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As Hady took her suggestion without question, Brooklyn only nodded. She didn’t feel like she needed to actually say anything, and it meant she didn’t have to get any closer to the ugly vests than she absolutely had to. That definitely worked for her, so she just waited where she was as her dorm mate went over to the boxes and pulled out a vest and a length of bubble wrap. It didn’t look much better on Hady, but at least with her hair it didn’t clash. And hopefully neither of them had to wear it for very long. Honestly, it still looked more like a vest for directing traffic than something a mailperson wore to her anyway. Maybe the professor didn’t know as much as she thought.

“Course,” she replied as Hady returned. She was as ready to be burrito-ed up in bubble wrap as anyone might be. Raising her arms up to shoulder height, she waited for the bubble wrap to be put up against her side so she could be wrapped, staying perfectly still the whole time. Plus, that way she could always pop the bubbles at the top of the burrito once she was wrapped, since it meant her hands would be free. That and she could catch herself if she fell, instead of just trusting her partner to catch her, or trusting herself to bounce. She’d much rather depend on herself.

So far so good. They seemed to be in agreement without any fuss which was epic. Hady didn't like working with someone that always needed to argue with her. Thankfully Brooklyn wasn't at all like that and they could do what needed to be done in a timely manner.

Watching as her fellow Slytherin lifted her arms out of the way Hady set the bubble wrap against her side. Holding it in place she waited for Brooklyn to turn on the spot so that it wouldn't be to tight for her. When she had her wrapped up she got a few stripped of the tape from the desk to hold it in place.

"Do we wrap up your arms as well? And what about your legs?" She wasn't sure. She knew she wouldn't wrap them together but did they need to bubble wrap each arm and leg? Hady looked around to see what others were doing.

Ohh this was going to be exciting her first bit of muggle things "oooo can I be the parcel I love bubble wrap. My cousin had it once and it was so fun to pop" Echo was very lucky to be wearing a long sleeved shirt and pants because this could be a bit weird if she were wearing a dress. Cold weather to the rescue. "would that be okay?" she quickly asked, she didn't know if Zeke wanted to really be the parcel.

The Gryffindor gave her a wide eye-d nod, but um... She was kidding about that right? 'Cause man if she was supposed to have his trust..... But yeah. She was totally kidding. Hopefully. He could tell. Maybe. Either way, this lion smiled at the second bit because yeah. Though, he didn't need her to keep him safe. He was an OLD Prefect person now. He could definitely keep himself safe. That's something Kevin would say. And Kevin was like the best at kicking butt, so yeah. Totally pulling a Kevin and believing in himself.. Maybe.

"I was hoping you'd say that," actually, he KNEW she would say that. AJ was the type. He figured she'd jump on the whole bubble wrapping thing right away, but asking seemed like the right thing to do and.... Yeah. Grabbing the bubble wrap now. "Well, don't worry, I won't fail you..... I hope?" No. He wouldn't, perfectly capable young man over here. Fifteen and ready to deliver mail. He was on top of this, yo'! Ahem. Right.

With bubble wrap in hand, he started with her left arm and then moved his way to the other arm. Then the body next? 'Cause that was one of the most important parts. And uh, oh yeah! The legs too. And TADA!!! All bubble wrapped up? "Can you move around okay?" Because if this was a running around kind of activity, that's important. ALSO he had to grab a vest. Riiiiiight. Putting that on now too, just so people knew he was the delivery man. Maybe didn't have the patience for it, but he was pretty approachable, right? And stamina, kinda. Yeah. Mail person. He could totally be that.

She wanted to be the parcel? Hehe, "Good choice," he nodded. "I'm cool with that." Cool as a cucumber in fact. Snagging himself a vest thing, Zeke quickly put it on before grabbing some bubble wrap to then prep his parcel. Hehehe... this'd be fun. "I love popping them, and if you do a Chinese Burn on them you can pop heaps at the same time.." which he thought was pretty cool.

"Ready to be wrapped?" he asked, remember that he needed to leave out her neck and head for breathing purposes and then her legs and feet for walking purposes.

"Well," Amur took a step back and put her hands on her hips. She gave her job a real good once over, before returning her eyes to Abby. "I've got a truth to tell you, and I hope it doesn't come too hard."

A smile tempted the corners of her lips. "But you look about as funny as you probably feel." And then the grin came out fully, freed by a bubble of laughter. The assignment was just too strange and amusing to take too seriously.

She stepped up beside Abby and watched the others. "Wonder what the next task is."

"thanks!" she giggled, this seemed like it was going to be way to much fun. "if were ever partners again i'll totally let you do the more fun thing" awwww look at this girl over here being so nice and stuff.

Wait what?? Chinese burn? do these people actually get burned? "ohh.. erm.. whats a chinese burn?" she kind of felt stupid to ask but it quickly went past her because he asked her if she was ready to be wrapped. "I SURE AM!" she squealed as she stuck her arms out and tried to be as still as possible.. "i feel so silly" she laughed.

Dylan looked frantically around. Man, it was hard partnering up for these things, there were so many students. Seeing that mostly everyone had a partner, he was about to go ask the Professor what to do when he noticed a girl standing alone looking around. By the looks of it, she didn't have a partner either. Perfect!

The fifth year made his over to her. "Hey, do you need a partner too?" He asked her.

Now THAT was an offer he couldn't refuse, "I'll hold you to that," he chuckled. Sharing the fun things was always good, though, being able to wrap her in the packaging stuff was going to be fun too... hehehehe.

And huh? She didn't know what a Chinese Burn was? "Oh, well, see.. most people to it to your arm, cause it hurts and burns, hence the name.. but see this is how you do it." He held a portion of the bubblewrap in both hands fairly close together, and then all at once twisted his hands in opposite directions, creating a twisted/wrung out effect on the bubble wrap causing it to ... pop, POP, pop, POP, pop, pop, POP, pop, POP, pop POP, pop, POP, pop, POP! It was easy peasy.

But alas, there was work to be done. Quickly remembering that he would need to secure the bubblewrap somehow, he went to the front and got a couple of tabs of sellotape on his fingers. Holding one end of the bubblewrap against her side, Zeke pulled her arm down so she could secure it there, and really, parcels didn't need arms and hands. Hehehehe. "Hold still," he added as he started circling her, wrapping the bubblewrap around her middle and up to her shoulders. Hehehehehehe. This was fun.

"Alright there?" he asked as he reached the limit of the wrap and sticky taped it into place. DONE!

Tia had forgotten how incredibly friendly Hufflepuffs were. Apparently two months without a Hufflepuff brother could make one forget. Like what was up with the wanting to shake hands for everything, especially when she was about to be wrapped up and shipped someplace? Totally all Zander's fault for abandoning her for his housemate. But if she wanted credit for the class, then she needed a partner. So Margo would do. "Tia," she nodded, politely.

"Do I have a choice in the matter?" she rolled her eyes, indicating to the fact that the girl was already wearing the vest and had the bubble wrap in her hands. Holding her arms out so they wouldn't get wrapped in the parcel, she waited.

"good, i keep my word" she was being serious but she totally winked. and eeeppp learning another cool thing. Watching him do it and hearing all the little pops made her giggle even more "thats so cool, where did you learn that?" she wasn't like accusing him of where he learned it but she just wanted to know if it was something that she could of picked up... maybe it was just a muggle thing?

Now it was bubble time!! YAY!!!! letting him control her arms she tried to keep still but he reminded her to keep still. "im sorry" she giggled again as he finished up wrapping her. "I feel like a bubble wrap mummy" she stuck her arms out in front of her and walked a few paces stick legged and groaned to add some more life to the joke. Echo hoped Zeke got her joke and didn't think she was werid or anything.

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a housemate, which didn't immediately promise trustworthiness to dot. A cute one, too, in that sort of floppy-haired sulky boy way. Dot gauged him through lowered eyelashes before finally flashing a smile and nodding.

A partner was a partner. How much trust did they really need? Besides, he might be just as honest as he said. Probably was.

"i'm exactly as trustworthy as you are. And you can count on me exactly the same amount." she held out a hand to shake on it before deciding she was not a hand-shaker. He got a cheerful pat on the arm instead. Promises. Ominous warnings. They were basically the same thing.

True. A partner was a partner, and he was glad he got this girl to partner with him. Even chuckled as she spoke. Reciprocity. In equal amounts. That seemed good enough. Believe it or not, he was grateful she chose not to do the hand-shake, it's kind of awkward, and unnecessary.

Time to see if they were both e-qually trustworthy.

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dot was totally torn... Wear the boss vest, or let the cutie older boy wrap her in bubble wrap. Or she could wear the boss vest and wrap the boy in bubble wrap. That seemed like a good compromise.

Unless he wanted to wear the vest?

Like was complicated. She scooted around him to the front of the room, where she retrieved the vest and a handful of bubble wrap. "you choose... Mail person or package." she held out both hands for him to choose. "oh yeah... What are you called?"

As he listened to the professor, Oleander couldn't help but think that he wouldn't be the package in this scenario. So he may have thought up a couple excuses as to why he'd make such a wonderful postman, regardless of the fact he's never delivered a package (except for Cassia) or wrapped one.

No need for excuses of any kind, however, as she was giving him the chance to choose. So he smiled at Dot and didn't hesitate to take the vest. "I think I'll be the mail person, if that's okay with you." He gave her a quick wink as a measure to secure his post as... yes, mail person. "Oleander," he added, with a nod.

Oh no. She was scaring him again. This time she didn't even go on a rant about unicorns. If anything she had been on her very best behavior. "Not much I can do in this classroom." That wasn't true, but was she making him feel better about it? Besides, she really did like Zander, and she wouldn't do anything to make him think she was untrustworthy. AJ knew that Zander and Kevin were best friends, and for a moment she just sized Zander up and wondered how the two of them became one besties. Nothing to worry herself about. Kevin was awesome so she got it. AJ however was not a prefect so it worked for her.

"I always come through." You could count on this lion. She still couldn't understand why he didn't want to have all the fun that came with bubble wrap, but it was a score for AJ so no need to go and question a good thing. Right? Right! Her, worry? PFFFT. That wasn't her style. "I have complete faith in you." And that was the truth.

Excitement was building up and she tried her hardest to remain still. Zander couldn't exactly wrap her up proper if she was jumping around in anticipation. She had mad skills. MAD skills. Annnnd they were done. Hmm... that was a good question. Instead of answering him like a normal person, AJ threw herself down on the ground and rolled around in different directions. Because what else was expected of you when you were a bubble wrap burrito? And if this activity got real and speed was a factor... well, then she was going to be prepared.

Flat on her back, AJ looked up at Zander with a huge smile on her face and gave him a thumbs up. Did that answer his question? Now to get up. Erm, maybe she didn't think this through all the way. She didn't need help, Zander. Okay? AJ rolled to her right and then to her left until she was able to get enough momentum to roll over to her stomach and push herself up. "We got this in the bag," she said as if what just happened was another normal day in the neighborhood.

Kace nodded and agreed with Puck. He would be wrapped in the bubble wrap he wouldn't mind. Plus he loved bubble wrap and he could have fun messing with Puck too. "Sure I can tell you how it is." he grinned. "You tell me how it is being the postman." He wanted to see how it was as well. Once Puck got the supplies, he looked at the bubble wrap and suggested, "I think you need to wrap me up with that.." he gestured towards the bubble wrap. He would stand still to help her out.

Post person or parcel?

That was easy. There was no way she was going to be the parcel unless Mister Cool Guy over here had a reasonable excuse for otherwise. "I'll be the post person," she chirped, making her way toward Professor Moxley's desk where the two boxes were.

Beverly went directly toward the bubble wrap. She's seen some of this stuff once when Kennedy moved to his new flat, and she found she enjoy popping the tiny little bubbles. Glancing at Moxley over her shoulder, making sure she was out of view, she popped a single of those little bubbles. She jumped a smidgen as her fingers pressed down on it, making that popping sound only bubble wrap makes.

Heh. Real mature.

Then she took a vest and some Sellotape and wiggled it at her partner. "Let's wrap you up." She...was excited. Get your bum over here.

No boss vest for Dot? She smiled bravely and stood back as he put on his vest, and then Dot eagerly tucked one corner of the bubble wrap under her arm pit and tried to spin herself into a package. Very helpful.

"I'm Dot. And if we get to choose what kind of packages we are, I think I'll be a crystal vase. So don't drop me down the stairs or set me on my head, because I'm fragile and this side is up." She pointed to her red mane. Up = red part.

"Oleander is a flower, right? Like you're called after a plant? Did you smell like flowers when you were born? Or did your mom crave them when she was pregnant? Or is it just because it's kind of pretty and so are you?"

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Evie had to refrain from rolling her eyes. He wasn't even TRYING to have fun, was he? "Don't look so alive," she teased sarcastically as he put the vest on. At least he smiled when he got the bubble wrap ready.

"Ready," she said, pinning her arms to her sides. If she wrote home about this, she could see her family's reactions already. Milton would laugh, mum would say she was 'happy to see Evie having so much fun', and dad would continue to wonder what was wrong with public education.

Caleb had to admit, that got a chuckle out of him. "Sorry, I have trouble trying to get super psyched about this," he explained with shrug. Although so far, the new professor was turning out to be pretty good...but then again, Hadley had had them make pizza once. It was hard to beat pizza.

Grinning, he jokingly starting bouncing from one foot to the next. "Alright, let's DO THIS!" he exclaimed enthusiastically. She said to look more alive, yes?! He got two pieces of spell-o-tape to fasten the bubble wrap to her robes, and then started running around her. No, actually, that was exhausting and made him dizzy. So he stopped and just walked instead until all the bubble wrap was used. As instructed, he'd kept the bubble wrap confined to her upper body down to her upper legs so she could walk and talk and whatnot. He took another piece of tape and fastened the last end and viola! He had an Evie all ready to mail!

The bubble wrap was going to be so much fun! SO MUCH FUN! She grinned and chuckled to Kace. “Of course,” Puck chuckled as she pulled on the postwoman’s vest. “Oh, please I’ll tell you alright…hopefully there isn’t a dog somewhere?” She chuckled and ruffled her hair. “Oh pleaaaaaase this is going to be amazing!” She chuckled and grinned over to the hufflepuff.

Alright. This was going to be fun. Puck took the spell-o-tape and the bubble wrap and connected small amount to Kace’s shirt with the tape before carefully running around Kace while holding onto the bubble wrap. Raising and lowering her hands so that he would be protected.

There. Connecting the spellotape she grinned.

"OF COURSE I want to be!" Duh. Duuuuh. He beamed at this new Norah girl, then stuck his fist out for an obligatory fist bump to seal the deal. Aw yeah.

Fist still extended awkwardly, he turned his head back in the direction of Moxley as she started speaking. Hm. BUBBLE wrap? Was that muggle stuff? Dima eyed it speculatively at the front of the room, then turned back to his partner. "You can wrap me up if y'want!" Yes? And that way she didn't even HAVE to trust him; he just had to trust her, which he had no trouble doing. Hufflepuff, remember? This had been a sealed deal from the moment he said 'hi'.

With that, he took Norah's hand and politely tugged her to start moving with the rest of the students.

They were READY.

Definitely partners. She'd claimed this Hufflepuff, and not even his sophie could stop her.

"Hey cutie." She responded cheerfully. Lulz. Why. Was he that breakable? How sweet.

"Suuuuuure." She'd rock the vest and besides she figured it'd get sweaty and gross in the plastic wrap stuff soooo no thank you. The vest wouldn't do as it was though, so Ruby put it on and tied it at her waist in such a way that it actually fit nicely. No need to let it be a sack.

"Put your arms out and think fragile." Had to get in the right mindset. She knelt down right in front of him and began wrapping bubble wrap around one of his legs.

Angel smiled as Janelle said that she looked maaaahvelous, she was totally going to enjoy this lesson she could tell. "You look smashing as well." Angel giggled as she saw her new little friend all wrapped up, she wondered what it felt like to be in bubble wrap, though in some ways she was glad she wasn't she would be forever popping bubbles.

"I want to roll you on the floor and listen to the bubble pop but I have a feeling the Professor might tell us off." Angel giggled as she just stared at the bubble wrap.

"Maybe I have to return you to sender?" Angel had no idea if that was true or not but well if she did have to return her friend to sender then it would be funny because she might just put on the package, delivery failed.

There wasn’t any reason to argue. That was why they were partners. Brooklyn at least trusted Hady enough to know she’d be understood. That and she already knew they could work together. Anyone else probably would have needed to be put in their place, but Slytherins were awesome. Hady was awesome, and that meant Brooklyn had agreed without question. Even if she hadn’t particularly wanted to be turned into a bubble wrap burrito with arms and legs.

She hadn’t wanted to wear the vest even more, so the bubble wrap burrito it was. Actually, it was kind of comfortable, in a weird way, even though she couldn’t really lower her arms very much anymore. She’d reached down to play with the bubbles right on the edge, quiet little pops sounding as her dorm mate had spoken again.

“I don’t know,” she replied, shrugging a little. She didn’t think they needed to wrap up everything. It’d be a lot easier to move if she didn’t have bubble wrap around each leg too, and if they were racing… She wanted to be able to move. Besides, the professor hadn’t said what Hady had done was wrong, so she wasn’t going to suggest anything. She was just going to keep playing with the top edge of bubbles. It helped her to be able to lower her arms more anyway.

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Wait. What?

Oddly enough, Gabriel was fine in working with the Gryffindor girl. She was a friend of Ruby's...and while this wasn't a glowing recommendation, Ruby did like her. So, that had to count for something. Whatever that something was, Gabe didn't know...and wouldn't dare ask. Bless.

But....then he heard what the activity was....and.....heh.....heeeeeeeh.....

Uh...

Did he LOOK scared?...because that was accurate.

GESTURE! "........." Did she want to be the...package or...?

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There wasn’t any reason to argue. That was why they were partners. Brooklyn at least trusted Hady enough to know she’d be understood. That and she already knew they could work together. Anyone else probably would have needed to be put in their place, but Slytherins were awesome. Hady was awesome, and that meant Brooklyn had agreed without question. Even if she hadn’t particularly wanted to be turned into a bubble wrap burrito with arms and legs.

She hadn’t wanted to wear the vest even more, so the bubble wrap burrito it was. Actually, it was kind of comfortable, in a weird way, even though she couldn’t really lower her arms very much anymore. She’d reached down to play with the bubbles right on the edge, quiet little pops sounding as her dorm mate had spoken again.

“I don’t know,” she replied, shrugging a little. She didn’t think they needed to wrap up everything. It’d be a lot easier to move if she didn’t have bubble wrap around each leg too, and if they were racing… She wanted to be able to move. Besides, the professor hadn’t said what Hady had done was wrong, so she wasn’t going to suggest anything. She was just going to keep playing with the top edge of bubbles. It helped her to be able to lower her arms more anyway.

Teamwork was what this was. Good teamwork at that. Hady wouldn't have expected anything really seeing as it was Brooklyn she was working with. They'd worked together before and always did well so nothing less was expected this time.

As she made sure the tape was stuck to the bubble wrap she could here a small popping noise. Lifting her head she smirked finding it was coming from her partner popping some of the bubbles near her arm. It was probably easier to move that way.

"Well the Professor didn't say we had to so I'll leave it for now." Hady responded simply. If she had to wrap up Brooklyn's arms and legs she was sure the Professor would tell her to do so. Until then why make her partner anymore uncomfortable then necessary?

Domino was about to give up and ask the professor for her to be her partner. Then somone stepped up.
"Yeah, I do" Domino said. "Domimo emery" she said.
Alright, introductions are done.

She kept her word? Would she pinky on it? Zeke was about to ask her to, when he decided against it. He'd started to learn to avoid doing such things, because apparently interlocking pinkies did nothing where forcing people to be honest was concerned. Oh well. Nevertheless, he liked that she enjoyed his display of burning Chinese style. "Some guys showed me once," he replied nodding, though he opted not to tell her they showed him the trick on his arms... repeatedly... minor details. "The idea is to cause the person you're doing it to the most amount of pain, so it's not really a nice game, unless you're using bubblewrap."

Zeke was the one laughing now. His little partner was quite the sight, that's for sure. "It'd make for an interesting Halloween costume." Just saying.

Looking over to the Professor, Zeke wondered if they were about ready to move on with the activity.