Khalil smiled brightly at Dalia, loving everyyy second that her lips were pressed on his cheek. The arrival of Snow and Isaiah had shaken him out of the love-spell that was cast on him, and caused another smile to creep onto Khalil's lips. He bumped his shoulder with Isaiah playfully, before turning around and taking in all that was the Poncho Man. Except...he was sans poncho. Excited - because when have staff EVER been this hype for a music jam session??? - Khalil egged him on, banging his hand against the table in excitement. "Ayyyy, now that's what I'm talkin about. Everyone needs to let loose!" It was wayyy too stuffy and lame and just unpleasant.

"I'm cool, though, really," he said to Dalia, and he was. Mostly. Sort of. He would heed her advice though; no need to start a riot on their first night at Hogwarts.

"You have SPEAKERS?" his eyes widened and he stared at the attractive brown boy (Levi??? he said??) before smiling wide. "Bruh, that's amazing, hook us up!" Like, now. See...why didn't they do all this before? It would've saved them a ton of trouble. As loud as his wizard radio was, he was certain that with speakers it could be even louder. Khalil wished he could rescue Maddox from Dalia's clutches but if he were honest he was a little jealous. Just a little. He watched them, amused at just how easily Dalia could entrap a guy with just a look. A goddess walking among men, really.

Ezra was TALKING and Khalil couldn't be any prouder. "I can make more noise, actually. Scratch that. I SHOULD make more noise." They clearly still didn't understand the amazingness that was Ilvermorny. He was determined to make a lasting impact on the Brits one way or another. And then FINALLY - he sent a look at Will, and greeted him with a "Bruh, seriously??" - Will decided to grace everyone with his presence. Drama queen. "You were supposed to hold my hand; buddy system, remember?" But enough about that, Will was trying to ruin all the good fun. "No no no," he smacked Will's hand out of the way and turned the dial again, this time to a song (he was pretty sure it was called Despacito) that he still had no idea what it was about, but the beat went hard and the vocals were great.

"Daliaaaa, I know you're gonna love me for this one." He grinned at the girl before banging out more beats on the table. If he were any bolder, he would've announced that he was dedicating the song first to Baegina, then to Dalia, and lastly to Ms. Pretty-Pretty. He was such a romantic.

Irene made her way into the Great Hall with the widest of grins following a sea of red, yellow, blue, and green with a splash of black robes of course . WOW. This was awesome. The Great Hall was so magnificent. It was everything that the books had said it would be like. Walking in a little slowly, she stared up at the ceiling and saw the candles floating above. "Woah..." she stopped in her tracks and took in the whole room. Irene was going to like this place immensely. Then she heard singing and laughing and people just having a good time in general. She directed her gaze towards the noise and found a sea of people decked in red and a few of her fellow schoolmates having a good time.

PARTAY AT THE TABLE OF RED? Don't mind if Irene joins!

"Hi! Mind if I join you guys?" she said with the happiest of grins. She just really wanted to join in on the fun. She swore that she didn't bite only when provoked. "Do you often have dancing and singing parties? I wish I had brought my ukulele...."

After leaving the Hufflepuff table, she headed back to her table to find it completely swamped. When did this happen?

There were So. Many. People. At. The. Table.

Perhaps there were too many even for her liking because it was becoming difficult to find a seatbelt here. Merlin. Olivia even thought about retreating back to the common room to enjoy the nice, quiet fire but decided to venture on because it'd probably do her some good to meet the new people. Also there was music here too. Music was fun. Alright. She'll just say hi. That was it. She waved to the people there (both old and new) before venturing into the crowd.

She made her way through the crowd almost gracefully before tripping over something or someone or nothing (she didn't know) and managed to catch herself on the side of the table and maybe even bumping into someone. "Whoops! I'm so sorry." she said, trying to regain her balance.

Ok a high-five-ish from the guy with the wireless. Thats good enough for him. "No but you're our guest, and it is important here to make you all feel welcomed." Maybe more effort than what Americans would be used to. Except for the Southerners, those folks knows how to make people feel welcomed.

Khalil is letting Ace pick the tunes? Ohhhhhh thats like letting a sweet tooth lose in a candy store. He flicked through the playlist-- notably all American artists, and all from this century. Come on.... all that seeming cool and this guy doesnt have real music from the last century?-- oh finally theres one. Some good ol GnR "Here you go!" he said as he sets the wireless to belting out Sweet Child O' Mine

"Ha! No worries Maddox, my dad is American, so I'm familiar with most of these.... got some pretty good tunes in there but it could use some improvement." yeah gauntlet's been dropped yo!

Oh good more of his Lions are coming in. And a Snake. Then again he always felt that Daisy was a closet Gryffindor. Anyway this lot are fully capable to make their American counterparts feel more at home right? Because #temparament. "Welcome to Gryffindor people!" he greeted the newcomers as they joined them, Ezra, Dalia, Snow, Isaiah, Will... Oh and look theres Madsy J! A big beaming and wave hello to you too!

Isaiah had a question about his badge? Looks like Levi managed to explain it. And he laughed at that bit in the end. Didnt take it as sarcasm at all "Hey you try looking after GRYFFINDORS lets see if you're not always trying to play catch up or clean up." True story.

Khalil HOLLERED at the Hogwarts Headmistress. Ok that was funny but that could be a bit much for some people. "Go easy on there bud, thats our Headmistress now." And she can be quite intimidating as she is gorgeous. He knows.

"No please come join us!" he beamed as he waved the newcomer over (Irene).

Whoah Professor Plantman is here too? "Hi Professor!" the man with the poncho. That should be a party requirement yknow? "Hey everybody this is Professor Myers, he's our Herbology Professor and Deputy Headmaster of Hogwarts." so yeah keep the boisterousness a liiiiiitle bit under control yeah?

And then somebody ran into him. This table is crazy haha he loves it. He turned to see "Hey Olivia! Great timing party's just started"

So while that girl who had tackled Weslyn had invited her and Maddox to sit at her table - the Slytherin one she thought the girl mentioned, Louise instead found herself leading a different path. Her dark eyes had scanned the grounds, knowing she would have to explore later, after she got a few hours of sleep, but eventually the seventeen year old Thunderbird made her way after her peers and Hogwarts hosts and through the doors of the Great Hall.

Towards the table that was playing music, which seemed to due to Khalil Jordan and Maddox's doing, not that she was surprised. The two were always for making statements. Despite her being obviously more mature then the two males, she couldn't help but feel the need to contribute some sashaying down to the Gryffindor table to join her classmates. The music was definitely put her in good spirits, which she needed, considering her sister had disobeyed her wishes and was around someplace.

"Hello, hello, I'm Louise Hamilton. Seems as if the party is at this table?" Which could begin now that she was here.

This castle was way too big. How had she managed to get lost when they had literally be following each other to the great hall. Psh. This school so should have supplied them maps. How else were they meant to get around without being all confused. She would have to remember to write down her list of complaints so that she could give some feedback when they had visited their trip.

But she'd finally found her way to the great hall, and was heading to the party table. Of course that would be where she went. She loved a good party. "Well the party is here now we're here Louise" The brunette smirked. Yep. Couldn't have a party without a Diggory of course.

And with that she smiled, and waved at everyone else. "Hey. I'm Weslyn"

Oh. Was she not welcoming enough or something? Daisy looked at The Sunglasses Duo with a bewildered expression on her face. If they couldn't handle that, good luck handling the rest of Hogwarts. Actually, how were they going to handle the Slytherins? She ignored everything about the guy -- including him calling her baby, which was unacceptable coming from a stranger -- but smiled at the girl. Ignoring the girl's intent completely, Daisy extended one very untanned hand. "Very true. We all have to make do with what we have. Hi. I'm Daisy. I hope you enjoy Hogwarts." Was that a hypocrite thing to say when Daisy herself only enjoyed Hogwarts about sixty-four percent of the time? Eh, quite possibly.

Whatever.

She quickly looked at Levi who apparently was doing his social butterfly thing but rested her attention on Dora for now. The hand that wasn't on her lap moved to pour herself and Abey some water as she listened to the girl. "Honestly, I just wanted the noise to stop." She looked back towards the boy and his wireless and shook her head at Myers' antics, before looking at Dora again. She would deny the fact her lips were twitching amusedly. "If it's not here and now, I'm not really interested." Dora Umbridge was fine. Useful to have around in case blowing stuff up was needed, but Daisy didn't care what happened to that Wizarding wireless after the feast.

Well.

Unless Sunglasses Boy kept that up. She twisted on the bench again, leaning back to look at the boy behind Levi. She didn't mind getting into trouble, let's be clear, but she wasn't going out of her way to do it either. Instead, she smiled, again. Her cheeks would hurt soon enough."Sure thing, baby. Let's get in trouble together." The song changed, Myers was still dancing, Levi was now talking about speakers and so, with a roll of her eyes, Daisy looked away from the whole scene and started piling up food on her plate, trying to find the less obnoxious Americans.


She found the guy with the white hair (Snow) and eyed him curiously for a while, silently subscribing Levi's question. "Even if it isn't natural, it looks amazing." She told the Ilvermony student matter of factly, reaching for her goblet and drinking some water before taking a look around once more. There was a student that really wasn't from Hogwarts (the robes made sure she knew that) but he didn't seem keen to join the celebrations (Ezra). Grabbing a small piece of bread and rolling it up into a ball, she threw it in his direction, aiming at his chest and using her Chaser skills. "Hey. Welcome to Hogwarts!" Seriously. Who said she wasn't welcoming? "Are your schoolmates always like that?" Was Ilvermorny the Gryffindor House of magical schools?

And people kept arriving. Eating a dinner roll with her free hand, Daisy nodded politely at the girls that showed up (Irene and Louise). "I think this table is a permanent party, to be honest. It's nice to meet you, Louise. I'm Daisy" She said to the newest arrival with a small smile before turning to the other girl (Irene). At least someone seemed impressed at the Great Hall. That was good. "So you play the ukelele, then?"

Only then did she realise that she had spent the last couple of minutes bopping her head to the song the Sunglasses Guy had put on, despite the fact that honestly, she couldn't understand one single word of it. Or would admit to liking it. She didn't like it. Only a little bit. It made her want to dance so she held tighter to Levi and bumped her shoulder to his, trying to get his attention. "Is that Spanish? Can you understand it?" She nodded towards the direction of the Wizarding wireless and smiled gleefully. Spanish, you see. It was a problem. So it was definitely a good thing that someone - thank you, Tenacius - decided to change the song.

Was she late? Hopefully not.

Ava had an errand to do before, hence why the Gryffindor girl was just arrived at the great hall and... Merlin's beard. So many people were here! Some of those unfamiliar faces must've been the Ilvermorny students. Were all American teenagers like this? Wow, she was amazed. And not to mention one of them (Khalil) brought a radio thingy and blasted a loud music. They really knew how to party, huh? "Hey guys!" She greeted all the people (yes, all of them!) regardless if they're the Hogwarts people or the Ilvermorny students. "Did I miss something?" She asked Tenacius, hopefully not. And why on earth Professor Myers was here? Oh, music.

Now the Male Gryffindor prefect had played a rock song, the eyes of the people would go to this table.

And someone (Maddox, the girl one), was asking about Mel. "You mean Mel? Ah, I am pretty sure that she will be here soon." She answered. "I assumed you are one of her relatives? Welcome to Hogwarts, by the way." She had an urge to use the buzzer handshake but Professor Marchand had reminded her not to use that to new people. Well, she needed to read the situation first. "Hey, Louise! Nice to meet you." She said to another Ilvermorny girl. "I'm Ava, sixth year Gryffindor." She introduced herself. "Well... Yeah, I think now the party has started here. Thanks to Tenacius and one of the Ilvermorny dude who brought a radio." At least the Gryffindor would appreciate them or so. Imagine if they went sit at Ravenclaw or Slytherin.

Oh Merlin... why was Professor Myers dancing... in a poncho?! And why in the name of Circe was their prefect involved in the embarrassing antics also? How very disappointing. The whole scene had turned from mildly amusing to just horrible. The blonde girl glanced toward the staff dais and grimaced a bit. Surely their Headmistress was embarrassed by this all?

And again her attention was drawn to another table... the Ravenclaw one... where her boyfriend and best friend were sitting. Yeah. Yeaaaah. She held up a finger to show them she'd be right over, before turning back to look down the table.

Daisy, Levi, and Char got an apologetic smile... not that any of them likely cared that she was leaving... but to the Ilvermorny kids... well she had one last thing to say.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, you all. Good luck, " she said with a small smirk before hopping up and moving to the table beside them. Yeeeeep. Good luck to them all. Things would likely be a bit more explosive as the year moved along...

What the flying hippogriff was going on at the Gryffindor table? Bentley had turned his back for 5 minutes, and this whole places was turned into....

Oh right...Americans...loud...obnoxious....why were they all at /his/ table?

Jesus, what was Myers doing? How embarrassing. The 6th year rubbed his temples and weighed his decision.

He could scope out Chloe and go sit at her table..or find Phillip and sit at the Slytherin table..those were good options....

But this was his house table dang it.

"Lions...and...strangers." He sorta greeted.

He came up behind the deputy headmaster and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Professor please....don't....you're going to hurt yourself." And embarrass the rest of us.

Wow??? Just wow. The hall was huge and pretty pretty, but nothing like she had imagined not even a tiny bit.

"THE CEILING, GUYS! LOOK!" Kathleen Yang yelled out over the music sexy, funny, cool Khalil was playing. the ceiling was moving and changing like the night sky they'd passed under on their way into England and Kathleen was in LOVE. It was soooooooooo coool, Hogwarts was so cool, okay? And she had a Billion. Trillion Questions and needed them all answered. Wow, seriously? This place? This song? What a day! What a night! Kathleen beamed at her fellow Ilvermonies and the Hogwartians, she was more than happy to be here.

England.

Okay, but wait-

"KHAL! Play Beyoncé!! Where's he Beyoncé! WE NEED HER." Didn't he know that? Wasn't it obvious? If they were going with the classics they had to play some crazy in love. Kathleen frowned as the boy with the badge changed Despecito to.... OH!!!

She sat up properly in her seat by maddox allen and subtly pretended to play the guitar along to the riffs of the music, this? Was kinda her jam.

OooooooOOOOooooo sweet child of minnnnneeeee.

Kathleen hummed and swayed but it didn't matter what [Khal or anyone else played, she wasn't about to dance out here in public, not unless Langley convinced her and Kathleen was sure her BFF would do no such thing.

"IREEENNNNEEE!" Kathleen waved as her fellow Pukwudgie arrived. "ALMOST NAME TWIN." She laughed, unable to help herself- SHE WAS JUST SO SO SO EXCITED.

"You guys!!! We're at Hogwarts! This is crazy, it's CRAAAAAaaaaaaZZyyy." She couldn't believe it, someone pinch her (preferably any of the incredibly gorgeous hogwartians or Khalil). "Ezra, where do you think we're all gonna sleep? Here in the castle?" She asked, addressing the one person she figured would have been paying attention when [Mox-Box was speaking during their ride over. It was WAY important of a question.

Pushing her glasses up her nose, Kathleen looked from one drop dead cute blonde (Charlotte??) to the other (girl who was being baited by lady with the really nice eyebrows- Daisy, she'd overheard the name) and then to the boy with the glasses- Levi (OHMYGOSH? So cute) and then to the kid with the wild hair and the badge and THEN, to Daisy. She nodded at them all and then gave a little nervous-but friendly wave.

"Hi! I'm Kathleen Yang, I'm a Korean American and I love anime and England and tbh, i'M reaaaalllyyyy excited to be here." Kathleen said it all like she was being timed on how quickly she could say it. (Spoiler alert: she wasn't). She stared at them all until suddenly sprouting out; "Are any of you related to a member of TDK or to Justine Janvier? Or like- " she was getting a nosebleed just thinking about her. "ALICE FISCHER-ODESSA?" because if they were she needed to know now before everything got wild and crazy so she could ready herself and you know, beg and beg for a meeting.

Oh, and one of the teachers was over here. Uh. Kathleen gave him her awkwardest smile but quickly turned back to the students. Teachers were not her friends unless they were passing out her test results and then everything was cool, but yeah, okay, anyway, Delia needed to stop flirting with Khalil because he was definitely gonna marry Kathleen and they were gonna have the most beautiful mixed babies of all space and time and she'd be a renown writer and he would be... himself and it would be perfect, so perfect. She needed to write this down for a chapter in her new collection of fanfic dribbles starring herself and, you guessed it, Khalil- but also Regina Hawthorne and a guest appearance but Justine Janvier and oh, a tiny glimpse of Nathan Way.

Yeah.

"LOuise! Come sit by me!" Kathleen said, partly friendly but also it was kinda a trick because if the pretty girls sat by her then they wouldn't be sitting by anyone else (coughKhalcough) plus she got to stare at a beautiful girl and Louise Hamilton was absolutely stunning. What a dreaaaaam. Sigh.

Noelle had been helping a younger student get back to the Great Hall when she heard the rumor that the Ilvermorny students were here. She had rushed back to the pathways but the students were already gone. She had seen the bug though.... is that way they showed up in?

Heading to the Great Hall, Noelle heard them before they saw them. She stopped once in the Great hall, her mouth dropping a little bit at the amount of students that were at the Lion table. Merlin's beard.

That was a lot of students. Loud students. Party in the USA students. And to be honest, good looking students. And those accents....

"Hey! Welcome to Hogwarts!!" Noelle greeted loudly as she made her way over to the table. She didn't sit yet, only because... she didn't know where to sit. But she did want to greet everyone.

SAM WAS HERE


Only it was more like... Samwashere. Because unlike his ridiculously good looking, loud classmates, Sam was quiet. He wasn't even like his brother, Isaiah. He was sporting his cool shades because REPRESENT. He was also holding his babyGroot!lookalike failed attempt plant with him as he followed his classmates into the cafeteria... eh... Great Hall place.

Taking a seat by Isaiah, he took in his surroundings and even gave a drum to Khalil's beat before his eyes landed on the man. The magnificent. The Professor Myers. His heart stopped in his chest a moment and he looked down at his plant and then back up at the professor. Stumbling over himself, (and a few others) he made his way to the professor. "Professor Myers??" He asked, his voice shaking a tad. This was his idol. Excuse him.

Char obviously returned the warm look Dora had given her, as well as Daisy's smile and a wave for Levi and Bentley and Noelle and Ava and generally spent a few more minutes greeting friends and new faces alike, including the boy who had sat next to her and immediately started​ fiddling with the wireless dial. She had barely even had a chance to really look around at the goings on in the rest of the great Hall- too much was happening right here!

She was enjoying all the chaos, honestly.



"Hi Ezra, I'm Charlotte!" She offered up a friendly smile and her name yet again, wanting to do her part to make people feel welcome.

Plus it felt so good to have positive exciting things in the air here again. The previous year's events had kind of put a damper on even her usually unassailably high spirits.


"Nice to meet you, Maddox!" Char said, cheerfully. Honestly she was instantly smiling when he said his name because in her experience, Maddoxes were lovely! Like Juno and Esme's dad!

And being Char she nodded cheerfully, not seeing any problem with the question the boy asked. Clarification was fine by her! "Of course I mean anything!" That's why she had said so! She would help out anyone really! Char wanted to do her part to make the new arrivals feel at home.

"Was there something particular that you needed?"



"It's really nice to meet you all!" And Char had no issue with big mouths, loud music, or stupid stuff.

[b]"I really hope you all have a great time while you're​ here."[/] Char said. Her gaze falling on the snatched sunglasses and her brain puzzling a little over the sunglasses inside thing. Strange, but she didn't want to question it in case it was culturally insensitive. Maybe it was an American thing? Daisy brought it up though, which actually sent Char's mind briefly wandering.... if you wore sunglasses in one of those boring classes, you could nap!

(Where was Dora going??)

Khalil couldn't believe the audacity of the Lion Den host aka Tenacius. "Okay, Tenacius, you need to relax man, Hawthorne and I go back. Wayyy back. Like four flat tires." He wouldn't let anyone come between him and Baegina, he really wouldn't. More people had started filtering in and Khalil gave them all friendly smiles and head nods. "Ukulele? Didn't know you played." Huh. Learned something new every day, it seemed. His green eyes landed on a clumsy girl who was falling all over the place, and as he continued to eat he shook his head at her. Poor thing. And then Tenacius was being audacious again so Khalil stared, wide eyed, for a brief moment before changing the song back to Despactio. So, naturally, Khalil got loud because why not? "AY MAN WHAT ARE YOU DOIN????? Don't be rude, man, let the anthem ride out some more." The nerve of some people.

And as chance would have it, he looked up just in time to see a very familiar seventh year making her way over to the Lion's Den. NIce. "Louise Hamilton," he drawled, watching as she sauntered over to them, "I feel so blessed right now." The sixth year placed a hand over his heart and grinned cheekily at her. Now that was a girl Khalil wouldn't mind getting extra friendly with. And where there was Louise, there was Weslyn. Double nice. Another girl was introducing herself (Ava) so Khalil raised his brows her way and smiled again.

Kathleen was being her usual boisterious self - meaning she was being painfully Kathleen, but Khalil dug her vibe a lot - and he didn't say anything as she rambled to the others. "Kathleen, be cool, girl," he reminded her gently; he could feel the daggers she was probably mentally sending Dalia. They were unwarranted. Saint Khalil strikes again. "Eyebrow-girl, you have no idea what kind of can of worms you're tryna open up," he warned, gently of course, and took a swig of that weird pumpkin juice. Nasty. With Sam's arrival, Khalil motioned him over and made finger guns with his hands in response to Sam's shades. #USA

Because Anthem number 3 was so good, Khalil had almost missed another person who'd came to the Lion's Den. "Nah, bruh, let him dance." His dark brows furrowed and he frowned a little, wanting the new boy to not ruin the fun. Poncho Man's dancing was dangerously entertaining. "Ay, Professor Poncho," he called out loudly and turned the volume up on his wizard radio (as high as it could go), "show us them moves again. They're great," he added, his tone was every bit as sincere as it was devious. But he did think Poncho Man was certifiably authentic. More than he can say about the lame Hogwarts students. "If everyone is as nice as you," he said to Charlotte, "then we'll definitely have an amazing time."

They got more newcomers? Awwyea! Theres always room in this party bus place "Party all day everyday. Thats just how we roll here in Gryffindor!" he laughed, welcoming Louis and Weslyn. No sooner has he said that another girl came up. Man she was ADORABLE! Tenacius knew he was gonna like this one. "Welcome to Gryffindor Kathleen! And some of these guys do know TDK in some form or another." He wasnt sure the extent of it but he trusts that any Lion with familial relations to the homegrown band would speak up.

Oh finally yes more LIONS. "Hey Ava! Nah just in time. Grab some dinner, elves couldnt seem to refill it fast enough." he laughed. Because it seemed like they were feeding half of the accounted Ilvermorny guests right now.

"Hey Bentley!" he beamed as the sixth year finally came around, looking aghast at the Deputy Headmaster . "Psssh come on Bentley, show him your moves, show 'em how its done!" he beamed.

He finally spotted his fellow Prefect. "Noelle!" big grin, but the eyes said (help), because rockin party is a BIG party. All hands on deck yeah?

Speaking of rockin', his tunes switched out to the Spanish tune again "Khalil come on man, barely anybody can sing along with this." Not to mention most couldnt understand it as catchy as the tune may be. But he did let him finish the song, before quickly switching it to..... Pharell's Happy.

Well ok not a rock n roll hall of fame classic, but it is a classic.

Snows quiet inner reflection was brought to a screeching halt as he noticed a Professor coming down from the Dais and starting to dance! He had to reach for a cup of whatever was near him and try not to snort into it and he held it to his face. He could see Headmistress Moxley doing that though.. but still..

This guy looked all right. And their hair matched so! Twinsies!!

Speaking of hair.. Snow looked down the table and grinned at the boy (Levi) who asked about his hair. "I don't find it rude at all man! The color is natural! My twin and my older sister all have bright white hair. " And weird names.. "I'm Snow by the way!" He said as he motioned to his hair..

He smiled and turned to give a nod to Isaiah before grinning at Maddox as he spoke..

"Mmm, I don't know Dude.. I don't think Miley is my jam! Maybe something a bit more dance worthy?" He said with a grin as he made a little shimmy to the music..before he caught the motion of fingers waving in his direction..

Cue wide grin.. "Hey Dalia!" The seventeen year old said as he returned her wave.. "We can talk later? " She seemed rather busy with Khalil.. speaking of, he and Ezra and Will all got nods from him, he was about to say hello when..

Oh hello! His girlfriend was at the table and..

NOT LOOKING FOR HIMMMM?

Snow's blue eyes went wide and he pouted out his lower lip a bit.. Well.. fine then..

He'd just talk to other people then.. Mmmhmmm...

He smiled at Irene and waved at Tenacius before grinning as he saw Louise and Wesalyn join them! "Hey Ladies! The table is looking nice now that you two are here. " He grinned widely at them both, before smiling at the next comment on his hair..

"Thanks! I'm glad you think so. " Snow said with a smile at the girl (Daisy) He gently pushed his hand into his hair, just to make sure it's height was perfect and the gel hadn't fallen.. He looked funny when his hair was flat..

He nodded at the rest of the people at the table before moving a bit to the music.. Despacito.. Classic! And good to move to.

Oh Merlin. She had run into Ace. She chuckled, turning the slightest shade of pink. "Sorry about that, Ace," she said with a nod before glancing around the group. He was right. This WAS a party. How awesome, Had she heard someone say TDK? She glanced at Kathleen and gave a big thumbs up. "I haven't met them but my brother knows them. I've got every album. They"re awesome," Olivia even had signed albums which she was very proud of.

Then a few others joined the table. It really was a party. "Hi Louise and Kathleen! Also Kathleen, did you just say Beyoncé? We should totally cue a sone of hers next." Olivia had always admired the pop singer's confidence and powerful vocals.

Then the music changed again. Sweet Child of Mine to a Spanish tune (which was very catchy) and then to Happy. "I haven't heard this song in ages," she exclaimed. "Nice choice of song, Ace!"

Abey was THERE, okay? He was quiet and a little overwhelmed, but he was definitely THERE.

As much as he preferred large crowds to wandering around alone, something had occurred to the littlest Botros student, a thought that had mostly come about while he had sat there quietly amidst the general chaos of EVERYTHING. Crowds were good because they were safer, that was what Abey had decided, but he was just now noticing how easy it was to get LOST in a crowd. With so much going on, if someone was suddenly snatched and dragged away, could anyone guarantee that they would be noticed? If they screamed, could it be heard over the general din?

... Abey wasn't sure, BUT, he also didn't want to get himself into a STATE in front of so many strangers and everything. He was, of course, sat with Daisy, and so he very very subtly linked his arm through hers (in case he got grabbed and pulled away, because now someone would know), before leaning his elbows on the table and pressing his hands over his ears. He was CERTAIN that he had never been around this much noise in his LIFE - and he had been to international Quidditch games before, on account of his big brother being a super famous Quidditch star in Egypt AND Britain, just saying - and of course the epicentre of the chaos was right here at the Gryffindor table.

Of course, having his hands pressed over his ears meant that eating food was... a problem. So Abey just sort of... took BITES at the air, while willing the food to come closer to his face. Was it working? ......... Hm. Maybe he needed to learn landless magic first. He couldn't even get to the water Daisy had poured for him, and he had an UNQUENCHABLE THIRST after all that running he had done to get out onto the grounds earlier.

Trying to interact with people DID cross Abey's mind, but trying to decide who to talk to and what to say and how to interject AND HOW LOUD TO TALK when he was already shy enough as it was was enough to make Abey's brain go all wonky and sfkldfkgkhasjsdk, so instead he just stayed quiet and staaaaaared at everyone, all the newcomers, his eyes lingering on that one Ilvermorny boy who had brought in the big, loud, music box, which was blasting out really catchy songs that were worming their way into Abey's earholes forever, EVEN THROUGH HIS HANDS.

Not that he was complaining. He didn't mind the music or the fun and happiness at all! It was just... all a bit much, a bit of an onslaught.

BUT FUN!

But

Aslan Evans took one long look at the Gryffindor table before abruptly turning on her heel and making her way to the much quieter (although not far at all) Ravenclaw table. She knew her limitations when it came to people, crowds, feasts and the like and this was most certainly past it.

Curious as she was about all that was happening, too many people was just too many people.

Red, Gold and the Purple of the Ilvermony students were a recipe for a disaster and Paul's presence only furthered her belief that moving away from the Gryffindor table was the right and only choice.

If every meal from then on was to be this insane then she'd need to start having alihotsy-topped calming potions just to eat in relative peace of mind.

So the badges meant prefect. Interesting. Now that it had been explained it did make perfect sense to him. And Isaiah made a mental note to keep an eye out for the other ones with badges. That would also make them the ones with power, and it was always nice to have powerful friends. It was a crime, really, that Isaiah himself had not been made a prefect. He'd had many things to say in the past about how their prefects were chosen instead of elected. America was supposed to be a democracy, people. Even in magical boarding schools.

Their Ilvermorny entourage was getting larger by the minute. Isaiah's eyes lingered just a second longer on Will, who was asking about tours. Isaiah certainly would not mind finding any of those dark corners with Will. There were more, though less attractive, classmates joining them too. Maddox and Kathleen and Isaiah's own brother, Sam. He made room for his brother next to him.

But it was hard to focus on any introductions when there was not only music, but dancing. It was a Hogwarts professor who was doing the dancing. Except, that wasn't just any Hogwarts professor. Isaiah recognized the man as Paul Myers, and as soon as he did his gaze snapped to his brother, who was already heading toward him. Of course he was. Isaiah was more interested in the dancing than the man doing the dancing at this moment. "Is it a dance party now? Who wants to dance with me?" His gaze traveled over the Ilvermorny entourage. Who would be most willing to say yes without any hexing? "Irene?" He gave her his most charming, and hopefully convincing, smile.

Irene grinned even more when the curly haired boy (Tenacius)with the VERY shiny badge invited her to join. Sweeeeeet. "Thanks! I like you. Let's be friends. I'm Irene Avery. Fifth year. Pukwudgie," she said with a nod, deciding that she would befriend this Hogwartian. She was definetly up to befriend more of them too! Besides the people at this table were AWESOME!!!!

And then she heard Louise's voice. LOUISE!!!! She was sooo awesome. Irene wanted to be like her as a seventh year. She liked Louise. And there was Weslyn. Also someone cool. "Hey Louise! Hey Weslyn. Quite the party, huh?!" she waved, glad to see another fellow Illvermorny student. She was about to ask Louise what she thought of Hogwarts when another student (Daisy) welcomed her so nicely. Irene also liked this one. "Nice to meet you Daisy. I'm Irene. Where are you from?" she said with a nod. She chuckled at her question and was opening her mouth to answer when Khail looked surpised that she played the ukulele. She grinned and now could answer both of them. "I've been playing since I was seven but I never brought it to school with me," she offered, sounding a little sad. Merlin. She wished that she had brought it with her. It probably would have helped her feel less stressed out about mean people and schoolwork.

Irene was about to ask if anyone at the table had a ukelele when someone nearly shouted (or maybe half sung) her name. It was loud either way. Irene turned and gasped when she saw a good friend of hers. "KATHLEEN! Hey!" and then she giggled at the name twin comment. "You're right. Name twins. We're just so cool." She ran over to her and gave her fellow housemate a nice hug. "What do you think of this place? Isn't it amazing!!" Irene felt like she running on a sugar rush like one you would experience after eating all of your Halloween candy. Yum.

Dancing? Isaiah was asking her to dance? Uhhhhhh...... She hadn't danced in ages..... He was fun to hang out with.. and cute..... and he had a charming smile which was difficult to say no to. Besides, dancing would be a blast and maybe Isaiah and her could show these Hogwartians how to REALLY DANCE. "Why not?," she grinned, holding out her hand to him. Were they going to dance on the table? "Are we dancing on the tables?" she flirtly teased.

Khalil was a ridiculous idiot, and if he wasn't quite so likeable and quite so much one of Will's best friends, he'd have nothing to do with him. But, as it stood, he was Will's ridiculous idiot, so he just shook his head and slumped his elbows against the table. Dude had boring taste in music, and the Brits he was trying to charm were even worse. "You know I can't hold your hand. You have sweaty palms. Buddies are better with a sweat-free, two foot buffer." And if there were good tunes, all the better.

He considered jinxing the radio (again, this was not the first time they'd had this fight), but it was literally the only way people were relaxing at the moment.

Will's head came up off the table immediately watch Louise approach. Yes, thank you. There was Ilvy's own sweet angel giving them a bit of attention. Giving Khalil a bit of attention, more likely, but it wasn't like Will could feel bad about that. Some people were blessed. Some weren't. "'Lo, Hamilton. You can sit here. I was leaving." He actually removed himself from his seat. Manners? Idiocy? Weren't they the same thing?

It was too bad he had to give up his seat next to the blond, though. Charlotte, she said. Charlotte with the sweet smile. She'd probably give him a tour if he asked nicely, and now she'd be giving that tour to gorgeous creature Louise Hamilton. "Nice to meet you too," Will grumbled and shuffled off to perch at the end of the table.

MISSING SOMETHING? What had Levi said? "I am NOT missing my poncho, though?!" and he twirled, princess-like, and curtsied. "Don't make it TOO loud, else the headmistress might fuss!" he said of the speaker discussion.

MOVING MY HIPS LIKE YEAAAAAH

Cue Paul pretend hula-hooping. That was moving his lips like YEAH...mhm. Americans were so fun! This was FUN! Dance party in the bADGER COMMON ROOM AFTER THIS - only not really, that was super against the rules, and Paul Myers would never promote rule breaking. Well, not to that extent. Thievery of tea leaves was another matter entirely.

One of the Ilvermorny girls [Dalia] TOLD HIM HE WAS AMAZING SO IT WAS CLEARLY TRUE. "Thank you, m'dear!" he said, sounding extra British only because he was surrounded by ALL that American. He really believed he had no rhythm, sure, but dancing was fun. And if you had confidence and had fun, then...it was probably at least fun to watch. Amazing, even.

A song in Spanish began playing, and Paul felt he had the WRONG dance moves for this type of music, but it didn't matter. He clapped, bounced, and went with it. He wished he had his banjo so much ;__;

BUT THEN IT SWITCHED TO ANOTHER SONG AND PAUL found himself slow dancing with an invisible partner. Milton would have been appalled at his partner. Merlin's pants...Paul worked up a sweat quickly. He grinned at Tenacius. "Thank you for the introduction, m'boy," he winked, stopped dancing, and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. "You are very kind."

He felt a small tap on his shoulder and turned to see Bentley. Paul grinned, and nodded. "You...are right, Mr. Bellaire-Moore." He breathed heavily. "I'm too old for this, unfortunately." How sweet. Paul thought the boy actually has his well-being in mind currently.

A little voice carried over to him, and Paul found himself turning to face a small Ilvermorny child [Sam]. Who...he did not know, but the boy knew him. "Um..hello, m'boy..." Paul smiled broadly. "I don't think I know you?" he said, his tone raising in questionable quizzical-ness at the end. Because... who... ? Was this?

Oh. There was a call for his dance moves AGAIN? Paul obliged the boy [Khalil] and began to dance and bop slightly again. It was time for the BIG TIME dance moves, though. Like....feet shuffling. The chicken wing. THE SPRINKLER.

OK Maddox could not fault Dalia for forgetting a flag if the other option was a bikini. "Wait is it a red white and blue bikini" He was just getting madder with himself for forgetting. At least Khalil remembered the radio. Don't be a party pooper Erza. They should all sing along to at least one song. There was Will finally joining the party. And actually, a tour would be nice dependsing on who ran it. Since well Maddox was guaranteed to get lost.

Both Maddox's were here and what. Melon. Was there watermelon at the table. He would eat that. Oh she was talking about someone. Nope, not going to be any help with that Well now this was a song Maddox could not sing along to. His Spanish is horrible. He could only say could he go to the bathroom in Spanish and that's about it.

"IRENE. You should have brought it. Would love to see some ukulele"

Well, Tenacius was somewhat American . Made the dude a little cool. Still needed to work on the badge. Prefects were alright and all but those badges.

"Play whatever you want dude"

Ah there was Louise and Weslyn. He was sorry for losing both of them at the pathways. But Maddox was being Maddox and got tunnel vision. And look at the party now. Okay from what he could understand. The hot chick(Daisy) was not a fan of Khalil and Dalia and well she would not get her wish from asking nicely. The music was staying on. Even the Professor with the Poncho was into it.Even more people where showing up now. Hogwash people.

"KATHLEEN WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN"

The nerd has joined us and there she goes rattling off about everything. Well you could hear it. Oh well Charlotte was serious. Well that took a little of the fun out of it.

"Nice to meet you too. A guide so i don't get lost would be a nice start"

Dude, Miley is everyone's jam. Dont give him that Snow. Where was Snow's sister when you need her

"Excuses Excuses"

Wait where people actually going to dance on the table now. Because if they are Maddox wanted in. Or where they going to dance somewhere else.

Ok Poncho Professor had some moves and Maddox was clapping watching him.

This was the best.

Dalia was used to ruckus. This ruckus, however, was a little extraordinary. Mister Reckless Senseless In A Poncho was still jiving. Dalia couldn't look at him directly. She kept turning her head to and fro and only glancing out of the corner of her eyes. There was possible retina damage to worry about. She was young, free and beautiful. She still needed her vision for many things, like say, for example, taking in all the new arrivals. Will finally decided to show up and Dalia crinkled her nose in his direction as greeting.

Someone needed to draw him a map. Maybe she'd put her elementary skills at lines and circles into use after all. Getting lost apparently seemed to be a thing here at Hogwarts because next thing she knew a girl was asking about another short girl. Dalia stopped eating long enough to shrug and add more hot sauce to her food.

There was more people arriving, more talking, more moving around. Khalil was talking and Dalia was only half listening. There were too many attractive faces catching her attention but her eyes always landed on the same few. She giggled to herself, and at her own thoughts, before Snow's voice brought her back to reality. She cleared her throat and ignored the flush in her cheeks.

"Of course!" she called out to him with a grin so big the corner of her eyes crinkled. "After all this dies down, okay?" Plus she was sure Snow wanted to talk and buddy up with his girlfriend after such a long journey.

There were other things she wanted to address, words that were on the tip of her tongue but Khalil had started playing her song and he knew exactly what he was doing. Dalia let out a whoop and threw her arms up. "It's the Gospel! The one song to free us all!" She kept her arms in her hair and moved her torso slow to the beat. For a moment she considered getting up, and dancing like nobody was watching but the truth was: people were watching.

So she kept her bottom glued to the hard bench instead.

Her eyes opened and she looked down and up the table again, bopping her head to the music. She noticed Will moving down the table and she raised her arms in the international: what the heck, bro? sign. "Where are you going, Will?" She asked him loudly over the music. Dalia smiled and shimmied her shoulders slightly before pointing down at her lip with one finger. "There's a seat right here if you want it."

Theeen the music was changing again. Dalia sighed dramatically and pointed at her lap again. "Come be my friend, Will. I'm getting gloomy."

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Originally Posted by the gentleman

One of the Ilvermorny girls [Dalia] TOLD HIM HE WAS AMAZING SO IT WAS CLEARLY TRUE. "Thank you, m'dear!" he said, sounding extra British only because he was surrounded by ALL that American. He really believed he had no rhythm, sure, but dancing was fun. And if you had confidence and had fun, then...it was probably at least fun to watch. Amazing, even.

"You're WELCOME!" And he was. There was clearly nobody like him.

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OK Maddox could not fault Dalia for forgetting a flag if the other option was a bikini. "Wait is it a red white and blue bikini" He was just getting madder with himself for forgetting. At least Khalil remembered the radio. Don't be a party pooper Erza. They should all sing along to at least one song. There was Will finally joining the party. And actually, a tour would be nice dependsing on who ran it. Since well Maddox was guaranteed to get lost.

Her attention went back to Maddox. Dalia nodded as her lips stretched into a secretive grin. "Stripes on the bottom, stars up top," she explained with a wink.