"Hey!" he called out startled as something hit him with full force. It wasn't hard or anything, but he was irritated. He bent down and picked up the piece of paper at his feet.

It read:

Quote:

I'm sorry, Torin

He snorted. Was he supposed to take that as a real apology from Shana? Nope. He was too mad to forgive her just like that.

"Nice try, Shana. But I want a real apology," he called out. He didn't see her but he knew she was around there somewhere.

Clambering up from the floor she slumped over to Torin,She was fed up now.Yeah It was her turn to be fed up with Him.Your never happy are you ? I have a moan about your girlfriend You complain,I write you a letter you complain,I write you another letter,You complain.When do you ever stop moaning ? Siigh.

There was was. She finally decided to show herself. "I'll stop 'moaning' when you give me a real apology. Not one with insults crossed out. Not one that's just thrown at my back like that."

What was so hard for her to understand here? How many times did he have to tell her this before she got it? This wasn't a real apology! You don't just throw a note at someone and expect them to forgive you.

Sniffle...But...Bu..But.I thought you'd shout at me If I came over so I threw it at you. Yeah that just didn't sound like a good apology did it ? Taking the letter she got a pen from her back pocket and began to write on it.Ending up with a letter that read:



Handing it back to Shana she beamed.

"Shana, if you just gave me an apology and meant it without anything else I would accept it. It's when you make me feel you don't mean it that I get annoyed."

Hopefully she would understand now.

He watched as she then started writing something down. He wasn't sure what. Maybe another apology; though he wasn't sure why she insisted in writing the things down instead of just saying them. But he wasn't going to be picky.

He took the note when she handed it to him and read it. "I forgive you." He then held his arms out for her to give him a hug.

Eye roll.So they'd been arguing for like how many weeks and all he wanted her to do was insult herself ? Shaking her head she jumped up onto his lap and cuddled him.I forgive you too. She beamed.

He let out a small gasp as she suddenly jumped onto his lap. He should have expected it but he didn't. So he was bit winded now.

"That's good then," he said as he hugged her. "So this means no more rude comments then?"

Smiling she gave him a sort of awkward look.Uhhh.Nope. she started,hesistating.Uhh...Not about you anyway.I... can't make any promises about Brody. she said blanking,mummbling the last part hoping he didn't hear it.

Attempting to change the subject she beamed.Sooo whatchooo been up to ?

He decided to ignore her first comment, not wanting to fight with her again. so he pretended tht he didn't hear what she was. She already knew how he felt about all this. Why she mumbled it.

"Not much really. Just doing boring homework and seeing friends. Right now I'm stuck with the ode that I'm trying to write about Professor Bunbury." He sighed. "What about you?"

Beaming as he didn't hear what she'd said.Or atleast he didn't comment on it she sighed; a sigh of relief.She didn't meeean to not like Evil Brody,But if she had been nicer to her from the start none of this would've happend.And then there was if Shana hadn't been so stubborn yeah that was kinda a big part of it.

Oooh.Is a Ode like a Loooove letter ? I can help if you want. Not really knowing what a ode was,And if it was a type of Love letter; she wouldn't be much help yeah she was 13 and her love life hadn't really started much apart from Clark proposing to her.Uhh not much...I kinda fell out with Tammy.But we made up now.

Dominic listened as Cel-an-dine spoke on her thoughts of what Willow thought of him. No, looks weren't everything, that was true. It just helped a little. Small frown lines forming, he looked up from where his finger had been idly tracing designs in the dirt (something was obviously wrong with him!) and Cela claimed he can be doofy and he was acting as such right now. Quickly withdrawing his finger, he shook his head.

"I guess... about both..." Because really it was since it was about his relationship /friendship with Willow and that did involve both. It was a two-way street.

Of course Cela would frown at the mention of McKenna; the girl liked Evolette, even if she was truly insane. Knowing her, she also probably didn't think Evolette McKenna had a malicious bone in her body. Whateverrr though, at least Copernicus seemed to understand.

That wasn't really the point though; Evolette wasn't in this... It was about him and Willow and... What?! Did he know Willow Kovac at all? He thought he did, but evidently not.

"Um..." absently playing with his fingers, Dominic sighed. "Well... it's not... our ... our relationship was different from most.... we didn't need to talk. We just knew. I mean... like, i know she hates books and the outdoors, even though she likes quidditch." Obviously, everyone knew that. "And she's smart. Really smart. But like her family background? Her history? Her parents? No, ... I don't know any of that..." The Hufflepuff shrugged; why was that important anyway? She didn't know any of his background.




What? Copernicus was offering to speak with Willow on his behalf? Like what ... explain the situation over what happened with the kiss? Somehow though, Dominic was sure that there was more to it though that caused for her dismissal of his friendship. Which is why he almost was sure that even in a cordial friendship, it was going to take more than just that to get Willow to even talk with him again.

"Um..." The easy answer would be 'Yes please, Kettleburn.' But see the thing is that Dominic wished there was a way that HE could be there. Yet he also knew that it was just foolishness; Willow wouldn't talk to Copernicus if he was there. "Yes, that would be... appreciated. Maybe also find out her views on me?" Why was his tone so unsure? And did he really want to know what Willow thought of him? Yes, he did.

Damon walked among the student garden attempting to find some cherry wood. Where oh where might some trees be that could contain the wood he was looking for. He continued to walk around looking for some clues.

Entering the student garden Abigail stopped to look around, she’d never been in the gardens before and they were beautiful. Having studded a map of the gardens she knew there were cherry trees near bay and headed in their direction.

As she walked through the garden she continued to admire it, and though there must be some dedicated students for it to be in such a good condition. She passed by a pond and some flutterby rows and continued walking before finally reaching the cherry trees, she knew what they looked like she had one in her back garden. Not wanting to remove any of the bark from the trees them self she looked around the area under the trees until she found bark from the cherry tree which had fallen off. They only needed a sample there wasn’t any need to damage the trees.

After putting her sample in her bag she began walking back through the garden, she didn’t really want to leave but she had work to do, and decided it was best to head towards the green houses.

Tiberius made his way to the student gardens, looking for anything on the list. How was he supposed to know what some of those woods looked like?

Frowning, he walked around the garden, looking for anything that might have been placed there instead of just being there naturally.

Mina strolled through the beautiful garden, looking at everything and taking it in. It reminded her of her grand-mere's garden in France. She could still remember running around in said garden as a little girl and laughing like there wasn't a care in the world. 'How life was simple when you are little,' she thought to herself.

Looking at her list again, she set forth in looking for some clue of what she was looking for. As adventurous as she wanted to think she was, she wasn't at all. Exploring wasn't her things, reading and thinking too hard were. This hunt was going to be a challenge after all. But at least she was going to try.

Sara next went to the Student gardens. It was full of many different types of trees and plants. Now, if she could just figure out which wood was which, she would be laughing.

Going from tree to tree, Sara picked up samples of each tree's bark. "Better too many tree bark samples than not enough," Sara thought...

The students wandering around the students gardens weren't looking in the right places if they were by the puffapods and flutterbies. The place to be was along the outer edge of the student garden where numerous trees had been planted by Professor Erikson's students.

Surely a few blossoms from them would fulfill a requirement for the scavenger hunt.

Spotting some blossoms on the edge of the garden, Tibi raced over and grabbed one. He was pretty sure this was one the list, somewhere.

"An ode is a poem. But it's a nice poem." Now why wasn't he finding this easier? Yet again he was wanting Fyo. Fyo who was supposed to write that poem about Brody for him. For how could he write one that was good enough himself?

"You fell out with her over me, didn't you?" He remembered Tammy telling him as much.

Oooh....I know I don't like her so I don't really care what she thinks but I don't think Brody would like you writting poems to Professor Bunbury. She said blankly...Mabye you should go to the library and get a poem book. Shrug.It seemed like a good Idea,but then if Bunbury had read the poem before she'd like know he copied it..

Pfft.Over you ? No waaay. She lied.She didn't want Torin to feel he'd cause them to argue So it was okay to lie.

"I know, but I can't help it. It was for Astronomy. I had to write an ode about someone and I picked her. And then I decided I should give it to her." Was he making excuses? Probably. Was he feeling guilty? Most definitely. Now that Shana mentioned it, it wasn't right. He was really starting to like Brody now. "I should stop giving her poems. You're right."

"I talked to her and she told me. It's okay." He understood that she was lying to spare his feelings. But really he was fine now that Tammy told him

As she walked into the student gardens, LouAnn took a long glance around at all the beautiful sights surrounding her. What a lovely place to be! Now why hadn't she thought to come here for 'quiet time' every now and then? She'd have to remember this place for future references. She wandered along rows and rows of trees, stopping occasionally to admire the way each and every one of them looked. Smiling when she reached a few on the end, for they looked as if they'd be pretty helpful in her hunt, LouAnn collected a few blossoms and stuffed them in her pockets, as well.

Cela had gone directly over to the cherry trees and was pleased to see some of the blossoms on the ground. She scooped them up, thanked the tree and moved on, humming happily to herself and giving the blossoms a good sniff.

And Torin was on a roll here. For no sooner as he had arrived there he saw blossoms on the ground. And they were from a cherry tree.

"Sweet," he called out as he bent to pick some up for him and Jack.

Torin was already way ahead of him as Jack entered the student gardens. He picked up the blossoms and looked at them, smiling when he realized that he knew what those were! "Ahhh, cherry!" he said with a grin. "Finally, a tree I recognize," he said with a chuckle.

"Ok, so we're doing pretty good with the wood--maybe we should look for some more creature stuff. Unless you want to go to the Whomping Willow? Maybe that can count as some of the wood..." he grumbled, lookng at the list again.