Melanie shook the girl's had and beamed. "It's so nice to meet you," Melanie gushed. She would be bouncing but her shoes kinda didn't allow her to. Plus she didn't want to fall. Melanie just grinned though. It was hard not to. "I love Christmas carols! They're so fun to sing," Melanie said nodding her head. And they were all Christmas-y and happy and Melanie loved that.

Start making the cookies?

"I think... we... just..." Melanie watched the other people, "cut up shapes and then... uh..." Yeah. Melanie had no idea.

How had Melanie missed the Gryffindor Prefect?! Melanie grinned at the older girl and waved her hand excitedly. "Miss Kurumi!" Melanie exclaimed, her smile not dropping at all. And the prefect was right. Which wasn't surprising because the prefects were supposed to all be super smart and stuff. The girl just nodded her head up and down quickly. "I did! I can't wait to make them and decorate them and.. eat them and... and..." Did anything even come after eating them?

"Digest them. And digest them." Yes. There, she had completed her sentence.

In the middle of her rambling about that very dangerous Squad she noticed something that she probably should have noticed sooner. She paused for a minute...was Kurumi's hair always that colour? Maybe...or maybe it changed...Lex was never very good when it came to trivial details but now that Vivi was talking about it she figured she'd pay attention. Seriously though...when did it change colour.

Maybe it would change again. STARE.

After seeing Vivi streak her hair she wanted hers streaked too--oh. How nice she didn't even have to ask! She smiled widely waiting for her hair to change too but the smile dropped when she saw the colour. Pink? Ew. "Do you have any other colours? Blue maybe?"

And at least the girl seemed to be taking her seriously now! "They are very dangerous. The sooner we report them the better. You see, they go around making girls fall in love" The horrors "I've already seen them affecting some of the girls!!! Like you know how many of 'em are going around giggling for no reason--then you have some that keep crying." Clearly this Squad was no good. "Now here's the scary part; they're targeting our food. That's the only connection most of the girls have to each other." They all ate the food here so there was obviously something in the food despite Vivi promising that she wasn't being poisoned.

GIGGLE.

"I'm good good goooood." BEAM BEAM BEAM. Blue twirled. "Merry Christmaaaaaaaas!" Man. Where was some green and red confetti when she needed it? It would be so much fun to throw it and spin around in it with Nessie. She was about to start up a conversation of some sort with the older girl when she was told not to get scared (she got frightened anyway) and her cheeks were grabbed and SQUISHED.

"UNF."

Blue flailed a little and managed to wriggle out of the older girl's grasp.

"MAH CHEEKS. They feel flappeh noooow."

waaaaaah.

"Its a pleasure" Sarah said to Kurumi.. Thankfully Kurumi had made the dough so Sarah did not have to worry about it not tasting nice.
"Sure Alexa lets go... let me first finish off my decorating first" Sarah said grabbing yet another fistful of dough and stuffing it in her mouth.
Sarah was busy decorationg her gingerbreadmen with icing (two blue dots for eyes, three vertical dots of various colours for button, a red mouth for the more basic ones. For others Sarah got a lot more technical, adding shoes and jewelary and hair and t-shirt patterns. There was a gingerbread man with nerdy glasses and a tie. There were four gingerbreadmen attired in a different uniform for each house... all in all Sarah had gingerbread men in various outfits and such) when she noticed Toddles. "Hey Toddles... do you wanna go and catch marshmellows with Alexa and I?" She said. SHe then did the hot-air charm on the icing so it dried quickly and placed them in her coracle (she had casted scourify first, making sure it was clean).

Moving over to the place where there was a blizzard of flying marshmellows Sarah jumped to catch some... this was fun. It would probably be much more fun on brooms though. She then closed her eyes and began catching the marshmellows her mouth. She opened her mouth wide and held her head back, waiting patiently for a marshmellow to fall and plop into her mouth

Tinka flapped her arms. "Oh, sir so kind! Sir so kind to Tinka!" The elf finished wiping off his shoesies and stood up. "Sir very kind. Tinka go serve the other studentsies!" She walked off to find another studentsie who needed help.


The elf's eyes grew wide and her smile broadened. "Oh yes, miss Alexa." Nod, nod, nod. "Yes, Tinka have plenty of cookies made for studentsies!" She whisked off toward the oven and returned shortly with an entire assortment of shapes. "Miss Alexa let her friend choose whatever shape she want!" Tinka rotated the tray so a particular few cookies were in front of the girl. The shapes of a badger, eagle, snake, and lion came into prominence.



"Miss Kurumi! Hello!" Miss Kurumi give Tinka hug! A few tears leaked from the elf's eyes and a smile broke over her face. "Oh Tinka so so so happy Miss Kurumi here with elvsies!" If possible, the grin on the elf's face grew. "Yes, Tinka look after cookies for you!"


Her elfsy ears perked up. "Yes, sir! Tinka get that in right away for sir!" She took the tray from him and rushed it off to the oven.

Belle shrugged and smiled and went back to her work. At least she offered to help and also the house elves were delighted to help them, so Belle shouldn't worry. Belle was still humming christmas carols while working on her cookies.


Belle gushed too and was continuing kneading the dough. When Melanie mentioned she loved Christmas Carols, Belle couldn't help but ask, "Hm what is your all time favorite christmas carol?"

Belle could see Melanie was having trouble and Belle smiled and helped her out. "I think what we have to do is knead the dough till it is right to roll it out with a rolling pin. Then we use the cookie cutters that the house elves are handing out now...." Belle stopped as she saw Toddles and Tinka handing out supplies.



Belle saw Toddles handing out supplies. "Aww thank you very much, i was wondering where the cookie cutters were." Belle said as she reached out and grabbed some cutters. The cutters looked adorable and Belle was lightly pressing them on her dough. She hoped they were washed first but she trusted the elves.

As Belle was down to her last cookie Belle asked Tinka a favor. "Hey Tinka! can you put these cookies in the oven for me?" she asked holding a tray of cookies with angels, trees, stockings and stars. They also had sprinkles on them. Her parents liked the sprinkles and gingerbread. They were going to love her this christmas.

Pips was late.

He was going to iron his ears for this.

But the male elf was excited to bake with the studentsies and Mistress Prefectsie all day long. The elf had cleaned up his pillowcase and spiffed up his looks as much as possible for the special occasion. After all, he absolutely adored the studentsies. And baking.

Pop.

"Toddles! Tinka! Mistress Prefectsie!" Pips exclaimed, hurrying to Kurumi's side. "Pips is ready to help the studensties and Mistress, he is. Pips is late. Pips is ironing his ears later, he is. But now, Pips is helping Mistress Prefectsie and studentsies bake!" He beamed at the girl and all of the other children and the other house elves.

Now.. what should he do?

Merlin's beard...

O___O

Why did everyone find it so fun to eat the dough? Didn't they know what would happen? Clearly not seeing as Sarah just threw another fistful into her mouth. Someone needed to put a stop to this before they all started turning into cookies because she couldn't promise that she wouldn't take a bite out of any of 'em. Just saying.

She watched Sarah move over to the raining marshmellows and couldn't help but smile. That actually looked like loads of fun--but wait--some of them were falling to the ground! They were being wasted!! Nooooooo!

She would need to do something...

Yaaaaaay! She managed to make the elf smile!!! BEAM. This was one small step in the right direction! Another was getting her to call her by her name...but...was the 'Miss' really necessary? It made her sound like such a...a...girl...or worse; a lady, all sophisticated and stuff. CRINGE. She had spent far too long running from that title just to have it now...even if it was being given by a cute house elf. She would correct that later but for now....

"Wow thanks!" She grinned when she was presented with the tray of cookies. Of course there was only one kind that she would be okay with Vivi eating. Cough. Cough. "Here you go." She said, offering the girl a lion cookie. Yup. That was the only one worth eating.

She looked back at Tinka. "Aren't you gonna have one?" A lion one more specifically.

Le GASP.

Moooooreeeeee elves!!! This just kept getting better and better! This was all too tempting now. Before the night was out she was going to have to tie them up bundle them together and haul them off invite them up into her common room. They were going to have so much fuuuuun.

Wait WHAT?!

"Nooo, why are you gonna iron your ears?!?! It's gonna huuuurt!!" She protested. See, this was why she hauled them away--so they wouldn't be able to hurt themselves!

Addie finished cutting out her gingerbread dragon and laid it to the side ready to be backed before looking over the other cookie cutters. Maybe she should make the headmistress a cookie since she was planning on visiting her later at the meet and great. That would be fun a gingerbread woman wearing pink to be the Headmistress.

The cookie cutter was grabbed and Addie enlarged it with her wand. She wanted this cookie to be extra large. Rolling out the dough with a quick taste Addie carefully cut the cookie.

All the sudden another house elf arrived. It was Pips and he was threatening to iron his ears later. "Pips, why would you do such a thing as ironing your ears?" Addie still didn't understand why house elves would punish themselves. "Pips could you please bake my dragon and gingerbread woman," Addie asked with a smile to the house elf that was threatening to hurt himself. "And please be careful with the gingerbread woman, I'm going to make it into a gingerbread Headmistress for the Headmistress herself." And that was why she wasn't going to entrust Toddle's with the task because he was still very young.

It seemed like Kurumi hadn't exactly really been grateful for the hair compliment. Kendall had meant it, but maybe the Gryffindor prefect didn't like pink as much or something. There had to be some reason for the awkwardness of the response, and she shifted a bit closer to the older girl as she tipped her hat back to reveal more of her pink streaks. Maybe that'll make her feel better, she wondered. She leaned closer as another thought hit her, too, that she felt the need to ask about. "Is it weird 'cause pink isn't a happy color for you or something?," she asked, barely above a whisper, "'Cause that's like purple with me. That means I'm upset, so I don't like when my hair goes purple." She didn't mind revealing that to Kurumi, but then her attention got taken away by hearing Vivi talking about streaks and she turned around again with a grin. "Your hair's kinda like mine now," she said, pulling her fedora off long enough to show the pink streaks in her auburn hair. "Well, 'cept yours is blonde so pink shows up more." And she didn't have to use paint or whatever was in that bottle.

Of course, then she'd heard the magic word, and turned back to Kurumi excitedly. "Really? I could make chocolate gingerbread?" She was so going to do that. She kind of wished she'd asked before she'd cut out her original cookies, but they were okay. Her next batch was just going to be more awesome, and she'd stepped closer to the decorations to collect cocoa powder and a handful or two of chocolate chips to bring over to her little area. Then, she started kneading it all into the dough, trying to squish the chocolate chips so they weren't quite so solid. It'd be easier to cut if they weren't, even if it meant she got chocolate all over her hands. And she grinned at the house elves as they filtered in. "Hi Tinka, Toddles, Pips!," she greeted them, reaching out a chocolatey hand to accept one of the little baby house elf cookie cutters Toddles had been handing out. It could go with her dragon and her butterfly cutters for once she'd finished mixing her dough. "Pips, it's Christmas. You don't need to iron your ears or anything. I'll figure out how to hide your iron if I have to," she added, in response to the elf's worrying. Of course, that wouldn't be until after she got her new cookies ready, but Pips would be distracted by the baking.

Argyle was very late indeed! Argyle had been gathering every different color sprinkle imaginable in her ickle elfsie arms so the studentsies could make the most lovely cookies imaginable and had lost track of the time. With a very worried expression she snapped her elfsie fingers and

*POP*

"Miss Kurumi!" Argyle's elfsie eyes were wide and her expression was most apologetic, her arms filled to the brim with different color sprinkles for the cookies. "Argyle is so sorry, Miss. Argyle brought the sprinkles for the studentsies! Argyle is a bad house elfsie! Argyle will punish Argyle for this great mistake."

Walking over to the table, Argyle placed the sprinkles down neatly before Argyle picked up the rolling pin. Argyle raised it high in the air and then let it drop, right on her elfsie foot. With a pained expression, Argyle bent down and picked up the rolling pin, placing it under her arm. "Studentsies no use this anymore. Rolling pin dirty now. Argyle will hold it."

Pao blushed slightly. "No, not really. I just don't like the idea of you hurting yourself, Tinka." He smiled warmly and patted her on the shoulder. "Okay, go have fun!" Did elves even have fun? They spent most of their time working like maniacs, after all. But they always seem so cheerful and happy. Maybe they have elf parties in the kitchen or something. He chuckled a bit at this thought. What would elves do at parties, talk about the awesome messes they cleaned that day?

Shaking his head, he went back to the baking business. "How's it going over there, Ella? I bet the snitches are way harder than my bludgers and quaffles." That was probably an understatement. Ooo look! A Beater's bat! He made a grab for it.



"Wow, that was fast! Thanks, Tinka!" Soon he'd have bludgers and quaffles to frost. "Ella, you think we should make the purple one a quaffle? Ness is a Chaser after all. Or should we do more than one?"

"Really?" Ella asked with a small smile. Truthfully, the third year had already thought about like every career as an possible option for her. Mostly because she thought all kinds of things sounded quite interesting and fun to try out as a job. And being a rock star sounded pretty awesome! Music was lovely and getting to travel the world playing sounded like a brilliant way to spend your life. She giggled at the prefect's comment about the little people. "No worry, I'll remember everyone! I couldn't forget if I tried." Beam.


Ella nodded approvingly as Pao secured the purple icing so that they'd have some for Nessie's cookie. That was really good thinking on his part. She gave the boy a thumbs up before turning back to her snitch cookies, which were pretty much done by this point.

When Pao announced he was ready to bake his cookies, Ella grinned. Wow! He was really quite fast. "I have a couple more to make, actually! Yours look really good, though! Nice job." And the sooner they went in the over, the sooner they could decorate them! That was a good thing.

Looking over at the younger badger, Ella smiled. "It is a bit harder, I think. Just cause of the different shape and all. I'm all done though, finally! I think I'm ready to get these in the oven!" Grin. And the third year looked around for one of the house elves, hoping they wouldn't mind helping her out. "Erm...these are ready to bake if anyone has a moment to pop them in the oven." The small blonde announced, a small smile on her face.

WOW! Pao's cookies were already done? That was super fast! Ella wondered if the ovens were magical or something, allowing the cookies to bake faster than normal ovens would. She eyed one curiously before turning her attention to her housemate. "Yeah! I think a purple Quaffle would be brilliant. Maybe we can make a few of them, just in case." Becaus really, Ella could never only eat one cookie. She figured her teammates might feel the same. "And hey, maybe we could make the others Hufflepuff colors?" That might be cool. She smiled at him, wondering what he thought.

Eyeing the table again, Ella spotted a broom cookie cutter and grinned. "I think I'll make some brooms for us as well. They're a big part of Quidditch too, after all."

Elfsy ears perked up once more as another studensie called for her. Another Prefect! Tinka was especially happy to serve those that served the studentsies! "Yes miss?" Nod, nod, nod. "Yes, Tinka take cookies for you, miss!" The elf looked as the shapes. "These look pretty, miss!" She grasped the tray and whisked off to get them started baking.


BEAM. "You welcome, miss!" The elf smiled and nodded vigorously. But the smile gave way to a gasp. Scandalized, the little elf managed to squeak out, "Oh no, miss! Tinka be working, Tinka no eat cookies!"


Once more, Tinka heard her name. "Hello, miss!" she said happily, smiling and waving.


She shook her head. "No, no, no. Sir be noble and kind!" She grinned.

"Sir is most welcome!" Tinka loved helping studentsies!


Oh! Someone needs elfsy help! "Tinka take those for you miss!" The elf beamed up at the Hufflepuff. "These look wonderful, Miss Ella!"

Eeep she was even beaming! Lex was like the elf whisperer or something. Yuuuuuup. She had such a way with the ickle ones...

Or not.

Why'd the smile leeaaaavvveee? They were doing so well! Bonding over cookies and everything! She scowled a bit at the elf's excuse. "But I eat all the time when I'm working...I'm sure no one will set you on fire just for munching on a cookie." Well actually she could think of several people who would set the poor little elf on fire but that was besides the point!!! "Won't you have even one--or half? We can share it!" She said, grabbing another cookie and breaking it in half. Her hand extended, offering the bigger half to the elf with a smile.

....Another one again...

O___O

It was like the elf gods were answering her prayers! Now her cookie baking could go more smoothly. She would tie this one up and haul her off invite this one to her common room too.

Ack!

Why did they all wanna hurt themselves?! Lex snatched the rolling pin from the elf before she could have a chance to hurt herself again. "No. No hitting." She scolded. Personally she had no problem with hitting, it was both fun and necessary, but when it came to the house elves she couldn't condone it. "Now let's make lots of yummy cookies!" BEAM.

"TODDLES!" Kurumi chirped when the youngest of house elves showed up. Kurumi had been wondering when he would make his appearance and the Gryffindor giggled softly when she saw what he was handing out. "Merry Christmas to you too." Although it was still a bit early since the trains from home were a few days from now still.

Oh! Look at that! He was handing out cookie cutters! House elf cookie cutters! Now why hadn't she thought of that before? Smiling to herself as she accepted one from him and switched it with the dragon one she had been using earlier. Once she finished decorating her dragon cookies she would make some house elf ones.

"Do you want to help decorate some cookies? Or...maybe lead a group of students into the field of floating marshmallows?" Toddles and added sugar could be a bad idea though...

Using a brush now to paint on some of the eatable shimmer to her dragon cookies, Kurumi looked up at Alexa again. "Well, I have a lot of dragon shaped cookies here if you want to decorate any of them," Kurumi offered as she pushed the tray closer to the younger Gryffindor. "You don't have to make them look like a particular species or anything, I just felt like doing so." Since she was going to university to study dragons and all.
Oops. Kurumi hadn't meant to startle him like that! "Here, let me help you," she laughed while kneeling down to scoop some of the sprinkles up from the floor. There were still plenty of them to go around, so Logan really didn't need to worry about spilling these. In case he was, but Kurumi didn't ask. "My favorite shape?" she repeated, cocking her head to the side for a moment to think. She hadn't ever really thought about that before, come to think of it. "Um...well...I like creatures, so really any of the creature cookie cutters are ones I like. I've been making a bunch of dragons just now...but I also really like phoenixes."

Sometimes it seemed like Vivi was more Gryffindor than Kurumi was, and this sort of felt like one of those moments. Then again, Kurumi disliked labels and putting people in boxes. Just because the Sorting Hat said that one person was a Hufflepuff didn't mean that that was all they were, for example. It was only natural for people to show other aspects from other houses, right? Professor Vindictus was always telling Kurumi that she should have been sorted in Ravenclaw anyway.

NOT THE POINT.

Eyes widening slightly when Vivi streaked her hair, the seventh year ended up nodding with approval. "You pull off that look rather nicely," she chirped, holding up a lock of her still pink hair to compare the colors. "We are Gryffinclaw hair twins now."

And then Kurumi was back to being startled. Wait...Vivi had something for her? She couldn't help but blush at this. Between yearbook, prefecting, NEWTs, Lewis, and everything else...Kurumi hadn't even thought about Christmas gifts. No, not even for Lewis to be entirely honest. Her stomach tied in a nervous knot while she nodded. "O-Okay."

Miss Kurumi...right... Melanie was one of those younger students that liked calling her that. The house elves did too, which was maybe why Kurumi preferred that students didn't? House elf bias and all that. Then again, Melanie was too adorable to refuse, so Miss Kurumi it was.

"Well, enjoy! And let me know if you need anything," she giggled as she moved along back to the ovens to check on a few things again.

Tears, GAH! Kurumi removed her yellow handkerchief from her pocket and dabbed the little house elf's eyes briefly. "I'm happy you all agreed to this! Been a dream of mine since I was a first year," Kurumi replied, her smile widening even more.

PIPS! ^_______________^

Kurumi always got one of those goofy grins on her face - the sort that came from drinking a whole lot of butterbeer while eating cauldron cakes - whenever there were a bunch of house elves in one place, so Kurumi sort of looked rather ridiculous right now.

Pink hair aside and all that.

"Oh no Pips, no need to iron your ears," Kurumi said shaking her head. Only she knew just saying that wouldn't actually stop the elf from doing so. Unless... "Just help putting cookies into the oven and remove them when they are baked and we'll call it even, okay?"
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Kurumi's cheeks were flushing even more now...along with some serious lip biting and awkward fidgeting and hopeful glances around the Great Hall. Lewis would be coming to her activity eventually and right now Kurumi wasn't sure if she was happy or not that her hair was his color and mostly likely would be when he got here. "It IS a happy color...it's just...um...a color that only happens when...um...it's a color that only happens for a certain person. When I think about him and..." Kurumi was blushing far too much to be able to properly finish that sentence. But...Kendall probably got the picture by now.

Unfortunately, Kurumi was far too flustered to really register everything Kendall had said and therefore the obvious connection between the two was lost. Sort of like the icing that Kurumi had been applying to her cookie and was now all over the table top.

"Huh? Oh. Yeah, of course!" Chocolate gingerbread cookies were good to go!
Kurumi recognized that popping noise as well.

"Argyle!" Kurumi greeted, waving to the house elf that looked as though her eyes were about to pop out of her head. "Oh, perfect! Would you mind putting them on the decoration table? We just had a spill earlier with some sprinkles so your timing is fantastic." So don't go ironing your ears, yeah?

Kurumi returned to her dragon cookie and finished apply the shimmer before snatching another and deciding that this one would resemble a Welsh Green. "Argyle, why don't you clean that rolling pin instead of just holding it?" That way she could do more than just stand there with a rolling pin under her arm and possibly whack bad students with it.
Kurumi nodded. "Believe it or not...I don't really like being in the spotlight...so being on stage was never really an option," she laughed. Which was what had made the BOOfire even more awkward for her. "I'll be going in to creature studies...assuming I get accepted to uni." Two months away. Those results were two months away...

The elf shook her top-heavy head. "No, no, no, miss! Elvsies no eat on the job!" This was scandalous! "Tinka not a bad elfsy! Tinka eat cookie later, miss," she said. "But Miss Alexa very kind, share her cookie with Tinka!"


Tinka eyed the yellow hankie. "Oh, Miss Kurumi so kind to Tinka!" The elf grabbed the hankie and blew her nose loudly. HONK! She handed the hankie back to the Prefect with a wan smile that quickly grew wider at her next words. "Oh yes, elvsies so happy to bake with Miss Kurumi!" Nod, nod, nod.

Riiiiiiight. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to pinch people's cheeks without their permission.

Renesmee lightened her grip as Blue wriggled in between her hands. She felt a little silly now. The poor Ravenclaw must have thought she was bonkerloodles or something, but then you couldn't blame her. After all Ness did know herself she wasn't entirely normal.

Annnyyyways it was best she apologized. "I'm sorry, you're cheeks are just too cute. I'm kinda obsessed with cheeks. They're just so squishy and pinchable and.." She was rambling too much now. "Merry Christmas to you too!" She added hastily hoping it would change the topic.

Getting distracted once more, Nessie eyed the cookie cutters again and then eyed the dough. The smell was what really got her attenion though. "Should we make some cookies?" Because standing around smelling the cookies wasn't as fun as making them. The stuttering. It was a little suspecting as to whether Kurumi was alright or not. Her cheeks were still going redder and something must have happened, something embarrassing. At the thought of embarrassing Ness decided not to urge Kurumi about it more, if it was something humiliating surely she wouldn't have wanted to tell people. "Good then." she said with a tiny pout, as she still watched Kurumu's bright cheeks.

"I'm..um..better, and you?" She wasn't sure how Kurumi wanted her to answer, whether it was just today or about the situation from before. Either way she was better almost fine in fact. or pretended to be. The red head nodded at Kurumi's next question. Cookie decorating would be fun, and with Blue joining them, it would be even better.

The more people to distract her the better? Right?

Cookies, she was just about to choose a cookie cutter, when Sarah one of the first year lions popped up near by. In the little girl's hand was a bright purple 'N' shapped cookie. It looked real delicious.

"Thank you." She grinned at the younger girl. She then took the cookie and examined it even closer as she spoke some more. "Yeah, purple is my favorite colour. How did you know?" Maybe it was just obvious, after all everyone had seen her purple broom before and it wasn't like Nessie hid the fact it was her favorite colour.

The red head still focused on the decoration of the cookie a little longer, and then hoping it tasted as good as it looked took a small bite. "This is amazing." It honestly was, but then almost anything at Hogwarts tasted amazing, except for those gross falvours of Bertie Botts Jelly Beans. Those were eww.

Belle was glad Tinka took the cookies. She got the new cookie cutters that Toddles gave them. They all looked adorable. "Aww thank you very much Tinka!" Belle cooed at the elf. She loved the house elves they were so sweet to the students.

Belle continued to knead the dough and added a little more ginger into the dough. She took the christmas tree cutter and placed it softly on the dough. She added green sprinkles and red to represent CHRISTMAS . She was having so much fun. She even liked that her hands were smelling like gingerbread cookies. Belle even asked Tinka a question, "Tinka do you want me to make you any cookies?"

Oooooo...

Lex looked over at all the dragon cookies that the prefect had already made. How'd she get them to look so perfect? For a moment she just stared at them, trying to find a secret hidden somewhere in them but of course there was none. "No problem, I can do that!" And she wouldn't mess it up either. Nope. Kurumi cookies were too perfect for her to decide to mess up so she would be extra careful.

Reaching over, she took one from the tray and began adding some chocolate icing to it--everything tasted better with chocolate. "How did you get them this way?" She asked distractedly, her brows knitted in concentration.

It had to be perfect or Kurumi would make her stop.

Hmmm...this was one tough Elf to crack. "Okay fine, you win. No cookie eating until you're done working." Though she was sure the Elf was gonna have a hard time eating later when she was tied up and being hauled off...not that she would mention that out loud. Nope. She beamed when Tinka called her kind. "Thank yoooouu! And since you really wanna work, help me with Kurumi's cookies please."

Yes, yes people. Dylan has arrived!

First stop on his agenda? Visiting Cookie and those...creatures, of course.

The Slytherin Captain made his way over, smirking and nodding at those his passed on the way. Something smelled amazing! It was enough to remind him that he'd not eaten anything all day...Quidditch. So much Quidditch.....

There she was! Surrounded by...Elves. COUGH. Dylan was convinced he could be comfortable with them...Just enough to get treats. He COULD do this.

Sliding up to her, he eyed all the decorating stuff and grinned. "Got anything special for me?"

"The color isn't really the point, is it?" Vivi did give Lex a blue streak, though, just to balance out all the pink. The point was to support Kurumi, not to like the color of their hair. Obvs.

She nommed at her cookie and listened to the younger girl on her clear diatribe. Unfortunately, Lex made a lot of sense, and Vivi agreed that people generally acted pretty stupid about boys. She'd even include herself in that assessment. Bleh. "It isn't in the food, Short Stuff. It's hormones. They're all struck by the bug and it won't go away. And in a few years, you'll be struck too. Merlin help us all."

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It seemed like Kurumi hadn't exactly really been grateful for the hair compliment. Kendall had meant it, but maybe the Gryffindor prefect didn't like pink as much or something. There had to be some reason for the awkwardness of the response, and she shifted a bit closer to the older girl as she tipped her hat back to reveal more of her pink streaks. Maybe that'll make her feel better, she wondered. She leaned closer as another thought hit her, too, that she felt the need to ask about. "Is it weird 'cause pink isn't a happy color for you or something?," she asked, barely above a whisper, "'Cause that's like purple with me. That means I'm upset, so I don't like when my hair goes purple." She didn't mind revealing that to Kurumi, but then her attention got taken away by hearing Vivi talking about streaks and she turned around again with a grin. "Your hair's kinda like mine now," she said, pulling her fedora off long enough to show the pink streaks in her auburn hair. "Well, 'cept yours is blonde so pink shows up more." And she didn't have to use paint or whatever was in that bottle.

"I'm not sure pink is my color, but it looks good on you," Vivi offered the girl with a smile. And she had a hat... a really COOL hat. "I dig the hat." FYI. And you're welcome.

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Sometimes it seemed like Vivi was more Gryffindor than Kurumi was, and this sort of felt like one of those moments. Then again, Kurumi disliked labels and putting people in boxes. Just because the Sorting Hat said that one person was a Hufflepuff didn't mean that that was all they were, for example. It was only natural for people to show other aspects from other houses, right? Professor Vindictus was always telling Kurumi that she should have been sorted in Ravenclaw anyway.

NOT THE POINT.

Eyes widening slightly when Vivi streaked her hair, the seventh year ended up nodding with approval. "You pull off that look rather nicely," she chirped, holding up a lock of her still pink hair to compare the colors. "We are Gryffinclaw hair twins now."

And then Kurumi was back to being startled. Wait...Vivi had something for her? She couldn't help but blush at this. Between yearbook, prefecting, NEWTs, Lewis, and everything else...Kurumi hadn't even thought about Christmas gifts. No, not even for Lewis to be entirely honest. Her stomach tied in a nervous knot while she nodded. "O-Okay."

"Maybe pink is my color," Vivi stuck out her tongue at the Gryffindor girl. And then licked the icing off the lion cookie Lex had given her. Gryffinclaw, hmm? Kurumi was absolutely determined to make a Gryffindor out of her, and Vivi was just going to LET her. It was a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.

But she wasn't going to wear red.

The reaction from Kurumi about the prospect of a gift made her shake her head and grin ruefully. It was becoming a bit of a pattern, and she was definitely getting used to the idea that she didn't quite have the developing friendships she thought she did. STILL... presents were presents, and Vivi had always been a present giver. "Later. Don't stress."

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Originally Posted by THE Govoni

Yes, yes people. Dylan has arrived!

First stop on his agenda? Visiting Cookie and those...creatures, of course.

The Slytherin Captain made his way over, smirking and nodding at those his passed on the way. Something smelled amazing! It was enough to remind him that he'd not eaten anything all day...Quidditch. So much Quidditch.....

There she was! Surrounded by...Elves. COUGH. Dylan was convinced he could be comfortable with them...Just enough to get treats. He COULD do this.

Sliding up to her, he eyed all the decorating stuff and grinned. "Got anything special for me?"

Oh, Slytherin person. Vivi threw sprinkles into his hair. He and Gideon were sugar!dandruff twins now.

Of course the colour mattered! Pink was gross and girly. She smiled widely when She was humoured and streaks of blue were added.

But then...

Alexa's brows crinkled in confusion. She wasn't sure whether Vivi meant there was a bug flying around that crawled in through your ears and infested your brain or if she meant that the food was so unsanitary that it had insects in it that made you sick.

And what was this hormones of which she spoke. Her head tilted slightly as she stared over at her. Wasn't the food...but hormones. It was making no sense so she stuck to the bug answer. Note to self: have father owl her some bug spray. She would beat this bug and it would NOT get the chance to latch on to her brain and make a fool of her!

"Me? I'd like to see the bug try!" There was no way she would let it. "I think I can handle a little bug." Yup. The last she checked they were squishable.

SPOILER!!: Vi 1

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

"Trying to get rid of me, Mary?" Vivi flicked individual sprinkles at Gideon, grinning even more hugely when some of them landed in his curls. Yeeeeees.

"I was trying to be sociable. My baby lion is here, and my friends..." She wasn't sure about friends, considering no one was putting fresh cookies in her hands at the moment. True friends shared baked goods.

At least Lex was being helpful. Perhaps for the first time. Vivi winked at the girl as she accepted the icing, and then she blatantly stuck a finger into the sticky substance and happily licked said finger clean.

"Hmm. It seems safe, but I might have to try it again on a different finger. 'Rumi, you know your hair is all watermelony at the moment? New look?"

Gideon tried not to make too much of a face when Genevieve used her nakname for him. For all he knew she got more fun out of it the more he reacted and he wasn't about to give her that pleasure. "Nae...just pointing out information and being a helpful prefect." So there. He could do his job while having fun.

Speaking of fun...

Grabbing some gingerbread dough, he began rolling out a swatch so he could participate with the activity. No point just standing around the joint. He was however unaware of just what was sent his way from his fellow seventh year meerly shifting out of the way. Gideon heard her question to Kurumi and followed her glance at his friend. Ooops...she was back to having her hair chance colors.

SPOILER!!: Vi 2+3

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

"You are a very good friend," Vivi accepted the cookie with wide eyes and immediately took a bite. She wasn't too proud to smile a crumby smile and mumble through her full mouth, "Candy is good. Looks good in Mary's hair, too. He has candy dandruff today." Or maybe someone had thrown it at him. She added sprinkles to her cookie before taking another bite.

Even in full on cookie!bliss, it was obvious to Vivi that she'd made a misstep in mentioning the hair to the Gryffindor girl. She put her elbows on the counter and leaned in, ostensibly to double down on the cookie but really to drop her voice so only Kurumi could hear her. "I'll make mine pink too and we can tell people we planned it that way. If you want."

But the real solution was that Kurumi needed to practice. She'd be able to control it better already if she had been.



"I'm not a princess, Lex, and I can't afford a food taster. I do all my own tasting." And just to be extra scandalous, Vivi added a healthy spoonful of the icing to her cookie and spread it around, before putting even MORE sprinkles on top. MMMMSUGAR.

"Who are those people? I don't have any enemies."

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

"The color isn't really the point, is it?" Vivi did give Lex a blue streak, though, just to balance out all the pink. The point was to support Kurumi, not to like the color of their hair. Obvs.

She nommed at her cookie and listened to the younger girl on her clear diatribe. Unfortunately, Lex made a lot of sense, and Vivi agreed that people generally acted pretty stupid about boys. She'd even include herself in that assessment. Bleh. "It isn't in the food, Short Stuff. It's hormones. They're all struck by the bug and it won't go away. And in a few years, you'll be struck too. Merlin help us all."



"I'm not sure pink is my color, but it looks good on you," Vivi offered the girl with a smile. And she had a hat... a really COOL hat. "I dig the hat." FYI. And you're welcome.



"Maybe pink is my color," Vivi stuck out her tongue at the Gryffindor girl. And then licked the icing off the lion cookie Lex had given her. Gryffinclaw, hmm? Kurumi was absolutely determined to make a Gryffindor out of her, and Vivi was just going to LET her. It was a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.

But she wasn't going to wear red.

The reaction from Kurumi about the prospect of a gift made her shake her head and grin ruefully. It was becoming a bit of a pattern, and she was definitely getting used to the idea that she didn't quite have the developing friendships she thought she did. STILL... presents were presents, and Vivi had always been a present giver. "Later. Don't stress."



Oh, Slytherin person. Vivi threw sprinkles into his hair. He and Gideon were sugar!dandruff twins now.

WHat...candy dandruff?

He heard the Ravenclaw's words towards Kurumi as he was minding his own business trying to cut out and decorate cookies. Some stars and snitches for himself and a certain someone he knew who loved cookies. Even if he was sure his wouldn't compare to Kurumi's.

So that was what Vi had been flicking at him earlier...something sugary sweet that landed in his hair. "Thanks but no thanks..." he mused shaking his head to try and get whatever was there that he couldn't exactly feel out of his curls. The last thing he needed was Corvin smelling it on him and trying to pick it out.

Though he was inwardly somewhat amused when Dylan got some of the same treatment. Let him be Genevieve's victim.

Wait...when did HE get here?

Cue inward groan.

At this point, Kendall's hands were definitely chocolatey from trying to melt the chocolate chips she'd put in her second batch of dough by kneading it more and more. At least it was starting to blend more, along with the cocoa she'd also put in, so maybe she could stop kneading soon. Of course, then she'd have to stop herself from licking her hands until she was finished, just so she wouldn't accidentally contaminate her cookies, but she could wait. She only had to wait long enough for the cookies to be baked, anyway, and they were going to be awesome. She was distracted from rolling out her newly chocolate-fied dough, though, by Tinka waving back at her, and she'd given the house elf a grin at the same time Argyle had appeared. Talking about being late and needing to punish itself and everything they'd already tried to talk Pips out of doing. "Hi Argyle!," she greeted the elf, giving it a smile. "You're not late. It's impossible to be late to something like this, and," she continued, glancing at Kurumi as the prefect had joined in. "Kurumi's right. You're right on time, and I'm sure we're all grateful for the new sprinkles." And stop dropping the rolling pin on your foot before I have to hide that along with Pips' iron.

And her attention went back to Kurumi after that, only because the Gryffindor had seemed to respond to her questions about her hair. Although it didn't seem like her statement had exactly made the older girl feel better. Kendall nodded, though. "Okay. So, it's like your boyfriend's color?," she said just as quietly, even as she realized it didn't quite seem like the main point of her earlier whispers had ben realized. That was okay too, seeing as she probably shouldn't have said it out in the open anyway. Plus, as she contemplated going back to her cookies, even to the extent of picking up her dragon-shaped cookie cutter with a chocolate-covered hand, she realized something else. "Um, Kurumi? You kinda missed the cookie," she said hesitantly, pointing at the frosting covering the table. Maybe someone could clean that up? Or scoop it back onto the cookies or something?

She had more cookies to cut out. Awesome chocolate ones, and she tried to apply her attention to that, only to get distracted again by Vivi's compliment. "Thanks!," she said, turning to the blonde with another big grin. She hoped pink looked good on her, because otherwise she'd have a bit of a problem seeing as it was her favorite color. Plus, the older Claw had complimented her hat too, which only got a bigger grin. "I like them. I have a collection of fedoras, but they aren't really looked at as an approved part of the school uniform," she said, getting slightly less animated as the statement continued. "But I get to wear them whenever I don't have to be in uniform." Back to happy. "And I think you could pull off lots of colors, 'cause your hair's light so they'd show up really well." And color was awesome. Like chocolate was, and she finally went back to cutting out more cookies, switching to the butterfly after a few dragons, and then finishing off with the Toddles-shaped cutter. Now she just had to decide how to decorate them all once they were done.