Oh he was just a laugh minute wasn't he? Mia gave him a playful swat on the arm. "It's not about your cooking skills, silly. It's about bonding with her. It's easy to sit down and eat a meal and talk and whatnot. But this way you're doing something together, you know creating something special. Start off with something easy."

Mia picked up an apple and took a bite out of it. "Doesn't matter if it's the first date or the tenth. Every date should be memorable. Correction. Every moment should be memorable." she said giving him a look and taking another bite out of her apple. "Just remember that."

"Ow! What is it with girls and always hitting me?"
*Well that wasn't true, just Marie and Mia not all the girls.*
"Hmm... that was a very wise statement you just made Ms. Gibbins." *She was right though. He wanted to make every minute with Marie special.*

Mia finished off her apple and placed the core into her porridge bowl. "Eh, I don't know about wise. I am just going off my experiences with Nik." She shrugged her shoulders while she scanned the table for something else to eat, she was going to need the energy for when she had to climb all those stairs to the owlery. "And seeing how I couldn't be happier, I figure we must be doing something right."

*Matty smiled, as much as he had hated Nik at first he knew that the guy was good for Mia. He wanted to talk to her about her problem with her father but by the sound of it she had talked about it enough. The last thing he wanted to do was push her, when she was ready she would tell him about it.*
"So, when do you get to see Nik again?"

Heaving a deep sigh, Mia grabbed a piece of toast and began to smother it with raspberry jam. "Not until Christmas. Two months away." Two loooong months. She thought it would get easier, as they got used to it but in actual fact the opposite was happening. It was getting harder for her to be away from him.

"Almost didn't come back." she added in an offhand way before taking a bite out of her toast. But her very responsible boyfriend told her that she had to.

"Bet Nik made you come back huh?" *Even though he hadn't seen him act that way openly Matty had a feeling that Nik would always want Mia to do the right thing. Another reason why the bloke was starting to grow on him.*
"So what's Nik do? Now that he's not in school anymore?"

"Yeah. I do believe he threatened to personally drag me all the way to the front doors." She chuckled at the mere thought of it. Although at the time she was absolutely mortified by the idea. Mia stuck her finger in her mouth and licked the jam off. "He's got an internship at a wandmaker in Russia. When I finish school, we're going to travel the world and then we're going to open a wand shop together."

"Well on your travels you can always stay at my place, Nik might enjoy the research they are doing with Swedish short snout heart strings."
*He said with a raised eyebrow look but smiled. In a way he could see Mia doing something like that. Her kind gentle spirit in helping young wizards getting their first wands.*
"I'll be sure to send my new little cousins to your shop. Where would you two like it to be? I've never been but from what I hear Russia doesn't have a very large magical population like the U.K., the States, or Sweden."

He grinned at her excitement, but perhaps it was probably too much excitement for the girl...why was she yawning? "Tired?" he asked, finishing up whatever sandwich he'd managed to eat while talking to Nessie.

Tsk. That was no way of reassuring one's outcome. "At least you're trying, and that counts for something," the more people on the pitch, the merrier...and more accidents to occur. That was cool with him, that way Miss Moretti will have a bunch of people at the Hospital Wing.

"We don't know for sure, do we? But I'll be happy with whatever happens." Like, literally happy, Treyen didn't mind spending too much time in the Stands.

"Thanks Matty, that's really nice of you." It was probably about time that she introduced Nik to her friends. She couldn't keep him to herself forever. Although she would like to.

Finally deciding that she'd had enough to eat, Mia wiped her mouth with a napkin and then grinned at her friend. "It's probably not going to be in Russia. While we are traveling we're going to find the perfect place for us to live and work. See I don't like the cold and Australia is a little too hot for Nik, so we need to find the perfect balance, you know?"

'I wish I could help,' sighed Daisy, 'but I don't take ancient runes, so it looks like a load of squiggles to me. We could still try a spell though.' she suggested, trying to use a slice of bread like a sponge to soak some syrup up.

"Yeah I didn't sleep much last night" said Nessie not wanting to remember last night. She loooked at the food in complete disgust, she had no appetite att all, cause if she did she would probably have eaten everything that was on the table.

"Yeah I guess I'll be happy too! said Ness. "Everything happens for a good reason, though the reason may not always be as clear as we'd like it to be" It was one of Nessie's favourite sayings. It deffinatley helped her get through things.

"Hmm I see. Traveling the world sounds fun. Your lucky you have everything all planned out for what you want to do after school."
*Or that she even had the choice. True his family always said it was up to him but it was just lately that he was starting to feel the pressure of what he was.*

So it does Oakey looked at his paper. I hadn't realized until now but I'm taking some pretty tough courses like Arithmancy and Ancient Runes. He thought about dropping one of them to lighten his loud but that's not what Harvey would want. You must push yourself to become greater.That's what Harvey always tells me.

Fee smiled at the little firstie,she really shouldnt feel weird.Maybe special but not weird."I love being at Hogwarts too",the girl nodded,"its like second home for me."It was weird how teh school grew to her soo much.She even enjoyed the lessons."Ohh yeees this Shaw guy is weird",the Slytherin agreed,"i dont even know why he is here.All these mysteries and Lafay is really scary,there is a reason why she is named the dragon lady."Really,why else was there rumours she had eaten her husbands?Waaiiit,did the little one just put ketchup into her cake?Now that seemed to be pretty disgusting,but if she liked it.."It my look gross but does that matter as long as you enojoy it?",the third year smiled and winked taking a sip of her pumpkin juice.

'Feenella, please can you help me,' Daisy asked her, putting down her fork, 'My friend Oakey spilt syrup on his homework and we don't know how to get it off, please can you do that spell again?' she smiled. So Lafay was nicknamed the Dragon lady, that was funny, thought Daisy, glad Lafay wasn't her head of house.

Oakey noticed that Feenella had come by the table and started chatting with Daisy. Hi Fee! Oakey smiled at her. Long time no see he looked back at his gross home work. I spilled Syrup all over my Ancient Runes homework,see. He pointed towards his parchment.

She shrugged her shoulders again. "I didn't really plan on what I wanted to do. Everything just seemed to fall into place." And if she wasn't fighting with her dad right now, her life would pretty much be perfect.

"You still going into the army when you finish school?"

*He nodded but for once he didn't look to happy about joining S.A.M. Not after his attack this past summer. Matty still had nightmares about it.*
"That is the plan... join the Swedish Army of Magic and protect the witches and wizards of the world..."

Oh? She didn't? Poor Nessie. A good night sleep was always important, right? She could always take naps, though, "That could mean that you'll sleep well tonight," always look on the bright side, it was best to focus on all the positive you could get from one thing. "And...I'm sure you have a few hours free off classes, so, naps are welcome," coffee too, but she was too young for that, and he only liked it if was iced coffee, as in...ice cream.

He doubted that caused the same effect.

Now they were talking. Treyen smiled widely and nodded her way, "I believe so, as well, things happen for a reason," whether for good or bad, but still a reason, "As long as you have fun, then I see no problem in it all," and he was almost done with breakfast by now.

"Look, Nessie, I...have to get going," he started to say as he got up, "But if you need anything, at all, then please let me know, or Arya, the girl Prefect," he smiled again, "See you around, okay?" and he hated to leave so soon, but he had something to do before classes. Either way, he waved goodbye and walked away, exiting the Great Hall in no time.

"Yeah I guess!" said Ness giggling. "I'm sure I will!" Nessie knew quidditch would be fun. That was the whole reason she signed up in the first place right? Nessie smiled then said. "Ok thanks Trey your the best! See you around I guess" said Ness taking a small toast to nible on.

"You don't seem to excited about it." She didn't even need to be his good friend to see the lack of enthusiasm on his face. Mia gave him steady look. "I know you said before that this is something that you want to do but do you have a back up just in case you change your mind down the track?"

Fee chuckled a little as she saw Oakey's homework spilled with syrup.This boy managed to get in trouble soo easily.Smiling at the boy the blonde made a movement with her wand and all the syrup was gone."Here you go Oakey",the girl winked,"how are you doing?Enjoying Hogwarts?"Hopefully he hadnt fallen down some stairs again.

Looking at Daisy the third year smiled."So you and Oakey are friends?",she asked wiggling her eyebrows,"nice."Little cute Hufflepuff firsties.Hehe."Maybe i should teach you the spell how to make things vanish",the girl winked,"so you can do it on your own when i am not near."

Oakey shot up from his chair! That's a great Idea Fee! oakey then glanced at the time and realized he had things to do. AH! But not right now, I'm headed over to the Whomping Willow.Got to get started on Boar's homework.

ooc. be warned if you involve yourself at the Willow. Oakey's gotten himself into a bigger mess than syrup on his homework.

Izzie walked into the Great Hall and looked around. She was sure she would never get used to the enchanted ceiling. It was so beautiful. Smiling and shaking her head, she sat down at her house table. "Hmm, I wonder where Janice went?" She looked around, "Wow, there is so much food. I swear I'll never get used to this." She looked around the table. She knew of most of the people here, but even though they were in her house, she was still afraid of them. People were still scary and she wasn't sure she'd ever really get over it. "Oh well, at least I'm getting better," she mumbled to herself as she started making some scrambled eggs on toast. There was nothing better on a chilly afternoon. She began to eat as she waited for Janice to show up...