"[b]From exhaustion, got it. So you are gonna keep me running until O get exhausted and fall over myself? Oh boy. He chuckled "Well I hope it does get easier, dont want to be falling over with every run we go on. Oh you gonna take it easy on me? Well that's good I guess." he chuckled wondering how easy Justin would take it in him, maybe not too easy and not too hard either somewhere along the middle?

" I'll take it easy on ya for now... But not forever... I need to keep up with my workoout schedule too... I'll give ya a couple weeks then.... It's sink or swim time, Bud..." Justin smiled.

Ronnie snuck to the Duck Pond, an armful of...something secret. You can't know what it is. Only Deathbird can know. Not you, not anybody, ONLY DEATHBIRD!

Speaking of her...where was she?

Ronnie's head whipped around, her red hair flying around as she did. Hmm...where was she? She sighed and shrugged, deciding she'd show up at some point. She then snuck off around to some bushes at the emptier side of the pond. No students here, no students to see her...secret business. Heh heh.

Ronnie slowly put away her armful of her something secret in a bush as carefully as possible, looking around from time to time making sure no one was watching her. Because NO ONE could see this. Or her and Deathbird would be in big trouble.

Harvey smiled and nodded of course he had his own workout schedule too! "A couple of weeks? A bit long isn't it? More like one week! I think.. " he chuckled hoping that it wouldn't be too hard keeping with him even though Harvey had decided to move the deadline up a bit "Well I am going to swim then, I don't like to sink. " he said still keeping pace but getting a bit tired now

" Harvey, You'll need the two weeks... Trust me, Mate... Don't get ahead of yourself.... Yoou'll thank me after you wake up tomorrow. Speaking of which... I'll give you tomorrow off so you can recouperate..." Justin said as he started running a bit faster.

Harve listened as Justin told him he will need the two weeks, was it going to be that hard that he would need the two weeks ... he wondered. Tomorrow off? "Really? To recuperate? I didn't know all this running business was going to be that tough on me, well I guess it would since this is my first proper workout in a long time. So I guess thanks? For giving me tomorrow off." he smiled and saw Justin run faster, ok so maybe he WAS gong to need that day off tomorrow he thought as he ran faster too to keep up with Justin

As they finished the first lap Justin said.... " Your welcome... That lap's the first off ten.... Still want to keep going? " he teased seeing Harvey tire in front of his eye.

Harvey was out of breath by the time they had finished the first lap. He looked at Justin "That... that was just the first?! That felt like two! " he said looking around at the lap that they had just done. "Ummm just give me a couple of minutes before we get going again." he said trying to get most of us breath back for lap two.

" sounds like fun." nicki said with a laugh. " but is also sound like it would tickle." she finished " do u always let the them bite your toes." she said thinking she had seen him before letting them.

Sam laughed.
" I come here when ever I wanna be alone for a while. .ducks they help to heal my mind. . .And they dont bite always. . .only if they dont have anything to bite at all . But yes it would tickle. . . uh. .that's why I have these"
He took out those old cookies out from his pocket. . .

Tahnee crept up to the duck pond and slowly lowered herself down onto the grass so her chin rested on her hands. She stared at the ducks swimming care-freely in the green pond and wished for a moment that she could be one of those ducks as well.

Ducks didn't have to worry about making friends. Ducks didn't have to worry about schoolwork and keeping up. Ducks were ducks. Ducks didn't have problems. Sitting up and wrapping her arms around her legs, Tahnee sighed and tossed pebbles into the pond, watching them plunk and splash.

Justin continued running... " Harvey Watson! You better get back up here with me!.... Come on... Dig deep, Mate! " he said trying to encourage his friend.

Deathbird was experiencing some fo serious struggles. First off, MEDUSA had made these erm-secret things-extremely large...which meant they were heavy! Secondly, Medusa was freakishly fast. Like FREAKISHLY. How was she so far ahead?! And lastly, Deathbird was little and her ickle legs just couldn't move through the snow as swiftly as her friend.

When she did arrive, armload full of secret things, the second year spy spotted her friend's hair by a bush. "CAW...CAW!" Was that the sounds a deathbird made?! Honestly, she didn't know. She was just going with the flow so..."CAW CAW!" Which meant she was coming, Medusa, coming to help you with the task.

Guitar, yeah that reminded her of Ryan. The blonde did her best to tuck that in the back of her mind, for now anyway. She still wasn't sure how that made her feel. One minute she was mad the next a little sad. Anyway, it would probably smart to say something instead of sitting there in her thoughts "Yeah, sometimes I write songs too, but I don't think they're all that good" she admited laughing a bit. "Well anyway, I'd love to hear you play sometime if thats alright" she said. She did like live music.

Ronnie finished putting away her secret stuff and looked up at the sound of a 'caw caw'. Either there was a duck with a serious quacking problem, or Deathbird was here.

It was probably Deathbird.

Ronnie looked and sure enough, saw her and waved her over. She glanced around in case...doctor whats-his-face showed up. Wouldn't want that to happen...or they'd be in big trouble.

Ella ran over, arms full of the items she was supposed to hide. She grinned at her friend, her eyes wide. "Merlin's beard, Medusa! You're fast!" And in this kind of atmosphere that was pretty impressive. "Where shall I put these so they don't get discovered?" She added more seriously, eyebrows raised. They were on a mission, yeah? So they had to be careful.

"I've been to France with my family but I was a bit young to be learning the language." Alex replied with a smile. "How about yourself?"

The fourth year relaxed a little bit and let out a little laugh when Jory mentioned the shoe laces tied up again. "Now my brother Josh is into music and causing trouble even though he has left Hogwarts, whereas Sam's more mature being the oldest and everything." Alex had always wondered what her life would be like without those to influencing her into music and working hard to achieve. "Do you have any siblings?"

Even though there were always people crowding about the little pond, Taryn liked this spot the most of all spots on the grounds. It had everything to do with August, of course, so whenever she got a new letter from him, as soon as she could, she would hurry down to the pond to sit and read.

Sometimes that meant sitting through a class squirming and not paying attention because she wouldn't let herself read the letter before she got to the pond. No matter how long it took her to get there, she was there every single time, in all weather.

Today was another one of those days, so Taryn settled herself in her spot and ripped open the envelope, eager to read the letter.

Harvey watched as Justin started his second lap, what already?! Man! Justin does a lot of working out no wonder he looks good. He nodded still a little out of breath but able to start the second lap with the encouragement from Justin and caught upto him, he hoped he could last this second lap without collapsing halfway through. "Ok hoping to dig dip this time" he smiled knowing he would have to in order to keep up with this workout regime of Justin's

They were half way around the pond again when Justin started laughing and slowing down." Dude, Harvey?! Ya think I'm tryin to kill ya?." he said through his laugh as he looked at the expression on his best mate's face... " We're done for the day...hahahaha! Give me a break... you wouldn't be able to walk tomorrow if i had you out here for ten laps..."

Harvey looked at Justin who had stated to slow down for him, he chuckled as best he could with Justin. He shook his head "Nahhh I..I can do the te..ten laps and still be able to..to walk tomorrow." he smiled. Yeah there was no reason they had to stop now, they could carry on. He didn't want Justin cutting his workout sort cause of Harvey, no they would carry on. Harvey ran past Justin and carried on running the lap that they had started, he could do this and he would prove it. He wasn't a weakling that couldn't run ten laps around this pond, he was going to run these ten laps no matter what!

Milton was being grumpy. Ticked off. Peeved. Annoyed. And many other emotions like those. He was also relieved, but that was at the bottom of the list now that his wand was gone. Grrrr.

And NO, he was NOT going to get over it.

Oh, but look. It was Taryn! Which meant his day got a little bit better, and of course, more exciting. He spotted the envelope in her hand and plopped down on the frozen ground next to her. "Whatcha got there?"

Taryn had finally extracted the letter. She had essentially destroyed the envelope, but that hardly mattered. She was about to open it when someone appeared beside her.

Milton.

"A letter from my boyfriend." Taryn grinned, still excited by all the anticipation. Though Milton would probably not care at all, he wasn't quite the boyfriend type, was he? She left the letter folded and tilted her head in the boy's direction.

.... "Oh." Boyfriend. Laaaame. Milton's face was back to being grumpy again. He didn't want to deal with people who had boyfriends right now. Usually, he liked flirting with them, but he was too ticked off to flirt with taken women at that moment.

"Well, don't let me distract you then," he said dully and started to get up. Maybe he'd go find Kennedy and beat him up. That sounded like fun.

Okay, definitely the wrong time to be talking about boyfriends then. Taryn blinked at Milton as he started to get up again. "Wait a second here. Don't be like that, you were the one who came to sit with me, you can't get mad." Obviously he COULD since he had, or something. He was grumpy maybe not necessarily mad.

"Sit down." She requested. Taryn shoved the letter back into the ruined envelope and patted the ground beside her. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, boy.