"Hmm, I think I'll be able to do that. Give me the design you want them to look at when I get my designs ready to send them." Amanda said, pondering if she was going to need to convince Gibson to make her friend's design into a guitar. Knowing what Rogue came up with, she was anticipating seeing the design before she sended it off. "Aww, thanks Rogue. You should come see me in the recording studio before you go to Egypt, I'm recording the album at my house in Perth, Western Australia." She added with a smirk, as the ego was coming up again.

Cedric smiled as the boy says fine but it fades away when he heard the words pay me."What?I pay you?"Cedric frowned,He was really shocked because of that.

The boy mention in the Rule book.Rule book??I wonder if that's the rule book of nastiness.He thought.He took something in his robe's pocket.Its a muggle chocolate,Its a Snickers.He always bring Snickers with him so he can eat if he get hungry.Bringing it with him was cool,When the dungeons was on flood and the slytherins get hungry,He gave one to those who likes..

"Here take it"Cedric said as he took the boys hand and he hand in the Snickers "and you said that your name is C I M,don't you?"Cedric said thinking if its the boy's name.However,He still like to befriends with the boy,He was great for him.He knows that they can get along pretty well.

"I'm Cedric"He introduced himself then he took the boy's shoulder and make him up cause the boy was in a crawl mode again..

Cam nodded several times to show that the older boy really should have payed him something and even if it wasn't in the yearbook, he was a hobo and hobos asked for stuff, especially at a time like this with the flooding and all! Yes he smiled when the boy frowned because he liked being so evil and gullible people were just soooo easy to play with. Teeehee! He still put his hand out and just shook it a little bit because it was getting a biiit tired... But as tired as it may, the boy had got out... chocolate.

OMGOMOGMOGMOGM.

He quickly snatched out the Snickers and began biting it real fast. He didn't want to save all of the flavor this time. Chocolate deprivation was a bad thing and he was going to bite and bite and bite until it was AAAALLLLL done. Yeah. Yuppp.

Wait wut? Cim? Sim or Kim, whatever it sounded like, HE WAS NOT CIM. "Nooooo, it's Cam! CAM!" The guy said his name was Cedric. Cedric? Hmm sounded familiar. "Hi Cedric. I like chocolate."

Cedric couldn't resist that he's slowly bursting to laughter.That kiddo was a dork.He want to laughed so loud but managed to don't,He was laughing in his mind as he sees that the kid snatch the snickers and eat it in no time..

Then Cedric took another one chocolates from his robe.."Hey!Do you like more?"Cedric asked as he hand the snickers to the boy again pretty sure that the boy will eat in no time AGAIN.

He wanders on what year the boy was,He was quite sure that the boy was in first year cause the way he acts and talk but he was expecting that the boy was second year."Hei!What year are you now?"Cedric asked eagerly.He was thinking if its the Human Nature of the boy,Snatching chocolates,Poking somebody and doin some totally weird experiments..

"Nice to meet you,Cam.I hope you like the chocolate.."Cedric chuckled,His name was a girls' name,He thought."And yep,My name is Cedric."Cedric said smiling.He was so happy today cause he sees funny things,Pretty sure that this guy will make him always happy doing weird things..

Because Cam was just so obsessed with chocolate, he couldn't help but snatch the Snickers from the guy again when he brought out another one. Yessssss he was getting back chocolate. It's heavenly goodness and how healthy it was to people! Chocolate FTW of course! "Thanksssssss, I'll save this one for later," he said, because he knew that he would regret it if he ate all of the chocolate given to him just now. So saving was good at a time like this.

"Nice to meetchu too Cedricc and yes, I dooo like me some chocolate!" He began biting off another piece from the Snickers he was eating right now and smiled to him. "I'm a 2nd year, in Slytherin! Because Slytherins ruuuuule and all." And much better than all of the other houses, even better than Hufflepuff, he added in his mind, but decided not to say it out loud in case of some Houses argument and all.

Yuuuuup. "So what year are YOUU in, Ced--hey can I call you Cedar? Because I like nature which means I like trees." Even if the pronunciation wasn't the same, the word and name stiilll started off with the same first three letters and all.

"What?Cedar,,errr,err,okay."Cedric took it a while before he decided to agree to call him by Cedar.."And I shall call you Campy"Cedric said as he laugh a bit pretty sure that they will be good friends for a long time.

He then move closer to Cam then muttered something."You don know,I'm a Slytherpuff."Cedric told Cam with a grinned then laugh."And I'm in second year also Cam."And if you want more and more chocolates just asked me I have a trunk full of that sweets."Cedric grinned.

"And what to go somewhere,Its a little bit dark here?"Cedric asked wanting to went outside that is refreshing places like the lake and of course,He want to swim while listening to music or maybe they can play guitar.

What floor was she on?

Reese stopped walking and looked around. Then that's when she noticed the two statues: Boris the Bewildered and Gregory the Smarmy. She must be on the fifth floor corridor, since that was the only corridor that had those two statues. She sighed a little bit and started back walking down the corridor. She still had a few more floors until she finally made it to the ground floor.

She started walking down the corridor again, but now she was looking down at her feet. Left, right, left, right...

BAAAAAAM!

She accidently ran right into two people who were standing in the corridor talking. "I'm sooooo-" She looked up at the two people she had run into and noticed one was Cam and she didn't know the other one, but he must be in Hufflepuff since he had the Hufflepuff crest on his robes. "I'm sorry," she told the boy she didn't know.

Was she sorry for running into Cam? No, not really.

Campy?! WUT. Cam didn't even like camping at all and just adding a y to that word didn't make it any better. But the guy agreed that he could call him Cedar which was awesome because nature was just ... awesome like that? Maybe the guy liked camping, yeah... and camping was part of nature toooo so it was probably OK with him? Suuure. Sure. Cam took another bite of chocolate before Cedar just told him... that he was a Slytherpuff.

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN.

Slytherpuff?! NOOOO. Cam didn't do good with Slytherpuffs because they were simply too evil for his own good. Maybe... he was lying? Yeah hopefully he was just joking and everything. "You don't know about this ... but," he made a dramatic pause, "I'm a Slytherpuffdorclaw!" It was true, yup. Because he was like that.

"But don't tell anyone Cedar, or you'll... immediately die after you say it!" Yes yessss! He moved in closer and whispered out, "'Cause it's top secret in-for-ma-tion."

Teeeeeheee! "Uhhh sure, where do ya want to go?"

..AND THEN SUDDENLY WAS MET BY A DANGEROUS RABID WOMAN. Reese Selena Upstead. HMPH. Cam didn't want to start a fight so he simply looked upright and pretended to not even notice the... meaniebobeaniewhoateazuchinniandworebikinis! "I'm sorry, Cedar, but... did you hear someone?" Yes, Cam was a SLYTHERIN.

"Me,goin to die?nah nah nah,Cause me too is a Slytherpuffdorclaw from now on,'kay?"Cedric replied as he laugh a bit."And want to hang out in lake,pathway or something outdoor?"Cedric asked.

cok!pok!dok!tok!

Aww,That hurts,He thought as he fell down cause something bumped into them.He then stand up.

Nastily,They chit-chatting was interrupted by someone,not by words but because of acts."uhh,you're a slytherin "as he noticed the badge that she was wearing and what did Campy said UPSTEAD."Err,you are Upstead,are you related to my good but evil friend,Jake Upstead."Cedric asked eagerly wandering if Jake has any family in the block.

Then Cedric took another chocolate from his robes,Campy didn't know that he was constantly conjuring chocolates from his trunk to his pockets.Then he hand it to the girl."Hello,Want chocolates?"Hoping that the girl will like it too.

Why didn't she watch where she was going? Oh, yeah. Because she was an idiot and wanted to stare at her feet while she walked. And, you see what the punishment was? She was stuck with Cam and some person she didn't know.

Reese rolled her eyes when Cam asked...Cedar? Hmm. That must be the guy's name. Straaaaange name. Who names a guy Cedar? Anyways, she nudged Cam lightly and then looked back at the boy who was now on the ground. "I'm so sorry about that," she told him. She was about to help him up, but he stood up by himself.

"I didn't hurt you, did I?" She asked, hoping she didn't hurt the little boy. She nodded when the boy asked if she was a Slytherin. "I'm a Slytherin and yes, I'm related to Jake. He's my stepbrother," she told him. She looked back at Cam for a few seconds then looked back at the boy who was asking if she wanted some chocolate.

"Sure," she said and took the chocolate from the boy. "Thanks." She took a bite of the chocolate and smiled. This boy must know about her obsession with chocolate. You can ALWAYS get on Reese's good side with chocolate. Except Cam, he would NEVER get on her good side. Especially after almost killing her in Herbology.

Rogue smiled and said, "I actually have the design in my bag right now." She put her hand into her bag and pulled out the guitar design and handed it to Amanda. "I just finished it this morning. You nkow what, I'm gonna take you up on the offer, would it be al right if I brought my aunt along with me?"

Amanda took the design and looked at it, she was impressed. "Wow Rogue, this is beautiful. I don't see why Gibson wouldn't like this, I'll make sure they turn this into a guitar." She said with a smile and made a mental note to have a meeting with the people who designed her original guitars over the holidays. "That's fine, I have no problem with it, so as long as you two don't touch the equipment in there." She added and laughed, ah recording a new album was going to be a lot of hard work.

Walking took them to the fifth floor corridor rather quickly, or at least it felt like it had happened quickly to Raiden. He'd followed Daphne Hopton most of the way, depending on her to lead him as his brain was more fried than deep-fried chips at the moment...

"I don't have influenza," he said distractedly, voice going wonky halfway through the last word. Hmm... maybe he had something though, that couldn't be right. "Where... whereabouts are we now?"

He'd already lost count of the floors. Glancing around, he blinked at their surroundings.

"Fourth? Or..." Er. "Ehm no, fifth, right?"

Distractedly, on the wrist she held, Daphne tapped a beat with her index finger as they walked to accompany their steps. "Then you must have something. You looked a bit feverish back then. Although--" Raiden was the nervous sort. Anxiety attack? Aw, the poor darling! "Never mind! I'd say we're on the fifth floor."

Was he that sick? "Are you sure, you're not ill?" Resisting the urge to spin around and feel his forehead, Miss Hopton tugged him further along towards the steps. "Ground floor you said? Well, we have four more floors to walk!"

Yay, walking!

Pietro was so absorbed in the statue boy man thing that he didn't notice the people around him. To him the corridor consisted of Cela, himself and statue boy. He saw a familiar looking boy with an older girl. Grinning he ran up behind Raiden and tackled him. "HIIII!"

Pietro really wanted that candy Cela had said she had. Or you know, candy in general. Oh and new clothes would be nice. He didn't want to owl his uncle asking for clothes.

"Right." Celandine agreed. "On account of we have secrets." She hooked one foot behind the other and grinned.

"Great! I'm always willing to share and I don't eat as much candy as I used to anyway so I totally need help."


Raiden and Daphne!

EEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Celandine beamed at her friends and didn't even bat an eyelid at Pietro tackling Raiden. She figured it might have been a Slytherin thing. She walked sedately over to them and beamed at Daphne.

"Hiiiiiii Daffffneeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Some old habits die hard.

"I'm sure I'm not ill!" Raiden said half-heartedly. Just a bit off at the moment, and unable to think coherently, but not ill! "Four more... not that many. I keep forgetting how high up your common room is."

Well... it would have been their common room, now. As they shared it... He was so distracted he barely heard the running footsteps coming up behind him.

"NANI?!" He yelped as two arms wrapped around his torso and pushed him off-balance. OHHAI FLOOR. It rushed up to meet him; he wrenched his wrist out of Daphne Hopton's grip, and stopped the fall with that one. The other was, well, pinned to his side by the Sneaky Tackling Person.

Who turned out, Raiden discovered a moment later, to be Pietro.

"Pie," he mumbled, grimacing as he squirmed. Pinned to the floor by the smaller body on top of him, Raiden managed to turn just enough to look at the younger boy. "Whyyyy tackling, I could've accidentally pulled Daphne Hopton down with me and she would've gotten REALLY mad, I think..."

...and there was Celandine Toussaint. Raiden's face turned a very unrelenting red and he was suddenly very glad that Pietro had tackled him because he had a reason to be so blushy. He was on the floor, after all...

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaai," he said awkwardly, putting his cheek against the cold floor in defeat.

EEEEEK!!!! "Bad Boy!" squealed Daphne in fright. "What do you think you're doing? Raiden Kururugi isn't someone to be tackled! You'll hurt him! You'll hurt him!" Never mind that he was on the floor already.

Raiden, who?

"Ceeelllly!" cried Daphne throwing her arms around her best friend's neck. "That loud chocolate crazed Slytherin boy was at your party and made a real mess and I couldn't even be there to give him bad looks. I'm sorry!"

UGH. I hate you, Mother.

"Daphne. I've told you to call me just Daphne." They way he called her Daphne Hopton all the time was just--It was just..."Don't call me Daphne Hopton!"

There. She wasn't too bothered.

"Pietro--you're killing, Raiden Kururugi. Get off him please. Tsk Tsk Tsk." In true Mother Hen fashion, Daphne Hopton continued her tsk-ing sounds accompanied by repeated head shaking of disapproval.

"Hi Rai-Rai!" Celandine beamed at him and decided not to offer help for the two of them to get up, they looked happy enough.


"Raiden isn't all that fragile, Daffy!" Cela grinned at Daphne and squeezed her back, leaving her arm about the Gryffindor girl's shoulder.

Loud... chocolate crazed... Slytherin boy. Hmmm." There were a bunch of Slytherin boys at her party... "Cam? Oh he's harmless and huggable and he's totally nice on account of he adopted Juniper Goodwin's lemurs." Cela squeezed Daphne's shoulders and looked down at the two Slytherins on the ground.

"I missed you-- OH! I have to show you all my new presents! Daphne!!! I got some new PETS!"

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EEEEEK!!!! "Bad Boy!" squealed Daphne in fright. "What do you think you're doing? Raiden Kururugi isn't someone to be tackled! You'll hurt him! You'll hurt him!" Never mind that he was on the floor already.

Raiden, who?

"Ceeelllly!" cried Daphne throwing her arms around her best friend's neck. "That loud chocolate crazed Slytherin boy was at your party and made a real mess and I couldn't even be there to give him bad looks. I'm sorry!"

UGH. I hate you, Mother.

"Daphne. I've told you to call me just Daphne." They way he called her Daphne Hopton all the time was just--It was just..."Don't call me Daphne Hopton!"

There. She wasn't too bothered.

"Pietro--you're killing, Raiden Kururugi. Get off him please. Tsk Tsk Tsk." In true Mother Hen fashion, Daphne Hopton continued her tsk-ing sounds accompanied by repeated head shaking of disapproval.

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"Hi Rai-Rai!" Celandine beamed at him and decided not to offer help for the two of them to get up, they looked happy enough.

"Raiden isn't all that fragile, Daffy!" Cela grinned at Daphne and squeezed her back, leaving her arm about the Gryffindor girl's shoulder.

Loud... chocolate crazed... Slytherin boy. Hmmm." There were a bunch of Slytherin boys at her party... "Cam? Oh he's harmless and huggable and he's totally nice on account of he adopted Juniper Goodwin's lemurs." Cela squeezed Daphne's shoulders and looked down at the two Slytherins on the ground.

"I missed you-- OH! I have to show you all my new presents! Daphne!!! I got some new PETS!"

Wriggling out from under Pietro, Raiden wobbled and got to his feet quickly and pulling the younger boy up just after. The little exchange between Cela and Daphne Hopton about hurting him and him not being fragile very nearly made him laugh. Almost. It was kind of... funny that Daphne Hopton was the one saying he was fragile when she didn't know about... well everything.

"It's fine, Daphne Hop-" Right. He was supposed to be not calling people by their full names anymore. "Er, Daphne. It's fine..."

Well, it was fine. The weird things his stomach was doing were in no way related to Pietro's tackling him. Raiden rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly; his brain had been cleared by that tackle, but it was very quickly going fuzzy again, and it was becoming a problem.

"Erm..."

It seemed like their walk to the ground floor was... delayed? Not that he particularly minded, it was just that... well the reason for his fuzzy brain was now among their group. There had to be something he could do to fix this fuzzy thing, it wasn't really fun to be around Cela and not be able to think properly.

Daphne laughed and waved a hand at Raiden's figure. "What are you saying? Of course he's--" Tall. "Well." He was fragile! We swear! "Ohh," moaned Daphne shaking her head at Celandine. "You know I don't hug people." Except, she had just hugged Celandine but Celandine didn't count as people.

Not particularly. It was complicated. And the lemur talk reminded her of Plymouth and Copernicus and Dominick Denton who made her cry. Jerkface. "P-Pets?" Stuttering was not attractive. "Oh, please tell me they're not um..."

Dirty? Hairy? Loud? Slimy? Creepy Crawly?

Errr. "On second thought," commented Daphne needing to ruffle the boys hair to bring things back to normal except the height difference made it slightly awkward. "Please do continue calling me Daphne Hopton."

She needed some normalcy in her life.

"What are you up to, Rai-Rai?" Cela tipped her head on one side and smiled at him, her brown eyes searching his face inquisitively, "Oh! How is the whole no common room thing going? Do you need some things? Books? Clothes? I can buy you stuff if you need."

"I know." Celandine agreed and patted Daphne's shoulder comfortingly.

"Not what? Livvy got me a chick! It's cute and fluffy and makes the cutest cheeping noises... except it's half-grown now. Chickens are gangly when they aren't grown up! Kayla got me a tarantula and Copernicus..." Celandine paused for a split second before continuing as if she had not paused at all, "...got me a hissing cockroach!"

Girls were honestly... very confusing. Raiden's head tilted slightly as Daphne Hopton ruffled his hair, and he half-squinted at her. Did she want to be called Daphne Hopton or not?

"So... you don't mind if I call you Daphne Hopton?" he asked curiously. "It doesn't bother you? Because honestly, I like your name. Daphne Hopton..." He decided it was best to not point out that he wasn't fragile. Although, almost to supplement Cela's assertion, he added, "I'm a Reserve on the Quidditch team this term..."

Waaaaaaaaaait. What was Cela saying?! Buy him things?! His face went from very pink to very red in a matter of seconds. Sure, he didn't have things because of the flood, but... He shook his head determinedly.

"It'd be weird if you bought me things, Cela," he mumbled. "And I'd have to pay you back, and my mum's not written me back about it yet... so all my money's... In my trunk underwater."

It was odd that his mother still hadn't written back yet... usually she'd be very upset and write a lot more if something odd had happened involving him. Flooding was a bit MORE than odd, so... Maybe the owl had gotten lost?

What were they up to? There had been some reason they were coming down this way... Walking? Oh, away from the common room. Because of the craziness. He bit his bottom lip and tried to focus his thoughts into coherent sentences.

"Daphne Hopton and I were... going to the classroom on the ground floor that's empty, because of all the people in the Gryffindor common room." He made a face. "It's not gonna be... much fun sleeping up there, what with all of us being... squashed in. Those dorms aren't made for so many people."

Milking the moment briefly, Daphne made a sad face as she placed a delicate hand on her chest artfully. "It's a very sad thing for me, Celandine. I don't try to purposely push people away it's just--" Liiiiiies. All liiiiies! And Uh--what?! "Oh, that's...that's lovely, Celly!"

Not really. "Do you keep them in a cage? I like pets in cages." Oh, yes she did. And of course, Copernicus Kettleburn had to get her the most grossest one of them all. Shuddering breath escaping her, Daphne whined. "Whyyyy? Why--did you want a hissing giant cockroach?" She probably asked for it specifically.

"Of course you can call me Daphne Hopton!" chirped Daphne happily, clapping his arm, a bad habit starting to form between them. "I didn't mean what I said earlier. Honest," finished the girl solemnly bringing up one hand. "I was just--" HUUUUH?! "You're a what?!" No. Wait. She heard wrong. "You're not...mmm. No. No. No. No."

No. No. No.

She repeated her words as she shook her head and finger at the floor, not rude enough to chastise someone who she wasn't extremely familiar with. And as she went on to think about possible scenarios, Raiden and Cela conversed. Quidditch was a barbaric sport! Poor little Raiden Kururugi could become severely injured and everyone knew his constitution wasn't even good enough to withstand a train ride. Merlin's Jelly Beard he was a green mess at the beginning of term. She remembered well! There was that guy trying to shove a sandwich down his throat.

Not a very helpful fella.

At the mention of her name, Daphne snapped out of her reverie, slightly flustered and embarrassed. Cheeks tinted wit a rosy hue, she smiled excitedly. "We're going for a walk!"

Everyone knew that was code for: 'We're hiding from overly excited Gryffindors and Slytherins.'

"You can come along with us if you want." Sleep over!

Rogue laughed and said, "We won't touch the equipment." Her hair went light blue when she laughed, it had been a while since her hair changed color. "You know," she said. "I think that the last time my hair changed color on its own was the last time I talked to you."