Not excited? Ok, so now Kita came across as a weird person. Meh! Better that the blonde girl realises now rather than later. "Yes it is awesome!" she whispered, looking around in awe. Swings are cool? Kita's head snapped back to the blond girl. "They are cool!" she said, gasping. She got a feeling that there's a lot more to this girl than meets the eye. Speaking of which, the girl was... gesturing at her? What?! Oh! Right. She wanted her to come over. Well, Kita didn't need telling twice! The sixteen year old ran over to the swings and jumped onto the one next to the blonde girl. "That's a pretty name. Dani..." she said, "I'm Kita. It's already short but you can call me whatever you want, i don't really mind." Plus, it'll be nice to see what kind of nickname Dani comes up with for her.

Dani started to swing back and forth, kicking off her ballet flats before they flung off and hit someone, which had happened before, how embarassing... "Oh, thank you!" she said softly as she grinned at... Kita- "Oh, that's a pretty name too! Ta... Ta- Kita Ta.... Ki" she laughed, as she tried to think of a nickname for Kita... "Wow, your name is hard to put into some sort of nickname!" she said with a kind smile at Kita. But she'd think of something over time- definately. "So... what year are you?" she asked kindly, she had a feeling Kita was the same year as her, she guessed she'd seen her around or something. "I'm fifth" she smiled. "I transferred here from Beauxbatons this term" she explained.

"Wow, good idea!" Kita said, taking off her shoes as well. NOW she felt like a kid. "You're welcome. And thank you to you too," she smiled, realising that this is the first time someone has told her that she has a nice name. She looked at Dani and started laughing. Was she seriously going to find a nickname? Boy, is this interesting! "I know. That's why i don't really have any nicknames," she said, mock sighing, "I'm in my sixth year." Wait... WHAAAAAAAAT?! Her jaw dropped. "Beauxbatons?" That. Is. So. COOL! "Wow! So how are you finding Hogwarts so far?"

Dani smirked and watched Kita- "I'm sure I'll think of something" she giggled, maybe it would be something to do with her new friend's personality rather than her actual name... hmmm.... she would have to think on it. "Yeah!" she laughed- "Well... hmm, I like Hogwarts" she said with a little nod. "It's just so different from Beauxbatons" she admitted. "Beauxbatons is a palace. A glittering palace" she smirked. "I miss all my friends but... it is nice here, everyone's so... nice" she laughed.

Kita raised an eyebrow at the smirk. Did this mean that Dani was... accepting the challenge? "Ok, bring it on!" she said, "Wow, i'm actually excited to hear what my new nickname will be." Especially if Dani turned out to be a super creative person. Kita nodded as she listened to what the blonde said about Beauxbatons and Hogwarts. Wait... A PALACE?! An actual PALACE?! o_O WOAH! "Wow! Hogwarts is totally different then!" she said, trying not to think about the broken down toilet in the girl's bathrooms, "Yeah... Most of the people here are nice." She sincerely hoped that Dani wouldn't meet any of the mean people in Slytherin like the one she had kind of met the day before. Just.... no!

" Ok, glad I am not wrong about everything" William told Zara. He let the subject drop." Well, in yoru case, I think it means hanging from the treehouse, but in my case it means hanging out" William laughed. " You are one daredevil girl" William said to Zara.

Dani smirked- "I'm excited to think of one" she laughed, knowing a nickname would come to her at some point. She noticed the look on Kita's face when she described Beauxbatons-"It is... very different" she said with a little giggle. "Most of them? Yeah, it was the same at Beauxbatons" she said with a little nod as she watched Kita. "I guess I was one of the popular ones though, so I was pretty observant of people" she said, she was right- she had been popular, and still was with the Beauxbatons lot. She was excited to see them all again hopefully at 'Belle's party- or before them. "But luckily I have a few friends here that I knew already before arriving- my best friends. One transferred from Beauxbatons too and the other has just been my best friend for ages" she nodded.

Another smirk? Boy was this going to be interesting! Kita started laughing. "Well, that's going to be one interesting day then," she said. Geddit? No, she didn't really get it either. She started giggling again as a secret understanding passed between the two girls. "Really? Well, i guess it's the same everywhere, then," she said, shrugging her shoulders and sincerely hoping that she wouldn't have to come across anyone mean... again! Kita raised an eyebrow at Dani. "Well, aren't you Little Miss Popular?" she said, smiling. Wait... There are MORE Beauxbatons transfers here? "Oh that's good then!" she said, "At least you didn't come here not knowing anyone." Now THAT would have been bad! "So how come you transferred?" she asked.

Dani nodded and laughed- "We should get party poppers..." she smirked. "Yeah it is I guess.... oh, I didn't mean it to come out... like I was showing off" she blushed at the way she'd said she was popular like that. "Yeah, I know- I don't know if I would have coped... I'm sure I would have, meeting lovely people like you of course!" she said with a little reassuring nod as she heard what Kita asked next. She sighed- "I dunno really... my big brother's still there, because he's nearly finished. And my sister still get's to start next year" she shrugged. "I think my Mum just wanted me to try here. I dunno- she thought it would be good for me I think" she explained as she smiled at Kita again.

Party Poppers? Kita burst out in laughter. "We should. And maybe we can get some cake? Saying congratulations?" Ok, that was lame. Meh, it has already been said. Ok, moving on, moving on. She started laughing again. "You didn't come across as a show off!" she said, "Ok, a bit but there's no harm in being popular." Kita wasn't but there you go. N'aww! She has just been called lovely! "Well, i'm glad to have met a lovely person like you as well," she said, smiling sweetly. The brunette nodded along. "So your sister is coming here next year?" she asked, "Change can be good..." Ok, Kita didn't really like change but there was no way she was telling Dani that.

Dani smiled and laughed at the show off thing, oh well, she was confident, and she liked to think that was a good thing- "Aww, thank you hun!" she said softly before smiling at Kita again- "Nope, she's going to Beauxbatons" she smirked- "And they better watch out for Madeline" she laughed, her younger sister was much like her- except much more mischevious. And very annoying.

Kita smiled. Hun? She had just been called hun? N'awww! "You're welcome..." Should she? Shouldn't she? "hun." There you go. She had said it. And it felt good! Maybe she should start saying it more often? Definitely something to think about. "Oh ok," Good thing Kita didn't get embarrassed easily; she would have been blushing so much at her mistake! "Why?" she asked, looking at Dani suspiciously, "Is she... evil?"

Dani laughed- noting Kita's resistance at saying 'hun' that was one of Dani's weaknesses. She had a habit of calling people stuff like that 'sweetie' 'hun' 'love' It was mostly because her Dad did it a lot at home, she'd just picked it up! She burst out laughing "I wouldn't quite say she's evil... she's just a little... madam" she said honestly. "My Daddy can't help but give in to her a lot" she laughed. "Yeah- my Dad, he was a way for a lot of our childhood" she nodded sadly. "He was in a band. A real rock star" she smirked.

Kita smiled, trying her hardest not to blush. She hates blushing. She hates the feeling of burning up like that and she hates the way her cheeks go from paleish to... blotchy red. Eugh! She shook her head. "Oh!" she said, "Well, Beauxbatons is going to have an interesting time with her around." Kita didn't know any little madam's so she couldn't exactly say anything. Meh. She smiled as Dani talked about her father. No way was she going to show how much things like that hurt her. Family. Wait... "Your father is a rock star?" Her jaw dropped. "Wow! You just get cooler and cooler by the minute!" Ok, now that was definitely a weird thing to say!

Dani laughed- "He was" she said with a sigh. "That was how he met my Mum. She was doing some cover shoot for them in France, and yeah. That's how they met. She was a model before though, but got tired of it, she said it was a bit too much" she sighed. "And my Dad definately lived the rock star lifestyle, he still was when I was born and a little kid... he didn't quit the music business until I was about 8" she said. "He works for the Ministry now" she smirked. "He downsized a bit" she smirked in a friendly way at Kita. "My Dad's French. Explains my surname- Dubois. And my slight accent" she smiled, knowing her accent was becoming less pronounced, obviously because it was never that strong in the first place, but she was fluent in French "But my Mum is English, she went to Hogwarts too" she said proudly.

And... that had to be the second time she made a mistake in this one conversation. Great job, Kita, great job(!) N'aww! "Wow! Sounds like a celebrity love story," she said, winking at the blonde, "But that is still quite cool." She couldn't help wishing that she had a great family history like that. But what did hers include? A bunch of stupid stuff that she wasn't going to go into now. "Wait... so does your mum still do cover shoots?" she asked, "Oh! That must have been hard, giving up the rock star business." And going into an office job like the Ministry! Ok, Dani hadn't specified but there you go. "Oh! I love your accent," she said, secretly wishing she had one, "So are you part French?"

Dani giggled and blushed- "Yeah, it does sound cute. Apparantly my Mum took a lot of persuading, even though she was a model, she made Dad work pretty hard for her. She was never to keen on the whole rock star thing I don't think" she shrugged. "Well, she's a photographer now... mainly for Wizarding publications, but sometimes she does muggle stuff. But she was actually in that shoot as a model" Dani explained with a smile. "And yeah, I know- I think he finds it boring" she smirked with a little shrug. "Aww, thank you. Yeah, my Dad's French" she said softly. "So, what about your family?" she asked politely, she'd felt bad just blabbing on and on about hers.

Kita raised her eyebrows. "Really? Well, go your mum!" she said, throwing her hands in the air in celebration. Ok, mental note: never, ever, EVER do that AGAIN! Moving on! "Oh! Yeah, maybe that's why she took a lot of persuading," she said, sounding like she actually knew Dani's parents, "Oh! A photographer is a great job! Loads of famous people and all that jazz," she said, waving her hands around like they did in those Muggle dance movies thingies. "You're welcome," she said, "Wow, i'd love to be part French!" No, no, NO! The girl was already part loads-of-things, no need to add French in there! But French people are just so cool! Having heard Dani's question, Kita couldn't help sighing. There was the question about families again. "Well, i don't really know my family," she said, "I'm adopted, you see. Turns out i'm part English, part Danish and part Indian." A weird combination for a weird girl. "My adopted family met my real family in Denmark. In my adopted family, there's my mum and my brother. My adopted father passed away a couple of years ago," she said, giving Dani a small smile.

Dani sighed sadly as she smiled reassuringly at Kita- "Wow..." she said softly- "That's a lot to have to deal with" she said honestly as she tried to smile comfortingly at Kita. "I'm so sorry about your adoptive father" she said honestly- "That must have been hard" she said sadly.

As Tara Brewer looked up to see that someone else had sat next to her, she decided to introduce herself."Hello.I'm Tara! Nice to meet you." Tara told the older looking girl next to her.Tara was a talkative person, but never liked to annoy people."What house are you in? I'm in Hufflepuff!" Tara said proudly as she thought of all her fellow Hufflepuff friends.Tara looked over at the stranger waiting for a reply. Tara smiled as she thought that this girl might be in Hufflepuff too!She looked at her shoes as the girl started to speek.

"Yeah. I met him last term and he became my one of my best friends here." She said with a sigh. Oh how much she missed her older Gryffindor friend. "He showed me his little message that he left in the big book that all of the seventh years sign. He mentioned you and me in it." She wasn't sure if the girl had already known that Rex talked about her in the book, but she thought she'd say it anyway. "You know his cousin Willie? He's a first year here. Well a few days ago he told me that Rex was having some more girl trouble and that Rene left him." Again. As if it wasn't hard enough for the boy the first time that Rene stopped talking to him. "But Willie just told me that one of Rex's exgirl friends came to the rescue and so he's better now!" She added excitedly.

Nika smiled as the Slytherin said that she was in her third year. Nika knew they were some what the same age because she didn't look too much older. "So do you have any advice for a second year?" She asked curiously. If there was anything she didn't know about being a second year she wanted to find out for sure. "I like grapes too, but the weird thing is that I only like the green kind." Especially the sour ones. YUM. "I think Mango and raspberries are my absolute favorite fruits for sure." She said with a nod of her head.

Kyle smiled over to Matt when he sarcastically said he wanted Hufflepuff to win. To be honest, they should win since they seemed to never win at it. But of course like Hogwarts tradition every rooted for their own houses.

"I get what you mean we'd be, boring with out them" she laughed, "even muggle schools have competitions but they are you know district wide or however it is...one school against another - but we've got that every two hundred years or so" she said with a laugh after all Tri-Wizard tournaments happened every once in a while.

"And I'm sure Hufflepuff will do well - a good challenge for the Slytherins...seems like Gryffindor and Hufflepuff right now are tied for lowest point...i'm personally ready to bite the head off the bloke who lost points for Ravenclaw." She said with a laugh, yeah she was like that tough and then the little eep noise she made when he said he'd go and tell Simon. No no no! Not good.

Learn to keep that quiet girly she told herself frowning in a playful way her cheeks bright.

"No you don't have to - I'll tell him." She said with a confident smile. "Soon or never haven't decided yet...probably 'round the time of the start of Quidditch" she explained with a laugh.

Threatening him not to say anything popped into her head and before she could stop herself it popped out. "If you do try and tell him i'll - i'll permanently attach this ribbon to your head." She then, broke out into laughter after all that sounded so, weird, funny, and lame all at the same time.

Dora didn't understand his confusion at her words and so she simply nodded at his question. She beamed at his reply and tugged her shorts down. NICE.

The fifth year let out a nervous giggle. "Ohw. No matter, same result. I'm HERE." She twirled around for him and beamed brightly. Hogwarts was SO much cooler than Beauxbatons! And LOOKIT the VIEW! She gasped a little and stared out one of the windows of the treehouse, realising only now how high she was.

When Ivan started talking - as politeness dictated - she turned and gave him her full attention. What was he on about? Spark? OH YEAH! When they'd kissed in Florean's. She giggled quietly as he started twitching. Was he nervous? Probably. Why though? She pouted. Was she making him nervous. Aw. *POUT* She didn't MEAN to.

And then he was stuttering.

"What do you want boo?" Her blue eyes blinked expectantly and she let out a loud WOOOOOP as he pulled her to him. Her eyes broadened to the size of galleons and she let out a yelp. What was he DOING!?!?!?!?



HE WAS KISSING HER.



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Dora was still for a minute trying to figure out how to get out of here. Suddenly, it was all very claustrophobic here in his arms. Her cheeks went the colour of pomegranates and she bit down on his lip. Hard.

"STOP!" She yelled. Her bottom lip trembled and she started to cry, beating her fists against his chest.

"Just STOP!" She pushed back and pressed herself against the wall, gasping for air. The space was so confined. So confined. She needed to get out. Get out! GET OUT. She cast him one last disparaging glance and traipsed down the ladder in the most inelegant fashion possible. When she reached the ground, she turned, looking back up at the treehouse before she turned and sprinted for the castle.

What hurt her most?

He hadn't asked. She'd thought Batman was a gentleman.

She'd thought.

One minute he was kissing her and noticing she didn't kiss him back was about to pull away when she bit on his lip. "OW!" Was that really necessary? He stumbled slightly as she pushed him away and saw the same look that Mia had given him in her eyes.

DAMN IT!

He watched in horror as she practically ran out of the tree house and looked down just to make sure she didn't hurt herself. Then she was sprinting toward the castle and he sighed. Turning around he punched the wall of the tree house wincing at the welcoming pain he felt.

Another one. Didn't she realize he liked her? HE TOLD HER HE DID!

"Forget this," he mumbled to himself before coming leaving the tree house. He was through with this. If anyone wanted him he'd be in his dorms. Forever.

In reality though he was more angry at himself than anyone else. Why couldn't he just SAY the bloody words? Will you go out with me...not that bloody difficult. Though judging by her running off like that it would have been a swift no anyway and he would have been the one to leave. And she'd been crying as well. GAH!!!! Was it so bloody difficult to find someone who actually liked him?! His hands deep in his pockets he stalked back up to the castle with a look on his face that threatened death should anyone bother him.

Zara? Daredevil? Nah, she was just bored. She couldn't think of a poem for Arithmancy, so she decided to hang around...literally.

She smiled at William. "That's good. Meeting any girls that actually got your whole attention yet? Probably just one girl. One only, William. Pick one girl whom you really really like, and not just because of their looks."