Aw, she was so cute! Ed chuckled at her dramatic pout, glad she felt like she should have been there, but also sad that she felt guilty.

Focused on the box, he opened it and immediately, his jaw dropped. He could see she was excited about giving it to him and he was excited to have it! He gently lifted the sculpture from the box, gaping at it in amazement. "Nell, how...?" He glanced at her before running his fingers over the detail, muttering words such as "Amazing" and "Talented". Yup, she was talented alright! He beamed at her happily and instantly hugged her again, tighter than before. "Thank you! I adore it!" This was his new favourite thing! And he was going to keep it safe! "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" He kissed her once more with pure happiness, unable to stop himself.

Nell's smile grew steadily with the looks that were crossing Ed's face. He muttered a few things but she didn't hear any of it. All she was focused on was the happiness that was on his face. He liked it! She was so happy watching him she was bouncing on her toes. She giggled breathlessly as he hugged her. He kissed her till her head spun and she couldn't have remembered her name if she had tried!

When she was finally able to extricate herself, though not willingly, her eyes were twinkling. "Your welcome dearest. But that isn't all. Run your finger down the spine." It had taken her a while to get the charm just right but it was working quite well now.

Louisa opened her mouth to give another witty example of blondes wearing only black but decided against it in the last second and simply grinned, "Just teasing." She turned to find the toy in Vivi's hand. "Oh, brilliant! We should lure them with this." Did you hear the 'we'? Good. She moved on to the next room, her feet stepping gingerly on the edible floor.

"I beg to differ." About Macha. "I've seen her using the bed's leg as chewing toy, this can very much chew clothes off." And she didn't want to be one of her first Hogwartian victims, thank you very much. "Heeeere kitty kitty." Cooing and snapping her fingers gently... no reason for that, it just seemed the right thing to do with the cooing thing. She kept this on for a couple times before sighing and looking out the window again, maybe one of the younger students spotted them? One of them?

She turned to Vivi again and shrugged, "It's been fine. My mum said we can come over whenever, Jason and my brothers are going away for father-sons bonding time so it'll be even more peaceful and less staring for you." Specially if they knew that Vivi was a pure witch, hardcore staring would've been due. "But the exciting news is coming ahead! Vickers said we can spend New Year in his place with his grandmum and uncle." She practically glowed with anticipation. "I'm really looking forward to go there. It's also a week before my birthday so." BONUS. "How's your Christmas? Yours is probably way more busy and fun than mine."

Whyyy was Louisa walking away? Vivi leaned over from her seated position to watch the girl head into the other room, and when it became apparent Louisa wasn't coming back this way, she rose again to her feet and followed. "I wish this place had more chairs. And less places that I'm sure everyone has licked."

Pause pause pause. "Any secret passageways that lead up to the turret that is secretly full of gingerbread chaises?" Because that seemed like a likely thing. A room of chairs that no one has licked.

She mulled over the idea that Louisa's family might stare at her. Why, though? It seemed unlikely that they knew who her mother was, and she wasn't sure why else people would think to pay attention before even meeting her. The next bit of news, though... that simply perplexed the blond Ravenclaw. Was Vickers now having a party and inviting people to his home? Was that the 'we'? Or did Louisa think Vivi ought to be excited that she was invited somewhere no one else was? Because she was not excited.

"Um." It took a moment to recall the question. "We went to my grandparents' house. The paternal side. Lots of food and gifts and madness. It was pretty typical, but it was sort of nice seeing everyone together again. I think my mother is lonesome for Mo, now that he's at school." And not because visiting Hogwarts made her miss being busy.

Milton EYED her. Meanie.

But it was time to go upstairs. Milton could only enjoy jello chairs so much before he needed to move on. "Hmm? Oh, that was Presley. She's a... fourth year? I think." And she was totally into him. Like every girl SHOULD be. He could tell. Once Taryn's hand was in his, Milton pulled up from the chair and lead her to the chocolate staircase. "If this wasn't covered in shoe prints I would totally eat it." Just saying.

Once they were upstairs, Milton stepped away from the staircase and looked around at all of the.... furniture. Milton eyed a chair closely. "Is this edible?" Tempting...

Landon glared over at Melanie who was laughing hysterically. "Alright, I got it. It was funny. Shut it." He pouted, walking back over to the chair and carefully and slowly sitting upon it. "See, it does like me." He said, crossing his arms. He watched as Melanie bounced up and down on her chair and he knew he could do it better. Higher at least. He bounced slowly up and down and started to get higher and higher. Though, he watched out, because he wasn't going to hit his head on the ceiling and mess his hair up.

"I'm indifferent to gelatin now, Melanie." The Gryffindor said as he bounced up and down.

Because they were in the same house. Pfft.

One characteristic of a Slytherin, indeed.

Did Juliet just laugh at her? Almost sarcastically? ...and smirk? O__o Why did those gestures seem undeniably familiar? Who did those again?! She looked at the Slytherin's face and another image flickered into her mind..but who the hell was that?! She couldn't tell. Gaah! It was like deja vu. And she was about to ask Juliet again if they've met before had the girl not walk off to where she pointed her and the other Snake to go.

Okay, okay...back to the plan. Juliet was already there, now it's your turn, Rush.

Merlin, no frowning Mr. Apple Pie. She should be the one that's frowning right now, not him. Beezus almost rolled her eyes at him but she stopped herself. When he finally walked off to where Juliet was, Beezus, herself proceeded towards the candy cane wallpaper, as promised.

With one quick glance at the two, she then extended a finger, wiping it gently against the wallpaper, and with the smudges along with it, she propped it into her mouth. Mhmm! That was sweet...minty and a honeysuckle kind of sweet. She nodded to herself before turning to the two.

*BLINK*

"OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Beezus exclaimed, almost jumpily. "You two! You two!" A bit of flailing here, yes. "You guuuuuuuuuuuys!"

What is it Beezus?!

The Ravenclaw grinning widely much like a chesire cat then brought her hands together. "You guys are under a mistletoe!" Mooooore grinning. "See? See?!" she pointed at the Christmas vines above the two that was magically growing downward. "You know what that means, riiiiiiiiiiight?" HEHEHEHE. Beezus knew before she sent that two off to that spot that their was a mistletoe that's going to appear. Well, she saw its baby vines wiggling when they entered the room. Too bad Juliet and Gary didn't notice it because they were so keen on teaming up against her....or too good?

Melanie giggled continuing to bounce up and down in her chair. He could tell her to stop but it wasn't as easy as he seemed to think it was. "It just likes me more," Melanie decided as he sat down in a chair and started to bounce in it too. She watched as he got higher and higher. What?

"Are you trying to fall again?" Melanie asked. Because maybe he and the chair were in an argument or something. She was pretty sure that if he bounced any more or any higher, he'd probably fall out of his chair...

again.

Snort.

Juliet turned to Gary when he actually, sort of, somehow, kinda agreed with Beezus but then automatically changed his mind 0.000001 seconds after Beezus finally agreeing to licking the wall as well. Juliet wanted to just laugh at that. After all the NOs and the slight arrogance at the situation, Gary actually gave in even for just that slightest amount of time. HILARIOUS!

But anyway, not that Juliet should really make it a big deal, she'll just keep it to herself and besides, these people are new acquaintances. And she needs to start making friends rather than enemies--- or something like that.

Juliet eyed Beezus when she started to put her thumb onto the candy wall and then back at Gary who had that camera around his neck. Juliet's hand then immediately clung to his arm, shaking it to get his attention "Take a picture. NOW! NOW!" whispering to him and at the same time smiling. What? it'll look good on his collection. He can now name it, random people trying to taste what wall taste like. It'd be a nice documentary.

You guys are under a mistletoe

Juliet's eyes looked for a mistletoe and just when she turned her back, there! She saw it herself too. Mistletoe. Beezus teasing. Gary and her standing together. Juliet's eyes narrowed at the mistletoe and her upper lip once again twitched. However, she did gave a blank expression when she turned to Beezus. "What about it?" pretending to act like she has no clue about it. "It's a nice mistletoe, don't you think Gary?" asking Gary casually like there is nothing about it, still blank expression.

The blonde guy just kept silent and gave a small cynical smile to Beezus. Eventhough he felt so much WIN to her but Gary still looked cool.. and didn't show any specific expression. Meh

Oh yeah, He was such the coolest person on Earth right now.

He just stood still, waiting for the Brunnete ravvie showed her action. LICKING THE WALL! Then he realized that someone had clung to his arm and shook it. Oh, how could he forgot that Juliet was also standing next to him, watching Beezus to lick the wall? You need to learn about paying attention to environment, Rush! Don't be too busy distracted with your own world. "I will." Said him grabbing his camera and..

CLICK!

Well, maybe she didn't lick the wall. Just wipe her thumb and lick it but better than he did lick it. Huft..

and Suddenly..

"You guys are under a mistletoe!"

*blink*

Then? Should he say WOW or something?

Expressionless.. That's him! So he didn't look shocked or excited or another else. Just show a flat expression because he quite didn't understand what did Beezus mean. "So?" he asked her back. Gary stared at the mistletoes. "What makes it so special?" Because it's just a mistletoe, right?

That’s it. She was finally beginning to get used to all the news her bestie told her, and nothing could spoil her good mood. Originally thinking of going for a walk around the castle, the fifth year made her way to the ground floor, but her attention was soon caught by all the people heading to the great hall. Since she had no plan in mind for that day, Gwendolyn decided to stop by that place as well. So, with hasty steps, the Ravenclaw approached the doors, which led to the great hall. What was going on there?

Christmas tree… Gingerbread house… Everything looked amazing. After spending a moment to look around the great hall, the fifth year finally headed towards the gingerbread house, eventually stopping right in front of it. A small smile appeared on her face as she examined the gingerbread house. Since it looked so wonderful from outside, Gwen couldn’t help but wonder how the interior of the house was decorated.

So, taking a few more steps towards the house, the Ravenclaw pushed the front door open, making her way in.

*Grumble* *Mumble* *Groan*

Yup, this Slytherin was in a bad mood. Why? because he just lost points for the first time EVER and he didn't like it. Stupid pretty headmistress! it was all her fault!

But even as he was grumbling under his breath, the Slytherin did stare in amazement when he suddenly stood in front of a big house. And it looked to be made of....

"CANDYYYYY~" In a flash, the snake's bad mood seemed to have vanished upon seeing the house of candy in front of him. With his mouth hanging open, Daichi noticed Gwen opening the door and he squealed. THEY COULD GO IN?!?! "Hold the door open!" he yelled and quickly made his way to the Ravenclaw and as he was close to the door he .....turned his head and bit his teeth into the door, hehe~

Despite her high observation skills, since it was a lot edgy than the others considering how she needed to be alert when she was on the Quidditch field, Beezus didn't notice that the two had secretly took a picture of her while she took on their little dare. So, basically no reactions were issued.

Instead, the Ravenclaw was all giggly at the situation the two Slytherins were in at the moment. Juliet even had an arm clinging on Gary. Aren't they cute?

Her wide grin died down though when she heard what the two had to say. What about it? Really Juliet? And that stoic face...yep, the familiarity of it was creeping her out. And Gary? What makes it special?

*MAJOR EYEROLL*

She didn't know Slytherins were this...slow...and clueless..and blank...and expressionless. Dear Merlin. They had more serious issues than Hufflepuffs, those two did at least. Calming herself (because there was no need to shout and point out how utterly amazing it is to be standing under a mistletoe with a blonde guy....with blue eyes....O.o What the hell was she thinking?!), since she wasn't really the screaming type, most of the time, the Ravenclaw crossed her arms and smiled sarcastically at the two. "Simple. All you have to do is kiss."

Never heard of kissing under the mistletoe? Were they living in the Stone Age or something? "Yep..because that's the rule." There was a rule? "..and please..don't complain. Not that you can, anyway..It's just how it is. The fate of our Christmas season rests in your hands." ..or lips? BLEH.

Taryn just grinned when Milton eyed her. He liked her. Hehehe.

Oh. Okay then. Just curious. She laughed at his comment about eating the staircase and eyed it, managing to walk at the same time. Hehe. "I think there's a good chance that you might eat it anyway." She giggled and nudged him. She DID like teasing him. And when they reached the second floor, Taryn laughed again, considering the first thing out of Milton's mouth was THAT. "I'm not quite sure..."

Pause.

"Maybe you should test it out." He knew he WANTED to.

Seri waited impatiently for Lex in the house. She had run off here when Lex suggested it and now she couldn't find her. For one thing, it was pretty busy, and well, she was quite distracted by the whole set-up for a good five minutes. Seri had made little gingerbread houses with her mother when she was a little kid, actually, every year since last! It kinda made her homesick.

Though she and her mother had never accomplished anything like this. Candy-wallpapered, jelly chairs, edible furniture...! Man, Seri loved wizards.

She wanted to eat. Were the jelly chairs edible? She sure hoped so! Even the stairs were chocolate! Merlin- did these wizards think of EVERYTHING?

This house had to be the best ever! EVERYTHING was edible...she should know, she'd taken a bite out of just about everything...except the floor...hmmm...

Well if everything else was food then there was no reason the floor should have been an exception. She was about to test this theory when she caught sight of Serenity and suddenly remembered that she was supposed to be meeting her in there. Oops. It wasn't her fault. She was temporarily dazed by all the sugar!

"Seri, over here!" She called, before breaking off a piece of a near-by chair and munching on it. Mmmmmmmmm. "You have to try this." And with that she broke another piece and handed it to her.

Seri saw Lex... eating a chair...

MERLIN.

What was up with wizards today?

"Urr... Lex isn't that a ... a... chair?"

They were crazy pe- Oh, WAAAAIT A MINUTE. It was all edible.

Right. Seri remembers. Seri looked down skeptically at the bit of chair Lex had placed in her hands. Seri was kinda excited to eat it, but a bit worried it wiuld break her teeth. What was it even made of? Chocolate? Sugar? She hoped she wasn't going to be seeing her great-cousin Algernon over Christmas, he was a dentist and if he came over the whole family would rush about the house hiding all the sweets away so he didn't complain for hours about sugar and cavities and BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Now, just because of her great-cousin she bit heartily into the chair. Wait it... - it actually- it- it- it tasted... well... GOOD! And nice. And SUGAR. Dear Merlin! Seri felt like she hadn't eaten sugar in YEARS! It had been too long dear friend! "LEX! This is awesome! What else can we eat?" Seri questioned. She ran over to a window and bit into the curtains- even they were edible! And the doorknob! And the walls! And the stairs! OH MY!

Lex grinned. "Why yeeessss, it is--but it's a yummy chair!" She said munching on hers a bit more. Seri clearly wasn't getting the memo that this was the one place you could literally eat yourself out of a house and home--wait...there we go. She was seeing the light. About time too because between the two of them they had to make good use of the Prefects work; wouldn't want them thinking their efforts were wasted or anything like that. No no. That simply wouldn't do. They had to eat the house.

She waited eagerly for her friend to taste the thing so they could get on with it and burst into laughter when she confirmed her earlier thought. It was awesome. Lex began laughing when Seri ran over to the window and began making a meal of the curtain...then the doorknobs...the walls--DANG this girl was getting around!!

"Great, now that your appetites open we should hit upstairs then make our way back down." Nod. If they ate the stairs or anything down here first then upstairs would be lost forever...then she would cry for the loss of so much sugar.

Yeah. She would. Sugar was serious business.

It was so cute to see her bouncing like that! Like... unreasonably cute! Ed grinned at her and went back to examining the dragon with much interest. He gave Nell a funny look when she said to run a finger down the spine. Why? What was it going to do? Roar? Or fly? Or just be an awesome as she'd made it, but in a different colour?! That was the thing with magic, you never knew. He gave her an excited smile and then ran his finger down the spine of the beautiful little sculpture.

Treats in hand, Dylan made his way slowly to the giant Gingerbread house. This was one of the things he'd had a part in. It was magnificent and huge...and just..........SIGH. It was a beautiful sight. That's what it was. He needed to check out the candy furniture. Yes.

Slipping past Daichi...who he felt indifferent towards as a person, the Slytherin made his way into the house. The sweet smells were over-powering almost. He'd never been one for a lot of sweets...but this...He wanted to eat everything...Icing on the walls...and gummy chairs. He'd sneak one out later and...hide it in the dorm. Yes, Dylan had plans for it...

Passing into the next little bit of the house, the Captain was met with an interesting site. First things first...The wallpaper looked awesome...He'd lick it later...after he figured out why Bee was standing there, smirking at an uncomfortable looking Rush and unknown Slytherin girl. Why did she look like she'd just gotten away with...something bad?

Surveying the situation, he glanced around the room. No one needed to forget he'd helped with planning...He KNEW what was in this house. But was it in this room? Stepping cautiously into the room, he spotted it. Right above the two Slytherins.

Mistletoe.

Yep, that did it. Without meaning to offend, Dylan began laughing. It was obvious what his Ravenclaw had done..."Bee..." LAUGHING. "Come on. Leave 'em alone."

Come with me...

Her eyes twinkled as he ran his finger down the spine of the sculpture. As soon as his finger hit the tail the charm kicked in. The tiny figurine stretched out it's neck and then moved it's little legs. Stretching out it's wing the dragon gave a little roar before taking wing. It flew around Edmund's head before landing on his shoulder.

"He'll keep moving and flying around you until you say 'obsidian.' Then he'll go back onto his pedestal." It had taken forever for her to get the charm right but it was worth it. She couldn't wait to hear what Grandpa had to say about it. Her charm work was a piece of art if she did say so herself.

Eating the stairs WAS tempting. "Maybe..." Milton would have eyed her if he wasn't busy walking up the stairs. Maybe once they got upstairs he would eat the top few steps so no one could come up and he could have the entire upstairs to himself. Bwahaha.

Milton eyed the chair again before stepping over to a small table. "Maybe I should." Because that table looked delicious. Milton rose his fist and then SLAM! Right onto the edge, and took a giant chunk of chocolate table off the corner. He smirked proudly and picked it up to show Taryn. "I broke a table." And he was proud of it too. Milton sniffed it quickly before biting a piece. After chewing a bit, he nodded approvingly. "That's good stuff. Have some." He grinned and held the chunk of chocolate table out for Taryn. You knooow you want sooome.

You know what they say, picture says a thousand words. Anything is possible to how this will come out if every Gary decides to develop the picture. And hey, he should definitely Juliet a copy of the shot. She did wiggle her eyebrows to Gary and smirked after he took that one shot. But immediately changed her expression the moment Beezus turned to them.

Simple. All you have to do is kiss.

Juliet snorted. She wanted to laugh right now but refrained herself from doing so. She's really funny right now. She had to explain all that because she thought the two of them were acting so casual about it. Giving herself time to breath so she could handle her facial expression from laughing, she took a big deep breath "But we just met" lip twitch. "... that's inappropriate" not to mention illogical. "Why would you kiss someone you just met? And why does it have to be under a mistletoe?" she added as her eyebrow raised. "Is it not a person's prerogative to kiss someone they like without the mistletoe?" another question raised. Hey, the more questions the better.

A RULE??? Blink. Blink.

Now this is just getting hilarious all of a sudden. A rule? How can she be talking to Ravenclaw right now because what she is saying does not make sense even just a tiny bit. Yup, a headdesk would be nice right now. "So what you are trying to say is that, you just kiss anyone when you are under a mistletoe?" she replied giving emphasis on 'you' meaning Beezus herself does this. Well, does she?

Because right now with her reasoning and what not, it exactly sounds like she kisses under a mistletoe.

Bee...

Juliet's eyes glanced over to the person.... it's the Slytherin's team captain. Juliet greeted Montmorency with a small smile and then turned back to Beezus.

But if Milton ate the stairs, how would THEY leave the house? Taryn definitely preferred that he ate the furniture. Yep. That said, she totally jumped when she heard the slam on the table. Needless to say, she hadn't been paying attention and didn't see it coming. EEP.

Oh goodness. That was a loud noise. Taryn stepped closer to Milton and the now broken table So it WAS edible? Aha. That wasn't a far stretch. "Ohhh. My hero, breaking tables to give me chocolate." She giggled. Taryn took the chocolate chunk and then a bite from it. "I wonder what they're going to do with this whole house, do you think the house elves would eat it?" Another giggle. Hehehe.

"Simple. All you have to do is kiss."

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GAAAAAAAAAAASP!

Seriously? He couldn't hide his surprised expression right now. His blue eyes widened and stared at the Ravenclaw brunette. Simple? Did she think that kiss someone without any particular reason is SIMPLE?

Maybe it was easy for some boys. but NOT for a Gerald Rush.

Why? He has plenty reasons about that.

1. He agreed with Juliet's statement. That's inappropriate to kiss someone who just you met.
2. Logically, that rule is so much NONSENSE!
3. He didn't have any special feeling to Juliet.. Because both of them just met. That's so much different when he kissed Zhenya, because he did like her more than just friends.
4. He would feel a bit guilty to kiss another girl besides Zhenya eventhough they'd already broke up. Okay, ignore that

The conclusion? He really DISAGREED about that.

"That's so completely nonsense." said him cold. Would he kiss Juliet? NO! Then he spotted Dylan, the Slytherin captain walked toward them, laughed and said something to Beezus. Did they already plan it? He eyed them suspiciously. How stupid he was because he just agreed to stand here beside Juliet without feeling suspicious about that. His blue eyes glanced on Juliet who seemed so sarcastic and skeptic about this silly rules. Good to know that. It did mean that she also disagreed about kissing someone under a mistletoe. Practically, she was also on his side.