Anna watched Liesel as she skated around and around...and around and around and around. She stood still, but her head moved quickly around, following Liesel's figure eight's, spins, and glides. She blinked then turned her attention away from the girl. If she didn't stop watching her turns, she'd grow dizzy and fall flat out on the floor...again. "I wish we knew how this was happened, too. You know, I sort of thought we'd have it all figured out by now, but I'm none the wiser than I was the day the dungeons flooded. ...and they were first," Anna said, shaking her head in disbelief. "You're right, though. About the water rising, I mean. Maybe it'll stay like this until we can figure something out. Do you have any theories?"

Just as she asked that, though, a girl's voice could be heard sounding throughout the Great Hall. Coming through? Wait, what? Who's coming through? Anna only wished she'd had time to turn around and figure that out, though. Instead, she felt a hard blow to the back of her legs, and she flew a good piece up into their, turned an unintentional back flip, then landed on the ground with a thud.

...ow.

Anna simply laid there on her back, staring up at the enchanted ceiling with a shocked, expressionless face. Thoughts of a broken back or bone of some sort crossed her mind, but she was too shocked to move at the moment. When she heard Reese say her name, though, she blinked and slowly turned towards her friend. When nothing really hurt, she sat up and then pushed herself off the ground. It took a few minutes for her shock to wear off, but when it did, she started chatting a million miles a minute. "It's okay, Reese. I know you didn't mean to. As a matter of fact, the same thing happened to me, only I ran into Fyo," she said. "From what I can gather, another flood happened. Only this time, the water froze. I guess that's better than it rising, though."

Liesel skated around Anna and bit her lip, "I have a few theories actually, but one that's definitley accurate...this isn't a student doing this. All the tables are flooded, no one group is excluded or targeted. But it's like this water is trying to work it's way up until the entire school is flooded-"

Liesel's thoughts were interrupted by Reese smacking into Anna. She cringed inwardly as Anna crashed onto the ice. "Anna, are you alright? Merlin..," she sighed and skated in a small circle, throwing Reese a reassuring smile. Looking around, she noticed a young man struggling at the Ravenclaw table. She squinted to try and make her eyes focus...

He was stuck.

"Hey guys," she said, nudging Anna with her elbow, "I think William's stuck in the ice." She cocked her head to one side and studied the struggling Ravenclaw.

Reese moved out of the way when Anna fell, so the girl would not fall on her. She didn't want to get squashed by the Head Girl. That wouldn't be fun. She glanced down at her hands, which were going numb from being placed on ice. Grrrrr. Stupid ice! She slowly stood up from the ground and fixed her hair, which probably looked like a mess right now. She looked back down at Anna when the girl started talking.

O___O Anna can talk so fast!

She didn't get half of what she said, but oh well. She understood the part about the water freezing and that's better than it rising. "True," she muttered. "Do you think someone could be..." Before she could finish her sentence, the girl Anna was with said William was stuck in the ice. She quickly turned around and looked at, wait, where was she suppose to look? She remembered William was a Ravenclaw, so her eyes flicked over to the Ravenclaw table. And, there was William and Elizabeth and William was, indeed, stuck. "I think we should go help," she stated.

As Cy was reminiscing over that BOOMER of a ‘roo, he noticed something. Something bad. The first year had been tapping his foot on the ground, but he soon realized that he couldn’t raise his feet from the ground at all.

WHAT. WAS. GOING. ON?

“Yo, Legend, mate, what the—,” His brown eyes looked under the table to see that his feet were FROZEN to the floor. What in the blazes? His head shot from under the table—WHAM… he hit his head on it first of all. Grimacing and rubbing it, he looked to his friend bewildered. He then looked to the rest of the hall in shock.

“Mate, this place is iced ovah’. When did that happen?” He tried to raise his feet again but failed. “AND I CAN’T MOVE MY BLEEDIN’ FEET!” He yelled out, thrashing his legs trying to free himself.

His head now had a huge bumb on the back of it from where he rammed the table. The Aussie rubbed it in irritation.

Anna nodded when Liesel said she was sure a student wasn't responsible for the constant flooding of the castle. That Anna was sure of, too. Hogwarts had some brilliant students, but Anna couldn't imagine any of them being able to flood the castle without any of the staff finding out about it or knowing how to control it. "Yup. I don't think so either," she said, shaking her head. That flood was being controlled by magic she couldn't even begin to attempt to understand. "It is making its way up every level of the school. That's what I thought it was the lake at first. This is some powerful magic, though."

Anna rubbed her sore back, but otherwise just nodded her head in reply to Liesel's question. "Yeah, I'm alright. I'll probably be a bit sore for a few days, but it's cool," she replied. She followed Liesel's gaze to the Ravenclaw table, where she saw Elizabeth trying her hardest to help William out of the ice. "Oh....oh, so he is. We better go see if she needs any help..."

"Do I think someone could be wh---?" Anna started to ask, but she realized Reese's attention had been diverted over to the Ravenclaw table. "Yeah, I definitely think we should go help. Elizabeth's a smart witch, but this flood is nothing to play around with. For all we know, the ice could start rising, and then... Yeah, let's go help." Without saying another word, Anna drew her wand and started over in that direction.

...and then she heard it. That annoying, irritating, childish voice that could only belong to Cyrus Andrus. Oh, and he was calling for Legend, too. Which meant....ugh. Double dose of firstie trouble. Anna was sure these ickle ones were awesome in their own little way, but it did seem as if their one goal in life was to drive her insane. An evilish smile spread across her face, and she turned to face Cy. Ha ha. Ohhh, boy. This was going to be fun, fun, fun. "Oh, Cy, dear? You seem to be stuck," she innocently said, changing her evil grin into an innocent expression. "Oh if only I knew a spell to get you out. Shame, you know." That evil grin once again took up reseidence on her face, and she shifted her weight and crossed her arms over her chest. "So, Cy? How bad do you want out of that ice?"

Reese's attention was caught by this boy who said, well, yelled that he couldn't move his feet. "Um, Anna..." She looked back at her friend, but she was already heading towards the first year. "Wait for me!" She started across the ice, taking each step as slow as possible. She didn't want to fall down and hit Anna..again.

She finally made it over to Anna and the boy. She sat down on the bench next to the first year and looked up at Anna, who was acting all evil! Hey, this boy was stuck in the ice and Anna was acting mean.

And people say Reese Upstead is evil? Pssssssh.

"Oh, Anna. Let's not be mean to the little kid," she interjected. "If you were stuck in the ice you would want someone to help you, wouldn't you?" She crossed her legs and looked back at the boy and smiled. She remembered seeing this boy in class before, but never caught his name. Oh, well. This wasn't the time to introduce herself.

Cy was beginning to get to the point of throwing things when it got even THAT much worse. He heard it, yes, IT, that voice belonging to that girl. The Head Girl, who Cy really did loathe on all accounts. At her question, his brown eyes narrowed sharply.

“How’d you gatha’ that, mate.” He said, and began to drum the table with his fingers as his stress level visibly rose. IF ONLY, she knew a spell? Lies, she totally knew a spell. She was just holding off on him because she was EVIL. Puuuure evil.

“If only I knew a spell to turn your hair green.” He said, his wry smile breaking out; he gave the Anna a wink.

Well, truth of the matter WAS, that he wanted to get out really bad. So he his dark brown eyes looked back up to the head girl in interest. “Lets just put it this way, if I don’t get out on the next tic o’ the clock I’m gonna chuck a spaz.” It was true, the feeling of ones feet being trapped was TORTURE. Especially for a person like Cy.

Cyrus eyed the other girl that had come up, and nodded at EVERY WORD she said. Cy knew good and well it was time to win her heart over. "You see Anna, I like her. So nice." He said, wry grin playing on his lips as he gave Anna another sinister wink, then turning back to the blonde. "'Names' Cy." He said, giving a prompt salute.

The Great Hall had turned into an ice rink! OH how fun. "You know, I had a dream about this once, but in that dream I was also wearing skates." Kaitlynnh announced as she glided her way towards a certain fellow First year Hufflepuff, Gryffindor and the two older girls around them, one of whom happened to be the lovely Head Girl she had become quite fond of. Cyrus was babbling on about something, while Legend on the other hand, was rather quiet. Strange, but Katie would wait to bother him. She needed to get to the bench and sit before doing anything else.

Now, Katie had been skating pretty much her entire life, she was very good at it, truth be told. But this was NOT a real ice rink, and "These shoes are SO not made for this," the small girl cried, her arms flailing helplessly trying to regain balance as her foot slipped on a slick part and down she went, straight onto her bottom right beside the Gryffindor table. "Oww!" Katie groaned, irritation evident in her voice. Her dark brown eyes traveled to those seated, atleast one unwilling it would appear. "Uh, hi?" squeaked the first year, lamely.

Huffing, Kaitlynnh tossed the fallen, dark, curled locks from in front of her face and removed the hand that rubbed gently at her lower back to grab the edge of the empty seat at the table for support to pull herself up, sliding as she did. "So.. anyone know why winter hit inside Hogwarts? Not that I'm complaining or anything," a small, innocent smile fell onto her lips, satisfied now that she was safely seated by her boys friends.

Naomi looked around at all of the students having trouble getting around on the ice. She carefully stood up and walked over to the other students. "I think if we work together we maybe able to get out of here." Naomi said. "Ok lets try grabbing each other around the waist and carefully and slowly move towards the door. Use each other to support... well... each other."

A very subdued moaning and sniffling sound could be heard echoing through the great hall.

The prettiest most popular Ravenclaw ever, the ghostie with the mostie, slooo-ooooo-wwly lifted her head through the table and blinked owlishly.

FROZEN water was nooooooo fuuuuuuuun!


"BoooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOoooooooooooooHHHHHHhhhhhhooooooooooOooOOOo." Myrtle increased her pitch and volume for good measure.

She wanted attentionnnnn!

Evil grin still in place, Anna continued to look Cyrus Andrus right in the eye. Being evil to an ickle firstie was so out of character for her, but this was Cy and Legend she was talking to, not just any first years! She'd help both of them, of course...eventually. She'd never be the one to let someone just get stuck standing inside a block of ice for long. No, no. She'd let them squirm for a bit, then she'd help them out. She was only vaguely aware of Reese calling for her to wait up, but she did turn and smile at her friend when the girl moved to stand beside her. "Of course I'll help him! I'd never leave him just standing here," she said. "...for long."

Anna turned her attention back to Cy then, and she fought the urge to grin widely when it was clear he was getting a bit agitated over his little situation. Turn her hair green? Ha. Funny. If only he knew that someone else had been there and done that just last school year. "Copernicus Kettleburn," she simply said. "If you're interested in turning hair green, I'd talk to him." That was all that was said about that, though. She didn't honestly feel threatened by Cy. Had she felt that way, she'd never let on to him that Cope knew the trick to giving girls green hair. "Charming, though. Just charming."

"Chuck a spazz, huh? Interesting," she commented. "We wouldn't want you to chuck one of those, would we now? I tell you what... Perhaps you and I can strike a deal, Cy." She lifted her wand into the air, then brought it down upon the palm of her hand. She continued beating it down like that while she spoke. "I charm you right out of that ice...for a price. I think yelling out loudly across the Great Hall that 'Anna Greingoth is the greatest girl ever' would do the trick, wouldn't you agree?" Cue evil grin.

When young Katie Mae skated into the Great Hall (and then fell to the floor), Anna's expression faded into one of concern, and she knelt down to help the girl to her feet. "You know, if you really want to ice skate, I'd cast Glisseo on my regular shoes. I think that might help you adapt to this mock ice-skating rink a little better," she said. "Oh, and no worries about falling, because just about all of us, myself included, have made the same entrance." She smiled politely, then moved to sit on the bench beside the girl. "It's this crazy flood we're having. Only, this time the water's frozen over instead of rising. I guess that's one good thing it's done. Oh, and I do believe it's trapped your little friends inside of it, as well." Using her wand, she motioned towards Cy, whose feet were trapped inside the frozen water.

"Hey, Naomi," Anna greeted, glancing up from Katie when the Gryffindor girl appeared. "Actually, we can get out of here quite easily. It's Cy...and William, the ones whose feet are stuck inside the ice, who are having trouble moving. Other than that, getting out of here isn't really hard if you don't count the falling and sliding." Just as she'd done with Katie, Anna took her wand and motioned towards the boys who'd managed to get themselves stuck when the water froze over. "I was just at the Ravenclaw table starting to help with William. You're welcome to help if you have any ideas. I do believe Cy here was about to make a little announcement before we worked on him, though."

She turned towards Cy again, but before anything could happen, a loud, wailing noise sounded throughout the Great Hall. Eyebrows furrowed, Anna turned around to see what had happened to cause such a wail. Her eyes met with Myrtle, and she knew right off the bat that practically anything could have happened to cause Myrtle to cry. Poor ghost. "Hey, Myrtle," she greeted. It'd been just about all school year since she'd seen Myrtle. The last time she'd seen Myrtle had been in the room with that mirror...oh, no. Wait. Wasn't she down in the dungeons when the first flood happened? She definitely was, and even though Myrtle liked to play innocent, she knew things. She knew secrets about the castle no one else seemed to know.

Whoa.

For a moment, Fyo had really thought Miss Nice Head Girl was going to collide with him, or something like that. Thankfully, she managed to come to a stop.. an inch away from him. Wow.

"The water's.. freezing," Fyo said, stating the obvious with wonder in his eyes. "And my socks are wet." Wait a second - was he supposed to tell her that? The wet socks part, I mean. Hey, hey, hey, waiiittt - Water. And frozen. That meant..

ICE SKATING DUUDE, ICE SKATING, I TELL YA!

"This is totally wow!" he exclaimed, all of a sudden. Then, checking the excitement, he frowned slightly. His sockswere wet, you know. "Well, it isn't really, because it only means more trouble but.. you know. We can skate here, and that's pretty nice."

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Originally Posted by Moaning_Myrtle

A very subdued moaning and sniffling sound could be heard echoing through the great hall.

The prettiest most popular Ravenclaw ever, the ghostie with the mostie, slooo-ooooo-wwly lifted her head through the table and blinked owlishly.

FROZEN water was nooooooo fuuuuuuuun!

Was that Moaning Myrtle? Umm.. COOL!

"Hey Myrtle," Fyo said, forcing himself not to clap his hands over his ears as he volume increased at the rate of too-fast-to-measure per millisecond. Because that would just be rude, y'know, clapping his hands over his ears, and all. "Haven't seen you down here, before."

- Talk about stating the obvious.

They were showing Myrtle LOOOOOOOVE! One of them was even a boooooooooooooooooooooooooooy!

She plopped into a half-empty, somewhat forgotten jug of water and peered out of it bug eyed. "IIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii would come here more but the Baron doesn't like it when I come to the Great Hall. But Iiiiiiiii think he's worried about all this funny water making him just a regular old Baron instead of a bloody one."

She sniffed.

"You don't want me to leaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave dooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOooooooooooooooooo you?"

Jack was not paying attention to where he was going as he entered the Great Hall. No, the fifth year was too lost in his thoughts to notice the giant patch of ice that had formed in the middle of the hall. He was also muttering to himself, repeating the list of subjects he still needed to finish homework in until he was totally caught up from his yucky sickness.

Care of Magical Creatures, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Divin--

His muttering was cut short as suddenly, the floor seemed to start moving from beneath him. WHAAAA?!? Letting out a girlish shriek as he started slipping and sliding his way into the hall, he finally noticed the huge patch of ice that had suddenly sprung up in the Great Hall. Arms flailing about, he started to lose his balance before finally falling onto the ice with a great CRASH, taking Reese down with him as he went on accident with one of his lanky, flailing arms.

"Ohmigosh! I'm sorry!" he cried, apologizing to Reese as he pulled himself to his feet before offering her a helping hand. He realized that they had fallen down right in front of Anna and, completely oblivious to the two children stuck in the ice, he hurried up to her in a panic. "ANNA! What's happening? What's going on!?! Is the ice going to melt? I can't swim--I will NOT drown in the Great Hall, Anna Greingoth!" he exclaimed.

Urrgghh. Fyo loved water and swimming and all but, seriously - a half-empty jug of water?Not a good place to be, as far as he was concerned.

The Baron didn't let her come? Awesome! But Fyo wasn't about to say that - or show it through his expressions. "Yeah, the water's pretty funny," he said, playing it safe. "And of course we don't want you to go - you hardly ever come here, why would we? So.. know anything about all this water, Myrtle?"

Myrtle blinked a few times.


"It's WET!" She moaned a bit for emphasis.

And then there was the arrival of Katie Mae, perfect. But she DID fall right on her bum, which put Cy into a quick fit of laughter. "AHHH! Sistah' Sledge, we havin' some trouble stayin' on our feet?" Focus was then back to his feet, which were stuck in ice. His irritation began to rise, veins were even beginning to become visible in his forehead.

Copernicus Kettleburn. Cyrus engraved that name into his mind, because when the head girl least expected it, her hair was as good as green. His brow furrowed in irritation, she thought she was soooooo cool having the upperhand in this situation. As soon as I'm out of this I'm usin' her overflowed noggin to crack the ice, he thought to himself bitterly. "Mark my words mate, your hair is as good as green. I..kid...you...not." Each word getting more and more frustrated.

The first year shook his head. NO, she really didn't want him to chuck a spaz. It was never good, things were usually demolished. His eyes narrowed at the words 'strike a deal'. "Oh, so you're a con-artist now are yah'?" He listened to what she had to say, and as she said it, his mouth opened in disbelief. "NOOOOOO! Are you JOKING? You're a yahoo, mate..." He said, inferring to her having lost her mind. "I would rather saw me' legs off." He assured here. Telling the WHOLE Great Hall that 'Anna Greingoth is the greatest girl ever'... it was against all Cy had ever believed in.

But... he was in a rouch patch. If things really got bad, he might have to consider it; the Aussie shuddered.

Then that annoying ghost showed up, and Cy eyed her as she floated up. "G'daaaaaaaay Myrtle. An' if you scream any loudah' then my eardrums might CRACK!" Cy just couldn't TAKE much more...

Arrrggghhhh. She was so loud this time, Fyo half fell off his seat in surprise. Which was, obviously, not good. The third year straightened up, pushed back the hair that had grabbed at the opportunity to mess up his wide forehead, and raised an eyebrow.

"Um, I can see that," he said. "I was asking if you know why it's here."

Why was he even trying?

Mean!

MEANMEANMEAN!

"Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuu give Hufflepuffs a baaaaaaaaaaad naaaaaame!"

She popped out of the jug of water and flew straight through the silly, mean and unappreciative boy.

Sniff.


"It's not my water."


Sniff.

A first year actually liked her? Wow. That was an improvement. Most of the time, Reese had the first years running for their lives. Well, that wasn't necessarily true. She hasn't scared too many first years in her life: only Jack and Cam. Cam wasn't scared of her now, but he use to be...right? Ugh. She couldn't remember if Cam was ever scared of her. Oh, well. She knew Jack Moiser was scared of her.

"I'm Reese," she introduced herself. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Cy." She was unaware that this was one of the first years that had annoyed Anna at the start of the term feast. If she knew that, she would definably be going all evil with Anna. But, right now, she thought Cy was an innocent little first year who just wanted his feet unfrozen. Mmhm. She looked back at Anna when she mentioned going to Copernicus about turning her hair green.

Did she want to know? Probably not.

"Come on, Anna. Let's unfreeze this poor little boy's feet. Does he REALLY have to say that?" She questioned. She would get out her own wand and help Cy, but Anna might go all Head Girl on her. If Anna wasn't helping Cy, she doubted she was allowed to. She stood up from her bench and looked down at Cy. She felt bad for the boy, she really did. It probably sucked having your feet froze to the ground. "Just think, he has all the right to get you back for this," she informed her friend. She knew this little boy would get revenge.

She jumped back a little bit when another little girl nearby fell. "Oh, dear!" she said. She was about to rush over and help the little one up, but Anna got to her first. Frozen water was DANGEROUS! She tapped her foot on the ice as she looked back at the boy at the Ravenclaw table. She hoped Elizabeth had everything under control.

Looking back at the girl that had fallen, she smiled. "Hello there. Nasty fall, wasn't it? Are you okay?" She asked the little one. She glanced back around the castle when the girl asked why winter was inside Hogwarts. "It was the flood," she answered. Surely, that explained everything.

Turning towards this girl who was explaining how to get out, she shook her head. "We need to get Cy and William out of the ice first. They are stuck," she explained to the girl. "Once we free them, we'll get out of here." With that said, she turned her attention back to Cy and Anna.

She jumped slightly when she heard this moaning sound. Well, actually, it was a high pitched moaning sound. She turned to face Myrtle who, obviously, was the one moaning. "Good day Miss Myrtle," she greeted.

Was that a shriek? Before she had the chance to turn around to turn around to see who had shrieked, someone had knocked her over. "AHHHH!" she screamed before she fell right down onto the ice. Ouuuuch. She turned her head to see who had knocked her down. Oh, it was Jack! She smiled when he started to apologize. "It's fine," she reassured him. She took his hand and pulled herself up. "Are you okay?" She asked him.

God, this ghostie girl was.. infuriating. For a moment, Fyo was pretty sure he just wanted to RUN AWAY, but then he decided against it. "That's really bad," he said sympathetically, mostly because he didn't want to be told he gave Gryffindors a bad name. "But look at the bright side - it's not my water, either, so we're in the same boat."

Err.. Yeah. Sort of.

"I do NOT have cooties Cameron. I knowwww what you're thinking!" Karma said, sliding along with her little brother in tow. Hehehe. This was actually pretty fun.

Just as she was skating along with Cam in tow, Karma stopped at the sight of Myrtle. Ooooh. She had never talked to Myrtle before. Well, Karma had tried to stop anyway. If she didn't have an extra hundred pounds with her, it may have been easier. Except, she wasn't going to fall this time. Hopefully.

She looked up at the crowd that was forming and saw Reese, Jack, Anna, and... others. Hmm. Some were younger, so it was no wonder that she didn't know them. "Here Cam," she said, pulling him around towards Anna. "There she is."

Ahem. It would be VERY impolite to not address the whiny friendly ghost in their presence. "Hiii Myrtle, I don't think we've ever met before. I'm Karma."

...and finally, Fyo spoke up, and Anna turned around to glance his way. She nodded when he said the water was the freezing. That much much obvious. She glanced down at the ice, thinking it just pretty much beat all she'd ever seen here at Hogwarts. She laughed lightly, then shook her head when he mentioned that his socks were wet. "Are you a wizard...or not?" she playfully asked, raising her wand into the air as if he to indicate he should try and charm them warm. Fyo didn't seem to really be too worried about his socks, though, as the realization that he could ice skate had dawned on him.

Anna bit her bottom lip at the sight of Myrtle stuffed, bug-eyed, into a jug of water. It was actually a pretty funny looking sight, but she knew that if she laughed the ghost would start crying again. Or worse...she'd leave. As she'd thought before, Myrtle knew stuff, even stuff she really didn't realize was important. Anna kind of made of face at the mention of the Bloody Baron looking bloody---ewww---but she quickly wiped it right off her face. There were far more interesting and important things to talk about and think about right now. "Myrtle, I have a question for you...you know, since you're so intelligent and always seem to figure things out before most others...," she said, turning towards the ghost. Hopefully Anna wouldn't accidentally upset her and send her on another crying rampage. "Have you seen anything out of the ordinary around here? Perhaps, something dealing with water, maybe? The lake...the flood...tears...anything really."

A split second later, though, someone else came sliding into the Great Hall, coming to a stop just at Anna's feet. At least they hadn't collided into her, though. She glanced down to see Jack Fritzra, a boy she'd actually come to have a great deal of respect for lately. He'd been the only Lion besides her to show up at the Quidditch match last weekend. For that, she owed him some much-deserved respect. "Fritzera...Fritzera. It's okay. Just calm down," she said, leaning down to help pull him off the ground. "It's just the works of that crazy flood again. You're not going to drown, though. Not in...this at least."

Ohhh, little Cy. Such a treat to listen to. So he thought he could easily dye her hair green, did he? The thought alone just made Anna grin even wider and bigger. She remained quiet, though...until she he spoke up saying he'd never call out what she'd requested he do, that is. "Alright then. Suit yourself," she said, throwing her hands into the air and shrugging. "When that ice starts rising, though..." She knew the ice couldn't really rise, though. I mean...right? It wasn't going to just keep rising like the other floods did, would it? Worried expression on her face, she turned back to Cy, thinking she might need to start on getting him out of there now. Then again, all was safe at the moment. Nothing had rose to higher levels in quite a while. She'd let him squirm a little longer.

...but then Reese was scolding her again, so Anna turned towards her friend with a bit of a frown. She needed to explain to Reese why she was acting so out of character towards this boy. Maybe then Reese would help her instead of trying to help Cy. "Reese...do you remember those first years who made me cry at the Start-of-Term feast?" she whispered. She sort of nodded in Cy's direction, hoping Reese would take the hint. "That's them..." Anna stopped whispering and turned back to Cy, but just as she did so, Karma and Cam strolled up to join them. "Hey, Karma...hey, Cam," she said, looking towards both of them with a smile.

Wet socks. And frozen water YAY ICESKATING. Not a very cool mixture, but Fyo kinda liked it. As in - a lottt. "What's a wizard?" he asked laughingly, taking her hint and fumbling in his pocket for his wand. Now, where was that nifty, little thing? Aha! Found it!

A simple hot-air charm, and his socks were soon.. well, non-wet. "Thanks," he said, grinning up at Miss Nice Head Girl. "Do you think I could get into trouble for skating here?" Because, you know, he really wanted to. Skate there, not get into trouble.

ZOMG ANNA. Was he obsessed with her radiant prettiness and all? Cale was NOT here this term and he still hadn't seen that ring on her finger so... yeah he still liked her. By the end of this term, Anna was gonna KISS Cam and then she'd find out Cale wasn't so good enough for her and she'd wait for him 'till he graduated AND THEY'D LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTERRR. Yup yup that was going to come true... soon. Because he was gonna make it come true.

There were other people there toooo! Reese, Cy, Fyo, weird dood that hung out with Reese, that girl he'd met back at the train, a few others and wait wut, MOANING MYRTLE? GHOSTS. Ghosts were FREAKS. They ate humans--or so he thought.

He had the urge to poke the ghost-girl but not now. Cam WANTED Anna. And he had the perfect idea. His eyes shined in wondahhh.

Right when Karma started pulling him straight to Anna, he released his grip and he put some momentum on his speed by using his feet, but tried to make sure no one would have noticed. So there Cam was. Speeding right at Anna. Saying not a word--but in his mind, he kept screaming, I'm coming at ya Anna I'ma commin'! Yes, Cam was sliding STRAIGHT at her with FULL speed. Fast.

Right eye twitched.

Cam, feet before he was coming straight at her remembered he had to keep it all realisticcc! "Oh," he said a bit dramatically and tried to act and all, "I think I'm coming at you Anna. Watch out. Watch..." His voice was all dreamy and--

...