Awar's stomach responded to Ari's in an almost same GRRRROOWWWLL. "I sure hope so!"

"Oh okay. Uh...sorry this feels really ackward..." hebsays trailing off a bit.

"Yup!" She said, beaming over at the girl when she mentioned that she had been sorted into Gryffindor. "I sure was and it's great--er...except for the fact that I'll have to eat the sorting hat...but I'll worry about that when it comes." For now she would try to remain positive.

Lex nodded when Emm said she had been out helping. "Yeah...I figured you would have been off helping; a lot of older students were doing that, like Abby and Vivi! But I couldn't help...I had to go to the boats." If she could have she would have stayed to help out a bit seeing as things had gotten pretty frantic but then she was told by just about everyone that she needed to go to the Ground's Keeper and she had no choice but to do as she was told. "Did everyone end up getting some kind of help?" She asked curiously? he place had been so busy that she didn't bother mentioning her hurt wrist; not when there were others with more serious cases.

The others? "Well Dylan's a lion, like me but Ari's a claw..." She was hoping that they would have all been in the same house so they could share a common room but it didn't seem like it would work that way...

She looked over at her in shock at the mention that they might have had to wait until the next day to get their things. "Really?! But I left a bag of candy in my trunk! What will I eat tonight??" This just didn't seem right!

Lex shot the boy a curious look when he said that. "How come?" She asked with a light tone. By now she had gotten use to walking up to people and just striking up conversations. She had learned a long time ago that if she didn't then she was much less likely to make friends.

Tension seemed to be forming between them, and so Emi decided to back off of the personal questions. That was just how she got to know people. Get to know their background and you get to know the person... besides, it was just small talk. And who didn't like to talk about themselves? But, she was getting distracted. She listened attentively to his story and nodded in understanding. "Sounds nice," she told him sincerely. "I have two older siblings. Once of them travels constantly and the other is on the other side of America... I wish I could have stayed with either one of them, not that it would have helped," she said with a small frown. But there she was, complaining again. She quickly shut that off, determined to change her attitude. Or at least try.

She saw the recognition shine in William's eyes as she spoke the second name. She laughed with him, and nodded. "It's a tricky subject, but I managed to excel in it," she told him proudly. "I want to achieve the animagus form some day, so Transfiguration is the first step," she explained. "But Defense Against the Dark Arts is definitely my best topic," she said with a proud smile.

"Nothing its just..." Noah rubs thw back of his neck with his hand.
"I always talk to much and it makes people annoyed."

'Wait, Louisa! You're a girl, rigggghtt?'.... now that got Vickers to raise one of those Vulcan eyebrows and gave Elijah that LOOK. Like duh dude, do you even need to verify that? Just when he was about to roll his eyes and shake his head wondering where the Curly One was going with this he suddenly heard 'a wee date'

Again, Vickers stands agape beside Elijah. This is starting to become a habit.

"This isnt the time for this Elijah...." he mumbled at his buddy through gritted teeth. At any other time he'd probably appreciate that convenient segue, but right now they are in a rather tricky situation with the Head Girl-- not to mention certain things between the two Ravenclaws are a little.....complicated already.



And just when he thought things couldnt get any trickier or more complicated Oakey makes his presence REALLY felt. Piercing blue eyes goes on alert and he nears the two Puffs, ready to get between them in case it turns physical right here right now. "Duels are not authorized anywhere in Hogwarts other than in the Dueling Arena and only with proper permissions." he blurted out all of a sudden. Yeah that was in the school rules... why he says it now he didnt know, must be an attempt to diffuse the charged atmosphere between them.... or once again, may have provided an opportunity for them to really duke it out.

Harlan was staring out over the Great Hall, worried that none of her friends she'd made in Diagon Alley would be sorted into the same house as her.. She huffed and took a bite of the food in front of her, she shouldn't be worrying about that now.. At least she'd made some other friends already.

Harlan nodded to herself once again telling herself to stop worrying.

Just then someone covered her eyes, earning a squeak.
Guess who..? She frowned.. she obviously knew this person, or they wouldn't be doing this.. Unless they were confusing her for someone else.. but that was impossible. This was Harlan Etta Isaacs they were talking about, she was super fancy and all that.

Harlan concentrated again, it HAD to be one of her buddies. AND HE WAS A HUFFLEPUFF?! 'Logaaaaan?!' Harlan jumped up and turned around.
Logaaaaan! She grinned and hugged him happily.

"Oh I'll be in 5th term this year. I guess it's really going to be a very busy year for me. With OWLs and all. I'm hoping that I make the Quidditch team again this year." Alyssa replied before she realized that she was rattling on about stuff that Belle hadn't even asked her. Alyssa sighed. She was starting to get tired already.



Alyssa turned around when she felt somebody plop next to her and smiled when she saw it was Alec, her young friend, who seemed to have grown quite a lot since she had last seen him. "Hey Alec. Boy! you have definitely grown taller. How much ice cream have you eaten during the summer?" Alyssa grinned at him, knowing his fondness for the dessert. Then to Alyssa's delight, Adeline came and sat next to Alec. She felt an affinity with the Third Yead girl.



"Hello Adeline. It is good to see you. I hope that your summer was a good one. It was great to see you at Caroline's wedding. You looked so beautiful in that dress."Alyssa smiled remembering that special day.

"Have you seen Asher anywhere?" Alyssa asked looking around for the third year Slytherin. He had been Adeline's date at the wedding. They made such a nice looking couple. Alyssa sighed to herself. She was beginning to feel really tired now and hoped that she would be able to stay awake long enough for the Headmistress to make her speech. If not, she hoped that she would be able to sneak out without anyone seeing her. She really needed to get going.

Hehe!

Alexa seemed to like the idea of being in a bubble! Which was definitely good for Elodie, yep! Grinning at her new friend, Els nodded her head! "You should write to him tonight and ask him to find one! He might not be able to find a bubble straight away!" And that was pretty much forever away. Alexa could do huge damage before that! And Elodie didn't want to have to look after someone, or keep watching Alexa wherever she was walking. Elodie wasn't her guardian. SOMEONE FIND ONE.

"Alexa...whatever your last name is! You are coming with me to see the Healer, incase it is BROKEN!" And that was all on the matter, it really was. Broken bones didn't just heal themselves without help, Alexa.

"I've used the toilet and created things more gorgeous than you." That was all he was getting. Because he had said mean things to CatBoy.

.... Well CatBoy, that was rude. Elodie scowled at him, and then raised her eyebrows. "Do I look like someone who stays around dead bodies?" No. She was just convinced that someone HAD died, okay?! The train had obviously HIT somebody on the tracks or SOMETHING. She was NOT a psychic. Wait - maybe HE knew.

But before she could actually comment again....

....CatBoy was being stupid. Again.

"CAT BOY! Just come and sit back down!" Oh dear. If the new Headmistress caught sight of this, or even a Professor, they were sure to be yelled at and told off and punished for Cat Boy's behaviour. Couldn't he have just ignored Mr-I-Find-Myself-Attractive-And-Will-Probably-Marry-Myself-Because-People-Find-Me-Egotistical?!

Obviously not.

...Infact, she was sure they'd get done in for this, so she got up from her own seat. Look at that, Elodie Rae - taking a stand. Quickly following behind him, Elodie frowned, and grabbed his hand. "CatBoy...come onnnnnn...leave it. He's not worth it." No, not he WASN'T.

SO COME AND SIT DOWN CATBOY. SADFACE.

She ignored the boy's remark about everyone against him, she actually had no idea that his own Puffers would shut him up but the Oakey boy's cheer for her was a pretty obvious sign. Louisa couldn't help but smirk and frown at him at the same time, were those two eternal enemies or something? She should dig into this later, now she had more urgent things to deal with...

... like him JUST noticing she was a girl. What was with everyone today insulting her very curvy figure!?!?!!! First the president of Governors and now the curly-head fraud. It must be the tight hair bun she had on the back of her head. With cheeks flushing, from both annoyance and embarrassment (because this boy in less than one minute knew what Louisa exactly... wanted), she walked closer trying to feel all intimidating and stuff, "When I want advice about my personal dating life, I'll make sure to come to you." Sarcasm was her middle name and probably the whole school knew that by now. "But now we--"

The eternal enemy wasn't backing down, it seemed, because the next thing Louisa knew was that Oakey challenged the curly head to a duel. A DUEL! Oh no, not again! Not on her first day and with guests and new headmistress around! Vickers beat her to them though, she felt her frowny face change and her cheeks flush slightly once more when he was all manly and peacemaker-like by moving closer to the boys to prevent a fight and... recite the rule.

Well, he was all macho like for a quick moment, right? Good enough!

"Like rule book said here," she clasped Vickers' back gently and addressed Oakey, "No duels. No fights. No mouthing off." Only she was allowed to do that, obviously, "Not even hexing-from-under-the-table. Simple explanation: it's my first day as Head Girl and I don't want it to be ruined." Whether they see that as selfish or illogical or silly, it was the truth. "Instead, Oakey, why don't you rant? Come on... just tell us what he did to deserve this very brave un-Hufflepuff-ish dare from you? Because he's getting a lecture in a minute." And he should rant quickly, because Louisa was a biiiiit impatient.

Laura looked at Oakey but didn't know what to do, she was still annoyed with the way he had walked out on her in the train without even letting her explain herself. "I'm sorry." Laura sighed after a few minutes just staring at the table. "I didn't mean too let you down." Laura really wished she had Anya or Ella around so she could give someone a hug.

Bliss frowned slightly as Fee wrinkled her forehead. "Something wrong?" She asked worriedly, she didn't want anyone even slightly annoyed or upset or anything else. Maybe she thought Bliss didn't like her. GASP. Or didn't like Snakes. One she had a pet snake, a bit irrelevant, but oh well. Her best friend and another cool guy friend were snakes! "Thanks, great to meet you too," Bliss replied, shaking her head of her earlier worries. Up until now, Bliss realised, she'd kept her injured wrist below the table, but now she lifted the bandaged hand and fiddled around with an empty plate that was in front of her. "Thank you," Bliss said and beamed at the older girl, "I like your name too," said told Fee. She was in her Seventh Year? So Bliss was right after all. "I hope you have a great year," Bliss said kindly, thinking about what it would be like for her in five years times. "I do, I really do," she exclaimed.

Alexa frowned a bit, great the only person she knew in this house was as unsocial as she was. "Well I can understand not being a huge people person." Alexa thought about Maxwell's next question. "Umm I guess I am. It will be nice to see others in a class, but I.. well I guess I'm just nervous is all. I have never really been near other kids before. I just hope I can fit in is all." She still wasn't sure if that was going to be possible or not.

Alexa smiled a little, this boy was interesting, maybe the most interesting so far. She then thought of the other boy at the platform, well maybe it was a toss up between the two. "Yeah I hope I meet some more people soon, but if I don't then I guess being an only child will come in handy." She looked around the hall, "Well yeah I can see where it's been kind of long sitting here. Have you found anything fun at the other tables?" Alexa wondered what fun he would find and wondered if maybe she could find some fun too.

"Yeah though the puff is still shaking in fear." She sighed and grimaced, "And you?"

Lex's face lit up at the boys little confession and she beamed over at him. "Is that all? I do that at least a million times a day but that's never stopped me from talking!" Which was true. f she felt uncomfortable every time she said something that others found annoying....or stupid...or 'typical of a girl', as they called it, then she might have stopped talking ages ago but since she decided that it didn't matter as long as she had her say, there was nothing to be done about! "And you haven't said anything annoying as yet!"

"YES! A brilliant idea! I really should mail him right after the feast. I don't think I want to go home and wait for the bubble to arrive and besides I'd much rather get it before the end of the school year!" She wanted to roll throw the halls knocking into things and people. Ever since Elodie mentioned it--never mind that it was only just a few minutes ago--it had become her dream--no, her demand and she would find a way, one way or another.

Sure for a brief moment she thought of the damage she could cause but that quickly vanished when she thought of the fun she would have bouncing down the stairs and watching people scamper out of the way!

Lex blinked twice, hardly able to keep the girl stare for too long. "Um...it's Cambridge...and well you said it didn't look serious soooo..." She trailed off for a minute when she saw just how serious Elodie had become. "I think the ice is all I'll need and...and--you said it's not broken!" She said, trying to shift the blame by pointing at her. "So it must be fine." She ended with a stubborn nod.

Damon nodded, "Pixel was asleep te entire time, Syd is up in the owlery already," He sighed, "And Grimalkin is a grouch as always,"

"That is good." She smiled and twisted her ring, "Damon..." Tay sighed and shook her head, "Nevermind..."

Damon looked down at her, "What is it, mon amour?"

Tay shook her head, "Its nothing... mi corazon..." She glanced away.

"If it's nothing, you should have no problem telling me." Damon traced the side her face with his hand.

Tay slapped his hand away from her face. She sneered, "I said it is nothing."

Damon frowned, "Fine..." He poured himself a glass of water, not wanting to try to say something else, he didn't want to make her even more upset.

Tay saw the frown and tears started to try to get out. "I... I'm sorry..." She rapidly stood up, making her fall backwards.

Ariella giggled hwne she heard Awar's stomach growl too, if not lounder than when Ari's grumbled.

"So do you have any other cousins that go here?" Ari asked curiously. She remembered that they had been discussing siblings when they were on the train before they had been inturupted and since she had just been kinda introduced to Presley it seemed like an apropiate topic to talk about, "And why did Presley care so much about what house you were sorted into?"

"Taylor," Damon quickly went to her side and knelt beside her, "Are you alright?"