Mmm. Finlay really did like hugs. He wrapped his arms around her, hugging her tight. Yes. This was far better than fighting with Mia. He liked it much better. "Thank youu..." Finn smiled, as he took the box from her. He didn't quite now what it was, well until she told her. He smiled. He really did like it. "You made it yourself?" Finlay was pretty impressed, he could never do anything like that.

"It's perfect..." He nodded, grinning at it. "Thanks..." Because he really loved it. He knew it was special because she had made it herself, so it meant a lot to him. "I love it."

Finlay looked away from Mia as he heard another voice. It was Cassie. So apparently he really did have some friends. That made him glad, he didn't like looking like a loner. "Hey Cassie..." He smiled, as he took the box from her. He liked this, getting presents. It should totally be his birthday every day, so that he could get presents. He would like that a lot. He opened the box, and smiled as he looked up at Cassie. "Thanks Cass....it's awesomee."

Fee smiled at the girl as she said she could join her.It was always nice to meet new people and that girl right her looked kinda nice."Nice to meet you Dani",the blonde smiled,"i am Feenella."The Slytherin was always amazed by the fact that you could never know all the people at Hogwarts,no matter how long you were here you alwas got to know new people."What year are you in if you dont mind me asking?",the third year beamed friendly.

Fee just giggled a little,that was so typical and lovely Kurumi.Baking really seemed to be her great passion,her escape."All these cakes look amazingly delish",the girl nodded,"i bet it took you hours to bake them all."Ohh the perfect cake for her?That should be interesting.Taking the parcel from the Gryffindor the third year wad excited to see that special cake.And as she layed her eyes on it the blonde was stunned."Wow",she breathed,"Kurumi you have totally over done yourself.This is fantastic.More than that actually."Waiiit,shenhad planted a cherry tree in her first year?Wooow that was amazing,why didnt Fee think of something like that ?!"Seriously,you are a genius Kurumi Hollingberry",the girl nodded happily.


Fee made her way to the courtyard and smiled at the weather.It was a cold but still really beautiful day.Looking around the blonde noticed a very familiar girl standing not to far away.Wooohoo,she hadnt met Lynnie in sooo long,it was crazy.Approaching the Slytherin noticed her sitting down on a bench and decided to join her.Hehe.As the third year was close behind the brunette she tipped her on the shoulder."Lyyniieee",she said happily,"mind if i join you?"

Well no one is really a fan of snow. Jonathan loved the snow because he likes to sleep. His like one of those animals that sleeps throughout winter. "For me Fall is the best" Jonathan mostly like fall because of the leaves. It's quite lovely. He likes to paint. And he likes to buy Fall wardrobes, most of the time. Navy, black, maroon, green. Dark colors were his favorite color. Spring is fine but it's too bright. Jonathan is more of a Fall person. Probably even his personality is the same somehow.

He stared at Nika as she proudly proclaimed herself a Gryffindor chick to Jonathan. Well the hair is a dead giveaway anyway. Jonathan gave a smirk when Nika asked if he's a Slytherin. He looked at his neck tie and said "Well last time I checked, I'm a Slytherin" he teased again with a hint of sarcasm perhaps? Commonly Slytherins are stereotyped by other students as mean and ambitious. That point might be true but not all Slytherins are. Jonathan's not THAT mean, he can have boundaries. But of course there are some who really are mean.

Fallon walked out into the Courtyard, present in hand. She was going to go wish her boyfriend Finn a happy birthday. It felt so nice just thinking that. Her boyfriend Finn. Fallon made a mental note to tell Iris about this later today. She didn't want to ruin this day for either of them.

Fallon grinned as she saw the group of people. She realized this would be the first time they were out in public together after they'd had their talk. Oh well. Here goes nothing. "Hey Finn. Happy birthday!" She said as she walked towards the group of people, a giant grin on her face.

Finlay looked up again as he heard another voice. He didn't need to look up to recognise who it was though, because he would recognise Fallon's voice everywhere. He smiled as he watched her approach them. This would be the first time they were out in the public together. Well together as a couple. He didn't care though. He wanted people to see how happy Fallon made him. Stepping away from Cassie he moved towards Fallon, wrapping his arms around her in a hug.

"Thank you Fallon..." He mused with a smile, as he leant down and gave her a quick kiss. Well if nobody had guessed that they were a couple yet, well they were going to know now. And Finn....didn't care at all.

Truth be told, Ari was a bit irritated by the fact that Gwen seemed to avoid some of her questions, choosing to answer only some of them, in an absent-minded manner. But maybe she was just concentrating on her drawing. Which turned out spectacular, really. But this Gwendolyn Greene was an interesting character...

'Me?' I'll tell you, but promise you won't laugh.' Ari replied, taking a deep breath. 'I want to become a wandmaker. I talked to the Headmaster and he said it's possible.' One could hope, right? 'That's not strange, I think you took traits from both your parents. It's stranger in my case. Every magical person in my family has been in Ravenclaw for generations. My mum included.' the girl continued. 'Is your mum proud that you're a Ravenclaw like her?' she asked Gwen.

Fallon grinned as he wrapped her in a hug. "No problem..." She smiled as he kissed her. It was strange kissing him in front of all of these people. They'd only ever kissed in private before. Oh well. She was planning on kissing her boyfriend all the time.

She pulled back after a few seconds and gave him the box. "This is for you." She hoped he liked it. After all, she'd made sure to pick these things out just with him in mind.

Mmm. Kissing her was very nice, even though they had a bit of a audience right now. It didn't matter to him though, he was used to having an audience. Finlay smiled as she pulled back. Ooh. Presents. He had momentarily forgotten that it was his birthday. Yeah. Fallon had that affect on him. "Ooh...Thank you." He smiled, taking her hand, and leading her back over to the bench, and sitting down.

He glanced at the box, looking up at Fallon, before opening the box. "Bertie Botts!!" Finlay was practically beaming. He loved Bertie Botts. "I love them babe.." He really did. He was having a great birthday so far.

Fallon took a seat next to Finn on the bench. She nodded at everyone that was there. She realized that she actually didn't know any of these people. An awkward feeling started to set in, but she turned to look at Finn. She was here for him.

"I thought you would." She remembered that day on the train. She still hated the things, but Finn loved them. "And I thought you might want some new goggles for quidditch."

Finlay did know if Fallon knew any of these lot. Did Fallon actually know any of his friends? With that thought in mine, he glanced at her. "Do you any of these people?" He asked her quietly. He'd introduce her if she didn't. It would be nice for her to get to know his friends. Ahh. His attention was back on his presents now. "The googles are great." He'd put them to good news.

"Do you still hate these?" He asked with a grin, as he opened the Bertie Botts, and popped one into his mouth. Yes. He was teasing her, but he was allowed to do that now.

Fallon shook her head no. She knew that Finn would introduce her, but it was still kind of awkward being with all of these people she didn't really know. Fallon grinned again at the mention of the goggles. "I'm sure you'll get good use out of them."

Fallon chuckled. "Yep. I always get the really gross ones. It's kind of a curse." Fallon never really liked them anyways. She'd only eat them if offered and would pick out the pink ones because they were always good.

He peeped round the corner to the courtyard, a paper bag held carefully to his chest. In the paper bag was contain what Spike hoped was a special present, roughly wrapped in some awesome quidditch-designed paper. Finally spotting the birthday boy, Spike appeared with his usual bouncing curls. Boucing more than usual, since Matilda had decided to come out from her usual hiding place and had settled on Spike's shoulder. He sure hoped Ellie wasn't in his vicinity just yet. She wouldn't be impressed.

"Hey Finn," he said quietly, seeing an older girl he didn't know there too. "Happy birthday." He didn't yet hold up the present. No, he was saving that for the moment.

"Mmm..." Finlay smiled, leaning over and kissing her cheek. "Let's change that..." He mused, glancing around at her friends. "Fallon, this is Cassie, Mia, and Sal." He motioned at each of them in turn. "And guys, This is Fallon, my girlfriend." Now. That sounded nice. He would get used to saying that. Yes. He really would.

"Mmm....I remember." He did. On the train last year. He'd got a nice one, whilst she'd got a nasty one. "Wanna break the curse?" He asked, offering the packet over to here. He wouldn't care if she didn't want too really, because well they're would be more for him really. So that was very good.

Ooh. It was Spike. Finlay smiled as he saw his little friend. He was glad that he'd mentioned that it was his birthday soon to the lad, mainly because he was pretty sure Spike would've felt left out if he hadn't been invited to this little get together. "Hey Spike..." The seventh year grinned, as he passed the box of Bertie Botts over to Fallon before standing up. "Thanks little duddeee." Finlay grinned. Yes. He really did love his little second yeaar.

Now Spike beamed. Because he'd been invited. With all these older peeps. and that made him feel special.

"For just being here?" he questioned. "I wouldn't have bothered with the present if I'd known that'd be enough." He stuck out his tongue and chuckled. "And I am growing, honest!" As in, he wasn't quite as ickle as last year. Or maybe that was just due to lack of haircut. Whatever.

Looking sheepish, Spike handed the bag to Finn. Hopefully he'd like the two things in it. Spike had put an awful lot of sneaky work in over the last few days. Well, since Finn had mentioned it was his birthday. Which hadn't been long in which to plan and make these. But it was something Spike had made by hand, by himself. "Happy birthday," he said, biting his lip as he waited for Finn to open them.

What was with Carter and not letting her leave? Why did he have to press this damn issue so much? All she wanted to do was get away from him and go find Matty. "Why do you care so much Carter, why can't you just let me walk away now? I think we've made it pretty clear that we can't be friends after all." They had given it a try and it didn't work so now it was time to just move on.

Was he seriously going there? "Give me a little more credit than that Carter. I know OUR relationship was more than that, what I was asking you is if your relationship with HER is more than that." She was just about to try and get her hand free from Carter when all of a sudden Carter was being pulled away from her by...

Matty?

Where did he come from?

Before she even had a chance to say anything Matty was yelling at Carter. It made her feel good that he was there to look out for her but she didn't want him fighting because of her either.

Putting an arm around him once he had stopped yelling she pulled him back a little. "Please don't do anything. Everything here is going to be just fine. I was just leaving to come find you." And now that he was there she wouldn't have to go look for him. "We were just leaving weren't we Carter." She said while giving him a 'we're done here' look. "And yes, this is Matty... my boyfriend." Just in case he hadn't heard Matty call her his girlfriend.

"Yes I'm Matty, now clear off!"
*Matty grit his teeth at how the guy was not only addressing him but Marie. This bloke should be on the ground apologizing to her. Feeling her arm slide around him he melted ever so slightly then he turned to Marie.*
"Are you okay? Did he hurt you in anyway?"
*In other words give him an excuse to teach this little lion cub a lesson.*

Katelynn could feel her body explode in happiness as she realized who had just poked her shoulder. But! Even though she was dying to turn around and hug her blonde friend, she resisted. She wanted to have some... fun. *mental smirk*
Sitting on the bench, she slowly turned around and looked at her friend as evil-like as she could. "No" she said in a slow voice, she didn't even know she could make. Kate got up, and start walking away. Suddenly she turned around, and ran towards Fee, laughing. "FEEEE!" she exclamined and jumped over the bench and knocked down the Snake. Katelynn laughed even harder, and helped Fee get up.
"How are you? It's been forever!" she asked, grinning.

Why did everyone seemed so surprised when she said that she had made something? "Yeah I did. I would have bought you something..." She trailed off and shrugging her shoulders. Finn knew that she didn't have much money. Well that technically wasn't true since Nik had given her the key to his vault but she felt funny using the money in there to buy her friends birthday presents. Besides she liked making things.

Mia couldn't help but beam up at him when he said he loved it. "Phew." she said while wiping her brow. "Not sure what I would have done if you didn't." She gave him a wink and smiled before noticing a girl standing nearby and she immediately moved out of the way.


She watched as Finn and the girl conversed with each other and she would have to be both blind and an idiot not to realise that these two were obviously more than just friends. Mia would have talked to the others that were standing around but she didn't know any of them except for Sal and she didn't really fancy talking to him because it may just end up in an argument and she didn't want to cause any problems on Finn's birthday.

But it seemed that she didn't have to anyway because Finlay was now introducing her to his new girlfriend. Mia gave the Slytherin a warm smile and extended her hand forward. "It's really lovely to meet you Fallon."

Nika nodded and beamed at the older Slytherin. "Yeah the Autumn is really pretty, but the spring is still my favorite." She swayed back and forth as she twirled a strand of hair around her finger. "All of the flowers grow and my birthday's during the spring." She added the last bit with a small chuckle. Not only was the spring lively and colorful, but it also meant plenty of PRESENTS! Not to mention the CAKE!

So this guy is really good at sarcasm. Maybe Nika can pick up a few tips because when it comes to sarcasm she doesn't just fail, she epic fails. "Well you never know. You could have been a Hufflepuff disguised as a Slytherin or something?" She said with a shrug. Okay lame. Why would a Hufflepuff be disguised as a Slytherin in the first place!? Unless they did a sort of robe trade off or something. She heard that someone did that a few weeks ago or something... But why? Maybe as some sort of prank.

"Of course it is." Carter said. "We're great for each other. We really are." he said. In fact, he very recently told her he loved her. But Marie probably didn't care to hear that.

He then blinked twice. Wait a second... "Marie... are you trying to look out for me or something?" Because it sounded that way.

Wow, this huffiepluff had anger issues too. "Well... it looks like you found someone you have a lot in common with..." he said with a smile. "Pleasure to meet you Matty. Marie was just yelling talking about you."

He then began turning back Marie. However, his gaze stopped over her shoulder where he spotted someone hunched over a bench. "Caroline..." he whispered. She didn't look so great.

"Yeah. I was just leaving." he said still looking over toward Caroline. He then rushed over and knelt beside her. "What happened? Are you alright?" he asked.

The pain in Caroline's stomache wasn't letting up. She now had both hands clenched around her middle. She closed her eyes as she hunched over even more. Trying to block out the pain. She sit still with her eyes still closed. She felt someone in front of her.

Her eyes opened slowly. To see Carter knelt down in front of her. So it was him but right now she didn't care who she just seen him with. He was there with her and that's she needed or wanted. "I took a run, and came back earlier from it." She spoke slowly. "And I got this sharp pain in my stomach. It's been like that for a few days now. But its worst now." she took one of Carters hands and held it.

He watched Finn open his gifts and broke into a grin. Heh he had hoped he liked them. He looked at Lexi's gifts with interest-- dragonhide gloves. Now why didnt he think of a gift that wizardy? Eh, well at least Finn's got something for that and something for the looks? hehe.

He caught Lexi as she slipped and helped stand her up, looking at her forlornly and finally letting her go. She was angry with him and he couldnt understand how his purpose can be so misunderstood. Maybe he should reel back and stop caring as much, learn to desensitize himself. Maybe that would work better?

He sat on the next bench over as Finn continued to receive his gifts and his visitors, staring off at the distance trying to look pleasant even if he felt awful inside. He didnt want to bring any of his baggage out on Finn's special day. No, what kind of a friend would he be?

He finally shifted his attention back to them when Finn went introducing someone. Fallon. And would you look at that, a fellow Slythie. "Hi there Fallon." he greeted as he offered to shake her hand. Funny how he never crossed paths with her before. He really ought to spend more time in his common room. He was starting to feel like an outsider in his own House.

Spring. Most people likes spring maybe that's why Jonathan doesn't see much of the beauty in it. He didn't like the fact that the season is all fluffy and flowery. He has allergies when it comes to pollen. Everytime it's spring he usually stays in his room, locked and not doing anything. people may enjoy it's colorful days but certainly not Jonathan. Summer is NEVER his favorite. Warm weather, Jonathan will die. Winter is so-so. He likes that during winter he could eat anything he wants. Hot Chocolate. Cake. Soup. All those warm food. Delicious.

Speaking of which, he is now hungry.

A Hufflepuff dressed as a Slytherin? Really? Why would anyone do that. Jonathan would never do that. He's a proud Slytherin. His ancestors were all Slytherins. Jonathan frowned a bit when he heard Nika said those words. "Don't worry, I'm a pureblood Slytherin" he said very proudly. Well most people are proud of their houses. Why wouldn't they be?

Fallon smiled as everyone was introduced to her. She loved the way it sounded when Finn said she was his girlfriend. It made her feel all special and stuff. "It's nice to meet all of you." Hopefully, she'd remember names and such.

Fallon eyed the packed of Bertie Bott's. "Why not." She grabbed a green one and popped it in her mouth. She got lucky and got a green apple one.

Fallon smiled at the younger student as he came over to wish Finn a happy birthday. She took the package of Bertie Bott's from Finn as he went to talk to the boy...

Fallon smiled at the girl. Mia. That was her name. "It's nice to meet you too." She'd already said that, but it felt like the right thing to say since Finn was still talking to the younger Ravenclaw.

Ariadne decided it was time to get some fresh air after spending so much time indoors. She went down all the way from the Gryffindor tower, exited by the ground floor and went outside in the courtyard. A thick layer of snow was still covering the ground. Now Ari was not as much a fan of winter as she used to be as a small child, but she still enjoyed occasional snow fights or building snowmen. Since there was no one to start a snow fight with, she chose the alternative. After putting on her gloves, the girl started gathering snow for the base of the snowman. She sighed at the thought that she probably wouldn't finish it today, since it was getting late. If only she had some help...