Daichi sat at the edge of the pond. He had taken off his shoes and socks and was holding his feet in the water. The weather felt nice for a spring day and despite it having rained in the morning the sun was now shining.

He was splashing his feet in the water as he leaning back on his elbows. He felt bored and didn't know what to do. He continued to splash the water as one of the ducks at the pond came swimming towards him from the other side.

Holding his feet still, his eyes lit up at the sight of the duck and he grabbed his school bag. Earlier , he had taken some bread with him from the Great Hall. He tore a piece and threw it at the duck in the water.

Another duck seemed to have realised what was going on and it swam towards the food as well as Daichi threw it in the water. And then he got an idea. He threw the pieces of bread around him from where he was seated and the fifteen ducks flew , waggled and swam over to his side to eat the bread.

He was now surrounded by his familly!

Logan couldn't help but blush as well. "Well, thanks! I guess my smile is quite charming, eh?" he asked with a grin, waggling his eyebrows at her. Logan took a bite of his chocolate frog as she talked about how she could use the card for a replacement if she lost her other one. He shook his head, a smile on his face.

Logan nodded as Ella spoke about Taylor. "Yeah, Taylor is very nice. She's like a sister to me basically." he said laughing. He then paused a little when she said that Taylor had a lot of nice things to say about him. "Oh...oh-oh really?" he asked, noticing her eyebrows raised. He pretended not to notice, and asked, "What kind of things?"

Ella nodded. Quite charming indeed. She giggled when his eyebrow waggling started, rolling her eyes. She tried not to roll them again when Logan shook his head while she talked about her Ron Weasley cards. Instead, she looked at her own chocolate frog with interest. "Off with your head!" She said, biting into the chocolately deliciousness.

Like a sister. Well that was a relief. Ella took a deep breath, not realizing she had been holding it while waiting for his response. Why had she been? Was she jealous? It wasn't like her to be. She wasn't that girl. "Yeah. She went on about your guitar playing and stuff. We both agree you're quite good." She smiled at him briefly before focusing again on the ducks who were happily chomping on soggy cracker bits. Why was she suddenly annoyed. What was happening with her today? She tried to shake it off, not liking the feeling. "I asked her if she would like to play with the two of us sometime. I figured you both could help me learn some new songs or something." She said, shrugging her shoulders. She really wanted to make an effort to get to know Taylor, especially since she seemed really nice and was easy to talk to. "Would you be up for that?" She asked, looking at him.

Logan laughed as she said 'off with your head' to the frog and ate it. "How violent!" he said giggling, and scooting away from her as if she'd bite off his head. He couldn't help but grin.

Logan scooted back to her and put an arm around her. "Oh, she did?" Logan asked, turning slightly pink. He always blushed when people commented on how apparently 'good' he was at the guitar. "That's very sweet...of both of you. You guys are really too nice, I'm not that amazing." he said smiling shyly. Logan kind of zoned out for a minute, watching the ducks eat when he snapped back into reality when Ella spoke. "Wha-oh...yeah. That'd be cool." he said with a nod and a smile. "I'm totally up for that." he said smiling then looking at the ducks again. "The ducks...I really like them." he said with a smile, then he got lost in his thoughts again.

Ella giggled then frowned at the body of her chocolate frog. "Poor thing, never even saw it coming..." She shook her head and then took another bite of her chocolate frog, smiling at Logan innocently.

When Ella felt Logan put an arm around her, she slid closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder. "She did." She said softly. "And you are amazing, you just don't know it yet." She said seriously, watching the ducks in the pond. Ella turned to face him again when he reacted to her suggestion that they all play together. It seemed to have caught him off guard or something. "Good, it'll be fun." She said, eying him curiously. "I like the ducks too, they're adorable and they love to eat-just like me." She said, laughing softly. Logan seemed to be off in another world somewhere and Ella wondered what was on his mind. "What are you thinking?" She asked, turning her head so she could look him in the eyes.

Logan couldn't help but laugh at what she said. "Such a shame. Poor little frog had to live in that box for who knows how long, then you go and eat it." he joked, shaking his head and pretend sorrow on his face.

Logan smiled as Ella slid closer to him. He squeezed her a little, kissing the top of her head. He then blushed and rolled his eyes. "Okay, well that's your guys's opinion.....I-I guess I might be a little amazing." he said smiling. "Yeah it will!" he replied with another smile. He just couldn't stop smiling whenever he talked to Ella, it was becoming sort of a habit.

"Hmm?" Logan asked as Ella snapped him out of his 'zoning out' again. "I uh...I don't even know. I'm just real tired I guess." he said chuckling.

Ella tried not to laugh as she frowned at Logan. "Guess I'm just a horrible human." She said, looking at the ground, pretending to be ashamed. After a couple of seconds she looked at him again, smiling. "He was good though!"

Ella grinned when Logan kissed the top of her head. She felt all giddy again, the way she did whenever Logan was near her. What was with that anyway? It was puzzling to her. She giggled when he admitted her might be a little amazing. "Now you're supposed to tell me that I'm amazing...it's only fair" She said, smiling at him.

Tired? This concerned Ella for some reason. "Are you sleeping well?" She asked, worried suddenly. Hopefully Logan didn't have nightmares the way Ella did!

"Yes, you are a very horrible human!" Logan said, his voice raised. He then giggled and added, "Noooo, I'm joking. You could never be a horrible human, no matter how much you try. You're too....perfect." he said, smiling at her and winking.

Logan laughed at what Ella said. "Pfft, amazing? Ella you most certainly are not amazing." he said, waving a hand. Then he grinned, and after a long pause, he said, "-you're way more than amazing."

"Oh, just last night I wasn't." he said. "I don't know what it was, but I just couldn't seem to fall asleep." he said. "I think I did a little bit past midnight." he said.

Ella laughed before crossing her arms against her chest. "Not nice, Logan!" She said, frowning at him. She couldn't hold the frown for long though, it was quickly replaced by a surprised expression. "P-perfect?" Ella repeated, blushing. "No way, not me. I'm n-not perfect." She looked at the ground, shaking her head, not quite knowing what to say next.

Then Logan had told her she was more than amazing. The blush fest continues, she thought, trying to meet his eye. She smiled widely at him, kissing his cheek. "Thanks." Her voice was shaky for some reason and she couldn't think straight. It was a weird feeling.

"Midnight?" Ella asked, thinking that was quite late. Not that she'd never sat up in bed all night. It happened all too frequently to her these days. "You should try reading your history of magic text before bed," She offered. "It always puts me to sleep." With that, she started to laugh.

Marry people or go to dances? Taryn giggled, but shrugged her shoulders in confusion. "I don't really know..." Tori would know for sure. "My dad doesn't even know about it." She hadn't told him? It was weird? She just... didn't.

"Do your parents know?" DID THEY APPROVE.....?

"Really, you didn't tell him?" That sort of made August sad. He was pretty excited to tell his parents about her after their 'first date' at the Ice Cream Parlour over the summer and then when things became official at the start of term. His face didn't really show his slight sadness at this, he just hoped she would tell her father soon.

"Of course my parents know, remember I had my mother help find that flowered bag for you for Christmas?" Admittedly, she wasn't so keen on him buying a gift for Christmas and harped him about being a good Jewish boy, but he eventually expressed how much it meant to him.

Taryn shrugged. She hadn't meant it to be a bad thing, she hadn't been keeping it a secret or anything either. "You know.. it wasn't a THING until after the summer and it's not exactly something to put in a letter, then Aspen got me all weirded out over Christmas."

..."You're not mad, are you?" Nah, she didnt think so, but she wanted to CHECK.

It was a pleasant warm spring afternoon and almost anyone could tell that summer was on its way. Summer was the season, Nessie liked most. She preferred it to those freezing cold days where to stay warm you had to wear layers and layers of clothes. Those days were just terrible. Summer on the other hand was the best, you could go for swims in the lake, you could sip on a nice cold drink filled with ice and well during summer you could just be happy.

With the indigo pygmy puff on her shoulder and a small bag of bread in her right hand, Nessie walked over to one of her favorite places in the whole of Hogwarts, which was of course, the duck pond. The pond seemed to be rather quiet for a change which suited Ness perfectly fine. It was way more interesting than having to finish some boring homework in her dorm and she needed the fresh air. She hadn't come especially for company, but to be honest she really hoped she'd get some soon enough. To her being alone was boring and everything was better when there was someone to be with. Most of the time she spent with her best friend Thomas, but she hadn't seen him in a while and nothing was really the same anymore.

Nearing the pond, Nessie sat down and opened her small bag of bread an began feeding some of teh ducks. They were so beautiful and entertaining to watch, and to be honest the little puff was really enjoying herself, more than she thought she would. It was really fun and Puffles her pygmy puff seemed to think so too, which may have been because he was feeding on the bread more than the ducks were. This whole pond was just so wonderfully perfect.

As his family the ducks around him were eating from the pieces of bread, Daichi began to slowly splash his feet in the water again. He closed his eyes for a moment and held his head up to let the sun shiny on it. He was always pale and even in the summer he wouldn't get a real tan like those european got but that did not matter anyway. He was enjoying the spring weather when one of the ducks suddenly quacked.

Opening one eye, he turned to look at the white coloured duck he had tried to steal at the beginning of the term and it was now walking away from him.

"NO! Where are you going?!" he said and flailed his arms up and down. A gesture that seemed to scare the ducks and they flew and waggled away towards... a girl.

"Heeey! Why are you stealing my family?!" he pouted as he took his feet out of the water and stomped his way over on the grass to the Hufflepuff.

With a small smile on her face, Nessie carried on feeding the ducks happily untill...a boy? came up to her. He looked like he was around the same age as her and because of he's question she immediately guessed he was a Slytherin. She didn't like snakes, well most of them anyway, they tended to make her feel scared and uncomfortable, there was only very few that she approved of. Hopefully this boy would be one of them...or else she would start with one of her terrible panic attacks.

Stealing? Was that what this boy thought she was doing? Because clearly he was wrong and family? Who and what in the name of Merlin was he talking about? The Hufflepuff was surely confused, snakes tended to do that to her too. They always did such strange things which was why she didn't trust them. "Erm..I don't understand, all I'm doing is feeding the ducks." she said with a small amount of fear in her voice. This boy wasn't one of those crazy shouting Slythies, right?..they were scary. O_O

Trying not to have a mini heart attack from all her worry, she closed her bag and stood up. She then picked up her pygmy puff and made sure he was safe too. Then she just stood debating on what to do with this boy.

She doesn't understand?!

He had spoken English right? Or had he accidentally said it in Korean. Daichi frowned, he was sure he used normal English...

The Slytherin completely missed the nervous look on the girls face as he scooted over closer. Water dripped on the grass as he walked barefeeted , his shoes still standing on the edge of the pond. "Yes!" he shouted. "That's what you're doing, feeding them! You need MY permission first because they are mine!"

Okay technically they weren't his. But he was missing his stuffed animal Mr.Duckles so much that in time, he was starting to believe that he actually owned the ducks. Like they filled an empty space in his heart. And now this Hufflepuff was feeding them? What if she was feeding them to make them fatter and...she was going to eat them?! O__o

"Your NOT eating Squishy, Tippy, DuckDuck, Floppy" blahblahblah he went on until he had named all fifteen ducks and glaaaaaaaaared at the girl.

She was suspicious when she stood up...

Jory stared at Gwen in astonishment. "Does she honestly believe she has no say in being nice to people?'' he wondered. Aloud he said to his Raven friend "I know all about genetics and stuff. Learnt all about them in school. But don't you think you've also got a choice in the way you are? I mean, we can choose to be who we are.'' He'd learnt that from his dad who used to tell his all about the sleazebags he put away in prison and the bad choices those people made.

The Puff sighed. "Well, not showing it can make others think you just don't trust them. And what do you think'll happen then?''

"Impossible?'' Jory wondered. "Most likely.'' But he wasn't about to tell Gwen that. "At least you can try, can't you, Gwen? Be nice to them and who knows maybe you'll turn out o be best of friends.''

"It does make sense,'' Jory replied "Kind of like trusting but not showing it, eh?'' he added as a duck near them gave a loud qwack. "See? even the duck agrees with me.''

"What? Yes you are!" Logan said. "Well you are to me." he said with a smile, kissing her cheek and putting an arm around her.

Logan blushed a little as she kissed his cheek. He kissed her back, but on the lips this time instead of the cheek, the smile still smack dab on his face.

"Yeah, around there." he said. His eyes widened. "Read history of magic? Before bed?! Nooo way, I'll get nightmares of too much homework!" he joked, throwing his arms in the air and giggling.

This boy was just pathetic.

As Ness stood she looked to the floor and noticed that this boy was barefoot. Where were he's shoes? Was this guy normal? She looked around and saw a pair of shoes near the pond. Riight..she forgot some people enjoyed diping their feet in the water, she usually did it herself, but not today.

Ooh, Merlin..he was one of those shouting snakes. She eyed him and then took a step back...right now he was scary and Nessie didn't like this. Permission? Really? These slytherins we're so..what was the word controlling. She couldn't stand it, couldn't this kid just let her be and leave her alone to feed the ducks? " Since when are they yours? And...since when do I need Your permission?" she said trying to be brave by giving him a little poke in the shoulder as she said 'your'.

Now he had gone too far. Eat them? This boy belonged in a mental insitution. For Merlins sake..WHY would she eat ducks from the pond? That was just gross, there was a kitchen for that..not a pond. Some people we're clearly over reacters.

As he glared at her, she attempted glaring back, but she didn't do too much of a good job because she wasnt made for glaring, like Slytherins were. She couldn't help but giggle a little when he named every single one. Geez! This kid was obsessed. "I'm not going to touch your ducks..you cancalmdown." she said a little rushed from her nervousness.

She continued standing and didn't move, she would not let herself look like the coward, she would stand still and be brave for a change.

Daichi saw the girl looking down at the grass. Or was she looking at his feet? and then it looked like her eyes were staring behind him. Turning his head to look as well, Daichi stared at his shoes near the edge of the pond and shrugged his shoulders before turning back to face the Hufflepuff.

He hadn't seen her taking a step back but he DID take a step forward until he stood infront of her and he was poked at the word *you*. Blinking, Daichi frowned before cocking his head to the side. "Because Mr.Murdoch had said i could have them!" He lied. He HAD been to him to ask if he could take care of the ducks, but he never gotten his answer so now he simply pretended he had permission.

The glare she send him back wasn't scary at all and the Slytherin giggled, yes giggled at the sight. Luckily he giggled at the same time as she did so hopefully she wouldn't have heard it.

"Your not?" he suddenly asked as his face seemed to soften at those words. "Your not playing with me right?!" No one touches his family!

Ella just shook her head but there was a wide grin visible on her face as she felt Logan put an arm around her. "Logan, stopping being so cute. You're making me feel all mushy." Ella said, giggling. It was true though, she felt like she was melting or something.

The kiss on the lips caught Ella off guard and she just stared at him, blinking slowly. She still wasn't used to that, even after months, and it still made her feel all loopy. She continued to stare, smiling like a mental person.

Ella began to laugh rather loudly at Logan's homework comment. She smacked her forehead playfully and smiled. "Homework nightmares, I forgot! Nope, don't want to have any of those!"

"I guess so." he said slowly, thinking about this from Taryn's point of view. It really wasn't that serious until the school term started and he too hadn't sent it in an owl back home. Where Aspen and Tori were spending a lot of time with her over the holidays it also made sense not to bring up the personal subject with her father when the man was surrounded by three, well two bubbly girls and a brainiac.

Was he mad? "Are you seriously asking me that? Do I look mad?" he said teasing her and poking her shoulder. "Of course not. I don't care whether or not your father knows. The fact that I know you like me and want to be with me is all that matters."

Logan laughed. "I can't stop, I'm sorry." he said, making puppy dog eyes at her. "Pwetty pwease forgive me for being too cute?" he asked, trying not to laugh or giggle.

Logan stared back at Ella as she stared at him, his face red. She was so...beautiful...cute...adorable...gorgeous...it was making him feel all woozy inside.

Logan laughed at Ella as she smacked her forehead. "Man, I've had way too many of those lately...I hate them!" he said with a sigh. "I hope I don't get any tonight!" he said, making a scared face.

Ella couldn't help but laugh as Logan struggled to turn off his cuteness. The puppy dog eyes were almost too much for her as she tried to stop her laughter long enough to comment. "Okay, okay I forgive you!" She managed to get out, pushing him playfully.

Then there was more feeling mushy inside and Ella finally broke eye contact with Logan after a few minutes, looking down at her knees. "I can't look at you anymore. I feel all loopy." She said sheepishly, a blush visible on her cheeks.

As a suggestion to stop his homework dreams, Ella smiled wide. "I know how you can stop those! Just think of something you love...like painting! Or Peeta!"

Logan chuckled as she said that she forgave him, and pushed him playfully. "Good." he said with a satisfied smile.

Logan blushed at what she said, feeling his hear start hammering against his chest. He wouldn't be surprised if it burst out at this point. He looked at her as she said she couldn't look at him anymore. He chuckled. "What? How can you not look at this...handsome face?" he asked in his manly voice, placing a finger lightly under her chin and turning her face slowly so that it was level with his. He waggled his eyebrows at her, surprising himself at this...courage to do that.

"Good idea, there Ella! You are a genius!" he said, throwing his arms in the air. He couldn't help but let out a little giggle.