It had been a long time since someone seemed happy to see her, and now she felt back at home. The feeling of happiness was in the air and someone remembered her name, and remembered who she was. Tears continued to pile in her green eyes but she knew once they came down, they wouldn't be able to stop. She let go of Savannah and wiped them away. She wasn't going to cry, at least not right now. Her day was turning out to be a great one.

"Thanks, I'm glad to be back." she told her and smiled at Charlotte. "Charlotte this is Savannah a close and old friend of mine." she told her and smiled at both of them.

"I been good, got all my memories back and my brother now is technically my legal guardian." she told her and smiled. "How about you?" she asked and smiled.

"What happened when I left?" she asked her and looked around for Taylor. "Have you seen Tay?"

Misty looked at Savannah and started to jump up and down. She wanted to be carried by Savannah

She raised her brow and then she laughed. "No, he's not unconscious. Actually he was being a goof on the Train." She sighed and then muttered, "What's with all the drama?" Seemed that she couldn't do anything these days without drama interfering.

She was baffled as Pretzel started to speak lower. It was like she was wanting to share a SlytherPuffy plot with her. She giggled at that thought. "Okay, tell me now before I have to hurt you." She winked. The suspense was killing her.

Charlotte shyly looked up at Savannah and waved, "Hello Savannah. It's nice to meet you." She was still intimidated by all of the older people she was meeting, and wished she could meet a few kids her age. However the girl looked nice, and she was glad that she got to meet her.

Maddox saw that Lima was sitting with Punz talking about something. He decided to sneak up behind her. Once he got behind her he put his hands over her face and said in a very very funny girly voice, "Guess whoOoo?" He tried not to laugh.

Finally, Hogwarts. It seemed like forever since she was able to see it, and feel it, and be in the place she loved the most, well, besides the beach near home and her uncle's place. Kaika was smiling like she never had, this term will probably be awesome, even if nothing happened, because she loved being here at last.

She ran to the table and literally hugged it, as much as she could, at least. "Hello Hufflepuffs!" she exclaimed, all happy-like. Her eyes weren't set on the faces around her, but more on the place itself.

Jason called over to MJ and Charlotte at the HufflePuff table, hope you are all having fun" " I fell and my back is hurting bad" Jason told them.

She was startled when suddenly it went dark. And then that voice, the same one he had used when he snuck up on her at Honeydukes. "I was just wondering where you were, Mads. You left me." She fake pouted. "Now sit down with us, you goof." She was in a much better mood now.

Maddox sighed; How did she know it was him everytime? "Are you a mind reader? Maybe i need to use a different voice next time." He chuckled and sat down next to lima. "what are we talking about ladies?" He asked the pair.

While Christine was talking to Dominic she saw a young girl sitting near her. She looked young, probably a first year. She seemed to be shy, so Christine decided to be nice and introduce herself. Hi my name is Christine and I'm a first year. What is your name?

MJ smiled at her friends. It was good ot be back. Suddenly a flashback of her first year popped into her mind and her smile grew even more. It was a painful memory now, but it was one she liked. She had meet Vince by accident and now he ignored her.

She didn't mind but it was hurtful. What had her brother said about guys like Vince? He only wanted adventure and wasn't really interested in her at all but in her situation. He wanted to help her only. She shook away her thoughts and heard Jason's voice. She nodded and when he said that he had fallen down and he was in pain her eyes widened

"Are you okay? Maybe we should take you to the nurse's office." she told him completely concern.

"That's wonderful!" Savannah said, upon hearing the good news going on in MJ's life. It seemed things were looking up, after all these years. It was bound to happen, and about time too. "I'm great," She added quickly, when the question was returned.

Now that would be a majorly long story, enough to make everything start spinning if she even tried to sit and explain everything that had gone on in the past several years; it would be hard not to miss bits and parts, as well. "Alot. I don't even know where to start," Savannah admitted, meekly. "No, I haven't. Last time I heard from her there was alot going on back home." She informed, reaching out to grab Misty and slid back just a little, giving room for the enchanted panda to sit on her lap. "Hey you! It's been a long time, hasn't it?" She asked, smiling fondly at the bear.
Beaming, Savannah's gaze turned onto the younger girl, Charlotte, MJ was introducing her to. "Very nice to meet you, Charlotte!" She greeted warmly, waving for her to come sit down with them too.

Now settled back at the table, Savannah couldn't help from notice the boy still hadn't said anything to her. If she hadn't heard him talk to another student, she would have thought he couldn't talk at all. "You're rather quiet, aren't you?" She asked, or more alike stated what she had observed.
"Hey! No voilence," Savannah called purely teasingly over to Punzie and Lima, overhearring the last bit of what her cousin had said.

Jason called out to MJ" She is not at school at this time"

She giggled. "Honey, you don't sound like a girl. Not really. I'm sorry." She kissed him on the cheek and laughed. Then she bit her lip and said, "Pretzel has something to tell me. Something that happened to her over the summer."

Then she heard her cousin yell at her across the table. Those Vannah senses... Adopting her sweetest manner she said, "Vannah, what do you take me for? I'm a sweet, innocent girl." She batted her eyelashes and winked. She hoped that her cousin never learned about what happened on the Train...

Kaika's eyes widened as she heard a more than familiar voice, "Vannah!!!" she almost screamed, she needed to be a little less showy about her emotions, but she was really happy to be here. She went to were Savannah was and hugged the girl almost to death, "Savannah! How have you been?!" she asked, smiling, "Isn't this just aaawesomeee??" she gestured to the space in general with both her arms, "I know I didn't keep up with you this summer, how's everything? I hope good, everything's always good anyway" she couldn't be silent now.

Maddox sighed and said, "I guess i will have to come up with a new voice..." He smiled when she kissed his cheek. He was surpirsed that he hadnt seen Nico yet. He hadnt even seen him on the train. "OH girl talk? More?! All summer thats all i have been hearing. Not that i dont love being around a pack of beautiful women 24/7...but girl talk?" He sighed and laid his head on the table.

She started laughing really hard. "You poor thing! And what beautiful women?" She raised her brow.

"A goof? How so?" Pretzel blinked at Lima, a little lost about her and Maddox. She hadn't seen either of them since last June, how would she know how they were doing?

Oooh, she likes threatening people. Maybe she'll make a Beater yet! Punz smirked at the the thought and then put an arm around Lima's shoulder. "Don't worry, BET, we're being angels," she called down the table to the Prefect, winking as she said so.

"Now back to my news," Punz said in her shiftiest voice, putting her blond head real close to Lima's blond head. She had to kinda-sorta shut Maddox out. Er...well she wanted to try at first. "This term....Hufflepuff is going to OWN the Quidditch pitch. And I mean it." She nodded vigorously and then used her free hand to sneakily point to her Captain's badge. Ahaha, she was working up to the Slytherpuff part....

Maddox looked up from his headtable postition and said, "Suz, Mum, and Aunt Mona. THen the 2 weeks you were there. ALL i have heard about is how handsome Pierre is, oh this famous wizarding bands lead singer has the hottest buns. And that came from me mum." He sighed and went back to his headtable postition.

She sighed and said, "It's a long story..." She didn't have the time or presence of mind to want to go into detail about everything. "But he's always a goof anyway." She snorted.

She laughed as Pretzel continued to try to keep Mads out of the convo... Real SlytherPuffy talk going on now... She saw the badge and squeed. "OMG!!" she said excitedly.

She raised her brow. "You are talking like it was a chore. You should have been glad to have been in our presence for so long. Other boys would be jealous. And you should be especially happy that I was there for 2 weeks." She stuck her tongue out at him. "And Pierre IS handsome. But not as handsome as you." She winked at him.

MJ was worried now, Taylor had stopped witting to her after a while, then again the last time she had sent her a letter was when Blackie her owl was still alive and kicking it. Maybe he had been kidnapped like her brother said and the letter never made it to her, but something inside of her told her that Blackie had not delivered the letter and he wasn't alive anymore. It was painful to think that but she knew it must be true, no one could find it.

She knew her brother just wanted to protect her but she wished he didn't. Death was something she could sense. It was something perfectly natural. As Savannah and Misty began to catch up MJ smiled. Misty loved the attention.

Misty nodded and began to point around and pointed at her left ear asking for Vince. Misty had different signals for everyone. Savannah was her left paw, MJ was her nose, Themea was her head, Vince was her left ear were he had made MJ put a cute ribbon on her and Taylor was her left foot. There were other signals she had made up signify things . She hugged Savannah telling her she missed her


When MJ heard Savannah and her friends talk she smiled. Savannah seemed to be doing great and MJ was glad for that. She listened to everyone talking and getting a long and smiled. Things were going to be fun this year.

She hoped she could make new friends and get to see people who she missed dearly. She knew what Taylor was going to say about her hair.

A smile spread on her lips as she heard Taylor
MJ? Blond? What happened to your red hair? she giggled at the thought of it.

As she snapped out of her thoughts she felt some what left out, the others weren't there and there were a lot of new faces in the crowd. Suddenly she heard jason call out from his table. "When she gets here I am taking you straight up to her office." she told him smiling.

Dominic looked back over at Christine while brunette girl was busy catching up; she sure was popular which made him think that she was probably either sixth or seventh year. "Hmm, didn't I just say that you've already proved me wrong. Well off to a good start at least," he smirked slightly and then winked. Ah teasing the redhead was way too much fun for his own good.

He frowned when she apparently noticed him looking at other house tables. "Slytherin is the house of the noblest wizards, so I've heard. And I am pureblood, of course," He nodded at her, and up till now had forgotten that she wasn't.


The third year glanced sideways once more when he heard the brunette girl speak again and found her sitting beside him once more. "More of a people watcher, you could say," he nodded in agreement before turning to look at the commotion down the table. Some people were quite hyper in Hufflepuff it seemed. Lovely.

Then several words caught his attention; This term....Hufflepuff is going to OWN the Quidditch pitch. And I mean it. Dominic looked over to see who had spoken those words and realized it was the blond again. Peculiar... very peculiar...

Ella lazily walked inside the hall. She did want to eat something deliberately since she was starving for long. Her back was still aching ..but food was the main stuff right at the moment. She threw her eyes over the Huffies table to see if there was any familiar face to her. Yeah..there were Zel..Lima and her boyfriend. Initially she liked to go and sit with them..but she knew that Lima would not like the disturbances whenever she was with her boyfriend. So she restrained herself and sat on the corner empty seat, looking at the food.

"Hum," was all Rapunzel could think to say. She'd just have to hope that their relationship issues didn't interfere with Quidditch....because Quidditch was obviously all she was going to be thinking about this term.

"'OMG'? Is that all you have to say?!" Punz squeaked a little louder. She glanced around to make sure no one had overheard and spotted That Boy again...watching her.....hmmph. She'd have to corner him later, see if he had any flying experience. He looked new, anyways, perhaps he could be a star transfer student!

Possibly.

"Anyways, Lima," Rapunzel whispered to the Slytherpuff again, "you absolutely positively MUST MUST MUST try out this term. I'm dead serious." She locked her green eyes on Lima's. "Must. Like...this is more serious than avoiding Melita's cookies serious."

Punz nodded to Lima, and then once again checked down the table for any eavesdroppers other than That Boy. Aha! And there was Ella....not eavesdropping, necessarily, but definitely looking somber.

Poor girl. Rapunzel waved at her cheerfully in the hopes that she would come sit with them. Well, she could sit next to Punzie at least.

Supressing a laugh, Savannah shook her head, "How long have I known you Lima?" Forever. They were the same age, and family. Now, lived together. Lima was about as innocent as Alexis, now what did that say? "Suure, suuure!" She said, joking dismissively. Angels? Uhuh. Riiiight. "I hope so, Pretzel,"

Watching Kaika run over and hug the table was quite amusing, to be honest. Everyone was obviously very excited to be back, but she was definitely showing it a little more than others. Just imagine when the feast ended and everyone went back to the common room, she highly doubted anyone would go straight to bed.

"Kaaaaaika!" Savannah replied, struggling to keep from laughing when she was nearly crushed by the fourth year. Hugging her back, she smiled brightly, not saying a word till she was sure the rush of questions were paused for the moment. "I'm great! How have you been?" She nodded, definitely. "I can't wait till we get to the common room!" Vannah gushed, "Everythings good; summer was madness, no surprise" She mused for a moment to take a breath. Trying to get everything out in one go was more hard than she originally thought, "How was your summer?"
People watcher? Hmm, so he was the quiet type. She had two thoughts to that. A) either being in Hufflepuff (and Hogwarts in general) would change that, or B) he was not going to like being around the common room. "Good luck with that, trying to observe our house mates may make you a little dizzy" She commented, assuming he was infact apart of their house, though she hadn't looked for the badger symbol on his robes.
Noticing Ella's arrival, Savannah waved hello to her, smiling brightly as she greeted, "Hey Ella!"
Savannah watched the panda with intentive eyes, trying to wrack her brain to remember what that meant. She knew the enchanted bear used sign language, sort of. They were her own little signs, remembering what they were was the problem. It had been quite awhile, "I'm sorry Mist, I'm not sure what your trying to tell me," She apologized, quietly, and hugged her back. "MJ?" Savannah asked, gaze turning onto her dear old friend again, slight concern coming out in her tone as she continued "Is everything alright?"

She pretty much nodded her head off, while smiling, "Oh, just perfect" she said, grinning, "My summer was awesome, I got to go to Romania, and visited my uncle" she said, and sighed, "I love Romania, have you been there? If you haven't, you should" she straightened her robe a bit, she didn't want to look like a messy Huffie.

"The Common Room!!" she exclaimed,"I haven't thought about that" her eyes were wide open, "I don't think I'll be able to sleep today" Kaika's head moved from side to side as she shook it. Vannah commented something to a boy near them, and she couldn't help to laugh, "Right, he'll get dizzy for sure" she chuckled.

"And...I got a new broom!" she grinned, "A firebolt, because my cousin broke mine and my uncle bought me the new one" her head tilted to one side, "Which reminds me, where's Punz?" she asked, more to herself than to Savannah, she looked around until she found the blonde Huffie.

"Be back" she said, and walked over to Rapunzel, "Punz! I heard! Congratulatioooonssss!!!" she said, as she hugged the new Captain, "I couldn't be happier for you! Hufflepuff will win for sure!" she exclaimed, smiling.