''Yeah their lovely,They were in Ravenclaw and Gryffindor.''I was extremely happy when I got my letter.''

"Well I'd like to meet them one day" she said smiling. She was nervous to eventually meet Ryan's father, but she did want to meet his family eventually. "At first my aunt was going to make me to go Beauxbatons, she's still trying to get me to switch schools"

''They'll be happy to meet you one day as well.''Well put it this way if you move schools I would be devestated.''

Jonathan looked at Kurumi's hand pointing. GUILTY! He got caught trying to act like he knows about airplanes. He just thought he could get away with it. Kurumi must be annoyed he barely knows about muggle stuffs. It sometimes depresses him to. To actually not have any ideas of their world. "Okay... so maybe i'm clueless about it" he said grabbing her finger. He's pretty much new to these stuffs. WAIT! "you'e father's not coming with you to Japan?" does he work around Diagon Alley or maybe in the Ministry? If so, then he probably has met his father.

It'll be his first time riding this so-called airplane. How does it fly without the levitation spell anyway? Just when he was about to ask Kurumi on that she suddenly mentioned something that made his jaw dropped...

NO MAGIC???

Jonathan lived his whole life depending on magic. "S-sso uhmmm... does this mean magic prohibited?" or it could be that magic is blocked in that area? Jonathan just wants to make sure so that he could be ready. He should also bring muggle paper money right?

Jez marched into the Room of Requirement with her whole being filled with anger. She had requested the same thing as the last time she'd visited this place - I need a place to vent my emotions without hurting anyone. She pointed her wand at one of the same Death Eater-like dummies she'd destroyed before. "Confringo!" The dummy sprang to life as the spell hit it, and advanced towards Jez, one arm outstretched like it was accusing her of something terrible. "I didn't do it!" Jez found herself screaming. "Keegan did! Keegan killed her!" Her older brother ... her idolised, adored older brother had murdered his girlfriend Jaime in cold blood, and then disappeared off the face of the Earth. Jez didn't know where he was, what he was doing, or even if he was still alive ...
She screamed again, shooting spells at the dummy. "Everte Statum! Confringo! Bombarda!" The spells missed the first dummy and hit others. They all stood and advanced on Jez, all pointing accusingly. Jez stumbled backwards, wand still pointing at the dummy army. "Go on!" she screamed like a mad person. "Fight me! I dare you!" I dare you ... a game she and Keegan had played that usually resulted in nasty accidents. Thinking of Keegan only made Jez angrier. "Argh!" she screamed, and started duelling with the enchanted dummies.

"Don't worry, I'm not switching schools" she smiled. She couldn't she had made too many friends here, and Ryan was too important to her.

Kurumi laughed a light pixie laugh when Jonathan admitted to knowing nothing about the world she came from. "That's nothing to be ashamed of," she smiled, playing with his hair a little. She really was glad that he changed it back. The color suited him much better and brought out the chocolate color of his eyes. She paused for a moment, blushing when she realized how close they were again, but it was comfortable. They were sharing an interesting conversation and making plans for the summer. What wasn't to like? "Father will just be spending a small amount of time here in the summer. He went back to work for the Japanese Ministry, but they send him to London on ambassador assignments every now and again."

She nodded. "I-I-If that makes you not want to come, I understand. I know you feel awkward in the world I came from, I wouldn't want to make you do something you don't want to..." Although she would really love to show him that it really isn't that scary a place.

True but sometimes he just can't seem to get it. The muggle world fascinates him on so many levels. He has been there once in France. His mother needed to shop for his father's birthday and it seems that she can't find what she's looking for in the Wizarding world. It was fun actually. Roaming around their streets; acting like you're one of them; using paper money. It was different. VERY different.

So her father is back to serve the Japanese Ministry. His father should do the same. Although, his father preferred a more different ambiance? "Ohhh. Okay." Jonathan nodded. London and Japan seemed to be Kurumi's home. at least she has someone to stay in when she's in London.

Jonathan shook his head. "I'm just asking that's all... Curious" he smiled. But that doesn't mean he'll have to cancel it. Besides, Jonathan likes to try out new things. Maybe this will be his first summer without magic. "Just another thought..." he thought of something. "...Okay, this will be the worst case scenario... I'm just crossing my fingers that it won't come true but..." the idea just came up to mind "What if my father tells me to bring Nobi?" he cracked a smile. It was too amusing but of course at the same time alarming. What if it did happen? He can't bring his silly house elf now. It will freak out everyone and it's definitely disturbing.

Kurumi smiled and returned her hand to her lap. Jonathan seemed to have gotten over her playing with his hair and didn't seem to mind, just like she didn't mind when he played with her hair. But, that was getting a bit beside the point right now. "Father is from London, so it is kind of his first home. He can't stay away from it for too long," she nodded. It was starting to become one for her as well, it was more of a home than Japan had been to her at least.

The tension in her body eased a bit when he said that it didn't bother him. "Oh, good," she chirped. "I know some people who have been afraid to come visit because they wouldn't be able to use magic." So it really meant a lot to her that he was stilling willing to come. The smile on his face was...an interesting one. It was the sort of smug smile he got when he was about to reveal something or when he had something that he wanted to tease her about. Her ears perked a bit and her gaze locked on his. "Nobi? Who is Nobi?"

Nate had snuck into the room behind Jez, and it was a firefight within seconds. "Jez!" he yelled as he sprang to her side, careful to stay out of her firing line. "There are too many of them for just you!" he said, pulling his wand and circling around, wondering why he hadn't bothered to learn many dueling spells. "Bombarda!" he said, aiming for the dummy closest Jez. It splintered violently, but Nate couldn't worry about that, there were spells being shot. "Expelliarmus! Flippendo! Petrificus Totalus!" Nate knew that the full body bind was a long shot, and he was right. The dummies had no real body to bind. Then Nate thought of transfiguration. "Incarcerous!" he said, waving his wand over three of the dummies in front of him, binding them together helplessly. "Is this what you do in your spare time?!" he asked incredulously to Jez.

Maybe they should migrate to London then? Nah, perhaps that idea will just make her mother furious after all it's true what they say 'there's no place like home'. Jonathan may sometimes feels suffocated when he's back from Hogwarts but there's always that spark that whatever he does, he'll always be never sick of home. Probably one of the reasons why he never really got to stay comfortable when he was staying at the Takahashis for the summer break. The house was the best but Jonathan misses his bed and other stuffs. "Does your father have a house around London then?" or maybe he stays in an inn.

So it's official, he won't be able to use magic. This should definitely be a first to him. Jonathan had mental image of himself helping around without a flick of a wand. That will be hard since he doesn't do chores. Jonathan just smiled. Oh, it will be a joy. Kurumi will definitely laugh at him if he tried helping out around the house.

Blink.

Hasn't Jonathan ever mentioned to her that Nobi is the Kim's house elf? Jonathan couldn't seem to remember or probably he just thought he told her when he never did. Jonathan smiled as he looked at her "Nobi?" he repeated. "She's my other girlfriend" he teased. He wanted to look serious but he couldn't. It was too amusing. "Nobi is our house elf." he started to laugh.

"He used to have a flat when he was working for the Daily Prophet, but he sold that when the Japanese Ministry asked him to come back," she explained. "It was a nice place, right across from Ollivanders actually, so I got to watch all the incoming students flood in and out of the shop from the window." She missed those days already. Spending a full 24 hours of her summer in the magical world. It had been an entirely new experience for her, feeling free when she was away from school. Something she was really going to miss this summer. "If he stays, it will be at the Leaky Cauldron I think."

Her heart stopped and all color left her face. Yep, even her hair flashed a momentary white when Jonathan's joke hit and if it hadn't been for the slight appearance of a dimple on his left cheek, Kurumi might have believed him. Her breath was stuck in her throat and her mouth hung open like a fish. She was about to hit his arm, playfully mind you, but all anger and shock was gone when he mentioned the magic word. "YOU HAVE A HOUSE ELF?!" Her hands reached for his now and she held them up to her chest, bouncing in her seat with a smile a mile wide on her face.

"No!" growled Jez, shooting down another dummy. "But a girl's gotta vent her feelings somehow, and I've never been one to keep a diary, okay?" She was still angry, but it somehow felt good to fight. It was better than sitting around wondering. She pointed her wand at the dummies Nate had bound together. "Bombarda Maxima!" The dummies simultaneously combusted like firecrackers, showering Jez and Nate in sparks. Jez whirled around and attacked another dummy, but tripped and found herself on her back in front of it. It reached out its hand, and Jez knew what was coming. She screamed before the red sparks flew from its fingers and burnt her left arm. Exactly the same place as last time, although this one was bigger. Jez winced in pain, pointing her wand at the dummy. "Bombarda!" she shouted, and it exploded. Bombarda would become her signature move if she wasn't careful.

Leaky Cauldron. Right. They're quite famous for their inn. Although Jonathan doesn't know anyone who lives up there but he did see the memo about it during one time he came to eat. It's not too expensive too, which is great if you're working in the ministry. It's an easy access to the muggle world too. Ohhh, thinking about Leaky Cauldron just made Jonathan hungry. Their fish chips are the best and the salad as well, with the pumpkin juice. It's to die for. "I've guessed that he is staying there" which a lot of wizards and witches does. It's a nice place to be staying in.

Whoah!

Did Jonathan just scared Kurumi? Looking at her right now, she seemed like she just saw a ghost or something. He was kidding and she should be aware that Jonathan's favorite thing to do is to tease around. Or maybe that was too much? Jonathan was about to further explain it when she suddenly acted surprise about having a house elf. Plus, she grabbed his arm and he felt her heartbeat. Jonathan looked worried but at the same time he can't get rid the smirk on his face. It was for pure fun only. He didn't mean to.

Jonathan nodded "yeah a house elf." it was normal to have a house elf right? Most of the Slytherins have house elves. "why?" he asked.

"The Leaky Cauldron is alright," she nodded. "The current owner kind of scares me though. He is always wrinkling his nose whenever he sees me." Or any young person for that matter. He just seemed to hate anyone who was young. It was weird.

The smirk on Jonathan's face drove her up the wall and now she wanted to pinch his cheeks, but thoughts about house elves were swimming around now and she was easily distracted. "I would love to meet them!" she chirped as she continued to bounce. She probably would either bounce onto him, or fall off the bench at this rate. Granted, she didn't entirely understand the purpose of OWNING a house elf. They were not things to own now were they? "What is Nobi like? Does she have a favorite thing? How long have you had her?" Kurumi had about a billion questions she wanted to ask Jonathan, but her bouncing was leaving her somewhat short of breath.

Slow down Kurumi. One question at a time.

Jonathan hasn't seen someone go crazy over house elves but he knew someone that shared her opinions about house elves and Slytherins. Not that it really mattered to Jonathan but it's completely stereotyping them. Okay, not the point...

Anyways, "Nobi is a HE. I just said 'she' because it fits the sentence." if he would have said 'he' in the first place, then Kurumi wouldn't have gone pale and looked like she saw a ghost. Now that he thinks about it he should have used that pronoun earlier. And now onto the questions:

What is Nobi like? Jonathan thought deep and hard "Like any house elf i suppose" he said. Well, they are all the same right? "loyal, helpful, accommodating" Kurumi knows a lot about house elves. How long have you had her? Jonathan shrugged her shoulders "We've had him since... forever" Jonathan smiled. Well, he's not too keen on details about Nobi but he knows that he has served the Kim's family for a long time. And who knows how long is it, Jonathan doesn't really know.

"Although, Nobi is always with mother. Father goes to work a lot." he added. Nobi always helped his mother shopped, maybe cook around the house. "And of course, Nobi is mine when i go back" he grinned. Nobi was more of a friend to him rather than a slave or whatever it is some people call them. When Jonathan had no friends, he usually played with him.

A HE? Now Kurumi was really arching an eyebrow. Had he kept it that way she would have been even more confused. "That was mean, to the elf I mean," she teased, playfully shoving his arm. All was forgiven, not that she was even mad to begin with, but just in case he was worried. She would just have to stay on her toes a bit more, be ready for Jonathan to spring an attack on her at any moment. Maybe someday she would be able to play back, but for now she was just an innocent victim. He probably liked it better that way anyway. Tehe.

Kurumi's heart raced a bit when he talked about his house elf. Oh, Jonathan was a friend of house elves too! She started to like him even more now and her bouncing showed that. In fact, she was now so excited that she DID bounce right onto his lap and give him a hug. Really, a discussion about any magical creature would have produced the same results, but she was especially sensitive to house elves this term. "So, pretty much all your life then?" she asked, sitting on Jonathan's lap, and looking very pleased with her newest discovery about Jonathan.

Nate helped Jez up. "You ought to watch how much you use Bombarda. You'll get predictable," he said, twirling around and ending up back to back with Jez. "Incendio!" he said, and the dummy in front of him burst into flames. "Flippendo!" he added, knocking the flaming dummy backwards into the swarm, more to inevitably catch fire. The adrenaline was incredible: Nate had never felt anything like it. "Reducto!" he shouted, a smile creeping along his face as the victimized dummy slowly crumbled to dust before his eyes. "Thisnis great, can we do this more often?!" Nate called over his shoulder excitedly to Jez.

William wandered into the Room of Requirement. To his surprise, there were a lot of people in here, many more than he had expected to find. The room was getting really warm from all the body heat.

Instinctively he reached into the pocket of his robe and brought out his egg Mischievous. He was not surprised to find that Mischievous was hot. In fact the egg was sweaty, so warm that it was actually making his hand sweat to touch it. His hand was so sweaty that Mischievous was beginning to stick to it, and he knew that this was not a good thing. He was going to have to cool the egg off quickly or there would be a problem.

William reached for his wand and then pointed it at the egg, which he had set down on the floor at this point. "Argentum Frigidus" he said, swishing his wand and tapping it lightly against the egg at the same time as he uttered the incantation as he had been taught in Charms class.

William saw that the egg had cooled down and he reached to put it back into his pocket. Mischievous gave a little skip but then allowed William to pick it up and return it to its home, the pocket of his robe. William wasn't going to come here again, at least not while he was taking care of this egg. He didn't want to risk Mischievous overheating like that again.

''Thankyou.''He said hugging her.''[COLOR="Red"]My parents always wanted me at Hogwarts.''[/COLOR]They didn't really care where he went as long as he was away.

"Well since my uncle works on the board of governors for Hogwarts, he wanted me to come here. But my aunt seems to think Beauxbatons is a better school. I always wanted to come here though" she explained. Truthfully she loved it here. There had been a few bad times here, but there have been some great times also to make up for the few bad ones.

"Yeah, whenever you want to fight, let me know," said Jez dryly. It really did feel like a real fight, and for some reason, that felt good. Productive. Big adrenaline rush. Whatever you want to call it. "You're right, though," Jez called over her shoulder to Nate. "I am getting predictable. We can't have that!" She pointed her wand at the advancing dummy before her. "Levicorpus! Incendio!" The dummy was hoisted into the air by one foot, and burst into flame until it fell to the floor as a pile of ash. "Avifors," said Jez, smiling slightly as the ash turned into a bird which flew to the top of a bookshelf and sat glaring at her and Nate. Out of the corner of her eye she saw sparks fly from a dummy near Nate. She knew better than anyone that getting burned by those sparks wasn't a tickle. "Protego!" she shouted. "Don't let those sparks burn you, okay? They really hurt." Understatement. Jez turned her wand on another dummy. "Incendio!"

Caroline's mind started to wonder a bit. She had started thinking about what icing she was going to make fo r Kita's cake, of course it had to be chocolate. The cake was already chocolate but chocolate was great but it could always use a little twist. Chocolate peanut butter? Chocolate mint? White chocolate? The ideas were endless, and forming in her mind until she heard Carters voice.

"huh?" She glanced over at him "Oh, yeah! I did. I guess the summer working with the Sunrays paid off. Tutshill is looking for a healer. And I guess they want me." She was suprised that she had gotten a letter from them, or anyone really. She had even taken her NEWTs yet or even done with school and they were sending her a letter. "Yeah, it was a surprise when it came."

She smiled "Yeah I'm glad that everything worked itself out with dad." It was hard to believe that this time last year she was in Italy looking for him.

There it should be cooled down enough to eat now..... maybe.

Well look at Carter being all grown up and almost famous. She laughed. Maybe it was just the cost of growing up she was going to add to that but she didn't. "How's Anya?" And when she asked about her, she also meant was she talking to him again after him being a jerk to her over the summer

"Asher told me that you're sending him tickets for his birthdy." He was so excited, Kita had gotten him an owl, and Caroline had gotten him some books. So yeah did wasn't going to let her live that down.

"Either did I." And she didn't like it at all. Kita was the opticmistic one. She never seen the bad in anything. She had been what had kept her coming through the whole mess this term. So she thought it was her turn to be the one doing the cheering up. "Yeah. I don't know why she was great." She frowned slightly. A sad down in the dumps Kita was not the Kita she liked.

She smiled. "I think that its ready now." As she popped the cheesecake out of the pan.

"That's right I am telling you no. I know that evil grin of yours and before those thoughts can even be finished I say no."
*Tickling her sides a little he laughed. It hit him then that he was the only person Marie would listen to when the word no came into play.*
"It feels like it's been ages since I last said it but I love you..."
*He whispered in her ear.*

Marie crossed her arms and sat there like she was pouting. "But.. how can you say no if you don't even know what I was thinking?" Heck, she didn't even know what she was thinking. Well she knew but that didn't mean she knew what exact silly thing she was going to try to get him to do.

Okay... tickling meant she couldn't sit there and pout anymore, no matter how hard she tried. "No fair... I wasn't done pouting yet." No, she wanted to see if she could pout enough to make him change his mind and tell her yes.

Putting her arms back around him she put her head back on his shoulder. "I love you too... even if you are telling me no for something I haven't even asked yet." How could she not love him. He was the best thing that has ever happened to her.