SQUISHY!

This cheeks were just so much fun to pinch! They had to be one of the best, Nessie had ever pinched they were just so soft and adorable! With gleaming eyes, the fourth year continued with her cheek pinching for a while until she was sidetracked by West endearing puppy eyes.

She blinked at him and then pulled away her hands from he’s face. Um..Awkward, wouldn’t you say! “Oh..erm..I’m sorry about that, I swear I’m still normal.” She was, you know because according to her being obsessed with cheeks was a very normal matter.

Now where did this come from?

With a few more blinks, Ness started at the little boy before her some more. He was hungry, okay, but WHY was he telling her this? Did she look like some house elf that carried food with her everywhere she went. No! Oh..silly kid!

The red head felt her robe pocket. Yep it was still there.

“I happen to have a chocolate frog in my pocket, but I sort of would like to keep it, unless you want to share it?”

Sharing, that was fair, now wasn’t it?

Of course. All of the Slytherins seemed to like Potions, and Cassia made no exception. The fourth year responded with a small grin before giving a quick look around. She was trying to figure out where she should go, because Gwendolyn disliked just wandering around the castle like a ghost. Hmph. The first year said something that made her draw her attention back to Cassia. ‘I see’, she mused. Well… she wasn’t very fond of plants either, but she couldn’t say she completely disliked Herbology. Having said that, Gwen turned her head in the direction of the place which she had last thought of.

The trophy room.

‘We should go there, then’, the fourth year said and motioned towards the trophy room. Since Cassia hadn’t examined it closely, the Ravenclaw didn’t think the younger girl would mind if they paid a short visit there. As much as she hated to admit it, Gwen missed the time she was a first year at Hogwarts. When everything was new for her. Now there didn’t seem to be anything left to discover.

.................

The first things she noticed as the two of them stepped in were the house cup trophies. After she spent a moment to examine them, the fourth year took a few steps towards the Head Boy and Head Girl plaques. Even though she couldn’t recognize almost any names on the trophies awarded to students, Gwen was able to remember all of the people who had been at Hogwarts since she was a firstie. ‘What do you think?’, the girl asked as she passed by the Quidditch trophies.

Okay. Normal.

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

West didn't contest this because she had stopped and because his devious plan had worked. *Inner fistpump* Wait until he told Theo about it!

"Sharing would be real nice." He agreed with a nod, still keeping up the puppy dog eyes and resisting the urge to rub at his cheeks.

Cheekpinching, he supposed, could have been worse and at least he was getting chocolate out of it.

"Can I have the card?" He asked all tentative and innocent like.

As the two girls headed towards the Trophy room. Cassia kept silence SURPRISE! Not because she had nothing to do, she always does, but because she wanted to pay more attention to this room ,where she hadn’t spent much time and never done real exploring. As the Slytherin stood before the trophies. She stared at them in awe. She couldn't hide her impression of liking those brilliant ,shining trophies , badges, snitches and certificates.

She moved her eyes from shelf to another wanting to examine them all. A feeling that most of the names are people who now have their own life and probably got married and children of their own. The first year hoped that before she left school she'll have something to be remembered with. Lost in her thoughts and feeling Cassia finally spoke up, "That's spectacular," She nodded. She turned at Gwen, "Don't you think??" she wondered if Gwen had the same feeling as Cassia or it might not interest the older girl much.

Cassia was staring the most at the golden snitches and the Quidditch cups, "Do you like Quidditch?" She asked Gwen as she kept looking at the trophies. "I like watching it, I know the basic rules .But I don’t think I'm an expert." She shrugged. She had thought very little about trying out and being on the team. She always thought that if she ever did that she'll have to work hard and improve her skill. She remembered West offering to help her.And smiled at the thought.

Walking back and forth , "What's your favorite part?" She motioned at the whole set of trophies and other stuff. She scratched her chin with her finger and considered her own question, "I think I like the cups and the golden snitches the best," She confirmed, "Not that I don’t like the other ones. They're absolutely brilliant," She assured nodding.

Awww! Those eyes! They were just too adorable and Nessie couldn't resist them, in fact she even felt bad about only giving the poor kid half.

Mehh..he could have the whole thing, she had more in her dorm anyways.

"You know what?" she paused and took at the chocolate to look at it. She then turned her attention back tothe young firstbie. "You can have the whole thing." She then handed it over to him and gave him a small smile.

Cute little guy this was and Nessie wanted to remember who he was. You know maybe make sure he was being treated okay and all, she didn't like it when any of the first years were treated badly. It was just horrid and not nice at all.

"What's your name kiddo?" she asked trying to remember if she had maybe seen him somewhere before. He did look just a little familiar.

"I caaaan?" He beaaaamed at her. "Thanks!" And because he figured it'd get him more chocolate frogs and such in the future, West played this up and hugged the Hufflepuff. Just quickly mind. And then he tore into the chocolate frog.

Triumphantly.

"I'm West Odessa."

... did her nose remember him and his elbow?

Okay? Now that hug was a little unexpected, yet still of course Nessie did not mind. She hugged the adorable. little firstbie back and then as she pulled back realized something she wished she had realized before. The firstie saying he's name, only made her realize this more.

It was him she was sure. This was the kid, that had elbowed her in the face really badly during their quidditch match. She now eyed him carefully, not saying anything about this realization too soon.

"You play quidditch don't you?" she asked, wanting to make sure this was the right boy after all.

Hmmm.

Cassia was quiet. Too quiet. The fourth year turned her head in order to look at the girl. She was still there, right? Right. Though… how come she wasn’t saying anything? Gwen suppressed a smirk and continued to walk towards the trophy room. As the two of them finally got there, Gwendolyn couldn’t help thinking about how great those people had to feel. The ones that have done something important in their lives. When they were still at Hogwarts. They did leave something behind. Their name wouldn’t just be forgotten. Gwendolyn heard the Slytherin say something, but since she didn’t pay much attention to what Cassia was saying, she replied a simple ‘Yes’.

She examined the trophies as she passed by them, but stopped as she came close enough to the Quidditch ones. The fourth year really admired these people. Mostly because it was something she could never do. ‘Yes… I do’, she gave a small nod. ‘I actually disliked it badly in my first year. Quidditch… flying… all of it. But I soon learned to like it’, the Ravenclaw explained. Now their house was going to have another trophy in the room, since they won the last game. Just when she was about to ask the Slytherin what she thought about Quidditch, Gwen heard the girl already start talking. ‘Have you thought about joining the team next term?’

Moving on…

What was her favourite part?

‘It’s hard to say’, Gwendolyn mused. Really, she admired the Quidditch ones, but that didn’t mean the other trophies and badges hadn’t caught her eye. She didn’t finish replying to the girl, because she had no idea what she liked most in this room. The fourth year continued to make her way around, carefully examining all the trophies. Hmmm. What a great job those people had done…

Lauraaaa :)
 

Theo ambled through to the trophy room, a place where he was itching to snoop around since forever! Truth be told, he could never find it. But success! Today, he was here. And he looked at ALLLL of the Quidditch trophies. Wow, so awesome. And Slytherin had loads, too! Hopefully he could help Slytherin reach top spot in the later years. Cos this year, they hadn't QUITE done that.

Oh well, second was still awesome.

"You're gonna be there one day, Theodore." He mumbled to himself, then quickly looked around to see if anyone heard him. Nope? Okay. The first year closed his eyes and said it again, in his head.

It was more of a wish now. :3

Laura had decided to come and look at the trophies, she had decided one day she would be here but for now she would have to wait because she wasn't old enough, she was looking around when she saw the strange boy she had met once before.

"Hello Theo." Laura smiled, she wasn't calling him superman because he wasn't super. "How are you today?" She was hoping he wasn't as silly as he had been the first time they had met, seriously she wasn't going to let him climb up all these trophy cases he might hurt himself.

Aaaaaaand... his wish was done. Theo the HERO, was gonna be a real hero one day. A Quidditch hero! His eyes popped out of their sockets when someone from behind him spoke up. Did they hear him wishing?! MEeeeeeeep.

Spinning around, his eyes narrowed upon a girl he had met before. He couldn't remember WHY, but something told him that they didn't get off to the best of starts. Laura, was right, he thought. "Hello... I am, umm..." What was with this hesitation? "I AM AMAZING, COS I AM TWELVE TOMORROW." He flailed his arms about in the air rather rapidly.

Everyone had to KNOW.

...
So, they had plenty of time to buy him presents.

Laura looked at Theo and smiled. "Happy birthday for tomorrow then." Laura wasn't going to get him a present though, she hardly knew him and well he had been mean to her the last time they had met, so why should she get him a present.

Laura smiled at Theo. "So what you going to do with yourself tomorrow then when you turn 120?" Laura smirked now he was a super hero right and he did know that superhero for ever human year added a 0 on the end, so if he was turning 8 he was 80 and so on, so well she would see what he says to her question.

"THANK YOOOOOOU." He said with a beam, but also an arched brow. He hadn't remembered Laura being so NICE to him before. And also, where was his present? Come on, one chocolate frog would suffice for Theodore. Sheesh.

"I'm gonna..." He began enthusiastically, then stopped to stare. "When I am TWELVE, I am gonna become a man and buy my own broomstick. And... and..." What else did old people do other than get into relationships? Cos Theodore was NOT planning on a relationship until he was like, thirty.

In fact, he made a face at the thought.

"I'm just gonna be so awesome."

Still watching the beautiful trophies, Cassia started to get bored without talking, her tongue started to hurt! And that is a very un-common thing, her not talking. She turned to Gwen, "Why did you dislike it at first?" She wondered. Surely each person had has his own favorite things. But Cassia never understood why people would ever mind flying. In her opinion flying was the coolest thing ever!

She raised an eyebrow, "Mmm..." Will she join the team? "I can play," She trailed off, "But I think I'm an amateur. I just play for fun with friends and my brother. I don't think I'm team material." She admitted.

She glanced again at the Ravenclaw remembering the last match, "By the way , congratulations on winning ," She mumbled. She was still upset about her house losing at the last game, "Though it was a coincident how your seeker caught the snitch." She spoke clearer now, "You know our team scored much more points." Just to make everything clear!

She moved on walking back and forth. Will her name ever make an appearance here someday. Will students years from now read her name in this room. She will make sure to achieve something though. She promised her father she would.

Laura looked at Theo. "Didn't you know that when your a Super Hero you have to put a zero on what you are, it says so in the Super Hero manual." Hadn't Theo read his Super Hero manual before because Laura was thinking he hadn't. "Anyway I did get you a Present." Laura smiled reaching into her bag, she took out a spiderman cape for Theo. "Here you go Theo, I decided we should try again and hopefully be friends." Laura smiled.

Hmmm.

Why did she dislike it at first? ‘I was scared of flying. Not necessarily because of the heights, but just afraid of how hard it is to keep your balance on a broomstick’, the fourth year explained. Seriously. It would be so easy to fall. Turn too much to the left and you find yourself flying upside down. Hmph. She then listened to Cassia talk. She sounded like she was quite fond of flying. And Quidditch too.

‘Oh, thanks’, the fourth year said with a huge grin on her face. ‘It was a good game, well done to Slytherin as well’, she felt the need to add. Buut- they weren’t nearly as good as the Ravenclaw team. Huh? What was she saying? Gwen drew her attention away from the trophies in order to look back at Cassia. ‘Coincident?’, Gwendolyn raised an eyebrow. ‘You must be joking’ Since their seeker was the best. That was how they won the game.

Gwendolyn started walking away from the Quidditch trophies and approached the house cups. And quite close to that place she spotted two Hogwarts Inter-House Tournament cups. Both for Ravenclaw. That brought up a smirk on the girl’s face, but then she moved towards the Gobstones trophies. Slytherin had won many of those. Smh.

Cassia nodded approvingly, "You're right, the balance thing can be tricky." She admitted. It was the thing that took her quite good time to learn. However, now she had no problem with it and surely Gwen didn't either. Once you learn it you won't forget it. Because it's a skill.

Of course Slytherin did well too! This wasn't even a matter to be discussed. Cassia glanced at the Ravenclaw at the corner of her eyes, "No actually I'm very serious," She said, "If it wasn't for your seeker. You would have lost...." Pfffft, miserably she so hoped to say! But she didn't fortunately. What was that sportsmanship or something they should respect. Oh Cassia can do that. The first year swallowed what she intended to tell Gwen about their chasers barely being able to score.

And that hurt!

Anyway, Cassia walked along with Gwen. Yeah ,Smart Ravie walking towards the cups won by your house. Cassia was glued before the first thing she saw her house's name on it. That is so much better. She exhaled. "By the way, shouldn't we go now?" She asked checking her magical green watch! They should get back to the dormitories.Cassia would find someone to chat with in the dormitories while Gwen probably would go to study...that would Ravies do as far as Cassia knows.