After convincing her sister to talk to their stepmom to talk to their dad, Soraya found herself at Zita's house (again) ready to enjoy the pool party. She was thankful that her sister was so kind to drop her off, and waited eagerly bounced around until she found herself staring wide-eyed at everything. Leave it to Zita to make a pool party epic.

She 10000% supported Zita's need to be petty against a Slytherin boy (who will remain nameless)--honestly, Soraya didn't even know the full story, but seeing as she's never turned down an opportunity to harass a boy into admitting fault, she was behind her friend no matter what.

There was no way Farah was going to miss a party! Social interaction at its finest!! She craved being with people and associating herself with others. So this was something she looked forward to.

Her dad dropped her off and she gave him a big hug before heading around back to the pool. She had shorts and a shirt on with flip flops, a bag with a change of clothes and a towel draped over her shoulder. He first person to catch her eye was Soraya. YES! Adventure girl.

“SORAYA! ZITA!” Farah said excitedly and dropped her bag on a nearby chair before running up to meet them. Hopefully they’d hear her over the music.

Zoryn was here too!!! It took a whole lot of convincing, but her parents had FINALLY caved thanks to Zor's A+ debating skills (#thanksmagicaldebate). But that wasn't the point here. The point was that Zoryn was READY for the pool party of the century!!! Which, by the way, is the only reason why she was here. 'Cause she actually liked Cameron and didn't ultimately understand all the drama that went down leading to this party in the first place. Zoryn was just here for a good time.

Also, she had major fomo and if anything happened at this party, Z wanted to be in on it. Just saying.

"WOOO WOOOOOOO, PARTY PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" Aka Soraya 'cause Zoryn didn't actually know the other two tbh. I mean, she knew of them and had definitely talked to them.... a few times? But uh, was Faith coming to this thing ooooor?

Uh well Théo had meant to come here with some friends but being him he forgot about his invite till the last minute and by that time it was just him rushing and annoying his mum to let him come to a party and enjoy his summer. Well enjoy it other than Quidditch.

Curse him and being an idiot forgetting things.

Even tho he was friendly with Liam and Cam. This was a party which he was pretty sure he would not see both of them here. Sad. So with his mum doing him off here, he made his way to the back with his sunglasses on and read to spend most of the time in the pool.

One question Théo had

Was Zitta's sisters be here because they were hot?

"ZORYN!!"

Théo ran over and hugged...well more like tackled her from behind

Also hi Zita, Soraya and Farah

First off of course Anakin was here, party and it was at his girlfriend’s house. How could he not be? Zita’s Clarissa’s sister was hosting this as some kind of jealousy thing. Or so he heard. So he could see lots of drama happening here. Plus these third years raising fourth years were super dramatic.

Have you seen them?

Teen soap operas in the making, for real though. And Anakin was ready for it all to unfold, handy notebook in his hand as always. Yes even a party. ”Hey Zita. Nice party.” She said with a charming smile. ’Where’s Clarissa?”


Zayden wasn’t sure why he was going to the party. It wasn’t like he was very social at school, so why would he be social at party during summer. But his older brother who was like the god of social events, and even had a girlfriend, but no point in trying to explain that that wasn’t the way socializing worked in the wizarding world or with Hogwarts kids. Anyway his brother Zeke had found the invitation that Zita had given him and convinced him to go.

That was one of the reasons why he was going… Zita. And Farah might have said something about going and asking him if was going. Zayden couldn’t remember because Farah DID talk a lot. All girls talked a lot. They made up for him not talking.

Sticking his hands in the pockets of his swim trunks he headed to the back where the pool was. First person he seen was Farah, guess she had mentioned she was coming. He waved shyly at her, Zita and Soraya. It wasn’t too long that ZORYN and Theo had arrived. He gave them both a nod. No greetings yet for anyone. It wasn’t from lack of trying. He didn’t feel like looking like the fish out of water that he felt. His red face that he could feel getting hot was enough embarrassment for him thank you. Why did he like his brother talk him into this?


While this was exciting, wasn’t it? The girls and who knew who all else would show up. It was a miracle her dad had let her come to this pool party. Really he was freaking out over nothing it was just a pool party. What could go wrong?

She had been to Zita’s house a few times over the summer already. She headed to the back of the house with Slate. Yeah of she made sure that she was going to bring him to this. Any chance she had a chance to steal him away from his house she did. Plus she did like having him around.

Ewww why was she here? She better not be here to cause trouble. ”Hello Theo.” Grinning at him and only talking to THEO NOT ZORYN. ”Did you make the U17 team?” She could just pretend as if Zoryn wasn’t there.

Anyway she seen the host Zita, with Farah and Soraya. She bounced over to them, ”Hey girrls. Zita this party looks awesome.” Beaming.

People were showing up and Zita's smile was growing the more that came. She had already been back near the pool with a soda in hand. "Soraya!!!" Her first BFF was here and she couldn't be more excited. She loved the sleeper over her girl squad had earlier and this party was just going to be more epic.

Waving was going on now as Farah came in. "Are you having an amazing summer Farah?" She really hoped so, it had been great so far. Even though her eyes were moving to see who else was coming she was totally involved in her conversation with her two friends. Then someone was excitedly loud and Zita couldn't help but turn to see Zoryn and she got superwaves, because YES be excited. This was a great time.


BUT HOLD THE WAND!!


"Wow"

Had she said that out loud? Yes, she had and she looked at Farah and Soraya. Did they see Theo... in swimming trunks?

HELLOOOOO BOY! Where were the others?


Theo got a wave as he went to Zoryn instead of her, well she was the hostess you know! It was okay though she'd flirt talk to him later. Though her eyes stayed on him a little longer, but it didn't last long because then more showed up.

"JUNIPER" Another of her best friends were there and she hugged her tightly. "Isn't this going to be the best!" Did the four girls know how to plan or what? She did notice Anakin and he got a wave, "Oh in the house, I think." She knew her sisters would probably make an appearance but hopefully not long ones the focus needed to be on Zita, okay!

... and look there was Zayden she twirled her blonde hair around her finger a moment as he came in and smiled.
"Hello Zayden, welcome to the fun."


"Swim, eat, dance, makeout, have fun!" So maybe the makeout was to be a joke, if they wanted, but she still giggled and started moving to the music.




Eddie had shown up against his will. His mother all summer was getting on his case about being social, having friends,
threatening to talk to the headmistress about his lack of friend so he couldn't say no to her when she found the blasted invitation. He really didn't want to be there, he didn't want to talk to any of them, but knowing Farah would be there, he figured he could fake it long enough to say he was there.

As he entered the pool area and looked around he wanted to leave as quickly as he came. He did have a vial of love potion he stole from his uncle's house in his pocket and one of poison that his uncle always had him keep with him in case of an emergency, so those could come in handy if he needed them or if he got bored, which ever came first.

Ethan didn’t know what he had been thinking when he agreed to come to the pool party. Not only was there going to be a lot of people here, but that meant people would see him with his shirt off.

The brown haired boy slowly crept into the party, and he nervously ran a hand through his hair as he saw who all was there so far. A few people he knew.. Zita and Juniper for example, but the rest of them he wasn’t sure who they were.

This is what he got for being shy and sticking to reading all the time. Books didn’t ignore him. Books were nice and gave him knowledge.. Nooks wouldn’t make fun of his hair or his chest.. His grey eyes glanced down anxiously at his bare chest and he adjusted his towel over him more to make it look like he had a shirt on.

Better. He waved at Zita and Juniper but didn’t say much.. Gah.. why was he here again?

Parties and everything gave Abey-- Abra --all the mixed feelings. He had been terribly excited about being even invited to an actual proper literal party, as he really did have a tendency to worry about what people thought of him and if he was liked and whether everyone hATED HIM (it was a possibility, alright? at the very least, surely some people in school thought he was weak or a baby or something like that). Then, after the initial excitement about the invitation, the anxiety had started. Aside from the general worry about being surrounded by loads of people for a long time (which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, it really just depended on the day), Abra had started to worry about all sorts of ridiculous things, namely whether it was all some sort of joke at his expense. Not that he was that self-centred that he thought that everything was about him, but his anxiety didn't really care about that.

Because, after all, he'd not been at the End of Term Feast, or even at school, when the invitations had been deposited en masse. No, he'd had his invitation sent directly to him because he'd missed all that, and therefore just a tiny niggling worry about how legitimate everything was had started to emerge.

Of course, that was easily fixed in the end. Abey had-... Abra had checked with his close friends about whether they were invited and if they were going, and naturally with that verification he'd felt an awful lot better about going. A quick test of the invitation with an old Sneakoscope he kept hidden away in his bedroom helped to seal the deal.

Now, all he had to worry about was making an idiot out of himself, rather than letting someone else do it. And... well... also the fact that he had gone from an Egyptian summer to a British one in seconds and was already getting just a bit shivery. Hopefully he could have some time to warm up before getting ready to swim and everything. Thank Merlin he'd thought to wear a hoodie.

He kind of wanted to appear with a playful and dramatic 'hellooooooOOOoooo!' but, as soon as he reached the area where the pool was, seeing all the people already there very quickly changed his mind. So he settled with a general, "Hey everyone..." and a smile and an at-first-awkward-but-then-slightly-more-self-assured little wave mostly at those he knew as friends.

Théo was nearby and naturally Abra wanted to sidle up to him because his face was the most familiar, but the manners and respect that had been deeply ingrained in him brought him instead towards Zita. Sort of. He didn't want to get caught up in too many people, you know. "Thanks for inviting me, Zita." She got a smile too.

Now he was here, his nerves about the whole thing were starting to recede. As was almost always the case, the anticipation of the event had been much more of an issue than actually being here, and, for the time being, Abra was glad he'd turned up.

Right then, now he clearly needed to pounce on and torment Théo.

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"C4NN0NB444444LL!"

J0rd4n FL1NT was not exactly the party-going type of person. He knew this, because upon noticing the invitations to the party at the feast, he had promptly ignored them. It wasn't that he was necessarily worried about going, it was just that it hadn't interested him at all. He preferred NUMB3RS, of course, and 'people' and 'making friends' were incredibly low on his list of priorities. 'Parties' too.

Parties meant breaking routine and often going somewhere new and doing all the unexpected things and being in L0UD PL4CES with L0UD ANN0Y1NG 1D10T5, which weren't really things that Jordan liked. At all.

BUT, AS IT H4PP3N3D, some of his friends (and he did have those, even if it had not been an entirely intentional thing, making them), did like parties, and were going, and it had been the lure of spending some time with them (and, okay, mostly of getting up to 4NT1C5), and also the reassurance from the care workers at Stemp House that he could go back there whenever he wanted, that had changed Jordan's mind.

And there he was, the square-root of J-squared, cannonballing directly into the pool without so much as a 'hello' or a 'cool house' or an 'exactly whose party is this again?' or even a 'let me just take my shirt off before literally diving right in'.

After making his entrance, J0rd4n resurfaced again, treading water and spitting out a glorious fountain of the stuff directly upwards, before looking up and around at the others there. And then... AHA.

"S0R4Y4!" he bellowed across to his friend. "G3T 1N H3RE!"

He thought this was a P00L P4RTY, not a ST4ND-4R0UND-TH3-3DG3-0F-TH3-P00L P4RTY.

Shaking off that wow-everything-looks-amazing, feeling, Soraya turned and smiled at Farah. "Hiiii," she greeted loudly, grinning and hugging her. Over the past year, it seemed that Soraya had added more girls to her ever-growing group of friends and she was 1056% here for it. She was about to go inspect more things up close when she heard Zoryn--loud friends gotta stick together--and she waved, grinning some more, super excited that people were piling in.

With each new person, she waved and greeted them more or less in a friendly manner (she took note of the shy wave that Zayden sent and she flashed him a cheerful smile,) though her super excited grin game back when Juniper came. Soraya beamed; look at all this #melaninmagic here. She was just over the moon, really. "Everything looks amazing!!!!!!," she gushed, hugging Zita quickly, and turning her attention to Théo and Zayden. She wasn't blind, she knew cute boys when she saw them, but also, she was wayyyy more interested in her friends at the moment.

Excited for pool time, Soraya shed her shorts and top, to reveal her bathing suit underneath which was a good thing because one of her ultimate, favorite people had just arrived. Jordan Flint was a character alright, but Soraya liked that about him. A lot. After watching him cannonball into the water, Soraya hurriedly followed suit, jumping in enthusiastically. Her hair, of course, had gotten wet but she didn't care. "J0rd4n!!!!!" she swam towards him, "you actually came, I'm 1mpr3ss3d." And she was, really.

Saying this was...awkward was an understatement. Magnolia had not gone out of her way to be over friendly at her time at Hogwarts but she was going to be a fourth year now and by Merlin's beard! She was going to peel herself off the wall and be a social butterfly...or well..she'd attempt to do that.

This was the first step.

Clutching the invitation tightly, she stepped unto the pool deck and looked around.

Okay so there were more people than she had anticipated but this was not a bad thing.

"Social...I'm going to be social.." She repeated her sentence over and over through gritted teeth, while offering awkward smiles to familiar and unfamiliar faces.

So far so good.

Zoryn was ready to have the TIME OF HER LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE. Her parents never let her have any fun and you bet she’d be milking this day for all it had to offer. The rest of her summer would probably be a total bore. Was she meant to thank Zita for the invite and for hosting in all politeness? Meh. If she was, the thought hadn’t even crossed her mind. Oops. She did, however, return the girls warm, wave.

Before the Gryffindor even had a chance to think about jumping into the pool, she was being ambushed from behind!!!!!!! She could recognize that voice from a mile away, but still let out a startled squeal. “AHHH!” Post-tackle, however, she wore a HUGE grin, “Théo!!!!!!! I thought I’d NEVER see you again. Are your parents gonna let you come back to—“ Unlike her dramatics, her sentence came to an abrupt halt. Whoa. Holy Théo.

It’s funny how much a couple of months could change a person. And a couple of months looked good on Théo. Dude.

Anyways at some point after realizing how much Théo had changed and become all grown and stuff, Ariana had to let Zoryn go interact with the others at the part. ‘Cause having fun meant mingling and mingling meant saying hi to both friends and people she didn’t know. The only person she wouldn’t say hi to was Juni because all that girl deserved was a DRAMATIC, eye-roll. Ugh. What. A. Troll. Hmmmph. And that’s all Zor had to say on the matter, or uh… Not say on the matter? Turning to Théo she made a face, “Can you believe she was invited?”

Instead, she focused her attention on another new arrival, “Hi Zayden. What’s up!?” Honestly, Zoryn was surprised she even knew the kids name. Dude was SO quiet and Zoryn had maybe spoken to him like 2 times ever. Plus, now that Juni was trying to hog ZORYN’S friend, Z had to make it look like she didn’t even care. (Except Théo was Zoryn’s friend and NOT Juni’s so Zoryn did care). Yes, she was the territorial type.

The others (whom she actually liked) were acknowledged with waves and when she saw Abey, she made an event of hollering over to him from far away, “YO, Abey!!!”

There was also another girl (Magnolia) who Z definitely didn’t recognize, but would most definitely go bother momentarily. "Hey, I don't know you." Actually right now. Did that count as momentarily?

"SAME. It has been way way way too long. Oh i still dont know. But i have not given up trying. You have to come over" Was Théo missing something or did something happen between Zoryn and Juni because both were ignoring each other and not looking at each other and asking him questions.

👀👀👀👀👀

Interesting.

This made Théo feel a little awkward but nothing he could do so.

"Hey Juni. I did! You are looking at a chaser for the U17 England team." Uh was this ignoring each other going to last the entire party. Well ok it looked like it was. He was going to have to greet Zita properly once he got around to it. HE WONT FORGET.

Yep something definitely happened. Théo gave Zoryn and nod

"Uh-huh"

Did he miss a lot being away from school for however long? More and More people were showing up and most he did not even know. Did someone just cannonball into the pool.NICE. That's how you start getting people in the pool.

Who was Zoryn talking to now?

Anyway, the Lion made an quick walk to Zita because well he did not forget and well it would be rude. "Thanks for the invite Zita" It was nice of her. Now for what he really had in mind. Théo saw Abey just a bit before and it made this party a lot more fun. He made his way over to him.

"Abey, double cannonball into the pool?"

Clarissa came out of the house in a sundress. She thought this whole thing was a bad idea. But... as much as it was a bad idea, that also meant that there was bound to be some chaos. And where there was chaos, there was her boyfriend with that notebook of his.

So, she was making an appearance.

Right on cue she joined the two people currently on her mind. "I'm right here."


Slate was busy being dragged around by Juni. Juni, meanwhile, was busy socializing. He figured she thought she was doing him a favor with all the constant being invited out.

And it was a favor. He was grateful for it. Though they didn't talk about it, he knew that Juni understood he still didn't like being home. He nodded a greeting to each of the people Juni greeted. He didn't have nearly as much to say to them though.

Loud music, obnoxious almost fourth years and.... a severe lack of clothes.

Gross.

The second oldest Valla girl observed the scene safely from inside the greenhouse. It looked as though people were still arriving, which did not bode well for the antisocial blonde considering she was trapped inside and couldn't get to actual safety without passing through the slowly growing horde of gross sweaty teens.

Without her wand at her side, it was much harder to distract and or threaten people to keep their distance, however, was it really that far to the house? And could she plausibly make it through them without being stopped as long as Zita and Clarissa didn't stop her to talk.

So....

Hesitantly....

Lunetta opened the door of the greenhouse, and slinked toward the back door of the house.

Magnolia's careful mapping of her surroundings was interrupted by Zoryn. She gave the girl a quick once over before replying.

Wow, really? It was that bad? She was that much of a wall flower that she had become completely invisible to her entire year group? Well except for Cameron and Zita apparently.

She let out a distressed little noise.

"We haven't spoken but I've seen you around. I'm Magnolia."

Zayden was still wondering why he had let his brother convince him to come. Maybe he would just hang around where that Blaze guy, actually that seemed to be the safest place right now. No one was talking to him. Though he did look to see where Farah was before heading over to that Blaze guy.

He only made a few steps out of dodge before the hostess of the party spoke to him. Yeah he should probably at least attempt to talk to Zita, or at least thank her for inviting him. He opened his mouth to talk and all he did was look like a fish gasping for air. He was there just staring at her hair. She had such pretty blonde hair, and thought about touching it, but would he too creepy right?

But her hair looked like the softest golden silk. ”Uhh thanks for the invite.” Finally at least he got something out. He turned and quickly dashed off hopefully she didn’t see his face go red.

He ran off so quickly that he ran right into Soraya. ”Sorry.” He could feel his face getting redder and redder by the minute. Gosh why did all the girls here have to be so pretty and why did he have to be so shy, awkward and weird.

And then two other girls Zoryn and Magnolia. He found his way right in the middle of their conversation. ”Sorry.” He was now beet red into the face. ”Hey Zoryn, Magnolia.” OMG These girls were going to kill him. He need some water ASAP

Actually there were already a pretty decent amount of people there already. And even more were coming in after her and Slate had arrived including a housemate of hers, Ethan. Well it was nice to see that she wasn’t the only Ravenclaw around. Unless she had missed someone or had forgotten which house people were in.

She waved at Ethan. ”Hey Ethan.” She wondered if Ethan knew Slate. ”Do you know my friend Slate?” She wasn’t sure because boys were definitely a lot different when it came to being friends. Plus it would be fun to have Slate and Ethan be friends.

”Oh wow that’s great Theo. We’ll have to come see you play in a match sometime.” And by we she meant her and Slate. Anything chance she could get to steal him away from home. She heard that Zoryn. She turned around, and eyed her but kept walking on. She was in too good of a mood, for the [i]ground[/b] to run her into the ground today. Not today Z(ero) not today.

Here was also a Abey, who had arrived, she guess that after what happened to Junia, he decided to go home. She didn’t really know Abey that well, but knew that he was also victim of being a Hogwarts student in their first year. ”Hey Abey” She waved at him and send him a small smile. AND Magnolia too! She gave another fellow Ravenclaw a wave too. She would have to find her later and speak with her.

Juniper hugged Zita back, ”It really does.” Heheh Her girls looked good too. So had this party officially started or were they just hanging until some went crazy and jump into the… nevermind some had just jumped in. Okay now they could start, yes?

OMG. What do Zita just say? Juni’s eyes got really big. Not funny Zita, not funny. She looked over at Slate. ”What do you want to swim first?” She sat their towels down a chair. It wouldn’t be a pool party without doing a little bit of swimming.

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Clarissa came out of the house in a sundress. She thought this whole thing was a bad idea. But... as much as it was a bad idea, that also meant that there was bound to be some chaos. And where there was chaos, there was her boyfriend with that notebook of his.

So, she was making an appearance.

Right on cue she joined the two people currently on her mind. "I'm right here."

Anakin chuckled and resisted the urge to pat Zita on the head or mess up her hair she was just that cute. Not as cute as this girl right here. He grinned and put his arm around her shoulder. ”Here you are.” He looked around. ”Looks like your getting a crowd now, Zita.” He grinned.

Yes. They more the drama that was likely to happen. Cue, the dramatic music.

”Don’t worry Zita, we’ll stay out of the way of you and your little… friends.” He nodded and took Clarissa’s hand and exited stage left to wait for the fun to start. If anyone needed then they would be hiding and watching in the shadows.

Standing too close to the pool holding your drink and talking to your friends was the greatest thing ever! Especially when all these people were here for you! Eat your heart out Liam and Cam, pfft who were they again? The only problem with standing there having an amazing time was the cannonball that just happened from Jordan because now Zita Valla was wet and water was in her cup of soda.

"Jordan!!!" She looked and laughed as she turned and saw Abey, "Hi, I'm so glad you could come." She was thrilled that everyone was there. Seeing Soraya swim to Jordan she turned her attention to others. Though everyone seemed to be having a good time with each other. Zoryn was with Theo and now Abey had went over there, Juniper was... well were Juniper and Zoryn not getting along? She'd have to get that scoop later and there was Slate, "Hi Slate, glad you could come." Not that she was surprised seeing him with Juniper, they were cute together. "Of course I'd invite you Theo!" He was crazy if he didn't think he'd be invited.

Right on cue there were her sisters, "You guys can stay and swim I don't care." Though Clarissa's boyfriend got a glare, pat her head and lose a finger "I'm barely a year younger than you. So we aren't little." She flipped her hair over her shoulder. "Lunetta are you going to swim?" She did love her sisters even if she felt like she hid in their shadows more than anything.

Oh and there was Ethan, "Hi Ethan. I'm so glad you could make it. Maybe we can paint some rocks later." Not now though, now was the time for swimming and fun. "Ethan do you know Zayden?" They were both quiet so maybe they'd make good friends.

... and there was that Blaze kid or well kids. She eyed the two brothers that were just standing there, were they even invited? Did she actually give them invitations, this could kill her popularity.

"MAGNOLIA YOU CAME!" She took off over to her other Ravenclaw friend and got fully away from those weird boys.



Yep, this was lame and Eddie wanted to leave right now. How did he ever let his mother talk him into this. At least he had Eivan here with him. His eyes did look at the guy who came to stand next to him. He felt no need to talk though, there was no reason to conversate with the boy.

He lifted on his toes and back to his heels as he watched all the chaos moving around. An eye roll happened with Zita's little speech, what was it with people and relationships, he really needed to figure this out and he planned on it using a certain Hufflepuff. He was going to start fitting in and seeming normal so people would stop being suspicious of him, he hear dht rumors and knew he had to work harder at pretending.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. First it was like two people... now it was like a SWARM!

Of course, Farah was enjoying it. Social interaction was like... her favorite thing. When she got by herself.. she got lonely and then annoying.. and then sad. It was a pattern. So seeing everyone arrived was... the cherry on top of a whip cream, sprinkle topped sundae. Delicious. Now she wanted one of those... did Zita have ice cream here??

Farah hugged Soraya tight and then noticed Zoryn. It was hard NOT to notice her. Girl was loud. But we liked loud. In fact... Zoryn was one of the FEW that made her feel intimidated. That didn't happen a lot. She was just loud, in charge, out there, brilliant. Ugh. Farah would totally kiss that girl's hair... and have you seen her hair?? It was amazeballs.

Gawking at Zoryn, Farah gave her a little wave before Theo was yelling for Zoryn. See?? Queen status!

Splashing jolted Farah awake from her gawking. She saw someone she didn't know jump into the pool. They had the right idea! Farah pulled her shirt off and wiggled out of her shorts showing a two piece tankie bathing suit. She folded her clothes and ran to put them on her bag when she saw Juni, Zayden, and Blaze. "YOU'RE HERE!!!!" Farah yelled loudly and launched herself at Juni, hugging her tightly. She had someone with her, a boy. He looked familiar. Was he the one that had thought she was weird?? Wait.. that was like ... a lot of boys. But was he the crush Juni told her about??

Speaking of crushes, one of hers was here. Helllllo Blaze. "Be right back!" Farah told Juni before heading over to Blaze, and luckily Zayden happened to be standing by him. " Blaze! Zay! come onnnnn!" She grabbed both of their hands, one in each of her own, and pulled them back to where Juni was. "This is Blaze. This is Zayden. Have you two met Juni? I call her Jun-bean because shes adorable. And.... is this..." Farah looked at Juni and gave a little eyebrow wiggle at Slate before looking back at Juni. She knew that code language right??

There were other people here that Farah would DEFINITELY be saying hello to and introducing herself because... new friends were amazeballs. Don't worry. Farah would be making her rounds before doing some chicken fighting.

Ethan bit his lip and hung back as he watched the kids interact with each other, he wasn’t expecting anyone to say hello to him, so he wasn’t surprised when most everyone didn’t.

Part of him was thinking about sneaking out of the Party if he was honest, because well.. he didn’t really want to feel like he didn’t exist.. And he had promised Zita he would come, but he had come! So he had fulfilled that right?

The fourteen year old was just about to turn and head out when people actually spotted him. He waved to Juni as she spoke to him and he nodded “Hey Juni! And I do know him, we met at school I think?” He said as he waved a bit at Slate and moved a bit closer to the other people at the party.

He turned to Zita and smiled at her greeting. “I’m here as promised, and yeah maybe? Swimming looks fun right now. ” This was a party yeah? He shook her head at her question though.

“I’m afraid I don’t actually.” He said with a bit of a shrug.

Eivan wasn't exactly sure about what to think of this socialization thing. Didn't he see enough of these losers at school? But on the other hand, it was a party full of older kids, so obviously it would mean that he was really cool if he showed up. And he got to go with his brother which was even better. They were sure to have a good time even if the party turned out to be lame.

There sure were a lot of people already here so he just stuck to his brother's side when they first got there. Eivan looked at the random boy (Zayden) who thought it wise to stand by them, then gave his brother a look. What did that kid even want? He ignored the random boy for the most part until he observed him trying to talk to some girls. Wow, that was hilarious. He snickered to himself until a very loud girl (Farah) came over towards them.

Oh gross, she was that weird girl that came over to their house to see Eddie, wasn't she? He looked on in disbelief as she pulled his brother and the random boy away. Wow. Rude. But better Eddie than him and he rolled his eyes as he went over to the pool. Might as well do some swimming.


Andi was not about to miss the hottest pool party of the summer. And it looked like it was in full swing already when she got there. She hadn't even really told her mother about it, just that she was going to Zita's house, and she threw some summer clothes on over her swimsuit and grabbed her backpack before heading over.

So, where were her friends? Andi navigated the crowd, soon spotting the hostess. "Zitaaa! Hey, girl!" She waved at her friend before looking around to see who else was here. Oh, there was Juniper. Andi wiggled her fingers at her in a wave as she headed closer to the pool. There were several girls there that the 13 year old knew as total spazzes. No need to acknowledge them. Ooh, but there were plenty of cute boys here too. Zita got extra marks in her book for that.

"Hi, Soraya." Andi smiled at the girl in the pool. And... wait, was that Jordan in the pool, too? She'd just have to join them then. "Look out, I'm coming in!" Since she had her swimsuit on under her clothes, it was easy to remove them to be pool ready, and she eagerly jumped into the water.

It had taken Clay probably...two hours too long to try and figure out what swim trunks he wanted to wear to this party. Normally he wouldn't have cared but...Farah was gonna be there. So naturally it was a HUGE deal. He had finally settled on the yellow ones with a palm tree pattern on them, because they were FUN and also they looked really good on him. Hehe. He'd paired it with a simple gray t-shirt because he wasn't just going to walk in without a shirt on and draw all this ATTENTION to him.

He also had NEVER gotten invited to a PARTY like this before! He'd been friendly with his classmates of course, but this was the first time he ever got to hang out with them outside of school or running in to them at Diagon Alley. This was EXCITINGGG! He was being SOCIAL like his parents had encouraged him to do! And it wasn't scary! That was what he had really been working on these past few years and he liked to think this was a sign that he was nailing it.

First things first, he went up to the hostess and tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey Zita! Thanks for hosting all of this, and inviting me!" he told her with a grin. He also spotted Farah nearby - of course - and shot her a smile and a wave. He'd go over to her next, but he didn't want to run off and seem like an ungrateful guest without chatting with the hostess first!

JAMES SUMMERS WAS HERE!

Or rather...he HAD been here for a bit now but had sorta been hanging around hiding out in the bushes for a little because he had to look INCONSPICUOUS ISH given that he was still running away from home. But when Soraya had said she was going to this party he OBVIOUSLY had to go with her because he was not about to stay in her home ALONE in her closet with her family wandering around. That was lame. But also, he had to keep his cover - ish - which was why he had not walked in WITH her.

Hence the bush hiding.

But now he was HERE and already without his shirt (hellooooooooooo ladies) and strutting around. Of COURSE he needed to find Soraya, but fiiiiiiiiirst he needed to find this Zita chick because she TOTALLY had been making eyes at him at the end of term feast and stuff. He was going to leave this party having a snog from an older girl - he just KNEW it - and his confident swag (sunglasses and all) were just irresistible.

He didn't even care that the N3RD was here too. At least not right NOW.

Just going to low key be staying away from the pool for juuuuuuuuuuuust bit.
Water and all.

Now that he was here...Derf was beginning to second guess being HERE. Everything just seemed WAY more complicated since turning fourteen and he wasn't so sure that he really liked it. Yeah, it was exciting and all that too...but he found himself preferring the days where the most difficult decision he faced during the day was which jam to spread on his morning toast.

Blueberry, for the record. It tended to be the one he leaned towards.

Setting his things down, Derf tugged on the strap of his navy blue tank top and gave the area a quick glance over. Of course he needed to find Zita to thank her for inviting him (again) over for a swim, but he was also curious as to who was here while also taking note of who WASN'T and feeling some sort of way about that. He recognized mostly everyone, but when his bright blues fell on his Gryffindor Derf just about lost it.

"ABEEEEEY!"

So. Pool Party means summer party means everyone is in swim shorts, bathing suits, summer clothes. That whole thing. Something simon forgot to take into consideration as he sat in some shade away from the pool removing layers of a black tuxedo he wore to the party leaving him in rolled up slacks, a white button up shirt, and a loosened tie around his neck. his messy dark brown locks of hair stuck to his face from the sweat he endured for deciding to stay in the outfit for too long.

Simon kept away from the Pool. No way was he going into one of those things even if it mean it was for fun this time. Swimming laps had just left a bad taste for Pools. Also no swim shorts so.....nope sorry. No Fun Summer swimming fun.

Could Zita Valla plan a pool party or what!

She was very proud of herself at this point. Look at all these people and look at all these cute boys in swim trunks. HELLLLLLLLO! She was glad she had sunglasses on because goodness was she staring?]

She was beaming at Ethan as he talked about keeping good on his promise and swimming, "Yes, I'm glad you came it will be so much fun. The water is super awesome. Mum keeps it heated so it's never that freezing cold some pools have." Which was the bombdiggity of course. "I have some we can paint if you want to, but later this is fun right now." She wasn't leaving her party at the moment, she had too much socializing and staring to do.


"ANDI!!!" Was the girl squad fully there yet? Nope, where was Chloe?? That girl better get here she was missing all the fun. "You getting in the pool?" It had looked that way and Zita was going to join her soon, but there were others she wanted to talk to first. Like Derf who had just walked in.



Though a tap on her shoulder made her turn and smile at yet another cutie patootie, "Hi Clay, I'm so glad you could make it." Yes, look at these cute boys. So many and they were all here because of her. She was the rockstar of the day. "Are you going to swim, or dance?" Or makeout with someone, that was fine too. She certainly would be keeping her eye out on the couples that could be forming.

As her eyes went back to Derf and she went to get his attention she stopped as he yelled for Abey. WHY DID SHE ALWAYS GET PASSED UP FOR OTHER BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She turned narrowed her eyes and the first boy she saw (James) she marched right over to him and kissed him without any words. She meant that kiss to be for Derf, at least she was hoping but now it went to James, because Derf ignored her for Abey. Looking at him after she broke the kiss she just smiled and turned and jumped into the pool.


It wasn't until she had come up from being underwater that she noticed Simon hanging out. Swimming to the edge she got back out and went over to him. "We have extra swim trunks in the bathhouse if you want them. They might be a little big being dads, but at least they would be some. I know you aren't huge on swimming, but it could be cooler for you."





He was standing very nicely not minding any business to anyone and keeping to himself other than that other boy when of course Farah would drag him to talk to people. He looked at Juni and Slate,
"I know them, that's Slate." See he knew people Farah, just not friends with them.

He looked back, "Eivan get over here. Farah you left my brother alone." Not that it mattered too much he knew Eivan would find his own way around, but seriously he was the only one that knew what Eddie brought and could help him if he needed.