Minerva blushed, he was just to cute she thought to herself. "Well it's probably for the best, because I would never see it ending happily. One team has to lose and that would make the other mad, you say you can't hurt me for the game, and I would probably be way to distracted with the cute dark haired boy in lion colors that I wouldn't know whats going on in the game." She grinned trying to keep herself from laughing so she wouldn't hurt anymore.

Maxwell smiled and nodded. "I think it is for the best, I've be just as distracted by the gorgeous girl in the yellow and black with the constant changing hair." He said winking at her. "Besides if you got distracted and fell of your broom, i'd catch you.."

"I don't know it could be real and I would ask them but well, I don't know there language and nor do they know ours." the red head grinned.

Alex's grin went to a smile as Jory explained that he was a muggleborn. "Nice I'm a half-blood." she replied watching the ducks once again. "Yeh I am and I wonder how we have only met until now." Alex added with a laugh.

*"That's not what I'm all..uneasy, about," Cardigan said. Why did they have to become friends in the first place? Why couldn't she just have said sorry that day and been on her way? Why couldn't she just have never gotten involved with these people? Why couldn't she just have moved out of the country? Wait wait wait. Why would she wanna do that?! I mean, she did wanna get out of these people's lives since she was obviously just hurting 'em, but move out of the country for it? Too extreme. Way too extreme. Besides, the snake had limited options on where to move to, such as Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, the USA; so on and so forth. Those were places where she could move to, if so. But, she had to go to Hogwarts. She had to. It just wasn't an option, not going.

*Cardigan had to find someway to keep her two friends from asking about it. This was just SO CONFUSING! Why why why. Why why why. Why why why. If only Logan was here... Then, she wouldn't have to deal with the heavy burden of keeping the idea of them not being friends, specifically meaning only Cardigan separating and Logan and Ella staying friends, a secret. Only a little bit longer. Just a little bit.

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Minerva smiled at him, "Well then maybe we should just stick to private practices and you be my personal trainer, what do you think about that?" She would love to fly with him and practice with him, plus she could really use the extra practice to get better. She smiled looking into his eyes hoping he would say yes to helping her. She was afraid he might say no since he worried so much about her.

Harvey walked out to his second favourite spot in this school after he had been shown this spot a few times last year and a couple of times this year. It was fun to come and watch the ducks swim around minding their own business, eating and cleaning themselves.. maybe even getting into little fights between them.. all in all a bit of enterainment on a day that was turning out to be pretty dull. He wondered if watching the ducks could change that so he came over and so here he was standing here watching those ducks again hoping that people didnt think him weird for watching them alot lately

Justin was out for walk alone when he spotted Harvey out by the duck pond so he walked over and stood next to his best friend...
" Hey , Harv... Sorry I haven't really been around lately..."

Harvey felt a presence next to him and then heard the voice that belonged to that presence, this automatically brought a smile to his face. He then looked at his best friend "Hey Justin.. ah its ok.. no worries mate.. I guess everyone just got busy.. I know you got busy .. with Ariana. How you two doing?" he asked him. He was surprised to see Justin after a long time he wasnt expecting to see them for a long time yet, since he had seen how busy they were with school work and stuff.

" We're quite well. Thank you.... and what of you? do you have a girlfriend, Watson?"

Harvey smiled widely happy that they were well "I am very much glad to hear that Justin." he nodded "Yeah I am still with Ameliah. We are doing quite well too" he smiled some more. He looked back out to the duck pond and watched them for a few more minutes before he looked at Justin "Hey er how is Mins? Is she doing good too?" he asked. Just because they didnt hang out didnt mean that he had forgotten about her, she was his best friend too and would be until the very end.

Yeah sure he had been down sometimes cause they never hung out no more. But he had remembered her words that she said to Justin a long while back that they didnt have to hang out all the time, they would still be friends even if they didnt hang out. He knew she was right just because they didn't hang out didn't mean that it was the end of their friendship, they would still be best friends no matter what and he made a point to remember her words so that he could remember them whenever he was down, cause those words no matter how you looked at them spoke the truth.

Minerva needed a break her classes were stressing her out and she just couldn't focus. So she thought the could winter air would be what she needed, but it was becoming a failed attempt. Her brain should have been on her homework, classes, even quidditch, but it wasn't, it kept heading toward a dark haired, brown eyed boy. She smiled when she thought of Maxwell. She was about to give up completely on clearing her head when she saw her two best friends. She stood there watching them talk and she couldn't help but think how much time had changed them, but at the same time kept them close as friends. She walked up to them smiling. "Hey boys, what are you two doing out in the cold?"

Harvey stood there looking at the ducks with Justin, well ok they were watching the ducks do what they usually did. While watching them he heard a girl's voice he looked round before assuming cause he couldn't believe that in just the space of minutes he was in the presence of not just one of his best friends but both of them. This was quite sudden and unexpected he didn't know what to make of this, he couldn't help but wonder if this had all been planned and if someone had told them that he missed them causing them to plan this meeting.

But who could have told them... Ella? no.. she wouldn't tell them after he told her not to. He then remembered the owls he had sent them with their gifts, hadn't he written in there that he had missed them. He smiled at Minnie "Erm .. hey Mins.. I was.. just asking about you.. how are you?" he asked. As much as he was glad that they were here he also wondered if the stupidity of his which seemed to be normal for him these days when it came to his best friends at the McIntyres also contributed to this meeting hangout of theirs.

''Oh Camden.''He said with a smile.''But spend most of my time out at my Grandparents house in Westminster.''Uh,He missed his family.

''Hi.''He said smiling.He looked at her Green Clothing and thought about something.She could be really mean or really nice.''I'm Derrick.''He grinned and looked out at the clear water.''Sixth Year Lion.''That was obvious because of his tie.

Minerva Smiled at the surprise in Harvey's voice, she knew it had been awhile since they hung out. She walked over and hugged him, "Thank you so much for the gifts they were very nice, please tell your parents thank you as well." She pulled her blanket from her bag and put it on the ground. "Want to sit for a bit." she said as she pulled her hat over her ears further. Why did they always find themselves outside in the winter it was so cold. Once she sat down she took out her can of diet coke she had stashed and her bag of cookies she had gotten from Leelee. "Anyone want a cookie?" Looking at the two boys she laughed a bit, "So what were you two talking about? Gosh knows it wasn't classes." she joked.

A goofy smile crept across Maxwell's face. "Anything to help you not get hit again...and to spend more time with the prettiest girl on the Hufflepuff team...any team really." He said smirking, he was doing a little bit of sweet talking, but he knew it to be true so was it really just sweet talking?

Yeah well, she's pretty fun to be around if you don't count the fact that she won't give him any Blacky' pictures "Its not cheating." he said. Well, maybe its.

Yup. Since its too small to be boys dog not to mention it look tooooooo fragile? "What there for boys?" he asked confuse. Was she mean the cuteness level or something else?

There she goes again. "You're not answering the question again." he told Anya. Why can't she answer his question? Its not that difficult, isn't it? "You know I'm gonna have that answer from you sooner or later." But he prefer sooner tho.

Eeerrr..Okay. He believe her for now at least. "Not real? What you mean not real?" So all this all of those stories he heard about cooties were lies? All of them? He was being fooled by that cooties story? "But it just sound so real." Now he feel so stupid.

"Oh thats a nice area, my family lives in Wiltshire" she smiled. The blonde wondered what her aunt and uncle were up to right now.

"Nice to meet you, Derrick" Chelsea smiled. The blonde looked back at the ducks swimming around. "So, uh, have any hobbies?" she casually asked. Yeah, she wasn't like half of the people in her house, she's actually friendly. Unless someone made her really mad. Anyway, this guy seemed pretty nice so why not just stay and chat.

Justin was just about to answer Harvey's question about Minnie when out of the blue there she was..... " Well, You could ask her yourself, Mate...."
" Hey, Min." Justin said as he gave her a kiss on her cheek.

" Wow.... It's pretty neat how we all find each other when we're out here clearing our thoughts...." he chuckled. " No matter what we will always find each other..... I may be feeling sentimental right now, but I love you both .... "

Minerva smiled and then blushed as he said she was the pretties, "I don't believe that for a minute. I know the other girls on my team and I would think they were cuter, but I will take the help." She grinned thinking of the fun they could have practicing. "So did you bring your broom with you or did you damage it when you wrecked it over the summer." She smiled a bit remembering how he tried so hard not to let Taylor know he was hurt.


Minerva chuckled at Justin, "Oh good grief Ariana has made him a wimp. "she teased. Taking a sip of her pop. "So Harvey how is Ameliah doing? Sorry we didn't talk much the last time I saw you two together." She was happy to see her friends together and glad they could get a chance to hang out. "We should all do something together one day, with Ameliah, Ariana, and Maxwell as well." It would be fun to get the friends together with their special people.

Justin shot Minerva a look when she poked fun at him..... " I think a triple dinner date would be fantastic. I'm sure Ari would like the idea..." Justin said excitedly.

Maxwell smiled. "But you are, you're the most beautiful." He said with a wink. "I bought a firebolt before school started, i haven't used it yet though.." He said standing up and offering her his hand. "You wanna get out of here? It's the weekend i figure we can slip off to my spot for now."

Harvey watched as Minnie came over and gave him a hug, he couldnt help but return that hug as she thanked him and his parents for their gifts. "No need to thank us, I wanted to get you something and mom also decided the same." he smiled. He had wanted to give her a gift like he had done every year since they had met, so this year was no different. He watched as a blanket came out and she asked them if they wanted to sit down, he thought for a moment and then sat down as she took out some pop and some cookies and offered them some.. he shook his head refusing the cookie. "No thank you" he smiled as she asked what they were talking about.. "Oh nothing much he had just got here and I was just asking him how everyone was and you turned up" he smiled..

He looked at Justin as he said that he loved them both, he couldnt help but smile at those words.. well the same went for him but he couldnt bring himself to say it but he hoped that they knew. He chuckled a little at Minerva's joke at Justin before a question was aimed at him and an apology he looked down at his hands as the apology game through, he felt he didnt deserve it.. he looked at Minnie and smiled "Erm.. Ameliah is doing good.. we been spending some time together.. not as much as we would like but.. at least its better than nothing." he smiled nodding at her idea of them all hanging out.. and Justin agreed with it too.. so it looked like it would be three couples hanging out. Well that was a good plan.

Minerva laughed as she got a look from Justin. She knew he could never be mad at her for commenting on him and Ari. "Oh Justin you know it's true, so don't give me that look. Harvey hows Quidditch going? You did well in your first match." She hadn't really talked to him to tell him that. It seemed like forever since the three of them had really talked. She took another cookie then gave them a pouting look, "Seriously they are not joke cookies guys, I haven't played a joke on anyone since summer. I don't really care to anymore." She knew she was to busy thinking of Maxwell to care about jokes. "So boys what shall we do today?" she looked at them both before scooping up some snow and throwing it at them. She jumped up and took off behind a tree.

Minerva smiled, "I couldn't decided between the firebolt and the clean sweep. The shopkeep told me the cleansweep was faster for bludger chasing so I decided just to do that, but as we saw it didn't workout to well. " she laughed and then got up. "Sure I would love to go hang out with you." She took his hand and started heading away.

Justin sort of blushed alittle just at the sound of Ariana's name..." Alright, so what... I fell in love with an amazing girl..." he smiled.
" You know , I know that I say this nearly every time we meet up, but... We never get together often enough anymore.... "
Then minnie threw snow at him and took off... " Oh I will get you for that, Wheatborn! " he said as he scrambled to his feet as he scooped up some snow and began to pack it into shape.

Harvey smiled as Minnie spoke to Justin on her comment about him and Ariana, he smiled as he saw Justin blush as he said that he had fallen in love with an amazing girl. Yeah he could see that both Mins and Justin felt that way about their special people.. before it was his turn to answer "Er quidditch is going good, ah I did okish.. I am not exactly the best at the game" he smiled a little as she took out another cookie saying that they werent joke cookies.. he didnt know what they were to do today.. but he didnt have to answer anything cause the next moment snow was being thrown at them. He shielded himself before he looked round to see where she had gone and saw that she had run behind a tree. He watched as Justin got to his feet faster than you could say Justin Wellheart and was packing up snow and shaping it into a ball. Soo... they were going to have a snowball fight now? He looked a little confused as he slowly got up wondering what was going to happen next.