If you have to ask... Then what? Yes? Had she done the wrong thing..? Aurora still didn't know... she couldn't know... her brain just wouldn't let her think about it like that. It was unfair how much of a tizz her brain was in... Argh.

"He does..." Well, he did make her feel special. A lot, actually... he made her smile every time she saw him, he made her stomach do little turns whenever he kissed her... but was that the point? "But I... I feel bad about... about Kennedy. I mean, I think I really hurt him. And I didn't mean to. I just, I don't think we could have done anything else about it... or..." Aurora's voice died down a little, she was speaking quietly now. "Or maybe I just ran away because it was hard. But that's not the point. I just didn't think he'd react like that..." So badly... Sigh... She wished she didn't care about it any more. She wished she could block it out or something...

Hmm.. Kimalia wasn't frowning no longer, though was feeling indifferent to this. Well, it was true that they weren't going to work out.. But this self pity stuff so wasn't working for Aurora. Regardless of how Kimalia may not be so accepting with her new boyfriend. "Well like, duuuh break ups are always hard Rora." Leaning back slightly while she gripped the bars for balance. "I don't think there would've been an easier way without either of you guys hurting." It's too bad she didn't bring any sweets with her to give out. ".. Maybe I haven't met the guy yet, but like, if you're already happy with him.. why end it so soon?"

Break ups are always hard... "I never said they weren't. I just... feel like I shouldn't care what he thinks anymore... Anyway, how was I supposed to know how much it would hurt?" Kennedy had been her first boyfriend... Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry. She was frowning, but that was more to do with the fact she was willing her eyes to stay dry. Merlin, you'd think it would get easier to talk about this...

And then... "Why would I end it?" she said, blinking at Kimalia. "I never said that... I mean... there's no point in that. I just asked if you thought I did the wrong thing because... well... people seem to be judging me quite a bit about it..." And she just wanted to know if Kimalia felt the same...

This was quite awkward. Yea,honestly, Gwen and her just doesn't seem to jive into each other's quirks that much. Gwen was different, more of the solemn, quite type and she was making her feel a bit..uncomfortable. It seemed like it was necessary that she behave in front of her, she carried the same aura Professor Bellaire had. Though it was more accommodating.

Good. If she agreed, that meant they were friends. She liked that. Maybe they were really starting to develop a friendship bond, a unique one since both of them are really different and far from imagination to get along. For the few times she had spend with Gwen, she discovered that it was always relaxing just talking to her. No physical effort was needed. Beezus smiled.

"You too?" She asked abruptly when Gwen said she liked the previous Charms Professor. She liked Professor Schirmer too. "I miss her..And I miss the Observatory too." She was really not liking the fact that the Observatory was still closed!

"Because I said so." he shrugged. Its simple like that. "Crossing your arms not gonna help you, mate." Please, like that gonna scared him.

Yes, of course the usual answer. He should see that coming. "Jealous? Me?" Why he need to be jealous? "Of course not." Why would he? Alec could have all girls fangirl-ing over him see if he care. Messer's eyes went from Alec to Sophie and saw she was shaking her head. Probably because she's confused. He want to explain to her but its a guy thing and Sophie is a girl, sooooo....

He smirked at Alec' comment. "Why are you scared, mate?" The guy already flied higher than this. He was their seeker last year for Merlin's sake. He rolled his eyes. Yeah. Of course the infamous Alec Summer's charms. Oh and look, Sophie fall for it. Girls!

Messer looked up when Sophie called them from the top of the 'castle' "Like you said, mate. Ladies first." he said to Alec.

"Yea, you're right." Like, if you were such a great couple, break ups would be the least on each others mind, whether it hurt or not. That was some serious stuff right there. "It wasn't like you both planned on losing your friendship as well." And there, Kimalia was no longer on the road to freaking out.

"Alright then.." Kimalia would have been really concerned if Aurora ended it just because of such a question.. Ohh, now she could see why she was being asked. "I'm not exactly liking how you two got together, just from how he was involved with you and Kennedy during the summer." I mean, come on it is a little fishy to brush off. Not to mention after seeing how bad Kennedy took the break up, having the said info wasn't a great mix. "But you seem to be doing well with him now.." Then she looked at Aurora, "well, I support you." It was what best friends do right? Even if it didn't seem okay to her. Maybe Kennedy could find another special someone too, speaking of which. ".. So are you sure that he'll tell Sierra?" Yes, she at least heard that part from earlier, but what to do about that if he did. "Like, did he say he would spread it around when you asked?" If he did, or at least hint that he will, then they-yes, Kimalia would involve herself again- had to do some damage control.

After finishing putting up her poser in the kitchen corrider Nerida made her way to the playground, where she knew everyone would see her amazing protest. She looked around the playground before finding the perfect spot! It was near almost everything on the playground, everyone would see the poster and they would think about helping the cause!
She placed the poster/banner up on the perfect place with the help of those magical sticking charms...

Now where too next, for her posters to be placed.

It has been a long time since Tiffany last played in a playground liked this. Every time she went to this place, it would remind her of her adorable family and all those pleasant memories that she could never forget which made her smile brightly whenever she thought of this.

She sat on the swing and looked around. Looking up into the sky, she began thinking of the friends that she made in Hogwarts, and most importantly her brother and sisters. A lot of things happened these days which made her getting really confused. She needed a person or a place to settle on. Maybe here, the playground, would gave her a little help.

Ella walked down to the playground, pulling her coat collar higher to keep out the cold wind that was currently blowing. The playground actually looked quite cool covered in snow. It was like a whole new playground had appeared for the children to use. The second year plopped down in the snow in front of the slide and began making snow angels, giggling.

Chelle walked towards the playground. She was clutching a book in one hand and the other hand was in her pocket. The wind blew against her cheeks and she shivered, because she had on just a think tee shirt, but she couldn't be bothered to go back and put something else on. She sighed. The snow reminded her of Jake, and she realised how much she missed him.

She spotted a Hufflepuff girl sitting in the snow, all by herself, giggling and making... snow angels? Chelle observed her for a while and smiled to herself. Maybe now's the time to go and make a new friend. So Chelle walked up and sat down next to her.

"Snow angels, huh? I miss this stuff, man," she said.

Ella was on her third snow angel when someone decided to join her. The girl looked to be a little younger than Ella, she also looked like she was going to freeze to death! Merlin's beard! Where was this girls coat? She eyed the girl curiously and sat up, nodding with a smile. "Yup, snow angels. They're quite fun to make." But what was this? Why did the girl miss snow angels? "Have you not made any in a while? Well that's just not acceptable." They would have to change that now, yeah?

Removing her coat, Ella shook it off a little and handed it to the smaller girl. "Here. Take this. You can't very well make a snow angel in a tee-shirt." Besides, Ella had on a warm sweater, a scarf, a hat, and gloves...so she didn't really need her jacked at the moment. "Now you can start making snow angels too!" And they could work together to stand up without breaking them. "I'm Ella by the way, Ella Bishop." She said, offering her hand.

Chelle laughed. "Haha, yeah, they're fun to make. But I'm afraid I haven't. In a while," she replied. It's indeed been a long time.

Chelle was a little surprised as the girl took off her coat and gave it to her. She hadn't met anybody that kind in a while, and she had hardly met many people at Hogwarts. But seeing as the girl was still quite covered, she took it. "Thanks! Yeah, we can make snow angels together," she said to the girl.

"Nice to meet you, Ella. I'm Michelle Adams, but you can call me Chelle," she said, taking her hand.

Ella noted that girl looked surprised when offered Ella's coat. Had she never had anyone share with her before? If that was the case, it made Ella very sad and even more eager for the girl to take it. "Not a problem." She said with a smile, satisfied that she had finally accepted Ella's coat.

"Chelle huh?" Ella asked, shaking the smaller girl's hand. "It's nice to meet you too, Chelle. That's a cool nickname. Reminds me of the ocean." Chelle would be a good name for a mermaid, come to think about it! "And you're a...first year?" She asked, curious

Rose giggled as she ran to the playground and jumped up ladders to get to the top. She was gonna meet Ronnie here! She hadn't seen her for a long time, a year! Her best friend! Back! She beamed and twirled on the spot, clapping her hands together loudly and quickly, squealing. She was so excited! She couldn't wait! She kept on look out for the ginger haired girl to appear below her, beaming.

Ronnie ran as fast as she could to the playground, her bright orange hair flying behind her, she could NOT believe it! She was finally going to see her best friend, Rose! One year without Rose felt like a million!

Ronnie saw Rose had climbed the ladders and now was up on the top. She grinned and climbed up as fast as she could, heaving herself up. She ran to her friend and nearly knocked her over in the biggest hug ever. "ROSE!" she squealed loudly. "I MISSED YOU SOOO MUCH!"

'EEEEEEEEEP!' she squealed, hugging her back tightly. 'I MISSED YOU, TOO, OH MY GOSH, YOU'RE BACK AND I HAVE YOU BACK AND DON'T LEAVE ME AGAIN!' she said, pouting. She felt really empty without Ronnie... It was weird... Like another piece of her was gone. That scared her. >.<

If she didn't have a freaking Herbology assignment, Louisa wouldn't have gone out of her dormitories in- ACHU -such a bad evil weather. Not that it was the first time she got this bad cold but this year was different because Louisa actually let her mom pack her trunk for school. HER MOM! The woman who didn't accept her daughter as a witch and just recently decided to get involved in her life. And what she did?- ACHU -she forgot to put Louisa's tonic potions. Brilliant.

ACHU!

Her hoodie and hat covering her head, her hands inside the big warm pocket of the sweatshirt, Louisa was walking quickly across the playground toward the castle.

Just as Paulie reached the top of the slide, he noticed something.....

It was beginning to SNOWWW!

The Gryffindor quickly pushed himself down the slide, and the second his feet touched the ground, he was was standing up and spinning around a little bit much like Lewis had been doing when he bumped into him the other day. He stretched out his arms and let his head roll back so that he could catch some snowflakes on his tongue.

His hat had managed to slide down past his eyebrows, but he didn't bother fixing it because he just decided to close his eyes anyhow. He spun around some more, feeling the light, little flakes melt in his mouth upon first touch. That is, until one of his arms collided with another student passing by.

He stopped, then, and opened his eyes as he lifted his head again. "Sorry, I -" Oh! A grin spread over his face when he saw who it was. "Helen of Hogwarts! Didn't realize that was you. You celebratin' Halloween a little late or somethin'?" Hence the black and orange.

Focusing on her road, and peacefully making her way through the slippery ground Louisa didn't expect someone to be- ACHU -enjoying the snow falling by spinning around. Hence the hand smacking her on the mouth... only it hit the thick scarf and the blow was gentle. Lucky for whoever-

"Pau-" ACHU! She didn't get to say his name, but point taken. He was spinning around like a twelve-year-old girl. Great. Louisa lowered her scarf so that her mouth and nose were now visible. She could feel her- ACHU -sinuses beginning to ache almost at once. "Yeah. I'm going as the dead walking man." Or something.

Eying him and then the almost deserted place around them, she frowned. "What are you doing here? Isn't there a law where children over twelve aren't allowed to hang out here?" Geddit? He was a seventeen years old child. HEH.

ACHU. She took the hanky out of her pocket and blew her nose, she was done caring about acting like a girl. "One more sneeze and my nose will fall off, I just know it." she muttered to herself before shoving her hands into her front pocket again. No, she wasn't in the best mood, BEWARE.

Pauchu? Hehe. Well, Paulie didn't recall anyone ever calling him that one before! Then again, it wasn't all that often that people spoke his name while sneezing. "Bless you." Dead walking man? ... He didn't get it. Was she dead because she was ill? "Well, ya look more like a skinny pumpkin.."

And, here she went. Accusing him of being all child-like JUST because he was at the playground. He knew this was gonna come from Louisa. Though he wouldn't deny that he still enjoyed some rather 'kiddish' pursuits. "So? Cornelius and I hang out here without a tinge of embarrassment, I'll have you know." Mhmm. And General Cornelius was sixteen, to boot!

He offered a sympathetic sort of frown when she blew her nose. "Yeah.. ya sound pretty nasally," he commented. "How come ya don't take some potion or whatever?" A cold was such a nuisance, after all. Being all stuffed up and snotty. It sucked.

But, THEN.... "OH!!" His enthusiasm spurted suddenly. "How did the awesome, amazing date go?!" His eyebrows lifted as he grinned. "Adam looked pretty dapper, huh?" He nudged her lightly in the side.

Ronnie laughed and squeezed Rose tighter. "I will never ever leave you again, I promise!!" she said, finally letting her friend go. "I missed you so much!" she said.

Playground....

The last time he was here, it was with Beezus during the fall. They played with his crup Ash and talked about everything random as always. So now, Jonathan is back in this play again... but Why? Jonathan doesn't really know, he felt like swinging through the swing during the winter. Get some peace of mind perhaps. He's been wanting to sleep and he couldn't.

Then as he spotted Tiffany. It brought a smile to his face. How long has it been since he last talked to her? 2 terms already right? It was that long. Jonathan barely saw the Gryffindor around. Jonathan walked over to her and smiled "Hey Tiffany" as he waved his hand to say hello. She probably might not remember him but oh well~~

"I'll add that to my never-ending list of nicknames, thanks." Her face showed no humor whatsoever. She simply looked at him with her mouth slightly open serving as her oxygen provider. No thanks to her nose. "Cornelius? I don't thi-" ACHU "-think I know him. I'll look for someone with a lollipop though and sure will recognize him easily." She was joking, yes. Just minus the grin and the smirk. Too tired to do either.

Potion, yeah, right. Louisa eyed his scarf for a second... she probably should take that and wrap it around her own. It was still snowing and he was keeping her outside. She had every right.
"Because you can see right through my mom's ears. Nothing inside to alert her that my freaking cold meds are missing from the trunk. I get bad colds all the time at this time of year and she misses the only thing I really can't function without." She grabbed his scarf and untangled it from around his neck, "Can I borrow this?" Rhetorical question... followed by a sneeze.

Oh! The date! Riiiight. Louisa smiled.. for real. And despite the cracked lips and bloodshot eyes, she did smile. Because this subject was exactly the only subject she would stay out here in the cold talking about. Her smile turned into a grin as he nudged her gently in the side - only she didn't feel it, thanks to the layers of clothing. She just saw him do it.

"Yeah, he was like a knight in shining armor." And Louisa wasn't sarcastic or joking. Adam indeed was. The girl, however, finished tying Paulie's scarf around her neck and stood still in front of him, her mouth barely visible from behind the two scarves. "Only he wasn't my knight." If he looked closely, he'd see her struggle with the confession a little. "I'm really touched with the decorations and arrangements you went through to organize, Paulie. I don't even know how to react to that. It made my whole week." Sniff & Sneeze. "But neither the atmosphere nor me were enough to make Adam... want to.. uhh.. well, let's just say that it was a very friendly happy night for both of us." She would've blushed if her cheeks weren't already rosy from the warmth.

Chelle smiled as Ella complimented her on her nickname. "Thanks! I like it, too. My best friend gave it to me, and he said the same thing. It reminds him of the ocean, too," she replied. The memory of that day came back to her. She was at the Miami beach with Jake, and they were collecting shells. She shrugged it off and chose to answer Ella.

"Yupp. A first year. And you?" she asked. Ella didn't look much older than Chelle. She was maybe a second or a third year, Chelle decided. And she looked like a pretty cool girl. Talking to her seemed to have lifted Chelle's spirits.

There was surely just a few students here which it brought quite a dead silence to Tiffany. Maybe it was good for her to get some peace out of her mind or maybe it was bad because no one familiar was around.

Then of a sudden, she heard someone calling our her name in such a comforting tone. She looked back and saw Jonathan walking towards her. She was really surprised about seeing him since a long long time before. "Jon-Jon,"she said cheerfully. She used to hate this name but it seemed to be quite normal to her now. She waved at him and asked him to come over and sit next to her.