Ari moved to the side a bit as someone sat down next to her, not bothering to incline her head; she kept reading, assuming that the person had their own things to do. But when Ari detected the still silence, she was expecting what she heard next, but not so bluntly. She jumped, slightly, stopping her fingers. Sitting up, Ari turned her head, smiling. "Yes...yes, I am," she laughed, detecting the awkward pause that one heard when someone had said something they thought they only thought. That is, didn't mean to say out loud.

Ari chuckled, pressing her dark glasses closer to her face, "You've never noticed me?," she giggled again. Most people didn't notice her, merely overlooked her.

"Noticed you?" Allison repeated. She was pretty sure she would have noticed her had she actually been near her before. Digging in her memory for any sort of recollection, she shook her head. Only to smack herself with her hand, when Allison realized the girl had no clue she was shaking her head. Pouting at the dilemma, and at the nagging feeling this was going to be an awful wake up call for her, she sighed.

"I'm pretty sure I'd've seen ya. NOTICED you I mean!" and she kept putting her foot in her mouth deeper and deeper. "I'm not someone to miss people easily. My mum calls me overly observant. By the way my name is Allison Scott...1st year. And obviously Ravenclaw cause I'm well in here."

Madiison Winloch ran into the common room with a large blue towel covering her head. Of course the girl hadn't really thought the plan through, for she had panicked when she had seen her own reflection in the mirror. You would too if, out of nowhere, you had enlarged teeth for no apparent reason and large purple blots all over your pretty little skin and dried blood from the cuts on your face.

And dirt. Oh, her poor dress was DIRTY. And just LOOK at her shoes.

And as the girl made her way across the common room with her eyes looking at one side of a blue towel, she bumped into a few things on the way until and ran right into someone.

OUCH. Her body still hurt. WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING, PERSON!

Ian, who had been standing in the middle of the Ravenclaw common room, wondering whether he felt like doing homework or not, blinked his blue eyes curiously as something took him out of his reverie.

Someone had bumped into him. People. Just ... lacked eyes. Or sight. Or something.

Forehead wrinkled thanks to the small frown slowly taking over it, McKensie's eyes ventured a glance at the culprit. Oh, look - a midget! A female midget with a terrible skin condition.

Puberty truly was evil to some people. "Ought to watch where you are going, kiddie. Though I'm sure having that blue thing ... around your head, can be distracting." One of his eyebrows jerked up a little bit. "Did a scorpion try crawl its way to your hair or something?" Hadn't Kellen done something like this when protecting his hair from Charlotte Marie?

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Ian, who had been standing in the middle of the Ravenclaw common room, wondering whether he felt like doing homework or not, blinked his blue eyes curiously as something took him out of his reverie.

Someone had bumped into him. People. Just ... lacked eyes. Or sight. Or something.

Forehead wrinkled thanks to the small frown slowly taking over it, McKensie's eyes ventured a glance at the culprit. Oh, look - a midget! A female midget with a terrible skin condition.

Puberty truly was evil to some people. "Ought to watch where you are going, kiddie. Though I'm sure having that blue thing ... around your head, can be distracting." One of his eyebrows jerked up a little bit. "Did a scorpion try crawl its way to your hair or something?" Hadn't Kellen done something like this when protecting his hair from Charlotte Marie?

If there had not been a towel in her way, this boy would have seen the LOOK Madiison was giving him under it. It was not a pretty look -well, it was. Any look she gave was pretty in a way, just not for him. While it was true that Di was on the short side, she was no 'kiddie'. She was thirteen. And she could totally kick his butt.

"No." Madiison replied, sulkily. Her mother would no approve, but she had a crisis she had to deal with first. Her TEETH were LARGE. "And I have that big blue thing over my head for a REASON." She informed him.

Just so they were clear. She did not walk around wearing a towel over her head all the time.

Or ever, really.

...

Stare.

WHOAAAAAAAA.

He completely missed whatever it was that the kid was telling him. "What ... " Ian McKensie was unsually out of words. Not only was the girl suffering from what undoubtedly was a very nasty case of acne, but there was also real funny about her mouth. No, not her mouth.

Teeth.

"What ever happened to you?" Ian's tone, while not impolite, reeked of utter shock and quite possibly a little fear, too, which was only accentuated by the small step back he took.

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Stare.

WHOAAAAAAAA.

He completely missed whatever it was that the kid was telling him. "What ... " Ian McKensie was unsually out of words. Not only was the girl suffering from what undoubtedly was a very nasty case of acne, but there was also real funny about her mouth. No, not her mouth.

Teeth.

"What ever happened to you?" Ian's tone, while not impolite, reeked of utter shock and quite possibly a little fear, too, which was only accentuated by the small step back he took.

Wha-WHAT?!

Madiison looked at the boy with horror. And the thing was, she could SEE him now. Unnoticed by her, her towel had slipped off her head and landed around her shoulders. And he could SEE her. He. Could. SEE. Her.

O_____O

But his question distracted her for a moment. What happened to her? "I ... don't know." Madiison said, her eyes brimming with tears threatening to burst forth. "I ... don't ..." Sob "... remember ..." And she didn't. She couldn't remember how this happened. "I don't know." She looked up at him, not noticing that he had stepped away from her. "I just .... woke up and my body was aching like mad and I had bruises and ..." Snifff. "And cuts all over me." Tears tickled down. IT HUUUUURT. "And then I looked in the mirror and ...."

...

Sob. WHY HEEEEER?! Why HER pretty face?

Uh-Oh.

Having three sisters back at home plus a sometimes emotional mother had taught Ian McKensie when to recognize to pre-bawling expression. You know, the one that took over a female's face before allowing tears to run down their cheeks. And while not all of them were EXACTLY the same (Greer's face tended to look as READ as an apple prior doing so) they were fairly alike.

Enough for him to just mentally prepare himself for it.

That didn't mean, however, that he could understand why on EARTH was the child crying in front of HIM?!

Ian looked at her. And the sobs. And the tears.

Shuffling his feet awkwardly, he took a step forward, and awkwardly patted her back. Merlin, hopefully whatever the hell that she had wasn't particularly contagious; imagine if that skin condition of hers happened to him, too? Granted, he was NOT Troll-like looking, but that didn't mean he looked like one of those ... male models. His looks were rather regular, and since there was nothing particularly STRIKING about him, Ian could only hope to be immune to her disease.

"Tissue?" Actually, more like handkerchief? His hand reached for his pocket ... and didn't find anything on it. Drat. Only sweets. "You can use my tie to blow your nose or, you know ... deal with the tears if you want." He pointed at his Ravenclaw tie.

... "Shouldn't you be on your way to the hospital wing or whatever?"

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Uh-Oh.

Having three sisters back at home plus a sometimes emotional mother had taught Ian McKensie when to recognize to pre-bawling expression. You know, the one that took over a female's face before allowing tears to run down their cheeks. And while not all of them were EXACTLY the same (Greer's face tended to look as READ as an apple prior doing so) they were fairly alike.

Enough for him to just mentally prepare himself for it.

That didn't mean, however, that he could understand why on EARTH was the child crying in front of HIM?!

Ian looked at her. And the sobs. And the tears.

Shuffling his feet awkwardly, he took a step forward, and awkwardly patted her back. Merlin, hopefully whatever the hell that she had wasn't particularly contagious; imagine if that skin condition of hers happened to him, too? Granted, he was NOT Troll-like looking, but that didn't mean he looked like one of those ... male models. His looks were rather regular, and since there was nothing particularly STRIKING about him, Ian could only hope to be immune to her disease.

"Tissue?" Actually, more like handkerchief? His hand reached for his pocket ... and didn't find anything on it. Drat. Only sweets. "You can use my tie to blow your nose or, you know ... deal with the tears if you want." He pointed at his Ravenclaw tie.

... "Shouldn't you be on your way to the hospital wing or whatever?"

The red blinked at him through her tears. He was offering her his ... tie? Blink. Blink. Blink. This boy was offering her his tie which, by the way, was still attached to his neck, to blow her nose with. AWWWWWWWWW! That was SO SWEET! And he was handsome too, mind. If her face had not been purple and red and her teeth had not been quite as large, the girl would probably have fluttered her lashes at the boy and pouted sadly and taken him up on that offer.

With the neck attached to the tie, obviously.

But Madiison shook her head at him. She was NOT getting near him with those large teeth. She could scare him away!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!

Her teeth. Oh, the injustice of it all. Why did this boy have to see her face the only time it was NOT as pretty as it usually was?

Pout. "Yes." Sniff. "I should ... go." Then, with one last sniff, the girl covered her head with a towel again.

She was NOT going to be seen by anyone else.

Now all she had to do was not bump into every person and thing she would encounter on her way from the common room to the Hospital Wing. WHY did it have to be so faaar away?!

At least his tie hadn't end up covered in snot and Merlin Knows What Else was covering the girl's skin? Because ... really. "Did someone put a jinx on you or something?" OOOH. "Or maybe you swallowed by accident one of those sweets that they sell at Zonko's?"

Completely possible. And funny, too, except he was not crazy enough to laugh in front of an emotional woman. Ian, contrary to popular belief, was not an idiot.

Oh, she was leaving. "Hmm." Well, the truth was, Ian was already over the shock of her appearance; it wasn't like he hadn't seen worse. Because Ian certainly had. "I'll go with you. If you pass out because of whatever it IS that you have on you is serious, you'll need someone to go and look for a teacher, right?"

Besides. Colby, Kellen and anyone else that would not mind to listen to him ramble, would not believe him when he told them that he'd actually been brave enough to walk beside someone with such a contagious disease. Noticing that she was putting the towel back on, Ian pointed out cheerfully, "If I were you, I'd take off that towel. It attracts a loooooot of attention, so I'm real certain that if you keep it, every single person that we pass by on the hallways will be looking at you."

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At least his tie hadn't end up covered in snot and Merlin Knows What Else was covering the girl's skin? Because ... really. "Did someone put a jinx on you or something?" OOOH. "Or maybe you swallowed by accident one of those sweets that they sell at Zonko's?"

Completely possible. And funny, too, except he was not crazy enough to laugh in front of an emotional woman. Ian, contrary to popular belief, was not an idiot.

Oh, she was leaving. "Hmm." Well, the truth was, Ian was already over the shock of her appearance; it wasn't like he hadn't seen worse. Because Ian certainly had. "I'll go with you. If you pass out because of whatever it IS that you have on you is serious, you'll need someone to go and look for a teacher, right?"

Besides. Colby, Kellen and anyone else that would not mind to listen to him ramble, would not believe him when he told them that he'd actually been brave enough to walk beside someone with such a contagious disease. Noticing that she was putting the towel back on, Ian pointed out cheerfully, "If I were you, I'd take off that towel. It attracts a loooooot of attention, so I'm real certain that if you keep it, every single person that we pass by on the hallways will be looking at you."

Stare.

This boy was ...

Hadn't she just told him she didn't KNOW?! "I. Don't. Know." There, she said it again for what seemed like the twentieth time. And it seemed like he thought it was funnnnnnny. Pout.

"Oh." Madiison bliiiinked at the boy again though her now tear-less eyes. He was coming with her?! That was sweet too, although the girl wasn't sure how much more serious things could get from here. Her TEETH were LARGE. Need she say that again? They were BIG. And her pretty face was ruined. And she didn't even know how.

... wait. He thought she had some kind of disease? "I am NOT sick." I think. "I just ..." Don't remember how this happened to me? OHMYGOD SHE WAS SICK! Maybe that boy who wanted silk had done this to her. The ONLY thing she remembered was that she told him to go get it from the market or something about insects. Wiiiiide-eyed, the girl wore a look that clearly stated that she was NOT paying attention to anyone or anything around her anymore.

That was, until she heard this boy speak.

Take the towel OFF? He was, officially, mental.

"No." She said, almost stubbornly. "I'd rather they stare at me because of that towel over my head than SEE me like this." Being called crazy or weird, was okay, but SEEING her when she was not pretty? Absolutely not.

Ian's eyebrows jerked up at her little tantrum. "If you are not sick then why are we going to the hospital wing?" Shrugging it off and not waiting for the kiddie's reply, he began to walk towards the entrance of the common room. "If you take it off and keep your head down, people won't really stare."

Conceited kid. She was so SURE people would want to LOOK at her. "Pretty sure everyone is too busy minding their business to look at you. In fact, I would not even have noticed had you not bumped into me."

Or maybe, just maybe, he'd just drifted off and completely forgotten where he'd been standing.

Entirely possible. "But, is your problem, not mine."

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Ian's eyebrows jerked up at her little tantrum. "If you are not sick then why are we going to the hospital wing?" Shrugging it off and not waiting for the kiddie's reply, he began to walk towards the entrance of the common room. "If you take it off and keep your head down, people won't really stare."

Conceited kid. She was so SURE people would want to LOOK at her. "Pretty sure everyone is too busy minding their business to look at you. In fact, I would not even have noticed had you not bumped into me."

Or maybe, just maybe, he'd just drifted off and completely forgotten where he'd been standing.

Entirely possible. "But, is your problem, not mine."

Meanie.

With a hmph, Madiison turned on her heel and headed towards the common room door, half contemplating just taking the towel off so she would not add to her existing bruises by banging into walls. And then, in a theatrical manner, the girl yanked the towel off her head and let it fall behind her. The towel did not land where she wanted it to. Glare. Something was WRONG with this day. This day .... was .... just .... BLEGH. Pout. Pout. Pout.

"Happy, now?" She asked him, tuuurning her not-so-pretty little head to look at the boy befure turning right back to the door and stepping out of it.

The boy was mean, the red decided, and therefore she did not care if he came with her to the Hospital Wing or not. He would be the one who would miss out on watching her heal and turn from an injured swan into a pretty swan.

Emily sat in a chair in the common room after she came in and dropped her bag to the floor. She plopped her head into her hands and started to cry. She had run into two people that day, and one yelled at her and she had to hide in the kitchen for an hour! Then she ran into Tibi when he was already hurt! She couldn't believe what she had done. "CURSE MY CLUMSINESS!" she wailed in a whisper like tone...

Ari laughed, giggling harder almost every time the girl spoke. She could tell she was one of those people who had no pause between thinking and speaking, but Ari didn't mind. "My name is Arienna Malone, but most people call me Ari. I'm a sixth year...Ravenclaw," she added, giggling, "It's nice to meet you."

Dalanie was minding her own business as a box and short letter fell in her lap.
With reading that she threw the letter aside and tore open the box. Inside she found plates, chocolate cake, 20 ice cream cones, birthday banner, balloons, another balloon, card from Leta, and present from all family. It was rattling. She decided not to open it until the party. She put a spell on the box to make it lighter. She took the box, held it tight, and ran off to go find Mina.

Namitha was finally alright.She had chicken pox and was in the hospital wing,from the starting of the year.So,she had made no friends.she decided to make some.She went to the boy and said 'Hi..I'm namitha,third year.Mind if I join you?'


She said 'Hi' to that guy too.

Looking up and pulling the pillow off his face as he heard a voice above him, Adam grinned up at the girl now peering over him. "Yeah, sure," he said, before realising he was still sprawled across the couch, with his legs across the other arm. Now, that couldn't look attractive, and plus, the girl had no room to sit. Swinging his legs down, Adam sat upright.

"Adam Stemp, fifth year. And that's Tyler, 'nother fifth year," he said, waving a hand over to his mate as he introduced him, too.

Tyler was talking wth Adam, typical guy stuff when a girl said something to them. Well, mostly Adam since she did say hi to Ty second. "Heyyy, I'm Tyler," he introduced himself and gave her a small wave. It was already January and he still kept meeting new people.

Bad people skills, Tyler.

Elora walked into the Ravenclaw common room. She was happy to see so many familiar faces. The common room always felt like home. She plopped down into an arm chair and began to read a book. She was hoping to catch someone, anyone's eye though.

'Pleased to meet you,Adam',she said and held her hand out to shake hands with him.

'Pleased to meet you too,Tyler' she said.





Namitha looked at the girl.'Hi' she said..'Oops did I disturb her?' she thought.She immediately said 'Sorry that I disturbed you..just wanted to make friends.'

Elora wasn't disturbed, just startled. But in a good way. No one had approached her since the beginning of this term... it felt good to hear someone talk to her. "Hello. Don't worry, you didn't disturb me." She sat up in the chair and closed her book. Then she offered a hand to the stranger." Hi, I'm Elora. Elora DeRellington. And you are?" Elora was hoping that this would be the beginning of a friendship. Her first one in a long time.

Damon sat among the couches that were available in the common room. He had to continue to catch up on his homework. He had done much of it already. Getting out the few books he had he started to study as calmly as he could. Doing homework was not very hard to do at all. All it took was patience.

"Same here, Namitha," he said and scratched the back of his head. Now to strike up a convo of some sort. "So, you're enjoying you're time being a Ravenclaw?"

Namitha was relieved.She was happy the girl wasn't disturbed.She smiled and said 'Namitha..Namitha Patil..third year..Nice to meet you'.She held out her right hand to shake hands with Elora.

'Yeah of cource,Ty..I just love it..',she said.'Umm..can I call you Ty?Tyler sounds a way too, what,formal..' she added.