Originally Posted by emmafan123

Alfie hadn't been around Braeden all that much, but his mannerisms were pretty easy to identify; easy going, goofy at times. Maybe it was just her paranoia of being caught, but it felt like something was different about the boy. Concerned far too much with her own cover, she didn't spend too much time thinking about this, trying once more to perfect the Emma-stance after realizing she had been fidgeting. She dropped the locket gently to her chest and returned her arms into a crossed position, standing her ground though her blonde eyebrows were furrowed, glancing down at Emma's feet as though trying to figure out if she was making this look right.

At the wink, Alfie Emma reciprocated with a smirk, though it was a little off. Alfie wasn't the best as smirking, she didn't do it very often, but she managed. As Braeden suggested they go up to the castle for some food, Alfie Emma immediately gave a nod, glad to be going somewhere in comparison to just standing there awkwardly. Turning to go, she stopped in her tracks as she caught sight of a hand being held out to her. Braeden's hand. Her eyes flickered from the outstretched hand, up to the boy's expression, before returning back to the hand. Uh oh. They were a couple, they were supposed to hold hands. She'd nearly forgotten! Okay, alright, she could do this! But if Braeden even tried a kiss, she was out of there! There was no way that Alfie could handle pretending to be Emma to that extent! Standing like Emma was one thing, but kissing her boyfriend was entirely different. She repressed a shudder at the thought. No offense to Brae.

Flashing the boy a weak smile, she took his hand unceremoniously, avoiding eye contact as she attempted to grow accustomed to Braeden's hands. They felt weird, different, and she didn't really like it in the slightest. It was so weird to be holding hands with Braeden! But what was she supposed to do? Fake a hand injury?!

Originally Posted by princess of*hp*

Theodore felt both relieved and strained that Emma had taken his hand, relieved that she was believing his rather lame act but strained because he felt like he was doing a disservice to his best mate and to Alfie. He shuddered to think what Brae had gotten up to under the guise of Theodore Dumble. If he was doing a good job of it, the only person probably able to sniff out Brae's trickery would be Bree. Alas, the silly tabby was probably snoozing away in the Ravenclaw Common Room near the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw, herself. Squeezing her hand slightly, Theo as Brae turned and slowly began to lead her up the path.

"So..." He drawled, the English accent rolling off his tongue still feeling foreign and strange, "Have you been studying up for your finals? I heard that Muggle Studies is the toughest exam this year." After a pause, his brown eyes widened with fear. No, no, no talk about studying was to be around he and Emma! Studying was so utterly non-Brae; studying was so Theo. "I-I mean..." He added, his voice trembling slightly as he sought to put it back into control, "I haven't studied one bit. I think I'm just gonna wing it, maybe see if Theo can help me out."

Originally Posted by emmafan123

Alfie felt weird. She didn't like being Emma so much any more. It was fun when she was wandering around the grounds, not being herself. But now? When Emma's boyfriend was present?! No thank you! She was beginning to think back to her own boyfriend, a very recent development, and couldn't help but feel weird holding Braeden's hand, his best mate's of all people. Oh this was such a weird situation. She was distracted as the boy at her side mentioned finals, starting it out in what seemed to be not Brae-like. But he quickly finished with a very Braeden-like response to it; winging it, seeing if someone else could help.

At the mention of Theo's name, for a small moment, an almost dreamy sort of haze fell over the Malfoy's expression because it was, of course, Alfie who was behind the outer appearance. And being Alfie, with her affections for Theo as they were, she couldn't help but smile when she heard his name. Realizing this problem, she quickly wiped the expression from the Malfoy's face, eyes widened as she stared at the ground. "Um, yeah," she said quickly, clearing her throat. "Theo could probably help you with that." She searched her mind for something to say, anything Emma-like. "I like quidditch," she suddenly blurted out. It was the only thing she could think of! "So...yeah, I've just been..playing up a storm recently. Haven't had much time to...study. You know me." Unfortunately, Braeden did know Emma, and that was what worried her.

Originally Posted by princess of*hp*

PHEW! So, the studying-for-finals screw up had been safely remedied. Maybe polyjuicin' it wasn't too bad after all... if you knew how to act, at least. Maybe a course in theatre would have done Theo some good before undertaking this task. Not as if he had gotten much of a choice, anyway; it was a final for potions, after all, and one didn't want to mess with Miss Hecate Lefay.

"Quidditch, yeah!" Braeden brightened up. I mean, Theo brightened up. Both of them did. Neither of them did. I SHOULD GET PAID FOR NARRATING THIS MADNESS. "Yeah, love, last game was a bit... a bit hard for a few of us. I'm really glad you won," He made as if to give her a kiss on the cheek but held back. That was crossing the line! There was acting, and then there was going to far. Oops. "Theo was just bummed that he couldn't play. My best mate, y'know..." His gaze fell to the dirt path that they walked on as the dramatic skills came naturally to him. Having gotten food poisoning minutes before the big match, Theodore had been resigned to bed while everyone else had had a ball. He couldn't help but think that had he played, they might have won. But no, that was presumptuous. What was done was done.

Originally Posted by emmafan123

Alfie Emma listened as Braeden began speaking about the last game, something that Alfie unfortunately knew nothing about. As he mentioned her winning, she attempted to give a bit of a smirk, as though to show pride in her great win. But it was as she caught Braeden leaning in from the corner of her eye that Alfie began to freak out, fully prepared to make up an excuse and run away, when he suddenly thought better of it. Oh thank Merlin! As the conversation returned to the game, her heartbeat returned to normal, glad that she had narrowly avoided a kiss on the cheek from Braeden Stonem. What if she had to report back to Emma and explain that?!

She hadn't known there was a game, so of course she hadn't attended, and therefore didn't know that Theo had to sit it out. Curious, she lifted her head as though to ask why, but quickly bit her own tongue in realization; Emma would have already played, she obviously would've known what had happened! "Yeah, it was too bad that he couldn't play," she agreed, simply playing along though having no idea what she was talking about. "But, he's okay now right?" she prompted innocently, hoping that Emma wouldn't already know that fact. Alfie sure didn't. But maybe Emma would. Would she? Oh man, this entire narration deserves awards!

Originally Posted by princess of*hp*

Emma's short answers were giving faux-Braeden nothing to work with. Nothing at all! Thus, he felt like his performance was lacking. Oh Merlin, somebody save him! Checking the watch on his left wrist, he noticed the time. Exactly how long had he been polyjuiced?! It was only supposed to last up to an hour! He had walked out of the dungeons with Brae, had a short chat, and then had ambled all the way over to the front gate. Time was ticking away quickly, and the effects of the potion were bound to wear off soon! What an embarrassment it would be to turn back into himself and to have Emma run, screaming her head off, about Theo being a psycho!

Theo as Brae picked up the pace. "Sorry, I'm just... hungry. You know me. I need my nightly four-course meal," Chuckling light laughter that, oddly enough, came easily to him and sounded completely authentic. Pulling a Brae, Theo had forgotten that Emma had even spoke with his mania over losing time. "He's fine, yeah, I just saw him earlier! Studying away, you know!" He forced out a laugh, which sounded like a weird bark, and immediately shut himself up. That could have been an immediate giveaway to his true identity.

Originally Posted by emmafan123

It was now seeming that Braeden was acting a bit strangely, there was no denying that. But Alfie had no time to put her finger on what was different, she was too busy worrying about her own cover! She wasn't talking enough, it must've been weirding the boy out! She quickly summed up Brae's weirdness to hunger and focused more on her own, keeping up with him as she tried to figure out what Emma would say in this situation. She, Alfie, would much prefer to remain silent and stare at something as a solution, but that obviously wasn't an option. "Well, I'm glad he's okay, but I can't say I regret beating the 'claws," she spoke up with a rather believable Emma Malfoy smirk, straightening up her shoulders more so she stood more confidently.

"Anyway, I'm pretty hungry too, Brae," she muttered, glancing up at the castle as it got closer and closer. "I feel like I haven't eaten in a while. You know, because sometimes you just get caught up in things, and you don't remember that you need to eat! It happens to me sometimes, I feel like I've been distracted all day," the girl began to ramble, making up for her quiet Alfie-like attitude before with more than necessary talk. "So yeah, I haven't eaten in a while. And then I was practicing in the pitch and I lost track of time." At the end of her speech, the blonde Malfoy flashed the boy at her side a smile, that didn't necessarily scream Emma but definitely didn't point out Alfie. That was what she was going for. She too was beginning to be aware of their hour ticking by, and worried just slightly. It hadn't felt like that much time had gone by, but...who really knew?!

Originally Posted by Rupert-Grint-Fan

Ronnie walked up to the Front Gate and saw William by himself, looking at it. She smiled and walked up to him and watched as he pointed is wand at it and say a spell. It then changed and looked more even then before. "Good job!" she said, patting his back and giggling. "I haven't really been here much...it seems pretty cool to me so far!" she said smiling and looking around.

Originally Posted by Fred is awesome

'Oh, hey, Cleo! I just had the Polyjuice Potion, and now I'm back to me again!' Rose grinned

Originally Posted by lunalovegoodroxbabs

"was it part of a lesson or do i have to tut tut tut!" Cleo said grinning back! "lurve you lots babs!"

Originally Posted by Saz Hale

Arabella-Marie wandered back out to the front gate she didnt really want to go home for the holidays yet but she knew that she would have to and she would have to see her mum sooner or later

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Nessie walked over to the front gate. She was kinda bored and she was once again strolling with Puffles her Pygmy Puff. She was pretty tired from her finals. She was in some ways looking forward to get home, but in other ways she wished she could stay home. Ness sure did miss her family, but she would miss her friends too.

Nessie noticed a girl she had recognised, Ness couldn't remember her name but since she was highly friendly Ness walked up to the girl to greet her. "Hey!" said Ness trying to be all cheery.

Originally Posted by Saz Hale

Arabella-Marie smiled at the girl who spoke to her and said "Hey can you believe that term is nearly over already"

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Ness smiled back at the girl. "No I can't It goes by so fast!" said Ness. Now that she thought of it the girl had really got her thinking. She had no idea what her holiday was going to be like with out being with all of her friends. She might get to see them if they came to stay, but that wouldn't the whole holiday.

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Sierra shrugged nonchalantly. "My father knows him well. They work in the same office," she said. It occurred to her she'd never told anyone exactly who her father was, though there weren't many Greingoth's around, were there? "He's the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic. My father, I mean." Then of course Lola had to know Borr was the Minister of Magic. As she talked, she knelt down and pulled a shovel from the bag of supplies. She jammed it toward the ground, expected it to pierce right through, but no. Instead, she nearly broke her hand.

"Ouch," she said, throwing the shovel a good ten feet. It whizzed past Lola's head. "Stupid shovel." She mumbled a little under her breath then accio'ed the shovel back to her. This time, she placed the shovel on the ground, tip first, and pushed hard until she'd brought the surface. Annoyed look on her face, she continued digging, trying to get a hold large enough to put the seedling inside.