Worse?? Worse than evil Elliot? Sophie didn't think it was possible... though Hannah was worse, so... yeah, it was totally possible. He was the heir? Hm... Elliot was probably the oldest sister then... her brother's birth wouldn't make her so upset if he wasn't stealing her place as the heir or something... right?

It made sense in Sophie's head, at least.

"What do you mean by 'people like me'?" She asked, narrowing her eyes. The girl had better not be talking about pureblood issues again. And seriously, what could anyone do? Kill them all? All muggles and muggleborns in the world? Yeah, right.

Sophie had never had so many issues about the whole blood purity talk until she met Hannah and Elliot. Those girls made her hate just the thought of someone being so full of prejudice. She wasn't as angry as she was back when they first met, but Elliot was doing a fine job getting her mad again.

At least Sophie managed to take that stupid smirk off her face with the last comment. The Hufflepuff almost felt like smirking also. Almost.

"Don't you underestimate me." Sophie said angrily, tightening the grip on her wand, making purple sparks come out of it and hit the wall. Ugh! She'd better control herself. The last thing she needed was to actually hurt Elliot now. Nope, she wasn't going to attack the Ravenclaw, of course not. Sophie would defend herself, if needed. Just that.

The second year watched Elliot's every move. Sophie was good with spells, everybody knew that. Hmph.

She saw the wheels turning in Sophie's head...if she even had one. "Yes, caught on, have you? I was heir before he was born.." and it sucked. "But I don't why I bother telling you this. You don't know how these things work..." she scowled.

Elliot rolled her eyes. "People I don't like...like you. I don't like you...you are currently in the category of people I dislike..." she replied sarcastically. "Clear enough for you?" It wasn't even about blood now. Elliot was entitled to hate anyone she pleased. Sure, Hannah hated them for their muggle-ness...Elliot, however, hated them for just being...them. And by them, laura and Sophie.

She could tell Soapy had stiffened up...she was at least a little scared. She saw she was making the puffer's blood positively boil. And it made Elliot soooo happy. "Oh, I won't. But I know how you nice people work...you won't attack first...your friend, Laura, is NOT nice. She is able to make the first move..but you, sweetheart, are what they call 'a nice guy.' You're gonna' do a thing to me...until I do." she began to laugh...watching as Sophie hopefully got angrier...

Nice people...

Uuuugh! This girl! "I do know how these things work." Sophie replied coldly. "I just think they are nonsense." It wasn't like Elliot's family was a royal one or whatever. She never thought of this whole 'being an heir' as a big deal. "Well, I bet you love your brother for that, don't you?" She added sarcastically, blinking right after. Holy bludger. Sophie was starting to be afraid of herself.

Ouch. That hurt. Not that Sophie really expected Elliot to like her. Oviously not. In fact, Sophie didn't like her either. But it felt like Elliot had punched her stomach right now. The Hufflepuff didn't like it when people disliked her. "Well then," She started, trying not to give away in her tone that Elliot's comment had gotten her good. "I wonder what he would do to people... like me." Her brother would follow her around like a faithful dog and hex anyone Elliot disliked? Was that it?

Honestly.

"Of course!" Sophie said with indignation. "You don't suppose I would start anything off and risk getting in trouble, just because you are acting so ridiculous, do you?!" No, sir. She would not get in trouble because of evil Elliot. All she'd do now was to defend herself if needed.

She glared at Elliot before puffing. Yep, she was pretty mad now.

Nonsense. "You wouldn't think it was nonsense if you were raised your entire life in that manner..." she shot back, quite defensively. How DARE she criticize Elliot's way of life? RUDE.

And then she did it. She stuck Elliot where it hurt. The blonde even took a step back, looking terrified for A MERE SECOND before wiping it clear from her face. "Y-you don't have any idea what its like.." she hissed...clearly at a loss...of what had just happened. Sophie seemed to have touched a sore spot.

Elliot didn't love him. Not yet. She had only held him once and had only seen him for a week...then she had to come back to school. And it didn't help that her parents forgot her birthday, that her sister were madly in love with the baby...it didn't help that she wasn't her father's favorite anyone. She wanted to run away, to hide...but she didn't. She had to finish this first. Then she could go and..sulk somewhere. And she didn't want Soapy to know she had hurt Elliot in this way. Never.

Had Elliot gotten Sophie, first, though, with her comment? It sure seemed like it. Elliot felt just a TWINGE of guilt...but it quickly raced away as she remember what the girl had just said to her...HMPH. "I don't know. I don't care..." she mumbled, her fire clearly lost.

Then, Elliot snorted. "Me? Ridiculous? I assure you...I was mindin my own business...when you bothered me. Therefore YOU are the ridiculous one, sweetheart," she didn't smirk..she didn't smile. She didn't even look remotely fierce anymore. Just cold. Cold and stony.

"Whatever." Seriously, Sophie couldn't take this girl anymore. She was so... gaahh! But, wait.............. She tilted her head as Elliot stepped back and slightly frowned in confusion. Oh........... apparently Sophie had touched a very sensitive subject. Now the second year felt really bad. It was like Elliot could cry right there, in front of her. Making her cry was never Sophie's intentions, even if she disliked this girl a lot.

Should she apologize?

Elliot had come up and played around with Sophie's feelings along with Hannah that other day, and the girl was also purposely making her angry today. She thought her family was superior because they were purebloods and she wouldn't think twice before insulting both of Sophie's parents.

Though it was Elliot's birthday... and the Ravenclaw looked really upset now.

What to do, then? What to do???? Sophie just stood there, holding her wand, studying the girl's face with her brain thinking about a million things at the same time.

Merlin, Elliot really did look like she was going to turn around and run to cry or whatever mean people did when they were sad. Maybe curse someone on her way to her Common Room? That didn't sound like something Elliot would do at the moment, though.

Wow... Elliot didn't even had a good comeback! That was REALLY strange... and made Sophie feel even worse... "I'm sorry, Elliot." She finally said, not sure if she'd regret it later. She probably would.

"Actually, you were the one who snapped at me first." Sophie said looking at Elliot. The anger had momentarily vanished and she spoke in an almost normal tone this time. "I hadn't done anything to you before that." Yeah, so don't try to blame it on Sophie, she wouldn't buy it!

Edric watched Ella, waiting for the little girl to give some sort of reaction or response, but she seemed deep in thought. He wished he could fix this whole problem for her, just so she could go back to being her cheery and goofy, eyebrow-wiggling self, but there was only so much he could do for her at this point. He'd done his best, and though he still thought of Ella as a newborn in diapers, the girl was old enough to make her own decisions, to tell right from wrong.

The boy watched as the three girls then fell into a group hug which Evelyn started, both apologizing and forgiving both crazed little blondes. Edric just crossed his arms and watched expressionlessly. No, he wasn't endeared by the sight. Mr. Barlow doesn't have feelings. Pokerface.

BUT THEN.
Because this day couldn't just go back to being normal, could it?
Just when Edric thought everybody was happy and he could go back to being his pessimistic, people-hating self, Evs comes out of nowhere and apologizes to him. Not quite as moved as the three emotional girls around him, Edric shrugged. "It's fi--" But THAT'S when Evs did it - she hugged him. AGAIN! Knowing how much he hated that! And as if hugging the ogre wasn't weird and terrible enough, Evelyn was now pecking his lips too. Like--like… like he was some cute puppy or something she'd just decided to adopt.

"Evs--th--why--wha--" Edric stuttered as his arms uncrossed and he returned Evelyn's hug by patting the girl on her right shoulder this time. "Right." He cleared his throat. No, Edric wasn't totally feeling like the most awkward creature alive at that moment, and the faintest shade of pink on his face wasn't giving that away. You can't just throw hugs AND kisses at the ogre and expect him not to have some sort of breakdown, though!

Thanks to the state of shock he'd been left in, Edric wasn't paying much attention to the moment Ella and Alice were having on the side, hugging and forgiving and apologizing and just being second year little girls. But just as the boy was finally finding his tongue and about to question Evelyn, Ella came up to them and apologized to Evelyn, then to the ogre himself.

Edric sighed. Why was Ella being so depressed and paranoid? C'mon. Didn't she know it was against fairy world rules to abandon your fairy godchild, no matter how ogre-ish they become? "Don't be stupid." She's seven, Barlow. "I mean-- don't be silly. I'm not going to stop being your friend over this, Ells," the boy assured her. "I will have to take you with me to visit the hungry lions again, though, if you don't stop being so down on yourself." He smiled faintly at the girl, just to let her see that he wasn't upset with her. He'd never been, honestly, and he couldn't imagine himself ever being anything less than endeared by her. Ella would never hear that from him, though, of course. Never ever.

And now, out of nowhere, came a certain fun-sized demon that hugged a certain boy who'd been supposedly diagnosed with being allergic to hugs. Yep, Alice was hugging Edric for the SECOND time the same day.
!!!

"Would you guys stop doing that already!?" complained Edric, trying to push the little blonde off his torso, but her grip was like that of some vicious animal attacking new prey. She was totally doing that on purpose. <___< Seriously, though. Couldn't they all just go back to normal normally? Just agree that everything is fine now and then not see each other again for a couple more weeks? Get a snack the last day of school, maybe? Why was so much physical interaction required?!

And because Alice couldn't see Edric looking normal and comfortable for two seconds of his life, the girl was now asking to be flower girl at his wedding.
Wat.
"What wedding?" Oh Merlin. Just as he asked, he realized. Facepalm. Edric took a couple steps back from the group to return to his comfort zone and avoid any more physical interaction, and let Evelyn take care of the Little Demon. The blonde seemed to take Evs a lot more seriously than him, so he'd leave that babysitting job to her. He much preferred babysitting the other one, she was easier to handle.

Elliot didn't sniffle, she didn't even give a sign that she suddenly felt terrible. But she didn't say anything for awhile, simply glared at Sophie...who seemed to be doing some heavy duty thinking. Merlin, puffers had to think a LOT. Probably because it took them more brain power or something....*snicker*

But then, at Sophie's words, Elliot's eyes widened, and her whole face chanced. I'm sorry. Elliot herself wasnt good at apologies. But...she appreciated Soapy's apology. Because it had deeply unsettled the girl...and she could see that Soapy meant it. Truly meant it. It didn't make them like each other, it didn't make Elliot dislike her less....but it made it okay, for just a moment. "It's fine. Really, Soapy," she manned to croak out. But she really couldn't be here anymore. She suddenly felt sick...and very, very confused.

But then she rolled her eyes. Her voice was still quiet when she spoke,"Yes, yes, you're right...whatever. But I'm having a lousy day..." she defended herself, sounding like she had a sever head cold. She took another step back, glancing over her shoulder....she wanted to like, run away or something. Her confusion was making her head pound..

What did she just do?...

....

Evelyn could feel her cheeks flush with embarrassment. Why on earth did she kiss him? He was a friend. Just a friend. Oh, gosh. She looked at Eddy, ready to apologize for like the hundredth time that day when Ella distracted him. Thankfully.

UGH. She didn't behave like this. She didn't go around kissing boys. C'mon. She was friends with Trey and she NEVER kissed him, even if she did crush on him for almost a year. Really, if Trey knew..? What would he think? This was not the Evelyn he knew.. and now, she was panicking.

Hang on. Making it seem like WHAT!? Evelyn stared at Ella, surprised. Like-like each other? What was that even supposed to mean? "Um--I..uh.. I mean, we.. Eddy and I.." She sighed and gave up. After what she just did, it wasn't like they were ever going to believe her. So. She just nodded and smiled faintly. "It's fine." She was really glad that the girl wasn't crying anymore though.

And, it was kind of nice to see that Ella looked up to Eddy.. and that he seemed to actually care for the girl. Huh. Who knew that the boy was capable of having emotions? Defending Alice, being all nice to Ella.. she liked to see that side of Edric. Okay.. NOT liked..just liked. It kind of reminded her that he was human, after all.

Evelyn couldn't help but laugh a little when Alice squeezed Eddy around the waist. Heh. That was funny. The boy was probably having the worst day of his life.. the girl he probably hated the most hugging him twice the same day AND Evelyn hugged him and well.. she didn't want to think about that now. Ahem.

It wasn't her fault? "Thanks, Alice." Evelyn smiled at the girl, genuinely pleased. Seriously, had Alice always been this nice? And, well. She'd made things awkward.. Right. "Well.. I'm glad you tried to keep up the promise. Like Eddy said, it was an honorable thing to do." Oh, wait. She bit her lip for a moment before asked hesitantly, "Blue doesn't know anything about that night, does she?" Her eyes shifted toward Ella for a moment. Please tell me that she doesn't know.. Please.

And, she watched with a happy smile as the kids sorted things out between them. Huh. She was glad to see that they were back to being friends. Alice really didn't deserve to be punished for something that was entirely Evelyn's fault.

And, she was STILL a little disturbed about what she did earlier but she kind of hoped Eddy would just forget about it. It was a small kiss that meant.. well, nothing. Anyway..

Wait.. wedding!? Seriously? WHY did Alice just ask that? Um. She watched Eddy move away and she couldn't but roll her eyes. Why did she have to answer the weird questions? "Okay, well.. If I ever get married, sure. You could be my flower girl." Evelyn smirked a little before she added, "And, Ella too."

Alice seemed pretty genuine with what she was saying. Besides, the girl was the Hulk to her Hulkasaurus. How could she stay mad at her? That would be like…like breaking up the best super hero team of all time or something. It just couldn’t be done. Not without causing some like HUGE cosmic disaster down the line. Yup. Cause Ella and Alice’s friendship was THAT important to the universe. The second year gave a small smile to her friend when she saw the pinky and wrapped her own around her friend’s, giving them a firm shake. There. It was settled. No more lying EVAH. The hulkasaurus hug was nice too despite the fact that Queen Alice was squishing her to death, and Ella squeezed her friend before letting go. “You’re really getting good at hugging, y’know.” And Ella was an expert so that was some high praise, right there. Mhm! Alice should be really pleased with herself.

Evelyn wasn’t mad at her either, apparently. Though she didn’t seem to know how exactly to take Ella’s apology…which Ella clearly took to mean that the older girl was still harboring SERIOUS feelings for her ogre bestie. Not to mention the kiss was a good indication of all that too…AND her ogre was clearly blushing..which caused Ella to raise her eyebrows. Hey! Ogres blushed? HUH? Who knew? Ella was seriously learning a lot of new information today. Too bad she’d just promised not to bring such things up in front of Edrilyn anymore, cause she felt this really strong urge to do some serious eyebrow wiggling right now. Good sign, yeah?

Don’t be stupid? Ella’s frown was immediate. That wasn’t nice, not nice at all. The second year tried not to wibble as her ogre continued on. She could totally handle anything he had to say. Mhm. She was erm…strong…sort of…sometimes. The little badger let out a sigh of relief when the meany corrected his MEAN word choice and assured her he wasn’t going to defriend stop being her friend over this. Well that was seriously a relief cause for some ODD reason, life without her ogre seemed like a really terrible idea. Not that she’d ever tell Edric that, it would go right to his big ogre head…and he really couldn’t afford for it to get any bigger! He might fall over or something! O_O A small smile appeared on her face when Edric threatened to take her to the lions again and she laughed softly, rolling her eyes at him. She knew he was just as afraid as she had been that day so he would never go through with any such thing…or would he?! Ella would rather not test that theory. “Fine. I’ll try.” She said with a nod of her head. And unfortunately for Ells, as much as she wanted to hug her big meany swamp friend, she didn’t want to kill him with her hug germs…cause he was HIGHLY allergic, remember?

Hey! So the whole Alice hugging Edric again thing…it was kind of amusing. Even despite all the crazy emotions Ells was feeling at the moment, she could definitely see the humor in this. She also saw the injustice. How was it that both Alice and Eve were allowed to hug Edric but her, Edric’s little fairy godchild, was not? That was just plain wack. Mhm. At least that’s what she thought about the whole situation. She’d have to discuss this with him later though, as he seemed traumatized enough for one day. Poor ogrey thing. He needed some gummy bears, STAT. Too bad the second year didn’t have any on her at the-O__O SHE DID! BEAM. “Here.” And after reaching way down into her pocket, she pulled out a small bag of gummy bears and handed them to Shrek Edric. That would help, right?

Snort. Oh.No.Alice.Didn’t. Ella just kind of looked at her friend with wide eyes, not knowing what Edric and Evelyn were going to say about this, before she BURST into laughter. How could she not? The poor thing was exhausted and emotionally drained and that comment was just…well it was laughable! It was also very brave of Alice to ask such a thing. She probably felt justified after the two had just slobbered all over each other again, though. Just saying. But wait! Ella stopped her laughter when Evelyn then told Alice she COULD be in the wedding if Evelyn ever married. Oh! And Ella could too? The second year giggled and smiled at Alice. Oh man. Edric and Evelyn were going to have the best wedding ever.ever.ever. They could start planning now, yeah?

Now that the traumatizing part of the evening was over, Alice found everything to be strangely funny. How Evelyn was all flushed and stammer-y, Edric's reaction to Eve's kiss and the hugs, and Ella's teensy eyebrow wiggle that the lioness noticed. Tee hee. "AWW," she said as Ells and Eddy made up. "I'm so happy that you guys made up! Now Edric can't kill me 'cause he knows it would upset his fairy godchild." Giggle. Now that she knew she could annoy Edric without almost any consequences, she wanted to hug him for the third time that day, but decided to take some pity on the boy. She turned to Ells again as the Jigglypuff complimented her on her new hugging skills. "Thaaaanks, Ells. But I've gotten a lot practice." Cue wink at Edric. That boy was her new official hugging dummy.

She giggled again at Edric's ridiculous reaction at her hug. "Stop what? Don't you love hugs, Eddy?" Sh squished him a teensy bit more. "Don't you love your Little Demon?" BEAM. Uh-huh. this was kinda fun. She finally turned to Evs. "You thought it was honourable?" AWWH. Evs. The Prefect was making the little devil feel all mushy and fuzzy inside. "Eddy thought it was honourable?" Cue SUPERBEAM at the ogre. "Well, you're welcome. And.. err.. I don't think Blue knows. Unless Ira spilled something." Shrug. She didn't think Ira would do that, but then again, she didn't know Ira for more than two minutes. "But you're gonna have to tell Blue sometime, or she's bound to find out. And it would probably be better coming from you than anyone else." EWW. Alice sounded gushy. Time for topic change.

And.. ELLS WAS GIVING EDRIC GUMMY BEARS?!?! Where were Alice's? "ELLS. Do you have any more gummy bears?" HEY. Demons got hungry, too. "Or your lovely fairy godmother is going to have to learn how to share." 'Cause the lioness wanted some. She had been good, today. She deserved sugar. Bounce. Her happiness dissolved, though, when she heard Edric ask what wedding she was talking about and Ells laughing at her question. "Guys," she said sternly. "It's decided they're getting married, right?" Nod. She BEAMed at Eve as she confirmed that Alice could be the flower girl. "ELLS! You can be Edric's Best Man!" 'Cause Alice was pretty sure that Edric no guy friends. Wait.. Ells wasn't a dude. O_o "I mean, you can be Edric's Best.. girl? No... Best woMan!" BEAM. "And Blue can be the Maid of Honour and I can toss flowers at everybody and I can be a Bridesmaid and Ells and I can plan your wedding!" Alice bounced around Eve, a smile spread across her face. "Eve's bouquet can be made of snapdragons and they can serve ice cream at the reception and the centerpieces can be made of.."

Do you have a year?

Edric remained in the sidelines as the girls continued on with their apologies and explanations and whatever. When it was Evelyn's turn to deal with Alice's wedding question, the boy raised his eyebrows slightly. Well played, Wellington. She managed to answer the question without making a fool of herself or him. That should be enough for the little ones to stop bothering them with this lovey-dovey business.

It seemed the day was finally getting nice and back to normal, as Ella handed Edric a bag of gummy bears. The Gryffindor accepted the offer with a crooked smile and lifted the bag, turning it over and emptying its contents in his mouth.
Oh oops, was he supposed to enjoy those a little longer than half a second? And share? Pssssssshhhhhh. Edric Barlow didn't share! And just because he was kind ten minutes ago didn't mean he was suddenly going to turn into a Disney princess. The ogre was to remain an ogre.

Luckily for the boy, Alice soon grew distracted from the gummy bear topic as the idea of the wedding came up again. As she immediately assumed that the groom to this fictitious wedding would be him, the Gryffindor rolled his eyes. He wasn't even going to bother this time; apparently making up fake weddings and being annoying made the two little monsters happy so he wasn't going to mess with that. 'Cause they were NO walk in the park when they were on unhappy, emotional mode.

"Well great, now that this is all figured out," started Edric suddenly, throwing away his empty bag of gummy bears and ignoring the fact that it landed on some fourth year's head, "I need some fresh air. See you girls later at dinner." And with that, the ogre-lion boy made his escape down the stairs and eventually onto the grounds. 'Cause srsly. He loved approved of those three, but in large doses they were more than his nearly non-existent social skills could handle.

WELL. Edric seemed to be uncomfortable and squeamish. And.. leaving. "BYEEE, PRINCE CHARMING. We'll miss you!" she said, tossing her arms around his waist one more time before he left. HEH. He was quite squishable, pity he didn't do hugs. After disentangling herself from the boy, she saluted her Ellasaurus and smiled sweetly at the Prefect. "WELL. Glad we got this all cleared up, but I ought to go check on Frank. He doesn't do well when he's left alone." Not that this wasn't fun.. it was rather hilarious. She felt bad for her poor chocolate frog, stuck in her dormitory. She slipped her hand into Evs' gave it a teensy squeeze. After she shot a BEAM at Ells, she skipped down the corridor and sighed in relief that this was over.

Little demons didn't have great social skills either, y'know.

Ella didn't really know how to take the fact that Alice was continuously winking and hugging her big mean ogre. On the one hand, it was completely comical. The second year had to hold back her laughter ever single time. On the other hand, Ella knew Edric was probably annoyed by it and when he was mad, Ella felt really bad. #FairyGodchildProblems.

The second year shook her head when asked if she had any more gummy bears. "Maybe Edric would-" O_o...eat the entire bag and not offer anybody some. Right. She should have seen that one coming, yeah?

The wedding talk made Ella giggle. She actually quite liked the idea of being in an Edrilyn wedding. Mostly because it seemed some of her favorite people would be involved. As for being Edric's best woMan, Ella BEAMED at Alice cause that was a BRILLIANT idea. She couldn't help but turn to look for Edric's reaction though, noting the eye roll. Uh-oh. Ogre bestie not pleased about the wedding talk? Frown. Ells should have brought more gummy bears.

O_O "Edric...you just hit a-" but then he was leaving. Like rather suddenly and without a proper goodbye. Ella hadn't expected a HUG or anything but SHEESH. Couldn't a fairy godchild get a hair ruffle or something?! She had been traumatized, after all! Not that Edric hadn't been traumatized too...what with the hugging and wedding talk and KISSING. "Bye." The second year said quietly, waving with a frown on her face. Pout. Pout. Pout.

Ells saluted Queen Alice, a small smile on her face, noting that she was now leaving too. "Tell Frank I say hi." She called after her friend, before turning to Evelyn. "So..." WHYDIDJAKISSMYBIGOGRE-YBROTHER-FRIENDAGAIN? "Wanna walk back to the common room with me?" Sheepish Grin.

Clearly Elliot was surprised by Sophie's apology. The girl probably didn't get that a lot... and probably didn't say that too often either. Sophie waited while the Ravenclaw seemed to let the words sink in.

Ignoring the 'Soapy' bit, the second year just watched Elliot for a while. Sophie had never thought anything could hurt her rival so much. If she was a mean person, she would make a mental note and be sure to use this whenever she wanted to bother the blonde, but the Hufflepuff was nothing like that. She was actually making a mental note to never bring up the topic again.

The fact that Elliot admitted Sophie was right made the brunette blink. This whole sad-Elliot thing was starting to freak her out as well. She didn't like it one bit... when the eagle looked over her shoulder, as if wanting to run away, Sophie pocketed her wand. "You know, let's just go to our Common Rooms." It didn't seem like any of them wanted to continue the silly conversation anyway. She started to walk slowly in Elliot's direction. Not really Elliot's direction, but her Common Room's direction. Elliot just happened to be in the way right now.

After she was a few steps away from the Ravenclaw, Sophie turned around and scratched her head. "Well um... happy birthday." She said awkwardly, dropping her hand to her side. She turned her back at Elliot again and disappeared down the corridor.

Evelyn looked slightly relieved. Blue didn't know anything and she wanted to keep it that way. As for telling Blue about it.. Yeah, well. That wasn't going to happen. Of course, if Evelyn had a boyfriend, Blue would be the first to know about it but until then.. her lips were sealed.

And.. the Prefect raised her eyebrows when she watched Eddy empty the entire packet of gummy bears into his mouth. She didn't say anything though. It was kind of expected, really.

Evelyn was highly amused. Bridesmaid? Best woman? Flower girl? Maid of Honor!? Plan the wedding? Edric's best woman!? The seventh year kind of wanted to laugh. C'mon.. the idea of her getting married to Edric was rather ridiculous. But, Alice was being serious so she just smiled and said, "Wow, Alice. When I do decide to get married, I might just ask you to be my wedding planner."

And. Eddy left. Abruptly. Yeah, well. She didn't really blame him because she was rather tired from this entire conversation as well and all she wanted to do now was to sleep.. and sort out her feelings. Ahem. Evelyn turned to smile down at Alice, who gave her hand a squeeze. "See you around."

"Yeah, lets do that." Evelyn linked her arm through Ella's before they started to walk toward the common room.

Elliot nodded, still a little choked for words. "Sounds good, Soapy..." she said softly. She didn't even know how to place her feelings at the moment. She still didn't like Sophie, no....but she had a little respect for the girl now. Which was more than you could say for Laura. Elliot didn't think she could EVER respect Laura...not as a fellow human being, no.

She almost winced as Sophie moved towards her, but then realized that the puffer was only trying to get past her. Elliot merely stared at her. She didn't immediately even response when the girl told her happy birthday..she just stared and stared until the puffer was gone. Then, with a sniffle and a wipe of her wet eyes, she whispered, "THanks, Soapy." No, Elliot didn't like her.

But she respected her.