Michelle was happily back in Hogsmeade again. She was enjoyingher term a lot! But she was also missing her mum and sister. She felt homesick most of the times, at night while in bed. But Hogsmeade was a wonderful place to forget about your worries. She took off her cardigan, took a seat and ordered butterbeer. She drank and read her book at the same time, wondering if a friend would come along.

Jason saw a lonely girl at the other table. "What are you reading?" Jason asked her. " Is it interesting " ? Jason asked her. " My name is Jason Potter Weasley" he introduced himself to her.

Fallon brushed the snow off of herself as she entered the Three Broomsticks with Iris. She sat at the table, her coat on the back of her chair, while Iris went and got butterbeers. When Iris came back, Fallon grabbed hers and took a sip. She noticed Lyra sitting by herself, but she didn't give her any more notice then that. She laughed a little as Iris got right to the point.

"Well, we got to talking to Shana and then when Shana walked away it got a little awkward. Finally Evan stuttered out, 'Are we sweethearts now?' I said yes, but only if he wanted to. I didn't get a reply so I again asked 'Do you wanna date?' and he said yes." Fallon looked up at Iris. "Get all that?"

Iris listened to Fallon, grinning slightly. "Yeah... I got it all." She took a sip of her butterbeer then smiled at Fallon. "Even though I can't stand him, I think that was pretty cute of him to ask you out like that." She nodded then grinned again. "Aaaand ... What's happened since then? because Shana and I were talking whilst this must have gone on and that was AGES ago." Iris looked at her bottle and sighed quietly. Why were Fallon and Evan so ... must she say it: Adorable together, and Aaron still couldn't look at her normally anymore?

''Nothing'' Josh replied quickly trying to resist the urge to remind her. He wished to forget it like she seemed to do, maybe his memory was not in such a bad condition at all. ''Forget about it'' he managed to pronounce the words, plus her look told him that it was risky.

''You know Rafe?'' he asked as he stepped inside the bar. ''You sounded like you do'' continuing to speak he looked around for an empty table. ''Ah very crowded isn' it. You know, i am scared of no snake. Crowd is good. They can be so great but no, i'll be the most annoying chaser they'll ever face. That means it'll be warm enough inside for quite a long time.'' he mixed the sentences since he was thinking about two things at once.

Fallon took a sip of her butterbeer. "Thanks Iris," Fallon said smiling at Iris. "We haven't really done much yet. Our first date is actually for later today." Fallon grinned at the thought. "So, what's up with you and Aaron? You guys have been acting kind of weird lately?"

Aaron made his way into the Three Broomsticks. He never got a chance to go to Hogsmeade last term, so he thought he would check it out, and low and behold, there were his friends. He smiled and sat down next to Iris, trying to let her know that he was cool with what happened still the previous month.

"Fancy seeing you guys here," he said sitting down. "What are we drinking?" he asked taking his coat off.

Iris laughed as Fallon grinned after saying this... Iris actually didn't realise quite how much Fallon liked Evan. "Me and Aaron ... That ... was ... kinda my fault ..." Iris looked down at the parchment coaster on the table. "... A few weeks ago ... We were in the pumpkin patch ... and we somehow ended up having a big tickle war ..." Iris looked at Fallon to make sure she was following.

"And ... Aaron had pinned me to the floor, and was sat on top of me ... and I wanted him to move ... because his elbow was digging into my back ... and I wanted him to get off me ... He wouldn't, Aaron just kept on tickling me ... So ... I decided to fight back ... tickled him til I could sit up a bit ..." Iris looked away from Fallon, begining to go red, "And ... I ... had to think of a way to get him off me completely ... So ... so ... I ... kinda ... sorta ... kissed him ... " Iris was talking slowly still, as if she had to think about how she was going to say the story of events,

"Aaron was kinda shocked ... So was I ... but I pushed him off me and ran to the other side of the pumpkin patch and sat on a pumpkin.... When he finally got up and came back over to me ... everything was just ... awkward ... you know? ... " She looked back at Fallon, her face a lovely shade of red. "I ... I don't know what made me do it though ... " Iris shut up quickly as she spotted Aaron come in.

Iris half smiled at Aaron as he sat next to her. So much for the girl talk. "Hi Aaron." She said to him, as he sat down. "Butterbeer." Iris looked at Fallon with a look that said ... Later maybe? ...

OOC=Aaron didn't hear any of what Iris said to Fallon, if he did, it would have only been bits of it.

Aaron saw that he came in at a bad time. "Am...I...uh... interrupting something?" he asked awkwardly prepared to get up and leave. They were the only friends he had, and, well, had no where else to go.

Iris looked up at Aaron. "No! ... Well ... kinda ... but its fine ... Me and Sarah can finish talking later, right?" She said looking to Sarah, looking slightly torn between wanting Aaron to leave so they could talk and wanting him to stay so that ... well ... so that he could stay, really. He was her friend too after all ... She smiled at him as he went to get his coat again. "Honest ... you don't have to leave if you don't want to..."

Aaron shrugged. "nah, I want to go to Honeydukes anyway." Aaron stood up and put his coat back on. "I'll see you guys later... i guess." Aaron walked towards the door. Stupid! You KNEW they didn't want you there.. But what were they talking about? He looked back at Fallon and Iris wondering, before walking out the door...

"Okay...?" Evelyn said, not really knowing what he was talking about. 'Something about snakes and crowded areas.' she thought, glancing around, finally finding an empty table close to the back. "There's one open." she said, pointing to it. "Yea, i know Rafe. We talked a little during the Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology class. We were at the Whomping Willow...and also partners for Divination."

She noticed it was very warm in the building, warm enough for her to take off her jacket, revealing her dark red long sleeve shirt. Suddenly she realized what he was talking about when he did the little 'You Did It' outburst. "Oh." surprised, she starred up at him wide eyed. "I-i...umm." Clearing her throat, she looked down in embarrassment, hoping her hair would cover her red cheeks.

Iris watched him get up anyway ... why? ... I'm such a moron ... "Oh ... ohkay ... I guess ... " She followed him with her eyes as he left, her eyes meeting his when he turned around at the door. She blushed and turned away from him, looking back to Fallon. Now what? ...

'Good eyes'. Josh followed her among the crowd to the empty table. And raised his eyebrows at her when he sat down ''So it sounds like you two were pretty glad with each other since you happened to partner up in more than one class'' 'What was that now? Idiot boy' he hoped that did not sound so...ironical as he took off his jacket and scarf. Then he looked around for a waiter to order butterbeers but stared back at Rose when she cleared her throat ''What happened?'' he asked looking confused.

"Umm, sure...i guess." she frowned, staring at him quizzically. "It's nice to partner with someone you have already met." Leaning back against the seat, she rubbed her hands together to get them warm. 'Should've brought gloves or something.' she mentally scolded herself for leaving her velvet gloves in the dormitory.

"Hmm? What happened? What?" she asked a little distractedly. She had missed his last question, her mind wandering for the moment. 'Gah, i need to pay attention!'

Fallon listened to everything Iris had to say, nodding her head to signal that she was listening every now and then. When Iris finished, she was shocked by what Iris had done, just because it was one of the last things she would expect Iris to do in that situation.

She was just about to say something when Aaron walked in. Fallon watched as Aaron and Iris talked about him leaving. She was just about to say it was okay if he wanted to stay when he said he wanted to go to Honeyduke's. She watched with Iris as he walked out of the door.

After he left, Fallon turned to face Iris. "So back to what we were talking about." She tried to remember what she was going to say before Aaron came in. "First things first: you kissed him! Not something I would expect from you, but it's not a bad thing. The awkwardness will go away, don't worry about that. You and Aaron are to close to let that affect your relationship. It'll just take some time." Falllon went over everything she said to make sure that she didn't leave anything out. "You know...for some reason, I feel like I sound like a therapist," she said before taking another swig of her butterbeer.

''I suppose you'r right'' Josh said. 'Relax boy. Rafe is a good friend of ya. He'd be of no harm' . He tried to close his mind to the side which said 'Anything is possible'. Plus she was a free girl and could do whatever she'd like to, he had no right to interrogate her moves or whom she was talking to. ''You just looked like something was wrong'' he explained and looked at her hands ''You looked down, tried to hide your face and now your attention is on how your hands feel'' he smiled ''Don't forget that i have a secret Ravenclaw side and good at observation''

She smiled sweetly at him, still rubbing her hands together. "Oh, umm yea. I realized what you were talking about when you were all 'I told you! I told you!'" she said, waving her hands in the air to make it a little more dramatic. "I didn't realize until now that i...did...that." she said, trailing off. 'Oh wow, pathetic ending Ev.'

''Good morning, hun!'' he said laughing ''And i doubt you regret it, do you? Just relax, i wont be annoyed if you'd like to do it again''. As he looked around for a waiter he spotted that Fallon girl, Evan's current sweetheart and an extremely funny idea of a prank occured to him on her sight. 'No, i have focus on Rose, not the right time' so he turned back to her ''I know the cure for your hands'' he said since generally his body temperature was higher than others especially in warm places, he started to rub his hands too but doing it as fast as he could.

Shaking her head and laughing, she moved in her seat so she was more comfortable. "Yea, need to wake up don't I?" she stared at her hands for a couple seconds, glad that he wasn't mad or anything about her kissing his cheek. 'Won't be annoyed if I did it again? Well that's good news...i guess." Her stomach suddenly did a flip and she got really nervous. 'Woah, what was that?'

Holding back her frown, since she has frowned enough for one day, she looked closely at what he was doing with his hands. "Aaaaand...that's the cure for cold hands?" she asked, chuckling. Her heart was beating a mile a minute and she had no idea why. 'It's just Josh. What's the problem?'

''Not that yet'' he replied with a matter of fact tone, he was focused on rubbing his hands faster and faster. ''But warm hands are. My hands generally all warm and i increase the warmth it keeps for a short time with doing that. Bascially the same thing as lighting fire with two pebbles'' he looked at her and laughed ''I think there's a low possibility that you ever did that, though. It's muggle stuff. They really know how to live comfortably without magic'' biting his tongue with concentration he did his last rubs and the next second, he covered her hands with his ''Woo, your hands are really freezing!'' he exclaimed ''But now you should feel the ice melting a little at least or i've been busy with nonsense all over again''

Now Evelyn was thoroughly confused, and a little apprehensive. 'Muggles...as if i didn't get enough of them during Muggle Studies class...' But all thoughts of muggles, and pebbles, disappeared from her mind when Josh suddenly grabbed her hands in his. "Wow, your hands are really warm." She said surprised, smiling at him. "Nope, no nonsense. Feels really nice actually."

Jason waiting for his Gryffindor friends and students. He drinks another butterbeer.

SPOILER!!: Josh and Evelyn

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''Not that yet'' he replied with a matter of fact tone, he was focused on rubbing his hands faster and faster. ''But warm hands are. My hands generally all warm and i increase the warmth it keeps for a short time with doing that. Bascially the same thing as lighting fire with two pebbles'' he looked at her and laughed ''I think there's a low possibility that you ever did that, though. It's muggle stuff. They really know how to live comfortably without magic'' biting his tongue with concentration he did his last rubs and the next second, he covered her hands with his ''Woo, your hands are really freezing!'' he exclaimed ''But now you should feel the ice melting a little at least or i've been busy with nonsense all over again''

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Now Evelyn was thoroughly confused, and a little apprehensive. 'Muggles...as if i didn't get enough of them during Muggle Studies class...' But all thoughts of muggles, and pebbles, disappeared from her mind when Josh suddenly grabbed her hands in his. "Wow, your hands are really warm." She said surprised, smiling at him. "Nope, no nonsense. Feels really nice actually."

After walking down the street he decided to just pop into The Three Broomsticks and randomly took a picture at a couple of people closest to him. It looked to be Evelyn and Josh, a couple of first years he knew. Evelyn from the many many classes they had together and Josh his fellow Gryffindor Quidditch player. He didn't have time to chat as he quickly CLICKed the shutter and leaving a blinding FLASH as he was through the door once more.

Evelyn stared curiously at there hands for a minute before looking up to Josh, and she was just about to open her mouth to say something when their was a bright Flash! "Woah!"

Blinking a few times to get the blinding white spots out of her eyes, she turned to see who, or what, it was. "Rafe?" she said, though she was unsure because she saw the figure walk back out the door. She was sure it was him though. "What was that?"