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Nika beamed at Ari, "I missed you too! It's really been too long!" She smiled appreciatively when her friend complimented the earmuffs. And the people at home said they were stupid. Heh. "Thanks!" Nika didn't really like hats or earmuffs too much, but when they were cute little animals who could resist!?
Nika jumped up in the air and let out a loud, "YAY!" The snow was actually a lot of fun. So far she made snow angels, had a small snowball fight, and now to make a snow man. She bent down to pack together some snow as she heard Ari speak again. "Oh nothing much. Just homework, classes, seeing friends, and oh you know the usual." She said with a small smile. Nika didn't even want to mention what had happened between her and Emily. She felt like she had already told too many people and she didn't want it to become a big deal. Besides she was already doing such a great job of masking her sadness. Why go and ruin a perfectly cheerful mood?! "What's going on with you?"
'You'd think we'd meet more often since we are, after all, in the same House.' the young Gryffindor chuckled. But homework and classes took up so much time!Plus, all those weird things that were going on, with the pirate ship, and the X on the wall...Since the girl had been curious about that, she
wasted spent a lot of time exploring or doing research in the library. To no avail, of course.
Ari laughed at Nika's loud yay; she had never seen anyone get so enthusiastic about building a snowman.
'Did you go to Hogsmeade?' Ariadne asked her friend, when she mentioned classes, homework and friends.
'And have you noticed how strange people are acting? This whole pirate thing?' Probably peculiar things always happened at Hogwarts, but this was really not something you'd see every day, not even at Hogwarts.
'That's probably enough snow.' the girl decided, putting the pieces together.
'Perfect.Now we need to find something for eyes, nose, mouth, hands...' her voice trailed off, as she already started looking around for approppriate objects.