The Courtyard
 

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A stone square courtyard is the first aspect of the grounds that you come to after you travel through the corridor. Surrounded by magnificent stone columns adorned with luscious ivy and slight lily growth, the courtyard provides students with benches to sit on with their friends or for the one who just wishes for some peace and quiet. Also, in the middle stands a very illustrious Wishing Fountain.

For Dee ^_^
 

Caroline was in need of some fresh air. It seem like everyone was outside making there way to the boat, or the treehouse, the courtyard was empty minus the crowds of kids just walking thur to get to the gounds. She wondered around the fountain a few times. It was truely great to be back at Hogwarts and be outside on the grounds. At home she would always be outside, even if it was just laying in the grass taking a nap. She finally took a seat on one of the benches.

Had it really been three months since she had sat at this same bench, giving her summer farewells? The summer had flew by. She didn't think that three months ago the summer would have gone the way it did. She was sure that by the way that letter had sounded that she summer had be a distrester, although her mother still didn't explain much, like she said she would. All she did now was send her new husband goggley eyes. Eww. She did like Charlie, he was a nice guy.

It seem like it was the summer of weddings in her family, Casey also got married over the summer, and Caroline was the maid of honor. Quiet an honor that was too. Sarah dragging her around looking for dresses and any and every thing to do with weddings. As well as stealing her from spending time with her friends in Diagon Alley over the summer.

She seem to have been thinking too much about the summer because when she looked down she had just made the rip in her jeans twice as big. She shrugged. Oh well, she could fix it later or keep them to make cutoff shorts or just trash them. Taking another look at them she decided that the latter would be the best.

For Lucy (:
 

Being back at Hogwarts was something Kat was looking forward to since the day she left. Even though she did enjoy the modeling for her grandma's company and the touring with her new band, Hogwarts was where she was meant to be. It was really the only home she had other than her grandparents' of course. Since she was full of joy she cartwheeled out to the courtyard. This was quite a strange behavior for her since she would usually be pranking some first years by now.

As she cartwheeled over to the bench she always sat on she noticed someone she recognized. "Oh hey, Brig." She said as she flashed a smile at her.

Just as she was reaching the part when Mr. Darcy and Lizzy were dancing together at the ball, she heard someone approach the spot she was sitting at. Pulling her eyes away from the book, Brigid looked up to see she girl she had met on the train. She was actually surprised to be seeing someone she knew again. "Hi, Kat!" She replied more enthusiastically than she normally would. Kat seemed nice and Brig didn't want to be rude to her for no reason. Could Brigid Abigail Byrnes be growing a nice side? O: "Care to sit?" She scooted over and made room for her new acquaintance.

"Yeah, sure" She smiled and sat next to Brigid. "So what are you doing out here by yourself?" She asked and then she noticed the book. Kat hated studying more than anything! And now her new friend was a bookworm! Not good! Not good at all. Somehow Kat needed to change that.

"Do you really enjoy reading that" She asked as she pointed to the book. "It's so boring"

Since this was Bella's First Year here She wanted To Look around . She walked into the Courtyard and sat Down on a bench Staring at The Fountain.

It was Quiet A Peaceful place to be on stressful days and Days You just want to be with friends . She noticed Some Sixth years alredy There but Bella Didn't Mind She just Went with her Own Buisness. She also noticed The Stone Columns and The Ivy Growing On Them . It was Nice here she would Sure be Visiting The courtyard very Often .

Mmmmmm. First day back in school (as in, first day of classes), and Braeden was feeling better than ever. His first class had gone pretty well and he could only hope that all of his other classes this term would go just as well.
He knew that was asking for too much, though.

WELL. Enough thinking about classes. He was on break now and it was time to catch up with the school grounds, see what the trees have been up to and ask the grass what it did over the summer.
… That was a joke. Braeden chuckled to himself, probably the only boy that finds this narrator funny.

Just as he was making his way across the courtyard to head out to the grounds, Braeden caught sight of an all-too-familiar silhouette. He could recognize her from a mile away, even if her back was to him. The hair, the pose, the short height… Yeah, that had to be her.

"Caroline?" the Gryffindork called out with one of his lopsided grins. Merlin. He hadn't seen Caroline in a while. Felt like years, really.

Caroline picked at the bits of jean sheds. She really knew how to mess up a new pair of jeans. Hehe. Now she knew why her mother told her not to get them. Amazingly mum was right. who knew?

Caroline immediately jerked her head up when she heard a very familiar voice calling her name. "Braden!" She turned her head around. It was him. She saw the grin of his, that she prepared herself for after hearing his voice. It had been a while since she had seen him. "Don't worry, I don't have any books here today." She llaughed.

She just realized that they were at the place where they met for the first time. She laughed maybe just to herself but anyway. That was kind of like their inside joke. "How was your summer?" She asked.

The Gryffindor boy couldn't help but laugh when Caroline assured him she didn't have any books with her that day. Heh. He'd never forget that… who knew something good could come out of getting hit on the arm with a book?

As the girl then went on to ask how his summer had been, Braeden shrugged. "It was alright, uneventful. Full of… family members and muggles amused by my 'magic tricks'," he said with a chuckle. Yep, that was Braeden to his family: the ever so amusing little magician. Not many of them took his ability to perform magic (as a wizard, not a magician) very seriously. "What about yours?" he asked.

Caroline smiled and laughed. It was hard for her imagen everyone flocking at her to see her perform magic. In her family it was always making sure the magic was there. "Well I had two weddings this summer, Casey my brother and my mother." She told him. Her mother at the begining and Casey's near the end of summer. She didn't make it to her mothers. Because she had felt the need to do it before she came hoime from last term.

"And I spend two weeks in New York with my sister" Which was probably the best part of the whole summer. That is untill herm mother show up with her new husband. "There has been so much going on since the last time I saw you."

no robes? bwahaha...insert confused Kurumi XD
 

Kurumi made her way through the courtyard carrying a small box of Ravenclaw cookies and looking for a certain older boy. She weaved her way through the somewhat crowded courtyard looking for someone who looked official...namely someone wearing a badge...

Scanning the various students black robes and seeing nothing but house crests and the occasional food stain, Kurumi was beginning to think that someone was playing a practical joke on her.

Frowning, she spun around and nearly whipped herself in the face with her long black ponytail when she noticed a boy sitting and looking like he was waiting for someone. Perhaps he knew the Head Boy she was looking for?

Gathering up her lion cub courage, she walked over to him and tapped him on the shoulder.
"E-E-E-Excuse me," she stammered gripping the box in her hands. "I-I-I'm looking for the Head Boy...have you seen him?"

Mmmm. Finn could probably actually have a little nap here. The warm september sun was beating down, and yes a little sleep would be very good. He closed his eyes for a few moments, hopeing that when Kumuri got here, she'd like poke him awake. The thing was....it wasn't that long till he felt someone tapping his shoulder.

Opening his eyes, he smiled at the girl. She seemed a little nervous. It was kind of cute. Maybe this was Kumuri? He didn't know. "Hey..." Oh. It must have been seeing as she was asking about the headboy. "Well...I have seen him." He nodded with a grin, motioning for her to sit down with him. "Seeing as it's me." Yup. He was totally cool. Finlay smiled at her though. Hopefully she wouldn't be this nervous all the time....although it was cute.

Kurumi's jaw dropped and immediately began bowing over and over and over again as her cheeks flushed a deeper shade of pink with each bow.

"I'MSOSORRY!" she squeaked pausing long enough to apologize before she continued with her bowing. She felt so embarrassed for not knowing who the school's Head Boy was. Wasn't that the sort of mistake that only first years made?

"Um...th-these are for you..." she said offering the small box to him.

Braeden's dark eyebrows raised as Caroline shared with him she'd been part of two weddings over the summer. And that she'd been to New York. It sure sounded a lot more fun and eventful than his summer! Aw shucks. Everyone had had a more fun summer than the little Gryffindork. :[ Now he felt lame.

As Caroline went on to add that a lot had been going on since she'd last seen him, Braeden's brown eyes turned curious. "Well, I'm free for a couple hours before I have my next class," he said with one of his lopsided grins. "You should catch me up."

Story time :D *shifty*
 

Caroline smiled. I was nice to know that Braeden was always there to talk to. She nodded, "That's nice, Thanks." She cleared her throat to story the story of her mother wedding.

"Well a few weeks before term ended, my mother sent me a letter. It said that she was going to get married." Which she was okay with minus the fact that "I didnt't even know she had a boyfriend. She said that they would wait until the summer to get married. And that she would explain more later." Which were both total lies.

"So I get picked up from the train by my brother. He was the one who told me that she had went ahead and got married. She moved out and gave the house to Casey." She didn't understand why her mother couldn't have just told her, herself. She left it up to Casey to tell her. "I didnt even see she until a few weeks ago when I was in New York. She was there with him. I like him he is nice."

Braeden walked alongside Caroline at a slow pace (I'm going to assume they're at least walking around the courtyard and not just standing there in the middle of everyone's way), listening quietly and attentively to the story she shared with him. Wow. So her mum had gone and gotten married without even telling her? Without even letting her meet the guy first? Sounded… well, a little strange. But Braeden said nothing, taking on the role of listener here, not commentator.

But then Caroline shared that she eventually met the man in New York, and thought he was nice. Oh, good, so there was a good, happy part in this story. The corner of Braeden's lips curved up slightly in a half-smile, but he knew there was probably more coming so he shouldn't cheer just yet. "At least he didn't turn out to be a troll," he muttered with a smile, his brown eyes falling to their feet as they walked.

Caroline laughed . A troll? A troll is what she pictured him as in her head before their meeting. Actually the whole thing was a happy ending. Or so far everything was happy, happy, joy, joy. Suprisingly Mum and I are getting along." That is until she wakes up from the honeymoon stage and stops giving him goggley eyes, every five minutes. Eww and she made a face to go along with what she was thinking.

"I even got up enough courage to tell her about Carter." Whoa way did Brae even know about that she had a boyfriend. She clearified just in case. "My boyfriend. Since he's muggleborn" Seriously not like she cared what blood status anyone is. "You know how she is I've told you. She was like 'oh, that's great, dear'" which was so thing that her mother would never say to that. She looked over at Braeden who still looking at his feet. She looked down too and found a Knut. She picked it up and threw it into the fountain.

Okaay. THis girl was really cute. Especially with all the bowing. Now sure Finn loved the bowing, but he didn't think that it was necessary. Not at all. "Kurumi....stop bowing." He wasn't that big headed that he needed people to bow to him all the while. The house elves were for that, not lovely little gryffindors. "And you don't need to apologise either." Because well, clearly not everybody knew him. Maybe he should wear his robes, so that epople would be able to see his crest.

"Thank you..." He smiled, taking the box off of her. "And you can sit down you know..." Because it felt a little weird with her standing up there. Opening the box, he grinned. "These look really yummy."

The moment Daichi had opened up the huuuuuge doors with difficulty, he thought he would have been in the Great Hall but..he was outside. O_o

He could have sworn he had the right door! The door looked so much like the Great Hall one. "This place is so confusing~!" he sighed and decided to check this place out. He had already seen the Great Hall at the feast and he wasn't that hungry.

Walking over to the middle of the ..was it a courtyard? It looked like it. Daichi looked around. Students were chatting with each other and he felt a little weird standing all alone in the middle of a courtyard. Swiftly, Daichi made his way over to the side and sat down on the ground, his back leaning against the wall. His plushed duck like always close by him and he unconciously rubbed his eyes. It had started to hurt again and sometimes he thought he saw things a bit blury but...nah that must have been his imagination.

Zara, deciding to take a little walk around her new school, stumbled upon what seemed like a courtyard. Looking around, Zara searched for a familiar face. AHA! She spotted Daichi. Of course, she wasn't sure if he still remembers her, but oh well, Zara gave it a try. She went running to where Daichi was and shouted, "Daichi!" while waving her hand in the air.

Toby decided to walk trough the whole castle, because he wanted to know all the places in the castle as soon as possible. He saw the Slytherin boy and afer a few seconds looking at the boy, he walked to him. It was a beautiful day at Hogwarts. But he really wanted friends in here. ''Er...Hi!'' he said, because he didn't know anything else to say and he wanted a nice conversation. ''I'm Toby. Toby Jason.''

Just as Daichi had wanted to close his eyes a familiar voice was shouting his name. He opened them and looked to see...wait..what was her name again?! Oh no , he knew who she was! the girl from the trolley but ...Aaah what was her name!? O_o She seemed to remember his name of course anyone would. "Uhm ..Hi~! ..."

awkwaaard.

Come on Dai, you know her name it was something with the K right? "Kara ..right?" he asked unsure and prayed he had the name right.


Saved by the , well not bell, a student! Daichi was relieved another boy had walked up to him. He vaguely remembered seeing him in the common room but since the place had been so crowded he was not sure. "hi Toby, i'm Daichi" he looked at the badge on the boys uniform and his eyes twinkled. "Your a slytherin too? Awesome~!"

Zara raised her eyebrow. Something was wrong with Daichi. Hmm. He didn't seem glad to see her, he was thinking deep. 'So, Kara, huh?' Zara smiled and decided to play, "Yeap. Kara. I'm glad you remembered. I thought you forgot all about me," she grinned and stood beside him, looking at the other students having conversations.