Originally Posted by Pinky

Lexi took the goblet and drank down the contents once again. Clearing her throat a few times she finally nodded.

She could have kept it? Well yeah she could have... but why would she? Bad memories and all that. Instead of voicing that she simply shrugged and said, "Figured you might want your stuff back is all."

Reaching for her bag she began to dig through it for her chapstick when her photo album spilled out and one photo fell free. Seeing it Lexi's eyes went big and she reached down to shove it back in the album. Really? What was with this morning?

"How are things?" Lame. So lame.

Originally Posted by RachieRu

Originally Posted by Pinky

Lexi nodded stupidly. "Just some robes, scarves... gifts. I can give it all back if you want. I figured your robes and the... r-r-ring you might want," she said in a soft voice. She averted her eyes for a moment and cleared her throat once more.

"They are my memories too, Finlay. I kept it all. It was an entire year of my life... I can't just pretend it never happened," she said with a sigh. Not that she hadn't tried. Finlay was the first guy to accept her for what she was... all of her. For a while anyway. Well... that wasn't true. Sabel accepted her for who she was... but Finn loved her the way Sabel never would. Big difference. Made an impact, that did.

"Grand. Glad you are well and all that," she said lamely. "See you met Ivan. He is a great friend. You should hang out sometime," she said. Since she and Ivan had split up she wanted him to have friends... people that she didn't want to hang out with... he so could. Not that being friends with Finlay was something she was opposed to. Much.

Originally Posted by RachieRu

Originally Posted by Pinky

Lexi chose not to respond to any of that. She would find a way to give his robes and such back. Even if she had to give them to Jimmy or something. She would keep some of the stuff... but not all of it. Sometimes it was like a sensory overload being around it all.

Nodding her head Lexi handed him the photo album. All of their photos from France and the beach trip they took... the photos from just being together. Now there were other photos added to the book though. Some of she and Ivan, others of she and her friends, her family... photos of lovely things she had taken.

"He is. We are friends still, Ivan and I. Since I won't be here next year I figured..." she drifted off and gave a shrug. She didn't know what she figured. That it would be easier this way. Perhaps.

"How am I? I have good days and bad. That is about all I can say about it really," she said in a quite tone. The bad days far outweighed the good it seemed. FAR.

Originally Posted by RachieRu

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley

" Well, I understand not having a favorite professor at this time" Rex told Raven. " My favorite professor left last term and she was the Charms teacher" Rex said to Raven. " I had a crush on her" Rex explained to Raven. "Actually, I have not taken all of the classes but strange calls as it may be. my faborite professor is the COMC professor." he told him.

Originally Posted by top94a

"hmmmm seem like all of your favorite professor is a woman in form" Raven say.

"you're in last term as students right, do you have a plan after Hogwarts" Raven ask, trying to find out what is possible life for a wizard after school

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley

"What can I say, I just like females" Rex told Raven. " You are one of the four males I actually talk to here at HogWarts" Rex explained to Raven."Well, I plan to do something muggle such as opening a dance studio" Rex said to Raven. " I bet there will be a lot of students who want to be helpers" Rex told Raven.

Originally Posted by top94a

"No wonder at all, all males love to see females" Raven agrees. "but the dance studio for a wizardkind soundlike new" Raven say his mind running for disagreement.
"I think, Diagon Alley will be lively if you open it there" Raven suggested

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley

"Actually, no girls liked me at SweetWater, Texas, I just had male friends" Rex told Raven. " Here it is just the opposite, a lot of girls like me and I am just ok with boys" Rex said to Raven. " I never thought of opening the dance studio in Diagon Alley, just in Spain at this time" Rex explained to Raven.

Originally Posted by top94a

"good luck to you, then" Raven say sincerely. Raven is out of word, what to say, what to say.

Originally Posted by Pinky

"Sometimes," she responded. They has also had some really wretched times to go with that. Happens sometimes, though. It was the truth... she only hoped it wouldn't upset him that she pointed out the obvious.

Hearing him talk about Ara she shrugged her shoulders. She didn't know the girl or really want to get to know her. It was different for exes to get along... the thing with exes and current girlfriends though... Not such a good idea. She really wished more girls would act like boys though... let it all slide off of their backs. Wishful thinking though.

All she could do was give another shrug... it seemed appropriate when talking about her stress levels. It was HER problem. Certainly not Finn's or even Ivan's to deal with. "Been studying for OWLs and practicing nonverbals. Just been really busy lately," she muttered. Not that he had asked, but why not share?

Originally Posted by RachieRu

Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady

After a short visit to the common room and to the forbidden forest, Josh Carter walked in the Great Hall and made his way towards the Gryffindor table when he felt hungry. And as he sat down at the table, he did not even bother to look at or greet his housemates which was unlike him. But it was because he was not in a good mood since he had been kicked out the DADA class.

Fixing his dark eyes at the plate before him, he put the letter he had been carrying around on the table and pushed it away from himself. It was from his mother and it looked like, as if he was not already upset, she was still bothered that he was not sorted in Ravenclaw though it had been years since the sorting ceremony. Josh wondered what she would do if she knew that the hat did not even consider putting him in Ravenclaw.

The Gryffindor boy kept staring at the plate with a troubled expression and did not do anything else as if he was frozen as he thought who else was going to neglect and/or hate him after his mother and a certain she-snake.

...Evelyn...

He didn't want to accept that she...ignored him.

Never...

Originally Posted by Roselyn

Evelyn really had no clue where to start looking for the Gryffindor boy after she left the lesson in a slight hurry after it ended. There were only three places she could look, two of which were possible with her own eyes: the great hall, the lake, or the Gryffindor common room.

And since the great hall was on the way out to the lake, she decided to go there first.

When she got there, she was rather pleased with herself that this was the first place she looked. There sat her Gryffindor boy, in all perfection. Except that expression of his, and he wasn't talking to his housemates like she usually saw him do. Adjusting her school bag on her shoulder, Evelyn made her way over, placing her bag next to the plate next to his before taking the seat next to him.

"Hey you." she smiled, placing an elbow on the table before leaning her head on the palm of hand before running a hand through his hair. It was slightly messy. "What's got you so down in spirit right now?"

Certainly not Tate kicking him out, right? Or perhaps it was that letter she just now noticed on the table. Merlin, let it not be bad news.

Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady

Yes, he was hungry but now, thinking over and over again about the things that bothered him, he was not feeling like eating anything. So he only kept staring at the plate instead of trying to fill it with some food. Okay. But why was he staring at an empty plate? He had no idea. Maybe he was psychologically disturbed like Uncle Ryan because of...he did not know.

No.

This was not reasonable since he could not think of a reason that might cause it. Plus he was not that weak. Maybe he was feeling down but he was still that brave, confident and stubborn Gryffindor. So deciding to forget it and stopping to stare at the plate, he picked up the letter and he had just began reading it again when he heard someone he was dying to see greeting him and felt her touch in his hair.

And when he looked up, the boy saw Evelyn smiling at him which was slightly surprising. ''Miss Flores'' he said to greet her back. Then she asked a question that confused him a little bit. Did that mean she was not aware of how she preferred Tate to him? At first blinking at her a couple of times, the Gryffindor forced a smile and ''Nothing'' he lied ''I am fine'' then he put the letter back on the table ''How was the rest of the class?''

Originally Posted by Gryffindoll

Braeden looked like he'd just been slapped across the face as Melanie had the audacity to blame him for his misfortune! HIM! Hello! He was the one who had almost died two seconds ago! This was completely, entirely nobody else's fault but hers - the Evil Hufflepuff's. Sheesh. And he thought Slytherins were supposed to be the evil ones around here.

"Killed you?" said the boy incredulously, his dark eyebrows raising up to his hairline and his brown eyes growing wide. "Maybe you didn't notice, Mel, but the one choking to death for a moment there was me. And the one who couldn't breathe was me as well. All you did was stand there and freak out," he pointed out. Hmph. Though he was at least a little grateful that she had been caring enough to freak out over his near-death experience. Wait, or was she freaking out because she thought she - not him - was dying?

"Your heartbeat's fine," declared the boy after feeling the wrist Melanie offered, waving it off as unimportant. Alright, so maybe her heart was beating a little faster than it should've, but it still didn't change the fact that he almost died. Not her.

Braeden nodded his head at her words about the soreness going away with time, while absentmindedly taking smaller more careful bites from his food before she went on to remind him that she hadn't tried to kill him. "Did too," replied Braeden childishly. He set his sandwich down and turned to Melanie with large, sparkling brown eyes, his forehead beginning to crease slightly. "I understand if my company might not be the best, Mel, but that's no reason to kill a guy… I thought… I thought we were friends…" His bottom lip quivered, his brown eyes sparkling with what looked like tears.

Then he turned away, 'sobbing'.
And by 'sobbing' I mean, sounding like he was sobbing but in reality snickering to himself. He was determined to continue with this guilt trip. Melanie Lockhart, Gilderoy Lockhart's great great granddaughter would feel guilt! And he was going to pull out his best acting skills for it.

Originally Posted by Roselyn

Miss Flores?

Retracting her hand from his hair, the Slytherin sat up and adjusted her skirt, smoothing it down for a moment as she took a quick peak around to see who was in hearing range. Flores? While that name bugged her, she didn’t expect it from Josh. He always called her Rose.

Turning her full attention back to the Gryffindor when it seemed he was done speaking, she finally saw the smile and heard his words. That was not nothing. She knew his smile, and that wasn’t his usual smile. "Boring." She responded, staring at him.

Hmm…

The tense atmosphere at the moment wasn't all that great of a feeling. Not to mention slightly...new. "Are you sure there's nothing wrong?" she whispered uncertainly, glancing to the letter once more before her gaze turned back to him.

Originally Posted by Lindzers

"Yes," she replied, with a little huff of frustration. "I was being perfectly kind, telling you not to choke and then you did... It was awful, Brae. I thought you were gonna die." And then everyone would blame her forever and she'd live out the rest of her life as the girl that let Braeden the cowardly lion choke on his ham and cheese sandwich, feeling guilty for all of eternity and probably adopting multiple cats eventually. He almost sealed her with that, terrible, terrible fate! "I really don't know how you have the nerve to stand there and not apologize for what you've just put me through after I was as nice as to warn you not to choke..." She looked up at the ceiling, as if searching for the answer to her pondering.

Her gaze quickly shifted back to Breaden, though, as he dismissed the rate of her pulse. Rolling her eyes, as if he was being silly, she informed him promptly, "It's probably beating so fast that you can't even feel it. Like when superheroes run so fast that they turn into streaks of color... only totally different, of course." Of course.

And... now what was he talking about? Melanie raised her eyebrows skeptically, as Braeden claimed, once more, that she had tried to kill him. "I don't go around trying to kill people," she began. "And we are friends." Er... kinda? She'd only talked to him twice, counting now, after all. that wasn't the point though. Melanie was trying to prove she wasn't homicidal here! "Please, don't do this..."

Oh.

Oh Merlin NO.

He was crying?!

Blinking in confusion as he turned those big, sparkling brown eyes on her, Melanie shook her head. No, no, she was the victim here!... but awww. AWW, he looked so SAD.

And then he was full on "sobbing." Immediately feeling guilty for making the boy "cry" Melanie shifted uncomfortably in her seat. "Braeden...?" She gave him a little poke on the shoulder. "I really didn't try to kill you. Please don't feel bad. Oh. Don't cry!" she begged, a troubled expression on her face. "I'll do anything if you just stop. Apologize or whatever!" As long as he quit that infernal sobbing! She couldn't take it!

Melanie, being Melanie, didn't realize it was all a ploy to make her feel bad. Apparently, even after the tree house incident, she didn't get accustomed to the concept of a guilt trip.

Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady

When the Slytherin girl sat up in a sudden, the boy got distracted and the next moment he found himself looking down at her skirt as she adjusted it. Ha! Then he quickly looked up at her face before she asked why and where he was looking at. He was not sure about that. But there was one thing that he knew and it was the fact that he needed to get rid of this mood...somehow. Then he would not be staring at...things like an idiot.

So the class had been boring for her. ''Really?'' he asked trying his best to keep the smile he forced on his face. ''I thought you were enjoying it since you preferred to stay when the Tate man told us to leave''. Oh. Did this sound critical? He definitely did not mean to criticise her. But on the other hand he needed to know why she did it.

He was about to say something else when she acted before he could and asked another question. And he could deduce from this question that she probably figured that he had lied or at least suspected it. ''I...'' so he began finally deciding to be honest to the girl he loved no matter what ''...am not really feeling well''

Originally Posted by Roselyn

Was that what he seemed upset about? That she didn't leave with him when she was asked to leave?

Turning on the bench to face him, she studied his face for a moment as he mentioned not feeling well. "You're upset...because I didn't leave with you." she said quietly, fiddling with the edge of her jumper. Hmm, yes? That was the problem? "Josh, classes are important to me. Learning is important to me. If I'm able to stay in class, no matter how boring it is, then I'm going to stay." And that was that.

...

Smirking, she scooted closer to him before laying her head on his shoulder, staring down at his plate. Food kinda sounded good actually. "But...if it makes you mad, then next time we get kicked out, I'll go with you, alright?" That was going to be a painful...painful painful time for her.

Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady

When she finally found out the reason he was upset, Josh took a deep breath to explain why he thought it probably made him feel like that but he did not voice a word for Miss Flores went on speaking. The dark eyes looking into the girl's hazel ones, his hand went to the burn mark on his neck for a moment.

Ah..

Classes were important to her. Quite important as he could tell. Then it did not mean that she did not care about him. Why could not he think of that before? Of course not everyone was so lax about classes like he was which was not really a good thing for a student. It generally brought trouble to him and caused point losses. The points that his housemates probably worked hard to gain.

And replacing the fake one he failed to keep more than two moments, a content smile appeared on his face when the Slytherin rested her head on his shoulder. ''You know what'' then he said once she voiced her last word. ''Actually it was Tate who made me mad. I wanted to kick him too, literally, when he kicked you out. And no, there won't be a next time. I might be kicked out again but you won't unless you wish it happen''

Originally Posted by Roselyn

Hmm then they both pretty much had similar ideas during the lesson, though of course she'd never act on those ideas. Well, actually, one could never know, if she would do something against her will then all promises were off, but never would she kick a headmaster.

Unless it was really absolutely necessary.

Smiling, she turned her head upwards on his shoulder, eyes flickering to his nose, cheek, dark brown eyes, lips, chin... "Kick the Headmaster? That would be too Gryffindor of you." she said in a teasing tone before leaning up and kissing him quickly on the cheek and sitting up straight once more.

Picking up his goblet, she poured a bit of pumpkin juice in it, taking a quick glance at him out of the corner of her hazel eyes as a sly grin appeared on her lips. "You are quite the distraction in class though." Placing the goblet back down next to his plate before filling her own goblet and then turning her attention back to him. "Could hardly keep my focus on the discussion. You'll just have to sit next to me next lesson from the beginning then." Teehee. "Definitely will help keep me from getting those neck aches from constantly staring from across the room."