Standing against one of the buildings, Torin shivered and watched Reese as she walked past him. Seeing her made him see how much he had missed her the last few days and that he had been overreacting even though she angered him with what she did.

He needed to apologize to her. But would she forgive him? That was the thing that he wasn't so sure of right now. They had had another big fight just before then and he didn't know how many of those their friendship could take.

He finally pushed off from the wall and started heading towards her, shivering as he went. It was freezing.

"Reese," he called out to her as he got closer.

Reese wrinkled her nose as it suddenly began to feel the coldest just like her fingertips did. Well, the coldest was fun while it lasted now she just wanted to go insidddde. She stopped in front of Honeydukes, but before she opened the door open, she glanced up at the sky. That's when she began to slowly forgot about how cold it was getting as she watched the snowflakes fall to the ground.

Pretttty snowflakes.

Her attention broke away from the snowflakes when she heard someone say her name. Hoping it was Fyo wanting to have another snowball fight with her just like the one they had last year, she turned her body around the face the person. And, sadly, it wasn't Fyo. It was a Hufflepuff and, no, it wasn't her brother. It was Torin Kane. "Kane," she spoke up.

He wasn't surprised that she didn't sound happy to see him. He had expected her to be upset with him.

But he was having a hard time thinking of what to say to her. But he finally settled on the easiest thing that he could tell her.

"I'm sorry that I overreacted. It's just that you really embarrassed me. But yeah, I'm sorry..." He was feeling awkward now. He really wasn't sure if she would forgive him.

He was apologzing?

Reese, at first, thought she was just hearing Torin Kane apologzing to her. Because, honestly, she believed that Torin was mad enough to not apologize to her for being all mad since she was the one that put lipstick on him - she thought she would be the one apologzing in the end. Guess she was wrong, obviously.

She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. What exactly WAS she suppose to say? "I guess we kind of broke our promise about not fighting," she said with a grin. See, Upsteand and Kane CANNOT go without fighting. It was impossible. "Okay, I forgive you, Torin," she continued. "And, yes, you did overreact." She stepped away from the door of Honeydukes and walked over to Torin to give him a hug. Her hug only lasted a few seconds and when it was done, she said, "Torin, I've been wanting to tell you this. Guess who gave me a flower a few days ago?"

"Look out belowwwwwwwwwwww!"

A snowball was seen flying through the air, headed straight toward Torin--or so it seemed. Luckily for the Hufflepuff, the snowball hadn't been angled properly and fell down at his feet instead of hitting him. Second later, Jack Fritzera appeared from behind a tear off the side of the road, frowning.

"Darnnnn, so close," he muttered, shaking his head before grinning. "Hellooooo! How is everyone today?" he asked, bouncing up towards them. He wasn't sure what it was about snow, but it always made him a little loooooopy.

She was forgiving him? Well, not in the sense that she said 'I forgive you', but in that she was talking to him again. "I forgive you too," he replied as he hugged her back for a few seconds. He felt good having that all sorted.

He then laughed at her next comment. "I know. It's like almost impossible for to not argue with you." It was funny really. He was only like that with her and Dani; he generally got along with girls; he had more female friends than male after all.

"I dunno. Who?" It obviously wasn't her boyfriend as that wouldn't be a big deal to her. She would have just told him that Jack gave her some or something.

Then suddenly he heard a spatter at his feet and felt something hit his shoe. Looking down, he saw that it had been a snowball.

He frowned, looking to see who did it, when he saw Jack walk towards them. Not too surprising, really. Both that he was the guilty person and that he missed.

"Hey, I'm good. How are you? Reese was just about to share something with me." He turned his gaze back at her and waited to hear what she had to say.

The Gryffindor boy kinda like the snow and cold. The snow could work in his favor. His grandmother had of course gone to the local muggle clothing stores and found him some clothes and owled them to him. That made him happy. He always loved muggle clothes and looking nice. He'd decided to wear one his new outfits on this trip. He listened to the snow crunch beneath him as he walked. He spotted Torin but didn't want to bother him. All Nate was really doing was waiting for Mariel. Their first outing as a couple. Weird. Where was Freya when he wanted to dump snow on someone? He looked around for anyone else he knew so he could kill time until Mariel caught up with him

I forgive you, too. Is that REALLY what Torin just said? Hasn't Reese mentioned before that she wasn't sorry for putting lipstick on him? Rolling her eyes at the Hufflepuff, she bent down and grabbed a handfull of snow. "Truthfully, I'm not sorry for putting lipstick on you, but I AM sorry for giving your nose frostbite," she said before she threw the ball of snow towards Torin's face. Hehe. "And, like I mentioned before, at least we found out pink wasn't your color," she added.

She took her eyes off Torin when she heard someone say something, she looked towards the area where the voice came from and that's where she noticed the snowball flying towards Torin. She quickly stepped back a few steps just in case the snowball did land on him, but it didn't. It only landed on his shoe! "You almost made it," she said without looking at who at thrown the snowball. But, when she did look, a smile formed on her face when she saw it was Jack. "Hey there," she greeted him. "I'm good, excited that it's snowing. How are you?"

Torin didn't know WHO would give her a flower. That was a shame, really. Since him and her practically acted like boyfriend and girlfriend to get the kid away from them, but he still seemed to like her. Geez. "It was Cedric," she replied. She wasn't sure if that boy STILL liked her or not.

Splat! went the snow as it hit him right in the face. And then he felt the coldness. And wetness.

He started to brush the snow off of his face trying not to shiver. Then he bent over and grabbed a pile of it himself. But he didn't form it into a ball like he had. No, instead he reached out for her, grabbed her jacket and poured it down the inside. "And I'm sorry for giving you frost bite."

He laughed and quickly moved away so that she couldn't hit him.

"It was Cedric? I thought that he got the message after the whole posing as your boyfriend thing." Oh, that had been fun.

Lettie hurried along the main street of the village. She had just arrived after being home for a couple of days due to a family emergency...and by family emergency, it meant her mouse, Chester had caught a cold.
Quickly, and with a thick stack of letters clutched in her hand, Leticia walked around a corner, and head-on into another wandering student.

She fell backwards, dumping her envelopes all over the ground and scowled up at the student. "Sorry." Lettie said, though she didn't seem very sincere...more like she was in a hurry.

Nathaniel had been watching Torin and some girl exchange words for a few seconds and hoping that Mariel would join him. It was cold out and he wanted to go to some shops while he was out. Then all of a sudden someone RAN INTO HIM from behind. He turned around to see a girl he didn't know now on the ground and the contents of something strewn all over the ground. "Need some help?" he asked as he extended a gloved hand to the girl.

"I'm AWESOMEEE! I just loveee snow...well, I like it during this time of the year. Once it gets to like February and March I get kind of sick of it," Jack explained, kicking some snow around his feet and humming to himself. Torin and Reese were clearly in the middle of a convo, so he stayed quiet for a while until something Torin said made him pay attention to their conversation once again.

"Whoa, wait, WHAT are you talking about. Who's Cedric?" he asked in confusion. If it was a DUDE that had something to do with REESE...he could already feel himself getting jealousssss.

He wasn't surprised that this topic caught Jack's attention. And he sure as hell wasn't going to explain things to the boy. That was Reese's job.

So he just kept his mouth shut and gave her a look to say, 'you tell him 'cause I won't'.

When, Jack asked about Cedric, Reese looked towards Torin, who was giving that 'I'm not telling him look'. Grr. "Well, you seeee," she started. "Cedric is this third year Hufflepuff who HAD a crush on me last term. Which, I thought he got over that crush, but I don't know. He happened to give me a flower a few days ago, but...yeah. I don't know if that means he still likes me or not."

Right when she was done talking, she noticed Torin picking up the snow. That's when she quickly turned around and tried to make a run for it, but Torin had already grabbed her jacket. NOOOOOOO. Before she new it, the Hufflepuff stuffed the snow down her jacket. Eeep! COLD. COLD. COLLLLLD. She started jumping up and down, flailing her arms as well. "My back is cold now," she stated. "Thank A LOT, Torin." Once she noticed that jumping up and down wasn't really helping much," she stopped and picked up some more snow.

Mwahaha. He wasn't going to get away THAT easy.

She turned around and threw it towards - who she THOUGHT was Torin - but it turned out to be Jack. Oops?

"Ooooooh," Jack said. USED to have a crush on her...and a third year? WAYYY too young for her. Hehe. He concluded that this dude--flower giving or not--could not be any harm to his relationship with her. He was like...a moot point or whatever that was called.

Suddenly, he felt something wet and COLDDDDDD hit the side of his face. Stumbling backwards a bit, he looked around in shock and saw that the snowball had come from REEESE. BETRAYAL!

"Ohhh, you're gonna GET it, Upstead!" he teased. With a smirk, he bent down to pick up a clump of snow. Once he had it in his hands, he wound up and...at last second turned and chucked it at Torin instead.

SNOWBALL FIGHTTTTTTTTT!

Still, at a safe distance, he was glad that he moved as the snowball that Reese aimed at him hit Jack instead. But then within minutes he felt the freezing cold again as he was hit.

"That's it!" he called out as he ran and jumped on Jack, knocking him into the ground. He then began to pick up snow and shove it into his face.

Eeep! Reese didn't WANT to get it. "I'm sorrrrry," she said as Jack got ready to aim the snowball at her. "I didn't mean toooo." She covered her face as she awaited the snowball, but one never came. What the HECK?! Uncovering her eyes, she noticed that Jack had hit TORIN with the snowball instead of her. Hehehehe. "You got h-" Before she could finish her sentence, Torin had ATTACKED Jack.

O_________O

"Um."

Not wanting to get into this little thingy, she began to speed walk over to a little pile of snow to make A LOT more snowballs, but as she was speed walking she accidently slipped and fell right down next to her purse that she had dropped on the ground a little while ago.

Not to self: DON'T speed walk in snow.

Stanidng up, she wiped the snow off her jacket as she slowly began to advanced towards the snow pile until she heard a small explosion. Falling back down into the snow from shock, she stayed where she was for a few moments before turning around and leaning up. That's when she saw that her purse was, well, ruined. The little puff of black smoke that had came from the little explosion rose up into the air.

"What...how...huh?" She didn't know what happened, but she KNEW she didn't put any fireworks in her purse. The only thing that she packed besides her money and make-up was...

That DOLL.

She stood up from the ground and marched over to her broken purse. Picking it up, she opened it and the first thing she pulled out of it was the doll that Cameron Karsten had given her for her birthday...with the head blown off of it. "Do you really think this is how Karsten feels about me?" She asked. Hopefully, Cam didn't want her head to go KABOOM.

If there was one thing that Mariel plain did not like it was the cold and today was far too bitter and windy for her taste. Still, it was a Hogsmeade weekend and she had been looking forward to it for a few weeks even more so that Nathaniel had asked her to go with him. Although why he did not wait for her in the castle so they could walk together was beyond her, but knowing that he was male and that that particular species was a bit strange and usually had no reason whatsoever for doing bizarre, unexplainable things, Mariel saw no reason to give the matter further thought.

But that did not change the fact that she was now outside and freezing. Pulling her scarf tighter around her face and shoving her gloved hands deeper into her pockets, the brunette's eyes darted around the street for any sign of the Gryffindor boy. Thankfully she spotted him not too far away.

"Nathaniiieeelll," she whined, voice muffled under her scarf as she nearly caught up to him. "Wait up!" Why he was in such a hurry, she did not know. As she neared, the 15 year old caught sight of a girl sprawled on the ground near him. "Hello," she called to her distractedly, as she watched her with a sort of detached interest.

AHHHHHHHH!

All he felt was something collide with him from behind and then BOOOM. He was lying face down in the snow with more snow being smashed into his face. EEEP! HE WAS BEING ATTACKED! With surprising strength, he managed to push Torin off of him. "Hey, no fair!" he cried, suppressing a grin as he ran away.

He stopped abruptly, however, when he noticed that Reese was staring at her ruined bag. Wait, what had happened to her purse? He must have missed it while he was having snow SHOVED in his face. He stared at the doll that she held up, and after a moment he remembered what that was. It was the doll Cam had given her and...apparently it's head had just exploded. They should have realized after the whole telescope incident.

"Noooooo," Jack said, shaking his head. "Cam is just...a stupid little kid. He's just being a pest to be a pest," he grumbled.

While Nathaniel was helping the unknown girl up he heard Mariel calling out to him. He looked in the direction of her voice and smiled when he saw her. He hoped that she wasn't mad that he didn't wait for her in the castle. He was anxious to get out and couldn't wait. Everything was a new adventure to him.

He did not like the whiny voice of Mariel's though. When she caught up with him he smiled at her. "Bit cold out huh?" he said grinning. "Sorry that I didn't wait.." he really did feel bad now. It had been colder than he expected. He would have held her hand but the Ravenclaw had them shoved in her pockets. "Like the outfit? I got a package of clothes from my Gran the other day."

Standing in one place in this kind of weather was not a particularly good idea, and Mariel began to shiver somewhat as she still kept one eye on the strange girl. "Yeah. It's cold," she repeated flatly to Nathaniel as she removed her gloved hands from her pockets to tug her hat down further over her ears. "Oh. That's alright," she said with a soft shrug. It didn't matter that much although she did wonder what his rush was.

Mariel gave Nathaniel an appraising look as he mentioned his clothing. She gave an approving nod. "I like it, it's cool." The fifteen year old turned her eyes in the direction of the shops which she was sure had to be much warmer than where they were standing, before glancing back at Nathaniel and unnamed girl. Certainly they were not going to stand around with Miss Damsel-in-Distress, right? It was far too cold for that.

Nathaniel had helped the unknown girl. That's all he was supposed to do..right? He noticed that Mariel was shivering. Cue to go into a shop. Maybe the cold was just getting to Mariel but whatever it was she didn't seem in the best of moods. He had wanted to play in the snow. That wasn't going to happen. Next time. Not like they were going to run out of snow any time soon. He got closer to Mariel "Do you want my coat?". Boyfriendly duties.. yes? It was cold out but he could deal with not having a coat on for a little while if Mariel needed it. "You've got to see the other hat that Gran got me. It's so funny.". He had failed to mention to his grandparents that Mariel and him were dating. He'd have to include that in the next letter.

He grabbed one of her gloved hands and smiled at her. "Want to go into one of the shops?" he asked. His treat. He really didn't care which one they went into. He just figured that Mariel was cold and wanted to be warm.

He laughed as Jack pushed him off of him and started to run off. He thought that Torin was going to give up so easily? Yeah, right.

Noticing that that he was now busy talking to Reese about something - did they forget about him? - he decided to get them both with a huge snowball.

Bending down, he packed a huge pile of snow together, finding it a bit hard for him to hold in his hands. It was so big!

He then hurled it in their direction... missing them and hitting a girl in the face.

Oops.

Mariel shook her head gently as Nathaniel offered his coat. "I'm already wearing one." Duh. How was she going to walk around wearing two coats? That didn't make a lot of sense to her as she'd look like a complete dork and he'd need to be shipped off to St Mungo's with the world's worst case of frost bite. Still, she thought it was kind of sweet for him to offer. She nodded vaguely at the mention of another hat as she tugged down her hat further and pulled up on her scarf so that only her eyes were visible.

Then finally, she looked down at her hand as Nathaniel grabbed it and nodded vigorously. The were finally getting out of this horrid weather. "Yeah, how about..." her muffled voice started to choose the shop closest to them because she honestly did not care which warm haven they stepped into when she felt a snowball smack her squarely in the face. Thankfully her scarf and hat covered her face enough that she hardly felt the bitter sting of frost against her skin, but she hardly saw that as the point. Stunned, she stood still for a moment before turning on the spot, eyes searching in annoyance for the cause of the snow in her face.

Certain she found the source, as the boy looked plenty guilty enough to her, Mariel grabbed two handfuls of snow from the ground and pushed them together to form one large snowball. "Now you're going to be sorry!" her muffled voice yelled as she pummeled the snowball towards him as she would a quaffle to the goals.

He knew she was already wearing a coat. He wasn't BLIND! "I know that, Mariel." he said squeezing her hand. She obviously wasn't fond of the cold. He was just trying to help her. He'd not worn a scarf today. They weren't for him. He'd have to show her the other hat later. She'd probably not find it funny at all.

Just then a snowball hit Mariel in the face. Nate was pretty sure it was Torin or Jack.. since he'd watched them throwing at each other earlier. Nathaniel watched as Mariel was gathering snow. He was sure it glad that he'd not been the one to hurt her. He sure as hell wasn't going to stand there and not step up and defend his girl frannn. "What the hell Torin?" he shouted at the boy as he started making a snowball for retaliation.