On second, Madelyn was making a FOOL of herself with the cheering - the next, all hell had broken loose. At least, that was how Aurora saw it from her vantage point. Seriously? And what a surprise, Valerie was involved, because apparently she was incapable of stopping herself from hexing anyone who looked at her funny. She rolled her eyes and heavily sighed. Her peers were seriously SO embarrassing sometimes. They were being welcomed in to their castle, and this is how they repaid them? Seriously??

She turned to Irene and frowned. "I don't know about you, but I need a LONG bubble bath, followed by about...twenty hours of sleep," she grumbled. As long as she got away from all this DRAMA, she was fine. Normally she was all about the drama - but most days, she wasn't reeling from a dementor attack.

Also, the drama wasn't revolved around HER. So it was her LEAST favorite kind of drama.

Just as she was about to get up, Hawthorne got up and started to talk about the results. Aurora had almost completely forgotten! She plopped back down, big brown eyes focused on the Headmistress. She held her breath as she started to rattle off the names.

KYLE was first? That...was unexpected. But good for him. He WAS a Horned Serpent after all, and they were obviously the smartest house. Still, she never pegged him as a particularly...daring type. Huh. Then came Valerie, UGH. She waited, and waited...and there was her name! It barely registered with her that she was only two points shy of a perfect score. That had to mean she was moving on...

Yes, she was moving on! One step closer to the scholarship! But then...it dawned on her that Lachlan wasn't moving on. Wait, what? Was that possible? She bit her lip and gave him a quick glance. What did she say to him about that? Anything? Or did she just...focus on the fact that she was moving forward?

This was all so exhausting. Could she leave now? They were dismissed, so she stood up without another word and beckoned for Irene to follow before heading down towards the beetle.