"IF I get on the team, that is," Jake pointed out. "I might not at all. It seems like the players more likely to get on it are the more experienced ones, and also loads of Hufflepuffs signed up."

Chaser, eh? "I think Cameron wanted to be beater, like so bad... but it's up to ya captain really. But, yeah, I didn't see Slytherin tryouts or how many showed up. What broom do you have, by the way? Assuming of course, you have a broom, from what you told me about your Quidditch kinda history," Jake asked. He couldn't wait to get his hands on his own broom. Bwahaha.

She just rolled her eyes as the girl turned away from her. Whatever. She had better things to do with her time than wasting it with her. So she just her attention back to Jake.

She snorted and said, "He's nicer than Bunburry for sure. Though she's a lot more amusing. I mean can you be more of a klutz than her?" She laughed and remembered Neo's visit. Too bad Pretzel missed it, and suddenly she missed her best friend so much.

"So you like good pranks?" she asked with a bit of an edge to her voice. She caught on to the fact that he seemed to be covering up for something. She was almost accusatory.

"You always have to walk into anything thinking you own it. Never doubt yourself love." She told him. She knew she did a crap job at the tryouts, but she was making it on that team. She shook her head. "No the players most like the make the team are the ones that are the best for the team. My brother was a first year and he made the team. From what I've heard about Karika she won't just be putting the oldies on the team for the sake of having them on the team." She gave him a tight hug. "You are awesome love don't doubt yourself." She whispered in her ear.

She nodded. "He could make a good beater, but he would make a better chaser. We didn't have that many people show but the ones that showed up were tough players and would make great players on the team." She was a bit upset with the Slytheirn turnout, well she was a bit upset with her entire house and their position on the point board, but she wasn't going to say that in front of two huffies. She laughed. "Yes I have a broom. Its a awesome broom from my grandfather's broom company. It's called a LadyStream, and I helped design it." She told him proudly.

Jake nodded, remembering that Herbology lesson and almost laughing, but then remembering the day Professor Bunbun had saved him from Jack.

Pranks? Jake giggled. "Of course I do," he grinned. "When we were in Hogsmeade I... erm... nevermind, it wasn't that good," he stopped himself. Jake didn't know how Lima would react to THAT little fiasco. He didn't dare to think what she might try to do to his sugar supply had she heard about his lampost fandango.

Jake turned to Paris and nodded. "Yeah... Kaika seems dead fair. It's just getting into something new, ya start doubting yaself..." he replied, returning the hug. "I really want to get on the team now," he giggled. "Get back on a broom. I can't wait for flying lessons, so I can properly learn how to fly..." he said, thinking a little.

"Ya helped design a broom? That's so cool..." Jake said, wide-eyed. Having a broom was one thing, but DESIGNING one... Wow.

She hadn't really meet the huffie quidditch capitan but she heard good things about her. "Yeah she will give you a fair deal so don't stress about it love." She said. "Yeah I'm looking forward to flying lessons too." She just wanted to get on her broom and fly. It was was the best feeling in the world. Its why she loved mountain boarding and sand surfing.



She gave him a toothy grin. "Yes I did. Me and my aunt Tomasina designed the LadyStream. Its a broom made just for woman. So its smaller and lighter, and thus faster. But of course the skill is not in the speed of the broom." She told him. Anyone could get a flashy broom, but it meant nothing if there was a dolt sitting on that broom. "I could get you a JetStream if you wanted. Its the fastest selling broom in Africa and Asia right now. Its pretty cool." She offered. Her grandfather sent her a dozen of the brooms to take to Hogwarts, he was trying to break into the British market.

Jake nodded again. He'd just been talking himself into a frenzy is all, nothing too different than usual.

Listening to her words for a second, Jake went wide-eyed. A broom... from somewhere that WASN'T that shop? That's so... original. Jake grinned. "Oh yeah, please, cool, wow!" he gabbled. "I mean, I have the money, I'll give it you..."

Jake considered Paris for a second, before giving her a biiiiiig hug. This was strange, because Jake never instigated a hug, except once before in Diagon Alley.

She immediately narrowed her eyes at him. It seemed to her that he was trying to cover something up as being less than it really was. And she would not have that. At all. Especially from a First Year that should be making a good impression.

"What happened in Hogsmeade?" she asked, some annoyance showing in her tone. She would see just how bad it was before she reacted.

Jake flinched a little, cringing at the Whiggly Worm's tone. "Uhhhmm..." he started, biting his lip. He could play this down, right. "Nothing... just played a prank with a sweet and... had a bit of a sugar rush is alllllll... nothing drastic..."

Grinning up again, Jake tried to distract Whiggly Worm. "So... uhm, what about these ghosts... erm... hehe?" Realising he had nothing else on that subject anyway, Jake waited, biting his lip. Why did he have a bad feeling about this? If she asked one more time and was scary enough, he may just spill the beans.

Cool beanz.

She put her hands o her hips and said, "what prank was this? And what did you do on a sugar rush? I'm serious, Jake. I want to know."

And of course he was trying to change the subject. She was getting a bit more annoyed. "Don't think that you can get me to give up so easily." She knew that she was getting a bit mean, but she didn't really care at the moment.

Jake felt his bottom lip start to go, but his held back the sudden surprising upset feeling. "I... kinda... might have melted my friend's... stomach..." Jake mumbled. "But he ate the stupid Acid PPop. Shoulda spat it out, if you ask me," Jake nodded. "And I hardly did anything! I just ran around in circles and knocked some people over, and ran into a lampost is all..."

Shifting his feet a little, Jake stared at the ground. "You're like him, ya just won't let it drop..." he muttered to himself. "Anyway," Jake spoke up a little louder. "It wasn't like I had loooooads of sugar, just a titchy bit..."

Why did he have the feeling he'd just proved himself in the wrong?

She noticed his lip quiver and felt a bit guilty suddenly. Then he mentioned what he did to his friend. "I cant believe you did that to your friend! I hope you apologized for giving him something that could have really hurt him." She sighed loudly. "I hope you didn't knock and Professors or Prefects down." She shook hear head. This kid was out of control.

"Just like who?" she asked having just heard what he obviously meant for her not to. "And that was only a bit of sugar? Geeze! I'd hate to see what you would do after eating a lot of it then."

*shiftyface* im making it easier =P for now
 

Jake could have laughed. "Why would I say sorry for something I did on purpose?" he asked. Gah, silly worrrrrrm. Cameron was his best friend and fellow prankster, he'd known it wasn't personal, right? "And if they're that bad, the shop shouldn't sell them." Yeeeeeeeeeahhhhh... don't blame meeeeeeee. "And no I did not... just a 6th year, and she had no problems."

D'OH!!!!! "Just like one of the teachers who wouldn't let something drop a few days back," Jake explained again. Hmmm... it was all coming out noooooowwwwww. "Ohh... you'd hate it? Well, I'd love it, and I'm gonna find out..."

Bwahahahaaa...

He almost knocked her over, even though she was older, he was almost taller and certainly stronger than her. She took a few steps back so she wouldn't fall over. "No need to give me anything for it. Its a gift from me to you." She told him as she hugged him back. This was the first time he had hugged her first. She rather liked it. "I'm supposed to give the brooms out anyways. I have no need for the money." She told him. She spent more on chocolate than he was going to give her anyways.

Jake grinned even more and hugged till he couldn't hug no mores. "Paris you rooooooock. Are you sure?" he asked her, knowing about the prices of brooms. She must have been rich. "Because you're soooo coooooool..."

Wow... no-one had ever been that nice to Jake before. No-one.

She looked at Jake. "Naw babe you rock." She giggled. "Of course I am sure. I can't ride it. I have my own broom so its just collecting dust up in my room. I mean he gave me 12 of those brooms, and I've only given out two of them." She told him. It really wasn't a big deal to her. "You are my friend Jake and I anything I got you got." She said. Even though she was rich her parents always taught her to be generous with her things and her money. Not everyone was fortunate as her family was and it wasn't right to just horde money for no reason.

She gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Her sparkly lip gloss shining on his cheek.

Jake smiled again. He'd never cried from happiness and he didn't exactly want to start now, so he blinked and blinked. "Thank you Paris," he whispered. "No-one's been that nice to me before..."

Making a mental note to somehow repay his friend, Jake wasn't paying attention when The Lips came out of nowhere and thwapped him on the face. "Pariiiiis..." he whined, somewhat jokingly. "Ya did it agaiiiiiin..."

She sighed and rolled her eyes. But she didn't feel the need to comment further. If she opened her mouth, words that she might regret later would spew out. And she liked Jake a lot. She didn't want to upset him further. Or be a bully. She just shot him a glare instead.

"What teacher was this?" she added curiously. "And you would do that just to annoy me, wouldn't you?" She narrowed her eyes at him again.

Bwahahahaaaa...

"Twas Forrester... Scary and Moste Eville Professor..." Jake shrugged. "Said I disobeyed him and nabbed a coupla points. It's no big deal..." Gah...

D'OH!!!!! Darn my ability to always tell some of the truth...

"Well... now you mention it... I'll make sure to come find you when I do..." he smiled. "And so's ya know, if someone tells me not to do something... I might just do it..." Unless said person will try to eat me...

Maddox snorted at that comment. Elizabeth truely saw him as just a brute then? "Darling, If I wanted to truely hurt someone I would have already done it. Personally I would rather not, but if it comes to it I have no problem harming someone. And no, I wouldn't stalk them. Like I said before, I am not a stalker." He never had been. Even when he was looking for Zeph last term, he wasnt stalking him, he was doing the grunt work for Nico.


Maddos smirked, "I've already lost points. For some reason, even though I generally dont talk much in class, whenever I do, I get caught. Its the oddest thing in the universe. I lost 5 points for chatting. Which i wasnt even chatting that much...and now i sound like a babbling fool." He grinned and look in the other direction.


Maddox raised his left eyebrow and replied, "Im surprised you didnt see anything he has a huge scar on his side, maybe it was the opposite side that he showed you the bruise though." He shruged, and then chuckled. "Yes well, he has impressive scars. I do as well. Not as many as his, because like I said, about 3 of them are from me, but still impressive." He smirked. He definatly need to get more scars. Mads pursed his lips with her last comment, "I would never question a beautiufl Ravenclaw girl's intelligence. I'm Pretty sure you might be smarter then me. But whose to say." He smirked, and then suddenly saw a movement behind Elizabeth.


It was Penny. He hadnt seen her in a while. He was missing her like crazy. He smiled and said, "I'm sorry to cut this short Elizabeth, But a friend of mine is sitting over there and I havent seen her in a while. Do you mind if i go speak with her?" He smiled a dazzling smile. "I promise we will talk again soon." He leaned in and kissed her cheek.








Maddox saw penny, but wanted to finish his conversation with Elizabeth before he ventured over to her. He patiently waited for Elizabeth to reply to him. He was missing his Penny badly, and really wanted to talk to her.

Elizabeth grinned again at Maddox's argument against her comment. "You do know that that doesn't really convince me of your good intentions, right? I mean, I seem to recall you being a beater on the Quidditch team, too. So you definitely got it in you," she teased. "And okay. You're not a stalker. Got it," she added, trying desperately not to laugh at how strongly he seemed to want to refute her joking comment. Laughing didn't exactly seem appropriate at the moment.

She tilted her head to one side, speculatively, as he talked about losing points, and what he had lost them for. "Well, I don't know what to say," she finally said. "I've talked to people at the beginning of classes. And actually questioned professors' qualifications, if you'd believe that. And I haven't lost any points." She shrugged. "So maybe it's not just the talking. And you don't sound like a babbling fool."

She smiled again as he talked about Nicholai and his scars. "I didn't exactly pay that close of attention," she admitted. "The whole thing honestly kind of had surprised me. I hadn't expected a question about what had happened to involve a show." She grinned again. "And now I think you're showing off." And her smile took on a slightly more mischievous look at the flattery. "Oh, I'm definitely smarter," she said, before her expression turned curious as he looked past her. But he helpfully explained, and she smiled again. "Sure. I mean, I'd hope you'd do the same if I wanted to talk to a friend of mine." She nodded as he said they'd talk again soon, and then kind of froze in surprise as he kissed her cheek. She hadn't really expected that.

Lima listened to him and frowned. "what did you 'disobey' him about?" There was no annoyance in her tone this time. She was generally just curious as to what he got punished for. After she knew, she would be able to see if he deserved it or not.

Now she couldn't help but laugh. She just couldn't stay mad at him, no matter how much she thought he was a little troublemaker. But she found it amusing that he would do that just to get at her. Though she then caught herself and adopted the stern look again. "I'm just going to warn you though. I can hex you and make it look like an accident."

Jake shrugged. "He told me yo go tell Mister Bontecou sumthin'," he explained. "And I wrote a note instead. Nothing huge."

Jake grinned as Lima started laughing, but adopted a confused look when she stopped. The Lima spoke, and Jake's face became stormy. "Oh, no ya don't," he growled. "You wouldn't dare..."

No, she wouldn't daaaaaaaaaaare...

She blinked. Well, she couldn't blame him for that. "Oh, well, I've had teachers that are like that." She rolled her eyes and remembered when her and Maddox had lost 5 points each for chatting in the broom shed.

And then she put her hands on her hips and said, "want to try me?" She wouldn't really ever do that, but she wasn't going to tell him that.

Penny looked up from her book when she felt a pair of eyes on her. She looked up and saw Maddox. He was talking to someone else. She gave him a smile and went back to her book. She did not know if he was going to come and talk to her. She had not seen him in like forever and she was missing him.

"No way!" Vindictus exclaimed as they reached the Third Floor. "Never knew the frame had a handle. But that dragon can sure spit fire at people's backsides."