"Do you feel pain in either of your legs?" Rosemary asked, compassion in her eyes.

Zara noticed that Nessie wasn't by her side running anymore.

Then she heard Rosemary's voice, and stopped running. Turning around, she saw the meaning behind Rosemary's panicked voice. Eyes widened, Zara went over to where they were, not finishing her last lap yet. Breathing uneven again, she panted as she jogged towards them.

Once she reached the place where they were, she immediately knelt down beside them and supported Nessie. "Ohmy, Nessie. We need to get you to the school nurse!" There wasn't any blood in sight, so probably it was a broken leg. "Did you break your leg?" She asked, through broken breaths. Her heart was beating wild again. No, please no. Or else both of them would earn a trip to the school nurse.

"Im fine my leg just hurts a little" said Ness lying a little she was more worried about Zara, as she seemed to be struggleing to breath again. "Are you ok?" she asked. "I think you maybe need to go to the nurse". Nessie tried to get up again, but she just hurt her leg worse. She tried to sope herself from revealing it, but it was too painful! "Ow!!" she said

Rosemary pushed her down, "No... You two stay here with each other..... I'll get help! Somehow..." She sighed as she left her bag with them and ran towards the Hospital Wing.

"I'm fine!" said Nessie lying again. She didn't try get up though, just not to worry her more.

ooc: We can maybe post at the Hospital wing if you guys wanna?

"Hun...... You can't get up! Meaning you're not fine she stated as she cast a quick spell, "Ferula!" Causing a splint and bandages to wrap around her leg to keep it straight. "Besides at the same time, the Healer can look at Zara.." She pointed out as she hoisted her up.

OOC: That would be good!

Nessie stood up on one leg very slowly, holding onto Rosemary. "Thanks" said Nessie giving up. She carrried on holding onto her as they started walking very slowly. Well she was more hopping then walking.

Rosemary managed to hoist up her bag with her wand hand whilst supporting Nessie with the other side. "No problem... I'm Rosemary by the way!"

Zara helped along as Rosemary brought Nessie to the hospital wing.

Isobel was nearly startled out of her mind when she heard a voice. She looked up and saw...LUKE! She scrambled up to a standing position and the tops of her cheeks slowly turned pink. "Hi," she returned. "I'm not really doing anything." No, she hadn't been sitting on the ground. Pfffffft, what are you talking about?

"I know you'll always have my back," Samira answered honestly. She never doubted that for a second. The Slytherin felt her breath hitch in her throat when she saw Levi move in closer. She deflated the tiniest bit when she realized it was just a hug, but nevertheless she wrapped her arms around her friend in a sisterly way and closed her eyes. She gave the Gryffindor a comforting squeeze. No matter what, Samira wanted Levi to know she would be there for him no matter what. Support was most important.

Samira let the hug linger for a second longer before slowly pulling back. "Levi?" she whispered cautiously. "Have you ever told anyone else? About your dad?" It would come as a great shock to Samira if she was the only person he told. Surely there were other people he could trust as well. "Have you ever tried to get help?" Or has anyone else tried to help him...? It broke Samira's heart knowing he had to live like this. If he let her, she would do everything she could to help him get away from his father. Her mind started working a million miles a second. If he had no where to go, she would just have to tell her parents to cancel all their trips so Levi could possibly stay with them. Or anyone for that matter. It wasn't healthy, and it was obvious that Levi just needed to be away.

It seemed bizarre but Levi honestly couldn't remember the last time he had hugged somebody like this. In general, he wasn't a very touchy-feely sort of person and he hadn't been raised in such a way. Not to say that he was cold, impersonal, or standoffish but hugs typically made him feel awkward. He always felt like he was invading the person's personal space and was insistent that they needed breathing room. However, with Samira, it was different. She wasn't awkward or claustrophobic at all and her reciprocation was just as warm as his had been. He was psyched to finally overcome his indifference towards embracing, even if it was for just one person.

The Gryffindor was a little sad that they eventually had to break apart but at the same time, he didn't want to crush her. Levi wasn't particularly buff, since he was only fourteen, but he was a lot stronger than he looked and most of that strength was projected into his willowy limbs. He leaned backwards and examined Vlad for a moment. The bat was still sleeping peacefully and he fought the urge to laugh. It wasn't the right moment. "I...yeah, I've told a couple people but it's okay," he affirmed softly. "When it gets really crappy, some muggle friends let me hang at their place for a few days."

Nika was tired of sitting around in the common room. She needed some fresh air. The Arithmancy homework was getting tiring and was getting absolutely no where with it so what's the point anymore? She'll just have to work on it later.

She did however have it set in her mind to get some homework done today. Maybe she could get some of the DADA homework done? That would be good considering it's going to take such a long time to finish all of it! Just. So. Much. Work.

Again, Zara was wandering in the Courtyard. She didn't know why but her trips to the Courtyard were being some kind of daily habit of hers. Yesterday when she was here, she ran for the DADA homework but didn't get to finish the last lap because Nessie had tripped and Zara's asthma almost attacked her. Good thing it was only a difficulty in breathing she experienced yesterday.

Now, she thought of finishing her last lap so Zara ran around the Courtyard and finished her last lap of running. And added some jogging too because she felt like it. As she was jogging around, she spotted Nika. When she passed by Nika, she greeted her, "Good morning, Nika!"

Kyle couldn't help but giggle slightly as she smiled over to Selina. "There's no one I really want to like it - I just don't want it to look...well, suspicious" she admitted as she leaned back somewhat and then forward swaying slightly.

"I should probably explain what happened first" Kyle admitted a mischievous glint in her eyes as she smiled sheepishly, nervously. "You know how me and Simon are friends and everything - just friends" she reinforced that fact trying to hide that she might have liked him...and failing, obviously someone who had a young crush would see through it. After all, it was understandable, he was a nice guy. A really nice guy.

"You remember my cousin Hannah - well, today in the last Divinations class it just so happened I was at a table with Simon, Caroline, this really nice girl Zara, and Hannah - and well...she totally embarrassed me" she admitted blushing, ruffling her hair slightly. It was fun, and distracting, and light and fluffy which was good.

"Soooo" she dramatically elongated the so, after all she was nervous. "She ended up saying to Simon, infront of me 'I didn't know you and Kyle weren't dating' first off, I don't know where she got her information and well...really, it made me so nervous, and then to distract myself I decided hey lets cut your hair...so, yeah." She blushed.

Nervous and shy mostly. "Still haven't talked to him after that" she explained with a sigh.

Nika was sitting down with her assignment sheet in hand. She looked through it checking off the ones she already did so far this week. The only one left to do was dancing. If only Rex didn't graduate last term.

Nika's head shot up as Zara passed by her. The first thing that came to mind was "DANCE PARTNER!". " Hey Zara!" She smiled at her fellow Gryffindor. "Say, would you be interested in being my dance partner for the DADA assignment? It's the only one I haven't done this week."

Whoah, hold up. Zara almost tripped as she skidded to a halt. She turning back and jogged back to where Nika was. "Did I think I hear what I just heard?" Zara asked, and blinked once. "D-dance?" Dancing was something Zara did not know how to do. She tried ballet once, but it triggered her asthma attacks so her parents made her stop. After that, she had no experience whatsoever in dancing. Not that she had two left feet. She remembered another experience in dancing. Stepping on her father's shoes when she was still small, and her father would do all the dancing. Zara loved that feeling, hihi. She missed her dad.

"Dance. You up for it?" Nika studied Zara's face. Hmm she seemed worried? "Don't worry Zara I can teach you! I'm not very good, but my friend Rex taught me how to do a lot of dances last term so I can maybe teach you?" Even though Nika was anything but graceful and she is probably the clumsiest of all gryffindors she can give it a try right?

Partner dances are usually meant for a boy and a girl, but seems like Hogwarts is fresh out of those. So they could try to dance and have a good laugh about it at the same time. Besides it's not like the DADA professor was going to see their dancing. He was only grading their journals. So they can be awful and still earn a good amount of points for Gryffindor.

"Erm, I guess so. If you think I can do it, then, why not?" She hesitated at the first line, then smiled at the next. Zara guessed that she could probably do it. Besides, it was hard to find a partner. She didn't know any guys that she could possibly ask. This was all good, as long as she doesn't mess up.

Not doing anything? She had to be doing something. She was standing. He didn't bother pointing that out. "Except sitting on the ground," he said instead with a grin. "And breathing." She had to be doing that too, or else she would die. And that would be tragic. Pretty girls should not die, it just wasn't a good thing.

Isobel sent him a 'look.' A 'look' that clearly told him she was not amused. Actually, she was, but her 'look' said different. She didn't have to have the same feelings as her looks did she? Hopefully not, because she didn't at the moment. At the moment she wanted to laugh at what he said, not because it was funny, but because he was cute.

Did she just think that? Moving on...

"I'm not sitting," she pointed out. Because she wasn't. She had been, but she would continue to deny it, and would never admit it to him. She probably would to Jaymie or Nika or Oakey or just about anyone else, but not to Luke O'Connor.

Luke ignored her 'look' and smiled at her. "You were," Luke said. She had been sitting, he had seen her. And there was no way she could deny it, because he knew it was true. "No, you're not sitting now, but you were." And Miss Quidditch Captain was lying to him, was she?

No she hadn't. She had NOT been sitting...according to Luke. According to anyone else she had been, because she would have told them she was sitting. She would have told them how she was cold, but it was warmer on the ground, so she was sitting. But she would not tell that to Luke. He was cute, and she simply could not try to explain her mind to him.

"No I wasn't," she said to him, and that was the last she would speak of it. She changed the subject and sent him a fierce look that said she did not want to continue on this topic. "What brings you here Luke?"

Luke caught her look and decided not to ignore it this time. She looked pretty serious, and a little mad. He kept looking at her steadily, but didn't press the subject of her sitting down. She subject that he was right about. "The path," he said to her question. "I was following it, and it led me here." And she knew the rest. He had found her sitting on the ground, and she could not deny it.

Isobel gave Luke a smile that said 'good boy.' He had done what he had told her to, which was not continue the subject. And he hadn't, so that was good. And that was why he had gotten a smile. Isobel sighed at his answer, but didn't bother giving him another look. His answer reminded her of what she had said to Nika once. She had asked what was up, and Isobel had said, the sky. Hehe.

"Really?" Isobel feigned surprise. "I was brought her by the door." The one at the other end. She didn't bother clarifying that, because there was only one more.