Even though Alyssa said she was headed back to the Common Room, she stayed back when no one moved. She felt sad seeing Aaron and Laura yelling at each other like that. But she kept quiet while Keefer tried to calm everyone down. It sure didn't help that more and more onlookers were coming and she wished that they would just move on.

When Aaron started coughing and asking for something to drink, she took out a Dr. Pepper from her bag and gave it to him.

Ella looked up, sensing someones eyes on her. She noticed an older girl looking at her and got the hint that she shouldn't get involved. She smiled shyly at the girl and nodded, indicating that she got the idea. Then she turned quietly and headed back to the common room.

Laura was leaving when Aaron started shouting, seriously she hadn't expected that looking straight at Aaron she sighed. "I tried but your mother wouldn't let me see you." Laura had tried loads of times. "I even throw a stone at your window but you didn't answer." That wasn't her fault right it was his.

Laura had a drink but she wasn't sharing it with the mean guy standing in front of her, well she wasn't even going to go into her bad to get it out. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT" Yeah Laura was blaming him for everything, the points loss her hating Professors everything.

Then Laura was giggling, she couldn't help it, when he called her Lauraboo it just made her giggle and even though she was trying to keep a serious face she couldn't do anything about the fact he had made her giggle. "Your not suppost to." Laura giggled. "I'm mad at you."

As she was strolling down the third floor corridor one day, Vashti suddenly heard a couple shouts coming not too far down the corridor. What in Merlin's name was going on? Walking quickly toward the sounds, she turned the corner and discovered that it was coming from a couple Hufflepuffs. Merlin, what was with them this term? And...wasn't that the girl she'd met a little while ago, the one that had insisted on calling her "Miss Ravenclaw Head Girl"? Yeah, she was pretty sure it was the same one.

"Is everything alright?" she asked as she approached them. Then...the girl was giggling? That was abrupt. Maybe everything was okay after all?

Sophie didn't take her eyes off Laura when the girl answered her and turned away to keep shouting at the older boy. When she seemed to be over with the yelling around, Sophie grabbed her shoulders and turned her around to look in her eyes. "Laura! Calm down!" she said with wide eyes. "You have to control yourself! Or do you want to end up in the Hospital Wing again??" Sophie knew Laura hadn't liked the nurse. When Laura started shouting again, Sophie let go off her and watched the whole scene.

Sophie didn't see Glenn arriving, but she heard the question and looked at her friend. "I don't really know. I just got here in time to see them shouting at each other. But I guess it'll all be sorted out... in a few."

When Laura was done screaming, Sophie turned her around to face her one more time. Her friend seemed to be giggling now. That was a good thing. "Lauraaaaaa!" Sophie was smirking. "You see what you do? You get all mad then you're finally able to see the funny side of everything! Isn't it better than being angry?" she was kind of worried Laura would get in trouble again. It wouldn't be nice to lose more house points, or worse, go back to the Hospital Wing! "Keep yourself together, woman!" she said jokingly, shaking her friend back and forth. Sophie knew Laura wasn't trying to be mean and just needed to laugh a little in order to calm down.

After a few seconds of just staring at the group, Alyssa gave him a Dr Pepper. Perfect.
'Why thaaaank you, Alyssa.' He said dramatically and took a few sips of his Dr Pepper.

Everyone sure seemed tense. Aaron shrugged, he was kinda enjoying the yelling across the corridor stuff. Besides, they never stayed mad at each other for more than a day or so, he and Laura would be fine, JUST like this.

'Don't you have an owl?' Aaron asked, pretty much everyone had an owl, even first years. Cept for Aaron, who used to have a toad. A very cool one, thank you very much. And no, he couldn't have sent her Oliver, that owl was too cool to be just Postman Pat.
'Well.. Dad did sort of replace the windows after I jumped..? through one. So no wonder I didn't hear you.'

He raised an eyebrow as Laura proceeded to blame everything on him. Really, everything?
'Harrrrrdly.' He rolled his eyes, 'b'sides, there's other people you could've gone to, I'm not the only person at Hogwarts.' He pointed at the gathering crowd and shrugged.
'I was busy at hooooome. Which was oooobviously all your fault.' Aaron rolled his eyes again. It wasn't all his fault. Only a bit of it, but that wasn't even really intentionally his fault. She should lighten up a bit.

Then out of nowhere, Laura started giggling like some nutter, trying to keep a straight face. He'd seen that face many times before.
He grinned as she tried to tell him that she was still mad at him. 'Course you are, LauraBOOOO.'

Uh oh. Head Girl. o____O 'Hello there. Nothing the matterrrrrr,' he whistled cheerfully. 'Just... rehearsing a play.' Or something.
He shrugged, that was hardly a convincing lie.

Laura looked at Sophie and laughed. "I am staying calm." Seriously Laura just wished Sophie would stop shaking her because well it was making her feel a bit sick. "Sophie, please..." Laura laughed. "Stop shaking me." Laura was laughing when Sophie told her to keep herself together.

Laura stopped laughing and bowed when she saw Miss Ravenclaw Head Girl. "Miss Ravenclaw Head Girl." Laura smiled, "It's a pleasure to see you today, are you well?" Laura smiled at the Head Girl in front of her. "Yeah were just having fun."

Laura then turned to Aaron and ran upto him and gave him a hug. "I'm sorry." Laura smiled at Aaron, she was just upset he hadn't come back with her. "I didn't want to move but daddy got a new job in Bedford and so we had to move, he's a boss at a new plant they made." Laura smiled at Aaron. "Will you forgive me?"

Sophie watched as Laura hugged the older boy and asked him to forgive her. Haha! Laura was such a weirdo! It was the second time Sophie had seen her angry at someone and all of a sudden being friendly with the same person and apologizing. She smirked and felt relieved. Laura seemed to be alright now. Phew!

Logan walked down the third floor corridor, eating one of the chocolate chip cookies Taylor had given him. He loved cookies! THEY MADE HIM HYPER! Hehehehehe! He walked down the corridor and paused and leaned against the wall. He was so happy he had come here, and met all his amazing friends. Sammy, Cardigan, Taylor, Ella, Jezz, Amethyst and all the others. They were all real great, he loved each of them.

Aaron grinned as Laura joined in on the lying explaining to Head Girl and continued to have some weirdly formal conversation with the girl. Suuuure, they were having a ball!
He had taught his almost-sister well.
He took a large swig from his bottle of Dr Pepper, 'I was just explaining how Dr Pepper was SIMPLY MARVELLOUS!' Cause it was. 'It really is, don't you agree, Girl Head? Head. Girl. Head Girl?'
He smiled awkwardly at the Seventh Year, hoping she wouldn't take... like points or anything.

What happened next made Aaron grin even more. Laura ran over to him, hugging him again. He shook his head and hugged her closely. 'I'm sorry too & I wish we both didn't have to move.' He pouted, he really did, even if he knew that his parents not being together was better. He just would like to have kept the house. And Laura as his neighbour.
But at least they'd see each other at school for the next two years. 'Course I forgive you, doof.' He grinned at her and took a cookie out of one of his pockets. 'Wannit?'

Alyssa was glad when she saw Laura and Aaron laugh with each other, hug and then and make up. They had known each other like FOREVER, and Alyssa didn't want Laura to stay angry with Aaron forever. Friendship was a valuable thing and shouldn't be taken for granted. So she walked up to the two of them and hugged them both in a BIG HUG....even if they hadn't asked for one, before stepping back and walking away. She would leave them alone to catch up.

Rehearsing for a play? Really. "Very loud play," Vashti commented. "What's the name of it?" This would be interesting.

Then...the first year was bowing? "You don't need to bow..." Hadn't she gone over this? And what was it about a badge that made some people act like this? Strange. "But yes, I'm well." Well enough at any rate. And they were just having fun? It certainly hadn't sounded like fun, shouting like they were.

But then the older Hufflepuff changed his story and claimed they'd been discussing Dr. Pepper. "A play about Dr. Pepper?" She did nod though when he sort of repetitively asked her whether she agreed that Dr. Pepper was "simply marvelous". "Dr. Pepper is nice, yes." It wasn't her favorite brand of soda, but she did like it.

Then the first year and the older Hufflepuff were hugging and apologizing, so it seemed the angry yelling was over. Which was good, since it meant her fellow students were capable of settling an argument without a prefect or a professor to do it for them. Vashti couldn't help the small smile that crossed her face. "Anyway, I'm glad to see your shouting match is over. Everything's okay now, yeah?" If it was, then she should probably be on her way.

Laura looked at Aaron and sighed. "Don't worry I'm going to bed mummy and daddy to let you come and visit us next summer." Laura continued to hug Aaron, and then she hugged Alyssia. "Your not going anywhere either." Laura smiled as she hugged both old students. "I don't want you to leave school before me can you stay?" Seriously Aaron should be forced to stay.

Laura looked at the cookie and smiled. "Yes Please." Laura really wanted a cookie, she took out a mars bar from her pocket and smiled at Aaron. "Trade you." Seriously cookies where better than Mars Bars any day.

Laura then turn to the Head Girl. "Miss Ravenclaw Head Girl." Laura thought hard about what the Play was called. "It's called Doctor Pepper does it again." Laura lied she had no idea what it would be about. "It's about a Doctor that drinks Doctor Pepper and always finds out who did it." Yeah that was it.

Passing the small contreversy between some Hufflepuffs and the Ravenclaw Head Girl that stole her shoes, Eva wanted to but in and shout SHOOSH as she was trying to walk in peace without people yelling around. Though the little thing going on seemed pretty interesting she just minded her own buisness and walked.

Paulie turned and lifted an eyebrow as he walked part some odd inter-house debacle going on in the corridor. It wasn't quite enough to hold his interest so much that he would pause his ambling to watch, so he continued on his merry way. His hands toyed with his tie and a moment later, he found another student walking along. "Wonder what that's all about, huh?" He remarked to her, not really minding that he didn't know her one bit.

he wah? She was focusing on the little scenario more than anything else as she kept her eyes peeled for someone to snap. As she was trying to ignore people she just couldn't help responding to someone elses question. As she was about to say something she forgot. Thinking harder than ever she had remembered but it took a moment to think of it. "Oh, yeah. Well um they seem pretty um loud? But it looks like one crazy arguement."

Laura looked at the girl and smiled. "It's not an argument we are just have a laugh, we want to do a play." Laura giggled. "It's about how Awesome Doctor Pepper is and How Awesome Miss Ravenclaw Head Girl is." Laura didn't care if the head girl told her off for calling her what she just did.

Jade Skidmoore walked along the third floor corridor, thinking to herself. She was thinking about how her boyfriend didn't even see her at all on Valentine's Day and she was getting worried. Was she mad? Of course, but not as much as she was sad. She took a seat on one of the stone benches that was beside the corridor wall and criss-crossed her legs. "What to do, what to do." She muttered to herself, watching as people walked by.

Valentines day was always upsetting especially when you had nobody to be with. There were just too many couples around getting all cuddly and cozy and it wasn't really Nessie's cup of tea. Her morning with her big 'brother' Adam had been quite okay, although she had to admit it was a tad awkward, but that was over now and she had places to be and she had someone to look for.

So off she went along her usual route which went through the third floor corridor. As she continued walking she noticed that somebody was sitting on one of the benches all on their own mumbling to themselves about something. Curious as she always was, Ness walked closer to the girl on the bench, only to realize that the girl was familiar. If only Nessie could remember her name, it was something with a J wasn't it? She couldn't remember. "What to do about what?" Asked Ness shyly trying to figure out what this girl was on about.

As Jade was contemplating on how to confront Nikolas, a girl came up to her and asked her a question. However, she was so distracted that she didn't even hear it. "Sorry, what did you say?" She asked, slightly remembering this girl. Where did she remember her from? Was it at the Whomping Willow? At one of the feasts? No and no. Who was she?

OH WAIT. "You're that girl who hugged me, right? Isn't your name, Natalie-no, Nishelle-no, Nicolle-no. I can't remember, but I'm sure I've met you before, do you mind reminding me again, please?" She asked, giving a smile. Now that was weird. Jade was weirded out by herself lately. She was becoming nicer and she didn't know why. Was it because it was the month of February and everything seemed so lovely? Eh, she didn't know, but she wanted to cure it.

Reaching the third floor corridor Zhenya decided to have a snoop around and see if she could see Raven. She looked up around the Charms class, but nothing. She went up and peeked through the Hospital Wing, but nothing. Well, it was good she wasn't in the hospital otherwise Zhenya would have felt awful that her friend was in hospital.

She decided she was definitely not there and left down the stairs.

Really? This girl hadn't heard what she had said. Ness bit her lip wondering whether to ask again or not. Whatever this girl was on about may have been private and the fact that Ness was asking could have been really rude. Well..it was to late now wasn't it? "Ermm..I was just wondering what you were talking about?" she said quietly hoping the Gryffindor wouldn't react badly. She had, had quite a few bad experiences with bad tempered Gryffindors and she was hoping this girl wasn't like them.

Yep..that was her the hugging girl. Nessie gave the girl a small smile. "Yeah..but erm..my names Nessie." She said with a small nod to make sure the girl got it. "And your name is?" she asked you know just to be sure. Looking at the bench she took a seat, the girl wouldn’t mind right? And if she did well tough, because her legs were tired especially after all the walking she did.

Damon walked in, his fire red hair, seemed to give him that extra accent to his sharp green eyes, He felt bad for everything that had been going on, I swear I'll never talk to her again, if that's what'll take to make the jerk happy! Damon sighed sitting down in a corner, wanting to scream.

Tay saw Damon walking in the third floor corridor and ran to catch up to him. "Hey." She smiled at him. Taylor was still wearing black and a flower in her hair. Her curls were framing her face as she looked at him.

Damon looked up at her for a second then looked back down, "Hey..." He said, barely audible. Just looking at her right now sucked for him. Just let her walk away... Just like you should've when you first met her. He felt a throb in his heart.