Tay glanced at Damon, "Never mind i dont need your help." She laughed and smiled at him. Taylor's smile brighten, "Would you be willing to do my hair for me? Please?"
Puck came up to the group, wanting to wish his son a good term and to tell him that he would see him at Christmas. "Hey Ash, Tay, Maxwell, Minerva." He nodded at them all.

Damon didn't look up at his dad, "What do you want?"
Rowan walked up beside his Dad, "Still in a sour mood I see." he smirked at his younger brother, "I remember this... Waiting to board..." He smiled remembering his first day here.

Taylor glared at Puck and refused to talk to him.
Puck looked at his son, "You should really talk to me with more respect, mister. I am after all your father." He frowned at his son. "I only wanted to see you off and wish you a good term." To Rowan, "I do apoligze that i didnt see you off." He clapped Rowan on the shoulder, "But do you want to go do something later?"

Minerva smiled "Of course I will. As soon as we are on the train allowed to do magic I will do whatever you want. I might even do mine as well." she was wanting something different again. Then she heard voices and smiled "Oh hey Puck, Rowan. How are you?" but her smile quickly left when she remembered Damon and Taylor were mad at him.

Maxwell laughed but said nothing to Taylor telling him not to tickle her, he was of course going to tickle her later. He walked over to Minnie and waited for her to lead him away.

Minerva moved off to where Damon and Taylor couldn't hear. "So..." she looked at him trying to find the words that wouldn't come out.."Do you have any idea what his plan is or when he might do it?"

Tay glanced at Minerva and smiled again, "Thanks!" She hugged her friend and glared at Puck again.
"I'm doing good though these people can hold a grudge." He grimaced, "But how are you?" Puck smiled at the only one who wasnt mad.... or at least he thought, at him.

Minerva looked at Damon hoping he wouldn't be mad at her for talking to Puck, but Puck never really did anything to her and she knew if Damon would like her then Puck would be happy, because it wasn't Taylor. "Oh I'm doing well. Excited to be going back to school. I wanted to thank you again for taking me on the camping trip."

Maxwell shook his head. "No, but i don't think ruining whatever it is will help my case. It'll only make me seem like a jerk and like i don't trust her, I have to trust her." He said looking a little worried, but Taylor made him a promise about how if things would end it would end on their terms, not Damon's. "I trust her." He said with more confidence.

"That is good that you are doing good." He smiled, "You are going into your third year, correct? I wish you the best of luck and a good term. Oh no problem." Puck laughed, "You are welcome to come on our next trip if you wish." He liked Minerva better than Taylor by far.

Minerva looked at Maxwell and then at Damon. "Well I'm promising you the same thing I promised Damon. If it stands that she stays with you then I'm going to be there for Damon, but if it goes the other way (she couldn't say the words) then I'm here for you, you are all my friends." she wanted to look away, but couldn't take her eyes off of him. "I'm glad your so confident. I am so nervous I just want it out and get it over with."


"Thanks and yes I am in my third year. Can't wait to get my new broom out on the Quidditch pitch." she grinned thinking about it. Minerva blushed and then looked at Damon remembering what was going down at school. "Well we will see how the year goes, but thank you for the offer."

"I hope your new broom suits you." Puck smiled and nodded, "Okay, the offer will be open whenever you decide to accept or decline."

"Harlow!" Aurora grinned warmly. She liked little Harlow - she was adorable. And very entertaining to be around. "Err, it was alright thanks. San Diego Dragons won the big match!" she said excitedly. Yep, the best thing about the Summer was definitely the big Quidditch win - though the drama surrounding the game was certainly worth trying to forget about.

Aurora looked down at little Harlow with a big smile on her face, "How about yours? Get up to anything crazy?" Because no matter how interesting Aurora's summer had been, Harlow always seemed to have an interesting story to tell about her family and holidays.

Maxwell nodded. "I'm going to be honest with you, if by some chance she did pick him...I'll destroy him." He said cryptically. "Without her i have no reason to tolerate him." He hoped it wouldn't make her mad or think he was a monster, this is how he felt though and he wasn't going to say sorry for it.

Okel fell over. "I'm sorry..." he said, not understanding why she got so mad.

Damon turned away from his dad. He wasn't talking to him.
Rowan nodded in agreement, "I'd love to Dad but I promised Loreta, Miguel, Sheen, Luise, Raine, and Ryan. Unless you want to join us. They'd all like to see you again."

School was starting up again. That whole concept was weird to Selina. She knew that summer was over because the night before she had gotten her pre-train jitters, but now, being on the platform, it was all real that she was starting her fifth year of Hogwarts. When did she get old enough to be an upperclassmen? Wasn't it just yesterday that she was on the platform for the very first time. This year she actually an older student and that term made her want to squirm. Being old was not something she was too excited about because getting older meant that she would have to leave sooner, but she was not going to think about that.

As she wandered around the platform she looked for any familiar face that she could find. There was no one really to be found, so she adjusted the the top of her dress and continued to look around the platform for a familiar face.

Puck sighed at Damon then looked at Rowan, "I dont want to intrude." He shook his head then pulled Damon into a hug.

Harlow nodded and smiled though she had never heard of the San Diego Dragons. "Oh that's splendid." She was hoping they were a Quidditch team. "Um what is a San Diego?" No use in being in the dark about it. After all an adult would ask questions to figure things out.

She shook her head, "No my summer was actually really tame compared to the stuff that my brothers usually get up to. Well thats not true. Our family reunion was a murder mystery game this year. My cousin Devon ended up trapped in a jewelry box in Okinawa for two days." She giggled. That had been a funny day when they finally found him. She told him not to try apparating without a license, but he was determined to win. "And then I finished another book." She announced happily. She had been working on that manuscript since October of last year.

Minerva smiled "Thank you" she looked down feeling awkward that she was the only one talking to him.

Minerva looked down feeling the pain in her at his words, she reached over and took his arm without looking at him. "Maxwell I understand that, but again your all my friends and I wish you wouldn't." she then looked at him with all the confusion and emotion showing on her face. "Maxwell as the summer has went on I have fallen for him more and more even when I try to back away, and I hate to say this, but if you do anything when I'm around I am not going to promise that I am going to stand back and let you hurt him. I just hope it doesn't come to that at all." she didn't want to see this group break up she loved being with them. Please Taylor pick Maxwell she thought in her head. Looking at Damon she was having trouble holding in tears. She wasn't sure why she wanted to cry, but her feelings for him where just taking over.

Minerva couldn't take it, as Puck hugged Damon she went up to Damon's ear. "Damon please just hug him goodbye. I would give anything to hug my father right not, for the worlds just in case, please don't miss this opportunity." she backed away.

Maxwell shook his head. "I won't do anything in front of you, I promise. But i won't sit by and watch them together. But like i said i trust her." He really did trust Taylor, was that foolish with his record with girls? Josie vanish at the end of first year, Violet for getting him completely last year, could he handle Taylor leaving? Or would he just give up?

"Oh, it's a place in California... In fact, Kennedy is from San Diego." she explained. Yep... that's why they'd gone to the match... It had been... an experience. "They won pretty quickly - no contest. Caught the snitch within two hours." Yep, a short game for a final.

Murder Mystery..? "That sounds brilliant!" Aurora exclaimed. "I can't see my family doing anything like that... though sometimes the reunions nearly end in murder..." Yup, Stewart-Quinn family = drama. "Where's Okinawa?" She was pretty sure she'd heard of it... somewhere... maybe. A book..? Ew. Reading... though maybe writing them was more fun... "Really? That's amazing... how many is that now?"

Minerva smiled "Well if you need anything or anyone to talk to. You know I'm around and I told you my places of hiding at school." she looked at Damon again trying to fight her feelings to put them in check. "I gave him the two way mirror. Told him he could use it after he told her to let me know what happens. I'm hoping he will just need me to comfort him.. Is that wrong of me?"

Damon ignored Minnie and pushed his Dad off of him. He turned away from him, "I'm still mad at you..."
Rowan walked up next to his Dad, "You wouldn't be intruding. I'd love for you to come." He glared at Damon, "He's trying Damon, isn't that enough?"
"He didn't try anything until I threatened to tell Chelle."

Maxwell shook his head. "No, but again i'm biased. He's being selfish in my opinion...She's happy with me and I with her, why mess that up now? He knew her before we were dating but he did nothing about her then?" He said questioning Damon's logic as always. "If she's happier with him, I-" Maxwell was having trouble say it. "-I would want that for her. She deserves happiness." He looked over at Taylor and his eyes turned a soft pink for her.