He took back his words that having colored eyebrows was embarrassing because right now he was too weirded out by Zander literally dragging him by his arm to the bathroom. He would have grabbed his wand, stupefied him right there but this was his friend so instead of doing that he just tried to get his arm out of his grip. "Stop dragging me, i can walk on my own you know" he said , annoyed as he finally managed to get free and with a sigh he entered the bathroom anyways.

He checked his reflection in the mirror, especially his eyebrows before he turned around and leaned against the sink. He crossed his arms over each other and fixed the prefect a look. "Ok why did you drag me here?" he asked, emphasising on the word drag.

To say that he was thankful that the bathroom was near the Transfiguration classroom would be a COMPLETE understatement. With Kevin complaining the whole entire way, it was even a surprise that they made it there without the younger Gryffindor deciding to march off on his own. But he couldn't just explain while they were within Bellaire's earshot. That would be suicidal. Practically begging for a detention, really. And Kevin had just nearly escaped his last one, so no thanks. Didn't really need one of those on his own squeaky clean record either.

After all the squirmy, Zander let go of Kevin's arm and walked into the loo, hoping that the boy would follow right after. Which, thank Merlin... He did. But he was aggravated, that much Zander could tell. "I dragged you over here so that we can get rid of these wonky eyebrows! I can't go around with bright orange until the next lesson... Who knows how long that'll be!?" Knowing Belliare, it could be ages. Woman was cruel, she was. "And I figured you'd want to get rid of the rainbow colors too." Unless Kevin was into that...

"Besides, even I know that it'd be stupid to do it right outside of the classroom." This rule breaking stuff may have been beyond him, but Zander Adair could piece that much together himself thank you very much. Now if Kevin could stop with the stare and the arm crossing, it'd be real nice too.

Oh Merlin. Kevin Hirase was rubbing off on him, huh?

So this whole dragging him to the bathroom was to go AGAINST Bellaire's rules and he wanted to try and get rid of the eyebrows they created in class? As in...Zander Adair was breaking the RULES...AGAIN.

This made Kevin grin and he looked at his friend with pride in his eyes. "I thought a Prefect should obey the rules at all time? you're not afraid of something happening to your badge?" he asked. Because if they did get caught he would lie to the Professor and tell her it had been his idea and that he had dragged Zander here. Why? Because his record was as bad as it could get anyways while Zander was...well, the guy had a clean slate. Plus he had already freaked out in their Head of House office about that he was concerned about his friend being friends with someone like him. So yeah, he would take the fall Goober.

"But i do want them gone..." he said and then sighed loudly at what Zander said next. Not that stupid? Oh Zander, sorry to say this but you are. "So, your first place to go to was the bathroom...on the same floor as the classroom....and Bellaire's office?" did he get it now? He was basically calling him an idiot without actually using the word! Look at that he was learning!

Was Kevin impressed? Zander was doing the thing again. The rebellious thing ok? Maybe it wasn't up to Kevin level yeeeet, but he really was trying despite the un-thoughtout part of the whole thing. Working on it. Just another work in progress. Like studying for OWLs. Except this was even harder almost.

Hehe. Getting that look of approval from his best mate was pretty much worth it though. "My badge?..." Uh. He hadn't really thought of that much, actually. Kinda forgot he was a Prefect most of the time. Never really believed he was actually one to begin with though. Still had his 'wait what?' moments every now and then. It was strange, okay? A piece of metal tacked unto your clothes that basically made people identify you into a neat little box before they even met you. Real strange, especially some of the looks that he got for it. Like the look of 'you're crazy for accepting that kind of responsibility' or the look that said 'don't give me a detention'. Each were equally daunting okay? "I don't think she can do that... 'Cause uh.. Flamsteed's our Head of House?" Right? RIGHT?

Okay. All the #ragrets now. Not even gonna lie. If it meant losing his-- No, he still didn't want orange eyebrows. It was settled then. But if they did get caught... He'd have to take the blame himself. Couldn't risk Kevin being put into another detention. Especially if it meant more flesh eaters. Though Zander might not survive a minute in detention.... Kevin was still on risk for suspension. So it would be the only way. So yeah, he'd take the fall, Goober.

And finally, Kevin sorta agreed to the plan? But uh-- Oh. Uh yeah. Same floor. Uh. That totally not-- okay yeah, it was a good point. And the Fifth Year couldn't help but scratch his head and look around in embarrassment. He wasn't exactly the mastermind in this friendship, okay? He could help with the execution, but in all honesty... The plans were probably best left in Kevin's hands. He was the evil genius after all. "Oh, well, I uh... You're right... I don't know what I was-- Maybe you should stick to the plan executions from now on?" Oops. "So uh, what do you say we do then?" If not here, then where?

Well, it was a relief that Zander didn't worry much about his badge but as he mentioned their Head of House, Kevin shook his head. "I don't know man, all of the Professors have been acting strange lately" or was it just him who noticed that? "I heard he gave a slytherin girl detention because of a rat in class" And him given out detentions was just weird in his eyes. Taking away house points? normal. But detentions? that was just weird. "But, maybe you're right?" a big maybe. "Maybe he'll even defend us if we do get caught" he laughed though, not even believing his own words.

He watched as Zander seemed to think about something and it was at times like these that he wished he could read minds. He was pretty good at reading body languages but reading minds would be far easier.

Of course he'd agree to the plan. Anything to get rid of these ridiculous eyebrows! "No worries man, i'm surprised you even came up with this" ...That was a compliment by the way. Kevin style compliment. Wait, HE should stick to the plan making? the Gryffindor shook his head. "Nah, my plans aren't that good either. If they were i wouldn't have been on the brink of suspension" he laughed again, nervously, before clearing his throat. "Besides, having a bigger risk of getting caught is more fun so we're sticking with your plan" he grinned. Yup Adair. You're the leader here. ....for now.

Okay, that was something Zander could agree with. The Professor's were all going MAD. Except, he supposed he would too if everyone decided to break out into horrible behavior all at once. Actually, it was a wonder how he hadn't gone insane yet, himself. As Prefect and all of that. Had one or two rowdy situations to handle so far, but nothing crazy-Professor level yet. Or maybe that side of him was still hiding out? Really, who knew? "Oh man, yeah... But in his defense, the girl should've known better... I don't think Flamsteeds much of an animal person. Did you see him flipping out about the cat at the welcome feast?!" It was insanity. Though, it was also something he wouldn't put past their Head of House. But yeah, maybe was right. It wasn't actually a sure thing... Though, the man had expressed his pleasure with the Goober friendship a couple of times now, hadn't he? So maybe he would defend them...? Maybe. Didn't seem to defend Puck when she was sent to detention though.

And now Zander was worrying. Ahem. Too late to go back now though, huh? Especially since Kevin agreed. Merlin. What was going on with him!?

"Yeah-I... Me too?" The Gryffindor scratched his head a little, mirroring some of Kevin's disbelief. Actually, how did he come up with this!? Maybe it was seeing how horrid he looked with bright orange brows. Probably that. Though, he did appreciate the compliment. Uh, it was a compliment right? "Then I guess we're both miserable at planning then, huh? Maybe things are just naturally better without plans... Or something." Gryffindors didn't really plan, actually. That much he knew. And maybe this was why? All their plans were doomed for failure anyways. Apparently. "Uh. But we're not going to get caught.... Right?" Because as appealing as having Bellaire chase after them sounded... Ahem.

It actually didn't sound appealing at all.

As for getting rid of the colorful eyebrows though, "So I-uh... I guess we could either try the coloring spell to make them back to their normal color again... Or we could try using Finite or something?" He wasn't sure which would work best, actually. But uh, getting the ideas out there. Kevin was generally better at decisions anyways. It was like a fact.

The cat at the welcome feast? Oh Merlin’s Beard he had remembered that! Kevin laughed and nodded his head. “That had been so priceless! I have to give Kudos points to Cat Man for that” because that had been hilarious to watch. “Still, why is Flamsteed so afraid of cats?” he bit his lower lip as he thought. “I mean, a cat…what’s so scary about cats?” Then again, everyone had their own little phobias. “I bet he’s not liking being in school this year though, with all these stray cats walking around” he laughed again.

Things are naturally better without plans? The Gryffindor looked at his friend as if he saw him in a different light. “Well, with plans you can leave traces right?” he asked. “So yeah, I think this spontaneous act of yours was good, she probably didn’t notice anything and just thought you had to really *go* badly but couldn't remember where the bathroom was” Griiiiiin. He was joking okay? Rudely joking.

Anyways, back to the reason why they were in this bathroom. Kevin pushed himself away from the sink he had been leaning against and walked to the door to close it. Too bad there wasn’t a lock on it. But then again it would give them a higher chance of getting caught because if it could , other male students would think it’s strange that the door to the bathroom is locked in the first place and would notify a Professor immediately.

He looked at the door for a second longer before turning back around. “……….I haven’t written down the spell…” he said after a while. He knew he was smart but he could be really dense sometimes. “Have you?” he asked. “Because I don’t trust that Finite spell…what if it cuts off our eyebrows?” that would be even worse than having bright orange or rainbow coloured eyebrows.

Zander couldn't even stifle a chuckle as Kevin remember what had happened at the Welcome Feast. Even if he liked Professor Flamsteed.... It was really, really funny. Even Zander had to admit that. "Maybe he had a bad experience or something?" Actually, how come Flamsteed was so afraid of them? "Or maybe he's afraid of their fur? ... That would explain the lint rollers?" The Gryffindor scratched his head in thought, but eh. People were afraid of strange things all the time. Wouldn't put it past Flamsteed either. "Yeah! Especially since Catman's around now too." Poor Astronomy Professor. Lottie would have felt real bad for him.

"Yeah, well... She hasn't exactly come after us yet, has she?" Zander poked his head around the bathroom rather suspiciously before turning back to his mate. "So I guess she really didn't notice!" Maybe spontaneity was alright after all!! Or maybe Bellaire was a lot less suspecting than he thought she'd be. Either way, he wasn't complaining. If she had come after them, what would she even do!? Probably blow off their eyebrows all together or something. And... That wouldn't be any better than the bright orange and rainbow.

Kevin didn't remember the spell? Actually... That much didn't surprise Zander. Kevin was smart, but he wasn't one to take notes, huh? "Hold on, let me grab my notebook." And Zander, he wasn't exactly smart... But he had to take notes and pay attention if he wanted to do well on exams this year. Still wasn't sure if Hogwarts would kick him out for bad marks, but he wouldn't risk it. He was trying harder than ever. Taking out his notebook, the boy began skimming through the page. "Oh yeah, Capillus Colorum!" He remembered that. It was a tongue twister though, that's for sure. "You want me to do yours first? Or... Do you want to do mine?" Actually uh, if Kevin turned his eyebrows into rainbow colors, did Zander really want the fourth year to practice on his own eyebrows?!

This was a disaster of epic proportions. Cassie had given Leo a new shirt and on the way from her office down the stairs, of course stopping by the eagles he had managed to stain his shirt badly with raspberry milkshake. Running on the stairs, carrying something of the liquid sort was not a good thing apparently. Sighing heavily the dark mop-haired librarian stopped on the sixth floor landing and took off to visit the boy’s bathroom.

He needed to repair the milkshake damage before he went and worked in the library for a few hours before dinner. Leo did not want to explain to his girlfriend at dinner that he had ruined her present after 5 minutes. It just wasn’t going to happen. Pushing open the door to the bathroom Leo headed inside, hearing voices almost immediately. At least it couldn’t be Myrtle.

Approaching the sinks he spotted Kevin Hirase and the lion prefect who he had for the moment forgotten the name of. "Hello boy's!" Leo chimed out with a wave as he passed them to go to an unoccupied sink. Would the stain wear off with some simple soap and water?

“Still…cats! Kittens. Little balls of cuteness” yes, he had said cuteness because even Kevin liked cats. He nodded at his friend as he said that it would explain the lint roller and then he chuckled. “You know, I’ve never used that thing before in the four years I’ve been here”. Oh? Zander called Quigley CatMan as well? See this was one of the reasons why he liked this guy. Instead of correcting him, he just went with it.

The Gryffindor scratched his head as he looked at the Prefect looking around the door to see if the Professor was coming. And when he confirmed that she wasn’t he grinned. Zander was good at the not-making-plans plans.

He waited by leaning against the sink closest the door as Zander grabbed his notebook from his bag. He knew he should start with writing down notes as well but mweh. He could copy it from someone else anyways…even without permission. It wasn’t that hard to steal a piece of paper. Capillus Colorum. Now he remembered! Wait..what? “………..You want me to …..use that spell on you?” not on himself by looking at the mirror but on him.

“Dude! Are you crazy!? I didn’t even remember the incantation and you want me to use that spell on you?” he shook his head. “Nope, not doing tha----“

He heard the door open and without waiting a second the Gryffindor had flicked his wrist causing his phoenix feathered wand to fall in his hand and with half a spin on his feet he pointed his wand with outstretched arm at the person who came in the bathroom. A Professor…Ravenclaw Head of House…. He quickly lowered his wand and leaned near his friend. "Should i knock him out?" ........why was that the first thing he thought of?!

Did Kevin Hirase just say 'cuteness'? Was this even Kevin Hirase? ..... Uh. Zander didn't question it though... Only gave him a weird raise of an eyebrow. Cuteness? Uh. Never had he ever imagined he'd hear those words coming from Kevin of all people. Kind of took the Fifth Year by surprise, actually. Did Kevin have a soft spot for kittens? Strange. Though his look of confusion turned into one of laughter as Kevin admitted to NEVER using the lint roller. The Fourth Year's disregard for rules was sometimes concerning, but LUUUULZ. "And he's never said anything about it?!?" Only Kevin could get away with such a thing. He was sure. Actually, maybe Sophie Brown too... But she'd never break the rules in front of Flamsteed.

"On second thought..." Kevin was right. If the Fourth Year had managed to mess up his own then what made him think that-- O_________________O

THE RAVENCLAW HEAD OF HOUSE!??!? The Gryffindor looked over at Kevin and gave him the BIGGEST EYES filled with TOTAL AND COMPLETE PANIC!!! The one time the second time, actually but who was keeping count? that he was breaking the rules and OF COURSE an adult had to walk in on it. Oh man oh man oh man. He was going to get his badge taken away. He was going to get sent to Azkaban OR WORSE: DETENTION

Casual. He was being so casual. And calm. Totally calm.

JUST KIDDING HE WAS TOTALLY PANICKING.

Ahem.

O_____O And Kevin wanted to knock him out??!???? Although that would be a temporary-- Wait no! He wasn't going to let Kevin KNOCK THE GUY OUT? "No, don't. We technically haven't done anything wrong yet." Oh yeah. OH YEAAAAH. Technically, they were just standing around in a bathroom casually reading up Transfiguration notes. Oh wait. The man had definitely greeted them. Oops. Taking his wand and holding it behind his back-because pft he wasn't going to preform any sort of magic that was going to go against Bellaire's rules nooope- he turned to the Claw Head of House and put on the most casual smile he could ever muster.

Zander Adair was SO casual. Uh. Not so casual. "Uh, hi sir, Kevin and I were just um, studying some of my Transfiguration notes... See?" The Gryffindor held up his notebook with the one hand that wasn't behind his back. Nothing suspicious going on here at all. Just two boys... Studying.... For a class... In the boy's loo... Casual. Totally. "It's uh, so weird that we all ended up here at the same time, huh? Like so weird." HA HA HA. So casual. Nothing going on here. Turning to Kevin, the Prefect gave him a small smile??? Was he doing okay??? Was he being casual enough??? Was his forced smile enough to put the Head of House at ease???

Studying his reflection in the mirror Leo was so focused on the stain on his new shirt that he was totally oblivious to what exactly the two boys where whispering about behind his back. Taking some tissues, he drained them in water and soap before he tried to dab at the milkshake stain on his shirt front.

Turning to face the boys while he scrubbed at the big stain on his shirt, Leo said giving the notebook a fleeting glance not taking note of the wands their hands. "I see Professor Bellaire has given you some notes and spells to study for next class? What did you learn about in your first lesson of the term, something fun Kevin?"

"Yes it's a coincidence." Leo agreed. Gesturing to his stained shirt he continued. "I get why I'm visiting the bathroom. But why are you two discussing transfiguration notes in a bathroom of all places? You’re Zander Adair right, one of Gryffindor’s prefects?"

Kevin laughed loudly, but then remembered they were supposed to be here in secret and quickly covered a hand over his mouth. "No , never" he answered Zander's question if their Head of House had ever said anything about him not using the roller. And then he glared at his friend. "You're not going to tell him right? Friend or not , i will stop you" he tried to make his voice sound threatening but he knew the Prefect by now and he smiled afterwards.

.......................................Zander Adair was ruining EVERYTHING!

'Shut it , shut it shut it!' The Gryffindor kept repeating these words in his mind. And the fact that he couldn't talk out loud right now was even worse because that would just rise suspicion. As he did not believe that Ravenclaw Head of House was just simply here to clean a stain off his shirt. HE WAS SPYING ON THEM! BELLAIRE HAD SENT HIM HE WAS SURE OF IT!

He asked a question. Kevin looked at Zander and then back at the Professor. "I'm more curious what happened to you" he said in an attempt to change the subject. But the question came back again and as his eyes looked at the ground he thought of an answer before he looked back up.

"It had been........my idea...to use the bathroom mirrors" he eventually said. Of course this was a lie because Zander was the one who had dragged him to this place. But if his plan didn't work out the way he wanted, at least his friend would be safe from getting his badge taken away. "We learned how to change our eyebrow colors" he pointed to his own ridiculous Rainbow colored eyebrows. "But we both didn't want to walk around with this color and she" meaning the Transfiguration Professor "had said we could try and change them as a form of homework" ah yes, he prided himself that lying was one of his best qualities. See that it could be useful sometimes?

He looked at his friend for a second and gestured for him to say something as well. Preferably a lie.

The Gryffindor nervously looked over the his best mate, praying that Kevin wasn’t glaring at him. He wasn’t good at this whole lying thing. Especially not with lying to authority….. Was it obvious? Ahem. Don’t answer that. Zander immediately tensed up at the mention of Professor Bellaire though. Had she sent him here? O________O And he couldn’t hold himself back from looking back over to Kevin with wide eyes again. WHAT DO THEY SAY????

Luckily, Kevin stepped in. Which was most certainly a good thing because this was Kevin’s specialty. Zander could do the not-so-planned plans… And Kevin could do the lying. It was all team work really. Gryffindor Goobers. The Prefect absent-mindedly nodded along with what Kevin was saying— not truly paying attention himself because he had bigger things to worry about LIKE GETTING FOUND OUT!! Except. Wait. Kevin Hirase wasn’t just good at this… He was REALLY good at this? Changing the subject? Turning the tables? Kevin, ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!! Zander would’ve said something about it too, but that would’ve thrown off the entire conversation all together, so he’d save it for afterwards. ”Yeah, sir…How’d that happen?” That was the first time he took notice of the stained shirt by the way. He had other issues to worry about ahem.

Oh Merlin, Kevin was like really REALLY good at this… Did he know— O______o Was Kevin trying to take the blame?!? BUT he was on the brink of suspension!! The older Gryffindor gave his friend one of those ‘WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN ARE YOU DOING??’ faces before turning to face the older man once more. ”He can’t take all the credit for this brilliance though, sir” Zander couldn’t let Kevin land in detention again! Forget about his new found fear for that death trap. He couldn’t let his best mate face that kind of insanity anymore. Besides, maybe they’d go easy on him since it’d be his first time and all? ”I thought the bathroom would be… Uh, nice and quiet compared to our Common Room.” Of course there’s always the library for that sort of thing. And they were talking to THE librarian. But… Details?

Also, that was a step up from the last time he spoke, so at least he had that going for him?

Ahem. Anyways. Back to Kevin. Uh. Kevin. You aren’t supposed to tell him what we were really doing here?? HELLOOOO??? Homework….? Bellaire had never said that they had to change the color back for home—OOOOHHH!!!!! Forever impressed by how well Kevin could lie on the spot. Kind of terrified… But impressed all the same. And then there was a moment of silence before OH. Was it his turn then? He coughed softly before nodding in agreement. ”Oh, yeah. She wants us to practice for homework… And well… We thought it’d be best to stay on top of our game, get it done real early…. You know?” He cast a glance over at Kevin for a look of confirmation or something. Was that okay? Believable? Was the man buying it? PLEASE?

And um. ”Yes, sir… Zander Adair,” he confirmed with a small glance down to his badge. WAIT WHY WAS HE ASKING? Was he going to take it away?? MAYBE THEY WEREN’T BEING CONVINCING ENOUGH AFTER ALL?? Man. Lying was hard. How in Merlin’s name did Kevin do it so well?

Caleb liked this whole hunting for cats thing. It made him feel like he was a ninja in training or something, sneaking after fiendish felines. He finally managed to track one down (ok, really, he'd been forgetting to do this homework for a while and had finally seen a cat wandering around, reminding him to get started on it) and had followed it to the boys bathroom. How convenient - he'd have been in serious trouble if the cat had gone into the girls bathroom...

Ignoring everyone else in the loo, Caleb watched the cat hop onto the counter. He watched as it...laid down in the sink? That was gross, Caleb didn't want CAT HAIR in the sanitation system here. But it was so cute laying there it was hard to be made at it...for some reason, it looked very content to just lay there.

The cat was all stretched out, so Caleb pulled out his divination book really quickly and flipped to the earmarked page where he had the readings listed. Ok, so laid out on it's back...good days were ahead, with lots of sun. That was promising!

And now Caleb was just going to leave the cat be...laying in the sink and everything. He scribbled down notes really fast for his homework and then packed things up, leaving the bathroom and leaving the cat to lay out all relaxed.

Ah, they were trying to change the subject away from what they were actually doing to what had brought him to the bathroom. Deciding to indulge them for now Leo said gesturing to his stained shirt front as he spoke "It's nothing exciting. I got this shirt as an early christmas present from a fellow staff member. I was clumsy heading down the stairs with a milkshake in hand just as the moving staircase switched around, causing me to spill the milkshake all over my shirtfront as I took a stumble and thus I headed here to clean it up." Really there was no gossip to tell to the gossip rag. And he definitely wasn't going to disclose which professor had given him the shirt. He valued his privacy and hers.

"Oh I see human transfiguration. It's quite handy to know. I've used it from time to time myself. Did you only practice on your eyebrows?" Leo wondered curiously. Those who worked in certain Law Enforcement professions probably used the spell’s associated with human transfiguration often enough to disguise their appearance and blend in to the public.

"A bathroom I suppose is a good a place as any to practice if you want to be able to see your eyebrows clearly but we do have some pocket mirrors you can loan in the library too." Leo pointed out just a teeny tiny bit hurt that they hadn't chosen the library as their homework venue outside their common room. "I'm sure Professor Bellaire will be glad to hear that you two are so devoted to your transfiguration studies." He commented eyes flashing from one boy to the other.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you Zander. Professor Flamsteed has spoken highly of you.” Leo added with a nod to the prefect.

Kevin frowned when Zander shared the credit he had been talking about. To anyone else, it would have sounded like he was trying to take the glory but Kevin knew that that wasn’t the case. He was trying to protect him and the younger Gryffindor glanced towards his friend for a second before turning back.

And then, slowly but surely, the Prefect got his words out what he had to say and although he wanted to nod at him when Zander was looking in his direction, he just ignored him for now and continued to look at the Professor as he explained what had happened on the moving staircases. “Those things are evil, why do they even move in the first place? Who’s brilliant had it been even?” yeah, he did not like those stairs and preferred to use short cuts to get to classes.

“Yup, first to fifth years had to change their eyebrows and sixth and seventh years their…ears …right?” he asked Zander.

And then….that sentence… I’m sure Professor Bellaire will be glad to hear…’ that one. It made even Kevin a bit uncomfortable because he knew. He knew what they were doing. That they were going against the rules. OR…he just said that without any other meaning behind it. “Well, I’m not sure about me ‘cause she obviously does not like me” she even didn’t bother helping out when he was literally held hostage by Lex during that party. So yeah. “But I want to change that so don’t go telling her just yet, we or I want to enter her classroom next lesson and show that we worked hard on this spell as a surprise…since I normally don’t do anything” he laughed a bit as he scratched the back of his head. He speaking a little bit of truth now? Ahem. “And we’re not girls so we didn’t know you had pocket mirrors” he said and looked at Zander with a look that said. ‘please tell me you did not know about that’

“But, you have some useful tips we can use? Because we obviously don’t want to set our eyebrows on fire or something” he said.

Zander was really hoping for some sort of confirmation from Kevin. Something that meant he was doing alright, being believable. You know, something to help calm his nerves, but Kev gave him absolutely nothing. Zip. Nope. Except, he was probably just doing this because Kittridge was here and it probably wouldn’t do any good if they looked suspicious…. AHEM. What was the librarian saying now? Something about a staff member giving the shirt… And staircases? “Oh, well that’s real nice of them, sir.” Mhm Zander Adair was only super interested in the life of the librarian YUP. Actually not in the slightest, but the key to lying was pretending, RIGHT KEVIN?? Ahem. Cool. He was cool. Collected. Calm. Totally. “Reckon it means they like you a lot ‘cause people always give presents to people they like and I wonder what—“ Ahem. He was rambling wasn’t he? COULDN’T HELP BEING NERVOUS OKAY?

Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. He was going to stop now. Kevin seemed to have it under control with the staircase talk. Maybe if Kevin just did all the talking from now on… That’d be best?

As if Kevin could read Zander’s thoughts, the younger Gryffindor took the initiative to answer and this Fifth Year was extremely thankful. MHM. Wait, huh? “Oh yeah. Uh. Sixth and Seventh… They did ears… Yeah,” totally cool calm and collected. Could he please be given some sort of award for trying? Because this was like the hardest he’d ever tried in his ENTIRE life. And he had to try real hard for Runes, so that was saying something.

O____________O AND THEN THAT SENTENCE. You know the one in which the librarian oh-so-casually mentioned TELLING BELLAIRE?!?????? Zander couldn’t help it, he was getting all nervous again. Worse than before. The man was sent here to spy on them, he was SURE OF IT. “NOOO!!” And just as he uttered the word, the Gryffindor quickly shut his mouth and tried his best to get his eyes to go back to their normal size too. UH. UH UH UH?? OOPS?!?! He quickly looked over to Kevin with apologetic eyes. He panicked okay? Totally panicked.

He needed to keep reminding himself again. Technically they hadn’t done anything wrong yet… they hadn’t even started the transfiguration stuff yet. “I uh, I mean… Yeah what Kevin said… And she’s a real busy woman and… I’m sure she wouldn’t be all impressed since it was homework after all sir… And you know, everyone else is probably doing it too… So really… we don’t have to tell her!” The last bit came out a bit more panicky and rushed than he had hoped… But then again, so did everything he just said. Could they see the beads of sweat forming on his forehead? Hopefully not. Merlin, please no.

Taking his hint to be quiet again, the Gryffindor nodded along with what Kevin had to say about the mirrors, only turning to give Kevin one of those ‘What the heck? Pocket mirrors?’ kind of looks in return. He didn’t know about those either. But in his defense, Zander never really got around to the library all that much before this term… With OWLs and all. And yup. Tips? Any tips, sir?? That would be good. Yup. A subject change kind of.

“Uh, pleasure is all mine, sir,” maybe politeness would make up for shifty behavior? And, “He has??? I mean uh… I… Oh.” Really? Professor Flamsteed said good things? And more importantly, would he still say good things if he found out about this entire interaction? Debatable.

Well. A guy's gotta go, when a guy's gotta go - although he wouldn't have to if he hadn't over drank all that pumpkin juice at lunch. He just couldn't resist that bloody pumpkin it seemed. He needed to make the elves tell him how they did it, he didn't want to imagine lunch without that pumpkin juice during summer.

And so anyway, Noel Wallace headed into the washroom to relieve himself.

Kyroh DIDN'T need to go. But he DID need the toilet paper that the bathroom was so nicely stocked with. Pressing a wad of paper to his nose the third year tilted his head back just slightly.

He had gotten nose bleeds before when he was younger, though, those had not been from from smacking himself in the face.

Focusing on his reflection in the mirror Kyroh took no notice to the other boys who entered and left the bathroom

Noel mused band names while doing his business. It was amazing how creative one's head got while in the toilet or at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Once done, the fifteen year old made his way to the wash basin, noticing the familiar third year staring at himself in the mirror with toilet paper sticking in his nose. Turning on the water tap, Noel washed his hands and eyed the blood on Kyroh's nose. "Got punched?" he asked, sympathy already showing on his face. He had been on both sides of a fist so he knew how painful it could be.

Nosebleeds were the worst because whenever you thought the bleeding was done and you took away the paper it started again. Kyroh had half a mind to go to the Healer but didn't really want to deal with her questions.

He COULD also try to get the purple half of a Nosebleed Nougat but it was kind of hard to find people with sweets when you nose was currently bleeding. Attempting to glance down at his blood stained shirt, Kyroh looked up as a voice dressed him.

Oh! Noel!

Blinking the Ravenclaw's eyes grew large. "You think someone would WANT to punch me!?!?" What did he even DO for someone to want to punch him in the face!?!?!?!?

Noel stared at Kyroh when his eyes grew large. What the? "Well. You just have that face, y'know" Noel commented, acting all thoughtful. Turning the water off, the boy turned to give his full attention to the third year. He shrugged, "so I thought maybe someone punched you," he added.

"But ... I am guessing you didn't get punched though, what happened?" he asked, crossing his arms and leaning back on the counter.

HE had a FACE that people wanted to PUNCH!?!? Kyroh just gaped, openly at the Hufflepuff. He almost even forgot about the nose bleed. People wanted to punch his face? Really? "I thought I had a good face." He didn't want to punch his face!

Feeling MORE than down Kyroh frowned, as he mumbled the answer to Noel's question. "Was doing a twist from coming out of a handstand and I hit my nose really hard with my hand." Not the worst things that could happen but it had hurt.