Kimalia smiled to herself as she approached the Prefect's Compartment door, she was looking forward to another pleasant ride to Hogwarts. Fifth year, Fifth year, here we come! For now, she would ignore the upcoming O.W.Ls, she was officially an older student now, hehe.

Making sure her captain badge was still in place, she walked right on in to see some familiar people, like Selena, Kurumi, and Selina, "Hey peeps! How's it going?" .. and some new people, must be from Hufflepuff since they all graduated last term save their captain, and a boy from Gryffindor. She knew her manners though, and gave them a smile just as friendly, "Well, congrats on your new badges.. hope everyone had a good summer." Slinging her purse over her right shoulder, Kimalia then sat herself next to Selena.

Why was the girl moving away? Selena wouldn't say a word about it. Yet. Until the girl tried to toss herself out of the window, which was what seemed like the girl wanted to do. Right now.

"I'm good! I want ice cream!" Selena said with a smile, looking at the cat trying to get on the seat. Go away. Shoo.

Louisa made it to the train in the last minute after getting her lost badge back from the car. How she was supposed to remember that she was the Prefect for a full six months was beyond her. Dragging her trunk behind her while Viola, her tabby squirming cat, dangled from her arm the sixth year made her way to the compartment. Phew! It was a relief that she didn't have to look for one or scare firsties to go get their own compartments. Heh.

"Hiya authority figures of Hogwarts," she yelled rather sarcastically. Then two things happened at once after her eyes scanned the 'authority figures'; Her cat, Viola, pranced down upon seeing other fellow felines and meowed once or twice, and Louisa burst out laughing upon seeing Paulie with a freaking HEAD BOY badge. The cat made its way toward her fellows only to end up on the shoes of a Huffie boy. Might as well lick it while she was here. liiiiiiiick.

Louisa squeezed her way further inside and plopped down next to Paulie, containing her laugh. "Really? They decided to put you Mr. I have movie nicknames for everyone as a Head Boy?" She grinned. This term should be amusing. The girl's eyes then searched the others. "Hi Evelyn!" Louisa didn't know the girl was a Prefect this term, well.. that was natural since they never really talked or met in summer. The Ravenclaw wanted to fix this soon. Like right now.

Moving on with her eyes, Louisa smiled at a rather sheepish Kurumi, "Hey there. How's holidays?" Then the Huffie boy sitting nearby looking also sheepish caught her attention. She'd seen him around school before, just never really knew his name or anything else about him... Louisa gave him a friendly stare. There. She was being social.

Slytherinsss. Louisa waved at the Quidditch Captain, "Hi." She never spoke to her before either. However, the Head Girl sitting nearby sucked all the attention from the room with her energetic personality. Louisa grinned at her, "How're you, Selena?" She looked for that purple pygmy puff, "Where's superman?" Right? That was his name... or something close. The Ravenclaw didn't really squeeze her mind to get it right. It was only a ball of fur anyways.

Thennnn came Selina! "Hi Selina! Long time no see," Louisa had brought her feet up on the seat, squeezing against Paulie to get more comfy. Oh, the Gryffindor wasn't alone! There was Gideon too. Her dueling partner who kicked her butt in every duel. Louisa smirked at him, "Howdy partner." She was about to wink at him but refrained, Selina was his girlfriend right? Louisa recalled talking a bit about relationships with the girl last trip to Hogwarts.

Sheesh, how did Louisa know all of those minus the Huffie boy when she was a tad less than friendly? Not logic at all.

Keefer hauled his trunk down the small corridor, navigating through uncertain-looking first years. Next year, I get on at the front of the train so there's less distance to go, he thought. Then it hit him. There wouldn't be a next time. Except at the end of the year, on the way back. He pushed this unpleasant thought out of his mind, not allowing it to cloud his features. Upon reaching the compartment he sought, he pushed open the handle, not knowing what to expect.

He glanced around, spotting a few familiar faces and a slew of unexpected ones. Including.. Extra Gryffindors? He did a double-take. Yes, extras. Interesting... "Hey everyone! Welcome aboard, eh?" He stowed his things and searched for a spot to sit. Most of the seats were full, including all of those next to people he knew.

Suddenly, in walked...... the other woman?! Oh, awkward. Paulie had totally been wrong on that whole Joao/Eve thing no thanks to LOUISA, so he would have to come up with a new, more appropriate nickname for her this term. For now, he'd settle with her name. "Hello, Eve," he smiled. "Congrats on Hufflepuff prefect." All politeness, see?

He raised an eyebrow when he overheard Evelyn say something about not know she was prefect. WHAAAAAT?! Kurumi was, like, the smartest person ever. And she'd been prefect since FORever.[/COLOR]

Lewis kept on staring at the Head Girl in confusion when she didn't really seem to hear what he'd just said. "But...that's not my name. It's...Lewis." Didn't she understand that his name wasn't Mister Huffie? So there was no need for her to call him anything but his name, right? He blinked at her a couple of times when she added what he would get to call her. "I-is Sel your name then?" Or was that another nickname? Why was she being all confusing? Was she doing that on purpose?

WHAT?!

And now they were talking about ice cream? "I......do too?" Lewis offered, throwing Sel yet another confused look. Was that a good thing that they both liked Vanilla ice cream? It wasn't his favorite but you know, just making conversation. Or something. Now he wanted ice cream though. And she had understood that his cat was called Vanilla, though, right? Or otherwise his comment might have been quite random.

Oh good, she had. "She...she wasn't going to." Lewis replied with his eyes slightly widened as he stared at the Head Girl's head again. Why would she eat the Pygmy Puff? She would never do that. Oh, so this guy was the King of all Pygmy Puffs? He didn't know something like that existed but okay. There were always new things to learn. What did one have to do as the King of Pygmy Puffs? Was there a Queen too?

When he was about to return his gaze to Selena's face to give her an incredulous look, his eyes fell on Evelyn sitting next to her who looked...bad. Or was that just his imagination? His eyes rested on his fellow Hufflepuff Prefect for a moment longer before he dropped his gaze again, biting his liip. It was probably just his imagination. There was nothing to be scared of in here after all. Right? Or maybe she wasn't feeling well...

Lewis didn't really feel too good either when he couldn't help but notice the way Kurumi was fidgeting with her dress nervously. Her - and his - nervousness seemed to increase even more when Selina entered however, who was looking at them. At like both of them. Which made him feel even more uncomfortable in his seat and it was only because Vanilla had decided to lie on top of his shoes that he didn't make up an excuse to leave the compartment for a moment.

Oh. And now he had another reason. He hadn't really been paying much attention to the conversations going on inside the compartment so he was more than a little surprised when he felt Kurumi suddenly reaching for his hand. No, grabbing it really. A look of shock mixed with surprise and worry flashed across his face and he turned his head to look at the Gryffindor, hoping for some sort of explanation for the sudden touch.

And it was there. On her face. And it was even clearer when she opened her mouth to reply to a question somebody had asked. Summer. Of course. Lewis swallowed hard and glanced down at her hand on his for a moment before looking back up at her face. Without thinking about it he shifted his hand so that he could take hers properly, interlacing their fingers so he could give her a squeeze back. They were back on the topic of their mother and nothing else mattered right now.

Not that that meant that he wasn't blushing a little or anything. Especially when he caught Selina looking at them again. But then Selena just dropped the subject, luckily not asking Kurumi to finish her sentence. He wasn't sure if she would have been able to anyway. There was one - very very very SELFISH - disadvantage about this however. It meant that she didn't need his hand for support any longer. Which was probably for the best anyway, though.

His thoughts were interrupted by two more people (Gideon and Kimalia) entering the compartment. "Hello." Lewis greeted them both quietly, returning the girl's smile a little hesitantly. "T-thank you. You too." Though, hang on, she'd had her badge last term too, right? So there was no need to congratulate her...errr...awkward. Maybe she wouldn't notice. Plus he hadn't congratulated her on the badge yet. So they could just pretend he was like really late or something.

The two were followed suit by yet another Prefect...one who was very loud and eccentric it seemed. Lewis just stared at the Ravenclaw (Louisa) for a moment not really knowing what to say in reply. Should he yell something back? Before he got the chance to do anything though, his attention was caught by a cat who had come in with the girl and was now...at his feet. Licking his shoes. Not really minding or anything, the Hufflepuff just watched the feline for a while while Vanilla actually moved her paw to nudge it. Hullo!

KEEFER! Lewis actually smiled at the entrance of his Quidditch Captain. Finally somebody else he knew. Like actually knew. Like friend-sort-of-knew. "Hey!" In the meantime Vanilla had grown bored of nudging the other cat and sensing Evelyn's discomfort - only unfortunately not knowing the reason - had got up slowly and made her way over the the Hufflepuff, purring loudly. She even nudged the girl's legs with her head. There, feel better now? [/COLOR]

In an attempt to return the introduction Selina said, "Pleasure to meet you Eve. I'm Selina... With an I," the last statement was more of a joke. The younger Selina was always assumed to be spelled similar to the elder Selena, the Head Girl. If she had a Knut for every time someone spelled her name incorrectly she would be filthy rich.