Taika Ai nodded, "If you're sure about sitting down there-- but if you change your mind, you can just come up here. I don't mind."

She thought about the differences between courting and flirting. "Well, then... why flirt? If it's not important enough and you aren't going to last forever... why bother?" she asked.

"There are some back home who don't have their special someone, and though it is important, they don't worry so much about it because they feel that it will happen when it does." She blushed slightly at the notion of explaining what things were like where she was from. "Er... well, um... it's very.... traditional and old, I suppose. There are lots of things the men do to er... win the woman over, but um.... the traditions are all very complex and hard to explain," she said in a rush, trying to avoid talking too much about her origins.

"Well, if you don't think it's true, why are you with... I mean... it's not really my place... I was just... never mind," she said, blushing and casting her eyes downward. She moved her legs a bit, her once-broken one still smarting slightly, but not nearly as much. "Ow..." she sighed. "My leg still hurts a bit," she said by way of explaination.

Ryan was sure about that. I didn't need to be sit on the couch and he had now a very comfortable position. He had to admit that it wasn't as comfortable as hers but it wasn't the points. "I'm good down here. Don't worry."

She was good for finding good points. Why bother ?? He never really think about it, its just the way things were. Now having to think about it was putting an other perspective to all this and he took few minutes to figure it out. "I guess it's in order to gain experience. I have no clue how to explain it. I mean it's nice to have someone it's probably in our nature to do so."

He was listening to every single words that she was saying been sure not to missed anything. She was talking about her place and this was something he really wanted to know. Nodding as she explain some of her stuff, he was slightely disappointed as she close herself once again. Fortunately for him nothing appear on his face. "It's good to be traditional. I mean some peoples in my family still believe that the old way is the best way but I guess we all have our belief system." Sensing that if he was pushing this a bit further he was going to loose her completely and she would probably shut herself up, he decided to back off.

"It's hard to explain..... I enjoy to be around her..... It's something I never felt but still...... It's really hard to explain...."The more he was questioning himself about his feeling, the less he knew. This thing was too complicated for him and he didn't want to think about it right now. "It's ok. You are curious. It's normal."

Noticing that she seems to feel the after effect, he slightly approach himself toward her, he grab the pillow that he had with him. "If you elevate you leg do you think it might help a bit?"

Jasmine hummed happily as she entered the common room. Swinging her bookbag back and forth idley, she slowly made her way toward the stairs to the girl's dorms.

Taika Ai looked down at the floor again, tracing familiar patterns in the rug.

"I suppose people just like the feeling of someone there; knowing they have someone that cares about them. But...I've pryed so much, I'm sorry...I should stop," she said with a nervous laugh. "I am really curious though, you're right." She sighed, thinking. "I've never had someone like that... and I never had friends before... just my.... tribe and we all cared for each other, but it wasn't like this... it was different. We weren't there to live for ourselves, but for--" she glanced at Ryan, trying to figure out how much she could say. Shrugging she continued. "We were there to protect the sea and love it. And I think it was a good life-- but then this happened and I love this too. I like having friends and maybe someday I would find love, but I don't think I need to rush...just, I don't know. But maybe when people search for love, they don't really know what it is. I see people together and I wonder if they really love the person they are with or just love the feeling of having someone there. Isn't love supposd to be where you love that person and that's what makes you so happy? And they return it, hopefully?" she sighed, shrugging again.

She looked back up at Ryan, her blue eyes showing her confusion. "Lift my leg?" she inquired. "Um..." she did as he asked unsure of what he wanted. "I... suppose that helps..." she said slowly, looking at him for an answer.

"Well," started Frankie. "I'm bored, I decided I'd do some homework, bu then I got even more bored, so i just came to relax." she was talking extremely fast not pausing for breath, her hair had decided to go purple. she noticed and grinned.

Aschere entered the common room, tossing a gobstone from one hand to the other. She looked up and saw a few students she didn't know yet, but called out to get their attention all the same.
"Friends, Gryffs, common-roomers, lend me thine ears," she grinned.
"Ok, the deal is this. There's a Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff Gobstones match happening right now on the Hogwarts Grounds, and while we won the first round, the Hufflepuffs are very steadily winning the others. Why don't we show some teamwork and cinch the Gobstones match, like our amazing Quidditch team got theirs?"

ooc:
Maybe it's just as simple as making sure that every time you, a Gryffindor, comes onto SS, you can just drop by at the Gobstones club and see what's happening It doesn't take long to find the answers, usually. They're most likely to be in one of the Hogwarts classroom threads, or in the HP lexicon.. so if you see a question that hasn't been answered yet, just look for the answer in one of these sources, and post that.

Geraldine turns at the familiar voice of Aschere and wondered what Gobstones were.

"ASCHERE!"

"heyy GC! Didn't see you there!" Aschere grinned from ear to ear

ooc: yello

"Aschere!what are these gobstones you're talking about?!"

"Well, you know the wizarding game Gobstones, right? There's a tournament between the four houses at the Gobstones Club in the ground.. each house gets to roll their gobstones once each turn, and whoever gets their stones as close to the pit without actually rolling them in, wins the point!"

ooc:sorry, had to go offline.. and in this case, rolling your gobstone refers to answering a question posted by the game in-charge.

Zelot smiled as she watched Frankie talk. As Frankie's hair started to change colors, Zelot's face moved to shock. "Are you a Morph?" Zelot asked in utter aw while she was still watching Frankie's hair and scratching Mercury's head.

Sarah walked in the Common room, still grinning just as foolishly as she left the library. She couldn't help it, it was too good.. she smiled to herself, she saw Taika Ai, and waved to her,smiling broadly before she collapsed on the couch near the fire. She let out a deep sigh, still grinning. Everything felt too good now.

Sam walked into the common room and sat down on one of the couches. His head was spinning and he knew that there was something wrong with Becky not knowing what it was or what he was going to do about it. Leaning back with his head on the couch and his legs relaxed falling to either side comfortably Sam thought this would be the best time to write a song. Taking a some paper, a pencil, and his guitar he began to write down some words and then try and figure out a tune to go with them. At first the sound was horrible but then they began to sound a little better.

Taika Ai looked up from where she lay on the couch by the fire, Ryan still sitting in front of her and smiled at Sarah. "Hello," she said. "Care to join us?" she offered, making room on the couch, which caused her still smarting ankle and leg to throb painfully. She winced as the pain shot through her, then settled back against the cough.

"How are you?" she asked.

Sarah wasn't expecting that Taika Ai would ivite her to join in, but all in all Sarah was just in too good spirits to refuse eve though it seemed Taika Ai was deeply engaged in a conversation with older boy. She smiled up at him,odding at him before she sat next to Ai. When she noticed her winced,Sarah looked at her quickly. "Oh I am great but you dont seem to be! Are you okay, Ai?" She asked concerned.

Laying back on the couch, Sam closed his eyes but he couldnt fall asleep his mind was racing. He didnt know how to turn it off either, laying there with his eyes closed he thought about the home life and his friends and all the things that he cared about. wondering what was going on at home and if everyone was ok.

Aschere looked up from the book she had been reading when the music stopped. The boy with the guitar had put it aside and seemed to be trying to relax.
She'd quite liked the music, actually, and caught herself wishing she'd brought her guitar along with her this term, but oh well.

Opening his eyes Sam looked around he had this weird feeling that someone was looking at him, spotting the girl a little ways away, he didnt even acknowledge that she was there earlier, how could he have missed such a pretty girl? shrugging he picked back up his guitar and tried to clear his mind so he could write the rest of the song. but his mind kept straying to the girl looking over at her he gave her a smile and then said "hi the names Sam." he got up and walked over to where she was and held out a hand.

"Hey," Aschere flashed a grin.
"I'm Aschere. You play really well.. is that an original?"

"oh no i wasjust trying to finish one of my songs that i was writting but i was having a little block." he gave her a smile and then added "thanx ive been playing for a while, do u play?"

"Oh, I do, a little. I just started off, actually," Aschere said. "Too bad about the block, though, why don't you try playing something else?" she smiled.

"oh well we could play something together. why dont u go get ur guitar?" He strummed a little on his guitar and then started playing one the familiar songs that some people know called "until the end" by breaking benjamin.

"Hey, I like that song!" Aschere exclaimed. "But.. I don't have my guitar with me this term, unfortunately, I left it behind. Wish I hadn't, though." She sighed.

At precisely that moment, a burgundy-red fuzzball shot out of her sleeve, bounced against Sam, fell at their feet and began skittering across the room.
"What the-- Poof! Get back here!" Aschere yelled and sprang out of the couch. "Give me just a sec, she said over her shoulder, as she ran after the pygmy puff.

Pouncing, she finally caught the little runaway, that immediately commenced to run up and down her arm making squeaky noises.
"Hungry are ya?" she said, as she walked back to the couch Sam was sitting on. Digging into her pocket, she produced a cookie, which Poof accepted quite happily and began to eat with crumbly bites.

"Sorry for that," Aschere said rather breathlessly. "He's a bit hyperactive!"

Monica flopped down in her favorite comfy chair. The last couple of days had been crazy. She was glad to have found her brother though. "Ugh this stinks the only readon Excelsior isn't here now is because of our stupid uncle." She muttered to herself. She looked at the picture she had Wyatt take of Teri, Excelsior and her, back together.

Sarah looked around when she saw her. Monica. Monica Black and at once she was on her feet. " Hey Ai,.. Dont mind.. but I'll be right back.."She apologized and aproached the girl right away. She tapped at her shoulder and noticed that she had a photo of Excelsior with her. " Erm.. Monica?"