Elora ate a small bite of some bread and decided, anywhere would be to talk then the Great Hall. It was still so nice out. A great fall day. "Well maybe sometime you will have to show me" she looked out the window." Want to go outside? Perhaps the lake or the pumpkin patch?" Elora ate a little more and waited for him to decide.

Lara shaked hans with the two girls " Nice to meet you Jenny and Katie " then she conyinued "Yes I thing we're too excited about our first year"

She nodded happily and successfully made a mini-Daniel. "Awhh, look! It's a mini-you." she said with a giggle. She laughed. "Ughhh, O.W.L.s. I'm gonna study like CRAZY when those come." she said with a serious look. She was very studious.

"Daniel...you okay?" she said with a concerned look and tone. She could easily tell when something was wrong. She knew it was something about his family, so she leaned over and gave him a small hug. She hoped it would help a bit, hugs always helped her, but because she was sensitive.

A very unhappy looking Professor Vindictus arrived at the table and crossed his arms across his chest. "Can someone please explain to me the need for a food fight?"

"Sure." Kellen nodded, peering out the window as well. In no time at all, the weather would turn crappy. It was best to savour it while it lasted. "Wherever you like. As long as it's outside I'm not fussy."

Emily laughed, "Well that's quite fun finding an unrelated twin" Emily said cheerfully.
Emily smiled, "Sure I can teach you another if you want, we danced a lot in the gypsy village." she said with her mysterious smile.

Jacob stopped glaring at Vindictus as he came towards the table. It was rather shocking, and Jacob hoped none of the teachers saw Jacob's nasty expression towards Vindictus, and he had come to settle it, cause the man did not seem happy. But Jacob sighed with releif as he spoke of a diffrent Subject... Wait What? "Food Fight?" he asked softly, and looked around at the other students. Was he really so intent on glaring at Vindictus and Tate about the Quidditch suspension that he was completely oblivious to chaos around him. If he knew there was a food fight, Jacob would be the first to get involved to help throw food................to help stop it of course.

Emily then realised a teacher had come over, then realised the was food everywhere... though she had not been a par tof it and had not noticed it at all. Emily could shut out almost anything. Emily shook her head to vindictus "I never even noticed, sir; however should there be need to help clean up i am very good at cleaning spells." Emily smiled.

"Its strange because food here actually tastes like the kind of stuff I eat back home, I mean back in America. "Salander started to explain "Since I got to London I've been having a tough time getting used to English food, something about the flavor or cooking or whatever that's throwing me off. But this..." showing off the drumstick in his hand"...tastes like the roast chicken at the farmer's market that does home cooked meals that I've always liked." He gave a chuckle when his friend seemed satisfied with the pumpkin juice in his glass. "Trust me Daniel, there are a lot of other fun drinks out there, you just got to... widen your horizons." Right, like he really knew what he was talking about!

Just a few pieces of fireworks? He wanted to have half the box! After all he paid for the entire thing. But something else caught Salander's attention "Hogsmeade visit? You mean there's a schedule just to go there?" His face showed his disappointment, he thought he could just sneak out of the gates after dark and check out a particular Hogs Head that Alex spoke about. He looked at Daniel and was about to ask about this when he heard a booming voice cut across the Ravenclaw table.


Food fight? Where?!? Trouble actually erupted at the Ravenclaw table which Salander had nothing to do with. He wasnt quite sure if he was glad that he wasnt the source of trouble, or incredibly disappointed that a very fun thing actually came and went without him being able to toss out a few pumpkin pasties. But there were a few things that would usually throw a red flag at Salander, one of those things being Angry Faculty.

Salander slouched so low in his seat, trying to hide his frame from the professor's view behind his younger Ravenclaw friend. He kept stuffing his mouth full of pudding, shiftily eyeing the members of the Ravenclaw house.

" I would enjoy you teaching me a new dance" Rex told Emily. " You are not going to believe this, but Kay and I are back together" Rex said to Emily.

Emily gave a big smile, "That's great Rex!" Emily said and hugged him. "I hope you stay together." Emily let go of Rex and smiled some more.

Pearl sighed contently, smiling as she was being a good follow for him, letting her strongly lead her in the Waltz. "Awesome." Pearl let her feet free and succumb to his every movement, closing her eyes as she could almost hear the ballroom music playing in her head.

"I'm glad you don't break your promises." She whispered with a soft chuckle.

" I still would like to learn a special dance and have Kay learn it too" Rex told Emily. " Kay and I will stay together" Rex promised Emily.

"Well, that was really good for your first time " Rex told Pearl. " glad you liked the dance" Rex smiled. " There are a lot of dances I know" Rex explained to Pearl.
" Thank you for the dance" Pearl of RavenClaw" Rex bowed to her. " I keep my promises" Rex smiled. " now time to eat' rex laughed.

Pearl courtesied her legs and pretended to bow with her imaginary dress. "Thank you, kind sir."

Pearl grinned and sat down, looking around the table. She eye'd the biscuits and snatched one from the middle, smirking. "Ah-hah!" She exclaimed victoriously.

Pearl stuffed the biscuit in her mouth with a happy hum. "So good..."

" Very cute curtsy" Rex told Pearl. " You welcome " Pearl of RavenClaw" Rex said to her. " I did not know you could eat just like me" Rex laughd.

Emily smiled "My pleasure, we can learn it outisde sometime."

" Yes, it will be fun" Rex told Emily. " I will go get Kay" Rex said to Emily. " you know mw, I always love to dance" Rex explained to Emily. " Have you been to the Whomping Willow this term?" Rex asked Emily.

Pam dragged Liz all the way to the hall. She found two empty seats and filled up her plate with food.

august sits at the table she eats her brakefest and pours a class of pumkin juice.

Liz found a turkey/ham/bacon/salami/four kinds of cheese/everything else sandwich and put it on her plate. The rest of it was filled with fruits of all kinds. She took a bit of one that she had never seen before. It was really sweet. She took more of those.

"So, do you have any siblings?" she asked Pam.

"Me? Nah. Just me." She said taking one of everything. She couldn't help but take one of everything. It all looked delicious. Even if it was something that her mom could make at home. It tasted different, she took alot of pineapple and plopped it on her plate.

"What about you?"

"Me alone, too." Which was one of the reasons her mother was the way she was. Liz expected tears, but none came. That, she decided, was from being with Pam. Friends make you stronger.

She made a decision, "Do you want me to tell you about my mom?" she asked, already knowing what Pam would say.

"Only if your ready to tell me." Pam said, taking a bite out of her sandiwich, and taking a sip of her fruit punch. After swallowing she said, "Don't tell me if your not ready."

Liz had expected more of a YES YES YES! answer. She knew that she could tell Pam when she had said that she only wanted to hear if Liz wanted to tell.

"Okay. Two years ago my mom's parents died. Then one of her sisters, her best friend, and last an unborn baby. It was really sad. All of that happened in one year, and it set her into depression. She cries a lot. But she doesn't make any noise when she cries, she just has a lot of tears," memories were streaming across her mind, "The doctors, for some reason, never wanted to give her medicine for it. It's really hard on my dad. He has to go to work everyday with her crying because she doesn't want him to go. But he has to. She used to drive me to school, but we had to stop that because she would sob when I was getting out of the car. She stopped doing everything. No cooking, no reading, no watching TV. Nothing. I've always felt like I'm not enough for her, but my dad tells me I am, and that she cries because of who she's lost and because she feels guilty about putting us through all that. Her other sister goes to spend time with her everyday when my dad is at work so that maybe she can kind of counsel her through it. I'm really worried about what my being here could do to her."
She gave a sigh and wiped away her tears.
"I don't know why I'm not more open about it and why I cry so much. I don't know if it's normal to cry like this every time someone mentions their mom or if I'm just way too sensitive."
Liz took a sip of her pumpkin juice and looked over at Pam, "That's all really. I feel like I'm making a really big deal out of everything. Sorry. And thanks."

ooc: sorry that took so long

Sliding into a seat at the table, JD looks around miserably. He had just had an aweful night, hardly able to sleep at all, his hair looking disheveled even though he'd run a comb through it. Blurry eyed, he reaches for the pumpkin juice, pouring himself a glass.

Buttering himself a few slices of toast he grabs some bacon. Taking a bite of the toast, he sighs. He'd done the right thing...hadn't he? he wondered. He was tired of the games, and wasn't gonna play them no more with Ellie. And knowing that hurt.