She'd never understand why her cat and boyfriend never got along. Even before upgrading Coul to boyfriend status, they didn't get on. It upset her, obviously. He totes hated on her cat when he was a toad too. It was like meow hating central in her boyfriends brain. Gosh. Okay, she did understand a little. She'd pieced things together from conversations, but still...they'd been friends for years now. And if you forgot the two month break, they'd been dating for a few months shy of a year.

But she wasn't counting that anymore. Elodie didn't know how they were working that out specifically. She didn't want to ask yet either. They'd not really done anything for Valentines, like she'd expected. So..anniversaries weren't important either, huh?

Maybe walking off alone into the maze was a bad idea. Now she was just thinking and thinking and thinking over everything. His voice snapped her out of it and she laughed, twirling about a little. "NOPE COME FIND ME. I'LL KEEP TALKING ABOUT STUFF AND YOU COME FIND ME. C'MOOOOON, GRANDPA." Hah. He was so old now.

........Her hand was kinda lonely now though. So she held them both above her head and held them together and twirled some more.

Boyyyyyyyyyyfie.

"I'M NO GRANDPA, ELODIE." The boy grumbled to himself as he often did and started trudging along in the opposite direction, back tracking, and looking for where she might have gotten off to. Being of age didn't mean he was old. Besides, it had its perks. He could use magic outside of school now and Elodie couldn't....... So he could have a lot of fun with that.

Coulson paused briefly to look at the rows of maize, wondering briefly if he could just... forget about the trail part and climb through the maize if he spotted her. But he picked up his walking again and made a right at the next bend.

"YOU'RE SLACKING IN THE TALKING DEPARTMENT, PIPS." Mm. And all the corn was making Couly hungry.

He still hadn't gotten a letter from mum, but he figured she was just busy and it'd get here soon.. But at the same time, he was a bit scared that the bonding they had done over summer was to no avail and that they were back where they started.

Ali and Dani!
 

Maize Maize Maize

Ariana had been here once this term, in the beginning with Hudson, they got lost and would up laughing about it for a week, but she was ready to go at it again, this time With Minerva and Taylor, who we're meeting up with her here.

Sure she and Taylor didnt ALWAYS see eye to eye but you know, she just didnt CARE right now, plus min would be there, she would mediate, or something.

GOSH. Boyfriends got testier as they aged, huh? "YOU'RE OLD AND I'M PRETTY SURE I SAW A WRINKLE EARLIER." Maybe it was just a frown line because he was unimpressed with her topic of conversation? Maybe. Either way, conversation would lead to him being older and old and worthy of 'Grandpa' title. WORTHY.

She'd lost track of where she'd actually headed by this point and stopped at a right turn realising her boyfriends voice was actually quieter than it had been moments before. "YOU'RE SLACKING IN THE FINDING DEPARTMENT, BIBS." And her voice was going to be lacking in the alive department sooner or later.

This was ridiculous now. Worst idea ever. At least she knew not to make THAT decision ever again. Sigh. "HEY COUL, IF YOU FIND ME IN THE NEXT TWO MINUTES YOU CAN HAVE TWO LOLLIPOPS AND MAYBE A KISS." Incentive. He needed incentive. And they were outdoors, which meant it was a whole new ballpark in the realm of incentives. She could share with him later.

Elodie was getting lonelier by the minute, and her throat was a little sore. Didn't boyfriends have some sort of girlfriend radar? How were they supposed to cope when their girlfriends dragged them shopping? Not that Elodie would ever put her darling boyfriend through that. Yet.

Taylor sighed and came down to the maze. She definitely needed a girl's day... and seeing Ariana wouldnt be too bad... better than a certain Ravenclaw or even... maybe a certain Hufflepuff perhaps the one she was dating?. Tay just wasnt in the mood to deal with ANY boy and it showed in the death glare she wore. Taylor sighed and grimaced but then smiled as she saw Ariana, "Hey, Ari..." She gave a slight wave, not sure if her... friend?/enemy?... whatever they were... liked hugs... or at least hugs from her. Tay didnt want any drama right now. Taylor looked around for Minnie, hoping she would come soon. She stared at the maze, thinking and maybe a little blushing about the time that she went in there... it was with Nash and she ran away, having him chase her... he caught her since she went to a dead end... their first kiss... but it was a while before he asked her out on a date then to be his girlfriend... but it was their first kiss ever anyways... Taylor frowned and looked away, not wanting to think of Nash right now... She fiddled with her necklace and shifted her weight back and forth... back and forth... just kept doing it...

Michael shrugged his shoulders. It was true he and Z had done their own thing but his dad had been really serious this time. "Dad had his scary face on. Even you would take what he said seriously."

He leaned his head against hers and sighed. He didn't want to grow up. "Lost house points? I don't think I have earned any." Which had been another reason for the talk even his mother had chimed in and he had always thought she was more easy going that his father.

"I don't know. I guess I just wanted to hear your opinion on it. Cuz I'll always do what you want Z." Serious conversation over. Michael picked up the shredded leaf and dumped it on her head.

Siiiiigh. He wanted girlfriend. He didn't want to find her. AND THE OLD COMMENTS NEEDED TO STOP SDLKFJKSDLJF. "ELODIE RAE I'M NOT OLD. YOU'LL BE SEVENTEEN SOON TOO. JUST WAIT, OLD LADY." ..... maybe this summer he'd 'accidentally' change her hair grey.

... No slacking here nope because he could now see a brunette the next row over and his girlfriend senses were tingling. He decided against answering her anymore and just stood, peeking through the rows of corn at her, watching her. 'Cause that was entertainment enough.

KISSES? OH? PERKY COUL HERE. The boy grinned to himself and decided that it was better to just climb through the rows to get to her because.. mazes were dumb. Also he wanted kisses.

He reached a hand through the rows to gently stroke her arm, hoping to startle her a bit.

Something was off.. really off, but Minerva couldn't put her finger on it. She just felt foggy in the head. Maybe she didn't sleep well the night before, yeah that was probably just it. Sipping on her tea she had made before heading out of the castle, Min made her way down to the Maze. It wasn't horribly cold and with March so close the days seem to be getting warmer.

Time was really flying and Min couldn't believe how quickly her term was going now. For a term that started off so slow, it had seemed to be picking up what with all the things going on around the castle and quiddich, she wasn't having much time to stop and think which was a good thing to be honest.

Looking up as she hit the maze she gave a small smile. "Hey ladies.." She glanced at the maze, "So who's bright idea was it to put us in the maze?" Minerva had been there once, just once and it freaked her out then so why wouldn't it freak her out now. "So what's the new gossip around? You haven't started the fun without me have you?" She laughed and sipped on her tea.

He rarely used her middle name. Actually, she was sure she could count them on one hand. Once was definitely the getting back together thing. And that was using her middle name all CUTELY, Coulson Bradshaw! Now he was just being mean with it. Not even fair. "IN LIKE TWO YEARS, BUTT BRAINS." Like seriously, it actually was. Closer to a year and a half, but still. Two years. He was 17 and she was 15. It was a proper age difference now. He was an adult in this world, and she...was not.

Hehe.

That was hot.

Elodie was definitely certain that this idea of hers had gotten her boyfriend killed, kidnapped or he'd found someone to bother and fluff his hair at, because he wasn't exactly communicating anymore. She'd offered kisses and he hadn't came. So..she was like..a lonely girlfriend now. A lonely girlfriend with nothing left but a dumb cat and a toad who disappeared all the time. She turned around a few more times and tried to remember some sort of way back right then, dragging her foot along a little to make some sort of mark so she'd know if she came back to this exact sp-

O__________O

HOLY MEATBALLS AND SPAGHETTI.

"COUUUUUUUUUUL HELP HELP HELLLLP!!!" Yeah, she wasn't staying around HERE for nothing. No way. Something that wasn't the maze touched her and she wanted her boyfriend and he was supposed to have found her and you know...he was just supposed to save her and by mark in the ground. She ran. In the opposite direction to what she'd even arrived in. Waaaaaaaah.

no quotes... you know who you are.
 

She was busy thinking, now before you act all surprised, you should know she was thinking of food, cupcakes.mainly, she hadnt had any in what seemed.like forever. So naturally she wanted some now. Chocolate with creme cheese icing and Carmel drizzled on top of that, perfect. She was dead set in this mindset of sweets when she heard a voice or two. "Hey, Hey Hey! " she said as the two fellow seventh years approached her. "my idea, itll be fun!" fin, yes, that was what yhey all needed F--U--N!

Arm wiggle wiggle wiggle woooooo.

Heh heh heh. Yeaaaah. Just a causal gentle touch and it was all goooooood. But then.....


......




Oh... crap....

"ELS?!" Well on the bright side, there was no doubt that that had been her now. But of course she'd ran and now he'd have to guess and find her again and SIGH. Coulson wiggled his cheating butt through the row of corn into the next aisle over and started chasing after Elodie, shouting her name some and half running half jogging. "ELODIEEEEEE. COME BAAAACK."

He peeked his head around the next bend, just standing and waiting around 'cause he didn't wanna make a mistake again and go the wrong way. "ELODIE COME BACK. C'MON." SIGH SIGH SIGH. Stupid, Coul. STUPID. Scaring girlfriends in broad daylight was apparently not allowed anymore and oops his mistake.

Taylor looked up, "Hey, Mins..." She held p her hands, "Wasnt mine..." Tay glanced at Ariana, "Why the maze?" She groaned. "No new gossip and no fun starting yet..." Taylor sighed and frowned. "Yeah... the maze is soooo going to be fun..." She grimaced and looked at it. Good memories... bad timing... but..." Tay sighed, "At least it is a girl's day... right?" Taylor glanced at the two if them, "No boys or boy talk... right?" Right???? She just wanted to forget about them all... at least right now... Tay looked at the two of them and started to nibble on her lip though not enough for it to bleed. "Soooo shall we go in?" Taylor gestured and pulled a fake smile, "Might be fun... who knows..." She shrugged and looked around, hoping to not see certain faces and smiling genuinely when she didnt see them.

RUN.

RUN.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AND NEVER LOOK BACK.

At least she could hear his voice though. That was his voice, wasn't it...?! She couldn't hear over the fact her head was pounding and her skin was somehow audibly crawling after being FELT. Els came to a stop a little way away from where the ATTACK had happened, and tried to catch her breath and listen for her boyfriend some more because he was alive and he was coming for her and this was all going to be good.

Right?

"COUL? ..... Coul?" Yeah, she wasn't moving from here.

She was just going to have one of the lollipops in her pocket and wait for Coulson and hugs. Not even the 'come back' from her boyfriend struck her that it could have been him doing the whole assaulting thing. Not even.

He didn't move from his spot, but rather stayed at the fork in the road.

"ELODIE. WHERE DID YOU GO?"

Come back please.

Mm. You know what was a good idea? Sitting. Sitting down and relaxing in the corn. You know what was better? Trying to figure out if a spell would insta cook the corn. That would be perfect and suit his needs right now, mhm. But he had a scared girlfriend on the loose and he was pretty sure he'd get a smack on the head or something for giving up this easy.

So he just stayed at his fork and waited for her to calm down and possibly answer him with real and valuable information.

This whole Marco Polo business was not for him.

He didn't remember the charm either. He did however remember the erasers being thrown at his head. That had been a weird class, one that he didn't want to think about now not when it was play time again.

"What a shame we can't earn points for just goofing around. We'd be at the top of the points ladder." He really didn't want to try. Not yet. Maybe not ever. "Alright then. We'll pick up a few points in each class." Shouldn't be too hard.

Taking her hands, Mikey pulled himself back to his feet. "Sounds like a plan." Didn't necessarily mean that he would carry out said plan. He and Zahra had too much fun together and he wasn't ready to give that up yet.

He tugged on her hands and pulled her in the direction they had come. "Do you reckon Plymouth will let me ride his motorcycle?"

Minerva looked at them both, Ariana had this kind of deep glaze to her and Min wondered what that was about, but didn't question it. It was Ari, she knew better than to question her best friend. She would just keep an eye on the girl. She was worried about her. She seemed to be happy on the outside, but was she really happy? Oakey seemed to be very MIA which in Minerva's book was ridiculous. Even traveling he couldn't send a few owls? Not really her business so Min would leave it for now, but the boy should know if he hurt her best friend she would come to where ever he was hiding, even the Amazon to find him.

Glancing at Taylor she seemed to be faking a little too much, but Min knew her issue. The paper had struck again with their gossip and Taylor seemed to be the target. She gave her an understanding smile and then looked at both of them. "Sure.. sure.. getting lost in a corn maze is a blast.. We can be children of the corn and all that jazz." Did either of them even know what children of the corn was? She chuckled to herself a bit.

This could be fun, she hoped it would be fun they hand't spent anytime together and it seemed their group was just them anymore. Min took a moment thinking about that. Things had changed so much since that end of second term when she met this small group. Maxwell was who knows where and Damon.. well she wasn't even thinking about that right now. So it was them.. They were the group now. Skipping.. oh no maybe not skipping. Min stopped for a moment feeling a bit off balance, yeah she really needed to take a study break and sleep more. She turned, "You two coming or what?" She smirked before heading into the maze.

This was possibly in competition for her list of the 'five worst days ever'. Hello there. She stayed where she was though, and pouted at everything..and nothing around her. "BOYFIE. COME FIND ME NOW BECAUSE...JUST BECAUSE." Because they wouldn't get to go camping over the summer, and she wouldn't be able to give him reward kisses or lollipops and there was always a possibility of DYING.

"THERE'S A BREAK IN THE CLOUDS ABOVE ME." That was all she had for him. And the clouds were moving, so he needed to get a wriggle on. Because she was actually going to sit down now. Because if she even attempted to go back, then...they'd lose one another. And it would be sad, and he'd have to explain to Cat and Braison how he was a bad boyfriend. Which he totally wasn't. He was pretty darn awesome at the boyfriend thing.

"I'LL SING TO YOU. COME TO MY SINGING." She was an awful singer. Not as awful as some, but she definitely wasn't going to be winning anything for it. She already knew what she was going to sing to him. THE UGLY BUG BALL. WOOOOOOOO.

Ahem. She cleared her throat and prepared herself for everything in the universe. "ONCE A LONELY CATERPILLAR SAT AND CRIEEED, TO A SYMPATHETIC BEETLE BY HIS SIDE" She had this down. And even better, she wiggled in her seat on the floor. Just like a caterpillar would. Wiggle. "I'VE GOT NOBODY TO HUG. I'M SUCH AN UG-UH-LY BUG." Was he here yet?

Why the maze? why the MAZE!? " because the maze, is fun." that's why now shut your mouth Taylor, no complaining. she shot her fellow seventh year a look before turning and following min in "for someone who says no boys you're sure talking bout them a lot." yes she was. who cared if she was having boy problems, she needed to get over it. If ariana wanted to talk about the boys in her life she would and Taylor couldn't stop her. " Yes, it'll be fun, now come one." she said tugging on Taylor's sleeve as her and min had already stepped towards the maze.

What was Min On about? Ariana stared at her best friend and tilted her head to the side a bit " Children of the what?!" first off, Ariana was no child, she was an adult now, of legal age and everything, so Children nothing. she shook her head slightly and laughed the though off. Children made of corn, Snort. That was a funny image. Ariana watched min Skip off a few steps and put her hands out to balance her when she lost her step a bit " Are you alright min? you seem a bit off today?" like way off. Was her friend sick? did she need to go to the healer.. CECE-- err HEALER TILLSTORM!...
Come on Taylor.
"race you into the first turn." she said suddenly before darting off.
Come on Girls!

"What ever you say, Ari..." Probably agree with you if i wasnt so worried about Nash... and if the maze didnt remind me of him... She gave a geniune smile, "Actually, yes... the maze will be fun..." Tay nodded and was determined to have fun. Taylor held back a grumble and a glare at the pulling of the sleeve. "Im going... Im going..." She sighed and smiled again. I so hate you right now... but yet... I don t... Taylor looked at Minnie and saw the look with made her frown. She didnt like pity but before she could say anything, Min was talking strange... something about children and corn? "Ummmm... children of the corn? Is that a muggle thing?" Tay glanced around, half thinking that there would be random children popping out of the corn maze. She glanced at her friend when she tried to balance herself, "Min? You okay?" A concerned look appeared on Tay's face, replacing the one of mixed feelings of happy and sad. "Do you need a healer?" Taylor glanced at Ariana when she said something around racing. She rolled her eyes, "No th--..." And she is off... Tay sighed and glanced at Minnie, wondering what she would do. Taylor frowned and looked back at the entrance before following Ariana. She wasnt running since she wasnt in the mood.

Yeah he had to agree that there were times when it did get rather boring. The way his parents had talked about the place, Mikey had expected it to be jammed pack fullmof excitement every day. Maybe he was the boring one. Pfft...not likely. "At least our house doesn't care about points." Since you know, they were in last place. Again.

Right. This way. Michael let Zahra pull him back the other way and he GRINNED at being told he would be able to ride Plymm's motorbike. He waved a dismissive hand about having to wear a helmet, that was a minor detail. "I reckon I could sneak you on the back." They could just get Plymm's girlfriend to distract him. "We should learn the spell to make that sucker fly." How awesome would that be?

He was so distracted by thoughts of the two of them flying on a motorbike that he almost missed her calling him. "Hmmm?"

Minerva shook her head and laughed a bit, Witches, really... "Children of the Corn. It's a muggle movie where these children live in the corn or something and thing that anyone over the age of like 18 need to die." She shook her head, "I haven't seen it, but had heard of it once from my cousin." She looked at Ariana and hissed, "Leave her alone that stupid paper has had her as the target and Nash seems to be gullible and believe it or something." Well that's what it seemed to her at least.

She smiled at Ari as her best friend came to steady her, "Yeah I'm fine, I think I'm spending to much time studying, maybe I'll go to bed a little earlier tonight." She had been staying up reading for a few nights now. Looking at Taylor she quickly shook her head, "Nope I do not need Healer Tillstorm." She had gotten over her fear at least a little of the woman, but wasn't going to chance it by seeing her over just needing sleep.

Oh they were racing, "I'm game for a..." Go figure Ariana would start without a warning. "No fair Logan" She chuckled and took off after her friends.