She smiled a little bit as he continued to persist on who she had. Maybe it was because the frowning was getting to her. "Still not going to," she told him, giving him a shake of her head. He could find out the day they gave their person their present. Until then he would not know. "Who do you have?" she asked him, seeing as that sort of made her curious.

Lizzie couldn't help but roll her eyes again. She let her hands drop to her side. "Remember the 'If you help me I'll do whatever you want' deal?" she reminded him. Did he he like short term memory loss? Seriously they had only talked about it maybe 10 minutes ago?

Huh. Of course. Well, he'd just have to wait until the exchange day. That wasn't as much fun, though. If he knew it now, then he'd be in on a secret and he liked being privy to secrets. "Not tellin' you," he said, crossing his arms again. If she wasn't telling him, then he wasn't telling her! Fer sure.

"Oh, oh. That." He thought she had been asking about his plans for getting her a gift or something. Truthfully, he had forgotten about that condition. Connor gave a half-shrug. "Uhm.. you don't have to do anything," he told her, glancing down as he lightly ran his fingers over his tie. He looked back to her again. "But if anyone else asks, just tell them I made you do something stupid."

Grr....of course he wasn't going to tell her if she wasn't going to tell him. "At least it won't bother me as much as if will you," she smirked, thinking that was probably the truth. Things like that didn't bug her. She could live her whole life perfectly without knowing a secret. She had a feeling Connor wasn't gonna give up unfortunately.

Yayyy! That saved her a lot of trouble of worrying what he had in mind. She smiled and watched as he sort of fiddled with his tie. "Don't worry I will," she assured him. He had a reputation to live up to didn't he? She wouldn't ruin that. "Thank you so much though," Lizzie added. Then without really thinking, she stood on tiptoes and kissed him on the cheek.

Shock. Oh god. "Ermm...I--uh--I..." she stumbled in embarrassment. The girl felt her cheeks turning red. She had just crossed the line! Her list had specifically said never to kiss him! "Bye," she said, and hurriedly turned and walked back into the Great Hall.

Connor gave a huff. She was right, though. He hated not knowing, and she seemed to care less about not knowing who he had. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever." He nodded when she agreed to his offer. Good, 'cause well.. that's just how it went. But what happened next really took him aback. A kiss on the cheek? Did that just happen?

Judging by her subsequent fumbling over words, it had. He opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't know what to say. Next thing he knew, she was hustling back for the Great Hall. "Don't think I'm going soft on you!" He called after her. Because he definitely wasn't. Huh uh. With an exhale of breath escaping from between his teeth, he pushed his hand through his hair and walked back to the table again.

When he returned, he caught Holly wondering whether the headmistress would allow them a trip to Hogsmeade. "I think there's one tomorrow, if I'm not mistaken," he chimed in. Where else were they supposed to get gifts?

Orabelle had been talking with some of the others, but when she mentioned something about him being named after a reindeer, he lifted an eyebrow and looked at her. "There's no reindeer named Connor," he said, suddenly amused. Although he quickly went through the names of them, mentally. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Vixen. Aah.. Donner. "I believe you're thinking of some sort of combination of Comet and Donner," he laughed.

"Sorry for leaving you with all the girls, mate," he then told Ryan. Although probably any of the guys in the school would have been happy to have been in that place. Now... back to the plan with Ryan! Yet.. there was a problem. He eyed the students around them, then leaned forward and lowered his voice so none of the others would hear. "Well, I was thinking of switching two slips of paper - the ones with the names, but it's too late for that. So, nevermind.." The traces of a smirk lined his face, though. If he couldn't prank two innocent Hogwarts students, he'd just have to pull one on his best mate, and he had the perfect plan in mind.

As Lizzie returned to the Great Hall, she took a seat back down on the bench where she once was. Her face had returned to it's normal color and everything was perfectly dandy, and absolutely no questions needed to be ask. She looked up to see Connor reenter the Great Hall too. She just rolled her eyes. "Good because I never expected you to," she said, sticking her tongue out at him.

That was really immature, even for her, but who cared. She wasn't officially a grown up yet.

She looked back at Holly who was talking to her. There was too a purpose for reading! There was no doubt about that! "I wasn't reading for school Holly, I was reading to the enjoyment. Books let you experience a world that you only wish would happen," she told her with a soft sigh. Yes the world of her falling in love with a vampire. Giggle. Maybe she would get Holly a vampire book for Christmas. Sure they were looooong looking but once you started in there was no stopping it.

Someone should really take that bowl of candy canes away from Ryan, or else he wasn't going to sleep tonight. "Uhhh..." she started, "I think that's enough sugar for one night Ryan," Lizzie stated, carefully taking the bowl of candy canes away from him. At least he would be hit with exhaustion when it wore off. Phew.

She sort of muffled a giggle as Orabelle thought Connor was one of the reindeer. That explained how smart she was. Besides, she had laughed at her now it was her turn.

Hogsmeade trip tomorrow? Greaaat. She would probably go with Holly to get gifts. Gifts not just for her Secret Santa kid, but for all of her friends too.

"Psh, okay sureeeeeeeee, Orabelle." Holly laughed and raised an eyebrow as the girl told her it was completely unintentional. "What did you even do?" She asked, a little frightened by her friend. Then again this was Orabelle we were talking about, so what else could she possibly get into? "Uhm....never mind actually." She said, not wanting to know what Orabelle had done to those poor house elves. Poor little guys.



Holly just laughed at Ryan. "Okay, well no worries, I wouldn't know seeming as I don't stare at your body like all the other girls do." She said shaking her head in amusement. Wow, what a big ego, a really HUGE ego. She raised an eyebrow as he said that it was a compliment and she really wanted to smack his face to wipe off that smirk he had upon it.

"What a flirt." She stated, blandly and took a christmas cookie, taking a bite of it as she looked back over to Ryan. Psh, yeah right like he was innocent.



Hmm, okayyy well, if she did want to buy something for her Secret Santa, what was itttt? Ugh, why was this so hard? "Okay, thanks Connor. Hopefully the Headmistress will give us an idea or something to have each of us fill out to give to our Secret Santa, that way we know what to get." She stated, hoping that would be the case.



"Wasn't reading for school?" Holly asked sarcastically, knowing that Lizzie read almost all the time. Well it seemed like it, however right now seemed like the only rare time she hadn't seen Liz without a book in her hands. "Psh, I don't need another world to experience, then again....this world is pretty boring." She said looking around at her surroundings and nodding. "So, what book were you reading?" She asked Liz, taking another bite of her cookie as she tried to sound interested.

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She nodded as Ryan spoke. "Whomping Willow?" she asked in disbelief as her mouth dropped open slightly before she remembered to close it. Merlin! That thing was a death trap! And he was still in one piece? Gosh, he must be a lunatic! She had no idea why the professors banned the Forbidden Forest and not the tree. The tree was capable of smashing everyone's bones as well!

Orabelle blushed, once again mistaken. "Well, It rhymes?" she offered. She was close enough, right? It was just one wrong letter? "Ah well, I was close," Orabelle said smiling. She was pretty sure Santa was going to run out of names eventually for his reindeer and start merging names so... in a way she was right. Right? Nope. Excuse her though, if she never remembered the names of the horned flying horses that dragged St. Nick's sleigh.

Orabelle giggled a bit uncomfortably. "Exploding pie?" she offered meekly. Afterwards the elves had shooed her right out before she could make any bigger messes. Needless to say, Orabelle didn't get her pie either. Sadly. She had been looking quite forward to it. She wondered what the elves would do now if she tried to ask them for a gingerbread house. Oh dear...

Holly's eyes widened. "Exploding pie? Really, Orabelle? Exploding PIE?" She asked, shaking her head at the girl. Who could actually explode pie? It was super easy to make! Just as long as you didn't leave it in the oven for too long...which she kind of ended up thinking that was what had happened in reality. "Oh well, good luck with that Gingerbread House." She said laughing.

SPOILER!!: Bio's Under Here If People Need To See

♥ Headmistress -- JeshieRAWR(bio not needed)
♥ Holly Montgomery -- JeshieRAWR(bio done)
♥ Orabelle Bellamonte -- xiiWishiWasYours(bio done)
♥ Isabella Thorne -- snapesgrl(bio done)
♥ Elizabeth Hoover -- DracikinsLuver4321(bio done)
♥ Ashley Carmichael -- PureBlood64(bio done)
♥ Connor Cohen -- Cedric(bio done)
♥ Ryan Bradstock -- feltbeatslover22(bio done)
♥ Zacharias Richwood -- Team ronmione(bio done)
♥ Cooper Till -- -Bambi-(bio done)
♥ Kyle Key -- Jokun(bio done)

Scene 2;

The next day, all the students are seated in the Great Hall once again. Little do they know, that they won't be going to Hogsmeade just yet, but they will be giving their Secret Santa a little homemade present before they give their Secret Santa their big gift.

The Headmistress walked back into the hall watching all the students stare after her, some with anger, as they already know that they won't be going to Hogsmeade today to go snog with their "friends" or shop until they drop, as the Headmistress had heard. She took her original position standing behind the podium as she waited for the students to quiet down.

"Today," She began, "we will be having all of you act like little children again." Her face was told with a mere smile. "The pieces of a Gingerbread House are laid out in front of you." She said, as she waved her wand revealing the Gingerbread House pieces in front of each child. "You are to make this Gingerbread House for your Secret Santa. Once you are done, bring it up to me, and I will send it to your Secret Santa during another activity that will be held tonight. Now begin." She said, gently and walked around the table, taking a seat, watching all the students participate in making their Gingerbread House.

The Headmistress couldn't believe what ideas had popped into her head, seeming as some of the students were having trouble putting their house pieces together. The frosting was laid out for them to use and alot of candy was out to help with it...then again most of the students will probably eat the candy. However, she had a feeling it would be fun for them.

Holly's eyes widened and she turned towards Orabelle as she heard those words. Those familiar words. Gingerbread House. Oh goodness, she already knew that a food fight or something was going to happen sometime during all this mess. "I'm a little bit scared." She blurted out, talking to no one really and hoping no one had heard. Then again, she just started to make her Gingerbread House, lining up the pieces and all the candy that she had needed, popping a mint into her mouth.

Orabelle wasn't going to lie, she was absolutely mortified about what they were going to be doing. She bit her lower lip and looked at the candy spread out before her. Honestly, she would rather eat it than make it. She sighed and picked up her goblet of some weird carbonated drink, taking a sip of it before placing it back down on the table. The fizzy feeling reenergized her and she sighed. Alright, she had to make something. How terrible. The Slytherin let her fingers dance above the gingerbread pieces. Ah, she would probably have better luck choosing the candy she wanted on it.

Orabelle picked up some pieces of white candy. It would contrast nicely against the darker color of the gingerbread, right? Of course. She continued to choose her candies, smiling. Ah, nothing had gone horribly wrong yet. hehe...

Lizzie gave her full attention to what the Headmistress was saying today. Maybe because had had gotten a full 6 hours of sleep or because she had no intentions of looking at the Gryffindor table from which whom her arch enemy sat. And if she did turn she would be able to make direct eye contact and that just wasn't going to happen. So at the end of the ladies' speech she got from it they were making gingerbread houses.

Ewww. Another type of Christmas cookie. Gingerbread. Another sort of cookie that was icky.

She turned and looked at the materials appear in front of her. She only hoped her good eye for design would lead her into making it..good looking? "Err..." she said aloud, picking up one of the pieces. White frosting right...she took a knife and put some on it then held it to another piece. Hehe.. there ..glue.

A gingerbread house. Seriously?! The Secret Santa thing was cool 'cause it meant presents and wrapping paper and surprises, but gingerbread? Connor didn't even eat gingerbread. No, no. He'd have to make this crap task fun somehow.

Luckily, since it was break and the Hall was fairly deserted, no one really seemed to mind what table the students sat at. So, Connor meandered on over to the Slytherin table to join Ryan. His eyes flickered to the Ravenclaw table as he walked. "Hey, Ryan. Orabelle." He took a seat and looked down at the materials provided for them and frowned. "Can you believe this? Gingerbread houses instead of Hogsmeade! My person is going to have a very... stupid-looking house." He sighed and dropped a gumdrop onto the table. It was then that he saw what Orabelle had before her. "Are those mentos?" And she was drinking soda? Heh..

Ryan didn't have a single creative bone in his body. And now he was expected to make Gingerbread houses? The only time that the boy was near food was if he was about to eat it. Luckily having a high metabolism, the boy was quite skinny, he just liked sugary foods to much. But never once had he been expected to make food. He never went near an oven, never prepared food himself.

And WERE THEY TAUNTING HIM?! Gingerbread.. It was SUGAR wasn't it? It was FAR too tempting. The Slytherin stared at the icing and the gingerbread and anything else that was placed in front of him. Must. Not. Eat. Gingerbread House.

His head flickered up as he noticed Conner come over and sit at the Slytherin table. "Hey" he answered with a small smile. "How exactly are we meant to do this? The sugar.. Its calling me" he said dramatically. Maybe it was best for him to not go to Hogsmeade. Keep him away from Honeyduckes that way. "Yeah. Unbelievable" he muttered halfheartedly still staring at the ready to make Gingerbread house. Where to start? What to do?

AHHHHHH!

Orabelle was still choosing her candies, gumdrops were used commonly right? She picked up a few of those. What did people use to glue these stuff together? AH! Frosting. She started to attempt to glue it together with the sugary thingy. "This is horrible," she sighed, puzzling over the different pieces.

Orabelle looked up when she heard someone say hi. "Oh, hello Conner," she said with a smile before returning to the task at hand - trying to figure out the pieces. "I want to go to Hogsmeade, does the headmistress not know that some of us are culinary challenged?" Orabelle sighed. AHA! She figured out where every piece went. Grinning like a child she started to glue them together. She looked at the white mints and shrugged. "I haven't the foggiest," she said. She just knew that they were pearly white and that they would look nice on the gingerbread. Finally, she finished gluing it together. She smiled proudly. at it. Ah. decorating... she was actually doing something right!

Holly watched as everyone seemed to have trouble with their Gingerbread Houses and/or complaining about making them. "Oh come on everybody! In the end, while looking back on it, it should be fun." She said with a smile, then an evil idea came to her head. Hehe, food fight, yes. Okay so she was always scared of being in one, but this has to be fun, I mean when wasnt a food fight fun? Then again, she has never experienced one, anyways yes, she was going to start one now. Mwaha. She grabbed the tube of frosting, squeezed some out in her hand and hit Ryan and Connor in the face with it. An evil smirk was planted across her face.

Lizzie had already decided she was going to disclude herself from the group over at the Slytherin table. She didn't want to go anywhere near Connor and she really didn't mind sitting there by herself. So far she had glued the pieces together and it now was in the shape of a rectangle. It didn't look completely crappy. Then she heard a splat and turned around to see Hollie throw frosting at Ryan and Connor. Heh. Butttt she didn't want to get all sticky so she'd stay put.

Connor smirked and shook his head at Ryan. "If I didn't know you, I think I'd be concerned with your severe addiction to all things sugary." 'Cause sure, Connor liked his sweets, but Ryan was in a league of his own. He then nodded in agreement with Orabelle. The culinary arts were definitely not his forte either. "I know. She's probably laughing at our gingerbread ignorance." He even turned to take a glance at the headmistress herself.. she was laughing, too.. oddly enough. Probably at a professor's joke. Maybe. Who knew.

He himself gave a laugh when Holly tried to defend the house-making activity. "What are you talk--" He stopped. WHUUUT? Did she really just splatter him with frosting? His gape quickly transformed into a grin, and he grabbed the bottle of chocolate sauce. With a quick squeeze, the chocolate went flying all over her shirt. "Take that, Holly!" And Orabelle? Well, he had to drag her into this only because it was all too tempting with the mentos and soda sitting so plainly right there - they were meant to be mixed! Connor snatched several of the mentos mints and dropped them into her soda, making the drink explode all over.

Oh, no. Maybe Connor himself had too much sugar because all that was running through his mind now was Food Fight, Food Fight, FOOD FIGHT! He swiftly turned his torso around and flung several gingerbread pieces directly at Miss Hoover.

Orabelle giggled as Holly squirted the tube of frosting at Ryan and Connor, grateful there were none on her. She nodded as he said that the headmistress was laughing at their gingerbread ignorance though. She broke a tiny piece off of her house and ate it. "Well, it tastes good," she offered. The headmistress didn't need to know that she had taken a bite... right? hehe.

She highly disapproved of the way they were wasting food, throwing it at each other. "You guys are going to get into so much trouble," Orabelle warned. That was when Connor threw her candy into her soda. "HEY!" she said just before it started foaming up and blowing up. Eep. It had completely soaked her hair, her clothes, and her gingerbread house. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY. Her bag. "You are so paying for that!" she said as she flipped over a goblet filled with a drink over his head. Not fair. Her clothes. Merlin!!!

What exactly was wrong with liking sugar? :S "Oh come on, it tastes good, who doesn't like it?" he asked Conner, raising an eyebrow. "And honestly, I dont think its the taste that exactly draws me too it" he stated, staring a little blankly off into space.

*Twitch*



Now what was he meant to do with this Gingerbread then? Cos it didn't exactly look like a house and it wasn't going to build itself was it? But the random staring at the sugary substances didn't last long when icing was thrown at his face... HIS FACE!!! He liked his lips quickly after wiping it off his head and turning slowly to face Holly. That was probably THE worst idea ever. Ryan+Sugar on his face? Well that equaled disaster.

He slid himself under the table. Must. Resist. Food fight!

The Headmistress watched as a food fight had started to begin it's awful mess but she couldn't help but be amused. She would let it be and let them have their food fight seeming as it was the holidays, but they still would have to make their Gingerbread Houses anyways. She quickly began walking down the aisle and out the Great Hall doorway, out of the mess of it all.

Holly watched as Lizzie was over at the Slytherin Table all alone and she just rolled her eyes. The girl picked up the donut that was on the table that had pink frosting all over it and sprinkles, then she threw it at Lizzie, landing on her cheek. Heheheheehehe. Goodness, why was she so evil today? Then before she even knew it chocolate was being sprayed all over her shirt and she looked up to see Connor. Oh, now it was on! The brunette took the tube of frosting and squirted it up at Connor. Mwahaha. "Now what?" She said, feeling like she had won the fight.

Then Orabelle said that they would get into trouble but Holly looked up as the Headmistress was leaving the Great Hall as all the students were joining in on the food fight. "I don't think she is going to stop it." She said amused by it and just shrugged. Oh, but that wasn't it. The look that Ryan gave her kind of scared her but made her laugh all at the same time. She watched as he climbed underneath the table and she looked down at him. "Ryan? You, yes you, are resisting a food fight? What? You're just going to be a coward? Yes, I called you a coward." She teased him, not really meaning it because he was too nice...for a Slytherin.

Hah! Into trouble? Orabelle would say something like that. Poor girl looked livid, too, after his little mentos thing. And as a result, he got a goblet of cranberry juice dumped riiight on his head. He gave a quick, initial shiver from the sudden shock and coldness of it, but then simply laughed as it dripped off his eyelashes and the edge of his nose. Aaand, Ryan and his sugar fits. "So, you only like it for the sugar high?" Pffft. He couldn't say he was surprised, though. "Oi, Ryan!" He gave him a kick after he slid under the table.

More frosting? More frosting?! Connor could feel it splatter all over his face, the sticky white frosting coating his features. "Holly!" He was not expecting all this from her! Though it was funny, and he was glad she started this whole thing. He grabbed a napkin and did a quick wipe-off so he could see and such. After pounding his fist against a few pieces of gingerbread, he swept the crumbs off the table and threw them at Holly.

WHAT THE HECK?!

Lizzie felt something hit her back and turned around to look on the ground and realized it was gingerbread. GRR! She could only guess that it was the work of Mr. Cohen. That was it. She was now apart of this food fight even though she didn't really want to be. Then all of a sudden Holly chucked a doughnut at her face. Her jaw dropped a little and she wiped it off. Hmph.

Grabbing the large bowl of caramel, she walked up behind Connor and dumped it over his head. Heh it felt good to get revenge. "Take that!" she declared, then picked up a handful of jellybeans and threw them at Holly. Forget building a gingerbread house...she took a seat next to the spot where Ryan was...where was he anyway? She then noticed he was hiding under the table. That was probably a good idea.

She started laughing. Connor was now a sticky mess.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

There were sugary substances flying everywhere! It was like Heaven to the seventeen year old but he was trying to RESIST taking in any more sugar before he ended up on the roof of the Astronomy tower! And he really didn't want that happening, so hiding under the table seemed like a brilliant idea right now. That was until he was spotted of course... Then his plan was foiled.

*FLAIL*

Ryan looked up to spot Holly stood over him calling him a coward. Shoot! He stared back at her trying to think of the best excuse for his hiding. "Do you really want me to end up eating all those sugary substances and end up running across the roofs of the school?" he asked slightly sheepishly raising an eyebrow. Nope was the answer to that. He wasn't being a coward, in fact, for once in his life he was being SENSIBLE!

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Jeez. WHY was he being kicked from above the table. He rolled out under the bench and ended up appearing behind Conner. "There was no need for that" he pouted before ducking to avoid any oncoming food. "And yes to answer your question" the seventh year mumbled.

Heh. There was no way that Connor was going to get a gingerbread house made. He'd much rather prefer this food fight, and you couldn't just be throwing frosting at each other one minute and then go on and quietly made a gingerbread house the next. He grinned when Ryan took a hiding place behind him. "Well, it got you out from under the table. How's the view back there?" Ryan was probably going berserk with all this sugary stuff around.

And then. Merlin's beard. Something extremely sticky and thick and slimy was oozing down all over his head. The smell gave it away - it was caramel, and he quickly turned to see who had dumped this onto him!

... Hoover.

Well, he had the perfect idea. He'd get her back for that! Though this would be a tad bit more mean, but hey - they were enemies, right?

The Gryffindor suddenly tensed up his body and his green eyes became saucers. His hands flung to his throat as he began wheezing and gasping for air. "Liz!" He breathed. Wheezing. Huuuh. "Allergic - caramel!"

As Liz sat there enjoying herself very much, Connor suddenly when from his smiling expression to one of shock. She stopped laughing and her eyes grew wide. Oh my gosh. HE WAS ALLERGIC?! Now she felt herself start panicking. How was she suppose to have known that? He was going to die and it would be all her fault! She walked over to him and picked up a napkin to wipe some of it off his face. "Oh my god Connor," she said, feeling her hands start to shake a little. He was wheezing and would stop breathing if she didn't get him to the Hospital Wing...

"Everyone STOP!" she cried, looking at the people around her. They food flinging needed to quit right now... She felt herself growing more panicky. "He needs the nurse. Now!"

Errr...what to do?! She took her wand out and tried to focus....she didn't want to mess up. Liz couldn't keep her wand still. She looked at Ryan. "Can you help me?" she asked.