People trickled into the common room and they all wore the same expression of bewilderment. But it didn't last for long. The guy (MATT) who came in went straight to the balloons and got himself full with... "But that' paint!" she said loudly, shocked.

Was how parties were done here? She was taking a second to process it when,

SPLAT!

Ashley closed her eyes for a moment at the sound and she felt a wet and thick sensation on her left arm. She opened her eyes to find paint splattered all over her arm and neck. WOAH! "Whazzat?" She watched as an older girl(OLIVIA) move behind the wall. Ashley's face bore pure shock, and then crept in a little smile.

The prefect had some balloons thrown at him as well. She laughed as he shouted and hurled balloons at others. Some balloons landed near her and she saw a much older man with a booming voice. This is one hell of a place! She grinned from ear to ear as she watched, whom she could only assume to be a professor, pick two more balloons.

And then all hell broke loose. Balloons started flying around the common room. Ashley tried to duck a fair amount of them, but she got a few straight at her from the first guy and another girl(SAM) she'd swear she just saw her entering. Where they that fast? She was about to pick a balloon herself, when she got a nudge from a girl. The girl looked new there as well. "Yeah! I think this might just turn out to be the best party I ever went to!" she said as she picked up two balloons. "I'm Ashley" And I won't throw one on you, yet. she said, smiling.

She aimed a balloon at the guy (MATT). Throwing balloons at strangers? Are we even allowed to do that here? She threw one right at him and another towards went hurling towards the girl(OLIVIA). Without waiting, she grabbed another set and threw one at the other girl(SAM) and the other at...

oh he's the Prefect ! ! !

and she'd threw it already. Weren't prefects strict?

But she was running towards the arm chair. Hide. Hide. Hide.