Phew! At least Sarah didn't seem to mind that Lucille was joining them. Though, the look the Prefect gave her when the other Badger mentioned the whole wall-incident made her frown and roll her eyes towards the ceiling. Guh! Soon the whole school would know about it. And all because of LUCILLE! "Whatever." Was the only comment she gave before turning towards Chris who had just joined them. No need to dwell on the subject any further.

"Hey Chris!" Nancy even directed a smile at the Gryffindor as she was indeed happy to see him. Upon noticing his cheery behavior, however, she cocked an eyebrow at him in lack of understanding. How could somebody be that happy during HERBOLOGY CLASS?! O__o Straaaaaange

Luckily Chris immediately skipped off to get the tea plant, so there was no need for Nancy to explain why she would be a bad choice to get it. First, she would probably drop in on the way back and second, she would probably not even take the right plant in the first place.

Nancy gave Lucille an incredulous look at her suggestion. SHE should go first plugging the leaves?! Ha! The Hufflepuff obviously did not know anything about her Herbology skills. Which were practically non-existent. "Uh...no, I'd rather not. I guess it wouldn't end too well for the plant if I do it." She gave a small dry chuckle before eyeing the two Prefects. "Any of you want to go ahead?" Chris seemed to be totally excited about anyways...

WOW! He called that. He had already begun drying them, but now waited for the instrctions for the spell that he had been to afraid to ask for. Next time he would trust his instinct!

Josh looked around blankly ''Tea'' then at the professor. They were supposed to make tea of their own? Yes. YAY!! Josh loooooved tea! Plus plucking some little leaves did sound like a piece of cake. If only there had been cake too, to eat with their teas. Teehee!

Anyway. Now all he needed was a group to work with. Easy thing. The moment he heard this, the Gryffindor boy stared towards the direction where Evelyn and Destiny was busy with each other and...oh! They already had two more Slytherins to work with them. Maria and...ugh, the Chelsea boy Evan. He could say nothing at this case, as he thought he already knew that he would not be the first choice for them if there were good snake friends around to work with. ''Hey! Does anyone still need someone to work with?''

Soo, he looked around for groups of two or three that he could join and that was when he heard Professor Bunbury calling the two girls to stay beside her. He looked over there then at the girls who seemed to be confused. Opps, trouble?

Candy was AT A LOSS! She loved tea but the professor was evil and hadn't given her points for her ANSWER! That was SO CRUEL! Especially when she had given that 'Puff points!

She was so UNHAPPY, she totally missed the grouping and was soon left without anyone to work with. Frowning, she decided to just get the plant and PLUCK THE LEAFIES when someone asked if anybody still needed someone to work with. OOOH! She did!

"Meee!" the firstie said all brightly, goin' up to the Gryffie. "I'm Candy! Do you wanna group, meestah?"

Whatever? Well SOMEONE was a grumpypoo today! Why was she getting so het up about the plant thing anyway? It was more or less a daily occurence for Lucille. And what was THAT look for? She was being niceeeee!

Lucille turned to the other two. "That works for me," she said.

Jack watched as Sidney began to collect the leaves off the plant, and he too started to grab a few of the small leaves and began to pluck them off. After a while he had a small little collection on the table in front of him, so he let Sidney and Fred have the rest of them as he waited for her to continue.

I hope she doesn't make us drink the stuff, he thought to himself. BLEHHH.

As the rest of her teamates begain to pick out the smallest leaves on the plant she decided to start picking some herself. She reached over and began to pluck tiny leaf after tiny bud off the plant that her teaates had not noticed. When she felt she had gotten all of them she had a a pretty good sized pile which she suspected they would use to make tea. FUN

Bella looked closer to the table, which held the plant. She watched as Mina plucked a leaf from it really gently. She moved her hand towards the plant and plucked another leaf, hoping she hadn't damanged the plant. She smiled up at her friends.

Setting down the leaf next to all the other leaf's, and pod her friends had collected, she looked at them, "Im in Third Year Ravenclaw" She told them, smiling. "Hey Melanie, nice to meet you" She added to her friend

Chris did seem to be in an extremely cheerful mood when he joined up with them.Not that it was a bad thing, sort made up for the mood Nancy had sunken into since Lucille arrived.Weird.Must be something to do with the "Whatever" wall incident....Hmmm.Either way the girl seemed nice enough, and Sarah beamed at her as she shook the hand she was offered, just as Chris arrived. "Nice to meet you Lucille," she nodded.

Turning to Chris she gave him a confirming nod as well, and watched as he skuttled off to get the plant.He was back in the blink of an eye, and Sarah eyed the leaves trying to work out which ones they had to pull off.She looked up when he asked who was going first.Lucille didn't seem to want to, and Nancy..well she didn't either.Both of them were looking towards the Prefects expectantly....OH.

"Uhhh I guess I could," Sarah shrugged, looking between all of them.If she didn't it seemed the task would never get done....Carefully moving some of the bigger leaves aside with her fingers, Sarah spotted a little one hiding near the middle of the plant.Ever so gently she gave it a little twist at the base and it came off in her hand. "Ha, that wasn't so bad.Came out quite easy.Who wants to go next? I don't think you'll damage it if you're careful," she smiled, giving them a knowing look.

Poor Evelyn and Destiny were in trouble with Bunbury but hopefully Bunbury was a woman who liked colour pink so, as Josh guessed, she would not them in any way. She was not the Lawsonator after all.

When he could take his eyes off the Slytherin girls standing beside the Pinky Red Professor, he looked down at the dark green tea leaves and it was when a respond for his calling of someone to work with came. He looked at the girl who called him a 'meestah', oh she was a house-mate, and grinned widely ''Yeah, sure. Candy, what a sweet name!'' he laughed ''And i am Joshua''

Evan had been so distracted with the teacher's red!hair and everything that was going on that he didn't even notice the girls had gone to grab a tea plant. When he could shake it off, he turned to look where the girls were. Oops. Evelyn and Destiny were standing by the professor. As he examined the room better, he also saw Josh was there too. Idiotic Manchester fan. Chelsea had beaten them though with Terry's skilful head. He smirked as he turned to look for Marie. There she was. He quickly went to her.

Looking at the plant, he asked "Ready?" They were going to touch a plant. Splendid (!).

Barry gave Daphne a little nod "Would you rather that I just came and started picking?" he asked. Of cource she wouldn`t have turned him away. He was very likable, who didn`t like him? Well there was...

Back to work. When Daphne went off to talk to that other girl, another one of Raidens friends. So he walked over to Raiden and started picking the leaves with him. They didn`t really talk anymore. He asked him in a low voice "So Raiden. How you feeling now?"

Then his voice was called and he looked over to Kay "Um Kay, sure if our groups not full" He looked to Raiden. Was the other girl ?(Neptune) part of their group?

"Okay! Great!" The 13-year-old exclaimed, before frowning with seriousness and concentration. Standing on her tip-toes, forming a telescope view with both hands, Wesley began to search the crowd.

But it wasn't easy finding anyone, because her view was blocked by something greyish-black. The color reminded her of the sweater she was wearing. Puzzling over this, the Hufflepuff jumped at the sound of a voice and dropped her hands.

Oh! Eyes widening with recognition, Wesley grinned. It was that one scary boy she'd sat next to on the train!

"Sure!" she greeted him brightly, admiring his hair and wishing hers was like it, instead of stringy from the heat and moisture.

The plant. Mind drifting back to the dirty task assigned them, Wesley bit her lip and wondered if she could, like, be a holder - holding the buds the others plucked. So she wouldn't have to pull any herself.

Arya looked up from there pile of leaves and stoped wistling as the professor spoke. Seeing how they seemed to have enough leaves, she smiled back at Cela while waiting to learn the new spell. She took out her wand and twirled it inbetween her fingers, excited to learn yet another spell.

"Alright, group, here's our plant," said the lanky Gryffindor, bringing back the young shrub. The leaves looked delicate and pretty, and she could see that the ones they were supposed to pick were the tiniest and most delicate of them all. She did feel bad for having to tear at the leaves, but she knew that when the buds got plucked off, the plant would grow itself about twice that number to replace them with, soon enough.

She set the plant on the desk that they would be working at, and said, "O-ok, who goes first? Does anyone remember exactly what the professor said? I seem to recall delicate buds and the like,"

EEK. Lucille put on her "brave" face, which basically meant squaring her shoulders and pursing her lips. "Ok," she said. "I guess i can do that." She reached out her hand and hovered around, deciding which one to go for. She spotted a teeeeeeny leave, quite near the top that looked all loneyly. Like it WANTED to be picked. THEN SHE WOULD PICK IT!! YAYY!!

She reached towards it and grasped it between her finger and thumb, and gently twisted untill it cam off in her hand. She did it? SHE DID IT!!

Wow, she COULD be gentle.

Fed noticed his teaates picking the small leaves off the plant as as the professr had asked and decided to join them and plucked a couple of small leaves one by one till he had a pile about as big as Jack's.

Hmmm what? Raiden glanced at Barry, slightly confused. Why was he asking? Of course he was alri-

Oh.

Ooooooooh.

"'m fine," he mumbled, sparing a look at Professor Bunbury. "Everything's fine."

Not really quite like that, but... well he could fake it. Barry would only try to help, and... well enough people were involved. He'd even written to Plymouth about it...

"Actually we have four," he said to the younger girl as she approached. He didn't look the least bit sorry about that. He liked the people he was working with. "The professor said those without groups should go to the front and pick leaves from the plants up there."

He gestured toward the front of the room, giving the girl a nod before going back to what he was doing. Did they have enough? Surely there wasn't much more left on the plant, and they were only four... he paused, and eyed the leaves collected in front of Daphne.

Marie was still watching Destiny and Evelyn really hoping they didn't get in trouble for the prank she had pulled on them when Evan was suddenly back at her side.

"Oh, erm, yeah I'm ready." She handed him the non-finger biting plant so he could pick some leaves off it. She still had the one she pulled when she made Destiny believe the plant had bitten her finger off, she just didn't feel like pulling anymore now. She was too distracted by what was going to happen to Evelyn and Destiny.

Nicoletta went to stand next to them. There was a little firstie from her house, a little firstie from gryffindor, and the other gryffindor looked about her age. "Soooo... I guess we get a plant then."

Yuck. Plant. And Evan was supposed to touch it, and collect its leaves. Tea plant shouldn't have much of a sap, but this was magic. Evan could find himself all covered in a sticky white liquid, which would be an ew and his reason for running away from this class.

Giving the plant a suspicious look, he cautiously took it and raised it to his eye level to examine. It didn't look harmful... but then again, he bet Lord Voldemort didn't look harmful at the beginning either. Nooo. Mr. Plant couldn't get him by standing there innocently.

He slowly touched to one of its leaves. Nothing -naturally- happened. Encouraged by this, he sloooowly picked his first leave. So this wasn't so bad. The plant looked totally Muggle. He got faster, and in a few minutes, he collected a pile. Now Marie's turn.

Evelyn smiled as she plucked off more leaves. The small ones that were near the end of each branch. "How are you going there, Gin?"

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Whaaaaat?

Why was Bunz staring at her like that? She could tell it was directed to her even without her glasses on. For a moment, Destiny was scared, but when she was called to the front of the class she became terrified! Angry Bunz is scary Bunz..sorta like Kazi.

Oh!

Maybe she finally realized a hug will do her good! Not being terrified anymore, Destiny shoved her glasses on her face and skipped walked up to the Professor. Standing at the Professors side, she smiled, not saying a word. She would let Bunz make the first hugging move.

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Whaaa? Was she serious? They didn't even do anything though! They were the victims of a...really good...prank thing. Uuuuggggghhhh!!

Sighing, she moved around her chair, glancing at Destiny who was moving towards the Professor as well. Standing next to Bunz...maybe she would hug her then. Then she'd win that bet! Walking quickly, she stood by the Professor's left side, taking a tiiinnyy step closer.

WOOT! She was totally going to win. But another question came to mind which confused her. Were they supposed to stay by her side the whole time? Did that mean they weren't aloud to do the tea thing?

"All right. We're learning the hot air drying spell to dry out the leaves you've picked. First of all, Destiny and Evelyn are going to demonstrate the spell on each other."

Bunz took a step to the side of the front of the room and carelessly flicked her wand at the girls. Now that they were rather drenched, they would have to "sink or swim" and learn this spell quickly.

"The incantation is 'siccus aerous' - that's siiiigh-cus-air-rous. The wand motion is two little twirls with your wand in a circular motion followed by a long, drawn-out wand motion up and down the length of whatever you're drying out. For example, if I were to dry out my hair," not that Bunz would ever get her hair wet right now, "I would say 'siccus aerous' and then move my wand like this."

And thus she demonstrated up and down the length of her head as a steady stream of light, warm air whooshed out.

"You'll do this to your baby tea leaves, once our student leaders demonstrate properly, and you'll go slow so the leaves do not blow around every which way. Understand?"

Nicoletta nodded as she showed them how to perform the spell. Siccus aerous, got it!

Okay, so Evan had his pile of tea leaves, now it was her turn. She took the plant back from him and looked to see if she could find any more small leaves. Yep, right there near the bottom were several baby leaves just waiting for her to tug and pull at them.

She started pulling them off and before she knew it she had several of them laying in front of her. The original one she pulled off the plant was off to the side. Maybe she would save that one and give to Destiny, sort of a souvinier of the prank she pulled on her.

Now to wait...again...on the professor. It sure did seem like this class was moving slow today. Then again maybe it was just becuase she was sitll wondering what Bunz was going to say or do to Destiny and Evelyn. Not wanting to think about it anymore she turned her attention back to Evan. "Do you know how to do the drying spell?" If he did maybe he would show her and she could practice it while she waited.....without her wand of course, wouldn't want to accidently blow something up if she used the wrong wand movements.

Oh, finally, the professor was giong to show them what to do.
Oh no, Destiny and Evelyn were all wet, she had a feeling they would not find this funny.