Daichi had hated it to be sick on THE day of the year. When the Quidditch Final match had started , he had been in bed. His nose was red , his skin was paler than ever and his hair seemed to have lost it's volume. Daichi Katharos was sick and he seriously hated it!

He had wanted to come to the game but found that he had fallen asleep in the dormitory before it so when he woke up , he had missed it.

He was a baaaaad fan~! So when he had heard from fellow Slytherin's that Slytherin had won again he went to the celebration tent not caring if he was sick. Having missed THE game was bad enough..

Once inside, the now thirteen year old looked around. He coughed with a hand against his mouth and wiped his hand on his jeans. It was disgusting , he knew but like he cared.

"SLYTHERIN!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME~" He suddenly tried to shout but his voice came out hoarse so maybe no one would have heard it.

oh well... he moved to the left and saw the snacks on the table. Normally he would have dived right in but this time, he had to gag even thinking about it.

Minerva was just about to leave, but then she saw a Slytherin that looked sick and was standing alone. She felt her nerves start, but she shook her head. Minerva you have never been afraid to meet knew people before. She walked up to the boy and said "Hello my name is Minerva are you ok?"

Miss Puff prefect wasn't as awkward as her Claw captain friend was, and couldn't figure out just why the girl was much more anxious than she had been in the stands. Treyen was fine, or at least was playing the 'fine' role when they last saw them, so Arya was just a bit confused. She didn't say anything though, she scanned the crowd of green until she spotted Treyen.

And he looked even better than he had on the pitch.

"We should say hi before we get food." Arya lopped her arm through Ellie's and gently tugged the girl over to Treyen, smiling at her co-prefect. "You played good, Treyen." Right up until he ran into the other team. She looked him over for injuries, and only acknowledged the snakes surrounding them after she was somewhat satisfied with his persons. She smiled at them all, "Congrats on the win guys."

Jai smiled and said,"Yeah, she did a good job picking it out, but you make it look great." When she complimented him on his rather simple outfit, he blushed and said,"I'm alright, but thanks."

As they made their way in and she accepted his arm, he leaned down and whispered,"It's your night. You decide how long we stay. But remember I do have a surprise for you."

The tent was already alive with music and celebrating snakes.

Man, Slytherins were far too happy today, weren't day? Was the world supposed to end today? No one told him.

Actually, he's never seen Victoria as happy as today, which was a good thing, his hair was safe from the girl. "You're more than welcome. You did awesome up there, by the way." And she even managed to score while being Keeper, didn't she? Too bad that didn't really count.

Oh, he noticed as much, that's why he didn't go close to his future colleague for fear of getting glitter on himself. One time was enough.

Treyen chuckled. "I was merely informing you. It suits you." So, no, he was going to let Victoria keep the glitter.

And he smiled again. "So do I." Wink. He didn't know she was close to Victoria, for whatever reason he supposed she was a close friend of Sierra. Well, weren't they all friends and teammates anyway? "I'm afraid I don't know your name, though." And the Slytherin Keeper failed to mention it while she spoke.



It was safe to say that he hadn't noticed any more people entering the tent since he wasn't looking at the entrance, but the voice that spoke his name was one he recognized in an instant, he didn't even have to turn around to see who it was, but he still did...and it was a good thing he turned to look at his Co-Prefect..or he'd failed to see who was standing next to her.

"Thanks Arya." He'd blocked a few shots and, unlike Victoria, didn't go through the hoops holding a Quaffle, which was good, right?

His smile did falter a little when he took in Ellie's face and went to stand next to her, "You okay?" he asked, as he placed an arm around her shoulders and kissed her forehead. By the way, "My jacket looks good on you."

Cheering was a tough job. It consisted of pride, a strong pair of lungs, a clear throat, and LOTS of energy. Kennedy definitely had all those... about an hour ago. He was still all giddy because of Slytherin's win over Hufflepuff, but his stomach was grumbling at him. So, when he stepped into the tent his feet automatically dragged him over to the food table. He grabbed a plate and stacked it with three sandwiches and chips. Now, for a drink.

Before getting to the pumpkin juice pitchers something, more like someone caught his attention. She was holding a beaters bat and staring at a Hufflepuff. Was that safe?

Then she was making her way to the back where he currently was. Gulp. He's never spoken to a Quidditch player before. This was his chance. Kennedy took a deep breath to relax and not look like a weirdo. He didn't want to get whacked by a beaters bat.

"H-Hi," he said, with a kind of lame wave of his hand. "Congrats on the win." Yeah, he was a Slytherin too, but the players deserved a bigger congrats because they're the ones that actually won the game.

Sierra was still peering around the tent when she heard the sound of a nearby voice. At first, she didn't think the person was talking to her. After all, she didn't have very many friends, so with the few she did have, she'd come to know the distinct sound of their voices. So she didn't turn toward the boy, nor did she acknowledge she'd heard him at all. It was only when she tilted her head in his direction that she noticed he was looking right at her. "Oh," she said, dropping her bat down by her side. "Hi..."

It was a sort of awkward moment for her. She wasn't very good at being friendly and outgoing, so it sometimes took her a while to get warmed up to someone. This boy was a Slytherin, though--her own kind. For that, he got a small smile. The corners of Sierra's mouth lifted up into a smile as she said, "Yeah, thanks. It gives up a threepeat of last term. Feels good to always be the winner, doesn't it?" If he was a Slytherin, he'd understand the need to win. She looked down at his plate and playfully smirked. "Three sandwiches?" she asked. "Did you save some for me over there?" She nodded toward the table. Of course she was only joking. He'd know that. Right?

Alyssa spotted a friendly face in the crowd. "Hi Minnie, are you here by yourself too? Me too. I was hoping that Aaron would come, but I haven't seen him so I guess he must be busy finishing up packing or something. Are you having fun yet? I don't know about you, but this has definitely been a weird term for me and I'm really looking forward to going back to Salem and seeing my family. I hope that I'll be able to come back to Hogwarts next term."

Minnie smiled when she saw Alyssa she breathed a bit easier as well. "Hi Alyssa. Yes I am alone. I thought I would come and see who is here. You did great today. Oh Aaron I haven't seen him, but I can't believe he wouldn't come here." Minerva smiled she got the feeling Alyssa was starting if not already liking Aaron. He better not screw it up. Minerva thought. She is a great girl to have. The Minerva looked at Alyssa with a bit of a worried frown. "Not come back, why wouldn't you come back? Oh Alyssa you have to come back. You are a brilliant Wizard and a great friend. You would be missed so much. Yes it was a very weird term between all the homework, all the newness of magic, elves, magical creatures, talking photos, and then the crazy social parts I had it has been weird. I can't lie that I am happy to be going home for some normal muggle things for at least a little while, but I am going to miss all of this and all of you." Minerva looked around.

At first, Kennedy thought he was being ignored, but to his relief he wasn't... and she lowered her beaters bat. "I've heard," he said, returning the smile. Although he wasn't there to experience those wins, he was very proud of his house. It sometimes felt like if he had been here for a longer time than he's actually been. He didn't even need to think twice to answer her question. "It really does," he nodded with an even wider smile. Sure, he was raised to learn how win and lose, but he liked being on the winning side. It sometimes made him feel guilty.

He looked down at his plate, then at the food table and then back at her. "Plenty," he grinned sheepishly, secretly wondering if he had gotten too many. "You're welcome to take one," he said, offering her the sandwiches on his plate. That's the least he could do to show his gratitude for her helping the team win.

Daichi looked around , away from the delicious but not so delicious food and towards a girl that had walked up to him. Brave girl for walking up to someone that was sick. "Yes, i'm fi-" but he couldn't finish his sentence for a long cough came out.

He held one hand against his mouth and the other in the air , as if to say , wait a minute. Before he stopped coughing. He sniffed and smiled , though it wasn't the usual bright smile he normally got. "I'm Daichi, nice to meet you Mi-" another tickling coughing fit. "sorry , i already missed the game so i'm not missing this" he chuckled and saw another Hufflepuff student walking towards them.

He moved back and forth on his heels as the two girls talked, not sure if he should interrupt.

Angelina nodded and said, "yes." she paused and then said, "did you go to the Quidditch game?"

Harlow bounced into the party in her finest white robes, with her Slytherin tie hanging out. This was her first year at Hogwarts and Slytherin was on top and it was a great feeling. She waved to the few people she knew and looked around for someone to talk to.

Minerva stopped talking to Alyssa for a second. "Alyssa do you know Daichi? When I didn't see any of you around I was actually going to go back to the common room, but saw him standing alone and thought I would introduce myself." She looked back at Daichi "Do you really think you should be out? You don't want to get worse. Do you play on the team usually?"

Aaron finally made his way to the celebrations. Not that they were celebrating after their lose, but still; a party was a party.
He grinned as he spotted Alyssa, she didn't look too happy. He knew he was probably being a royal pain in the ..., but relationship stuff was like... REALLY confusing and stuff. Most of the time, Aaron didn't know what he was going to be doing five minutes from now, but relationships were all serious and stuff. And all the seriousness was too serious. Seriously. He shook his head and climbed onto the table.

Was he going to get in trouble for this..? Maybe. Aaron shrugged. Worth it.
'OI! ALYSSA!' He shouted out as loud as he could. 'SO.. EH, GUESS WHAT?! I LOVE YOU.'
There. Now he'd said it right? And she wouldn't be all confusing and stuff about whether or not Aaron liked her? Cause he did. A lot. He was just weird about showing it, probably, but that was what Aaron was most of the time anyway; weird.
Also, he'd always wanted to climb onto a table like this.

Daichi looked over at the girl named Alyssa and smiled before turning back to Minerva. At the question , he pouted his lips and held his arms over each other. "Yes" he said simply. "i've been in bed for a day! not including the night time... and it's booooring"

on the team usually? How did she know? He shifted from foot to foot and looked down at his feet. Biting his lower lip, Daichi nodded his head. "Y-yeah" he answered and was happy there wasn't a cough coming. "I mean, i was in the team last year" He looked up to look at his house mates and then back to Minerva. Feeling the heat in his cheeks he knew he was blushing so he pretended a cough. "I also signed in this year and i was chosen as a chaser but...i wasn't fast enough.. to play during matches..." he heaved a deep sigh. "what about you? are you in the Hufflepuff team?"

Well, good. At least he was in agreement with how she felt about winning. He was a Slytherin, after all. She'd be surprised if he wasn't fond of being in first place. Then again, there were always the bad apples of the bunch--those who ended up in Slytherin house and always wished they were a Puffer instead. This boy didn't seem to be one of those kind, though. Thank Merlin. She'd likely have to gag and leave if he were.

"Good," she said. "Walk me over." Then she turned and headed to the food table, fully expecting the boy to follow. "Thanks for the offer, but I can get my own. Besides, I don't mind if you eat three sandwiches." It just showed he wasn't as wimpy as some of the boys she knew. Hmm... "Do you play Quidditch?" she asked. "I mean, on your own, or something?" Anyone eating three sandwiches should be an athlete.

She bit into her sandwich and washed it down with some punch. "So, what's your name?" she asked.

Minerva saw Daichi blush and she acted as if she didn't see a thing. "Oh well I bet you will be playing matches next term." Then he asked her about the puff team. "Oh no I wasn't on the team. I only learned to fly here so maybe in the future, but right now I like my feet on the ground. I tried to play gobestones, but that didn't go over well either. All this magic stuff is a little new to me." She had never met a slytherin yet this year and she had heard rumors so she wasn't sure what he would say to her not being pureblood. "I'm half muggle. My mom is a wizard, but never told us until I started showing signs. Well I guess my dad knew, but the just didn't say anything. Are you pureblood?" All of the sudden their conversation was interrupted with Aaron getting on the table and yelling. Minerva beamed at Alyssa. "Oh My Goodness Alyssa. What a romantic." Minerva couldn't help but laugh at saying that. Aaron a romantic, he was more of a goofy older brother then a romantic Minerva thought, but she could tell Alyssa like him so she was happy.

"Ah, gobstone thing is so confusing~!" he said and threw his arms in the air. He had seen one match but just didn't get it. Apparently, it was a simple game but Daichi prefered Quidditch. Though, the only thing he could remember was how the flying Professor and the Herbology professor were screaming and shouting like little kids..... that was funny.

Hearing her talking about her family a bit nervously, Daichi figured that she had heard that all Slytherin's were evil or something. Bleh , he hated stereotypes. "No, i'm a halfblood too" He said and a a little bit of himself hoped that the girl would be surprised. "My dad is a wizard and my mom is..." He gulped as he looked away. "Was a muggle.." he finished and was about to turn back when a random guy jumped up on the table.

Okay, so normally he would have laughed at the sight. Maybe even aplauded for the newly couple but now? Daichi coughed as he looked up at the table , the shouting voice of the boy was ringing in his ears and then went up to his head. Before he could stop himself he held a hand against his forehead and shouted. "YAH! i've got a headache! can you pleeeeeaaase not shout?!"

atleast he said please.

Maddy squinted her eyebrows when Angelina diddn't answer her question, she kept asking even though Angelina seemed to want to change the subject."Does orient go to Hogwarts?"

Maddy waved to Harlow as she walked by.

Alyssa happened to glance up and saw Aaron walk in with a determined look on his face. But what he did next, surprised her even more. He climbed on the table and then called out her name and then, and then, and then he said that he loved her in front of everyone. She started to laugh and cry all at the same time. Blushing a beet red, she quickly ran over to the table where Aaron was standing and tried to coax him down. "Aaron, Come on and get down from there. I don't you falling off that table and I definitely don't want you to get into trouble. And by the way I love you too." Alyssa smiled up at him.

It seemed like he didn't have a choice, so he followed her. It was't like he had anything else to do. As she turned, Kennedy shrugged. More sandwiches for him. "What if I eat five?" he asked, curiously with a playful smirk. Would she mind then, eh? He tended to always be hungry, but that was because he was a growing boy. He needed lots of energy.

He momentarily paused when she asked if he played Quidditch, but then continued to move. "I, um, no...but I love watching it," he said. "But I do fly." He's never actually played the game, being that barely discovered Quidditch this term. He's read about it and watched it, but he hasn't had the opportunity to play it. He didn't even know you could play Quidditch on your own. How does that even work?

The boy had just finished his first sandwich when she asked for his name. Great, he forgot about introductions, again. He should just buy himself a tag that said, "Hello, my name is Kennedy". Problem solved. He placed the plate on the table and cleaned his hands on a napkin. "Kennedy...Kennedy Escalante. Yours?" he said, extending his hand to her.

Minerva watched as Alyssa ran to Aaron. She smiled happy for her friend. "WOOHOO ALYSSA" she managed to yell and then she heard Daichi say his head her. She put her hand on his shoulder. "I think you need to go back to bed. You don't want to be sick for the ride home." Minerva looked concerned for him and a little surprised. "Your half, but I thought. Oh forget what I thought." She caught the was for his mom. "I'm sorry did your mom pass.. umm sorry that is probably way to personal for someone you just started talking with."

As she took a second bite out of her sandwich, Sierra looked at the boy with one raised eyebrow. He wanted to eat five sandwiches?! That wasn't a growing boy--that was a growing mountain troll! "Erm, do you want to eat five sandwiches?" she asked. Or was just wondering what would happen if so? She shrugged. "I guess I wouldn't mind then either. I mean, you look..." She paused, grew slightly wide-eyed, then looked down at her sandwich. "...pretty fit for a...how old are you now?" He didn't look like he needed to stay away from five sandwiches.

"Oh," she said, when he admitted to not playing Quidditch. "You should." I mean, you eat six hundred sandwiches a day! She grew quiet as she ate a little more of her sandwich and finished the punch. She tossed her plate and cup into the bin and turned back to the boy. "Well, Kennedy, I'm Sierra," she said. She looked down at his hand. Hmm... He seemed harmless. She reached out and enclosed her tiny hand around his and gave it a shake.

Aaron burst out in laughter as some Slytherin he had NEVER seen asked him to stop shouting. 'I'm done anyway.' He said, making an odd sort of bow to the boy.
He felt gooood.

Aaron gave Alyssa the thumbs up, this was good right? For a second he thought he'd managed to do another thing wrong as he saw her cry. And laugh? He shook his head, he really needed to figure that stuff out some time soon.
'I'll get down in JUUUUUST a second,' Aaron said with a grin on his face. They were as far from winning the House Cup as Aaron was from being a genius, and he was probably going to get in trouble for climbing up on the table already, so this could hardly make it worse.
He glanced around the tent, it really would've looked better with Hufflepuff decorations..
'I know you lot won and all, but Hufflepuff is still the AWESOMEST HOUSE EVER. EVER.' He called out, it was true. To him, at least.. 'Just putting that out there. Now, by all means, carry on!'

With that he jumped off the table, making a weird stumble and falling over onto his face. Nice touch. He climbed up, rubbing his face of before hugging Alyssa.