Ahh! She was tug again. "Hey Ira," Glenn smiled. She worked out the calculations in her head, "18th of October," She murmered, (1+8)+8=17 1+7=8. She turned away from Ira and eyed the desks before deciding not to take a time out and went to a different side of the room. She was determined to tag someone.

By now, Ira was becoming a bit bore from this game.. She looked around and saw that not many students were playing the game in the center. So, deciding to take some rest, Ira eyed the sidelines. Yup, she would just while away he time there till professor proceeds with the lesson, she thought.

Thinking so, Ira skipped back to the desks and touched it, and stood there leaning against it, looking at others.

Usually he's alert, but when his brain felt all fuzzy and stuff...well, it took him more time to be aware of who was approaching him. Like now. Kennedy turned around just in time to be tagged by a young snake.

Hey, it was one of the helpers from Charms.

He grinned at him when...

...Another tag.

He laughed and nodded. Two to seal the tag, yes? "Okay, you got me," he said.

Brain switch: ON.

His person month number was five...to get to seven he needed...

....

... Twenty. So: (2+0) = 2. 2+5 = 7. Tah dah!

There, while the boy she herself had tagged 7 earlier was doing calculations, Ira left the desks and went near him and poked him. "Oops! Now you're number 8! Tag!" Saying so, she grinned at him. She was getting some fun by making people do some more maths!

It was tagging time...since he's already been tagged twice.

It wouldn't be much fun if he kept using desks as a refuge. Time to play...

...Then he was tagged again and by the same Gryffindor. Hehe, that was cute she remembered him, though she did tag him a minute ago. "Oh no!" he said in a dramatic voice. "More calculations it is," he laughed.

Okay....

....

He got this. 21. (2+1) = 3. 3+5 = 8.

Vashti had been quietly watching her fellow students participate in the activity, her hands on one of the desks so no one could catch her off-guard. After awhile though, she decided she had had enough of simply standing off to the side, so she checked her notes again to make sure of her number - which was a four - then lifted her hands from the top of the desk and made her way into the middle of the room.

Hmm... Who to tag?

Alyssa looked at everyone at her safe desk and realized that all of them were 8s. Weren't there any other left? 'Hahaha....looks like Professor Hadley is going to have to join us again and give us different numbers again.

Until then she hung out in the middle of the floor again, hoping that someone would come along that was not an 8 that she could tag.

Minerva took off to Vashti as soon as she came into the middle of the room. "Tag you are now an 8" Minerva giggled as she ran off. This was so much fun.

Aha! A new number had entered the mix! Kurumi pushed herself off the desk she had been leaning against, once again forgetting to tie her shoelace, and trotted over towards her Flying older sister. Vashti had helped her a lot her first year, too bad that it had now all gone to waste.

"Welcome to the....WOAH!"

Pesky shoe laces. Kurumi toppled over again in front of Vashti, face planted into the ground.

"I-I'm alright!"


Tag floor. You're an 8 this time.

It didn't take a lot of looking around for Vashti to spot her first victim someone who wasn't a 4. Coming up behind Alyssa, Vashti reached out her hand and tapped her on the shoulder. "Tag! You're a four now!" she said with a grin. She started to turn and head off in search of another person to tag...


...when Kurumi suddenly tripped right in front of her. Oh Merlin!

Kurumi said she was alright but... "You sure you're okay?" Vashti asked. That face plant hadn't looked very pleasant. Tripping

Oh. And... She reached one hand down to help her friend up, but used the other one to tap her arm. "Tag. You're a four now." She grinned.



But then, while she was waiting to help Kurumi up, she was suddenly tagged! Aw, Merlin. She grinned though then quickly set to work thinking of a day that would go with her Personal Month Number to add up to 8. If her month number was 5...

"October 3rd," Vashti said. Five plus three equaled eight. Simple. Hehe.

Ira was still looking around for some more fun, when suddenly someone fell down! Thud! Who was it? Ira turned and saw Kurumi. Down on the floor.

Ira hurried over to her. "Kurumi!" she asked, "How did you fall down? Are you hurt or something?" But she looked alright, but you never know! "Take my hand, get up! You can get up, right?" Ira was just a little scared. She actually didn't know what to do next! Should she call professor?

Zhenya had been tagged a 1, and her personal month number was a 2. So - what day would it be to give her the personal day number of 1?

8th of October - that would mean 2+8=10 and 1+0 is 1!!

She walked back in to the middle of the game and sneezed into her tissue.

Kurumi picked her face up off the floor and flashed Vashti a smile. "I'm sure," she nodded. This was the second time she had done this so far. She really should tie her shoe lace. Okay...so now what number was she?

"October 16," Kurumi said to herself. That would give her a Personal Day Number of 4 since she had started off with a 5.

Now with her new number, Kurumi giggled when Ira ran over to help her. "I'm perfectly fine," she laughed, pushing herself off the ground and dusting herself off a bit. She then glanced at Ira and a mischievous grin appeared on her lips.

"Thank you for your concern though," she said with a soft pat on the girl's shoulder. "And now you are a 4."

Alyssa quickly stepped up to Zhenya and tagged her despite the fact that she was sneezing. "TAG".....here's another tissue for you" Alyssa offered as she now stood in the middle to catch more non-8's

Oh? Is this what Ira got for being caring? More maths? Ira groaned, "Kurumi.. not fair!" she said in a dramatic voice and grinned at her

Anyways she started with her calculations. Personal month number was 7, so then she need6 to make it 13 which would equal 4. So 24th October would be perfect! 2+4 is 6, then 6+7 is 13. And then, 1+3 is 4! So there was her date!

So now she was a number 4. She needed to find people to tag!

Alyssa waited in the middle of the floor waiting to tag anyone who wasn't a non-8. She kept an eye on her safe zone but then noticed that her shoe lace was untied, so bent down to tie it again.

Zhenya took the tissue from Alyssa, "Thanks!" she said, smiling at her. She dabbed at her nose before working out what number it would be... So, personal month number of 1, and I need an 8? So the 7th! October 7th! She worked it out and was starting to walk back to her safe zone to put some cream on her lips.

"Tag!" Ira yelled in Alyssa's ears. "You're number 4!" she said excitedly, as she poked Alyssa's bent back!

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Sophie thought, almost kneeling down on the floor and throwing her arms up, looking up to face the ceiling. She just didn't do that because it would be too dramatic. But that was really what she felt like doing. "Not seven again!" she frowned. Oh well, onto the calculus.



Sophie walked to a desk to rest a little. And enjoy a bit more being a seven again... sigh.

Ira saw Sophie too wandering around. She decided that Sophie would be her next target.

"Enjoying being number 7?" Ira asked her, "Tag! Be a number 4 now!" Saying so, Ira skipped away from her to avoid being tagged by others!

"Whaaa.....I was tying my shoe lace...no fair."Alyssa smiled before accepting the fact that she had let her guard down and let someone else tag her instead. So she was a four.

Since her Personal Month Number was 7, she would pick the 15th

15 = 6
6+7 = 13
1+3= 4



Now that she was a 4, Alyssa decided that she might as well finish tying her shoe lace before going to the safe desk for the 4's

Glenn saw Kurumi getting up from the ground and tagging Ira, she noticed that she was a four, Glenn could tag her.

She skipped over and patted her lightly on the shoulder, "Tag!" She said, "You are now an eight." Glenn grinned mischievously, she remembered Kurumi from the Capture the Flags game.

Now that both her shoe laces were properly tied, Alyssa decided that she might as well stay in the middle and see whether she could tag any non-4's. There weren't many students left out there to tag but she was determined to at least get one of them.

Zhenya walked out into the middle of the room and poked Glenn - not a TAG poke, but a hello poke. Glenn was the same number as she was.

o__________O

No sooner was Kurumi up off the ground that another pair of hands found her and she turned around to see the persistent and dedicated little Hufflepuff who had chased her, Kennedy, and Adam down in Capture the Flag.

Thinking for a moment, Kurumi counted on her fingers, going down this time on the number scale to get a date that worked to give her an 8. "October....12," she smiled as she waved good bye to her 4 and became an 8 once more.


"Hello again, Glenn," she laughed, looking over her shoulder at the younger girl.

Kurumi then walked over to Alyssa and.... *POKE*