Oakey came back from the Hospital Wing tired and empty. Glad to see that someone had cleaned up the candy mess that came from his mouth. He was going to head to the boys dorm in a moment but he wanted to sit by the fire first.

Salima walked into the common room after the Quidditch tryouts, and slumped herself into one of the chairs near the fire. 'Well' She said to herself 'Wasn't that fun'.

[QUOTE=Bazinga;10862570] " Well, I can bring you to the Healers if ya want. Or you can cuddle up to me and talk to me about anything. It's not like you didn't tell me what happened. I'm your best friend and will always be here to support you....No matter what ,when or why.When was the last time you owled your Mum? " Justin asked. " Maybe at moments like this you should write her a letter. " he suggested.


OCC: Different time line

" No there's no problem..... It's just that I wanted to say that I think you're real pretty. And if I were Aaron I'd be kicking myself in the rearend for letting a nice girl like you slip through my fingers." Justin said as he blushed a little.

[QUOTE=Devina Wellheart;10863882] Minerva shook her head "I just don't want to talk with any of the teachers. I don't want to tell anyone. I am going to see if there are any potions to help when I make it to the lab. I know I have you and Ame to talk to and well I thought Harvey, but I just don't know anymore. I'm just so confused on everything right now. I don't know what to think." she took a drink of her D.Coke . "I message my mom the other day."

[QUOTE=Bazinga;10863974] " Ya know I broke it off with , Ame for good . I just couldn't get this other girl outta my head. " Justin said as he pulled Minerva closer to him. " It's good to keep close corrospondence with your Mum." Justin was becoming more and more nervous and felt his chest beatung faster and faster.

Siobian looked over at the girl and put her sheet music down, She knew a dissapointed look when she saw one. "Hey, you okay?" Siobian sat next to the girl. Not wanting to be rude she added, "Siobian Hall," She smiled putting her hand out, "Sixth Year."

[QUOTE=Devina Wellheart;10864015] Minerva looked horrified. "You what? Is it because of Alyssa?" Minerva wondered where Ame was and how she was doing. She hated this term, she hated all the drama and all the problems going on.

Isobel was completely absorbed in her own world of writing; a completely fictional world of her own. So absorbed, in fact, that when she heard a voice she jumped and dropped her journal on the floor. Thankfully, the cover was closed when it landed. Isobel smiled sheepishly as she bent down to pick it up, and then looked around for the source of the voice.

"Damien!" That was her very first instinct when she saw who it was. Isobel blushed for a second then jumped up threw her arms around his neck; giving him a big hug. That resulted in her dropping her journal again; and it landed with a thud on the floor of the common room...again. But Isobel did not care. She had not seen Damien all summer; and she had missed him! She might have hugged him like that anyway, but oh well. He was her boyfriend.

Isobel released Damien and a slight blush crept onto her cheeks. She grinned at him. "How have you been? How was your summer?" Isobel's mind jumped to food as she realized that she was hungry, and she wondered why she was so hyper all of a sudden. She tried to make herself focus on Damien. It was not that hard.

Ella settled down in the common room with her quill and parchment, eager to write to her folks about everything that had happened so far. It had only been a short time and she already felt at home in her house. She loved the warm and welcoming feeling she got each and every time she entered this place. Despite how great things were, she couldn't help wondering what was going on back home and was feeling a bit homesick. Dear Mom and Dad, Hogwarts is amazing! She wished she could find a more powerful word to describe Hogwarts. I'm meeting new people all the time but am still missing you Her small hands began to tremble as she tried to write the next word. Ella felt her eyes begin to fill with tears. She didn't want to cry in front of her housemates but it was no use trying to stop the flow.

It never failed. The light from Isobel's smile always made him feel better about whatever crud was going on in his life -- even if it seemed like it was out of some horror novel, it made no difference. She always made him feel better. He was about to acknowledge the fallen journal, but before he could get a word out, her arms were wrapped around him, and he could smell the sweetness of her hair, her clothes -- it permeated his senses, sending his mind into a whirlwind of emotions. His arms instictively wrapped around her as he burried his face in the crook of her neck, kissing that spot once, twice and then a third time.

How he loved this girl.

The colour of her cheeks didn't go unnoticed -- that sight was something else to send his mind reeling, but he brought himself back down to Earth so he could respond.

"I'm doing alright," he said, truthfully. "A little tired, but other than that I'm well." His accent flowed freely now; he didn't even attempt to hide it anymore, though it still bothered him to hear the sound of it. "Summer?" he continued. "It wasn't all that eventful. Spent most of it in a room at the Leaky Cauldron, but I went home to Ireland for a bit."

Not the brightest idea.

"How was your summer?" he asked, then indicating the journal. "Might want to pick that up, don't you think? Aren't journals the most private source for all things 'girl'?" he added with a smirk.

Ah. His accent. Isobel really loved his accent, it was just super awesome. She wished she had an accent. Actually, she did, but it did not sound much like an accent to her because it was just how she talked. It was mostly French with a little bit of English. To her, everyone else had an accent but her, because everyone else had a purely English accent. Except Damien; his was Irish and awesome, and made her melt; just like everything else about him. Anything that made her stressed instantly disappeared when she was with him. She had discovered that last year with the threat of her OWLs; but those were over and she was now a sixth year and had a year to relax before the dreaded NEWTs. If she was there that long.

"My summer was way more boring than yours." She meant for it to come out teasingly, but her voice sounded sadder than she had intended. Isobel frowned slightly and hoped Damien would not notice. "I stayed in London with my family all summer." She actually had not interacted with her family all that much, just wandered around their neighborhood.

Isobel had no idea what he was talking about for a split second until she remembered her journal. Oh right; it was on the ground. "I guess so," she said with a small smile and a shrug as she bent to pick it up. Truthfully; hers was not all that private. It did not really contain her inner thoughts and feelings. No, that was wrong. It contained everything she had ever felt inside, but it never said anything outright. She had intertwined her feelings withing characters and plots and seemingly random quotes and rambles. She was not particularly worried about it being stolen right in the middle of the Hufflepuff common room. No one would understand it anyway, except maybe Maybelle and Damien, because they knew her so well. But she did not care if either of them knew her inner feelings, especially not Damien.

Arms still around her, Damien listened to a rather lackluster explanation of her summer and what had happened. He thought he was a man of few words, but sometimes Isobel would give him a run for his money. He tilted his head to the side slightly, a questioning look on his face. "You don't sound as if you've had the greatest summer, either," he commented. "Did something happen at home? Or nothing, but you wished something would have happened?"

He remembered a conversation they'd had last term, in which it was thought Isobel wouldn't return to Hogwarts to finish out her Magical Schooling. It nearly took the life out of Damien and he thought one of the reasons was because of him. Isobel, however, assured him it had nothing to do with their relationship or him being a -- shall we say lazy boyfriend?

Perhaps those thoughts had returned.

"Well..." Isobel trailed off. She was not really very comfortable sharing her feelings with other people. But this was Damien so it was okay. "I did not go to France, which is something I have done every summer for my entire life." Actually, it used to be during the school year, but that was beside the point. "I-I don't know why I stayed home when I wanted to go to France so badly." She did, though. Deep down, Isobel knew why she had stayed home. That would take some prompting though, and if anyone could get her to reveal something that she was denying from herself it would be Damien.

Isobel was getting all sad now. Why was that always the case when she talked to Damien. It was probably because she felt that she could talk to him about anything. Anything including things that were making her sad. At the same time, it made her less sad to talk about them than to keep those feelings locked up inside her. So it was really a good thing.

"I'll be right back." Isobel shrugged Damien's arm off of her and ran upstairs to her dormitory with her journal in her hand. She threw her journal onto her bed and grabbed Roza from where she was laying on Isobel's pillow. She was so tiny that it took Isobel a few seconds to find her, but not too long because Roza was always in the same place.

When Isobel got back to the common room she found Damien standing right where she had left him. Isobel stowed Roza in her pocket so she would not get stepped on and she took Damien's hand. "We should go somewhere; do something interesting." Talk about happy things.

All he could do was listen. He wasn't sure how to respond to her explanations. He knew she spent a lot of time in France, but was never clear on the differences between France and London. It appeared that she was getting upset, and Damien hated the fact that it was probably his questions that were making her so. Even though Isobel was always a generally happy, bubbly girl; when it came to talking things of the serious matter, she always tended to avoid them.

Not that he could blame her. Damien never talked about anything serious with Isobel. Not that he could reember anyway -- the most serious thing he'd ever discussed with her was probably when he declared his feelings for her.

She excused herself then and ran up the staircases in the direction of the girls dormitory. His messenger bag was still hung over his shoulder, and he shifted over a little bit to allow his hands to slip back into the pockets of his leather jacket. The black wristband moved up slightly, but he'd remember to move it back down when he took his hands back out. The scar was the biggest mystery of all time, and he didn't want anyone to see it. Especially Isobel.

She bounded back down in no time and stuck something small into her pocket. Before he could ask what, she was asking him to go somewhere. To do something (and obviously avoid certain topics).

He couldn't help but smile down to her, and he kissed her forehead. "Anything for you," he said, giving her cheek a soft kiss, making a mental note to ask her about this again. "Where would you like to go?"

[QUOTE=Bazinga;10864085] " I had to Minnie.....For some reason every time we got close I felt this rage build up in me and well....... You're the only one I can get close to without that happening." Justin said as he looked at her with his deep blue eyes. Inside he was a wreck. He hoped that she knew him well enough to understand what he was getting at. then he got up to look out the window. " Now Ame thinks I was using her or whatever and that's not it at all.....Oh, I don't know..."

[QUOTE=Devina Wellheart;10864319] Minerva felt horrible she was so caught up in her own drama that she had been forgetting her friends. "Justin she wouldn't think your using her." would she? she thought to herself. "Justin why is that, that I'm the only one you can talk with and calm down with?" she didn't understand why he couldn't with Ame they always seemed to be so right for each other. She wasn't sure whether to get up or leave him to his own personal space so she decided to just sit and see.

[QUOTE=Bazinga;10864342] Justinwa still looking out the window as he listened to Minerva. When she asked him why it was that she was the only one he felt calm with, he turned and walked back to the couch where she was sitting and knelt down in front of her. He looked deep into her eyes for a moment before he spoke., then let out a long sigh and said, " Because , Minerva....I've always been drawn to you. Since we met last term at the beginning of the term feast....but then you were Harvey and....." Justin trailed off and starred at the floor.

Siobian looked to her, she felt sorry for the younger girl and walked up to her, "Hi," She smiled kindly, trying to hide her normal shyness, "Are you alright?" She took the seat next to her

[QUOTE=Devina Wellheart;10864358] Minerva looked into his eyes, she never noticed how blue they were. Her head was filling with confusion at everything that had been going on. She felt the anxiety coming back. Was it time for her medicine she didn't think it was time yet. She shook it off and tried to listen to him. Had he liked her? So this was her fault, Ame had every right to be upset with her didn't she. "Justin you love Ame, don't you?" he had to, he always had. They were always together no matter what happened.

[QUOTE=Bazinga;10864403] Justin put his hand on the bag that contained her medicine and said, " It's not time for it. That's what I'm here for....You don't need it. You've got me. "
He had just blurted it all over the place. Then he shook his head and thought for a moment. He looked back at her and answered the questions she had asked. " Of course, I loved her, but I'm starting to realise that I was much too young to actually have that feeling last a lifetime. I do still care very deeply for Ame. It would desperately hurt me if we didn't remain friends. And None of this is your fault.....It's mine." Justin was so ashamed that he had taken things so far with Amethyst. " I don't know if I should......" As he said the last sentence he leaned over and pressed his lips against Minerva's. He held himself there for a second and then backed away in disbelief. Had he just kissed his best friend? He had and even though it was only a flitting moment it felt glorious.

Alyssa wearily walked into the Common Room. She just wished that she had a time turner so that she could turn back time and redo what had happened earlier at the feast. She was still worried about Oakey, so when she saw him sitting at the fire place, she quickly walked over to him."Uh hi there Oakey. I just wanted to say sorry for everything. I hope that you will forgive me."


ooc: Different timeline.


Alyssa blushed when she heard Justin tell her that she was pretty. 'Why is he telling me this. Isn't he with Amethyst,'Alyssa thought to herself. "Uh! Thanks for the compliment, Justin. As for Aaron, well he had his reasons and I really don't want to talk about it if you don't mind." Alyssa gave him a smile.



Alyssa had walked back into the common room and she got the biggest shock of her life when she saw Justin kissing Minerva. 'What is going on here? First he's with Amethyst. Then he says that I'm pretty and now he's kissing Minerva?' Alyssa thought to herself. Here she was actually thinking that Justin was a nice guy and now she's seeing his best friend's girl friend? Alyssa just turned and walked away in the opposite direction.

It's Okay. was it really? Oakey felt like he was lying to himself. He had made Alyssa cry, and could have possibly gotten two first years in trouble, for eating to much at the Feast. He had considered personally going to Hadley and beg her for a point reduction on him. What he did was stupid and foolish and Evil Nurse their School Healer was right. He did it to impress a girl, a girl who ended up crying over the entire event.

I should be the one to apologize He said shortly after. I'm a fool who leaps before he jumps. he looked intently into the fire for a moment. I didn't mean to make you cry. How are you doing now?

Alyssa smiled at him. "Don't beat yourself over this, Oakey. It was my fault that got me into trouble. Not you. I'm just scared about the punishment but it's not like I'm going to Azkaban or anything, so I think I'll be okay. I'm just worried that you won't want to be my friend any more." Alyssa looked at him blushing.

Then she quickly decided to change the subject. "Uh! Oakey, I know that it's traditionally the guy who asks the girl but I know that if I wait too long someone else might ask you, so I was wondering there's the Muggle Dinner Etiquette Class coming up and a big Millenium Celebration Ball as well, and uh...if you weren't going with anybody, erm....would...would...would..you go...go...with me? I just don't want to go alone. You don't have to say yes if you don't want to or if you already have somebody else you'd rather take."Alyssa stammered out the question, now blushing a beet red and wishing that she hadn't asked the question.

Justin looked up just in time to see Alyssa walk in . He saw the hurt in her eyes as she saw Minnie and him kiss. Then she turned to leave and he felt bad. He really did like her....But he liked Minnie as well. Maybe he should spend time with both and let time decide what would happen next.....

Salima looked over at the girl called Siobian and shook her hand. 'HI Siobian' She said 'I'm Salima. No everything is fine. Just came back from Quidditch tryouts. Thanks anyway. And how about you?' Salima smiled at Siobian