Hugo nodded and then shrugged. "Well, I'm young now soo...there's plenty of time for it to happen" and grinned. Old people had to understand that he was not old and had the right to greet in his own young way.

"You haave? So you can make cakes, cupcakes and all that stuff?" 'cause if that was the case then she had to bake some for him. "Hmmm true" said agreeing to her statement "But I like bagels with cream cheese, that's better" much better. The boy poured orange juice into his glass and took a sip. "Friends friends? Hmm...maybe not yet but I have met cool people" he wasn't that close to anyone right now. "I like my house though and the classes are entretaining" some of them.

Then, Paloma mentioned ballet "Stand up on your toes!" he had seen it in television and looked very painful but cool.

Paloma shrugged. She understood. She was like Hugo at first, then because she had to meet soe many teachers and trainers and all that, there was no way she could get away with it. "Okay. I'll wait for the day that you greet me like a gentleman, then..." She really hoped for that day!

"SHhhhhh!" Paloma nodded, but hoped Hugo would keep her little skill quiet to the rest of the public. Mostly because it was either Lou or Jun, during the previous year that prepared all that delicious food for her. Ah, last year. This was turning into a tearjerker sometimes. "It's your first year, so...maybe with time. And yes, classes, just..........have fun. " It was her suggestion. Not so smart, but Paloma tried to keep the good side of almost everything, and everyone....


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"What? You're telling me, to stand on my toes? I....ummm...don't have my shoes here, the pointé shoes. Those help me do that perfectly, and safely. But I can assure you that I can do it. Just remind me to show you if I see you around soon, okay?" Right, and she wasn't going to show off righ there at the Great Hall.

Anise came looking cheerful to join his new friends. He exclaimed "Hi buddies!!! "

Kyroh's head hurt. Lifting his hand he unknowingly rubbed his brown for the fourth time in five minutes. His brown eyes were glued to the textbook in front of him and his wand sat untouched on the table.

He had attempted the charm about twenty times already but it just couldn't work! He couldn't get it. How was he suppose to be teaching himself if he couldn't get it. And he couldn't go to Fuller. No. He REFUSED. He hadn't been to that class in months so.....he'd just have to figure it out right?

..........He could do it......maybe.

Admittedly, the first place Toby should have looked for Kyroh was the Great Hall, being that it was a pretty central part of the castle and where a lot of kids could usually be found. But he didn't end up there until after traipsing all the way up to the corridor outside the Ravenclaw common room (only to find out that Ky wasn't in there).

Toby's eyes were drawn immediately over to the Ravenclaw table, and it was there that he finally saw him. The Hufflepuff headed straight on over, noting that he appeared to be studying or something, and took a seat beside the second year.

"Hey Ky," Toby greeted the boy with a small smile, before reaching to grab an apple from the middle of the table. "Been looking for you. What're you up to?"

Toby took a bite from the apple and immediately regretted it; he wasn't really that hungry at all, but apparently the instinct to grab and eat food whenever he sat down in here had taken over. Not one to waste food, Toby took another bite anyway.

Taking a deep breath he GLARED at the text in front of him. This whole thing was STUPID okay? It was all REALLYREALLY STUPID. Kyroh's grip on his wand tightened and his breath began to quicken. He probably would have tried to hex something that very moment if someone didn't sit down beside him

Toby?

His anger faded away almost immediately and instead a smile appeared on his face. "Really??" Looking for HIM? "Trying to teach myself charms...." It was hard Toby. Really hard. "See look-Carpe Retractuim" He pointed his wan at the boys apple and PULLED. But...nothing.

"Mhmm," Toby responded, nodding and checking out the book that Kyroh was looking at, just as the little Ravenclaw explained what he was up to. Tobias waited to see what Ky was trying to demonstrate, and then... ah. Right. Toby nodded again, looking between the apple and the wand and Kyroh, before holding out the apple for him to try again. "Maybe try flicking your wand some more, like it's a whip or something." Did... did he want help, or was Toby just shoving his nose in here? Though actually, that was something he wanted to talk about...

"Weeeeell," he said, in that drawn out way of someone who was totally about to ask something. "That's actually why I came to find you." Toby drummed his fingers rhythmically on the tabletop, not even realising he was doing as he pressed on. "I know you're still opposed to Charms classes-" as he'd totally noticed that Kyroh hadn't been showing up at all, since uhh... that day "-so I was wondering if you might like to practice Charms with me, seeing as you're missing out on the lessons."

Toby looked at Kyroh and smiled, though he was still KIND of worried about the possible response, mainly 'cause this had been a bit of a touchy subject between them in the past.

"I'm nowhere near as good as any teacher, but I can teach you what I know, and we can work on it together, just you and me." In that sentence was the implied 'and no Professor Fuller', because Toby had started to accept that Kyroh just didn't like the guy. Though he still thought it kinda very sad.

Hunger and an appointment with her vice president in charge of costumes had brought Justine Janvier down to the Great Hall, and subsequently to the Ravenclaw table. She didn’t often eat here with the other students, mostly because they annoyed the hell out of her on most days, but today Justine was feeling unusually patient with her peers and didn’t mind being in their company.

She took a seat, put aside her notebook and pen grabbed a plate. Hm.. What did she feel like having today? The mashed potatoes sounded good, with a bit of gravy and maybe some the grilled, marinated chicken. Asparagus? No, no asparagus, maybe the spinach, yeah, that sounded rather lovely. Justine happily loaded up her plate and grabbed a goblet of ice water to go with her meal, she had a thought of waiting for Bianca, but decided she wasn’t that patient today and started digging in.

Bianca may or may not have been bustling around trying to stuff as much stuff into her bag as possible. To be honest, Bianca had absolutely no idea what she had even put into it; all she knew was that it was bulging all weird and papers were sticking out of it. Maybe it was some of the stuff she had started to work on for the posters which the Prez had most definitely not assisted in.

Racing to the Great Hall, she easily spotted the Prez at the Ravenclaw table. Wait... Bianca thought they were going to meet at the Gryffindor table. With a little pout, she was quite tempted to sit at her house table and just let Justine come over there but she highly doubted that would happen. With that thought in mind, the Gryffindor jogged over to the Ravenclaw table and sat across from the Ravenclaw.

WAIT.

"YOU STARTED EATING ALREADY?!"

That just wasn't fair. Bianca was hungry too. Gosh. Next time meetings were definitely going to be at the Gryffindor table. She frowned and started to load up her own plate with a variety of food. Starting off with bread and then working up towards... a little bit of everything else. "What are we doing today again?" Bianca only remembered the food part and the part where they were supposed to get some work done...

Everything had kind of become a blur after the whole food part which was also why Bianca had stuffed as much things that she deemed related to the whole project into her bag. It simply made sense that way.

She was so wrapped up in her perfectly delicious meal that Justine barely noticed Bianca’s presence until-

MERLIN’S UNDERPANTS. Who yelled Like that? And over something so simple as eating? Gryffindors always so noisy and reckless. Why did she hang out with them again? Oh right, they amused her… Occasionally, anyway. Justine gave the younger girl a dry look, her green eyes bored. “I was hungry.” She calmly replied, taking another bite of the spinach.

Good question. “I haven’t decided yet, I wanted to wait and go through the options.” Justine said in her cool, collected voice. She took a long draught of the cool water and sighed contentedly before carrying on. “We need to host auditions, picking out the principle cast is the most important part and then we need to figure out about where, we’re going to rehearse… I was thinking the Room of Requirement… First things first, we need to hang up the posters.” She added, looking towards Bianca’s bulging bag. She chuckled just a little, eyes flashing amusedly.

“I take it they’re in there.”

Something smelled really good, and it was making Ariel hungry.

Following her nose, she discovered a huge room with a lot of food on top of different tables. Taking a seat at the one closest to her, she was happy when she saw something familiar. She couldn't remember what Scuttle called it, but humans used them to comb their hair and she wanted hers to look extra nice for Prince Eric.

Not knowing any better, she picked the fork up and started combing her hair with it while humming a song that Sebastian had taught her.

Bianca seriously debated whether or not she ought to get all up in Justine's face and point out it was very rude to not wait to eat. However, the odor rising up from the delicious food was too tempting and soothing so she remained calm and tried her best to not inhale all the food... with her mouth.

"I'm absolutely starving," she said with a nod of her head. She was about five seconds away from completely forgetting her manners and just stuffing her face. "There's no bread on your plate." That simply wasn't right. Or rice. Or pasta. What was wrong with the Prez? Obviously, the girl had been lying about her state of hungriness. There was no other explanation for it.

She ripped off a piece of bread and started to chew on it, only half listening to the older girl. If Bianca were to be completely honest, all she heard was "omnom food and auditions and bread, mashed potatoes and omnom more food, acting and food, wow pasta, food is important and room of requirement." So really, all Bianca was really thinking about was food at that point. And maybe just a smidgen about the play. Her mouth was full of pasta when she looked up and heard the posters talk.

Unsure of whether she ought to swallow first or say something with her mouth full, the Gryffindor was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Except not really. She nodded her head yes, wondering if she had even finished any of the posters. There were bits of pasta hanging from her mouth and she tried to swallow it all as quickly as possible while rummaging through her bag.

"Lo-" As Bianca started talking, she realized she hadn't exactly swallowed all of the food in her mouth and started to cough. She took a looooong drink of water before clearing her throat. "I have one.... I think" The Gryffindor tried to smooth out the crumpled piece of paper to the best of her ability and handed it to Justine. She grinned when she remembered what she had drawn on it though - a crudely drawn cartoon dragon eating a bunch of knights.

"Do we need to find a professor to supervise this?" Bianca asked, taking another sip of water.

... right before she started to stuff her face with bread and the various foods on her plate.

Mel had looked ALL around the castle for her boyfriend. He seemed to be missing... because she was sure that he would never avoid her... they were best friends who became boyfriend and girlfriend, so surely he would tell her if they had any issues. She moped around and saw Hat Girl so she went over and plopped down. "Hey, Hat Girl, have you seen Bryant anywhere?" She sighed and put her elbows on the table and rest her chin in her hands. Melek paused and stared at her for the first time, noticing what she was doing, "Uh... Lux... what the heck are you doing with the fork? That is disgusting... Who would want to have hair in their food..." She took out her brush and handed it to Lux. "Here... I have a brush you can use..."

Humming to herself, Ariel started to miss Sebastian and Flounder. Where were they? Would she have to look everywhere for them the way she was going to look for Prince Eric? Ursula had better not be involved...

A human girl sat by her and started talking. Was she supposed to know her? She was confused. "I am Ariel, not Lux." What kind of name was Lux anyhow? Frowning, she watched as her comb was taken away but then another human invention was shown to her. Gasping, she grabbed a hold of it. "Scuttle never showed me one of these before. I had a whole cave full of human things, but my daddy destroyed them." She loved her daddy very much, but he did have a temper.

Mel looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "Not Lux but Ariel? Are you playing a game, Hat Girl? Because I aint in the mood to play games... I havent seen my boyfriend in a long time and I miss him." She pouted then eyed her for frowning for some reason. Melek looked at her even more strange for gasping at the brush. "Uh, who is Scuttle? I am sure you have seen a brush before, Lux..." She frowned and shook her head, "Geez, you are acting strange..." Mel grabbed some food and started to eat with a fork... a different one than the one she had took from Lux, of course, because she didnt want to eat with a hair fork... that would be gross. She glanced at her, "Sure... sure... a cave... yeah... your father destroyed them... right... and what is this game called again?" Clear disbelief showed on her face.

FOOD! FOOD!

Cinna slugged herself all the way down to the great hall for food. Seven floors of going down to get food. The Gryffindor common room really needed their own kitchen somewhere in to common room. It was a proven fact that Gryffindors knew how to eat and were always hungry.

The Gryffindor was hungry. Yes she was. But really when wasn't she? All of this going to class, working on homework and now trying to take care of a sick boyfriend was making her tired, burning all of her energy and making her hungry. She finally decided to come down to get herself something to eat. She was planning on running down to the kitchen to grab him some chicken noodle soup after she was done.

She was on her way over to the Gryffindor table when she notice Lux sitting at the Ravenclaw table. What was she doing sitting at the Ravenclaw table? And more importantly why was she combing her hair with a fork? See this was why Cinna sucked at being a girl. She couldn't keep up with these crazy new beauty trends.

She smiled and headed over to the table to sit down with her. "Hey Lux." She blinked at her. Brushing her hair with a fork what did that do? Make your hair more silky? Sure it did, there were potions for that.

Game? They were playing a game?

Ariel perked up. "I want to learn human games. What will we be playing?" Did it involve swimming in the lake and looking for treasure? That would be so much fun! "Scuttle is a seagull," she replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

The comment on her father caused Ariel to smile. "Do you know my daddy? He is the mighty King Triton." And another girl had arrived. Ariel had a feeling she knew her somehow but that made no sense. "I'm not Lux, I'm Ariel. Maybe we look similar."

Mel glanced up as another girl joined them. She seemed to know Lux... and didnt even seem to notice her... though Melek couldnt blame her... Lux was actually extremely weird at the moment sooo...

Mel glanced at her friend, Lux, "Umm... I'm not playing a game... I am not in the mood for a game... I just want to know what crazy nonsense game you are playing... with this Ariel and clueless nonsense..." She gestured to her. "I doubt that your father is the god, Triton..." She rolled her eyes, growing annoyed at this charade. "I dont know what got into your head... but... yeah.. whatever it is... its.. weird..."

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Ariel liked being nice. She was adventurous and daring, but she still tried to be kind to people. This human girl was downright rude and it was starting to bother her. "I have done nothing to you and neither has my daddy. You are a mean human."

With that she turned her attention to the food on the table. There were pieces of brown stuff which were white on the inside (rolls). Trying one she found that it didn't have much flavour and the outside was kind of hard. Still nice though so she kept eating.

Melek narrowed her eyes. "Hey, sorry if i dont feel like having my friend seem to forget who i am and have her pretend to be whoever you are pretending to be with this seagull and Triton for a dad or whatever nonsense you have when my boyfriend seems to be nowhere and Annaleecia and I are still not talking." She pouted and whimpered, feeling even more depressed now. Mel put her chin in her hands, looking down at the food on the table.

And there she was continuing to be rude. Ariel still could not figure out why because she had been trying to be nice. Well, now there would be no chance of them looking for treasure together.

HMPH!

Once finished eating the small brown thing, Ariel picked up her comb (*cough* fork *cough*) and resumed brushing out her hair. This would make an excellent addition to her collection.

Melek just stared at her friend. "You really are into this character... arent you?" She sighed and frowned. "Can you at least stop combing your hair with a fork? It is disturbing to watch." Mel shuddered, "Can you use the brush if you need to brush your hair?" Melek gestured to her brush that was on the bench between them now. She shook her head slightly, "I really need a friend, Lux..." She pouted, "I thought you might understand and comfort me instead of pretending you have no clue who I am." Tears came to her eyes.