SPOILER!!: Jesus
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Jesus Rodriguez 
His hand went straight into his pocket, fishing around for a piece of caramel candy (which, he remembered he took one before leaving the Beetle earlier.) After a brief tussle, Jesús found the candy and pulled it out only to drop it on the ground. Not usually clumsy (especially not with candy,) the sixth year picked it off the ground (grateful that it was wrapped) before looking around. While he would never, ever admit to being superstitious, Jesús knew that the only reason why he dropped the small item was because someone was staring at him (or had been, at least.)
It didn't take long, but he found the culprit in the form of Levi Kenning. Blinking at him, Jesús supposed acknowledging Levi was the polite thing to do. So he sent a nod his way in response, before pocketing the caramel again. And, because his life was full of irony, he caught sight of something resembling an animal heading his way. He couldn't comprehend why a random dog was bouncing over too him (and it looked like it had a sense of purpose too,) so he quickly scanned the area until his eyes caught sight of the elusive Valerie Gray. Of course.
It would be her doing, transfiguring something to pester him instead of actually coming over to talk. Jesús quickly stood up (because he refused to let the girl have her way) and brushed past the labrador, not caring if it turned around and followed him or not. As he made his way over to her, he went over how he was going to greet her and what he was going to say after that. He wouldn't sugarcoat anything; getting right to the point would do them both some good. Jesús was 95% confident in his plan to get Valerie to talk openly.
That 95% quickly diminished to a cool 16% once he reached her, though, and his hands went straight into his pockets (he had to do something with them.) Standing near her, he looked at her curiously and before he could stop himself, his mouth was moving. "Don't be difficult," he said rather amiably, the corners of his lips twitching upwards (only briefly.) This was not the approach that he wanted to go for, and he reminded himself of that fact. However, he wasn't really upset with her, he just wanted a few answers. He tugged at his scarf to readjust it. Again. "Did you intentionally sit over here?" the thought that she might've done that, just to prove a point, amused him.
Feeling prematurely pleased with herself, it was difficult not to turn her head fully in the Thunderbird's direction to watch the full execution of her transfiguration. But any desire to do so was quickly lost when she caught him rising and moving towards her out of her peripheral vision with the labrador bounding along by his side as though following its master with unconditional admiration and affection.
That had not been the intention of her magic by a long shot and she could feel the agitation beginning to eat at her slightly empty stomach.
Her annoyance only intensified when he was standing
over her, but rather than display how under her skin he was already she simply looked up at him coolly with a small shrug of the shoulders. "
I have been such since the day I was born," she retorted with an overtly innocent demeanor. "
Why ought I stop now?" Her question was rhetorical and had slipped out before she could filter it away. Surely it would be something she would berate herself over later given that silver tongue of his.
Tucking a few wisps of her white hair behind her ear, she summoned a nearby stick to herself and wiggled it towards the labrador. A small distraction while she attempted to deal with Jesus. "
Perhaps," was all she offered him as a reply. Seeing that she had the dog's attention (or rather the stick did), the Wampus flung it across the courtyard towards the other pair of champions in conversation. Watching the creature take off full speed after it, she calmly looked back towards her
friend. "
Is that all you came over here to inquire about?"
Because he could just get to the point now that her fun was ruined.