. Yes! Yes it was.

She nodded enthusiastically. "Yes that would count." Why was she explaining stuff like this to an OLDER student?!?!?! It just didn't make any sense at all. However she popped another worm into her mouth and chewed. "So how long have you been at Hogwarts?" It wasn't always safe to assume people had been here since their first year but rather to assume that they are here and if they had been here since their first year they would let her know. Yes, that was a safe assumption.

She ate another worm and all of a sudden she felt a craving for a chocolate frog to go with all this awesome gumminess. Yes, chocolate and gummy mixed amazingly in her book and who wouldn't want twice the sugar in one bite? She shoved her hand into her pocket and found nothing. Silly little lion had left them in the girls dorms. She frowned and ate another worm. It was just right out depressing.

YAY! His hyperness was rubbing off on her. Or maybe that was the gummy worms! Either way, he LOVED that she was just as hyper as he was. Or at least she appeared to be! But then appearances could be deceiving. Yes! They could be VERY deceiving. And he didn't like things that deceived. No, sir! He had a BIG dislike to things the deceived. So appearances were not something he was really dependant on. It was what was on the inside that counted. And if someone could be just as crazy as he was all the time, the was a BONUS! A BIG BONUS! A HUGE BONUS! Or just a bonus! NO! Just a bonus was boring. B.O.R.I.N.G. Yeah! That was right. And boring was... Well it wasn't good. He knew that. That was all he could think of comparing boring to. Though it wasn't really a comparison. Was it? Could it count as a comparison? Would Jezzabelle count it as a comparison? Would ANYONE count it as a comparison? But he wouldn't find out unless he asked. And if he asked he'd seem twice as crazy as he already was. But he didn't seem it. He WAS crazy. Nuff said!

He smiled mischievously at Jezzabelle nodding in agreement, possibly a little too enthusiastically. But how could he be too enthusiastic? It was impossible! Impossible, I tell you. I.M.P.O.S.S.I.B.L.E! But in Carson's eyes, almost everything was impossible when it came to craziness. Just like he thought it was impossible for him to get any more crazy than he already was. And he'd fight until he was blue in the face determined to prove that he couldn't get any more crazy. Because he was at the maximum for crazy people! But he also wouldn't be hi, if he wasn't the way he was, would he? NO!

And he wasn't going to change. EVER!

"YAY!" he giggled. Now he did seem like a lunatic! Not that he cared! Nope! HE. DID. NOT. CARE! Not in the slightest little bit!

How long had he been at Hogwarts? This was his first year! And he was determined to start his time here at Hogwarts with a bang! HE'D CERTAINLY DONE THAT! "This is my first year hear at Hogwarts" he responded enthusiastically. "Ya know, I was determined to come in with a bang! Do you think I did it? Do you think I came in with a bang? Did I? DID I?" he asked.

Bounce. Sway. Bounce. Sway. Gummy work. Bounce. Sway. It was a rhythm almost one that was brought on by the sugar of the gummy candy. She laughed and shook her head. He was crazy, oh yes he was. She ate another worm and looked down to see she still had about three left.

She went and popped another in her mouth uncaring as to how low she was getting. "So this is your first year! Wow!" It surprised her but at the same time she wasn't because someone like Carson would be hard to miss. SO in answer to his next question, "Yes, I think you did come in with a big bang." Oh yes, for her it was a VERY big bang. So big in fact she was still dealing with the after shock of it all.

Swaying bounce. Bouncing sway. LAST GUMMY! "Okay so what do you think of Hogwarts so far?" She was used to people asking her what she thought but rarely had she ever gotten the chance to ask someone else. Plus it was nice not to feel so new to know that he was newer. Sure she had like one extra year but that was like big? Wasn't it? It was to her anyway.

"Do you have any special hobbies?" Hobbies. Yes, hobbies. Things he really enjoyed. She for one had taken up many hobbies. Some of which she was slightly worried about other that she loved and flaunted. However, she would not disclose these hobbies unless asked.

Carson bobbed his head up and down watching as Jezzabelle bounced then swayed and carried on in the same rhythm. It was actually quite addictive. Though he wasn't about to start doing the same! If he did that, he'd end up wanting to bounce and sway more than he wouldn't stop. And it'd be a little crazy if two people were walking doing the exact same thing. Though he didn't care what people thought of him, he did care about them thinking he was a copycat. Or even Jezzabelle thinking he was a copycat. Because he wasn't! He never would be! NEVER! He really didn't like people who copied what other people were doing! It wasn't very nice. Unless credit was given. But this wasn't something that credit could be given to someone for. Unless asked why?

But he wasn't going to start bouncing and swaying. Instead he was going to carry one walking along the pathway talking and eating. Eating and talking. TEATING! Hehe. That was good! Yeah! Teating was good! It was his own action! And nobody could copy his action! Okay, maybe everyone would do that action but he made it even better. He'd made a WORD for the action!

He nodded at Jezzabelle. He was glad to be here at Hogwarts. There was so much he could do. So many places he could go! And the boys' dorms were the PERFECT place for doing... Well for doing whatever he wanted! And he ALWAYS did what he wanted. No matter what! Nobody had stopped him so far! And he sure hoped nobody ever would. He jumped up and down with excitement at the fact that he HAD in fact come in with a BIG bang! That made him happy. VERY happy! "I'm glad! I like the idea of big bangs" he smiled with drastic enthusiasm. Why was it drastic? Because people would have to take drastic action to get away from him distinct, unmissable enthusiasm. Not that anybody would want to. They wouldn't, would they? He sure hoped not!

What did he think of Hogwarts so far? HE LOVED IT! Nuff said. "It's so BIG! he responded. That was all he needed to say on that matter. It was big enough for him to have fun in and there were plenty of people to have fun with. That was what he wanted!

Hobbies? Where did he start? "Well, I like playing guitar. When I'm not too hyper, that is! Then there's messing around! And of course, EATING SUGARY FOOD!" Not to be missed out! Of course!

Almost as soon as she'd pointed out the evasion Ellie had been doing, Stella had realized the likelihood of her actually getting an answer was slim. If not nonexistent, especially if she wasn't completely overstepping in thinking the redhead's problem was basically the same as hers. It was definitely an assumption, even if it was one with, as far as she knew, truth behind it. And in any case, Ellie was a Ravenclaw like herself. That meant they were both smart enough to just keep evading for as long as they liked. She hadn't exactly come out with all her problems, either, so expecting the other girl to after one simple comment was stupid.

At least she had someone to talk to, or just to sit there with while they dwelled on the feelings of being lost. The pain of missing someone and knowing that they weren't going to see them any time soon. She wondered if Ellie, at least, was going to get the same relief she was and get to see the person that was being missed at the holidays, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she merely continued their idle conversation of not really saying anything. "Alright. We're both not answering the question," she replied, before nodding slightly as Ellie had at least hinted that they were in the same position. "We both have reasons not to. Although maybe talking about it would help." She was at least curious if talking about Matt and how much she missed him would ease the empty feeling inside her, at least until the next owl.

It seemed like, for now, Ellie was more content in distracting herself, and Nuage was perfectly fine with that. Stella watched her fellow seventh year poke a finger at her pygmy puff, but the creature merely rolled closer and then snaked her tongue out to lick said finger before making an almost purr sound that Stella herself usually only heard when Nuage was around Lyra. "I think she likes you," she said, tucking her feet underneath herself as she continued to watch her pet. Either that or Ellie was being mistaken for a cat, but she figured the puff knew better than that.

A smirk made its way to Ellie's face. That seemed to be true. They both weren't answering. They both probably weren't going to answer. "I think we both know the answers anyway." If they were to liken themselves and they really were on the same level of the situation. And if they were similar enough to each other...Which, Ellie didn't know. They hadn't really talked enough to know the answer to that.

"Or make it worse," she raised an eyebrow. Like...thinking about it made it worse, you know, talking about it could only be worse than that worseness. "And it's only September," she sighed. Months were too long. School was awful.

Oh! She got a lick from the pygmy puff. Well...that was good, yeah? And...they purred?!! Weird. Catlike. And there was really only one cat Ellie's ever liked so...she was judging this puff. Still, she moved her finger from the front of the puff's face, to its...head? To stroke it. "You think? She's kinda cute..." She. Pygmy puffs came in she's? "What's her name?"

Messer rolled his eyes after he heard Sophie chuckled. He's pretty sure that there's nothing funny from his breathless-ness. Girls. "Yes its. Its a shame really if I just spend my free time in the common room." Don't get him wrong he likes his common room but with weather like this he prefer to spend it outside.

"Oh. Good. Good." Then he laughed hearing Sophie answered. She's definitely very excited by coming here. "Are you sure that you're feeling alright? Because you seem so hyper today." he joked. Not that's a bad thing. First year? "Do you noticed that there're more firstie this term?" Maybe more than last term or was that only his imagination? "First year always nice Sophie." he chuckled. "Like people said first impression always matter." GRIN. "Yeah. I'm trying out for Quidditch again this year." Another grin. "How about you? How come you're not trying out for the team?" he asked. "I remember correctly that you're pretty good flier." He remembered how the first time they met in Flying lesson and she's pretty good with broom. What position? That's any easy question. "Beater!" he grinned widely.

Alyssa walked along the pathways. She was needed to find a place where she could be alone by herself. She was feeling like the whole world was caving in on her and she just wanted it to stop.

She found a secluded stop, sat on one of the benches, pulled her knees up until she could lay her head on them, wrapped her arms around her knees, and closed her, forcing herself not to cry.