"Alice, what's wrong? Come on. Let us help you. We might know people who are in Ravenclaw that can find out! Weren't you the one that was just telling me to go talk to the Slytherin and that I should seize the moment?" Jaina didn't mean to toss in the guilt trip, but if it meant that Alice would be happy, then why not. "It's either that, or we pick out a Slytherin boy for you!" she teased her friend. "I'll make a deal. I'll talk to the Slytherin boy from Transfiguration if you give us the name and let us help you."

Alice sighed. She wasn't in the mood to disagree anymore, she might as spill it to her friends. The result of ending up with him or not didn't matter now. The answer would still be no. "His name...is Stephen..He's in Ravenclaw...I believe he's in his fifth year. We met on the train ride and sat in the same compartment. I haven't seen him since...so...it's hard to...find him again." Alice could feel her face hot and bright red like the strawberries she had ate earlier.

"It's not going to happen guys. It just won't." she shook her head and tried her best to not let any tears flow down. Luckly...it didn't.

Jaina rubbed Alice's back. "aw, don't say that. I know some Ravenclaws and so does Belle, I bet. We'll ask around and see if we can't locate him." She gave her a hug. "It's a promise." She smiled and looked to Belle. "Right, Belle?"

Sabel blinked at the new addition to his plate, looking from Arya to his waffle and then back again. With a shrug and a small smile, he set his fork back into the dough and his knife to cutting it. He wasn't going to argue if she gave him another waffle and if she wanted him to eat quickly, he wasn't going to be slow by debating it.

Belle nodded her head. "Of course!, I mean this will be an awesome task for me, i like being a sleuth" she smiled. "But don't worry we will not make it too obvious if we talk to him. she winked at her."

"See, Alice, we want to do this for our best friend!" Jaina giggled and said "Come fair Hero and let us woo in your name, your dearest Claudio...ok well Stephen." She smiled hoping that this would cheer her up.

Belle giggled at Jania "Of course you can find a reference to this." she said jokingly. "Which is what i love about you Jania." she said as she hugged her. :glomp:

Alice wiped the frown off her face and replaced it with a smile. "Thanks guys. Maybe I can spy on you both while you talk to him in my muggle outfit. I had to buy them without my parents knowing, since I am a pureblood, I'm supposed to wear "classy" clothing." Alice sighed at the thought of all the dresses she had to wear. It's not like she disliked the frills, she actually liked them but wearing them all the time made her stick out back in Kilkenny.

"So...What do we do now? We're done our snacks for the day am I right?" she asked looking around to see if Jaina and Belle had finished their plates.

Having cleared her plate, and not having an appetite for anything else meant she would need to occupy her time with another task, no? Could she watch Sabel eat? It suddenly didn't seem like a bad idea, and before she'd put any real thought into the action, she was fiddling with her utensils, watching the Griffindor work on the waffle.

Usually there was something unnerving about someone watching you eat. Apparently there was an exception when it came to Arya. Then it was just curiously confusing and amusing. Once again, only on his last bite did he glance over at her, arching an eyebrow in silent question as to her new staring habit.

Unlike the previous time, she was expecting him to look over when he finished eating, so no blush came with her innocent expression, just a small smile and eyebrows raising in curiosity. Her watching him was perfectly normal, nothing to question.

When there was no surprise in response, just a simple expression of normalcy, a small smile found it's way onto his lips. With a comfortable shrug of his shoulder, he plopped the last of the waffle into his mouth and placed his fork on the now-empty plate. "There. All done. Was that record timing?"

When he didn't respond to her not responding, and just smiled, she widened her own smile and continued to watch him eat. Right down to the last piece. "I think so, though there's always room for improvement." She teased.

"Ever the critic." The statement seemed like it should be followed with a tongue sticking out, however it didn't seem quite appropriate at their current setting. Or if he had food left on his tongue.....

That thought left him rubbing the muscle against the roof of his mouth with a slight frown. Food was wonderful until it started messing with self-consciousness.

Hm. She wasn't sure why he was frowning, or why it had her leaning a bit closer, but when she realized just what she was doing, she diverted the attention from her leaning to her poking him gently in the cheek. "Ready to go?"

He honestly didn't realize how close Arya was until she poked him in the cheek, an action that not only drew his attention to her odd leaning habits but which also caused a gust of air to leave him. For a moment he just blinked at her, trying to remember the purpose of what he had been doing. It took two seconds to decide it didn't matter and one to get on his feet and offer his hand down to her. "Ready."

She wasn't sure her poking him in the cheek had diverted him from her leaning until he finally rose and offered her a hand. Glad that her diversion seemed to have worked, she took his hand and rose to her feet. Sparing the table a fleeting glance, she let him lead them out of the great hall.

"So long as it's jeans and t-shirts because I don't do dresses unless it's for church on Sunday!" Jaina said with a smile. "What kind of havoc are we to create now? I'm good. Hot fudge sundae has done it's job." It had, actually. It got that boy out of her head for now. She had plans to confront him though, still.

Belle laughed "Yeah i do jeans and t-shirts too!, but dresses on special ocassions or unless my mom forces them on me." Belle took the last pite of her tart and swig or pumpkin juice. "I am done with my snack." she said with a little burp. "Woops how unlady like of me." she blushed and laughed. "I think we should go to hogesmeade or outside to go and find him."

Jaina laughed. Then she thought, "Hey, do you think Charley knows him? She's in Ravenclaw, right?" Charley would be able to search the common room and discover whether or not this Stephen would have a girlfriend. :shifty:

Belle's eyes widened "Oh my god maybee!" she said. "We could ask her, great idea Jania!" she said with a smile. "Let's ask her, i have care of magical creatures with her!"

Alice laughed at herself for wearing dresses that people thought were "out of date" now. "I don't mind, we could go to hogsmeade if you guys want or look for him, but either way I want to change first. Wear our uniform and robe gets uncomfortable at times...and unfashionable" she grinned then looked down at her clothes. Eck Uniforms..

"Alrighty then. Choose guys. Hogsmeade or Searching for...him" she mumbled near the end. Alice still couldn't say his name without her heart beating and thumping like crazy or making her speak with difficulties. Did she like him THAT much?

Charley ran over to her friends, nearly breathless.
"Who do I know?"

"Well Alice here, knows a guy named Stephen who is from ravenclaw,and she believes he is a fifth year and we want to know if you know him."

"CHARLEY!" Jaina exclaimed! She gave her a big hug! "Charley this is our friend Alice! She's also a first year Hufflepuff!" she grinned and jokingly added "She also likes Stephen! He's her Claudio. We must woo him in her name! He's also a fifth year she thinks. Are you taking notes???" she giggled.