The Jungle Gym & Playground
 

Fia made her way down to the grounds. The first thing she saw: A Jungle Gym! "EEEEEPPPP!" She ran as fast as she could and jumped onto the monkey bars, first swinging from her arms then turning upside down, hanging by her legs, rocking herself back and forth as her hair was standing up...or hanging down, which ever way one looked.

Ok so he was outdoors. He parents would be proud of him. He wasn't usually one to venture beyond the door of his room or stage. He had even found his way to some rudimentary metallic structure. The swings caught his eye as he approached them warily. He smiled as he saw a familiar face on some bars. "Watch out. Heads break you know," he called to her, as he placed his bum on the seat facing her.

As Fia was hanging upside-down, she heard a familiar voice approaching and smiled. "I'm not going to break my head," she rolled her eyes and giggled as the blood began rushing to her head, reddening her cheeks. "I just haven't be able to do this in so long. I love it." She swung her body up, her hands catching a bar thus allowing her feet to free themselves and she became upright once again.

"So how have you been, Dylan?" She could still play, swing and talk at the same time. Multi-talented...she was.

Dylan smiled as he swang slowly. His legs weren't ever leaving the floor. He wasn't one for heights. Unless it was for a play. Then he would be Juliet if he had to be. "Oh not much. I managed to make it to school. Got put in Slytherin, as I expected," he chuckled, "What have you been up to?"

Please let her still be single. Please!

OHHHHH! "Slytherin? You are bad!" Fia began giggling as she began crawling from bar to bar until she reached the opposite end. She turned around to come back closer to where Dylan was sitting on the swing.

"Me? Nothing much really," she began as she dropped to the ground and pulled up a swing next to Dylan. "Cela, Miles and I were having a conversation about Lord...V." She was NOT about to say the name out loud. Nope. No way. No how. "What have you been up too, Mr. I ask you out for ice cream and then we don't get too?" Oh yeah! She went there...with a pouty look as well.

"Bad to the bone," Dylan chuckled. He continued to stratch his legs in his swings, but still not taking them off the floor. "Could be worse. I could be a Hufflepuff," he laughed, slightly sticking his tongue out. He was attempting to flirt, probably to a very poor avail.

"Lord V? Who is he?" he frowned. Oh and she was talking to Miles now. That loser. At least Dylan was clever and cute. Miles would be lucky if he was clever.

"It isn't my fault we got to the shop, only to be turned away because it had closed for the night. You shouldn't have taken so long to get ready," he frowned. How dare she pout at him. He had kissed the last person that did that. Maybe he should do it again.

But then guess who turned up. Jerky Jerkeson. Dylan was about halfway in to kiss Fia, when that jerk had turned up. The one who was jealous at Dylan dating Brody.

Jungle Gym?

Reese stood in the outskirts of the play area with her head tilted to the side. This was...new. Though, it did look like a lot of fun. She took a step inside the area and slowly walked across the sand until she spotted Torin upside down on the monkey bars or whatever those things were called.

"You know if you stay like that for long the blood will rush to your head, making your head go red," she pointed out. "Then, your head will look like a giant tomato." A little smile quickly formed on her face, and then the girl settled down on the sand beneath her.

Fia heard her name and looked up to find Torin...A HUFFIE PREFECT? TOO COOL! "Hey Torin," she greeted, smiling as someone was enjoying the monkey bars as much as she had. "Congrats on the nice shiny badge!"

But the remark that Dylan had just made about glad he wasn't a Hufflepuff, made her head snap back to him. Her eyes narrowed and she stuck out her tongue with a tilt of her head.

She then rolled her eyes to his excuse of the ice cream shop being closed. "I think you still owe me ice cream," she playfully demanded with a roll of her eyes. "And you don't know who Lord V-Voldemortist is?" Oh man...she said his name. That EVIL name. "Well neither do I, but Cela is supposed to let Miles borrow her book. Hopefully I will be able to tell you more...someday.

And then there was a new Hufflepuff girl. "Oh HI!" Fia gave a wave and noticed Reese coming over to speak to Torin as well. Jungle gym was a happening place!

"Oh Voldemortist. Yeah I know who he is. My uncle is a huge fan. Not a follower though. Feels he can do things his own way," Dylan shrugged. From what he had heard Voldemortist wasn't such a bad guy, just had weird morals.

"Then one ice cream you shall get. I would get my cousin to owl it to me, but it would've melted by the time it had arrived," he smiled, "I'll get the house elves to whip you up a batch."

Torin Kane was still a jerk. A jerk that was ignoring Dylan. Oh well.

Oh new people, "Hi," he said, waving to the huffie.

Stacey and Whit
 

Reese looked up at Torin. "Your frown looks like a smile," she smirked. Now when Torin mentioned hitting her, she frowned. She had just gotten comfortable and now Torin wanted her to move. That just wasn't cool, but she since she didn't want to get hit, she thought it was best to actually listen to him.

She stood up from the ground and wiped off the stand from the back of her robes before moving away from Torin. "So, that tarantula," she sparked the subject she's been dying to talk to Torin about. "Where is it now?"

Noticing Fia wave at her, she returned the girl's wave. "Hey Fia," she greeted her.

Fia sighed and hung her head low at Torin's question. "Well, the summer started off great," she began but really didn't want to go into detail at the moment. "It ended terribly, but...the train was...interesting." To say the least. "How was your summer besides getting the new badge?" She grinned and then looked towards Reese who greeted her as well.

"Ohhhhh! You have a badge too?" She was impressed, excited...oh she was happy. "Congratulations on that as well!"

Then Fia turned back to Dylan and frowned a bit. His uncle was fond of that evil man? Ewwwww! But then the subject went back to ice cream and she smiled. "No! I believe that...owling ice cream just wouldn't work, but maybe we can sneak to the kitchen later on and see if we can get some?" Now that would be fun!

Arya reached up and grabed the bars with both hands, swinging her legs down from the bar they were hanging onto. She swong a few bars over before hanging with one arm, a huge grin plastered on her face. Being a gymnist this was a dream come true for her. She thought she would have to use the trees to climb, though she still plans to climb a few. "I'm Arya!"She looked over to the older Hufflepuff girl who had spoken to her.Suddenly she remembered that she was supose to meet Allison and jumped off the bars, runing towards the building.

He rolled his eyes at Reese. Of course it would look like a smile. But at least she was moving. Good for her, 'cause he was starting to feel funny and she was in his way.

He grabbed the bars, and unhooked his legs going upright again. "Baxters? He's in my bag over there. The zipper is open, so he can get some air." He was so lying.

He jumped off of the bars, and joined her in the sand. "I'm sorry your summer ended up badly, Fia." He frowned. He liked her. She was really nice. "Mine was great. I went to Greece with Brody and a few other people. And then me, Tammy and Shan went to Antarctica and then Brazil." It had been so much fun. But it also made him miss Tammy again.

Moving on. "Hey, Denver." He wasn't sure why he was acknowledging that jerk now.

Oh great. Now other people had come along he was no longer alone with Fia. Jerk-face and some girls. He was never going to get his kiss now. She wasn't going to pout for him again. Not with all these people around. He'd missed his chance.

"Sneaking in it is then," Dylan smiled, "I could get some frozen yoghurt. I feel it won't affect my figure as much."

"Kane," he nodded, trying not to associate with the jerk as much as possible.

He didn't really have anything to do, well he could be studying, but yeah right. He's Dillon Greenwood, books served one purpose in his life, and that was for kindling. He wondered outside looking for a way to get into trouble or relax. Whichever he could find.

His hands were in the pockets of his black and white hoodie that he had zipped up. The hood was keep out the bite of the slight wind that was blowing. It wasn't cold, just the wind was drying out his contacts.

He stopped in his tracks when he saw that there was a jungle gym on the grounds. "What,' he said to no one particular. He went to a muggle primary school and he spent many a day chasing his twin brother over monkey bars. "This is looking better and better." he made to walk over but then he stopped. His sister's commanding voice resounding in his head "You are 14 years old you can't go around still acting like a child," He ground his teeth. Even though he was thousands of miles away from his older sister she was still nagging him. "I'll show her," he mutter striding over to the jungle gym. He could do what he wanted to do. Paris was off doing whatever filled her pretty little head and he didn't have to answer to her right now.

He stood watching some of the other students wondering what he wanted to do first.

Fia smiled at the new student who was now where she wanted to be. "Hi Arya! I'm Fia. My friends call me...Fia." Nope! Not Fiona! To her, it was the worst name ever and made her cringe every time Ivan the terrible called her that. "Welcome to Hufflepuff! You will LOVE it here!"

She then turned towards Torin and smiled once again. "Arya, this here is our new Hufflepuff Prefect, Torin. He's a really cool guy!" She looked at Torin and winked playfully, still happy about being back with Miles of course.

"Wow! Greece?" With Brody? There was a part of her that wanted to tell Torin just what Miles had told her: That Brody really loved Torin. But...she wasn't. She was still mad about the whole kissing thing with Brody so the girl was not high on her list of helping. BLAH! "That must of been a cool trip!"

She then turned back to Dylan and smiled. "I like sneaking around sometimes," she giggled and added. "And one cup of ice cream won't hurt your figure." The boy did look good, so there were no worries there.

Fia then looked up to a new boy she'd never seen before. A Slytherin who was talking to himself? Interesting. She got up from her swing and walked over to the bars once again where Arya was, jumping up to swing from the bars again.

"So how do you like it so far here, Arya?"

Um...everyone? LOL
 

Miles ran along the fields in search of Fia lucky that some strange Huffie had said she had gone this way. Probably thought she was in trouble or something with him being a Prefect and all. Oh well.

Looking around he spotted her swinging on the..monkey bars...? Wait...was this a...OH MY GOD! A huge grin sprang to his face and he ran up to Fia and grabbed her legs. "Hey Fi guess what!" Not waiting for her to answer he spouted out, "I signed up for Quidditch!" Leaning up he kissed her and reached up to pull himself easily up onto the bars just like a monkey. He had gotten pretty strong this summer to his surprise.

"EEEEEEPPPPPPPP!"

Fia's giggles were beginning to grow stronger as Miles, her Perfect Prefect walked up and grabbed her legs. As soon as the word "What?" came from her lips, Miles confessed what he had done. "OH.MY.GAWDDDD! YAYYYYYYY!" Okay so part of that was because Miles kissed her while the other part it meant she was going to get to watch him play again.

"I just KNOW you will make the team. I have faith in youuuuu." Her hands still gripped the bars as she turned her back to Miles and began to hang from her legs once again. "I get to cheer for you!" YAYYY!

Miles grinned as Fia started giggling and hearing her yell in joy he laughed and pulled himself up until he was on top of the bars looking down at her. "Well yeah I'll make the team...or at least...I'd better." He had been on the team last year after all but well...it wasn't a guarantee.

"Well you better." He said cheekily and then wrapped his legs around the bar and dropped down so he was hanging in front of her. His shirt fell down to cover his eyes and he tried to pull it back down..erm...up...with difficulty. Gravity...bah. "This is so cool!" This so wasn't here last year.

Fia's eyes were glued to Miles as she watched him move about the bars like he was Monkey Miles. She covered her mouth as she giggled once again and he dangled in front of her. But suddenly the giggles stopped as her eyes stared at him and his hanging shirt. The boy had grown up and yet over the summer they went swimming but...she would have remembered that.

Definitely.

She sooo wanted to politely tell him to tuck his shirt, but what was a few more minutes of staring? Yeah! Good thinking. "I was rather hoping that I would find you here. I just knew you would be here as soon as you could!"

Miles swung his arms back and forth to make him swing and laughed. "Yeah well I was looking for you and some firstie said you were heading this way. I rather think they thought you were in trouble...much to my amusement." Giggling...yes giggling. He kept swinging back and forth his arms going higher and higher.

With a smirk he let go of the bar with his legs and reached up to grab the bars with his hands....and....he missed. Falling to the ground he lay there out of breath and giggling. "Well at least Sir Isaac will be proud that his theory on gravity is still intact," he said between giggled as he laid there looking up at the bars. Hmm...maybe he should go higher next time and then let go.