The pygmy puff was adorable and Mia had been tempted to get on herself but then she had seen Arnold and fallen in love. "Puffles is quite cute as well." Did pygmy puffs and puffeskins get on? She didn't know and she wasn't ready to find out either. She looked back at Ness and smiled. "So you're settling in okay? Coping with classes alright?"

"Thanks! Yeah i am, though i must say some of the teachers are crazy!" said Ness thinking of Shaw he was one mad person. Nessie yawned as she was absoloutkey exhausted. "Did you sign up for the quiditch try outs?" she asked trying not to yawn again.

Mia couldn't help but chuckle at that. "You get used to them. It makes for some exciting classes." So long as they actually taught them something, she didn't care how crazy they were. Shaking her head at Ness, Mia placed Arnold back onto her shoulder. "Nah. I'm not the sporting type. Lack of coordination and I don't really like violence. Are you planning on trying out?"

"Ah, brilliant!" She smiled and looked at Marigold. "Excellent job, Marigold."

Turning back at Tayla, who now held out her wand, staring at it, she said, "Hell yeah! TEAM SHAW! WOOHOO!" She shouted, happily. He sure was scary, but he loved Team Shaw, so Zara liked him. He was crazy but nice, so there wasn't really a problem. "My day's fine. I was looking for someone actually. I haven't seem him yet." Then a frown appeared on her face.

HE was wrong? Yeah right, no. Legend Chosen was never wrong. He knew what he was talking about and if he didn't he at least made up some garbage to make it sound like he did. But that was besides the point. He wasn't wrong.

Legend's attention was taken off the girl before him when he felt something resting by his foot. Pluto. The fox lay his head tiredly on the seventh years feet as if informing him that he had eaten his share of food and thought that it was now time for a nap. The Gryffindor wanted to go to. Take off and maybe have a nap himself. But he felt like he owed Katie an explanation. He owed it to her because..well they had been friends for so long. He couldn't just take off. He still didn't just want their friendship to end.

As he listened, Legend forced himself to show no emotion at all. So she had believed him? It was her hatred for Hazel which had caused this, and the fact that she still didn't fully trust him. No matter what she said, Legend still could not fully understand Katie's reasoning for their break up. If anything SHE had been the immature one because of her jealously. for Hazel and not trusting him. When Katie had said, maybe they were not mature enough for this she had meant herself. It was ironic, he had been the mature one. Katie hadn't been.

Legend sighed. Vaguely aware that Katie was continuing on. Explaining herself. She had been upset, and she thought that he wouldn't have wanted her there because of the break up. It made sense. It really did. The seventh year looked up, his gaze set on Katie. "Listen- it's alright. Let's...let's just forget that this summer and Sixth year even happened." He smiled. "Let's just be friends again." Yes. It was better that way. Friends. Legend did not think it would be smart for them to start dating again. He couldn't handle the pain of breaking up again if Katie started to act all immature. "Oh, by the way, since we are friends again, where is my birthday present? I'm expecting something giant? I'm seventeen now you know. Of age and even more awesome than before."

She sat underneath the cool shade that the tree had to offer, "this is wonderful," she said softly to William, "Could this be our spot for now on?" She loved it here everything about it. "William, did you know that when I was in Diagon Alley right before school picking up supplies, I was looking forward to this term so much and the classes I would be taken and with that in mind I felt like I was on top of the world... you changed that for me. Once I saw you and... and you opened to me there was a whole other side I was completely hidden from." She looked down among the path enjoying the view. It was beginning to rain but the tree was still sheltering us from the first of the drops.

"I see everything differently, that everything is brighter, more beautiful and now because you're in it." Her hands were getting a bit cold and started rubbing her hands together to get the blood flowing again, "I wish you could know exactly what I'm feeling..." she paused enjoying the moment.

William had a girlfriend?Witsy?Who the hell was Whitsy?"Heey Willy",the blonde smiled,"noo i havent met her yet."She didnt wven know that he had one.Woah.The Slytherin just giggled at William and shook her head.It was sad that Willy and P wouldnt be a couple but oh well."I am fine with it",the girl smiled nodding.

"Hey Nika!" Tayla called cheerfully, motioning Nika to join her, William, and Zara. "Come over here."

"Oh I see," Tayla nodded. "Do you have any other pets?"


"I want to try something...I read about it in one of our textbooks..." Tayla stretched out her wand arm and pointed it at a leaf on the ground. "W-wingardium leviosa!" The leaf didn't move. Tayla bit her lip and furrowed her eyebrows. "Hmmm..."

Turning back to her friend, she asked. "Who are you looking for, Zara?"

Waiting for her friend to answer, she stretched out her wand arm again and pointed it at the same leaf. "I know I can do this..." she thought to herself. "Wingardium leviosa!" And the leaf flew a few inches higher off the ground, then fell back down again. Tayla smiled. It was start.

"Wing guard what?" Zara asked. Ohh! Then she remembered. Yeah, she's read about it too. The one that makes things sort of fly or float in the air. "Oops, I remembered now. I think there's a wand movement for that. But I can't remember it. Oh well," she wondered aloud.

"Me? Matt, uhh.." she said, struggling to remember what his last name was. What on earth was his last name?! Then she realized he'd never said it, and she'd never asked. Gee, what a friend Zara was. "I can't remember his last name. But he's about this tall," Zara said, as she showed Tayla. "He's got brownish black hair. Bangs this long, almost covering his eyes, that are really full of emotion. And always and always, he'd blush when you speak to him. You also see him hanging around usually with girls, which is ironic because he used to be freaked out by us girls, but all his friends are girls like me, Ella, Nika, and Nessie," she said, realizing she knew so much about Matt, except for the last name. Then she blinked, wondering how she'd known all of that.

Nika heard a voice calling her name and so she spun around in search of the owner of it. After going into a complete circle she noticed Tayla who had been standing not to far away from her motioning for Nika to join her. She skipped towards her friends happily and beamed at them all. "Hey guys!" Even though they were younger than Nika it was only a year difference. Besides they were fun to hang around.

"But I don't understand Dani I mean you are all human. You can control the kind of attention you get, but you choose to make yourself attractive with just your appearance. I don't think you're dumb luv, but I mean you're always pointing out to me how others find you beautiful and attractive. It's almost as though you crave that kind of negative attention and worse, you want me to be the one to give it to you." He whispered. "I can't control it, It's not in my veela nature to control it. But my human side hates all this attention."

Dani sighed- "I... but i'm a nice person. I'm friends with people, not because of what they look like- because of what they're like inside. I may be pretty but looks aren't everything. Okay, yeah- I may go on about it a little... I guess, I dunno... it's how i've been brought up- to flaunt myself. You know my Mother..." she said with a little shrug. She watched him carefully- "It does? Just... try not to think of your veela side as different to your human side" she said, trying to help him. "Just be you- what's inside. Y'know? Because the Connor I know and am friends with- isn't just his veela side" she said honestly to him and shrugged. "I... feel like... you think that I'm uncontrollably in love with your veela side of something- and don't deny that, because it's blaringly obvious. But no. I'm not" she shrugged. "And you need to stop stressing about Kurumi, y'know. Girls don't just answer to every guy's beck and call exactly when they want them to" she smiled at him warmly. "Connor, I'm your best friend- I'll always be here for you" she said honestly to him.

" This is our spot sweetheart" William told Witsy. " This is definitly our spot" William said to Witsy. What you said about yoruself is so beautiful" William explained to Witsy. William held her hands tightly and kissed witsy on the cheek.

" Hi Fee" William told her. " Fee, this is Witsy" he introduced the girl under the tree to Fee holding hands with William. " I am glad you are ok with my girlfriend" William explained to Fee. "Witsy is a doll and sh will ove you" William said to Fee.

" No, just my owl " Pettifer" William told Tayla,. "Do you have any other pets?" William asked Tayla.

Tayla nodded. "Yup. We have a dog back home. A chocolate retriever named Cadbury."


"Wingar-dium le-vi-osa. And all you have to do is to swish like this and then flick. Fairly simple," Tayla explained. She loved Charms and couldn't wait for class. Tayla hoped they were as fun as they seemed in the book. "Go on, try it on that leaf right there." Tayla smiled. She also wanted to be a teacher.

"Hmm...I don't think I've met Matt before. Nika's right here," Tayla said, waving to Nika as she walked towards her and Zara.


"Hi Nika!" Tayla said. "Zara's looking for a boy named Matt. Have you seen him?"

Ohh right, the swish and flick. Zara wondered how Tayla did the spell since earlier, she didn't use the wand movement. She pouted and wondered.

"O-on that leaf? Nonono," she waved her arms in front of her. Zara didn't want an exploding leaf in front of them once she's done with it. She knew too well than to try the spell. First years were supposed to fail at their first try, and second and third. Well, some succeed, for some unknown reasons. "I think I'll stick to being safe right here," she grinned awkwardly.

"Maybe Nika can go and try?" she suggested, trying to avert the attention from her to Nika instead.

Then she giggled as Tayla asked Nika where Matt was. Really, it wasn't that necessary, but Zara was glad. Tayla was so thoughtful.

"Yeah I guess!" said Ness smiling. "Yeah I've never really played properly, but its a good way to get involved with the school, so I'm gonna give it a try!!" Nessie doubted she would make the team, though it was worth a try.

... alright?

"Of course I am," Helena stated, smiling. She just... couldn't believe she managed to forget about her ONLY owl. Poor Hades. Ah, and Viola didn't see him. But maybe it was better not to see him too soon. Becaaaaaause he was ugly at the moment. Growing his feathers and stuff like that.

Oooh and of course shopping was fun. It was... like... in every girl's blood or something. Just like that weird muggle sport was for boys. You know, the boring one with a ball, where they weren't allowed to fly. And if they weren't allowed to fly... where was the fun in that? But... Helena couldn't understand ANY sport at all, anyway.

" Cadbury is an interesting name for a dog" William told Tayla. "So have you been to the Whomping Willow?" William asked Tayla.

Alex's head jerked up and looked at Emma, he had nothing to be ashamed of. "No." he said sternly.

When she brought up Fee he winced and crossed his arms across his chest as he started to walk slowly, hoping she'd follow him. "Yes it has." he mumbled to himself. Team Fealem was over, no matter how sad he was about it. The summer had really changed everything, it was clear that neither Fee, Emma, Chandler or Ellie had time for him anymore. He'd accepted it. Well, almost.

He sighed and turned to her coming to a full stop. "You really want to know what's going on?" he asked, slightly doubtful. "Turns out, all the time I've been friends with Chandler and Ellie, she wanted him." he said. "All this time, she wanted my best friend." he muttered. Yup, the Three Musketeers were officially over. Done. Never more. He shook his head and shrugged. "At least I have some experience of that, huh?" he added with a bittersweet smile. His ex had also left him for his best friend. "You know, the really annoying thing though is that I think I actually had real feelings for that girl. I think I may have loved her. Heck, I still do." he admitted. His eyes flickered to hers again. "Cliff Note's version: I lost my best friend and my girlfriend on the same night. Fee is busy, she's with all her new "best friends" I didn't want to bug her. I've tried but I just..." he groaned a little to himself and frowned. Fee was busy, he tried reaching out to her but she didn't have time. "I didn't want to bug you with this." he explained.

And that was all of it, why he had been so depressed the whole term, because the summer that should have been the best one in his life had turned out to be the worst one. In one night, he'd lost everything. And the only thing that had gotten him out of bed to attend classes was that perhaps then he'd be able to join the Quidditch team that year too. He was all alone, Quidditch was the only thing he had left and fortunately no one could take that from him.

Connor sighed. "But they are different Dani. there as different as human and inhuman." he sighed. "That's so hard cause I try to be who I am and I get people telling me I'm wrong for it." he whispered. He kicked a nearby tree in frustration and sat beneath it. Connor looked up at her when she spoke, then why do you act like someone reacting to my hormone scent? Or like someone who's in love with me?" he asked confused, so confused. He glanced up at her. "I know that, if it had been when I wanted we'd be together now." he sighed in frustration that he had no idea his friend was feeling. He leaned in for a hug.

Nika smiled at the two firsties. It's so weird for her not being the youngest anymore. Just thinking about it was crazy. It felt like only yesterday when she had been walking the cooridors as an "ickle firstie". "Matt! Actually no I haven't seen him. But I'll keep my eyes out." Nika wiggled her eyebrows as she looked at Zara. "Matt." She said teasing her friend. Of course she was only kidding around and she chuckled to let them know.

"Maybe Nika can try what?" She asked not catching that bit of the conversation. Try finding matt? Or doing that magic on the leaf?

She was going to scream out of embarrassment, nervous, and shock. Today, was truly not her day. How had Hannah figured her out? Was she that - that translucent?

She ran a hand through her hair, squirming slightly. She needed to talk to Caroline quickly, to vent, to do something so that she didn't do something stupid or crazy that would lose house points. Anger, thats what she felt and the need to rip her cousin's hair out.

Why had she asked him that? Why had she made Divinations that much more awkward for her? Why on earth had she asked him if she and Kyle were dating? And not ask she'd just stated I didn't know you two weren't dating was she that - that bad at hiding her feelings? Even though her feelings were just starting and it wasn't more than a small crush right now not a hopeless feeling that she'd feel forever around him.

She leaned against a tree, waiting for Caroline to show up once she did she'd be able to calmly talk a bit...well more so than earlier.

Dani sat down next to him as she hugged him- "I guess... all girls get crushes. Not just on what's on the outside... but y'know. I've accepted that you just don't see me like that, Connor. All I want is for you to be happy" she nodded. "You're my best friend... I'm not losing that because I had a crush. Believe me- the amount of crushes I've had" she laughed as she nudged him a little. "You should really be more comfortable with who you are. With your Veela side being a big part of you. You'd be happier then, I'm sure" she smirked.

''Well...'' The Gryffindor eyed the girl some then looked around. Hmm... no he did not think stretching was a good idea now. And actually that was not what he was talking about when he suggested warming up. ''Good thing you jogged here'' he said playing with the end of his shirt. ''We will be sprinting, i guess so i think a short jogging around...'' the castle? Was it possiblt to run around the castle without jumping in the Black Lake? Whatever, around the castle would be too long. ''...around here would be fine i guess. Until we happen to think it is enough. But of course, if you want to go with stretching after it, you can. I'm just not much into it. I am no dancer or any kind of athlete''

He had been trained for different stuff which one of the biggest reason that he was mostly put to the beater position by the Quidditch Captains. Smiling a little, the lion boy slowly walked to a nearby tree and examined it some. ''Too bad that is not a fruit tree. It would be awesome to taste a few juicy apple once we are so tired of running. Don't you think so?''

Cassie rubbed the heel of her sneakers on the ground as she looked at Josh. She was going to get left in his dust and she knew it, but she knew she had to do this if she wanted to make the quidditch team and by Merlin's Beard she was going to do it."Yep I thought jogging down here would be a good idea." Score one for Cassie, oooooooooh yeah. She nodded at his suggestion to start jogging along the pathway. She could definitely do that, it wasn't like they were jogging around the castle or anything like that. She knew she would pass out if that was the case."Yeah I'll stretch down after, it's a good idea after exercising."

At Josh's comment Cassie started digging though her bag. She knew it was a good idea to pack snacks and good thing for Josh, she always packed healthy snacks. She pulled out two zip lock bags that had freshly sliced apples pears and peaches in them and threw one at him."I came prepared." Of course it wasn't manly to be eating sliced fruits out of a little ziplock but maybe he wouldn't mind.