"It was itchy. Professor Bontecou make me drink my own potion after that in detention." She stuck her tongue out a little. It was a strangely cute gesture. Perhaps because she still had a very young look. "It grew out pretty long. It was supposed to be a potion to turn hair green, and I'd put it in the pumpkin juice at the Hufflepuff table. I think her name was Sarah. I probably coulda gotten away with it, but she really freaked out and I had the antidote for it so I gave it to the teacher, and of course since it was an unknown potion that I had the antidote to, I was kinda caught. It was that detention that he made me promise not to test unknown potions on students without their permission."

Josh stared at the Hufflepuff girl again when he heard her whisper something as she faced the other side back where Professor Lupa was sitting. Though he could not hear and get what she said, he was sure that it was some statement with meanings of no good about him.*sigh* So, he had to take care of this girl, too, later on.

Turning back to Jake, he spent quite a hard effort on not to laugh out loud as he saw Jake's facial expression filled with fear as he glanced at Lupa. Tehheee seriously, did he believe all those non sense? Yes, he did, well, because he was Jake the one who was going to be a Hello Kitty as an animagus. Maybe his patronus would be a Hello Kitty, too. No wonder.

On the other hand Josh was not expecting the Kitty to overreacted like that so he jumped when the Hufflepuff boy actually shouted and escape to the safety of the professors and...no! There was also Professor Female Lawson. Hopefully, none of them could possibly hear what he whispered to Jake so there might be a way to not to take much attention on himself.

His eyes still on Jake, he decided to use his acting skills and wore an annoyed face. ''What is your problem? Why are you shouting? We are trying to listen to a story here!''

And what was wrong with Slytherin prefects? Had they lately decided to make an oath of protecting the Huffies and Puffies for good? Besides this prefect was not as lovable as the other one, unfortunately. Especially Josh did not like the way he acted...and people thought he was the only one who was supposed to look for his attitude.

The Gryffindor did nthing but stare at the older Slytherin when he flicked a stupid card at him followed by a firm warning. Surely enough, Josh would keep acting for him too. This time he cared to look surprised ''What? What do you want?'' Hahaha this was tupid and probably no one was going to but it but at least it was making the things a little bit hard to figure out for an outlooker

Still trying to focus on the story Arya tried to ignore Jake's shouting.Out of the corner of her eye she saw him sit beside the professors and figured that the whole ordeal was over. The girl didn't see his tears as she her attention was still focused on the story.

Then he started to shout again, the party pooper. Again she turned to the griffindor, fustrated that he couldn't just sit quietly like the rest of them. "Why are you shouting?! Shut up so we can hear!" People like him was the reason why she never went to story time at the bookstore, someone always had to be disrespectfull. She turned back to the professor after seeing that Raiden was handling the party pooper, secretly hoping he would make him leave.

Giggling at what Professor Lawson was saying, Ivory took another sip of her punch from her bendy straw before passing it to Arya. More beautiful....hehheh....

The more she spent time with this professor the more Ivory liked her, and considering she already liked her a lot this was saying something-and they had so much in common!!!

Admiring the Professor's handiwork in the small mirror, she realized she'd actually missed this-it had been so long since her mother had brushed her hair before she went to sleep, and this one small act reminded her of her mom and home enough that she felt all cozy inside.
"Thanks Professor!"

Looking at her shyly, she decided the Professor needed a compliment as well.
"You look wonderful too!" Feeling the slight squeeze on her side, Ivory returned the small hug tenfold so she would know how much she appreciated it.

Then looking around covertly she rubbed her hand together excitedly.....who should be next?

Suddenly she straightened up, and turned to Arya with a gleam in her eye and jerking her head to the side trying to indicate the Professor.

"I think...I think...that it should be you!"

Smiling widely, she wagged her finger at Professor awesome-Lawson, "I think you should let Arya and I do your hair!....that is if it's alright with you of course.."

She kind of trailed of the end not sure if she was being a little to overzealous, but keeping her fingers crossed behind her back for good measure.

Arya looked to her friend bright eyed. She loved playing with her little sisters hair, doing the professors hair would be so much fun. Plus she could use something to distract her from party pooper griffindor. She nodded in agreement, looking now at Lady Lawson. "Pretty please..."

"Thanks Neo. I need all the practice I can get." Secretly, she was hoping for a little girl. She imagined Daddy and daughter together and smiled at the vivid picture that came into her head.

"Speaking of keeping warm... I never got to thank you for all the firewood. It's really come in handy lately." She smiled over at Neo appreciately. He was really too good to her.
Iliana was shocked when she saw the look on Jacob's face as he stood up and moved closer to them. Catching his attention, Lawson gave him a concerned looking frown and mouthed the words 'What's wrong?' as she motioned him closer still.
Professor Lawson eyed the girls with a rather amused look on her face. "Well, I guess that's only fair. After all, you trusted me with your hair," she whispered. "Everything you'll need you'll find in my little case."

Should she be scared?! Probably so, yes! But it was just hair... and Iliana Lawson was far from vain.

"Go for it, girls."

Hearing Josh reply to him, Jake tried to use his 'SAVE FERRIS' shirt to wipe his eyes, and then switched to the bunny toy he had. Now HE'D get in trouble for losing his temper and telling Josh to stop and moving away.

He KNEW it.

When Professor Lawson caught Jake's attention, the boy looked at her for a moment or two, biting his lip. Was she going to tell him off for shouting?

Deciding to go for it, Jake grabbed his bunny and pillow and shuffled to the professor, looking back at Josh in an accusatory way.

"He's d-d-d-ddddoin' it aguhh-again," he sniffed, wiping his tears with the bunny ears again. Automatically, he started sucking his thumb again, already calming down.

Professor Lawson followed Jake's eyes towards Josh and sighed. Hmpf! What a surprise. Trying not to sound too angry, Iliana tugged on Jake's hand and said, "Sit down beside me and Masterson, ok?" Surely no one would pick on him if he was surrounded by staff. (Unless they had some sort of death wish.)

This was SUPPOSED to be fun for the kids. Why did someone ALWAYS have to ruin it? And why did it ALWAYS have to be a Gryffindor?

Wiping his eyes with one sweep of the back of his hand, Jake sniffed again and nodded. That sounded like a smart move. Plus, Jake just didn't have the energy to watch his own back today.

"'Tay," he mumbled, placing his pillow back on the floor and curling up to make himself as comfortable as he could, thumb and bunny in place.

Looking round at Professor Lawson, then to Masterson, then back to Lawson again, Jake smiled around his thumb, "S'anks," he said, the word sounding weird all distorted. Then he lay his head down on the pillow, looked up at Lupa, and used the bunny to wipe away the tears that were still deciding to spring up in his eyes.

After topping up her goblet of pumpkin juice, Kiri returned to her sleeping bag to find it occupied not only by Raiden but a girl she hadn't met before - but vaguely recalled seeing her in the Slytherin common room a few times. That in itself wasn't a problem, but why did it have to be another girl? She was more than welcome to sit on Kiri's bag as well, but... Raiden being constantly surrounded by good-looking girls was a bit... difficult to deal with at times.

As she pitter-pattered closer on naked feet, careful not to tread on fingers or stumble over anyone who was listening to Professor Lupa's storytelling (she had finally started!), she decided she'd try to ignore the girl and just have a good time. At least she wasn't clinging to Raiden like a needy newborn marmot.

Alright, Kiri conceded to herself, that had been too mean. She didn't know Neptune - who seemed a bit hyperactive but was probably a nice person all the same.

"Hey," she whispered, sitting down on Raiden's other side and giving the girl what she hoped was a friendy smile. "Hi."
But Raiden was occupied. Kiri followed the frown on his face... Oh, it was that Gryffindor that had got into trouble with Professor Lawson in Care of Magical Creatures. (She's the law, son.)
What had he done now? He had a knack for picking fights with the wrong people - first the professor, now Raiden; but this was a good opportunity for Kiri to get rid of some of her pent-up annoyance.

"Quiet," she hissed, glaring at the boy. "I'd like to hear the story." She smirked. "I know it might be difficult for you to concentrate, but some of us do understand big words."

Lina raised a brow at the boy who attempted to play innocent. Yeah, that was so convincing after he made a boy cry. A boy her age... being a baby... but still. "He told you to knock it off. Are you hard of hearing?" she hissed. It was hard not to sound mean, talk sternly, and still be whispering at the same time. "Now bugger off. We're talking."

"Hi," she responded with a smile and a wave.

MRPH. Raiden let his eyes go past Lina again and set on the Gryffindor. Playing innocent? Really? That was the best he could do?

No wonder Daphne mourned for Godric Gryffindor. If there were more like this in that house, the poor man deserved an apology.

"My ears aren't like this for decoration," he said sourly, pointing at the kneazle ears as he spoke. "Hard as you might find it to hear, I don't. Stop picking on other students. Or you'll end up in detention again."

Eyes flicking next to another voice rebuking the boy, he found Arya. Sitting with Mrs. Professor Lawson and Mr. Masterson. Which was just genius, seeing as... well they would handle it if the boy kept up his shenanigans. Good. He watched the girl turn back to whatever they were doing, glad that... well she felt secure enough in herself to stand up to an older student. Good girl, Arya was.

"Ignore him," he said firmly to Lina and Kiri, taking a deep breath to calm down the annoyance at the kid. "He's beneath you, if he keeps it up I'm sure Mrs. Professor Lawson and Mr. Masterson will give him an earful."

Er.

"Also... Lina, meet Kiri. Kiri, this is Lina." He gestured between the two, not sure if they'd actually met before or not. One could never know lately.

"Shhhhh..." Alessia said to the children who were making noise. "If you want to speak to each other you can, but whisper, please. Others would rather hear the story." She straightened out and continued.

Click Me!

ooc: Her parents, afraid now of what their daughter had become, sent her to another school far away from where she was raised. This did not mean they did not love her, but fear makes people do awful things.

Hmm? People were speaking to one another?

Frowning, Evelyn looked around to see what Lupa was talking about, and was quite surprised. It did seem like a lot of people were talking to one another and, a lot of them were directed at Josh. Actually, a lot of those people were Slytherin too. Huuuh...well that just won't do.

She would've went over and sat by him, and just glare at everyone, but she was comfy at the moment. But, she wanted to go sit by him! Why was he all the way over there anyways when he could be by her!? It was probably that one girl he was talking to earlier. Pssh. Whatever her name was. She would have to find out...

Lina gave an apologetic wave to the professor and made sure to keep her voice low. "Please to meet you, Kiri," she said sweetly. Hmm... how was it that she mostly knew other students? At least, she thought they were older. She wasn't exactly the biggest student in her year.

Kay seeing that Josh was, well being Josh she went to make sure that Jake was ok. "Professor Lawson, is jake ok?" she asked sitting down by them. Kay had never been to a sleep over so she didn't bring anything with her. Just her fuzzy bunny slippers. "I saw Josh being mean."

"It's ok Jake. People are just not nice sometimes." Kay said softly to him. He looked really upset and Kay didn't think that was right. They were having fun right? She reached out and touched his arm and rub it up and down. Kay smiled at him and hoped that Jake would be ok.

Arya excitedly ROLLED over to the box, yes crawling wouldv'e been easier but where's the fun in that? She picked a few choice things out then ROLLED over to one side of Lady Lawson and began to gently fix up her hair. The professor had such beautifull long hair, to Arya it was like playing with a super sized barbie doll."You have niiice hair Lady Lawson..."she slowly ran her fingers threw Lawson's hair before going back to work, resisting the urge to wistle.

Now doing hair wasn't her strongest suit, but she wasn't to bad at it having played with her little sister and mom's hair. And with Ivory helping out she was sure it would turn out good...she hoped.

While she played with the professors hair, Arya listened to the story, fleeling bad for talking so loud. Ohhhh, it was getting sad. They sent the poor girl away, now who was she gonna turn to for help if not her parents. She listened closely as started to feel cheey for some strange reason...

Oh no!

Now this story was getting sad, and less scary. Destiny was still scared as she seen Kay go over and comfort Jake..ehhh! She will have nightmares now.

Destiny totally understood why this Lettie girl's parents would send her away. The curse of the Yeti is nothing to take lightly. Yeti's have the ability to make ice cubes out of thin air, and they do not use those for making iced tea. Nope. They shove them down unsuspecting victims robes.

Awful things, those Yeti.

Maybe she would have to talk to Josh, later? Gold frowned, and crossed her arms against her chest. She didn't actually realize she did that. But she knew, knew pretty well, that she did not like how Josh and his friends picked on Jake. It just wasn't right.

... and now Jake looked all upset. Ugh, Josh had ruined the story, for her! Gold let out an inward sigh, and turned her attention back to Professor Lupa. Not too far, Ivory and Arya looked pretty happy to be with Professor Lawson and that, at least, was a good thing. The sight actually made Gold feel sort of comfortable. Warm and rather fuzzy.

"Kiri!" she whispered, waving to the Slytherin Captain, who had just returned. "Want a chocolate frog?" Because she was unwrapping one, and because chocolate was delicious. Yumm.

Just as the suspense was making her feel all itchy, Jake screamed, causing the 3rd year to involuntarily kick her legs out and sit up, turning around, hand already moving for her wand.

But it was just that one angel boy. Nose scrunching up, Wesley tried to diagnose the situation, but couldn't quite figure it out. Sure Angel Boy had kicked Jake in DADA Muggle Studies, but Wesley had known it was an accident. Surely this was an accident too.

But still, Jake was crying. And Wesley, Wesley found herself on the verge of tears as well. Because of the Hufflepuff Killer. Because Professor Truebridge was fired, and Professor Kapoor was missing. Because Mariel was gone, and Irial wasn't coming back, and Miranda had almost di-been really hurt. Because Lettie was cursed.

And then Professor Lupa was talking. And Wesley, seeing that Professor Lawson and Kay the Quidditch Player were helping cheer Jake up and yearning to see how the story turned out, snuggled back into her plush bag.

And, deep in her heart, she was comforted by the fact this story had a happy ending. Because every story did. That was just a fact.

Marie was sitting there all comfy almost falling asleep while listening to the story when who should walk in.... None other than Kay. Looking around for the Gryffindork Rex he was no where to be found. 'What, Kay alone without her dog Rex.'

Wait, Kay is sitting by Jake.... and she's rubbing his arm. Oh boy, there's gonna be trouble in the land of Rex when he finds this out, and he would find it out, Marie would make sure of that, bwahaha.

She looked at Destiny and Evelyn, "Can you believe that? Kay is actually touching Jake and there is no Rex around. I do believe someone needs to tell him about this," she whispered. 'And I am just the person to do it', she thought.

Go for it?

Yay!

Ivory only contained a squeal of excitement because she had great respect for story tellers. Smiling ecstatically though, she scooted her bum over to behind the Professor, using her gluteus maximus muscles alone mind you.

Taking some of the Professor's hair in her hand her marveled over its softness and merely finger combed it for now.

As Arya rolled her way to the box and back over this time Ivory could not contain her giggles, and immediately followed it up with an apologetic glance to Professor Lupa.

Hearing Arya's new nickname for the Professor, Ivory nodded affirmatively. It was perfect!

"Yup it's so soft and manageable."

Arya was expertly (at least that's how it seemed to her) moving Lady Lawson's hair this way and that and Ivory decided she would copy her movements to the left side of the Professor's hair.

Listening to the story as she worked a small brush through the hair in what she thought were pretty arrangements, she whispered softly to Arya. Should they do the hair this way? Up? Half down? Curls? Straight? Cones?

After much debate, they set to work brushing here and there and one clip over here and a small flower there...until their masterpiece was complete.

Sure it was a little haphazrd but in her eleven year old eyes it was perfect and feminine and just plain Lady Lawson-y.

Grinning along with Arya, she handed the Professor the small mirror and waited, hoping she'd like it.

Ohhh this story was getting way too interesting.

Destiny could not wait until Professor Lupa told them what happened next. She snuggled into her sleeping bag, and waited.

Until someone scared the Bertie Bott's out of her. And when someone is scared, they seem to yell the first thing that comes into their head, and that is what Destiny did, 'YETI!'

Covering her mouth, Destiny turned to the scarer, and it was definitely not a yeti, it was only Marie. At least she wasn't the only one who seemed to notice the grossness closeness between Kay and Jake. 'Yuck.' It was the only thing that described that.

Destiny did smirk at Marie's idea. Who would've thought Marie could be so..evil? And Marie could have the honours of telling Tyrannosaurus Rex, since Destiny didn't really like him.. 'Yes. I think you would be the perfect person to do that.'

Destiny would watch from afar.

Hmm? What was this? Something about Kay... Wow, Evelyn was losing her touch. She should've been able to spot what was happening in a blink of an eye. Not find out a minute after she had already been looking around. Maybe it was the late hour and the story telling that was getting to her. She was feeling tired at the moment after all...

But sure enough, looking a little past Josh, she spotted Kay and Mr. Stutters. Both sitting by two professors. Well, if you call a groundskeeper a Professor. Probably not. So, sitting by a professor and groundskeeper. That wasn't a surprise at all really, but what did surprised her, and echoed by Marie's words, was that there was no Rex in sight. "What? Is he still upset over Slytherin's loss or something?" she whispered back, still not able to grasp that in her mind that Rex wasn't cheering for at the match earlier that day.

And, wow. Was the story getting to Destiny or something? Or the food...

Turning her head to stare at her friend with a perplexed expression, she didn't move her gaze or speak for a good minute or so. Not even blinking. Until she just had to ask. "What...was that for?!" she hissed slightly, raising a brow at the Slytherin.

For one, she yelled that word awfully loud and surely that would attract the attention of a Professor or two, something she didn't want, and two, why did it have to be THAT word? Forget Kay and Mr. Stutters..."I think you are hanging around with your grandma too much, Destiny."

Marie jumped and about hit her head on the wall when Destiny screamed. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." Either Destiny was just really absorbed in the story or she really was scared.

"Oh I will enjoy telling him this one." the question was, would he believe her?

She leaned back against the wall again and tried to get comfy so she could listen to the story. It just wasn't working though, every time she looked over at Lupa there was Kay, rubbing on Jake..... GROSS!!

She then tried closing her eyes but that didn't work either. The image of the two puffy huffies was burned into the back of her eyes.

Great, now she would never be able to sleep.

'Is who still upset over Slytherin's loss', she thought. Looking around seeing Kay still sitting there it hit her, oh yeah, Rex, he was cheering for Slytherin to win. Which reminded her, she still had not talked to him about that. Maybe she would use that as an excuse to talk to him, then she would mention Kay and little Jakey.
"Um I don't know, maybe. Then again maybe he finally dumped the huffy puff". Nah, Rex didn't seem that smart, he was probably lost and couldn't find his way to the Great Hall.