Originally Posted by aussiegirl

Marcus looked at the young girl who was grinning at him and he gave her a small wink. Mmmm and she had pie. He sure did love pie. He wondered if she would share?

Originally Posted by Zoerawrr

Bwahaha, Jake only wished he could reveal the disasters they'd had whilst camping, but the boy was sworn to secrecy... he wasn't allowed to reveal how hopeless Lawson really was at camping.

It was bloody funny though.

When the girl described where she lived, Jake sat and listened with wonder, staring wide-eyed at Arya. Heeeee wanted to live in a place like thaaaaaaat. "I llllive in Luhh-london," he explained, which was a simple enough explanation as to why he didn't have many pets. He was always scared they'd get hurt in like traffic or something. "I l-lived in London all muhh-my life," Jake added proudly. "I kn-kknow the place llllike the bbback of my hand."

But the camping with Lawson had definitely NOT been in London... which was disorientating.

And here was the man himse-




Glad?

School?

Really?

Looking straight at Lawson, Jake gave him a look that quite clearly said the man needed his head checked. "No," he said, sounding just a tiiiiiny bit miserable. "I wwwwant to guh-go hhhome."

It really was just that simple.

Watching Lawson, Jake scooped up Charlie from the table and sat petting him.

Originally Posted by Sneakeh Cat

Was someone talking to her?

Reese turned around to face this girl that was sitting on the bench a few people down from Jake. Why yes she was talking to her. "Well, sort of...I guess you would say," she replied. Not that she would have a choice since she had fallen backwards off the bench. She looked looked back up at the ceiling and nodded her head to the girl's question. "They are pretty," she answered. "Uh..." Constellations? She tilted her head as she glanced over the pattern of the stars. "I'm horrible at finding constellations," she admitted. "Oh, wait. Is that one?" She pointed her finger to some stars in the sky.

She took her attention away from the stars and back to the girl. "I'm fine," she told her. "I'm just scared of spiders, that's all." As she said that, she took a quick glance towards Jake's tarantula and shuddered. "I fear spiders," she corrected herself.



Reese moved the ring around in her hand a little bit more before she placed it on her 4 finger on her right hand. The ring hand to resize itself just a tiny bit to fit her finger. "It's beautiful," she commented as she held her hand out in front of her to examine the ring. She looked over at her brother and smiled.

She lowered her hand when Jake lowered his gaze. He did deserve that disappointed look, because she didn't even know WHY he wanted to put Charlie on her in the first place. For some reason, she thought it had to do something with her giving him his present late, but she wasn't going to ask him if that was the reason.

"It's fine," she accepted the apology. "Let's just not put Charlie on your sister ever again, okay?" She watched him closely when he placed the tarantula on the table and reached his arms out to her. Her eyes stayed on the tarantula and she only hugged her brother when the girl near him picked the tarantula up to hold him. "I love you, Jakers," she whispered.

How could she stay mad at her brother? Putting Charlie on her didn't do any major harm, right? Right.



Reese pulled Jake out of the hug, and then she turned her attention to the girl holding Charlie. She was going to stay 4 feet away from her. She took a step back and then smiled. "It's nice to meet you, Arya," she said. "I'm Reese Upstead. Jake's brother and Slytherin Prefect." She knew the girl knew she was related to Jake, but it didn't hurt to say it again.



Reese wanted to sit back down next to her brother, but that girl was still holding the tarantula. That meant if Reese sat down, she would be only inches away from the creature. It just wasn't going to happen. She shifted her weight to her left leg and placed one hand on her hip. If she just acted cool and like she wanted to stand up, people wouldn't assume that she was a coward when it came to an fuzzy, 8 legged creature...right?

Upon hearing a familiar voice, Reese turned to face Lawson who had joined the Hufflepuff table. "Hello Professor Lawson," she greeted the man. "Yeah, it's good to be back at school. Did you have a good summer, sir?"

Originally Posted by Zieko

Moving on to dessert, Allison grabbed for chocolate cake. It was something of a tradition to eat chocolate all the time. She remembered the last time she had gone to a muggle dentist and they hadn't found any cavities. Allison had simply smiled and said it was magic. Course the dentist had just laughed and moved on.

Looking at all the people around her she smiled. She missed home, certainly but between the crazy conversation and teasing CMP iColby, Allison loved Hogwarts already.

Of course her happy moment was interrupted with the mumbling of CMP iColby. Rolling her eyes Allison grabbed her spoon as stole a spoonful of mashed potatoes from iColby's plate and gave him a big grin.

Who cared if she had finished with her food and was on dessert? It was all for the art of bullying.

After gulping down the food she'd stolen Allison looked at Cela when she mentioned the fireseed bush. "Did you just say fireseed bush?" Why were they even talking about fire? Oh yes...Kellen.

Allison actually knew nothing about pyromania. Just that it had to deal with fire. However, she had once heard there were people with such power. That's why she had automatically assumed---upon Kellen's comment, that he was a pyromaniac himself.

"Cela...did you know Kellen's old school burned down? I think that's why he is most interested in pyromaniacs..." Gossip. Gossip...gossip!~ Plus she wanted to know the story.

Looking quickly over her shoulder she noticed Arya had gotten her paper plane.