Penny opted for the second bouquet.... The colors were warm and inviting and somehow reminded her of Spring... and all the promises of a new season..

Walking closer, to identify the flowers held in the vase, smelling in the beautiful sweet aroma..

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Originally Posted by Penny's Parchment

Hot Pink Roses = Gratitude, appreciation and admiration;
Purple Lisianthus = lisianthus symbolize an outgoing nature, also symbolize appreciation
Larkspur = these lush and feathery flowers send a message of devotion and an open heart
Stargazer Lilies = The meaning of these fragrant flowers can be one of wealth and prosperity..also beauty, elegance, sweetness and purity
Silver Dollar Eucalyptus = Protection

Penny read her parchment when she had finished writing the meanings ..... realising there was a common theme..... saying thank you or showing gratitude and appreciation...

Penny guessed that the Eucalyptus was there to symbolically protect the person or persons receiving the bouquet... and the Lilies to wish prosperity on the receiver...

Selina gasped very loudly, "How dare you even imply that I would cheat on your cookies. There is no trust here Kurumi! I think I may just go in a corner and cry. That was so hurtful," she laughed a little and then pressed on, "But seriously, it could mean that we are still working through a lot of our issues. Friendship takes hard work to make it grow and be healthy. Maybe it means that we don't really know that much about each other yet. Maybe it means we are keeping things from each other and faithful entails that friendship means you tell the other person everything. By withholding the truth we aren't being really committed to our friendship. So Kurumi, is it fair to say that we are keeping things from each other?"

She knew that she was. Her sister was something she NEVER talked about. But maybe she just might.

Kurumi chewed on her lip some more as she listened to Selina. She wan't to jump around in her seat, perhaps flail a bit while she was at it, and deny that she was keeping anything from Selina. However, the truth of the matter is that she was. Kurumi had hardly discussed any of her personal research in the library, there were things about her past and some of her fears that she hadn't shared, along with a handful of other things. It wasn't that she didn't trust Selina, it was just...she didn't feel comfortable admitting some of these truths to herself.

"You might have a point," Kurumi nodded slowly. "Although, I would like to think that we know each other very well. Just, maybe we don't know each other's deep dark secrets or the parts of ourselves that we are so ashamed of we refuse to let others see. But, those sides of us need to be shown to the other to create a real friendship?" Kurumi wasn't sure she was making any sense, but she decided to write down her and Selina's thoughts as best she could.

Since Helena preferred to work alone, she chose a bouquet just for herself. The only problem was that she didn't quite know the flowers by their name, but she'll figure something out.

Well, she was completely sure that there were orange roses. Now... the rest. She recognized the pink-purple ones as being callas, and also orange gerberas. That was all she knew, but professor Bishop said that two were enough, right?



There. She was done.

Setting out her parchment and quill, Thea went to pick herself a bouquet. Selecitng the one that was most appealing to her, the little lioness settled down and got to work.
Ticking off the flowers in her head, she recognised each one form her mother's garden at home.. it was large.

Text Cut: Thea's Parchment.

Orange Gerbera- they symbolize creativity, fascination and also warmth. Colour; a mixture of yellow & red.
Orange Rose- symbolizes something between passion (the red rose) and also friendship and happiness(the yellow rose). It could also indicate wanting to turn a friendship into more of a relationship.
Calla- colours; pinky purpely! Symbolizes a few things, such as innocence, grace, happiness and gentility

Putting her quill bakc down Thea chewed her lip. A few people had chosen the same bunch of flowers, she had noticed. Oh well, she had kept herself to herself after all!

Selina pretended to shrug nonchalantly, while she was internally panicking. Her sister was her deepest secret and rightfully so, it was not a time in her life that any of her family liked to talk about. She was too little at the time to really understand what happened. Besides what she knew now was from her Aunt Jennette. To make the pain go away her parents pretended that it never happened. Maybe if they never talked about it her death was easier to cope with.

She shook her head and cleared her throat, "It's a theory. Just, um, maybe one day we'll be comfortable enough to tell each other. Until that day though your the closest friend I have minus Violet and Elektra. I think that's pretty good."

Oooooh! Perdy flowers!

Savannah took out her parchment and quill and started examing the bouquets. They're all so perdy! But she groaned when the professor annouced that they will the interpreting them. That will mean NAME THE FLOWERS!! Savannah frowned. How is she suppose to know what each flowers are? It's hard! The purple ones look all the same, the yellows ones look like yellow ones, and the red ones look like red ones. She's not a flower expert!

But they are pretty and good smelling!

After examing them all, Savannah decided to pick the second bonquet. It contained two different colors of roses. She decided to do two flowers first. Savannah wrote on her parchment:

Simon had no idea what he was going to do, this was so confusing. "Professor Bishop." Simon sighed, he hoped she wouldn't be mad with him for telling her. "I don't get what you want us to do."

" You can put my namr down as William Starr" Willaim told Presley. If you want my spelling of my last name, here it is for you- M- O- N-T-C-E-N-A- G-G-I=O" "William said to Presley. " The next flowe I am naming for us is the "Forget- Me-Not" which has the meaning of True Love" Wilaim explained to Presley. Your turn now" William smiled.

Just as Eino was choosing one the bouquets to read from, he noticed a familiar Hufflepuff boy.
Something about this boy was shady, but Eino couldn't exactly recall what had happened, other than that it involved some robes and maybe a pogrebin or two. "We are supposed to read the flowers' meanings." He said pointing to them. "In those bouquets." They didn't even have to read all of them, just a couple, and the professor had made a list of all of the meanings. Maybe the boy was just plotting something. Eino looked at him suspiciously. Now, which of the bouquets should he choose from? Honestly, he didn't know much about flowers. All of his Herbology expertise was mainly related to other plants, so he could barely even identify the flowers.

Penny heard the guy (who lost like 50 house points) ask the Professor what he was supposed to do...

Whispering over to him, she said "If you'd paid more attention you would know what to do". taking a deep breath to calm down -
"You are 'supposed' to pick one bouquet of flowers and deciphor the meanings of the flowers that are in it".

Penny didn't know his name... nor did she want to know it, she knew he was on the quidditch team --- but she, Penny, had worked very hard to earn points and he threw them away wily-nily...

It still stung that he could be so thoughtlessly asinine...

Simon looked at Eino and smiled, well at least he was talking to him which was good. "Yeah I get that bit." Simon smiled, okay maybe he should have been a bit clearer in his last question. "Professor I don't get how are we suppost to know which flower is which." Simon sighed, he wasn't a flower person, unless he was on duty but no one knew about that.

Simon suddenly heard a girls voice and realised that it was the beater from the quidditch team." She was really annoy him, and he didn't like being annoyed, he couldn't lose anymore points, he wanted to end in positive points for the term. "I did pay attention." Simon smiled. "I just don't get it." Simon hoped the Professor wouldn't tell him off for talking he was just replying to the girl.

Eino frowned. Identifying the flower was part of the assignment, and the other half was to note its meaning. "Just a pick a bouquet!" Eino told the boy, willing to work together with him to identify the flowers. Although, it would probably be best to find a partner who could actually recognize the flowers, but Eino didn't mind. He could identify several of them, they were mostly common flowers. "Any bouquet!" He repeated pointing to all the different choices.

Savannah stared at the dark pink flowers, then the Divination Texbook. She wrinkled her nose hastily, ugh. Terrible smell! Even though it's brand new, it smells like tea and...Mr. Fluffy?

Savvy tried to ignore the smell and concentrate on the work. Dark pink rose...dark pink rose...Savannah used her finger to help her find the meaning...there it is! Gratitude is the meaning of a dark pink rose.

The next flower, a violet-ish rose. She looked into her textbook and saw the words 'love at first sight'. Savannah giggled silently. So romantic! She wish she could recieve that sign soon. Savannah pulled her thoughts back in to the corner of her mind. CONCENTRATE!

Savannah slowly and carefully wrote on her parchment:

Simon looked at Eino, now this was interesting he was suppost to pick which Bouquet, did Eino know that he wasn't very good at making choices well he was about to find out now. "Let's go for bouquet number two." Simon smiled, hopefully it would be a good one that Simon knew something about.

Destiny might have dozed off once, or twice, or she was sleeping during the entire lesson. But really, it was all Professor Bishop's fault. If she hadn't decorated the classroom with all those flowers, she would have been wide awake.

But none of that was important, because she was awake now! And apparently it was right in time. An assignment. An assignment that only brought her that much closer to those flowers.

She was going to fall asleep again.

Wiping the drool from her mouth Lifting her head from off the desk, Destiny began pulling out her parchment and quill while looking around for a partner. And she just so happened to see someone. Although, she wasn't really in the mood to be bothered with her. Oh well.

"Evelyn! Psssst, Evelyn! Work with me!"

"Good choice!" Eino said as he took a piece of parchment and quill, and approached the flower. He was going to identify as many flowers as possible then interpret them all, just in case he was wrong about one or two. Hopefully, Professor Bishop would acknowledge his their effort. "Come on!" Eino called Simon to follow him so he could have a closer look at the flowers. Maybe he would recognize some, they weren't very difficult.

"I do believe the red ones are roses..." He said as he quickly wrote it down. Those were very obvious, who doesn't recognize a rose? These were red, but not as dark as he had usually seen them so he made a note of that, too, just in case it made a difference when it came to interpretation. "The big pink ones with red in the center of the petals and the little dots..." Eino said pointing at them with his quill. "They look like lilies." He looked at Simon some sort of help or reassurance, but found neither. The boy looked puzzled and not that interested in the flowers. Eino nudged him. "You should write these down, too." He advised the Simon. Even though he was doing most of the work, the Professor would probably want to see something from both of them, so it was best to be safe than sorry. "Now, the little purple ones I am not sure... They could be either succulent lupine or larkspur, which do you think it is?" And if he didn't know he could always use the book, or something. However, EIno was inclined to believe they were the former. Laskpur flowers were supposed to be a little bigger. "The big purple ones look like peonies, but I am the least sure about those..." He looked at Simon. Any input?

She was nodding off taking her time in getting up to grab one of the bouquets, and this took a lot of concentration for those who didn't understand the art of staying awake getting up and grabbing bouquets. It was hard work! First...you had to stand up.

The girl usually failed that first part in this class though...

Yet, she before she could muster up the strength and courage to even budge an inch in her seat, the Slytherin girl eyed someone who was pssssting her. Why did SHE want, hmm? Work with her? Like...seriously? Staring at Destiny with a 'Are you serious?' look, she instead eyed the distance between her EX-best friend's table and her own. Ten feet was way too far away.

..."Fine, but I'm not moving all the way over there!" Pfft.

Why was she being stared at like that?

Destiny had no idea what that look even meant, but coming from Evelyn, she knew it couldn't be good. The girl was evil, after all. She wouldn't say anything back, though, and she most definitely was not going to give her EX-best friend any looks back. She needed her! She was partner-less. Of course, she could do the assignment on her own, but that actually meant doing that work, and she didn't feel like it.

Although, she couldn't help but give her a LOOK once she heard her speak. PFFFT!!!

"I called you over! That means you should come to me."

And that made PERFECT sense. To Destiny.

Destiny obviously didn't hear her correctly. She just said she wasn't going to go over there. And what was THAT look for, hmmm? It was probably her concentration face. The one she uses to try and understand people speak. Evelyn wouldn't be surprised if the girl spoke some crazy alien language before learning english.

Scoffing quietly, she shifted in her seat while crossing her arms. This...was her stubborn pose. The arms being crossed made it the stubborn part.

"You're closer!"

That made sense. It did, because Evelyn was the one who said it. Everything she said made sense.

Seriously, could Evelyn not see that she was in no mood to get up and walk over to her? Of course Destiny knew she didn't care, but still. That shouldn't mess with her eyesight. Perhaps she would talk to Rae later on and have her drag her EX-best friend to the Healer. Get HER eyes checked.

And speaking of eyes, Destiny rolled hers dramatically, even mimicking Evelyn's crossed arms.

"I have no problem with sitting here and talking to you from across the room!"

They would just have to talk in their normal voices, instead of these whispers. And they would chance people cheating off them. Because they always came up with the best answers.

What was this? Destiny was copying her. Evelyn KNEW her EX-best friend wanted to be just like her. She just had her suspicions sometimes what with the weirdness Destiny tended to show every now and then. Evelyn was nothing like that. And no, she didn't JUST think of that JUST now because she was irritated.

Yet, the other Slytherin wasn't budging. Or she was, but she was as slow as a snail. Like her flying. Frowning, the NORMAL Slytherin huffed silently before looking around for Josh. She wanted to be HIS partner! He was way better than some crazy girl. However, as she looked around, she noticed all the flowers. Again.

Well now...

Taking out her wand, she pointed it at one of the orange bouquets and silently summoned it to her. HA! "I have the flowers!" See that? It was in her hands. "Now you HAVE to come over here."

"Umm..." Samira eyes the bouquets. "What about number two? That one looks pretty."

Destiny ALMOST ducked under her desk as she watched Evelyn take out her wand. The girl was evil, and evil people had no problems with hexing another person while in front of a Professor. She probably thought she wouldn't get caught anyway. There were so many flowers in the room.

But she was safe.

And Evelyn was still evil. Summoning the flowers so she was the one that was able to stay in her seat. Pffft. Huffing, so that probably everyone in the classroom heard, Destiny took out her own wand. She wasn't evil, and no one had anything to worry about. She wasn't about to hex anyone. Instead, she silently summoned the bouquet of flowers Evelyn had. HA!

"Now I have the flowers." Holding them in her hand, she waved them a bit, teasing her EX-best friend. "Now YOU have to come HERE."

Nika nodded as she walked towards the second bouquet."Well the big pink and white ones look like lilies?" She said cocking her head to the side. They only needed to find two right...? Then she looked at the other flowers. "The pinkish/reddish ones could be roses? What do you think?" She asked Samira as she looked at the other flowers.