Finlay had to smirk this time when she kissed him again. Mmm. He could really grow to like that....a lot. "Just like that..." He had to reist the temptation to kiss her again, or maybe he was just going to tease her a little. He didn't really know. There was one thing on his mind though. He had a feeling that she would get jealous whenever he was around girls. Unless he did the one thing that he really wanted to do. Make her the only girl he wanted....seeing as she was that girl. "Marie...." He mused, smiling at her. "Wanna be my girlfriend?" Yeah. Because that was romantic Carmicheal.

As much as Marie liked the little kissing action that was going on right now she was not prepared for Finn's question. Did she want to be his girlfriend? That one she wasn't really sure about. Sure she felt jealous when she seen him with other girls but was she ready to get back into a relationship... especially with her ex's best friend. A friend who was pretty much a player just like her ex. Shaking her head a bit she stopped thinking about it. It wasn't like he was asking her to be his girlfriend, he only asked if she wanted to be. There was a big difference between Do you want and Will you be. Before she gave it any more thought she had a question of her own. "Before I answer that question, I just have to know... are you in love with anyone else and if I was your girlfriend would I have to put up with you constantly flirting with other girls?" If he even hesitated the least little bit on answering either of those questions or if he said yes to either then she knew she would never be able to be his girlfriend... even if she wanted to be. She wasn't going to let herself be put through that again.

She was answering his questions with a question of her own? That was weird, but it did make him think. Marie was his best friend's ex....so it didn't surprise him that much what her questions were about. He knew the answer to the first one. He'd been single for quite a while, there was no way he was in love with anyone. "I'm not in love with anyone else." He smiled at her. Sure, he'd loved Lexi, but that had been a long time ago. Now to answer the next question. Would he flirt with other girls? Again he wasn't that shocked by this question. He was player, so it was okay for her to ask him that question. "You probably know how I am Marie....but I wouldn't." He wouldn't do that to her, especially when he knew how it had hurt her when Jimmy had done it. "It might be hard for me, but I'd stop doing it for you.....your worth it."

Marie sat there biting on her lip not really sure how this was going to turn out. She really wasn't sure what she was going to do if he said yes to either of the questions... and apparently she wasn't going to have to worry about that either. Her smile came back when he said he wasn't in love with anyone. She just had to be sure though. "You're not just saying that because you're in denial about your feelings for some other girl are you?" She didn't want to find out six months later that he had been pining over someone else the whole time he was with her.

Now onto the next answer he gave her. "Yeah, I know exactly how you are. I seem to be one of the girls you like to flirt with." Not that she was complaining. She liked to flirt back... a LOT. Oh, he thought she was worth giving up his player ways for. Well... that was definitely more than she had gotten from James, which was I'll try. Finn wasn't saying he would try, he was telling her he would stop. That alone made her want to tell him yes, but she didn't. Instead she gave him another question... right after she gave him another little kiss. "So if I answer your question with a yes, does this mean I get to be your girlfriend?" Because really, he didn't ask her to be his girlfriend, only if she wanted to be.

Finlay watched her, for her reaction. Was he in denial? No. Not at all. He hadn't thought that he had loved a girl for a long time, so he was pretty sure that there was no way that he was denying feelings for anyone. "Im not denying anything Marie." And wouldn't deny anything, he knew that he'd tell her everything. He'd figured that secrets ruined relationships, and he wasn't about to let it happen again. No....he was going to try to a be more honest person now.

Finlay grinned, giving her hand a squeeze. "I like flirting with you a lot." Mmm. He though that she probably knew that by now, but there was no harm in telling her, making her know. Aww. He was getting more kisses. He liked that a lot. Did that mean she believed him? If so he was going to be very happy. She could have very easily thought he was lying, but it seemed that she believed him. Which was good because he was telling the truth. Marie was the only girl he really wanted now. Sure he flirted with tons of girls, but Marie was the speical one. Hmmm. Finn smiled at her, pretending to think about what she was saying. "I think it does...." Yes. Most Definetly.

Well this day was turning out to be better than she had expected. Finn wasn't in love with anyone, he liked flirting with her and...

What? He only thinks it means she will be his girlfriend? Well that wasn't what she had wanted to hear. "You think it does? Does that mean you're not sure if you want me to be your girlfriend?" She felt her smile fading just a little. Maybe he really was only trying to find out if she wanted, not if she would be his girlfriend. Boys, why couldn't they just say what they meant?

Opps. Maybe that was a bad thing to say. "No Marie..." Finn shook his head. "I am sure....I really am." Because he knew that he wasn't going to change his mind. Not at all. "I want you to be my girlfriend, I've wanted it for a while." He leaned in, kissing her gently. He smiled at her, rubbing her palm gently with his thumb. Hopefully she wasn't going to not want to be his girlfriend anymore after his silly comments.

After not speaking for a few minutes, he asked "Marie....will you be my girlfriend?"

He had wanted her to be his girlfriend for a while? That made her really happy to hear that. Smiling against his lips as he kissed her some more she finally answered his first question. "Yes, I want to be your girlfriend." Now would he actually ask her to be his girlfriend or not?

She wasn't really sure what to make of the silence at the moment. She just knew she liked the feel of his kisses and him holding her hand. The silence was killing her here though. If he didn't say something soon she may just ask him to... "YES!" She blurt out when he finally asked her to be his girlfriend. Wrapping her arms around his neck she pulled him closer and kissed him again... as his girlfriend. "You have no clue how happy you just made me." She whispered in his ear.

*ignores the Marie clone over there*
 

After RUNNING out of the Greenhouse, because she SWORE Evelyn and Marie were going to feed her to those chomping cabbages, Destiny found herself at the front gate. She wasn't sure WHY she was there, but that's where her feet took her and she was as far away from those finger eating plants.

Hopefully she wasn't too far from her friends though. It would suck if she found the last item and they didn't. Or the other way around.

Skidding to a halt, she adjusted the bag on her shoulder and glanced around the area. Hmm.. "If I were an item where would I be? Well, I would be in my bag already, obviously. I know where I am; I am right here! What a stupid question to ask."

Really. The scavenger hunt needed to end now.

Destiny was now talking to herself.

When did Destiny start to run that fast? Really, Evelyn actually had to RUN to keep up with her. Yet she stopped after awhile, slowing down to a walk and just...taking it easy. She didn't want to spill the bag after all, and then destroy all the items she found...and then have to go back to all the places she looked for them to get them again. That would be a PAIN!

Holding onto her bag with both hands that was slung over her shoulder, she stopped walking and looked around, wondering why the heck Destiny had ran all the way over here. This was like...nowhere near the greenhouses.

Looking back over to her rather insane she-snake friend, Evelyn sighed before calling out to her, "Why did you run over here!?" By the front gate? Seriously...if the girl wanted to see muggles, she'd just have to wait until summer time. Evelyn seriously doubted the staff would be letting even more muggles into the castle grounds after that first incident.

*Potions clone... yeah ignore me over there with Finn*
 

Since when did Destiny like to run? Marie had never seen her friend move so fast. Maybe she too was afraid dear ole Vinny was going to catch them.

Finally catching up to her she had to agree with Evelyn. "Yeah D, why'd you run clear out here? You that anxious to go home?" Marie knew she was ready for term to be over but most likely for totally different reasons than her She-Snake friend over there.

Oh good. Her friends DID decide to follow her.

But it could all be a trap! What if the only reason they followed her was so they could pick her up and bring her back to the Greenhouse!?

THEY WERE STILL GOING TO FEED HER TO THE CHOMPING CABBAGE!

Taking a few steps away from Evelyn and Marie, Destiny moved closer to that big rock and was just about to hide behind it when they were spotted. Just sitting there on the rock like they owned the place. It had to be the last object, right? There was no other reason for something like that to be outside. What if it was raining out!?

Lafay must have checked the weather forecast beforehand.

"I FOUND IT!" she yelled, grabbing one and waving it high above her head before shoving it into her bag. "WE ARE DONE!"

Well, technically, SHE was done. The other still had to get there's. But, before she the other She-Snakes could even grab theirs, Destiny took off running back towards the castle..

..cackling madly.

Hehe, Merlin only knew what was going on in Destiny's mind. Then again, he might be just as confused as the rest of them when it came to her dear friend's mind.

Shaking her head as a few giggles escaped her, Evelyn started towards her crazy insane friend, not really paying attention to the fact that Destiny was in fact moving away from them, or her surroundings. Hmmmmm?

Staring at whatever was in Destiny's hand, the Slytherin glanced back to Marie for a moment before shrugging her shoulders, and pulling out her list to check the clues. Well...actually...that made sense? Going over to where her friend...previously...was, Evelyn picked up one of the items before looking it over. That made perfect sense now actually. Hehe, tricky clue!

...

Time to race after Destiny! "RACE YOU THERE!" she yelled out to both Destiny and Marie. MWAHAHA!

Potions clone again
 

SHE FOUND IT?

Destiny had found the last item.

YES!

Running over to the rock she grabbed one and stuck it in her bag. She was just about to take out her parchment and update it when her friends ran off without her.

"HEY! WAIT FOR ME!" Or not.

Throwing her bag back over her shoulder she took off sprinting towards her friends. She was not going to let them beat her back to the classroom. NO WAY! She would just check her parchment in the room before handing it in.

Ten Eleven items down... ZERO to go.

Awesome. She wanted to be his girlfriend. Yes. That was quite epic, and did give him quite a bit of an ego boost. It wasn't nice to get rejected, not that he had even been rejected before, so he didn't really know what it actually felt like.
The silence did seem quite good, not too awkward, which was a bit unusual for Finn because he normally wasn't a quite guy. But thankfully after he spoken it seemed to get much better. Especially when she wrapped her arms around hid neck. Mhmm. He liked this a lot.

Awww. ?Man. She was so cute. He wrapped his arms around her waist, giving her a big hug. "Well I am glad you're happy Marie." Really glad. He liked making her happy, it was a change from making girls cry all the while really. So it was definetly a positive.

Marie couldn't take the smile off her face. She was now Finlay Carmicheal's girlfriend. This had turned out to be a pretty awesome day. Now she wouldn't have to be the jealous girl on the outside. All the other girls could be jealous of her because she was the lucky one that gets to call him all hers. Looking into his eyes she grinned. "I'm pretty sure you just made up for not seeing me at the party." She gave him another little kiss then rested her head on his shoulder.

Finn was quite happy right now. He'd got himself a girlfriend, and yes it was all pretty happy. She was also pretty cute, so yeah things were looking good right now. "Well that's very good." Because he didn't really want to have to constantly think of ways to make things up to her. He just wanted to surprise her on the spur of the moment, for no reason at all. Mmm. This was nice, he smiled. Yes. This had turned out very well.

As much as Marie was enjoying just sitting there with Finn, she was ready to go do something. She wasn't sure what she wanted to do she just knew whatever it was she wanted Finn to be there with her. Hopping off the rock she grabbed his hand. "Come on, let's go do something." She had a boyfriend to show off and couldn't very well do it at the front gate when no one was around.

Finlay watched her as she got off the rock. Oh. She was done here now? hehe. "Mmm...sounds good." Finlay grinned, giving her hand a nice squeeze. "What do yo uwanna do?" He asked, walking back up towards the castle. maybe they could just go and have a nice walk, to the great hall maybe. And have some more chocolate cake with strawberries. Yes. Tha would be very nice.

What did she want to do? Show off her boyfriend what else. And what better place to do it than in the Great Hall, where there would be lots of people. Plus it was about lunch time and she was feeling a bit hungry now. "Let's go to the Great Hall. My stomach is telling me it's lunchtime." Or maybe it was just the butterflies she still had from him asking her to be his girlfriend. Holding his hand she walked with him back to the castle... to get food.

Rae wasn't sure what she wanted from her professor. She didn't want her to stay, but she didn't want her to go either. It was unlike Rae to tell her to stay.... So how could she tell her? Rae didn't want to be alone, not right now....

How to get her to stay.... Keep talking?

DING DING DING! Correct answer.

So Rae just changed topics, just like that. "In Divination... Does everyone have an uh.... 'inner eye?' " Yes this question was serious. She had wondered it for quite a few years now. Rae understood Divination, not well enough to get an awesome grade.. But it was one of her simple classes. Except when it came to Cartomancy.... Rae, Sal, and Fletcher still believed it had something to do with races in carts, a winning cartwheel, a winning sum of money, and certain death to the loser.

and sorry I didn't get to this sooner. :/
 

It seemed Rae was undecided, which made Renée pause longer than she'd expected. It wouldn't have surprised her if the Slytherin had taken her up on the offer right away, but perhaps things were more troubled than she'd originally thought. If they could not only get the girl to speak with her without mention of, well, issues, she'd guess, but they could get her to not be so rushed to dismiss. All of it made Renée both curious and a bit concerned. She liked the peace, the lack of tension, but it also disconcerted her a bit. After an entire term of dislike, on Rae's part as opposed to herself. She wasn't about to leave if there was any chance of the girl requesting she stay.

The question surprised her, though, and she took a moment to think. "No. Well, let me restate that. Everyone can say they have an 'inner eye' to an extent. Just about anyone can manage basic Divination at least," she finally said, going back to leaning against the gate as she spoke. If they were going to start a discussion, she may as well be comfortable. "A true 'inner eye', though. That's a bit more rare." She wouldn't have said she had one, at least, and she was their professor. True 'inner eyes' equated to being a seer, in her book, and while she could in fact glean more information from people than they'd expect, that wasn't the same. She couldn't say if that had answered Rae's question, however, so she found herself waiting. At least conversation regarding her subject was civil. And safe.