Alice grinned, feeling so happy that he liked the paper lion. Her own creation. "No one knows besides my dead mother," she went to silent for few seconds before he teased her. He was excited when he said that. Yay!

She thought her heart was going to explode when he mouthed "You're in love -with me" How true he was! He knew that already. Dont he?! Sneaky. Sneaky Prince. She giggled inwardly. "As if you're innocent and didnt know that already, eh?" smirking, "Yes. I'm love with you - Lion." Her voice was soft yet firm as she reached up, taking his face in her hands, "How about you?" looked deep into his eyes as her face was only an inch away from him. Tell me Now. Haha.

Iris smirked as Aaron went all Archiologist on her. She then cocked an eye brow at what he said. A Sand Dune...Oooh, I'll show him! she thought to herself. Before Iris could even Carry on, Aaron had jumped up and waffled on about the Quidditch. "ooh! oh yeah! Go on! Good luck, I hope you get it!" She called as he ran off.

Iris could have ruined his half made castle, but that would be mean. Using her fingers, she drew a floor plan of her castle - and it was going to be so much better than Aarons. Yes, Iris gets competitive, but she didn't mind, it was fun! 10 minutes later, and her Castle looked far better than Aarons; he can catch up when he gets back she thought laughing.

Iris looked up in suprise to see Aaron already back blood hell that kid can run she thought. Reserve? wow. "oh Aaron, Well Done!! I told you you could do it!" she squealed, laughing at his excitement. She hugged him back, full heartedly as he hugged her - he deserved a hug, she decided. Iris watched him for a while then said, "oi! are you not even going to look at my master piece? And not a stick used." she laughed, looking down at her Sand castle, her face fell, then looked back at Aaron. He had crushed half of it in his exitement.

"Haha, thanks." He made the biggest smile he could, before he realized he crushed her castle. He didn't know what to say. He looked at iris' shocked face, then at the pile of sand. Iris' shocked face, pile of sand. Iris' shocked face, pile of sand.

"Oops" was the only thing he could muster. "And you did it wrong anyway. Good sand castles take time. I haven't even started the first part of what I was going to build. I'm just building up sand." Haha, she thinks I started my castle.

Oops. Oops?! ... gosh, If I wasn't so happy for him, he'd be dead right know! she thought. "How on earth can you built a sand castle Wrong? that's like saying you can put your underwear on wrong! And Women can multi task, meaning we can get things done faster than Blokes - so what ever takes you half an hour to make would only take me 15." How she came to this onclusionshe didn't know, "either way, my masterpiece as I called it was only about a quarter done. Oh, and building up the sand is surely part of starting the castle? Or do you make a pile of sand and then built the castle next to it?" she asked him cockily, crossing her arms and smirking at him. She just hoped he didn't have a come back. Ha! he thinks that I think that he's started his castle! honestly, he should be the Blonde in this conversation!

Aaron just stood there smiling opened mouthed. Wait a minute...

"Actually, you CAN put your underwear on wrong." Whenever Aaron hears something that isn't right, he doesn't hear the rest of what the person says. Hang on...

"Yes it is!!! You need sand to build a SAND castle!!! Where do you think the castle comes from? Magically out of... Wait, never mind." They were Wizards, for all he knew, you could. But because Iris said something wrong, Aaron heard none of the rest. But by Iris' facial expression, Aaron had to think of something to say. But instead he bent down, took his stick, and not 10 seconds later did the bottom of his pile of sand look EXACTLY like the bottom of Hogwarts.

"Tah dah!!!" Aaron said. It was pretty amazing, and he didn't even do the detailing yet. Iris' sand castle had some basic shape, but that one little section was curved and squared EXACTLY like Hogwarts. He put on a half smile, "Want to judge my work now?"

"well that must be male thing too, because I've never put my underwear on wrong, its not exactly rocket science you know!" she said laughing, from the speed of Aaron's retort, she was guessing that he'd had more than his fair shair of putting underwear on wrong!

"out of thin air?" she asked laughing at his dumb reply, "if we were a few years onder, then we probably could!" fool she thought.

Iris looked at him then to his castle, "thought you said good castles take time to build? That, my friend, was barely 10 seconds." she said, more cockily than the last time. She too focused back on to her castle, and quickly rebuilt the damaged side of her castle. about 10 minutes later, it looked just as it did before Aaron fell on it. Now, Girly of Grudgy? she thought, looking at Aaron to see how much of his castle he had done.

"Good castles DO take time to make," he said rolling his eyes. This castle wasn't GOOD yet. it needed to be Detailed. "I'm no where near done with that little part I made there. I still need to detail it." Aaron was annoyed with Iris about how she kept making remarks. "Can we PLEASE stop arguing?" he said with a sigh. when there was no answer he turned back to his castle.

10 minutes went by and Aaron saw that Iris' castle was now in Pre-Quidditch team state. Aaron's was looking really good. The little part that he ha already done was now fully detailed and looked EXACTLY, and this time, EXAAAAAACTLY as the bottom part of Hogwarts does. Every line, every crack, every brick, and every curve was there. He saw that Iris was looking at his castle.

"What do you think?" Aaron said still working on the next layer of the castle.

Still? "Ok then. And I wasn't argueing. It was sarcasm... I don't mean to do it, i just get competitive in a way." She said, sighing, "sorry." she added quitely, then looked at her castle. How does he do it? she thought, looking at Aarons Castle. Art had never been Iris' greatest subject in Primary school, she couldn't keep her focus long enough to finish anything, and that was exactly what was happening here. She looked at her castle and decided that she really wasn't happy with it.

So she smashed it up , and evened out the sand again, and began again. Though this time she decided that wasn't going to bake a castle, but a pirate ship! She made the outline of the ship and began to make the body. When she was happy with it, and it was detailed enough, she stood up and ran off towards the forest to grab some twigs and some huge leaves.

Iris looked at Aarons Castle as she came back. "you could make a career out of that, you could!" she said, smiling brightly.

Aaron saw her smash up her castle. She's a wizard! She could have a little more fun destroying things.

He then saw her making a pirate ship. Ok, that's a cool idea. He should have done that instead of stupid Hogwarts. What was he thinking? He laughed to himslef.

When she came back with the sticks and leaves he chuckled to himself. What was she going to do with those? Oh well, better let her do it. Then she made her remark as it being a proffession. He then took a second to think. Ooh, artist. Possible career choices for future: Teacher, Quidditch Player, Artist. "Nah," he said standing up and smiling. "I don't have the patience."

He then took his wand out quickly pointed it as his castle and shouted, "Aquamenti!" Just then, a stream of water came shooting out of the end of his wand destroying the castle. All that was left now was a dent in the ground and some mud. Putting his wand away he said, "That's how a wizard should destroy things." When it was away he gave her a quick smile and sat down next to her.

"Cool ship." He said watching her work.

Should Banana be scared? Of course! It was herself, Lyra, and a Slytherin. There could not be anything worse...well there could be but yeah!

A smirky look appeared on Lyra's face as she watched Anna for a moment and then Evee came up with the most brilliant, the most wonderful bet! She loved it! There couldn't be anything better!

"What do I think?" She thought for a moment, trying to come up with the best way to put this. "I believe that...I would win hands down so on this round, I should be the judge. You know, the one who keeps score!" It was true! She would win hands down in her book as she knew quite a few off the top of her head.

And it was a good thing she was sitting this one out because Merline knew she would be in trouble by Christian and that would be the last thing she ever wanted. Yeah! That was about it! That's what she thought!

Anna glanced back and forth between Evee and Lyra, awaiting an explanation as to exactly what she was about to get herself into. This...could not be good. Whatever it was, she had a feeling Cale would have a fit over it if he were here. Meh...Evee was right, though. It would be a nice idea to do one last wild and crazy thing before she settled down for good. Besides, how's the old saying go...what happens at Hogwarts stays at Hogwarts? Yep, that was it. Anna was starting to feel slightly better about the semi-evil looks Evee and Lyra had on their faces.

"Who can kiss the most boys? Ohhh, yep...he's gonna be reallly mad over this one," Anna mumbled to herself, still sort of thinking about Cale. "One from each house, though? As in...argh....Caleb's going to kill me." She half-laughed, a little nervous over the idea, then turned back to Evee. "Four boys...one from each house...le sigh." How on Earth was she supposed to manage this now? 'Hello, I'm Anna Greingoth. I do realize we don't know each well at all, but no time like the present, eh? Wanna kiss? I'm sure we'll know each other really well then' Arghhh...

"Lyra Noir! This is the point where you are meant to speak up and say, 'No, Anna dear. As your bridesmaid, I simply can not stand by while you kiss another boy besides CALEB'!" She half-glared at Lyra, not actually surprised that the girl was ready and willing for the games to begin and for herself to act as judge. Anna took a few steps away from the girls, turned, and crossed her arms. She needed a few moments to think this over. "I need a few moments to think this over," she said aloud, as if she hadn't made that obvious by walking away and turning around to face the other way.

Could she do this? She was capable, that was for sure. She definitely had the courage to walk up to a random boy and give him a smack on the lips, but...what about Cale? When she went home for Christmas break, she'd have to tell him. She couldn't just keep this in the dark. She glanced down and fiddled with the ring on her left hand, the one she'd have to take off when kissing these four boys. No way could she do this while wearing the ring. Before she had time to change her mind, she turned back around, walked back to the girls, and said...,

..."Game on, McKenna."

Arghhh...

Evolette rolled her eyes at Lyra's proclamation that she would have won hands down. PUHLEASE. Evolette could take her. But, that semi snobby statement just made Evolette like the girl even more.

"Fabulous idea Lyra." she said, giving credit where credit was due. Her eyes shot to Anna, as she hemmed and hawed over the idea, and finally agreed. Staring down the girl infront of her, Evolette knew that theirs was an equal match, but she was fully confident in herself, she was sure that she could win this.

"May the best kisser win." she replied, wagging her eyebrows at Anna. Yes. This was going to be fun. Lots of fun.

"We need rules though." she added, thoughtfully, "Like, we can't kiss the same boy as the other person. Because that would simply be no fun."

Her eyes turned back to Lyra, and then to Anna, "Either of you two have anything to add?" she asked. There had to be structure, or else this plan would just fall apart, and she wouldn't get to win it.

Lyra rolled her eyes at Banana's dramatic exclamation. Brilliantly work, a little flawed..."Who started this bet anyway?" She raised a brow to her PINK Friend And if there was one thing, if she would have met Evee earlier, that girl was definite PINK material, that was for sure!

"Anna, it's me, Lyra Noir, the girl who never let's a dare down and one who never misses the action. I'm here and I'm not stopping you," she paused and looked at Evee, one that she didn't have to worry about dropping out, but added "or you either." She winked at the Slytherin female and then Banana agreed. "GOOD!"

As Evee began to contemplate the rules, what else did they need. "Well, what about an age limit? Because at this rate, no girl's boyfriend is off limits." Christian wasn't here so she could say that. She was safe.

"I agree, Evee. So one boy from each House, not the same as the other, you have to tell me by owl or find me around the school, owl is faster though," she looked to Banana but added. "And someone has to witness."

The more and more Anna listened to Evee and Lyra talk, the more confident she got that she, too, could succeed in a kissing war. After all, she was Anna Greingoth, and hadn't she always prided herself on being brave, confident, and able to take on anyone and anything? Erm, sure...yeah...maybe. *blink* She cleared her throat and glanced at Evee and Lyra as confidently as she could. "Yes, may the best kisser win," she repeated. "Sooo, what exactly do I get rewarded with when I finish first?" She playfully stuck out her tongue at the two girls, knowing all that was being said was just part of the friendly bet and nothing more.

"Okay, okay. No kissing the same boy. So, erm, how am I supposed to know if the boy I'm kissing has or hasn't already been kissed by you? Is Lyra keeping up with that or something?" she asked, looking back and forth between both girls. "Anything to add? Umm, I guess not. Other then...when do we get started?"

"Who started this bet? You two did!" Anna said, looking over at Lyra and laughing. "I asked you two to be my bridesmaids, and then I ended up getting challenged to go wild and crazy before I settled down." She continued to laugh, amused at what she'd managed to get herself into. "Yeah, yeah. You never back down from a bet, and well...neither do I. I suppose that's how I ended up getting talked into this one. Do you guys really think Cale will be okay with this? I mean, I'm engaged, not just simply dating someone." She shrugged, knowing she'd still end up doing this whole charade regardless.

She perked up when Lyra mentioned an age limit. She hadn't thought about that one. "Oh, well, I'm already eighteen. I'm older than you...and you...and most of Hogwarts. Well, the student population, at least. It has to be at least fifth year and up for me. Although, it really needs to be about sixth year. We sort of seem to have a shortage of those, though," she replied. "Someone has to witness? Okay, well, Lyra? You want to be my witness?" It would seem sort of odd having a spectator watch while you kissed a boy, but then again, this was a game.

Evolette had been silent the whole time, thinking of the best way that they could pull this off. "Okay, so what do we have?" she asked aloud, not really needing an answer.

"Age limit. No boy is safe. One boy from each house. We have to tell Lyra, and someone has to witness it." She wrinkled her nose. "Lyra goes with you, Anna, and I will have Karma come with me. Those two can vouch for us."

"Annnnnnd.... we can't tell the boys about the bet. Just kiss him and walk away." Hah. That would make it more fun too.

She decided not to comment on Anna's question about Cale. Of course he wasn't going to be okay with this, but this wasn't about him. This was about Anna doing something crazy before she gets married. Commitment was a very strong thing, and she should blow off some steam before she did it.

"Suggestions?" she asked, looking at the two again, wondering if either of them had anything to add.

Lyra sighed while shaking her head. "Anna, if you are going to worry about what Cale thinks, then you might as well call it quits and Evee wins." There that should get her heading in the right direction. "Cale will never know unless you tell him. He's not here and what he doesn't know won't hurt him." That statement was...OUCH! Something she couldn't do to Christian, but then again, they made their commitment to each other over the summer.

She then looked to Evolette. "Ooohhh! Good idea on not telling the boys," she said with an evil grin on her face. "Just run and kiss them and watch them squirm for more." Now that called for her true game face, the one smirk that told everyone to watch out, she was on a mission. "So the rules are up. I have nothing more to add. Anna?" She was good to go.

Cedric walks towards the sandbox,gently take off his shoes then he took a seat.Wondering if Via was around,He was not seeing Via for a week now thinking that the girl was pretty busy,He missed his friend a bit or he must admit that he missed the girl so much..

Via with her hands again on her pocket marched towards the sandbox. Her head bent down and she was staring at the ground, stepping some stones on her way. She went down there even though she promised not to be there anymore because she just told Cedric she'll meet him again. She'd have to admit she missed him. For the first time since she had left the common room she lifted her head and glanced around.

There at the snadbox she saw a boy sitting at the side. As she approached him she softly mumbled, "Cedric." It was great seeing him again.

Miles laughed. How many times had he heard people call his girlfriend tiny? It was the truth, but at least it wasn't midget, which Clifford liked to call her. Sigh. He had to pretend he didn't hear that sometimes. Hehe. "Ooh. I know. You'd think she wouldn't scare me, being much taller than her, but she's difficult to ignore." Only because she was soooo cute. As Miles guarded his castle with his feet, he picked up the wonky flag and straightened it a little, he wanted to have the perfect castle. "Oh, I agree. I have no idea. But, it's still fun." He grinned like a little boy.

Miles raised his eyebrow at Torin's sudden enthusiasm in Herbology, and Bunbury especially. It seemed Miles was not the only student who had taken a TINY liking towards a teacher. Although, to be fair, everyone liked Bunbury. Miles liked Bunbury also, but as a good teacher. This TINY liking was towards Morgan - cough - someone. She's such a pretty lady. Miles smirked at Torin. "Really? Oh." He chuckled a little, he actually found it quite exciting that he wasn't alone with all of this. "Well, I think Professor Morgan's an excellent teacher, maybe I should buy her a pet .." Miles thought aloud. Well, it was a start. But it was only a crush, it would go away soon.

Iris laughed at Aaron, "So what are you going to do now you've got no castle?" ahe Asked, and began to make masts out of the twigs, pushing the twig through either end of one of the leaves, to make the sails. She then put the 'mast' into the top of her ship, then began to make two smaller sails in the same way.

"thanks." she said. "I like the sea, and everything in & on it. It's inspiring." she added, focusing on the frobnt of her ship, deciding on how she was going to make the mermaid on the front.

"No boy is safe?" Anna half-questioned, a slight look of horror on her face. "You make us sound like man-eating lions." She sighed loudly, then wiped the expression of horror off her face, replacing it with a rather blank expression. Sure, the thought of poor Cale at home faithfully wearing his engagement ring while she ran around kissing all of Hogwarts sort of didn't sit well, but she'd made up her mind. She'd accepted the bet, even if she couldn't decide whether she'd accepted it just to save face or to actually receive the victory of beating Evolette McKenna at the kissing game. "Okay, whatever. No boy is safe. RAWR and all that stuff..."

"Alright, that sounds good. One boy from each house...must tell Lyra...yet Lyra comes with me as a witness. I've got it all down," she repeated, fighting the urge to allow that expression of horror to spread across her face once again. "Shouldn't we shake on this or something? I mean, why don't we put our wands in or something? You know, I place my wand on top of your's, and we...erm, say something or whatever?" She shrugged and drew her wand, holding it low and motioning for Evee to do the same. "Come on now. We'll make a Weasley vow. I solemnly swear and all that jazz..."

"Call it quits? Call it quits?" she asked Lyra, the expression of horror showing its face for a quite different reason now. "I am not backing down, Noir. I've already got my wand drawn. I'm waiting on McKenna now." She turned and glanced back in Evee's direction, waiting on the girl to draw her wand. Making a bet with a Slytherin...Alexander Greingoth would be so proud. Could she really not tell Cale, though? She'd told him everything since they'd started dating during her fourth year. That was something to worry about later on. For now, the Kiss-a-thon was on. "Nope, nothing more to add," she continued. "Just this little wand-shake, and the game is on."

Evolette couldn't help but giggle a little at Anna's halfhearted Rawr. "Rawr? Hahaha. That was a good one Greingoth." she chuckled, feeling a little bit ditzy. Maybe she WAS spending too much time with blonde people afterall. Hmm.

Nodding, she pulled out her wand, holding it out as she waited on Anna to stop freaking out. "Really Greingoth, if you want to do this, then do it." she challenged, for once again, the scene was getting dull, and she was ready to go out and win.

"Fine then." she replied, when Anna decided that they needed to say something. "I solemnly swear, to kiss lots of boys. Rawr and stuff." Haha. Okay she was being a bit of a smart alack, but, really she knew Anna wouldn't expect less.

"Um..." Aaron said thinking. What WAS he going to do? He had no patience for a sand castle, and Iris obviously didn't want help on her ship. Ooh, I have an idea...

"Do you think this ship will be able to float?" he asked her. He thought maybe he could make a river in the sand and it would be cool to see the ship flowing down the river. But if it was going to just fall apart, there would be no point.

"I know, the sea is amazing, right?" he said to her. He always loved the sea. Fishing, boating, swimming, anything to do qith the sea was always so cool.

Iris looked at Aaron like he was nuts, "um... I dunno, I don't think sand can float." Iris kinda knew why he thought that, and maybe - "maybe we could build a moat around it - so it looks like its in water?" she said, finishing her thought outloud. She looked at her boat as she added the last few things to her mermaid. It wasn't like a normal mermaid, like the one that you see in that ancient disney film, it looked like the merpeople that the wizarding world know exist. Iris knew what they looked like from her Dad's wizarding encylopedia's at home.

She looked up to Aaron with a smile, "what do you think of her?" she asked, pointing to the merlady.

"Ooh, thats a good idea." said Aaron. Of course sand wouldn't float, it would just turn to mud. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Hang on...

"Wouldn't whatever's holding the boat above the water judt crumble up, too?" Aaron thought about for a minute. "Just forget the whole water idea." he said shaking his head because of the stupid idea.

He then looked at the merthingy. "Well, it's no Ariel from the Little Mermaid. Have you ever seen that movie? I can't stand it. But it's good. I guess. What do actual merpeople look like?" Aaron knew that in the wizarding world, there were actual merpeople, but he did not know what they looked like. DID they look like Iris' mermaid?