Violet was already confused when the boy explained the game to her, but she tried her best to go along with him. She nodded at him to let him know she sort of understood. "Sounds like fun!" She sat down quickly and inspected the board. Indeed there were man stop signs marked with red, but overall the game did not look to hard to follow. "So I just have to spin the spinner to move my piece right? Sounds pretty easy." She smiled at the guy and pushed the moving pieces to him. "How about you go first, and I'll watch how you do it."

Alyssa started giggling again when she saw that Keefer had landed on a spot than brought him...waaaaayyyyy down to 24. "Yay!....ooops I mean. I'm sorry. Oh that's too bad. Well you'll catch up again."She tried to keep a straight face as she spun the arrow quickly. "Come On....I need just 1...give me 1....Shoot!! 5. A 1 would have brought me up to 67 but I'll take 54. It's definitely better than 24."Alyssa quickly hid her smile as she moved her marker forward.

For ze lovely Roxy. <3
 

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Again- everyone was making such a big fuss about the Magic Free Fun Zone that Gwendolyn finally decided to check out what was going on there. After all, last time she’d been there, she and Tayla came up with the great idea. Maybe something good will happen this time as well. As the door opened, the third year stepped in and looked around. It seemed that everyone already started playing some game but for… Lewis.

Maybe it wouldn’t be the best idea to blame him for the spell…, the girl thought and tried hiding her awful new blue hair strikes. Maybe it would be best not to admit that it FAILED. ‘Hello’, Gwendolyn waved and approached the place where he was standing. Nope… I should definitely blame him for this, the third year changed her mind again. If it weren't for him she'd have no sign of blue in her hair...

As her eyes feel on the game boxes, Gwendolyn couldn’t remember having heard of any of those. ‘I don’t think I ever played a muggle game’, the girl admitted.

Monopoly? That...didn't even make sense. Was this some kind of economics-game? Was there a game called Oligopoly too? Muggles definitely had weird names for the board games. Also Clue was kind of a lame name, wasn't it? This Jenga game looked pretty interesting. Where there-

His train of thought was however interrupted by somebody talking to him. Quite suddenly too. Hence why he jumped just a little as he looked around to see who it was. Oh. Gwen. "Hey!" He had in fact noticed the blue strands of her hair but didn't really think much of it. He had long ago stopped wondering about fashion trends. Actually, now that he got to think of it, he was pretty surprised he HAD even noticed the difference. He usually wasn't really that observant.

"Me either." Lewis replied with a small shrug, his eyes back on the games in front of them. Hang on, they could totally play one together! That would be nice. Hopefully. "Soo, erm-" That sounded like a good start. "Do you WANT to play one?" Just you know, hypothetically speaking. Cough.

Completely ignoring Lewis’ small jump, the third year came closer and eyed the boxes. Hmm. After all, she would probably never be able to start talking to Lewis without scaring him at first.

As she bowed her head to take a closer look at the game boxes, that blue part of her hair fell on her shoulders, making it visible. Too visible. Right. So trying to hide it was of no good… ‘Your spell didn’t work’, the third year said curtly, still glimpsing at the boxes. Anyway… she hadn’t decided yet if she should blame him for this disaster or not.

Play a game. Wasn’t that why she was there?! ‘Yes. Sure’, the third year said, making an effort to actually smile. ‘Which one do you want to play?’ Honestly. She knew nothing about muggle board games, so he had better pick one. ‘Shoots n Ladders?’, Gwenolyn mumbled as she came across that game. Psh. What kind of a name was that? Pam pam pam… what else was there? Monopoly… Twister… Scrabble…, they all sounded totally unfamiliar to her.

Leslie <3
 

So a game of twister eh? Oliver always liked playing party games and Twister was one of his favourites. He sauntered down to the first floor where Gemma hung out and found the place that she had directed him to easily enough and slipped quietly inside the door.

There were already a few students there and he nodded his head at them in way of greeting. Now where was his Twister partner?

Twister. That sounded like fun. Assuming they wouldn't have to conjure up an actual twister. No, they couldn't do that. Plus how would it be a board game then?! And no, this was a magic-free zone so- "Hmm?" His green eyes darted back up to her face when he heard what she'd just said. "The spell didn't...but why?" His face had fallen into a frown while his lips had formed a small pout, making him look a little like a lost puppy. It had definitely been the right spell!

YAY! She was going to play a game with him. "I...don't know?" Lewis shrugged, glancing down at all the board games. He wasn't used to being in charge. Not even when it came to picking out board games. "Twister...?" He finally muttered more to himself than to her, as if to give her the option of pretending not to have heard it in case she didn't like his suggestion. He ran his hand over the box for a moment, trying to make out what they were going to have to do.

Somehow, Gwendolyn started feeling bad that she told him about the failed spell. And the puppy eyes managed to make her feel even worse. Trying to avoid his eyes, the third year pretended to check out the games again. Really. She could have just shut up and avoid being an awful person when it wasn’t the case. ‘I don’t know…’, the young Ravenclaw mumbled. Even if it wasn’t his fault, she wasn’t going to admit she did something wrong.

‘Fine. That sounds… promising’, Gwendolyn nodded, even though she had no idea what the game was about. ‘Hang on… there have to be some instructions here’, she said and took a piece of paper from the game box. Hmm… so we’ll just have to spread the mat… ‘Err… Designate an extra person as the referee?’, the girl read. So they had to find an extra person to call the moves. ‘No wait- ‘If there are only 2 players and no referee, you can play without using the spinner. One player calls out the body part; the other player calls out the circle color’’, she said and looked back at Lewis. Find another person or not?

He was now full-on staring at her, hoping for some sort of explanation. It had definitely been the right spell. He had even DEMONSTRATED it. So it just had to be the right spell. Maybe she'd done it wrong? And there it was. A not very satisfying answer. "But...what did you try it on?" Lewis asked her, his eyes not leaving her face. Even though she was very much not looking at him.

Had she just...agreed to his suggestion?! Smiling at Gwen happily, Lewis watched her read the instructions. They needed a referee? He turned a full 360° on his heels to look for somebody they could use as a referee. There was the Ancient Runes professor but he really didn't want to ask him. "I think we can go with only the two of us...?" Or they had to actually. Unless she knew anybody who would want to join them.

Although she tried hard to avoid looking at him, because he somehow managed to make her feel bad for having reacted that way, Gwendolyn glimpsed back at Lewis. ‘I kind of… sort of TRIEDITONMYCAT’, the third year said and waited for Lewis to say something, even though she was almost sure he would either laugh or be mind blown. Somewhat.

‘Umm…’,the girl mused as she looked over the shoulder to see if there was someone willing to be the referee. Sadly, everyone seemed to be preoccupied with other games, and even Gwen had to admit that it would be too rude to interrupt them. How about charming the spinner to… well... spin?, she thought but then realized it was a Magic FREE fun zone. Hmph. Turning back at Lewis in time to listen to his suggestion, the young Ravenclaw nodded. ‘All right’ They could do that. ‘Then I guess we should stretch the mat?’, Gwendolyn said.

Gemma wondered into the room to check on the students and to see if a certain someone had received her invitation. She said hello to a couple of groups of students as she entered but she was instantly distracted as she saw a familiar face. Without knowing it, her hand went up to check her hair and she hoped that she looked alright...why hadn't she checked before she left her office. She let out a little huff of air and then headed towards him with a smile on her face...she had really thought he wouldn't show up...

She walked up and instantly felt awkward...did she shake his hand or hug him or...she decided to just keep it simple. She smiled at him and said, "Hey stranger, long time no see or talk..." she said holding her hand out and grabbing his arm playfully. "But I'm glad to see you got my invitation and that you decided to stop in..." she said excitedly.

She glanced around the room and found an empty spot..."Are you ready to get shown up?" she said with a little wink. She headed towards the table of games and grabbed a Twister box and then headed towards the blank area towards the back of the classroom..she knew that maybe being in the back wouldn't draw as much attention to them from the students...o no the students...not awkward at all.. She turned back towards him and held up her pointer finger motioning him over sweetly.

She'd done...what?! "You have a cat?" Err, this was NOT what he had wanted to say or what was on his mind right now. It was still pretty cool that she did. Anyways, he would have loved to see her cast the spell on the cat. Or try to anyway. Since it hadn't worked. Apparently. "I mean, what happened?!" Lewis asked, genuinely curious, a small smile on his lips. And WHERE was the cat now?

Lewis reached for the box and opened it to take out the spinner-thing. Right. "Uh-huh." Only half-paying attention to what Gwen was saying, he just nodded and then started walking off to a free spot in one of the corners of the room. His eyes were locked on the spinner and he kept on spinning it with his finger. "We can probably-" Once he'd reached the corner he stopped, and trailed off seeing as Gwen probably couldn't hear him over here.

Waving at her from across the room, Lewis repeated what he had been about to say. "We can probably still spin this ourselves, don't you think?" He held up the spinner for emphasis.

Oliver was watching some of the students and he had to admit, it was rather amusing. Especially the ones who had absolutely no idea on what they were doing. So intent he was on his observation that he failed to notice Gemma walk in.

But a grin immediately spread across his face when he heard her voice. "Too long." he said, catching her hand and giving it a playful squeeze before letting it go and giving her a wink. "I would not miss this for the world."

He was so going to kick her butt.

Bwhaha!

Following after her, Oliver rolled his eyes playfully. "Pfft...in your dreams Cerulean." Oh he had a feeling that the muggle studies Professor was going to be lots of fun. "I'm an expert at this game." Of course he was totally trying to make himself sound better than he really was.

As she heard Lewis’ reaction, she started laughing. ‘Yes. Yes,I have a cat’, Gwendolyn nodded. Hmm. Now- what had happened? She was in the girl’s bathroom… and her bestie came to be there if something was wrong and point it out. Gwen knew Ariadne wouldn’t have missed the chance of mocking her. Not ever. ‘Well… I’m not sure. I know I said the incantation right… and the wand movement was definitely correct’, she admitted. And there was no way she could have messed it up. Maybe it was because of her cat. Maybe the spell didn’t work on animals… hmm… slim chances. After a short pause of thinking, the third year remained silent, with her hand on her forehead. ‘Could it have been because of the floor… perhaps it was some sort of mirror effect?’

Oh, anyway. It was a mistake. JUST a tiny mistake! Looking back at Lewis, the young Ravenclaw raised her eyebrows. It would be, in fact, quite unlikely to spin it with no hands, as soon as the game starts. ‘Fine’, she said calmly. He’ll see for himself why it won’t work. Though- maybe he had some sort of idea. Hmm.

‘I guess we could start?’, she smirked as she positioned herself at one end of the mat, glimpsing at the circles. Right. One foot on the yellow… and the other on the blue circle. There. She was ready to start. Somehow, Gwen hoped she wouldn’t get as competitive as always. Right. She’d try to control herself.

Gemma instantly noticed his grin...was it a real grin or was it just the womanizer Oliver showing through...she just wasn't sure with this one and she had heard rumors...yes plenty of rumors about him this term...she smiled and cocked her head to the side pushing those thoughts out of her head...only one way to find out ....right?...and then he grabbed her hand and did that irresistible wink...o goodness real or not..but Gemma could play this game too...yes it was on...

"Well I'm glad you wouldn't miss a chance for me to beat you..." she said cocking one eyebrow up slightly and then flicking her wrist. Her wand shot out of it's wrist holster and she was just fixing to flick it to put her hair up when she remembered it was a magic free zone...yes she had to follow the rules as well. She put her wand away and as she walked she pulled her long brown hair up into a high ponytail.

"I hope you brought your a game and stretched before you got here...I'm pretty good at Twister..." she said as she stopped at the empty spot and started laying out the Twister mat...."O an expert...ehhh..." she said sarcastically as she sat down on the floor and slipped her tennis shoes off. "So is there really anything that you aren't an expert at..." she said with a little wink.

Glancing out at the board laid out, she smiled up at handsome face, "Okay, O, so since it's a Magic Free Zone, that means we'll have to take turns spinning the spinner....I hope you can balance while spinning..." she said mischievously..."Let's start on opposite sides..." she said stepping to the far corner of the tarp still holding the spinner, "But let's make it a little interesting as we play...let's say before you spin you have to ask the other person a question..."

Oh she was a feisty little thing, wasn't she? Oliver didn't know whether she could beat him or not but maybe letting her win could actually work in his favour. "Now, now Gemma, don't be getting ahead of yourself." He laughed as he watched her set the game up. She probably was going to show him up anyway, he hadn't played Twister in years.

Merlin! She was taking this very seriously. Stretching? "Well I am a little rusty but knowing that you're here to help me out if anything should happen..." He gave her another wink. Thinking about it, he decided not to bother with the stretching. Following suit, Oliver sat down on the floor and removed his own shoes. "Cooking." he said seriously. "I can't cook to save my life." That's why he always chose to live in the city, so that he was nice and close to restaurants and because he also like the night life.

"I'll just have to hold onto you if I can't." he said, waggling his eyebrows at her. Right. Questions. He supposed he could do that. "Ladies first..."

Great. I have serious catching up to do. Unfortunately, there were no ladders in sight. He spun and hoped it would at least give him a higher number. "Well, at least I got a six," he said, happy the spinner had stopped on the best possible outcome. He moved his piece to the 30 square, hoping Alyssa would just put him out of his misery quickly. And this, Keef, is why you never brag during a game.

Gemma glanced up at him when he mentioned cooking...she couldn't help but let a little giggle slip out...yes that was something she could see him not being good at, "hmmm...cooking...heh...well maybe someday I'll have to give you some lessons...just call me Chef Cerulean..." she said shrugging her left shoulder...and then a thought hit her...surely he wasn't completely useless..."Honeslty, how bad at cooking are you...are you the kind of guy that can't do anything or do you atleast know how to pop popcorn in a microwave or make a grilled cheese sandwich..." surely he would understand all the Muggle words in that statement...he had seemed such a outside of the box kind of wizard.

"Hold onto me...well, that sounds promising.." she said with a genuine smile...o he was good..."Ladies first...what a gentleman..." she said half way sarcastic and half way joking...

She took her spot across the mat from him and laid the spinner in between them. She leaned down and flicked the spinner...it spun pretty quickly and landed on Green Right Foot. She smiled up at him and stated the obvious, "Green Right Foot!" She glanced down at the mat and spotted her dot that she going to go for...it was a little closer to his side of the mat but that was okay. "So, before I go for my dot, let's do the first question..." so here goes this might be a dozy...but she just had to know..."Single or Taken?" she said...yep she was to the point....

And there she was, laughing again without him knowing why. Somehow this seemed to be a must with them. "That's cool. I do too." Lewis replied with a happy smile. He liked people who owned cats. They were nice. Just like Hufflepuffs. Heh. But back to her trying to change her cat's color. "I don't know what went wrong." He admitted with a shrug, watching her as she put her hand up on her forehead, clearly a little frustrated. "Is the cat alright?" He added softly, frowning a little as he only now realized that he didn't HOW the spell had gone wrong.

He just nodded again when she agreed with him while setting up the Twister mat. Okay. Now it was his turn to have a quick look at the instructions of the game. Okay, yeah, that seemed pretty easy. Though, maybe just maybe there would be times when neither of them would be able to spin the spinner. Just maybe. Not that he would ever admit to that out loud.

Glancing back up from the instructions, Lewis placed them back into the box before positioning himself in just the same way as Gwen on the opposite end of the mat. "Okay. Here we go." He put the spinner on his palm so Gwen could also see it and reached out to spin it. Right hand red. Brilliant. Kneeling down onto the mat, Lewis put his right hand on the nearest red circle. He then shoved the spinner over into Gwen's direction. She was allowed to spin too.

Gwendolyn nodded, as to support the thing she just said about having a cat. ‘You do?’, she said, looking surprised. ‘I wouldn’t have guessed’, the girl mumbled. ‘Yes.Yes. He’s fine’ All riiight. She’ll definitely try to take a bit more care of her cat. But still, this wasn’t as bad as when she forgot the fluffy hairball in a shop on Diagon Alley. But… but… I’m not a bad owner!, Gwendolyn thought, trying to convince herself so.

As she glimpsed at the mat, Gwen realized only now how terrible she was with holding her balance, even on plane surface. Somehow, it reminded her of her first year at Hogwarts, when she joined everyone on that pirate ship. Right. If only she could have tried being less clumsy… Meh, never mind that, I’m still going to win. But… ‘What do you have to do to win at this game?’, she asked with a smirk. Just wondering…

Meh. He simply picked a red circle. ‘This doesn’t seem so hard…’, she tried to convince herself. Right. The spinner. Left foot. Blue. ‘But it’s already on a blue circle…’ Oh well… guess I’ll have to simply pick another one. Probably. ‘Your turn’, she gestured then towards the spinner.

"Sounds good. Not sure I'll be able to pay attention though...with you as my teacher." Yes he was being flirtacious but also honest. Oliver tended to get distracted when pretty women were around. Her question made him pause for a moment. "To be honest, I don't know if I'm bad or not. I've never actually cooked anything." There had been no need to. His mother cooked for him when he was a kid and then when he ventured out on his own, well he either ate out or his girlfriend at the time would cook for him.

Oliver gave her a playful smile. "I was hoping it would." Merlin, she was just as good at flirting as he was. It had been awhile since he'd had a conversation like this with a woman. It was fun and he was enjoying it immensely.

He watched as she took her turn and spun up, 'green right foot.' And he was waiting for her to take her spot but she decided to ask her question first and she certainly didn't beat around the bush. "Single." he answered with a grin. As if she didn't know.

Oliver gave her a wink before beding down and giving the spinner a flick. "Blue left foot." And as he moved towards the blue dot that was only two spaces away from her green dot, he looked at her. "Lunch or dinner?"

Never cooked anything...well he was either spoiled or useless or both..she thought with a little smile spreading across her face. "Well it sounds like you are in desperate need of private lessons then..." she said with a pause as she pushed a stray bang behind her left ear.

She cocked her eyebrow as his wink...man he was handsome and she was pretty sure he knew it....breathe Gemma breath...

She placed her hand on the green dot while she waited for his answer...single...hmmm....she had figured that with all the pretty single professors around the castle he was atleast half way not single...did that make sense...o heavens no...but she figured she wasn't the only professor he'd been playing around with...

Blue left foot...she looked towards her left foot...why was it that when you played Twister you always had to look at your foot or hand before you moved it like you didn't know where it was....she was pulled away from her weird thoughts as he felt her presence close to her and then heard his question...she looked up and only then realized how close they were...within inches of each other actually..."How bout both..." she said with a little friendly/challenging push...

She flicked the spinner, "Green Right Foot..." o this would be a little interesting...only five dots and two were already taken by their hands...as she planned her next move, she asked her question, "Just a flirt or truly interested?" either way it would be fun...she was up for a challenge and either would def be that.

Oliver didn't think he was in desperate need for cooking lessons. He had managed to get by all these years after all, but he was quite happy to have her teach him. He would get two things out of it at least. He would get to know Gemma better and maybe he would be able to cook after it. "And where would these lessons take place?"

There was a small smile on his face that he was doing his best to hide. He didn't want to appear to smug but he was liking Gemma's reactions to how close they were standing. He may be slightly affected himself but he wasn't about to let on. Although, his eyebrows shot up at her answer to his question, which was really a question as well. "I don't have a problem with both." What man would?

Her next question made him chuckle and he bent down and flicked the spinner again before answering. "A bit of both." He smiled at her before glancing down to see what he had spun. "Yellow right hand." Well this was getting very interesting now. He placed his right hand on the yellow dot and then looked up at her.

"Casual or something serious?"

sorry...cheer tryouts snuck up on me...I stink at this sometimes...
 

Lessons...hmmm...good question..."Well, since we are stuck here...the kitchens are always nice...or..." she cocked her eyebrow again, "You could always come visit my beach house in Florida over the break...lots of surfing and cooking lessons...I've got plenty of room...you could even bring the other two stooges...I mean...Muskateers..." she said with a little laugh.

Gemma almost lost her balance because she was too busy trying not to get too close to him, but she stood strong and kept her footing and arming..."Well that sounds great...I would say it sounds like a date but I'll let you make that move..." she didn't want to be too pushy but that was a pretty strong hint...

A little bit of both...at first that made her want to hit him in the chest...but then she realized she was guilty of both as well, "Well that does make things more fun..." she said as she looked for a yellow right hand...this was going to be hard to spin the spinner in a minute....she found a yellow dot right beside his. This meant they were just inches from each other.

What an intriguing question..."Well you have to start somewhere don't you...so let's say casual and see where it goes from there...." she wouldn't be against something serious but she wasn't willing to commit to anything like that right now...she really didn't know much about him other than he liked surfing and flirting...and causing trouble...she balanced with her left hand and moved her right hand just enough to flick the spinner, "Blue left hand." o great even better...

She spotted her spot and took a deep breath but before moving she glanced up at him...still so close...she could look straight into those deep eyes...must focus...she felt herself leaning towards him and then focused on her question, "Who would you rather made the first move?"