Cale lead the way up to the kitchen doors. He paused before knocking waiting for his fellow Ravenclaws to join him. "So," he asked turning to Valey as he knocked. "Think you could find your way back here on your own Valey?" Sho had been to the kitchens before, so Cale didn't feel it necessary to ask him.

"I'm sure she can, Cale," Sho said, walking through the door. "It's not all that hard."

He stopped to wait for the two of them and leaned in toward Cale, "And I was not lost that one time. I just... took a wrong turn on the stairs is all."

Of course Cale wouldn't believe that. The boy was silly, not stupid.

Valentine laughed as they got to the kitchens. She looked at the boys. "It's Valentine, and I am sure I'd be a breeze." Well not so much for the klutzy disoriantated girl she was. But shh, she wouldn't say that to the boys. Valentine liked to lie to herself, tell herself she could do it. Maybe if she really thinks that way, she could.

"Right well," Cale turned back to the kitchens knocking again. The Right and well were left open. Cale, despite being corrected by Valey more then once, would most likely keep on calling her "Valey" just like he kept on calling Tino "Connie." Eddy and Sho were lucky that their names were already short and there was nothing Cale could do to them to shorten them further.

Valentine had a feeling that they Cale was never going to stop calling her Valey. She had a feeling as though she wouldn't be able to do anything about it either. Perhaps she would make her own equally annoying nickname for the flower boy. Flower boy? Nah she wasn't really that cruel. Instead she chuckled once softly to herself and then looked back at the boys.

"So are we suppose to wait for something or do we just walk in?" Valentine really had no clue on how this was suppose to go on.

"Well if we walk in they may yell at us, but I'm sure they'll get over it. I doubt they can hear us out here anyway what with all the cooking going on in there," Sho said.

He noticed Cale ignore Valentine telling him her full name. Chuckling in his head, he just smiled. That boy was something else sometimes. Oh well... At least Sho didn't have a nickname yet.

"No, we wait Sho." He waggled his finger at the boy. "Rules are rules and I'm not going to get in trouble because we can't wait a few minutes for a house elf to let us in." He rubbed his backside subconsciously. "Besides, their wooden spoons hurt when they whack you."

"Wooden spoons?" Valentine pouted slightly at the thought of getting whacked with a wooden spoon. Yes, it would most likely hurt, and alot too. So they had to stand there and wait for a house elf to come along and open the door. Valentine hummed softly for a moment or two and then looked at the boys. "Do you think they heard our knock?" She asked.

Honestly?
Eleanor didn't care if she was going to eat lots of chocolate cookies, not as she did last term. After all she was a reverse on the Quidditch team.
Last term she had moderated the chocolate cookies that were eaten by her, she couldn't take the risk of turning into a ball!
But at that moment, the brunette girl wasn't caring if she was going to turn into a huge ball .. or a hamster as Emily used to call her because of the story Ellie had told Emily about her cheeks.
Ah, she missed her friend, a lot.

Ellie was walking towards the kitchens with her arms crossed, with a huge will of eating cookies.
She had too much drama around her.
Her sister, Quidditch, she had to talk with some crazy badgers, and Clifford ran out of the library while they were studying a couple days ago.
The brunette girl was starting to wonder if he had believe in Evangeline's words.
Well, Ellie liked him.. a lot.
Just not that way. Besides, she didn't even act as if she liked him..er..did she? So she couldn't see what the problem was inside Clifford's head.

And there was another new, she started doing her homework. Not just some homework but all the homework she had.
Even Arithmancy, the subject she disliked so much.
It seemed to be like the only think she could do well at the moment.
Take a seat and do homework.
It kinda actually helped time passing by.
And that was something that she wasn’t used to do. It was odd, extremely odd.

Cookie..cookies..chocolate cookies..

After having searched every single corner of the common room and of the dormitory, the box of lemon cookies her father had sent her a couple of weeks ago were nowhere to be found. Though the girl had to admit that this was pretty obvious considering that she had let them all over the place, meaning it was her fault that she was failing at finding them, Willow could not help but to feel utterly annoyed by this--iclkle little firsties stealing and eating her stuff! Grrr.

Eyebrows pulled together right after the thought of children crossed her mind, the fourth year let out a little huff that only belonged to the annoyance she was feeling. The frown practically carved on her snowy white features, did not decreased even by the sign of the school kitchen. Obviously, her feet once again had taken over her body, thus dragging her there. Not that she could complain, of course; Willow was pretty hungry, and having something to eat did not sound like a bad idea at all.

Still. Stupid feet of hers always doing what they wanted, and not caring one bit what she felt like doing.

The frown, did not last long, for as soon as the girl noticed who was the other person in the entrance of the kitchen, it left her face. Her eyes bulged for a second, before returning to normal. If possible, her white pale turned even paler.

Slowly, Willow put her facial expression back to normal--or as normal as it could be while staring at her best friend. Or ex-best friend considering the way things had ended between the two months ago on the train.

There was no expression on her face. She said nothing, and just stared.

Not that she didn’t love the cookies that were made at Hogwarts, but her grandmother’s ones were way much better.
And she really felt like eating a bazillion on her grandmother’s chocolate cookies.
But oh well, the elves did some pretty great ones too.
The brunette knocked at the kitchen’s door and waited a minute before knocking again.
Agr, why were elves taking so long!?
She was hungry! Very hungry!
Well, actually she wasn’t that hungry.. she just wanted cookies.
After knocking the third time, Eleanor breathed out and took a couple steps back.
Elves..

All that cookies thoughts, and the fact that she was staring at the door, made Eleanor remember of something.. she still had some cookies.. some pretty great cookies… Clifford’s cookies.
All of a sudden, unfolded her arms and started to search inside her pockets for the package of cookies.
Nop, it was not there.
But she was sure she hadn’t eat them all! After all they were Clifford’s cookies.. she couldn’t do that..

Even if they were some delicious cookies.

Maybe inside my bag..
The brunette though, before she opened her bag and rummage through it. It had to be there.. somewhere.. “Ah-ha!” Ellie said, while she held the half eaten package of cookies on her right hand.
Sure Clifford wouldn’t mind if she eat one more cookie.. or two.
The brunette touched her back on the wall, ready take a cookie out of the package and eat it when a thought crossed her mind.
Taking her wand out, and placing the package of cookies on the floor, Ellie pointed her wand at it and muttered “wingardium leviosa”.
Ah, now that was going to be a funny way to eat cookies.. besides, she was bored.
She only hoped no one would show up and see her, she really didn’t want to lose points.

But then she heard someone’s footsteps not very far from where she was.
Ellie suddenly turned around, completely forgetting about the cookies praying that it wasn’t a teacher.
Luckily it wasn’t, it was Willow.
Humnmnm?! The brunette’s brown eyes widen when she suddenly remembered, that was the Willow that used to be her best friend.. at least Ellie thought their friendship was over, after everything that happened on the train a couple months ago.
She got distracted, and when you get distracted while you are practicing a spell, bad things happen.
Ellie only noticed what she had done, when it was already done.
Due the fact that she was distracted and that she had totally forgotten about the fact that wherever her wand was pointing that was the pace where the cookies were going, the package of cookies Ellie was levitating felt onto her bes.. ex-best friends dark hair.

The brunette’s eyes almost popped out their orbits while she stared at the Ravenclaw completely petrified, still holding her wand in the air.
This is it, she is sooooo going to make me jump off the Astronomy tower..

Staring. That's all Willow could do. To stare and say nothing, because for the first time in many moons, Willow was speechless. Words fail to arrive, to say anything coherent, anything that could potentially take her out of the incredibly awkward situation her feet had put her into. And even though Willow had been wishing to see Eleanor since months now and even though she had already gone through all the words she would say to her best friend when that day came, now, the girl's mind was completely blank.

Think! Think of something clever to say!

"Stupid feet of mine."

Well, that wasn't very clever. It was true, though--her feet were guilty for this. They had dragged her there, after all.

An boy, did Eleanor look shock to see her, too. This made her feel a little bit more comfortable--just a little, though. Willow still did not know what else to say to her former best friend. The word former made her cringe visibly.

Momentarily dazed by how something that looked like a pack of cookies had been levitated by her friend, was hovering towards her. Huh. Weird. Maybe Eleanor was practicing?

No--Eleanor was not practicing. Definitely not. Much too late, just a second before it happened, the fourth yer realized what Eleanor was doing.

Splat.

Cookies were now dangling from the tips of her dark chocolate hair almost as if these were decorations--which were not. Definitely not decorations.

"Eleanor," Began Willow taking deep breaths, "What do you think you are doing?"

“Holy hippogriffs!” those were the only words that came out of brunette’s mouth when she finally unfroze and took her hands to her mouth.
Her cooki.. Clifford’s cookies where all over Willow’s dark hair.
That was not good.
Not good at all.

Eleanor knew Willow, maybe a little bit more than what she wished to, after all they were bes.. used to be best friends, and when the Ravenclaw girl started taking deep breaths, Ellie knew that she was trying her best not to snap.
Snap like.. in a very Ravenclish way.
The Eleanor name she disliked so much just passed her by, she was already used to have Willow calling her that way plus, she had just dropped a pack on cookies into the Ravenclaw’s head!
“I’m so sorry Willow! I got distracted and I didn’t notice where I was pointing my wand…” Ellie quickly apologized while she started walking towards the Ravenclaw girl.
Urg, definitely not the best way to meet Willow.

But the Ravenclaw’s girl said everything.
She was thinking that Ellie had done it on purpose.
EKKK! How could she think something like that?!
Well, honestly? After everything that happened on the train a couple months ago, if Willow dropped a pack of cookies onto Ellie’s head.. she would have thought the exact same thing.
“It wasn’t my intention.. the package just felt.. and.. I’m so sorry..” the brunette apologized one more time, looking at the Ravenclaw with an extremely small sheepish smile on her face.

Oh divine Merlin..

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“Holy hippogriffs!” those were the only words that came out of brunette’s mouth when she finally unfroze and took her hands to her mouth.
Her cooki.. Clifford’s cookies where all over Willow’s dark hair.
That was not good.
Not good at all.

Eleanor knew Willow, maybe a little bit more than what she wished to, after all they were bes.. used to be best friends, and when the Ravenclaw girl started taking deep breaths, Ellie knew that she was trying her best not to snap.
Snap like.. in a very Ravenclish way.
The Eleanor name she disliked so much just passed her by, she was already used to have Willow calling her that way plus, she had just dropped a pack on cookies into the Ravenclaw’s head!
“I’m so sorry Willow! I got distracted and I didn’t notice where I was pointing my wand…” Ellie quickly apologized while she started walking towards the Ravenclaw girl.
Urg, definitely not the best way to meet Willow.

But the Ravenclaw’s girl said everything.
She was thinking that Ellie had done it on purpose.
EKKK! How could she think something like that?!
Well, honestly? After everything that happened on the train a couple months ago, if Willow dropped a pack of cookies onto Ellie’s head.. she would have thought the exact same thing.
“It wasn’t my intention.. the package just felt.. and.. I’m so sorry..” the brunette apologized one more time, looking at the Ravenclaw with an extremely small sheepish smile on her face.

Oh divine Merlin..

Cookies. Cookies on her hair! All over her precious hair that had taken her twenty minutes to comb, so it would look perfect, and now there cookies dangling, decorating her hair. Willow had to remind herself several times that the girl before her was none other than her best friend.

Former best friend. Again, she cringed.

Deep breath, Willow, deep breath. This is Eleanor, remember? She's your friend... Or at least she was. No point on getting worked up over this.

"Right," managed to say the girl in a mutter, before starting to take the cookies off her hair. Oh, Merlin. Her hair... "Don't worry about it, Eleanor. It's fine. It was only an accident. Those things happen, they don't happen to me often, but it doesn't matter." Breaaaaathe.

Sighing a deep sigh, Willow looked at Eleanor and listened to all her apologies, before rolling her eyes at the girl. "I said it was fiiiiine. Stop apologizing, Bluebell." The hint of a snicker started to dance in the corners of her rosy lips.

A hint. Not the entire snicker, of course--it wasn't like she had forgotten everything, and Willow was sure Eleanor hadn't either.

Eleanor decided to keep her mouth close while she observed the girl in front of her talking and taking the cookies off her hair.
Thank Merlin Clifford had eaten the other half of the package, otherwise, Willow’s hair would be a lot worst.
The brunette almost said that out loud, but she managed to keep her lips sealed.

Agr, why couldn’t she just leave her wand at the dormitory once in a while so that her stupid ideas of levitating cookies don’t develop into more than just a simple idea?

Ah! Willow was finally starting to speak with Ellie the way she was used to.
She even rolled her eyes!
“.. well, you know I usually don’t apologize, a lot.”She wasn’t plenty of sure if the Ravenclaw girl knew that, at least she was sure that Willow knew that Ellie did not apologize to badgers, but… actually, she did apologize a lot when it came to her friends.
Yes…. she started to notice that moments ago.

“I suppose this will only help you to hate me even more ,eh Ravenclaw?”
The brunette said, faking nonchalance, when Willow finally stopped talking, while she took a big piece of cookie of the Willow’s dark hair and then crossed her arms.

Beezley poked her little elfish head outside to the door to the kitchen entrance. Her big, brown eyes first wrinkled in confusion and then opened wide with shock and fear. Why were there soooo many studentsies trying to get inside the kitchen. Beezley couldn't possibly let them all in now! "Ohhhh, no, no, no, no, noooo!" Beezley exclaimed, squinting her eyes and shaking her head.

"Studentsies just can't come in right now! Beezley and the other elfsies are too busy cooking the food to let you in! Please come back another day, though," Beezley said, nodding and smiling at the studensies. "Bye now!" With that said, Beezley waved and then shut the door to the kitchen, making sure that all students were outside the kitchen and away from the entrance, as well. The kitchen was no place for studentsies this time of day!

Sigh.

In any othe moment, the fact that anger was leaving her body would have been a pleasing thing for the young Ravenclaw, but now--now that anger was being replaced by the awkwardness that had left her body a few minutes ago, not so much. Especially because she was in front of Eleanor Bluebell.

Eleanor not apologizing a lot was something that Willow was fully aware of. But the fact that she had apologized to her, made the situation feel a little bit better. Just a little bit--not enough to make the situation easier, or anything like that.

... Hate me even more?

Did Elllie actually thought Willow hated her? The fourth year's forest green eyes opened wide for a second, before turning her expression back to normal.

"Hardly, Eleanor," replied Willow, her face tense. "This did not help me to hate you even more, because I simply do not hate you." How could she actually think that? There was only one person Willow hated, and it was not Ellie Bluebell. How could she hate her ex best friend? She couldn't. It just wasn't possible. And to be honest, the single thought of her hating Ellie made her feel slightly sick. "I'm sure that the feeling is not mutual, though. That even though I don't hate you, you probably hate me," muttered the girl, looking at her feet.

So distracted staring at her shoes, trying to disconnet herself from this world, and escape to her own, that the young Ravenclaw did not notice a house elf coming out of the kitchen to tell them that they should leave.

"What - oh, no...wait- just a -" but the door closed in his face before he could get out a request.

"Well," He said turning around to face both Sho and Valey. "That was unusual. Usually they're all "Oh I'll get that for you right away." He glanced around at the other students who had joined them and couldn't help but think that they had some affect on the elf's refusal to help them get some food.

"So," He said as his stomach growled. "I'm still hungry. Should we go stake out a place in the Great Hall for dinner?"

"I'd say so... If they're not going to let us in, then we may as well just go eat in the hall," Sho said, ready to turn tail. "Though it isn't so nice that they won't let us in. What could we do? Eat the leftovers?"

He started back down the hall waving to the other two. They may as well just go grab something in the Hall. That was if the elves were serving food currently...

"I say we have a picnic!" Valentine said cheerfully clapping her hands together softly as she followed Sho down the hall towards the great hall.

Eleanor laterally jumped when she heard the elf’s voice.
No kitchen ? No cookies?!
Whhaaat ?
” But I’m starving!” the brunette girl started to walk towards the elf with the big brown eyes. “Pleaassseee, I need coo- hey! “ she exclaimed when the elf shut the door to the kitchen right in front of her nose. “That was not pretty!”
Humpf! Elves!

Now back to the Ravenclaw, yes, because Ellie was not going to leave that place.
And the brunette moved her brown eyes back to Willow right in time to see the Ravenclaw’s green eyes widening.

“Hardly, Eleanor” That sentence was stuck inside her head.
So Willow didn’t hate her?
Then why the heck didn’t Willow send her an owl or a small birthday card?
Two months that Ellie spend without receiving new from her be.. ex-best friend.
Well, she hadn’t send Willow any owl either.. still..
“Hate you ?” the brunette's thoughts were interrupted by the Ravenclawy’s next words, and Ellie’s brown eyes quickly widen in surprise while her right eyebrow popped slightly up.
How could Willow think that she hated her?!
It was ridiculous!
“I don’t hate you Willow.. you are my best... ex-bes..” Ellie didn’t know how to end that sentence.
Should she say that Willow was her best friend or ex-best friend?

Agr, how confusing was that?
Well, she needed to say something , since she hadn’t finished her sentence and Willow was staring at her robes.
“How can you possibly think that I would ever hate you ? I don’t have any motives..”
The brunette pressed her lips against each other to keep herself from continuing talking.
She would better keep her mouth close from now on, because.. well because she didn't quite know what to say.

Wasn't that a good reason?

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Eleanor literally jumped when she heard the elf’s voice.
No kitchen ? No cookies?!
Whhaaat ?
” But I’m starving!” the brunette girl started to walk towards the elf with the big brown eyes. “Pleaassseee, I need coo- hey! “ she exclaimed when the elf shut the door to the kitchen right in front of her nose. “That was not pretty!”
Humpf! Elves!

Now back to the Ravenclaw, yes, because Ellie was not going to leave that place.
And the brunette moved her brown eyes back to Willow right in time to see the Ravenclaw’s green eyes widening.

“Hardly, Eleanor” That sentence was stuck inside her head.
So Willow didn’t hate her?
Then why the heck didn’t Willow send her an owl or a small birthday card?
Two months that Ellie spend without receiving new from her be.. ex-best friend.
Well, she hadn’t send Willow any owl either.. still..
“Hate you ?” the brunette's thoughts were interrupted by the Ravenclawy’s next words, and Ellie’s brown eyes quickly widen in surprise while her right eyebrow popped slightly up.
How could Willow think that she hated her?!
It was ridiculous!
“I don’t hate you Willow.. you are my best... ex-bes..” Ellie didn’t know how to end that sentence.
Should she say that Willow was her best friend or ex-best friend?

Agr, how confusing was that?
Well, she needed to say something , since she hadn’t finished her sentence and Willow was staring at her robes.
“How can you possibly think that I would ever hate you ? I don’t have any motives..”
The brunette pressed her lips against each other to keep herself from continuing talking.
She would better keep her mouth close from now on, because.. well because she didn't quite know what to say.

Wasn't that a good reason?

Eleanor was sure hungry. Willow had lost her appetite as soon as her forest green eyes had caught a glimpse of Ellie. This little unplanned meeting was even more awkward than Willow had thought it would be possible. Again, just as she had not noticed the elf coming out of the kitchen until the Slytherin had decided to point it out, the girl did not see that there were a few Ravenclaw mates around the entrance of the Kitchen, as well. She really didn't care.

The air constricted on the fifteen year old's throat at Eleanor's reply. And then she hard time trying to process the girl's words. Eleanor seemed to be struggling, just as she was, with the thought of no longer being friends.

Well--at least Ellie had been the one to say the word 'ex'. That's all Willow needed to know. They were ex-best friends. An absent nod was all she told her friend. Ex best friends, ex best friends...

Does this mean that she didn't have a best friend anymore? It sure sounded like it. And it did not sound good, mind you. And it certainly didn't feel good either--more like the opposite.

"I can think of a few," answered Willow in a whisper, her eyes locked on the girl before her. Oh--she so needed lemon cookies now. Rare were the times when Willow actually felt sad... and this was sure one of those moments.

Eleanor had now forgotten about the elf.. and the chocolate cookies.
Of course she was still hungry.. but she couldn’t think about cookies and elves when her be.. ex best friend , it was so hard to get it right, thought she hated her.
How could Willow think such thing?

And the Ravenclaw’s expression when Ellie couldn’t find a way to finish her sentence .. it was just awful because.. there was no expression.. and the Ravenclaw kept her mouth close.
And that.. that couldn’t be a good sign.
“Er.. do you.. do you agree with me?” she asked, trying hard to keep her head up and not lowering it in the direction of the floor.

That was one of those tremendously rare moments, Ellie had to admit that she was feeling sad.. and hurt.
It hurt to think that she and Willow weren’t best friends.. or even friends, anymore.
It hurt her to know, actually.
Silence..
The awkward silence seemed to be all that was left out of that small conversation, and brunette girl slowly crossed her arms.. just because, not moving her eyes from the Ravenclaw girl that was still looking at her shoes.. or the floor..
It seemed that the meeting between Ellie and her ex best friend was over, and she could totally picture Willow turning around and leaving in the opposite direction she would go.

But it seemed that it wasn’t over yet.
Actually, Ellie was feeling ratter thankful that the Ravenclaw had spoken.
But she surely wasn’t expecting the words she heard.
“You can think of a few?” The brunette repeated not moving her brown eyes from Willow. “I can think of a few for you to hate me as well..” she murmured.

Lucy tickled the pear and the portrait melted away into the entrance for the kitchen. She walked inside. The house elves saw her and rush forward with cake and cookies and tea and other goodies in the hands. Lucy opened the pouch. She put a galleon in an empty basket. She explained her new idea. instead of giving everyone a coin she would put a coin in the basket during every visit the house elves could use them for whatever they pleased but everyone had to agree about it. "oh this is my friend Freya incase any of havent meet her." Lucy said gestering towards Freya.

Freya walked down towards the kitchens, watching as Lucy gave the large door two knocks. She waited for a response, it was the first time she had been to this level of the castle. Freya kept mostly to the upper levels. She looked around curiously.