Emily grinned mischeviously, so she didn't think she could dance? she didn't want to dance?... that would soon change. Perhaps if she danced in a weird way Vashti would feel a bit better about her dancing abilities.
"Oh no Vashti! you're not egtting out of it that easy!" she said laughing. After all who didn't dance at their own victory party?

After doing an awesome demonstration of the muggle move 'the sprinkler' Emily grabbed Vashti's arm, "Come on, you can't be that bad!... and theres always two step... everyone can do two step!" she said dragging her onto the dancefloor.

Marie had heading over to Mia when she caught sight of Evelyn entering the tent. Well, now she had two of her friends there to hang out with, all they needed was Destiny.

Changing her route just a tiny bit she went over to Ev first and gave her friend a hug. Yep, she had just invaded Evelyn's personal bubble. "Hey Ev, glad you came. Let's go over and talk to Mia." This way she would only have to tell her story once... if she told it at all.

Not really paying attention if Evelyn was following her she went over to Mia next. "Hey Mia. Glad to see you here." She then gave Mia a hug too.

Yep, she was totally invading everyones bubble that she talked to today.

Amadeus observed his two female teammates, Emily and Vashti, making their way toward the dancefloor. Seeing that Riley was occupied with a she-snake and that nearly everyone else was in shock and/or awe over Jacob's proclamation, Amadeus made his way over to the dance floor. "Did I hear someone say two-step?" He laughed, incredulous at his even walking over to the girls in the first place. Vashti looked quite uncomfortable and Emily, as if she were ready to force the poor chaser to dance no matter what.

taking her into an Outside Right position Mikey takes her left hand and rolls her in to him then back out letting her hand go so she could dance "My Dad made me take dance classes starting when I was 8 and I was the only boy in the class so I got loads of pratice" grinning as they swayed to the music

O_____O

What?!

Was she talking in code? Speaking in Parseltongue? A foreign language? Did Emily not hear her say she didn't want to dance? Had she missed the "n't" part of it?!

"Nooo!" Vashti said, shaking her head and trying to break free of Emily's grip so she could run. Emily was holding onto her like she was a Quaffle she didn't want to let go of. "I am that bad! Trust me!" Two step? What on earth was two step?

That in and of itself should prove she was incapable of dancing!

Oh Merlin, and now Amadeus was coming over. And he knew what two step was. Of course he did. Maybe Emily would dance with him and let Vashti go...?

"I can tell" said Kelley, dancing with him. "I, on the other hand, have never really danced with anyone before. This is really nice."

Emily heard Deus's voice, as he followed them to the dance floor.
"Yep, you did!" she laughed. "I'm trying to teach Vashti that its ok to dance, and everyone can do a two-step", she said elaborating a bit.

"After all, wh doesn't dance at their own party?... and this!...", she said gesturing to the party tent, "is our party!"


"Don't be silly, you'll be fine. nd the two-step is so easy that you'll be dancing in no time."
Still not letting go of Vashti, Emily demonstrated the two step.

step one, step two, step one, step two, step one, step two.

"There's really nothing to it", she said giving Vashti an encouraging smile.

Amadeus simply smiled. Leaning over to speak in Vashti's ear as the music got louder, he offered her reassurance: "I promise that you won't have to dance at the private Ravenclaw after-party Vindictus will be throwing after this." Maybe that notion would calm her enough to actually go with the flow. Look at Amadeus; one of the most stuck-up pricks in school was actually letting go, at least for one night. Amadeus began to two-step in time with Emily, looking rather ridiculously graceful in his dirtied quidditch robes, as he enticed Vashti to come along. "Who cares what you'll look like? We all deserve to have fun after our hard work!"

...

WHATWASTHIS!?

Criiiinge.

Whoareyou and whyareyouinmyspace?

Meep! Staring at the blond haired, green eyed girl, it took a moment, but it finally registered in her mind that it was only Marie. Omg. MARIE! "Marie..." she just barely got out before the girl was walking over to Mia. But Mariiieeeee! Catching up to the girl, she smiled at Mia before turning her attention to Marie.

"When...you...you're alright!" No more dragon pox? MIA! Marie was alright! And...not...green.

Aaron wandered into the party... Yeah, he was still in a foul mood, BUT it was the right thing to do. He looked around and took note of everyone there... The champions, hooray underdogs, the players, the students, everyone. Yet Aaron had no one to talk to... He never made friends on the pitch- Well he tried. But Slytherin Quidditch captain kind of has a bad rep. And his team was all busy talking to everyone else. So he decided to be the awkward turtle at a party he should be all over...

So he kind of stood there... Gazing over the crowd... Looking for anyone of interest.

Emily approved of Deus's skills at doing the two-step.
It perhaps did look a bit odd in quidditch robes- so she was partly thankful- her... under-the-influence thinking had led her to put on a dress. Still had she been in the right state if mind, she would have just gone as she was from the pitch.

Well...it certainly looked easy. But that's how all dance numbers looked when you weren't actually doing them.

"Sure, you can say that," Vashti replied, sort of staring at the older girl's feet as they seemed to moved effortlessly. How did she do that without tripping or stepping on her own feet?! "You haven't got two left feet."

Well that was nice and all, but why did that mean she had to attempt to dance now? Vashti kind of made a face as Deus started doing the two step too. How did neither of them fall?!

Fun? How was that at all fun?! "It's not so much what I'll look like," she answered. "More of the fact that I don't want to fall flat on my face." Because she knew she would.

Emily couldn't help but giggle.
"I'm sure you wont fall on your face... and if you do, no big deal. I snogged a bread roll today, then passed out."

It really couldn't get much worse than that.

Amadeus shook his head at her negative comments. "We'll be here to catch you. We promise." It was the least he could do for being a fellow teammate who had accidentally mangled her arm and, at the start of the term, had nearly hexed her into oblivion because of his uncalled-for anger at her playful paint tossing. "Right, Emily?" He looked to her for reassurance, to help ease the younger Ravenclaw into dancing with the two seventh years. "We don't have to two step. We can do other things as well. I know how to waltz, but that's not appropriate for this type of party. We can do... I believe kids call it the running man?" Stopping his two step, Amadeus brought both arms in front of them, stretched straight and fists balled, before doing said-dance-move and looking utterly ridiculous. Maybe she would laugh and join in with the stupidity, or the two-step, or with her own dance move. If not, Amadeus might have to call over Roderigo to entice her to dance.

Okay, so, he'd said nothing, but then Mia managed to know exactly what he was thinking? It was probably the same thing everyone would think, clearly.

He nodded, and said nothing further on the matter.

Haha, but she'll have to wait, because he didn't know how to ask a chicken something, much less...listen to whatever it was they had to say. Maybe that Destiny girl could? Yeah, he wouldn't want to ask any Slytherin for help. Sierra had been an exception, and neither of them were helping each other, really.

"Yeah, neither can I." Just, don't hold your breath, Mia.

Treyen smiled. Visits. From people Jake got long with. That would work. "He may talk a bit nonsense, but he'll be alright soon." Because he needed to be, right? After all, the school year was almost gone.

Summer plans? "Oh, I don't know, we've got nothing planned, I think I'll just stay in England this time." And he was completely okay with that, which is why he shrugged. "You?" and his eyes flickered between Mia and the Slytherins that were coming her way and...

...were suddenly here.

Speaking of Slytherins.

Yes, Sierra, we hear you, and we know you meant to say something else. He smirked as his gaze was turned towards the little Slytherin. Someone already knows who'll test their potion.

"Of cours we will", she reassured Vashti. Deus had a point, the two-step was one thing, but there were so many other moved they could explore.

"Nice one Deus!"She said giggling as Deus started doing to running man. Emily decided to join in- but instead of doing the running man she did the robot.. Hopefully Vashti would enjoy the spectacle and join in.

"Yeah sure am. Finally." He made a face. Finn knew better than almost anyone that Jimmy wasn't one to enjoy being cooped up for long periods, especially when it was enforced and he had no choice in the matter.

He grinned tiredly and helped himself to a great big handful of miniature sandwiches.

"I see." Jim answered, grinning and generally giving Em some significant looks in response to her whole 'get things off her chest' statement. He popped an sandwich in his mouth and chewed industriously, swallowing when she nudged him.

"I like the part where you think I, James Sacheverell Wilkes, need saving from anything." Obviously kidding. Partly. He could have done with some saving when it came to Quidditch injuries, but he was alright now at least. And Em? She seemed happier. That was good. He smiled good naturedly and ate another sandwich.

Yeah. Yeah he noticed.

James deflated and busied himself with the buffet.

He turned his head and winked at Ellie and would have made some hilarious statement about her being more than welcome to be his fangirl, adorable ickle squirt that she was, but obviously his mouth was full. And he was hungry.

Priorities.

The wink would have to do.

And besides all that, focusing on the buffet meant not having to think too much about the recent arrival of Marie.

Being dumped? Not so fun as it turns out.

.......

..... especially when you were practically on your DEATH BED at the time. Or something like that.

Sigh.

Keeping one arm around Spikes head, Ellie turned when she heard her name.

OOhh! Famous!

...Or it could just be that he knew her from class.

Or not! "Nice to meet you Mikey." Because, yes, she WAS Ellie. BEAM. "Thank you so much." BEAM.

She turned back to her teammates and...gag!Emily. But, she was going to forget about that. Yes.

Besides, she'd said dancing. Ellie didn't respond to her, but she did want to dance. And that made her think of a certain Hufflepuff who should be around her somewhere. He was on the pitch, after all, he wouldn't have too far to go.

Ellie bit her lip as she scanned the area for him.

And she saw Dallin instead.

"Hey!" Come say 'hi' you. It had been almost all year since she last spoke to him.

She missed the wink. Which would've confused her anyway. But she did hear his sigh. That was just unacceptable. No sighing. "Cheer up, you," Ellie said, nudging him with he non-Spike arm.

They'd just won what in Merlin's name could he possibly be sighing about?

Letting out a little snort, Mia grabbed a drink from the table and took a small sip. Like he was really going to talk to a chicken. It would be bloody amusing if he did though.

"I wouldn't expect anything less from Jake." She said with a smile playing on her lips. She'd already had quite the conversations with the older Huffie and while most of the time he acted mature there were a couple of times when the child came out in him.

Seems Treyen was quite the jet setter. Mia raised her eyebrows at him. "Where do you normally go? If you're hanging around England." Noticing that Trey was looking at someone else, Mia moved her head slightly to see that Marie was indeed head this way. "Going home to Australia for a couple of weeks and then spending the rest of the summer in Russia." She answered giving him a small smile.

Only having a split seconds notice that Marie was going to hug her, Mia managed to get her drink out of the way so that she could return the girls hug. "Well gotta celebrate Hufflepuff's second placing." She said with a small laugh. And because she totally needed to unwind and relax for a while and a party was a good place to do that.

Spotting Evelyn, just behind Marie, Mia gave her a smile. "Hey Ev. I've been meaning to talk to you." On the orders of a certain Gryffindor but Mia kept that part to herself.

"Oh my bad. Do you two know Treyen?"

Oh, really? Mia didn't believe him?!

Yeah, well, she was right. He wasn't going to go around chasing chickens just to get an answer. And he was more than positive that Saylen wouldn't want a Hufflepuff boy chasing for the chickens on her grounds. Yeah, no.

Nod. But the fourth year made no comment about Jake either. He'd only find out that Jake could be human, let's not push the newly formed friendship between both boys.

And why was she raising her eyebrows at him? Maybe it was the fact that she usually did so whenever he joked around with Alex, and he wasn't used to that reaction so out of context. Or out of Alex. "Er, last summer was Italy, but I have family in France and Romania, so, I've gone there also, and...well, I went to your place when I was little," meaning, much more little than NOW, "But, yeah, a couple places, though, I wouldn't consider them usual destinations since I'm not always traveling over there." Mia shouldn't exaggerate with it, just in case.

Ooooh. He nodded, and smiled, but then confusion hit. "Russia? How so?" wasn't that...all gray, and cold? Sounded...like he needed to visit just to check it out, but he wasn't staying for long, no.

He hadn't realized the fact that he was now surrounded by three girls.

Blink.

Where was Simon?? Where was Jake?? Oh, right, Jake was with the Healer, the pretty Healer.

And...was Mia introducing him? Why? "Hey," he said, with one very-Fletcher-like 'Sup' nod. Awww, Fletcher! He'd totally let Fletcher down today, hadn't he?! Freaking out moment over.

Why?

Because he was now watching as one of the Chasers and the Keeper were sort of dancing over there and then he immediately thought of someone, someone that must be very busy enjoying her win today.

Someone that was...right over there...close to the trophy. Looking...perfect.

Smile.

Marie laughed when Mia pulled her drink back. Oops, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to attack people with hugs.

Eh, who was she kidding, hugs were great.

Oh right, the puffs came in second place. That meant Slytherin came in... third. Well that just sucked. Oh well, at least they weren't at the bottom of the barrel like those lions. "Well congratulations to your house." Wow, that was something new to her. Congratulating the Puffs.

Pulling away from Mia she looked back towards Evelyn who seemed to be having a fit or something. Then it hit her, she hadn't seen any of her friends since she got over being sick. "Yeah, I'm cured, no more green." Well except for her eyes and she wasn't going to do anything to change those.

Huh? Treyen? Oh right, the person Mia was talking to. "Nope, can't say that I do." Marie said when Mia asked if they knew the boy. "Hi, I'm Marie, nice to meet you."

Chyeaaaa! She could see Marie was cured. Though she'd have liked to have known when she was feeling better and all. Enough to get out and about that is. Where had she been doing that she FORGOT to tell her FRIENDS? "Well, good for you." Hmm. Is that what one is supposed to say to someone who just got over being sick? "I'm glad you're better." That sounded better in her opinion.

And...Mia? Talk to heeeer? Reeaaallly? "Yea?" she asked, her attention moving to the Hufflepuff girl as she crossed her arms. Not in the "Tell me NOW" or "Yea, whatever. I won't be listening" kind of way either. She just felt like crossing her arms. "What about?" 'Cause she'd like to know!

However, her attention was moved to the OTHER Hufflepuff though. Oh hey, there was a guy there. She almost didn't see him. "Hey." she replied, nodding her head somewhat. Right. Awesome greetings.

...

Greetings that didn't involve her name because well...she just didn't say it. But, yush, Hellooooo to you. Grin.

Merlin!!

The boy had been everywhere. Well okay not everywhere but a lot more places then she had been to. And if it hadn't been for a certain person then the only other place she would have been to other than home would have been Hogwarts. Eh how exciting was her life?

"Gosh Treyen, you've got the life. I want to be able to travel around like that." And she was going to. Mia usually went with the flow but she was determined to see other parts of the world. "So I guess you don't remember any of the places you went to Australia." Would have been nice to compare notes.

Oh he wanted to know about Russia. She couldn't keep the grin off her face. "Because that's where my boyfriend lives and I am going to visit him." Enough said, right? She was pretty sure she didn't need to go into any more detail than that.

And then she watched with amusement as he greeted the girls. "Real smooth Lockhart." She muttered under her breath and coughed into her hand.



"Yeah what a shame it's not going to be the same result for the house cup." It looked as though that Hufflepuff was going to be last again and that really sucked.

When Marie pulled away from her, Mia was able to take a sip of her drink and she let her gaze wander around the room again as Marie and Evelyn spoke to each other. She wished that this was the end of term feast instead of just a quidditch party. To be honest she wanted the term to be over with.




Hearing Evelyn address her, Mia was still looking across the other side of the room, looking for a certain Gryffindor. She was after all doing half of his job. "Yeah." She replied before slowly bringing her gaze back to the Slytherin and raising her eyebrow at the girl's stance.

For some reason that really seem to annoy her. Yeah she really needed a break from this place. So she shrugged her shoulders at Evelyn and then looked out across the room again. "Probably not the best place to discuss it."

She was being childish. She knew it. But she just couldn't seem to help herself at the moment.

"Good...." Because Finn would've felt a little bad if he had like not been okay. And the whole team probably would've killed him if like the trophy had been ruined. "We aree Spikee!" And they were totally so awesome, everyone should like totally worship then. That would be soo cool. Finlay glanced around, looking at who was here. Yup...they all should totally worship the ravenclaw team.

Ooh. Emily was here now. Mmm. Finlay grinned at her, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and hugging her. "I was just taking my time....making sure Spike got here." Like the good prefect that he was. But now that he was here they were totally going to have a great party. Because they were Ravenclaws, and they totally could have epic parties....and then they would go to the common room and celebrate some more. Yeah.....they were just that epic.

"Yeah...Finally." Finlay grinned, nicking a miniature sandwich from him. "I was beginning to think I'd lost you." And that would be so tragic considering that he'd known Jimmy since he was little. "Glad you're better though" Very glad. Now they could go and enjoy Summer together, like good best friends did.

Oooh....Emily was going to dance was she? Finn smirked, and would've offered to join her, but some of the othes had gone, so he stayed where he was.....and looked cool.

Emily grinned as she felt two arms wrap around her, she looked back to see Finn. "You're hugs are so good!" she said to him, turning around to hug him back properly. Finlay was so typical! such a great guy, looking after Spike to make sure he got here alright. Stand up guy.

"Come dance!" she said, her voice pleading. She did the sprinkler move hoping it would convince him that dancing with her would be a good idea. She couldn't help but laugh a bit.