Dru shrugged her shoulders. "I dunno," she replied sadly. "They was all busy with this boy that was being all sick feeling, and there was this other boy who was giving out sandwiches? I dunno. But they were all odd and didn't notice me."

She looked at the boy and noticed his hair was long for a boy, but she wouldn't say anything incase he became hungry. Instead she leaned against the corridor wall opposite him and mimicked how he was standing, turning into a small, female version of Irial.

Hazarding a glance at the pint-sized, yet terrifying Hufflepuff boy (surely he meant well, but Raiden really didn't want him touching his tongue...), Rai nodded to Kiri and settled back into the corner of the seat again, leaning his head against the wall. The train jostled slightly, and by the end of the trip he'd probably have a pretty good abrasion on that spot that rubbed against the wall, but at least it was more comfortable that just sitting up straight. And laying down across the seats would be rude, because then Kiri and Vannie Corbette would have no place to sit.

Her breath against his face made him dizzy. Not bothering to wonder why, Raiden patted the seat next to him and drew his knees up against himself.

"Siiiit," he told Kiri, pouting a little as the other girl left. He hoped she hadn't thought him rude... he had been about to politely decline the blanket, as he felt really warm anyway, but she hadn't had to leave. "You don't have to sit over there if you don't want to, Vannie Corbette. You can sit over here with me and Kiri if you want..."

Blush. Major blush. Vannie Corbette and Kayla Winters both acted like his mother. Not that it bothered him... it was nice to have mommy figures away from home. He felt a little safer with them all around.

"I dunno if I'll know she's my sweetheart though, Vannie Corbette," he said softly, blinking. "My girl allergies have the same effects as when you find your sweetheart, Miss Kayla told me..."

Irial smiled. "Well, then they aren't worth your time then, are they? If they didn't notice you. You look like someone who should be noticed." He nodded regally, pleased with himself.

Looking the girl over with an amused expression, Irial noticed how she was now standing. "You keep mimicking me, and no one'll go near you," he half joked. Of course, no one ever did go near him. Last girl who did -Caitlin- got turned into something odd. Well, by normal standards, odd. His standards...perfect. But his mind was going off on a tangen again. He smiled faintly at Dru.

Dru looked confused at what Irial was saying. Why should she be noticed? And why did this boy suddenly look so pleased with himself?

She looked at him blankly as he seemed to drift off into his own little world. She continued to stare at him until he properly looked at her and smiled faintly, which she returned with a wide one of her own.

"I know why you have that problem," she told him in a cheeky yet slightly authoritive manner. "It's cause everyone thinks you're gonna eat them!"

Irial blinked at Dru and her cheekiness. "What?" he exclaimed, startled. "I highly doubt that!" It was an interesting theory, no doubt. But one that was definitely far from the truth. He liked to stay in the shadows, that's why no one spoke to him. He wasn't one for crowds, and liked one on one with certain people.

Now this girl, for example. Something in him sensed she could do great things. He didn't tell her this, but he thought as much.

Shifting his weight to the other foot, he studied the young girl. She was younger than him, yes, but there was something about her that destined greatness. Or at least something higher than this school for Muggles who liked to play with sticks and perform magic tricks.

Elizabeth was honestly a bit startled when a compartment door opened next to her and Mari was standing there. She had almost forgotten that the compartment she had seen her best friend not that far away from the compartment she had left Raiden in. But then, the change in direction may have added to that confusion. But she laughed at the first question Mari asked her, feeling comfortable as they fell back into the normal teasing. "When have you ever known me to be looking for anyone or anything?," she teased back, letting Bella prowl into the compartment as she stood in the doorway. Shrugging as she was asked how she'd been, she smiled. "I've been good. Kinda been wishing I'd been able to see all my friends more often after July, but hopefully that'll get better once we're all back at Hogwarts. How've you been?" She wasn't going to mention seeing Robert in DA, especially since she still wasn't entirely sure what he thought, or even knew, about everything.

Her green eyes watched as Bella continued her prowling, but she was distracted as she heard the nickname. "Hey Cayden." She grinned. She still didn't really know why he thought of her that way, but it was truly entertaining. And she knew she was probably going to end up seeing more of him this term, if she wanted to hang out with Mari. It didn't bother her, though. Not as much as when she had first gotten suspicious when he had come to her house. She'd had time to adjust, and while things were weird, there wasn't a lot she could do.

But before she could say anything more, or move into the compartment to let Mari sit back down, another figure pushed past her, pointedly ignoring her. So that was how he was going to play it, she thought, as she watched Seth acknowledge Mari and Cayden before sitting down. Although she couldn't help but smirk as her cat pointedly ignored him, even though she had noted the other two. "So I see your head hasn't gotten any smaller over the last month or so," she drawled at him before moving into the comaprtment and sitting down at the other end of the bench he was on. And yes, the choice of location was intentional. If he had chosen to think of her as the enemoy, she wasn't going to oblige him by disappearing. She could have some fun with this. And at least he hadn't thrown anything at her yet.

Mari smiled a little bit as Elizabeth answered her question in her usual fashion, and she nodded a bit as she answered her friends question. " I feel the same way. And I've been...really well. Really happy and...just well."" She said with a wide smile as she moved back to sit in her seat again. She watched for a moment as Elizabeth greeted Cayden, and then as Bella started going around the compartment as usual. Things were getting back to normal, or at least something like ninety nine percent normal.

Just then, Seth Paton stopped by their compartment, surprising Mariska quite a bit. She saw his expression as he spotted Elizabeth and she stifled a giggle as he pushed past the petite blonde girl with a rather determinedly plain expression on his face. Mari supposed she couldn't blame him, after all Elizabeth had threatened his hair. His perfect, golden hair, Mari thought with a little laugh. " Hello Seth," she said, watching with mild amusement as Elizabeth sat next to him. " Do you have any shoe shaped bruises from this summer left on you?" She asked non chalantly, but if she knew Asteira...she was pretty sure that if they had been together at all, there would be more shoes flying in the air wherever they had been together. She looked over at Cayden, giving him a small smile as she waited to see what would happen now that Seth and Elizabeth were here.

Vanessa smiled at Raiden, he seemed a little better now, especially with the other hufflepuff dude off of him. She shook her head when he said she could sit next to him and Kiri. It wasn't that she didn't want to, but from where she was, she could watch him more easily. "No no. It's fine Raiden." She smiled at him, she didn't want him to worry about her, when he didn't feel well. And her sitting over there might make it a little too warm again.

She smiled when she noticed that he has blushed at something that she had said. It made her kind of sad to be honest. After graduation she probably wasn't going to see him again. Maybe occasionally at Diagon Alley during the summer, but that would probably be it.

"Aww Rai." She cooed, pushing her hair behind her ears as she smiled at him. "Well yes..." She nodded, not really knowing what to say in answer for that. "But you're sweetheart will be a very lucky girl."

Daniel looked at the girl. She is definitely Slytherin. By the way she talked and on that attitude of hers, she really, and will never know the difference between trying to help and causing a lot more trouble. And besides he got this potion from a very good wizard.

"Alright, suit yourselves. I am just trying to help." Daniel then turned away. Honestly some Slytherin are not like the others. It is a good thing he was a good master of character.

Daniel gave Kevin a suspicious look. He was lying and everyone can see it. The look on his face gives a very heavy hint, he is feeling a wee bit sick and he doesn't want to butt in on other problems. Just like I did on Raiden were I was pushed aside for trying to help.

"Are you sure you are fine?" he asked again. "Do you need something? I can get it for you."

Ricco could see that the gir was in distress about the bird flying around above her head so looking in his bag he found two owltreats surrounded by crumbs that had broken away from them, Not wanting to open another pcket he picked up the two, now mini, treats and placed them onto hhis leg. "Stacey" He called to the hectic bird that was now flying above the door "Come and get a treat".

As soon as he told her that there was treeats for her a faint cry could be heard from above the door followed by a nosedive straight onto Ricco's lap. "Good girl!" He said as he began to stroke the feathers ontop of her head. Once she was happily eating the owl treats he turned towards the un-named girl and said "I am sorry about that , she gets a little excited".

Evlin cautiously walked down the middle of the train, searching for an empty compartment. She had hoped sitting in the back would have allowed her to go unnoticed but as she could see now that was not going to happen. The back was just as frighteningly busy as the rest. I could just stand the whole time she though foolishly to herself. Yeah you go ahead and try that, I’m going to find a seat she replied. Evlin constantly found herself caught in between an argument of her own thoughts and feelings. It was like her soul and her mind were two completely different things and both had there own ideas and were MORE then willing to share them. Unfortunately for Evlin this meant getting caught in between them. Even though it was rather troublesome to always be like that all the time, Evlin knew it was what made her who she was. And when they soul and mind agreed it was absolute brilliance. Evlin shook her head quickly, coming back into the world. Sure she was just looking for a seat so the arguing would continue and nothing extraordinary would happen but eh, she was never lonely!

"Maybe I should just walk down until someone invites me in" she feebly suggested under her breath. Yeah like that will happen, be brave her mind replied.No I like your idea lets wait her other half replied. Yeah I'm going to agree with my other half on this one" Evlin said nodding to herself. She shifted her worn, leather pack to her other shoulder and continued to slowly make her way down the aisle. She pushed a strand of her ginger colored hair behind her ears. She had asked her muggle mother to French braid it earlier because it was always getting in the way. Somehow a strand had managed to get loose and was going to pester her for the rest of the day. She sighed at the thought of home, she knew right about now her brothers and there dad would be saddling up the horses so they could bring the cows at to pasture. “Hmm” she said longingly, Alas you mustn’t be dawdling over things like that” her mind paused You’re going to a school of Wizards and Witches. This time her other half decided to agree Yes you have dreamed about this ever since you read the letter from you real, witch mother. Evlin smiled, “You guys are right” she said her smile growing bigger. One of the only draw back to the way she worked was that she constantly received strange looks from innocent bystanders who thought she was losing her mind.

With a nod, Kiri got up. There was a light crackle in her spine as she straightened up, and her robes were a little dusty from the floor of the compartment. She brushed the dust off quickly, then sat down next to Raiden. He seemed a little better, now that some fresh air was swirling in and the compartment wasn't that crowded anymore.

Kiri pretended to look outside while watching Raiden out of the corner of her eye as he talked to Vanessa. He was leaning against the edge of the seat now, his legs drawn up and his arms clasped around them - it didn't look very comfortable to Kiri. Could she... No. Yes? She debated the matter silently, only partly listening to Raiden and the Prefect's words.

Finally, she bit her lip and tugged on Raiden's robes. "Umm..." She wasn't sure what to say. "Would you... like to lie down on the seats?" She swallowed. "You could put your head down on my, err, lap. It's probably more comfortable than the train. You... You could fall asleep easier that way," she added hastily, not daring to look at Vanessa. She would know what was going on.
Don't blush, don't blush, don't bl- Too late.

"If you're sure, Vannie Corbette," he said, shrugging. He couldn't make her come over here, after all. If she wanted to sit across from them, then she could. At least she was close-by... He took a sip from one of the two water bottles that had been handed to him and put them on the floor so he wouldn't drop them if he fell asleep. "I hope my sweetheart likes me. And I hope she realizes she's my sweetheart, because I dunno if I will..." He thought for a second. "I wonder if... Nicholai Toussaint would know of a potion or something to make my allergies go away? That way I'd know..."

He looked at the hand that was tugging on his robes and followed it to the person it was attached to, which was obviously Kiri as she was the only one who COULD grab his robes from such an angle. She was being so nice, he felt a little bad about it. As if he were somehow taking advantage of her by accepting her offer of laying on the seats...

"But I don't want to make you uncomfortable," he said, scratching the back of his head. "If I'm laying on your lap, then won't you feel uncomfortable? And what if you wanna get up? I don't want to be a bother, Kiri..."

"I'm sure Rai" Vanessa smiled, she didn't really want to intrude on Kiri and Raiden, because they looked so cute. Not that she would say that to them, because she knew that she didn't like people calling her cute really. "Maybe later." She nodded, when he was feeling better, and then they could have a proper talk.
"She will like you." She nodded, with a smile. "You don't think I'm with Miles because I don't like him do you." She giggled, with a smile. The smile was more because of the thought of Miles really.
"You should ask him." She nodded, although she didn't know him, but he'd want to help Raiden surely.

Listening to Kiri, Vanessa smiled, noticing that she was blushing. It kind of reminded her of herself, she blushed a lot. "It might help Rai." She nodded, smiling at the both of them. It was another cute thing to. "And if Kiri does get uncomfortable I can switch places with her."

Kiri was pretty sure that she wouldn't want to get up in that situation (and she'd been to the loo before boarding the train), but she didn't say so. Instead, she just shook her head and said: "No, it's fine." Where whould she go anyway? No better place to be than here. "And it has to be better than leaning against the seat, right?"
She smoothed out her robes, not daring to look at him. "Give it, umm, a try."

It was Madame Malkin's all over again! Vanessa had the same knowing look in her eye, just like the shopkeeper. And she and Raiden were openly discussing his... allergies, and sweethearts, and...

There was certainly a lot to think about. Did Raiden give her... a hint or something when he said, I hope my sweetheart likes me. And I hope she realizes she's my sweetheart, because I dunno if I will. Or was he just thinking aloud because he didn't think Kiri would be a possible candidate for that? She didn't know. All this... thisness was so confusing!

And how could Nicholai Toussant help him? Kiri had never exchanged more than a few words with him, but he was well-known. He'd be another one of those people to figure the situation out immediately. He'd smirk.

"Hello Raven! nice to meet you too!" she says with a smile on her face.

Turning back to Lettie "I'm a fifth year this year. You're in fourth aren't you?"

Nodding at Kevin, "I agree, that was a bit embarrassing... I thought Gryffindor and Slytherin kind of backed off especially at the end. Even if we're much lower I don't think we should give up all together."

"I try to get as much points as I can, even if we're in last place." she adds with a shrug.

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"I'm sure Rai" Vanessa smiled, she didn't really want to intrude on Kiri and Raiden, because they looked so cute. Not that she would say that to them, because she knew that she didn't like people calling her cute really. "Maybe later." She nodded, when he was feeling better, and then they could have a proper talk.
"She will like you." She nodded, with a smile. "You don't think I'm with Miles because I don't like him do you." She giggled, with a smile. The smile was more because of the thought of Miles really.
"You should ask him." She nodded, although she didn't know him, but he'd want to help Raiden surely.

Listening to Kiri, Vanessa smiled, noticing that she was blushing. It kind of reminded her of herself, she blushed a lot. "It might help Rai." She nodded, smiling at the both of them. It was another cute thing to. "And if Kiri does get uncomfortable I can switch places with her."

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Kiri was pretty sure that she wouldn't want to get up in that situation (and she'd been to the loo before boarding the train), but she didn't say so. Instead, she just shook her head and said: "No, it's fine." Where whould she go anyway? No better place to be than here. "And it has to be better than leaning against the seat, right?"
She smoothed out her robes, not daring to look at him. "Give it, umm, a try."


It was Madame Malkin's all over again! Vanessa had the same knowing look in her eye, just like the shopkeeper. And she and Raiden were openly discussing his... allergies, and sweethearts, and...

There was certainly a lot to think about. Did Raiden give her... a hint or something when he said, I hope my sweetheart likes me. And I hope she realizes she's my sweetheart, because I dunno if I will. Or was he just thinking aloud because he didn't think Kiri would be a possible candidate for that? She didn't know. All this... thisness was so confusing!

And how could Nicholai Toussant help him? Kiri had never exchanged more than a few words with him, but he was well-known. He'd be another one of those people to figure the situation out immediately. He'd smirk.

Raiden smiled. "Of course you like Miles. He must be a good guy if you like him, Vannie Corbette." He nodded in agreement with himself. "You don't like mean people, or bad people. You're too nice for that."

They both seemed to be insisting on him laying down... If it would help, and Kiri didn't mind, really then, what harm could it do? Hopefully his girl allergies wouldn't act up. He was already sick, what more could he take, after all...

"As long as you don't mind," he said softly, shrugging. Turning on the seat, he laid down on his back, setting his head carefully in her lap. She was skinny, he didn't want his head to bruise her legs or something, after all. "Are you sure it's okay? I can get up, if I bother you at all."

Maybe. Maybe he could get up. He was awfully sleepy now, they might have to shake him a bit if he fell asleep. Stretching one arm up, he put it across his forehead to block the light from his eyes as the other crossed over his stomach.

"You'd better tell me if I start bothering you," he said sleepily. "I'll feel bad if you don't."

"nooo..." Iris said, looking round in mock suspition, laughing. "yeah, it might - so just try to catch it when you open it." she said, opening one. She gave the card to Aaron an said, "here you can have the card, I have loads at home." upon seeing Aarons confused face she said, " the cards have profiles of famous witches and wizards, there are hundreds of them - so you can collect them all. I'm only missing a few, Harry Potter being one of them." she said, eating the chocolate frog, and laughing at Luna, who was now watching the frog intensly.

Vanessa noticed that Kiri had noticed that she was looking at them. Oh dear. She hoped it didn't look like she was thinking about them like that. Because she really wasn't. Even though they were both really cute. She did know that Kiri would be perfect For Raiden. They go along so nice, just like she and Miles did.
She smiled at her, trying to make the girl feel less uncomfortable, or however she was feeling really.
"So...are you two looking forward to this year?" She asked, to keep conversation going, and to make it less awkward. The age gap probably didn't help things at all, as they hadn't taken any exams yet, and she was going to be taking the most important exams during this year. At least they could ask her about them.

Vanessa giggled, at what he said. It was true that she liked Miles. She liked Miles very much so. "He is a good guy." and that was one of the reasons why she loved him so much. "I don't like mean people or bad people?" Vannie giggled, well she wasn't too sure about that. But if Raiden thought it....it must have been a bit true. "Aww Rai...stop it." Vanessa felt her cheeks blush, and she smiled at him. She wished that this wasn't her last year.

"The Black Sea is nice. My dad and I go along part of the shore that isn't bothered by anybody and we set sail. It's very lovely there, the weather is always nice when we go." Lettie said and sipped more of her drink, "Did you bring any pets with you?" She asked, unsure if she had spotted an animal or not.
"Kevin said he was okay." Leticia said as she too looked at Kevin, "But if he starts to feel bad, we'll take care of him." She smiled lightly, "Hi, I'm Lettie Dubois." The girl greeted and extended her hand.
"Uh huh, I'm a fourth year." Lettie replied simply and smiled, she like to smile, it always made everyone happier...usually.

Aaron took the card and looked at it. It had a woman on it with an emerald green hat and robes. The name said Minerva McGonagall.

"Hey, it's Minerva McGonagall." Aaron scanned the description, "Former headmistress at Hogwarts." Aaron then picked up the chocolate frog box again. He stared at it and prepared himself for whatever was going to happen when he opened the box.

Aaron opened the box and the chocolate frog leaped out and hit him right in the forehead.

"Ow!" Aaron said trying to catch the frog which was now bouncing around on is lap. "Come here you little bugger!!!" He pinned the frog to the chair and tore its head off and ate it. Chocolate, yummy.

"That's right, frog! I am STRONGER than you!" Aaron said holding the chocolate frog body in front of him. He then turned his attention to the card. The picture was of a boy with green eyes and glasses with a lightning scar on hid forehead. His hair was brown and messy and the boy kept trying to fix it. "Hey!" Aaron said to Iris. "Harry Potter! Here you have it!" he handed the card to her. Aaron then finished off his chocolate frog. "I don't want it. And besides, you need him."

"Hey, Mystic!" Aaron said looking at the girl with pink pigtails. It's been a while! Mystic, this is Iris. Iris, Mystic. It's cool with me if you sit with us!" Aaron turned to Satine and Iris, "How about you guys?"

Raiden's head was heavier than Kiri had expected, but not uncomfortably so. Not at all, in fact.
He was odd to look at from this position - his face this close to hers again. The lively eyes, the black hair... Or maybe it just appeared that way because she'd never actually had a boy use her lap as a pillow. She smiled lightly as he brought up his hand, and part of his face disappeared under it. He really had to be awfully sleepy! "I'll tell you," she said quietly, thinking privately that that was an unlikely event to take place.

Soon, his breathing slowed down. It looked like he might actually fall asleep soon. With no small amount of fascination, Kiri watched his chest move up and down, hoping she wasn't too obvious. Depending on how she moved her head, his breath brushed her cheek.
There was just one problem: What should she do with her own arms? Especially the one on Raiden's side, she had to hold a little awkwardly. Could she just put it on his stomach? No, no, impossible!
She settled for letting it cross her stomach, mimicking Raiden's posture. It came to rest against his cheek, sending shivery sparks up her arm.

Kiri looked up again. She nodded. "Oh yes, I am," she told Vanessa. Just how much of that had to do with the actual school, she didn't know, but she suspected (well, knew) that last year, her response had been less enthusiastic. Part of the reason for that was resting on her lap this very moment! (The rest of it stretching out on the seats next to her.)
"What about you?"

"I bet it is. I find it really liberating to feel the wind in my hair and the sun on my face. I'm sure you an your dad have a great time then" Pulling the box up to her lap she showed Lettie her cat. "I brought my cat with me, a black and white shorthaired. What I love most about him is that he has green eyes, he's been my familiar since I was 9. Did you bring any pets with you then?"

Shana sighed.It was getting waaay to crowded in here and she really didn't like that duude giving out sandwhiches.First he tried to poision them with flippin' club house sandwhiches and now he was trying to kill Poor Little Raiden Kururugi.She shrugged her shoulders.Umm- I think I'm gonna go,and try..Find Umm- Melanie.she shrugged.Umm-See ya ? she gave a little smile and a small glare at the Dan person and began to slide open the door.

Mariel looked up as a familiar voice sounded from the compartment door. It was Lasca - she had wondered where the girl had run off to. Thinking over the girl's question for a moment, Mariel decided she would go off with Lasca for a little while. Her compartment was awfully busy with people running in and out, not that she really thought it'd be much different elsewhere, but she wanted to chat with her best friend anyway. But who was 'us' and where was it that she was leading her?

Getting up to leave, the third year turned to her compartment companions. "Bye, Becca," she said cheerfully. "It was nice meeting you, Copernicus." And she gave a casual wave to the others still present. "I'll probably be back later." She had to come back. She'd have to retrieve the trunk she was leaving there.

As she turned back to Lasca, she noticed her fellow third year was gone. Mariel poked her head out the door, but saw no sign of her in the corridor. Well, she was not about to sit back down for the third time. Her indecisive sitting/standing routine was starting to get a bit ridiculous. She'd just have to go search her out. The thirteen year old proceeded through the back of the train, glancing in windows for any sign of her friend.