Raiden glanced around as Cale Newell wiped the water from his face and saw his friend Lucas Greenwood smiling at him. He grinned back, gave a small wave under the desk, and looked back at Cale Newell and Anna Greingoth... again? Anna Greingoth was gonna try it again? Merlin, he hoped she wouldn't drop it...

And she didn't. He smiled at her, glad that she had finished the task successfully, at least the second time. Now, all that was left was for Cale Newell. Raiden hoped that the older boy would be mature about it, at least... and that, when the time came, his own partner wouldn't drop the balloons on him...

MJ sighed as the demonstration occurred. Her eyes were not focused on the two prefects who were demonstrating but on everyone else. She thought it was odd how human being liked to feel pleasure at others expense. She thought it was wrong and she looked at Cale and Anna. They were doing fine up here and Cale was being a gentleman by not bursting out or getting mad at Anna. She sighed. At least there are still some respectful student. she thought and then focused her attention back on the demonstration her mind still thinking about the levitation spell.

Ludo watched the levitation struggle between Anna and Cale. Anna'd had a rough start but managed a comeback. Now Cale was up.

He went over the wand movement in his head, not daring to practice it in fear the Professor would take more points from Ravenclaw.

Cale blinked. His turn? Already? He was still in shock that Anna hadn't dropped it on his head again. Okkkkkk....so maybe it WAS an accident.

"Wingardium Leviosa," he murmered, making the balloon lift over her head. He was suddenly faced with a very difficult decision...should he drop it over her head, or just let it hang over her head and leave her dry?

Half of him wanted to drench her and cause her prefectly straight hair to revert back to it's original curly state, which she had told him about once before. The other half didn't want to embarrass her--after all, no matter how much he didn't want to admit it, he still had feelings for her and didn't want her to get hurt. The other half wanted to chuck his balloon right at Nico's smirking face.

One, two, three...

Oh, wait. He was out of halves. He had no idea WHAT he was going to do. He was practically holding his breath as the balloon hung dangerously over her hair. Some part of his brain was telling him that she deserved this--after all, she HAD kissed another boy in front of him about five seconds after SHE dumped HIM. That was crushing to any mans ego.

Four, five, six...

But then the logical part of his brain was also telling him to be the better man and just let her walk away from this unharmed. He wasn't much better than her, now that he was with Evolette. But still, he hadn't kissed Evolette right in front of Seth, now had he?

Seven, eight, nine...

Ok, he had made up his mind. He knew exactly what he was gonna do.

Ten.

He moved the balloon away from her head and gently pulled it back towards himself. Sigh. That had been easier than he thought!

Unfortunately, at that moment, he let his concentration slip, and the balloon fell to the floor, spraying the ground where Nico Toussiant's desk happened to be. It formed a puddle of liquid all around his chair, like a little lake with Nico forming some weird island in the middle. Oops.

Well, hopefully he had a dry pair of shoes or something. Pssh. NOT.

Mari had been expecting that Anna wouldn't drop another balloon on Cale's head, but she had been expecting some sort of retribution from Cale. When he didn't she was surprised. Hmm.

Just as she was pondering Cale's gentlemanly gesture, she saw the brightly colored balloon fall, and right in front of Nico's desk. Her eyebrows shot up a little bit and she pressed her lips together, not sure of how he would react. Then she wondered if Cale had done that on purpose, taking his revenge elsewhere as it were.

Callie held her breath, as Cale began his turn. "I hope this wasn't a mistake choosing these two to go together," Callie thought to herself as she watched him lift it over Anna's head.

Callie had to fight the urge to close her eyes as the balloon floated there for what seemed to be the longest 10 seconds. She let out a sigh of relief as "Cale did it! He really proved himself!" She thought when suddenly . . . CRASH!

"Oh dear! I'm so sorry" Callie said turning towards the Slytherin boy who's shoes were now soaked.

"These things can happen. This is a great example for everyone to take note of!" Callie said turning towards the class. "Levitating the balloon over your classmate's head is just half the battle. You need to keep concentrating until that balloon has safely landed back on the desk in front of you."

Turning back towards Cale, Callie nodded "An excellent, yet unfortunate display. You almost had it. Would you care to try again?"

oh that was...big of him. I guess he did the right thing, although seeing someone get soaked would have been fun! Wrong, but definately fun she smiled and looked over at the boy with a puddle around his desk. Miranda gave him a grim smile

Liesel couldn't restrain herself anymore. She burst into the laughter that she'd been holding back the entire class. She was sure she saw a few of her fellow classmates chuckling as well, including Allie, which sent her over the edge even more.

"I'm-I'm sorry Nico," she said, covering her mouth slightly to keep her laughter at bay, "It's-," she snorted, "It's really not funny..." Putting her best serious-face on, Liesel reached into her rucksack, pulled out a little white handkerchief with a tiny yellow flower at the corner, and held it out to Nico.

When Anna heard Cale's incantation, she squeezed her eyes shut and swallowed nervously. When she opened her eyes again, she realized the balloon was now above her head. Without moving her head at all, Anna looked uneasily from left to right and back again. She swallowed again and looked up into Cale's eyes. He was carefully examining the balloon, his eyes not moving from that line of vision. She knew him better than that, though. She could tell a war was going on inside his head. Should he? Would he? Could he?

The seconds passed slowly, and what only took ten seconds actually felt like ten hours. Anna sort of felt like some sort of display that everyone had gathered around to watch. When she saw him reach up and grab for the balloon, she let out a breath she didn't realize she'd been holding.

He didn't after all.

She stared at him for a few more seconds and then slowly smiled. If she wasn't soaking wet, and if they weren't split up, she would've hugged him tightly right then and there, in front of all these people.

But then...typical of her clumsy Cale, the balloon fell to the floor and formed a puddle of liquid around Nico Toussaint's seat. It actually looked like he's used the bathroom on himself.

Raiden sighed in relief again as Cale Newell hit the ten second mark and moved the balloon away from Anna Greingoth's head. At least he'd decided to be nice about it, and accept that it could have been an accident. He smiled as the older boy moved the balloon toward himself...

And then it splashed to the floor, and the water rolled around Celandine's brother's feet. Raiden flinched. Poor Celandine's brother probably had wet socks now... And Cale didn't look too broken up about it.

Nicholai flinched as he felt liquid hit his feet and soak his socks right through. Possibly the only part of him he hadn't imperviused. His expression slowly grew dark, sucking the light from the part of the room in which he was sitting and his knuckles grew white around his wand.

Oh this was war. But first he had to take care of the water. He lifted one foot and made a face as a squelching noise emitted from his shoe. Still holding his wand in a tight and angry grip, Nico forced himself to relax and pointed his wand at his feet,

"Tergeo!" he muttered, and the water left his shoes and socks.

He glared up at Cale once more before leaning back in his seat with a wicked expression on his face. Oh yeah. War. But not on Cale's terms. Better watch out Newell- No more Mr. Nice Toussaint.

"Umm, sure," Cale said, whipping his head away from the puddle around Nico's feet that he had been staring at. Ok, it had really been an accident but it was still just TOO funny.

"Wingardium Leviosa," he muttered again, lifting it over her head once more. This time, the seconds seemed to go by quicker than before. And it had gotten easier to resist the urge to drown her in a well deserved bit of embarrassment. He even grinned as he pulled the balloon away after ten seconds and safely put the balloon back on the desk in front of him.

But a split second after the balloon made contact with the table, it burst and proceeded to drench the front of Cale's robes. Lovely. Just lovely. It was just his luck that he would manage to soak HIMSELF in front of the whole class.

Well, at least it wasn't his hair this time.

The first try Anna had, Melinda was in shock she had let the balloon fall over Cale's hair. Poor ex-couple. Mel so wanted them to go back, but she guessed that for now, it was impossible, mostly after the intervention in both sides. After the succeeding second try, was surely amazing. She clapped her hand, just once and waited for Cale to answer.

Cale. Well, he was a gentleman, by not letting the balloon fall on Anna, but then, she glanced at the floor. Nico was surrounded by a poodle. She was about to let out a giggle, but she held on to it and hoped not to have a bursting action afterwards.

Allie had calmed down, and watched Cale closely. It looked like Anna may had avoided being soaked. But as soon as Cale tripped, and the water baloon hit Nic, she burst out laughing before she could stop herself.
She hears Liesel laughing too, so at east she wan't alone.
She covered her mouth.
"I mean..that..was not funny. At all." she said, trying her best to stop.
It didn't help when Cale soaked his own robes.
"Sorry, this really is not funny." she said to both of them, then covered her mouth tightly with her hands.

Ludo watched Cale perform the Charm, sure he'd drop it on Anna. 10 seconds passed and he succeeded.

"Oh well..." he thought when the suddenly the balloon burst on Nicco's desk. Water flooded all around it.
"Oh my..." he muttered.

Camira looked up from her notes as she heard a splash. Oh my. Poor Nico. She hoped he'd done some kind of Impervius charm or something and if he did, she hoped it included his shoes. Goodness gracious. She hoped the two were done with the odd presentation. Soon, they'd all be drowning in balloon water. Eww.

Seeing the Slytherin boy seething, Callie gave him a cold stare. "Now you do realize that was an honest mistake. Settle down please. I will not have any thoughts of retaliation in my classroom." Callie warned as she saw the fire in the boy's eyes.

"On a better note . . ." Callie continued on, "That was an impressive charm you just cast. Three points to Slytherin!"

"See, you're all dry now. Are you really going to let a little drop of water get to you like that? I can just as easily take those points away, you know . . ."

''oops'' Miranda said as she saw Cale's balloon burst right after it had landed on the table well he cant be that more wet she sniggered covering her mouth

Ahh, now this was entertainment. Rapunzel was thoroughly enjoying watching the Gryffindor Glare Contest. Heh.

And the water balloon explosions....ah, that was double the fun. She giggled when the Gryffindor prefect - what was his name, Cale? - got splashed....and then some handsome, older Slytherin got splashed too....yes, this was funny.

She couldn't wait for her turn. Heheh.

Mariska noted the now almost evil expression on Nico's face as he cleaned up the accidental (possibly not) mess around his shoes, and she thought that things were only just beginning to get interesting.

She glanced over at Ludo and Asteira, a still amused but surprised expression on her face as she absentmindedly twirled her quill in her fingers. She bit her lip then, keeping the laughter in that so wanted to come out.

Ludo watched as Nicco cast the Tergeo Charm.
"Oh yes! Tergeo! That would come in handy now." he thought.

However, Nicco seemed a bit angry. "And why shouldn't he be?"

He caught Mari's glance over at him and Asteira. He raised his eyebrows as a sort of non-verbal "Uh-oh"

"It's fine Liesel." Nicholai shrugged and took the handkerchief, still glaring at Cale.


Nico smirked and held up Liesel's handkerchief.

"Here, Cale- looks like you might need this. And its okay by the way. I know it was an accident."

"No Professor, I'm fine. Thank you." Nicholai relaxed a fair amount after having earned points. Of course. "I'd be happy to help anyone dry themselves off after class." he offered, shooting another glare at Cale.

Nico turned his head slightly and managed a smile at one of the giggling girls. She looked about ready to cause some havoc.

This seemed so interesting; Lisa could hardly contain her excitement. She couldn't wait for her turn.

Maddox tried to hold his laughter back as much as possible. As for Nico...he was definatly angry. He had every right to be. Though it did look like an accident. He kept his mouth shut, and sat there to watch the show.

Usagi watched the whole commotion with clear interest. She knew Anna didn't mean to make Newell - Cale, to be exactly - wet. And she hope Cale knew that, too. Obviously, she can't help herself but smirk as the male Gryffindor prefect's balloon hit an involuntarily target, a Slytherin. Perfect. And from the look that Cale was given, she could easily tell that he accidentally hit a stereotypical Slythie. I love drama.