Tayla hurried back to the Gryffindor study tables, wondering if Maxwell had indeed followed her. She must have missed him somehow, especially since she walked quickly.

She entered the study and found that Maxwell had left. "He probably went to get flowers, too," she thought.

She walked towards her vases and put her bucket of flowers next to them. Then, putting her own gloves, she started arranging the flowers in each.

The white roses she put into the glass vase. She trimmed excess leaves and cut the stem in an angle underwater. "That would keep the flowers living longer," she thought. Then she did the same for the white tiger lilies and the blue vase, and the yellow tulips and the rainbow vase. She added some leaves and small flowers here and there to make the arrangement prettier.

Tayla worked near the windows and wondered how Maxwell was doing with his Transfiguraton homework.