Zara raised her right eyebrow at Nika. 'Ahem, eek. Matt? Nuh-uh. No way. BLEHH. I think I might barf, honestly. Who wants boys? NOOO. N-O. Never, no crushes for Zara, ever. Not even her best friend.' As she raised her eyebrows, the look on her face almost said, "Are you kidding me? No, really? Was that a joke?"

"Maybe Nika can try to talk Shaw into letting us borrow his chainsaw," Zara finished. Heheh, let's see how Nika'd react to that.

Caroline made her way down the pathway. She was looking for Kyle she had owled her for a chat after what had happen in Divination the other day. They hadn't gotten to disscuss what had happen. She had left the class in a hurry. She couldn't believe that Hannah had said that. How did she know? Was she evasdropping? You could kind of tell that Kyle had a thing for Simon, but not enough to tell, without being told.

She seen a blonde figure leaning agaisnt a tree up a head. It was Kyle, who was looking embarrassed, nervous, and shocked not to mention pretty hungry. She approached Kyle, and hugged her, it looked like she could use it. "Okay, I'm here." Pushing her hair behind her ears. She sat on the ground by the tree. She tucked her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around her knee. "You okay?" She asked but knew the answer anyway.

Bella walked into the Pathways and started to walk around . " Autumn . " She said, Her expression Blank . It Had been her least favorite season since she was a kid. Her parents Used to take her to a Muggle park and Make Her Jump into the leaves .

" What's So fun about Leaves , they Make you so itchy and They have Tons Of Bugs on them . " Bella said . She Walked so slow the rest of the way that It seemed like Years till She Made it back . " What's The Point , There is no way I can just stay inside for the rest of the season . "Bella Stated " I'll Just have to learn To Like this Season . "

After a long day in DADA and working his tail out on running, lifting and punching a punchbag, Jordan came to the pathaways before going to bed. Whenever he needed some time to himself, he went to the pathaways. It was probably his favorite place to visit besides the dorms. What made the day even better was that, it was his birthday. He was turning eleven years old. He hadn't received a letter from his uncle, but he was soon expecting one. "I wonder how he is doing. I wonder how life is for him back in the muggle world and the Ministry." Muttered Jordan as he started to think about everything back home. This was the only moment he thought about everything back witrh his Uncle. He was truly, missing his only relatives, his Aunt and Uncle.

She had to do it. Emmy had to ask what his name was. Running up to the boy, Emmy tapped him on the shoulder, hoping that it wouldn't startle him. "Excuse me." she started, "I believe we've met before, Diagon Alley, I believe. Anyway, I was wondering what your name is. I can't remember and I hate not remembering people's names!" She looked at him, hoping that he wouldn't think that she was crazy, barging in like that just to ask his name.

Legend understood? Finally? He must have believed her, otherwise he would have responded the same way he had been before. How was that? Katie couldn't even say. Hurt was probably the best way to put it, but to anyone who didn't know better, that wouldn't have been obvious.

He wanted them to forget about summer and Sixth year. She had been trying to forget about summer vacation since it had practically begun, and it was just now that she was starting to be able to put it past her. Or atleast, that's what she was telling herself. That she was past it, and what happened didn't matter anymore. Sixth year though? The Hufflepuff could agree. She could put on an act and lie for their friendship, but actually forgetting would be impossible. Katie didn't want to forget. Slowly, she nodded. "I'd like that." Katie murmured, a faint smile on her lips. It was all she could manage for the moment. At his words, the seventh year's smile grew a little bit and her dark eyes rolled toward the sky. Some things, they'd never change. Legend was one of those things. "Your birthday present is back at the castle, and if you want it now you'll have to come back with me." Katie announced, turning her gaze from emerald green eyes and down the path. Where was Nova?

"Oh come on, you can't think he's thaaat bad?" She said eyeing the firstie. Maybe it was a secret crush Or maybe not.....

WAIT.

Chainsaw?

Ask Chainshaw for a chainsaw!?!

AHA! So shaw is starting up an evil chainsaw army.

Knew it.

But wait!?! Does this mean that both Zara AND Tayla are apart of it? So it's worse than she thought.

IT'S SPREADING!!!

And now they are trying to recruit Nika?!

Oh, Mr. "just" Chainshaw Nika is onto you and your evil schemes of chainshaw armies.

She just starred at Zara with her eyes wide open. Chainsaw bad. Bad Zara. Chainsaw no good. Chainsaw evil. Chainsaw not good for you. Chainsaw not good for me. CHAINSAW NOT GOOD FOR NO ONE!

"So you admit it? You're on his evil chainsaw army?" Nika looked around her just to make sure that the rest of 'em weren't going to surround her. "Please don't join it Zara! You're too good for them."

Caroline's hug was well met. "Thanks, I kind of needed that" Kyle smiled over to her, as Caroline sat down the whole idea of sitting down really seemed like a good idea to her as well.

You know with - the whole idea that she knew later today she would have to find someone to ballroom dance with - brilliant thank you so much Lord Borr. She ran her hand through her hair as she sat down next to Caroline, hugging her knees as well.

"I'm fine - except the whole embarrassed beyond the point of no return - a-and I never told Hannah" Kyle admitted sheepishly. What could Hannah read minds? That would be an important thing to know because she'd never think around her if she could. Nope never.

"Oh did you hear about Defense against the dark arts?" She asked, with a chuckle. It seemed like zombie survival 101 - except the ballroom dancing...that was probably because they needed to ballroom dance for some big party mid term or something...a valentines ball or a ball for Lord Borr himself.

Ellie was feeling enormously guilty. Why she'd feel that way when it was Jacob deciding her fate was uncertain. She just didn't feel right. To her, she was waaaay out of practice, and until she felt like she had a summer's worth of flying in her, she was going to keep practicing.

So, bag in one hand (she'd leave it somewhere in view once she'd gotten in the air), broom in the other, Ellie took one of the pathways down to the pitch.

Vindictus had NOT returned. And Treyen was starting to get worried, really, because Hogwarts without Vindictus was some other school, clearly, not Hogwarts.

At least he had Stryker in the grounds as well. They both had chocolate, and were cool. Zookara didn't have chocolate, he had ducks, and a very bad taste for topics to discuss at lessons, apparently. Yet his reason for visiting Vindictus had nothing to do with lessons, nor chocolate, even if he wanted a Chocolate Frog, it was Quidditch. And...a request.

But, none of that now. His eyes were on the floor, as he walked up to the Castle, it was nearly impossible he'd see someone coming his way, which is why he almost collided with the person headed to the Pitch. Almost, but he wasn't even close. For some reason he'd managed to look up just in time, and a smile was given towards that not-too-stranger person in front of him, "I didn't know Ravenclaw was trying out today," he said, eying the broom.

He was not wishing her good luck, by the way.

She saw him walking towards her. Unlike him, obviously, if his head was down. Made her wonder if something was wrong?

But he was first to talk, so Ellie had no choice but to answer first. "I was just gonna fly...before tryouts." Because she got nearly ZERO flying time in over the summer. And, yes, she will be kicking herself for that until tryouts are well over.

"You alright," she asked, letting the tail of her broom drop to the ground with the handle resting against her shoulder. No need to rush down to the pitch...anymore.

The rest of the time, Zara just watched Nika who seemed to be going crazy. Whoah, this was a lot better than she thought. Zara giggled a bit, trying to hold back the laughter. This time, she could hold it back and just coughed it away instead.

*Ahem. Cough.*

Then she managed to put on a serious face. "Nika, if you don't do it, your sister will pay the consequences." HAHAHAHAHA, Zara was all laughs inside of her and was trying to stop the smug slowly appearing on her face. To do so, her lips are now pursed, so no one could really tell.

The fifth year tilted his head to one side. How come it seemed everyone else was practicing for Quidditch except him? He had the time, and yet, he walked towards the Pitch to see Vindictus, not to practice.

And he'd practiced very little over the summer, too, which meant...he could use it.

It still seemed rather odd that she was going there before tryouts, "Didn't you practice enough over the summer?" it was then that he realized he had no idea what her summer had been like, or...did she tell him? She did, didn't she? No, no, she didn't. He couldn't remember. Oh, that was awful. "Not that you need the practice, you'll do fine." Because she'd never practice for Seeker before, and the first time she had to fulfill James' position she'd been amazing.

And him? Kaia had asked the same thing this morning, though. "Me? Yes, of course," he said, with a smile on his face, "Great, actually, since I found you," like, here, right now, "I was coming from Vindictus' office, but he's hasn't returned yet," he didn't need to add that last part, she only asked him if he was alright.

"I...can walk with you, towards the Pitch, I have nothing else to do," and the badge was NOT pinned to his robes, it was in one of his pockets, he was taking some time off from Prefecting.

This was where Ellie bowed her head. "No. Not nearly enough." Not even half of enough. Or a quarter of enough. Or a quarter of a quarter of a half of enough. And she shook her head. No, she wouldn't do fine.

The girl lifted her head to see his smile, but whether it was genuine or not, she couldn't tell. She didn't really put much effort into trying to decipher it, either. If something wasn't alright, though, surely he'd tell her. Maybe.

"Did you want me?" Obviously the conclusion she'd drawn from him doing 'great' since he 'found' her. She didn't really care about Vindictus, though, and didn't comment on why he'd gone to see him or anything. Ellie kept her distance from her head of house. When she could.

She nodded at Treyen's offer, "Sure. If you want."

Wait. Seriously? Wasn't Quidditch everything to her, though? "Well, that's alright, I almost didn't practice at all," and the little he did 'practice' shouldn't be considered as practice. Either way, "You're a natural, don't worry about it," he sounded completely relaxed about the subject, and the smile clearly read that he was sure she will do fine, actually, more than fine.

It's been a while since he's seen her around, but for some reason he didn't feel like discussing Quidditch now.

But, then her question. Treyen had been trying to gain some distance from his favorite Ravenclaw until he got a couple things sorted out, especially since the episode with Dallin had proven to be a complete disaster...that didn't end as bad as he thought. But, in reality, he was always searching for her and always wanted to be around her, even when he messes up.

He was looking down, though, before replying, "Always," and then looking up, with a small smile, "You're a favorite, and favorites are always wanted," he said, and added a chuckle, just to keep things...cool, right?

The boy obviously nodded, as he gestured for the path he'd been walking from, and started to walk next to her, on the opposite side of the broom...wait, the broom..."I can take that for you, if you want." Not that brooms were heavy, but still, it was a nice offer, no?

Bishop! He remembered what he forgot to tell Ellie during the feast, "I walked into Nolan over the summer, by the way," he said, eyes on the road ahead.

Ellie shook her head again. She was worried. And she'd be worried. It was just a fact. A price she had to pay for her stupidity of staying with her cousins over the summer. It made her feel sick to think of all that time she could have been training, and instead she was puzzing over electronics like computers and telephones and nonsense, useless things.

But his answer brought a smile to her face, though she tried to fight it back, she failed. "Is that so?" A favorite what, she didn't know. And why she'd be a favorite anything, she didn't know. But she liked it.

Ellie contemplated this. Sure, it was nice of him to offer to carry her broom. But she also felt that hauling it down to the pitch, outside of tryouts and team practice, was another form of punishment. All summer she could've just taken it out of the shed in her garden, and mounted it right there. No carrying involved. But now she was forced to carry it down seven plus flights of stairs, and across the grounds.

In the end, she decided that by letting Treyen carry it, she'd be conserving energy for the actual practice. A small amount, but necessary all the same. So, she handed the broom over to him. "Thank you."

What did he say?

GASP.

"You saw Reyn?! Me tooo!" Mmm, yeah. All those Quidditch troubles were completely unimportant now.

GRIN.

Tell us, Treyen. Storytime.

By now, he knew how stubborn Ellie could be, but if the subject was bringing her down somehow, then he was certainly not going to mention Quidditch, or summer, or practice, unless he absolutely had to, or once the team was already picked out, because she was going to be in there, most likely.

So, he pretended to ignore the head shake, even if he wanted to say 'Don't worry' one more time.

It doesn't matter anymore, he'd made her smile, Treyen should distract her from her Quidditch thoughts, then, it seemed way much better, because at least he could see the smile he liked so much. "Have you forgotten you're my favorite Ravenclaw?" he said, pretending to be completely hurt by the thought, "See? You take every opportunity you get to break my heart, Ellie," he was completely joking, of course, and it could be easily seen. Ellie will have no problem in catching his bluff, yes?

You know, it was taking her too much time to give him an answer, and he was going to be careful with her broom, really, after all, he knew what it was like when someone oh-so-purposefully harms it, like Jake had done in the past. So, in all fairness, Ellie could trust him.

And she did. She handed over her broom, which was gladly taken by Treyen, who carried it as if it was a feather, weightless it was, on the opposite side to the girl.

His smile widened significantly when he learned that she'd seen him too, "I did, at the book shop in Diagon Alley," details? yes? "We talked for a little while," he nodded, eying the path before turning to look at Ellie, "Where did you meet him?" and what did the man tell Ellie?

Heh. Hehehe. Of course not. She just liked hearing him say it. That wasn't bad, was it?

And certainly not heartbreaking. "Treyen Lockhart, I would not break your heart." Though, she could think of one occasion where she might've. But that wasn't literally breaking his heart, was it? Mmmm...no. Ellie liked to think not.

The bookshop? Heh. Reyn would SO be there. Weirdo. "In Wiseacres. By the crystal balls." That was an uber important factoid. Because, as much as a bookshop would be a likely place to find him, Crystal balls were SO Reyn. Moreso.

Perfect. Everything was perfect now that she was smiling and completely distracted from the thoughts that would make her smile disappear entirely.

This is what he got for being joking around with such a serious matter as a heartbreak. It was serious to him, and now that she said she wouldn't, well, it made one question in his head seem like it shouldn't be asked in the first place. Yet, there was no way of knowing the answer to the question unless it was, eventually, asked. And it will be, just, not after this.

Ellie had probably managed to say the words that would allow Treyen not to speak his mind so freely. The boy still let out a chuckle, and shook his head, "I sincerely hope you don't do it again...," he said, because she'd done that before, though, one shouldn't consider it as a heartbreak, truth be told, Treyen was the one who'd said it was. But he had something else to add, "...Eliana." A playful wink went her way after he said her name, it was rather clever that he had her broom, or he'll be beaten with it just for saying her name, no?

"That was for the 'Treyen Lockhart' part," her name, her name had been said thanks to that part, not for the heartbreak, of course. And he resisted the urge to stick his tongue out.

Unbelievable! "What were you doing by the crystal balls?" which, by the way, were closely related to another 'heartbreak' incident, if not the only one.

"Anyway, he told me he was doing great, which I believe was something you also witnessed," at least they knew the man was alive, and seemed happy enough, "And then we...discussed career paths." For who? He didn't say, but it was obvious that they'd been careers for Treyen.

"Hey Willy",the blonde smiled widely.Ohhh he wanted to introduce his girlfriend to her?How nice.Fee was happy,William was happy,now to check out the girl.If she was good enough."Hey Witsy.",the girl waved and smiled.Awww Willy seemed to be really happy with his girlfriend,it had happened a little fast for Fee,but okay."Why shouldnt i be ok with her?",the Slytherin asked raising an eyebrow.

Jordan felt a tap on his shoulder, so he turned around to see one of his friends. Emmy. "Hello. It's alright, I'm Jordan. You must be Emmy, am I right?" Jordan asked Emmy as he felt this was nothing to worry about. Jordan forgot muggle school students names all the time, so he could kind of step in someone's shoes because he had already wore them, figuratively speaking.

Ellie was in the middle of giving Treyen a reassuring nod. Because, in all seriousness, no, she wouldn't break his heart. Like, ever. But it was interrupted by the little addition he said.

Not cool, Treyen.

The girl stopped walking beside him, stopped walking at all, and SCOWLED at him. Mhm. That was totally, completely, the meanest thing everrrrrr. And he was NOT getting away by winking.

"That's not fair. Your name IS Treyen Lockhart." And as far as Ellie was concerned, her name was NOT Eliana.

SCOWL.

Ohhh and uhm the crystal balls, yeah. Uhm. "They were just there. By all means in my way from browsing useful things. ...Except Reyn was there, which made it all good."

Mhm. He seemed to have been doing good. "Did you know that he and Ginger went to Italy for their honeymoon? They ate gelato." Nod. Nod. That was crucial.

Ew. Career paths? Let Treyen and Reyn pick the most BORING topic in the world to talk about on their chance meeting after not seeing each other for over a year. Seriously. "Like what?" she wasn't entirely interested, but if it involved Reyn? She was like a SPONGE for information. Totally.

Nodding. Good. It was nice they could agree on such a thing...until...she stopped.

Oh. That couldn't be good, and this time he knew what he did wrong, since it was done on purpose. The grip on her broom tightened, in case she wanted to take that from his hands, and he turned to face her, they were only a couple feet away...he had obvious advantage if he decided to run for his life. Except, he didn't need to run, he was the one with the broom right now.

The only thing he regretted from it all, was the fact that her smile was officially gone. Good one, Lockhart.

"Not fair? I'd rather you call me Treyen, instead of Treyen Lockhart, even Trey, I don't care," Treyen Lockhart. Right. She was not his grandma. "And Eli-ana IS your name, never mind if you prefer 'Ellie' or not," ask Hadley, she knows.

Still, the boy shouldn't keep proving himself right, yes? "I apologize, though, I know you don't like it," he said, in a very soft tone. At least he liked his name. So...that hadn't been fair.

He was still standing, he wasn't walking if she wasn't, obviously, "Yeah, it sounded odd, you being around anything involving Divination." He pointed out, before frowning a little, "No, I didn't...we...didn't talk too much about Ginger," though, he only knew that Nolan had said they were doing okay or something like that, but that topic didn't interested much, hence why he failed to ask it.

There was blushing happening on his behalf, though, because he remembered something, "We...haven't had gelato." Like, them, together. That was a major fail.

It was the next question that had him looking away, he didn't like the uncertainty, "Eh, research, wands, Ministry," he made a face at the last one, even if he hadn't considered that last one, he still didn't feel sure about working there, "Potions, Divination, you know, the usual," yes, because 'wands' was usual. He still shrugged at the thought. After spending so many years reading about them and things related to them, they seemed fairly usual.

She would like that? Yeah? Legend nodded, for some reason he felt like his couldn't speak. His throat felt dry. Did she notice that he said they should IGNORE sixth year? She did didn't she? That meant ignore the fact that they ever dated. If she understood that...it meant she didn't care anymore. Legend forced a smile onto his face. He wouldn't care either.

After all, she was the immature one.

"Yeah? You really got me one? ALRIGHT! Cool! Let's go!" He shook his legs waking up the nearly sleeping fox on his feet. "Come on Pluto!" He said with a grin. "Katie's gonna give me a million Galleons."

Trey? Ellie raised an eyebrow at that. That sounded....so weird. Mmm. She much preferred Treyen. At least until she could come up with something uber cool on her own.

"It's okay," she said, and continued walking. Just don't do it again, 'Trey'. Heh. "I think I'm gonna have to look into legally changing it." Yeah. Eliana was....ick.

Mhm. THAT was understandable. "I wouldn't have gone anywhere nearer if HE wasn't there." And because HE WAS there, not much else mattered at the moment. She even dropped her camera. ...Well, it was in the bag, so it wouldn't have gotten hurt... And it didn't. "You didn't?" It seemed obvious to Ellie to talk about the reason he had abandoned them. Even if she didn't exactly hold a grudge against it anymore. "Did you talk about how he's working in the Ministry now? With the LORD Borr?" Awesome, yeah?

She frowned at that. "We need to do that." She oh so desperately wanted some. And they had already planned on...making some, was it? That sounded really hard, though. Ellie just wanted to eat it.

Ellie pulled a face as soon as 'research' left Treyen's mouth. Ick. Boring. And Ministry and Potions and Divination were just as bad. "Wands are cool." And a vital necessity to witches and wizards, as she tried to convey to Conan. "Did you go to that job fair my first term? There was a booth there about wandlore." It had fascinated her, and confused her very much.