Yeah, he was right. He didn't know her. Well. He messed up a part of her life still, heh. Not that it was his fault, as much as she wanted to blame a whole lot on him she knew it was just an honest misunderstanding. His luck.

The panic that was so obvious on the boy's face, and the one Louisa was determined to ignore, faded gradually as he chuckled and shower his gratefulness. She widened her smile and bent down to pick up her sleep cat. It was one of Viola's strong point that she doesn't flinch when he owner has one of her 'over-the-edge' moment. Perhaps Joao brought this exact cat for the suitable person? Yep, probably.

"Well. I guess that makes us... friends. Or friends of a friend. Or something like that." Because they sock-slid together and Louisa had enjoyed it. It was Dallin's body but Treyen's personality. Confessing this, though, brought a slight blush to her face and to quickly go over this awkwardness, she added quickly, "So do you want to lie back down here? Or are you coming back to the castle?" so... they.. could... go... together. Ahem.

Hah, he was a Prefect. Aurora told her so, and Aurora never lied about what she bragged. "Knew it." Hehehe. "Well, you wear well anyways Kennedy-" Playfully slugging his arm "just don't ever lose it." And she meant it to.. Oh he brought food as well, delicious subs! Yes! Good thing they were slim. And the delectable juice! "It should be" Twisting the cap off *Pop*, Kimalia took a few sips. "Mm, it definitely is." She saw Selena look to be struggling with opening it. "Oh lemme get them open." Yes, she was an expert on opening them now. *Pop* *Pop* noises sounded afterward.

Now Kimalia was still rubbing Clarke's head as she listened to Selena explain their er.. diet? An eyebrow rose at the mention of snot. "Well.. at least you never have to worry about any bogies on you then." Her head shot towards the sound of a gurgle.. from Kennedy who was hungry! "I hope the mention of snot didn't cause that." It was difficult saying that with a straight face.

Could it be that the cat was what brought Louisa into sense? Because she regained every bit of sanity in her as soon as she picked up Viola.

Granted, he was still freaked by all the mood changes displayed by this particular Ravenclaw. Merlin knows how weird girls can get. He was used to this from Lola, but he hadn't expected a Ravenclaw to react this way. Blink. He still smiled, and rather widely, when she became...her usual self, or what he supposed was her usual self, anyway.

Friends of a friend? That was incredibly obvious. So, no. "Friends. Kind of." Because he'd found out a piece of information that one only told friends. Yet he still knew nothing of her, which was a bit amusing.

The blushing actually went unnoticed because he was busy looking at the moving branches of the Whomping Willow. He forgot to pay attention to how long the spell had lasted. Oh, well. Then his eyes returned to her when she spoke. There was no way he was feeling calm enough to relax at this place, so, he'd better make use of his time some other way, "Nah, I'm going back to the castle with you." He smiled. Assuming that she was walking back to the castle as well, of course.

Anya shook her head. "Nope. I want to try and find as many secret things as possible while I'm here." Of course, she was just planning on locating the entrance to the tunnel. She didn't think it was too smart to attempt to get closer to the tree with it swinging wildly about.

"Yup. His name is Alec. He's in the yellow house." Which was much easier to say then whatever it was actually called.

Something - puffy

Or something like that.

"Oh fun. Maybe you could show me sometime. I've never seen any." Her brother never read those things. And as far as she knew, neither did Alec.

It was too bad that she didn't have anything to share. Or did she?

"I fly kites. Trick and sport kites." Regular ones too. But those weren't as fun to watch.

Aurora grinned back, "That'd be too cool." she said. There would be no searching frantically for runaway pets... or boyfriends. Life would be so much easier.

Oh.. everything... right. "Well... maybe you should wait in your common room? I mean, she's sure to go back there eventually." Aurora said, thinking hard. "Or, there's that spell that produces birds, you could try that." Avis was it? Or something similar.

O___O

She poked him!

It wasn't even that hard, but he still rubbed the spot. "What... i-it was just a joke," he said with an innocent voice. "I didn't mean to lie." He didn't... and this was the reason why he didn't joke often. He was bad at it. "I was reaaally looking forward to a chocolate frog," he said, looking down at his hands and fidgetting with them. This time he was just acting, it always worked on his mom and she ALWAYS gave in.

Kennedy softly chuckled with Kimalia. At least she wasn't so gullible like Selena, hehe. He shook his head, silently saying that he wasn't going to lose the badge. Gosh no. He even slept with it under his pillow and polished every morning.

He took one of the juice bottles and easily opened it. He took a big sip and sighed satisfied. "They are ham, cheese and lettuce sanwiches," he said. Then he paused at what Selena said.

That thing...ate...snot?

Yuuuck. He wrinkled his nose and shook his head. Was that normal? His pygmy puff never did THAT. Kennedy looked at Kimalia, his nose still wrinkled and shook his head. "No...I...my stomach is hungry for food not...snot." Good thing he had a strong stomach too and wasn't squeamish with gross stuff.

He reached for a mini sub when something clicked in his head. "Superman," he said, looking at both girls. "Selena's pets are named after Superman!" Did they know that because that was MEGA awesome!

Logan walked down to the Whomping Willow, which was now one of his favorite places at Hogwarts. He really liked it, it was nice and peaceful! Well until the tree goes crazy, probably.

Logan's cat, Peeta, trotted after him. Logan sat down and Peeta curled up on his lap. He smiled and looked at the Whomping Willow.

Sammy laughed. "That tunnel just sounds like it would be awesome to find though. Do you know what it leads too?" Because if it lead to someplace lame, there was no point in trying to find it. Because he was totally going to use it.

Yellow house? "You mean Hufflepuff?" You know: his true house.

He raised his eyebrow. "Maybe. The art in them is kind cool." Sammy was always willing to introduce new people to Batman comics. It just made them cool in his book.

Sammy raised his eyebrow. "Really? That's kinda cool."

Isobel grinned and nodded in agreement. Who knew? Maybe it was possibly, for some people at least. Maybe really powerful wizards could do it, but then again maybe not. If it was impossibly for one person, it should be impossible for everyone.

"Probably," Isobel said with a shrug. She did not want to go back to her common room though, and truthfully she doubted that it would help much. Isobel had no idea how Star would get in by herself, but then again all cats seemed to do things that did not seem possibly. "That might work, but it also might malfunction horribly. Like, what if the birds flew away?" Which they probably would do, since they were birds and that's what birds did. "Then Star would chase after them, and that may or may not help." Depending on which way the birds went and how fast Star ran.

Selena nodded in agreement. Losing the badge would be bad... like that poor nonexistent boy who had lost his badge. Oh right, he was non-existent because... Kennedy lied. Which was a bad thing. Ooooh. Kimalia opened her juice! Yays! "Thank you!" Selena said, beaming from ear to ear as she took a lonnnnng drink from it. Talking made her thirsty, watching Clarke run in circles made her thirsty... looking at candy made her hungry.

. . . "But Kent eating boogies is still gross," Selena pointed out with a frown. She glanced over at Kennedy with his grumbling stomach and all that. "Lying is still bad, and you still don't get a chocolate frog, you can have..." Selena's hand danced over the assortment of candy that had tumbled out of her basket. "A blood pop?" she offered. Because he didn't deserve the almighty amazing thing called CHOCOLATE. Which would help her take over the universe. Because Selena was awesometastical... just like chocolate.

Ham... tomato... lettuce. Selena took another drink as she looked at the sammiches. "I like peanut butter and jelly sammiches," Sel declared picking up one of the messily wrapped squares. She pulled back the wrapping to reveal a simple sandwich with peanut butter... and jelly beans. Muggle jelly beans, that is. "They taste better than lettuce and tomato," Selena said with a nod of her head as Clarke barked. Obviously Clarke disagreed.

She did not miss Kennedy wrinkling his nose though. "Hey! All pygmy puffs eat snot, I looked it up," Sel said, sticking her tongue out at him. Hmph. What did he know? He didn't have a pygmy puff... nor did he try to cure a pygmy puff of their snot-eatage.

Superman? What? Right! "Yuuuuuup. Diggy named Kent and I named Clarke!" Selena said beaming. Because the two creatures were epic.

And going to be best friends.

It was written... in the stars in her notebook of things to do - make Clarke and Kent become best friends.

Jez wasn't quite sure why she liked this tree so much - maybe because it was strong to the point of violence, maybe because it seemed to challenge her, maybe because it was just a darn old tree that not too many people went near, and so was sometimes a better place to think than in the common room or the lake. She sat down on the grass, out of real harm's way but close enough so the tree could have whipped her with its longest branches if it had wanted to. However, it seemed relatively calm today, and didn't take any notice of the still quite small second-year. Jez stared at it, deep in thought, her fingers unconsciously tapping out a rhythm on her knee. Occasionally she hummed under her breath, but mostly she was silent, staring at the tree and waiting.
She didn't know what she was waiting for. For the tree to start talking to her? For some kind of psychic realisation to dawn on her? She didn't know. Her fist tightened over the note in her hand, the note she hadn't yet shown her friends.
Jez was scared to death of Jared. Her nightmares alway featured him, right at the end. She'd watch her family die, one by one, hearing Than's screams as he was tortured, Eris' as she lay in agony with her back broken, Hadrian and Crevan's desperate attempt to reach help. Then she'd see Keegan lying dead, Des beside him, Nate's parents and then Pam's parents following them. She'd see Pam being tortured, then hit with a bright spark of green light. Nate's body was always last; bloodied and white-faced, his blank, glassy eyes staring right at her. Jared would step out of the shadows, his wand raised and pointing at her. As the green light came speeding towards her, she'd always wake up, drenched in sweat, and more than once screaming in terror.
Jez shook herself, shuddering. She visited the dream enough in her sleep without seeing it in her waking hours too. But the images were so vivid, she couldn't help thinking they weren't just figments of her imagination. They were premonitions of what could happen if she didn't save her friends from herself. She had a horrible feeling that Jared was trying to invade her mind.

A YELLOW FLAG waves proudly from one of the willow's whompers.

OOC: FLAGS GAME INSTRUCTIONS

LuLu had to try get a flag and the only empty place was the whomping willow tgat probably meant there was nothing there but worth a shot right? She looked unger a rock and basically scanned the floor but it was obvious it was on the tree.. she looked up for a glimpse of any colour material.. no.. o- WAIT it was there on the branch a low enough branch she had to jump though..

She approached the tree and leaped but never stopped looking up at it she tried to hold on and reached for the flag

AHA! He knew that the Whomping Willow would be where his House Flag was. If anyone got close They'd be thwacked as far from it as possible, It was great to have it on their team.

He sat nearby the tree waiting to see if anybody else from his house would make their way to play the game with him as well. While waiting he began thinking of clever strategies. His favorite was charming both hands with the gripping charm. Oh Oakey you are one smart Hufflepuff. He thought to himself.

Beezus swore she saw a tiny piece of cloth hovering on one of the Whomping Willows Whompers. As she could remember, yellow was for the Hufflepuffs but no one seemed to be guarding it at the moment. Well..not one that she could see anyway. So, she decided to approach it when she saw Lulu. "Lu! Get the flag." she said as she moved closer.

The older eagle tried to reach it but seemingly can't so Beezus suggested that she try. She found a semi large rock near the whomper and trying ever so carefully that the tree won't notice her, she climbed up the rock and reached for the flag.

"Flag..Come on." she mumbled as her charmed right hand was held up, reaching for the yellow flag.

Before Oakey lose himself in his thoughts any longer! He heard someone yelling to grab the Flag! What!? he said in total surprise! Oh no you don't he started after the girl he heard yelling with his left arm outstretched ready to tag her.

Success! The yellow flag was SNATCHED up by the girl's gripping charm!

Will she escape?

What?! She had gotten the Flag! Why Willow why have you failed me! Taking his wand from his pocket he quickly whipped it out Yelling, Finite! towards her, hoping that the spell would hit and she'd lose her grip of the flag!

YES!

The yellow flag was already on her charmed right hand but as she turned around, she saw a head. NO! Beezus edged forward, her hips stretched in front of her to avoid being tag. And in one swift motion, she jumped from the rock.

Unluckily, the Whomping Willow noticed the disturbance and moved its deadly branches around. Beezus ran, ducked, jumped and hopped while the boy still chased after her. Immediately, she pulled out her wand using her free left hand, pointed it towards the boy and.. "Stupefy!" She attempted a Stunning Charm. And without looking back, she headed for the Duck Pond.

Nate sees the girl trying to run away with the flag. Nate starts to run at his fastest speed and yells "You will not get away. Oakey! I need help." Nate was tracking the girl down. Nate wasn't fast enough so he took out his wand and said "Stupefy."

NATE! Oakey screamed at the first year boy hoping to get his attention! Stay here at the Willow and keep an eye out for enemies! if you see them! TAG THEM I'll go after the Ravenclaw! He hoped that Nate heard his orders. Cause he was getting farther and farther away. He tucked and rolled barely dodging a stupefy that came flying at him!

"Ok I will do that. I you can't catch her use stupefy!" Nate ran down to the whomping willow wondering if his spell worked or not. Oh well right now he had a job to do and that was to protect the base. Nate saw some bushes about 50 feet away from the tree. He ran for them to hide. So he could strike at any moment.

getting up from the ground Oakey took a moment to regain his composure. He caught eye of the Ravenclaw again got up and started a heavy spriont after her With his wand still in his hand he shouted Stupefy in her direction! Come on Hit her! Hit her! Oakey begged his spell desperately.

Nate heard Oakey scream stupefy. Now he waits to hear if it was a miss or a sucsess. Please let it not miss. Please please! Nate popped out of the bush he was hiding in and ran toward the topiary garden to try and capture the slytherin flag.

Why? Why..!

One hufflepuff was still going after her. She didn't want to lose grip of the flag. It was the least she could do for her house. Still running, Beezus slid the flag on her pocket, took out her wand and used the Gripping Charm on her left hand. Now, both of her hands were charmed.

As she was still chased, she occasionally sent out charms. At one point, she casted Immobulus towards the boy that was chasing her.