"Funny? well I wouldn't say that. haha. Okay. its funny." he smirked while rubbing the spot on his arm she hit. "But to tell you the truth I like messing with you. I like that you like me." Cesar wasn't really sure if he liked her cause he's never been with a girl this long before. But he's willing to later on find out. "Ok, lets go to the common room now." He left out the portrait and headed downstairs.

"Sure whatever," she rolled her eyes and followed him out of the kitchen and to their common room. If Parker found out about this he would die from amusement and disgust. If Anna figured this out (which she will most likely) she'll rub it in her face. "Not saying a word," Thalia added as they started down the hall.

"Probably." she agreed, stiffing a yawn. Eh, what time was it again? Leaning against one of the counters, she took the whole scene in, going from one part of the room to the other. What should she do to Lawson? Well it wasn't that important at the moment. They had the whole year to figure out something and to actually do it, and right now she couldn't think properly.

"Yaay." she said while halfheartedly shaking her hands in the air as if excited. Of course there was different kinds of cupcakes! Pssh. Hmmm, chocolate, vanilla...is that all the flavors they had? Perhaps, strawberry? "Can you make any strawberry ones?" Chocolate would have been okay, but she didn't like chocolate, and she had to like the cupcake before giving it to the professor! And vanilla was so boring! Strawberry was different and unique. Even though it was pink *shudder*, it was acceptable only this time.

Did she know how to bake? Turning around to face her friend, she gave Destiny a pointed look while placing her hands on the counter. "No, I don't." They had house elves to cook! Why would she need to know how? Buuut, she supposed it wouldn't hurt to give it a try right? Would the elves here be angry if they cooked in their kitchen? Pfft, who cared. "How 'bout, I just copy whatever you do. It can't be that hard, baking...right?"

Destiny nodded. Of course they would think of something, and when they do, it will be hilarious. Maybe. 'Hopefully we won't lose housepoints. We have to be sneaky.' Sneaky like a spy. She knew a lot about spies and such.

Do house elves even use cake mix? Destiny started opening cabinets and rummaging through them trying to find the cake mix. 'I can make any kind.' She said proudly. She has been baking for a while, and not to brag, her cooking was good, for a twelve year old that is.

She was standing on her tip-toes while she looked in the last cabinet. What would they do if they didn't have cake mix!? Maybe give Lupa one of them already made pies..Nah, they would think of something else. But before she could even think of anything else, Destiny had found the cake mix! 'I guess house elves don't make their own cakes and cupcakes.' she laughed as she threw a box of strawberry cake mix to Evelyn. Destiny didn't want to make strawberry cupcakes, so she grabbed a box of chocolate mix for herself. Everyone like chocolate!

Oh boy. Evelyn didn't know how to bake. 'That's alright, just copy me.' It isn't hard, especially since the directions are on the box. 'Okay, we just need the ingredients.' She read the back of the box and a confused look appeared on her face, 'Where in the world are we going to find eggs?' Baking cupcakes was hard work.

"Way sneakier than last year." she mumbled, hopping up on the counter and swinging her legs slightly. Like, auror sneaky, so they wouldn't have to spend another detention with Lawsguini. She did not want to clean again. "Aaannyyy kind..." Repeating what others said seemed to happen more often for her nowadays. She had a good idea of where it started, *cough* overthe *cough* summer *coughcough*, and yet, she couldn't stop. Weeeiiird.

Looking up, Evelyn suddenly found herself reaching out from reflexes and catching a little box. A little heavy box. Jeez, what was in this thing? Well, no it wasn't that heavy, but it definitely weighed more than it looked or what one would expect. Turning it in all different angles, reading what everything said and looking at the front, she noticed that...nothing was moving. Well it was just a picture of a slice of strawberry cake, but...shouldn't it be doing something? Or...something? Maybe eating itself. Poking the picture, she shook her head and set it down on the counter next to her, looking around when Destiny mentioned eggs.

"Over there." Pointing to a far corner of the room, there was a neatly stacked pile of a few dozen eggs. They looked like it might have been for something that the house elves were going to use later, but eh, they didn't need that many eggs surely. Really, how hard could baking be? Pfft, Evelyn could master anything! Except baking had nothing to do with spells...so it may be harder than she expected. "Do you think cupcakes are like, too sugary? Maybe we should put fruit on it or something..." Yea, give fruity cupcakes!

Literally dragging his newly made friend, Lucy by her hand. Lavi ran through the corridor, occasionally turning towards a wrong end. He had never heard the specific direction's from Bella. However after some moments, he noticed the painting the girl had been talking about and he pointed at the pear with a look of excitment on his face. " Here it is!" he stated and let go of Lucy's hand and walked over towards the painting.

He tickled the pear with his finger and also started to giggle when the pear laughed. That was so funny. The room opened up and he stared inside with huuuuge twinling eyes. THIS IS HEAVEN! Lavi ran inside and noticed that the room was underneath the great hall. He beamed with joy and motioned with his hand for Lucy to come in. Oooh what should he get? eeek he didn't know, maybe ask some of the house el....wait. Did house-elves look like..students? Lavi rubbed his eyes to make sure he hadn't imagined things but when he opened them again he defenitely saw STUDENTS cooking. "Errr...what are you guys...doing?" he asked while scratching the back of his head.

Lucy ran through the corridors, pulled by Lavi. She had to laugh though, because she really thought he was going to get them lost. She had never been to the Kitchen before, but knew about it's secret entrance. When they finally reached it, Lucy looked up as Lavi tickled the pear in the painting and the Kitchen was revealed to the. It looked really cool, but then Lucy heard Lavi talking to someone. She followed his gaze and found that there were indeed students cooking in here. Lucy walked up to Lavi and stood next to him. "Um, yeah, are you guys...cooking?!" She asked with skepticism in her voice. Were students allowed to cook? Oh, well, this just made things more interesting.

'Sneaky..like headless hats sneaky.' Oooo, now that was a good idea! If Destiny didn't have her hands full she would have gave herself a pat on the back. Very smart.

Good thing Evelyn had caught that box, since Destiny couldn't really see another box of strawberry cake mix. Plenty of chocolate though.. Pffft, chocolate was way better than strawberry anyway, but she wouldn't tell that to Evelyn, she seemed too attached to strawberry. 'How are you going to bake when you are sitting down! It can't be done!' Well it could, but it would be rather hard, and the cupcakes would turn out gross! Lupa can not be eating gross cupcakes.

Oh, the eggs were practically right in front of her face. Hopefully the house elves wouldn't mind if a few eggs were missing. They did have a lot of them, so what if like six were missing? She walked over to the eggs and took a few from the bottom, that way it wasn't so noticeable. Destiny almost dropped the eggs she was holding when Evelyn asked about fruit. Was she crazy!? 'Too sugary? Cupcakes can never have enough sugar.' Unless Lupa was allergic to sugar or something, 'Yeahhh, we can put fruit too.' That meant even more ingredients they would have to search for.

Digging through more cabinets to find the cupcake trays, Destiny stopped when the door opened,

Oh good, it was only students. Students asking questions. What did it look like they were doing? 'We're baking cupcakes!' Destiny was excited about this too! 'They are for Professor Lupa.' Because she was an angry beaver when she stormed into the common room..

Ignoring the students now, she went to finish looking for the trays, 'I found the cupcake trays!' and they still needed more things..

Lucy grinned at the girl, whom she recongnized as a Slytherin. "Oooh, okay. That sounds like fun," She said as she watched the girl look around the room for other things. "Do you need some help?" She asked her, wondering she was one of those snotty Slytherin girls, or the nice ones. Hopefully she was nice.
She turned to Lavi and poked him. "Hey Lavi, have you ever baked anything before?" She asked him, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Fine." Evelyn jumped off the counter, and leaned on it instead, watching Destiny slightly struggle with the eggs. She should probably be helping, but right now, she couldn't decide if she was excited that she was going to be baking something for the first time in forever, or if she was slightly repulsed by it. Why not just have the house elves do it? It surely would go faster...

"Cupcakes...never too sugary." she mumbled when she heard the words, drawing little circles on the ground with her foot. "Well I mean like, stick a small piece of fruit on top or something. Or maybe pieces in the cupcake itself? Surely it wouldn't taste bad we did that and it still would be sweet, right?" Actually, she had no idea. Cooking, she realized, was insanely difficult.



Well duh they were making cupcakes. She already knew that! Why was she...oohhhhh. More students here. And one of them she recognized as another Slytherin. They his name, she had no clue. And the other one was just annoying.

Ugggh. Why did anyone have to come at this moment?! When she was about to make a fool out of herself by baking? NOoo, she didn't want them to stay! But no, she was going to be nice and good this year. No detentions or points being taken away. Unless she didn't get caught, than it was totally acceptable. Rolling her eyes as she turned away from them, she grabbed the strawberry cake box and moved over to the other side of the room as if looking for something. Ah good, cupcake trays. Whatever those were...

Nate was uncomfertable holding her hand so he let it lay limp untill she noticed and let go of it. "Umm...Can I get my hand back please, Ms. Cady?" he said after a few minutes.

They tickled the pear and strolled inside. He wanted a sandwich. He waited for the house elf and Cady to order.

"Oh..." Cady giggled, pretending she forgot that she was holding his hand. "Sorry. I didn't realize..." Cadence followed him into the kitchen, and then it hit her what he had called her. "Hey! You called me Cady!" she said with a smile! No one called her that except for Lanie! Oblivious to the fact that Nate wanted her to order first, she just stood there waiting. Truthfully, she wasn't very hungry. Maybe a bit thirsty, and she would certainly take something sweet to eat if they had it.

"I did, didn't I. Oh well. It suits you." he said finding a hous elf. "I would like a turkey and cheese sandwich please. Cady? What would you like?" he said poking her.

Cadence smiled at him, and then laughed when he poked her. She was secretly EXTREMELY ticklish. "Oh, umm.. Can I please just have... a glass of milk and two chocolate chip cookies?" she said sweetly to the house elf.

'Ughh,' Destiny didn't expect the girl to offer help, 'Mayyyybe.' Maybe she would know where to find the vegetable oil stuff they needed. 'There are more boxes in the cabinet over there..' she pointed to the cabinet that hid all the cake mixes, 'if you want to bake too.' They were allowed to do this right? Why would they get in trouble for cooking, right?

Now Destiny would have to wash the spot were Evelyn sat. Nah, it would be easier to use a different counter. 'Okayyy,' she started as she read the box 'we still need a bowls and spoon things.' That should be the easiest things to find. She placed the cake mix on the counter and went on another search. Why wasn't Evelyn helping? This was her idea. 'You can find the oil..if you want..'

Bowls! Jeeez, have these house elves ever heard of organization? Why would they have the bowls near the plates, and the spoon near the forks? That is just stupid.. 'You can find the fruit you want too. Decorate them however you please.' Decorating might be even more fun than actually eating the cupcakes. 'And when,' or if, 'you find the oil we can start!' Gahhh, this was soo exciting!

Lucy could tell these girls were not the 'sweet kind'--at least this one was actually talking to her. The other one, though, had completely ignored Lavi and her. Lucy shrugged her shoulders and started looking around. It would be fun to bake, but Lucy wasn't all that great at putting things together so they were edible. She walked over to a countertop and jumped on it. And then she turned around to look for some cookies. When she found some, she beckoned for Lavi to join her. "Laaaaaaaaavi. I've got cooooookies!" She said excitedly. Baking could wait--cookies were more important.

Aaand, she was inviting them to bake. Gah! Well at least it seemed the girl wasn't so eager, more interested in cookies than baking. GOOD! And maybe they could leave too. The less people to witness her fail at something, the better.

"Spoon things?" All she could picture were the little spoons she had to use at home. They would use those for baking? Weren't they too small? Raising a brow, she nodded slightly when Destiny suggested she look for the oil and whatever fruit she wanted. Oil? What did oil...never mind. She'll just look in every spot of the kitchen and look for the word 'oil'. Going around the place, opening cupboards, drawers, and any other door she could find, she sighed and leaned against the counter again after ten minutes or so. No words of Oil.

Okay...what about strawberries then? Put a strawberry piece on top of the strawberry cupcake! But, she didn't see those delicious red fruit anywhere she looked either. Leaning her head back, frustrated already with this baking thing, it was just her luck to suddenly see the fruit right there behind her. Seriously? Ugh. Turning around, she picked up a few good looking strawberries and noticed a weird yellowish liquid in a container next to it. Eww. Though she couldn't help but notice the word 'Oil' on it. Vegetable oil? Is that the same as oil? Vegetables had oil!? "Hey, Destiny? Is this the oil stuff?"

Emily walked up to the pear and bravely tickled it. She stepped inside but made usre thee portrait didn't close so Arya could get in without having to tickle the pear. She looked back and saw Arya a couple feet behind her.

After Cadence told the house-elf she wanted cookies, she heard the word echoed somewhere else in kitchen. Looking around to see who it was, she discovered...

Lucy.

Great, just what she needed.

She turned her back, hoping Lucy wouldn't recognize her. In doing so, however, she was now standing really close to Nate. Like, REALLLY close. She whispered nervously, "Look, Nate, maybe we should go..." Not that she minded being this close to Nate. Nope... not at all. She didn't want Lucy to ruin things with Nate...

Cupcakes for professor Lupa? Awww that was soooo nice! Lavi wanted to help because she had helped him with his phobia. "Can i help? pleaase" he asked with a pleading look on his face and his eyes started to twinkle. Yay for cupcakes! and waffles! waffles are yummy too!

Still with twinkling eyes, Lavi turned his attention towards Lucy when she spoke. He chuckled when she wiggled her eyebrows and he nodded his head. " yea i made some waffles , a few times" ok lie, he made them a millions of times, they were just soooo delicious!

Lavi had already started to walk up to the kitchen to make some food too when he heard the magic word. Cookies. Lavi dropped his stuff and literally ran through the kitchen towards Lucy who was excitedly yelling for him to come. "cookies..where?" he asked fastly as though he was addicted to it. Which he probably is. hehe

Arya hoped inside behind Emily and looked around. Everywhere there was house elves hard at work cooking and cleaning. Staring curiously, she had never seen a house elf and was a little hesitant to aproach one. "How do you get one to make you a pie?"She wispered to Emily, not knowing if they were mean like the goblins at gringotts.

'Okay, go to that cabinet,' Destiny pointed to the cabinet again, 'and pick out what kind you want to make.' Hopefully he didn't have the same idea as them to give the cupcakes to Lupa. It didn't matter because Destiny and Evelyn's would be better!

Oh maybe he wasn't going to bake, he seemed more interested in them cookies. What kind were they? Maybe Destiny could have one..no, she needed to bake. No time to eat cookies..



It seemed like the girl didn't want to bake either. Oh well, it will be fine with just Evelyn and Destiny. They did get all the ingredients themselves, they probably just wanted to taste the finished product, but who could blame them? They were cupcakes!!

'Yeah spoons. You know things you eat with, only bigger.' Did Evelyn have different ways of eating because she lives in a castle? Maybe they were called spoons in castle talk.. 'Like this!' She held up the spoon she found. 'It's for mixing.' Evelyn knew what mixing was right?

Destiny started to read the box again while Evelyn looked for oil and fruit. What do you know, Evelyn found the oil and the fruit. Strawberries though? Her cupcakes were going to be big and pink. Pink cupcakes.. 'Yeah, that's the oil. It's gross, so don't drink it.' Destiny learned that the hard way.

And now that they had everything they could begin! Destiny went over to the sink first to wash her hands, because they did not need Lupa getting sick. 'You should wash your hands too.'Not that Evelyn was dirty or anything..

"I know what a spoon is." she said, looking back to glare at Destiny. She wasn't that dumb with muggle stuff. Even though witches and wizards used spoons too. It was just the fact that there was a bigger spoon than the ones she used that got to her. How big were the spoons anyway? Oh, that big? That was a hug spoon. It was like, big enough for trolls to eat with! "Big spoon."

Ew, why would she drink it!? It was gross looking and, yellow. Just, not appetizing looking. Heck, she didn't even drink lemonade. Unless it was strawberry lemonade, than it was totally acceptable. Yes, she was practically addicted to strawberry foods and drinks. Placing the fruit and oil on the counter next to her cake box, she slowly shuffled her way over to Destiny and the sink, washing her hands after her friend was finished. Drying off her hands with a napkin since she didn't see any towels anywhere at the moment, Evelyn clapped her hands together, now a little excited for this. "Okay, what first?"

So people that live in castles do use spoons. That is good to know, if Destiny would ever visit a castle..which was highly unlikely. 'You should see the big forks!' They even had big knives, but Destiny wasn't allowed to touch them.

Destiny waited until Evelyn washed and dried her hands before making her way back to the counter. 'Right.' she said as she read the box one last time. She should have memorized it by now.. 'First, we have to heat the oven. It says heat it to 350 degrees.' Pffft, that is easy enough. 'You can do it if you want. Just turn that knob thing.' Ahh, Destiny could totally be a teacher. 'After that is heated we just pour this cake mix into a bowl.' The hardest part of that was actually opening the box and trying not to get the mix all over the place.

Big forks too?! Seems like the trolls and giants were in luck then. She had no idea that they had silverware that big. Well, at least she knew what an oven was. But which dial did she turn? There were like, three of them! She did spot one that had numbers on it though so maybe that one? And there was a 350 number there too! Okay, so this baking was easy. Pssh, she was getting worked up all over nothing...

Turning the dial, she found that she couldn't move it. What? Was it stuck? Turning it even harder, it still would not budge. "What...is...wrong with this thing?" she mumbled angrily to herself, trying again but then throwing her hands up in defeat. This oven, did not want to turn on. Wait, no! Evelyn was never defeated! This oven WILL turn on! Whether it liked it or not! Using both hands, she tried to turn the dial, but...alas. It did not budge an inch. UGH! Roughly taking her hands off, seriously debating on cursing the dang oven, she accidentally turned the dial the other way and...it moved! Oh...

Looking behind her to see if anyone noticed that, and if they did they better stay silent!, she turned the dial the other way so it showed 350 before moving back over to Destiny. "I got it to 350." she said proudly, placing her hands behind her back. Yup, she totally showed that oven who was boss. "So, we mix everything now?" These were going to be...the best cupcakes ever!