EEEEEEEEEEEEP! Slides! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE! Lilly zoomed down it, landing in the sand at the bottom with a giant grin. CHILDHOOD MEMORIES! *Sigh* She began to climb a ladder to go down ANOTHER slide! And the best thing was, she wasn't the only non-firstie there, so she didn't look like an absolutely complete idiot! YAAAAAAAAAAY!

She stood up in the tower (feeeling like a PRINCESS!!) and gazed down at the people below, losing herself in her own little world. She thought about everything, from her kitten Smartie to a new tune which was slowly building up in her head and she really needed to write down before she lost it. But she couldn't be bothered.

Lilly ate a few Bertie Botts' every flavour beans, one hot chilli, one cabbage and one petunia, or some sort of other flower which she couldn't identify as the taste wasn't very strong. She nearly choked on the boiling hot chilli one, resisting the temptation to spit it out. Her face turned bright red and she quickly swallowed it.

Then she charged towards the slide and SLIPPED and SLIDED all the way down, still beaming excitedly. Playgrounds were FUN. So she repeated the slide. Then again. Then did it head-first. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

SLIIIIIDDDDEEEESSSSS.

FUUUUUUN.

Blue liked slides and Blue liked fun. SO IT WAS THE PERFECT COMBINATION! Yup. The ickle girl hopped down a tube/slide and hit someone as she was going down. "HEY!" She tumbled forward, head first into the snow, getting a mouth full of the powdery stuff. "Euch." Blue spat it out and looked around at the culprit who'd caused this monsterousity. HOW DARE THEY? Lilly sat at the base of the slide.

SHE HAD CAUSED BLUE TO SWALLOW SNOW?



"Lilly!"

Ella smiled. "Well your best friend is a good nickname giver." She added with a laugh. "Does your friend go to Hogwarts then?"The second year asked curiously. You know, since they were on the subject and all.

Aw, so she was a first year. Ella had had an awesome first year at Hogwarts last term and hoped Chelle was finding it just as magical as she had when she arrived. "I'm a second year Hufflepuff." She said proudly, sitting up a little taller. She was really proud of herself, despite what some of the meaner Slytherins had to say. "And do you have other witches and wizards in the family?" Ella didn't want to pry but she was very curious, especially when meeting new people.

"Yeah, he is, isn't he?" Chelle replied, feeling proud of Jake. Her face fell just a teensy bit at Ella's next question. "No, uh... He's a Muggle." She missed him a lot, though.

Chelle smiled, seeing how enthusiastic Ella seemed to be. She sure was proud of her house. Chelle had heard a lot of mean things about Hufflepuff, but she didn't really believe any of it. "So you're a year older," she said. "Nope. Muggleborn, and the only other person in my family is my mother."

OW! Who was that? Lilly turned round angrily and saw an INNOCENT. LITTLE. FIRSTIE. BLUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEE! She rubbed her arm where there was a BIG RED MARK. She would have a big fat purple bruise in a few hours. And the to-be-bruise HURT. "Owwwwwww," she whined. "That hurt, you know!" Duhhhhhhhhhhhh.

"You. Don't. Like. Snow?" Lilly asked, completely ASTOUNDED. "Haven't you ever had a snow sandwich, or snow on toast? Or even a snow flavoured Bertie Botts' bean?" That was CRAZY. It was practically ICE CREAM. How much difference could there be? NONEATALLWHATSOEVER. All snow needed was chocolate sauce and RAINBOW SPRIKLES. Yum. More childhood memories.

"I'm sorry," the girl apologised quickly, realising what Blue wanted from her. "Really sorry, but..." Lilly's eyes flickered to the red mark just below her elbow. They were EVEN. She had a mark and Blue had eaten snow even though her side of the deal was much worse, in her own opinion.

Blue gave her friend a puzzled frown. "Well, I didn't think you enjoyed it." Blue shook her head. Lilly was odd. Probably because she was a teenager. That addled your brain. Ya' know...hormones and stuff. CRINGE. Disgusting, wasn't it? That was exactly why Blue was going to skip teenagerdom and going to straight to what was it? adultdom? naaah. Wasn't that. Ohhh yeeaaah. Adulthood. Yup. Blue was going to skip all that rubbish and become and adult.

Sadly, it was too late for Lilly. She hadn't made the decision to skip teenagerdom and now had to experience gross stuff like-like crushes and stuff. 'Twas terrible, wasn't it? Sooooo tragic.

DID SHE NOT LIKE SNOW? "What a prepusteeerus thing to say!" Yeah...she had just said a big word. Even if she prenounced it wrong. "I. LOVE. Snow." And just to prove her point Blue picked up a handful and threw it into the air so that it seemed to be snowing again. She let out a giggle and twirled around in it. SO. MUCH. FUN. "Have I evah had a snow sandwich or snow toast. No. Because I generally don't eat snow."

Blink. Blink.

She was weird because she was a teenager. Blue had to forgive her really. Had to be sympathtic towards her. Pooooooooooor Lilly. Trapped in the Merlin for saken stage of teenagerdom. Unlike Blue! Hahahaaaaaaa.

"You're forgiven." Blue smiled (it didn't even occour to her apologise back), but the swings had caught her attention. "HEEEEY! Wanna go swinging?" And they were iced over so when they went to high Blue and Lilly would probably just fly off 'em. Sweeeeeeet. And then they would probably land face first into the snow. Which Lilly would probably like considering she ate snow on toast. O_______________O

Blue wriggled the tooth that was loose when she had first met Lilly. It STILL hadn't fallen out. Grrrrr. So frustrating. SHE WANTED HER MONEY. She needed money to buy sweets. And she needed sweets to get hyper. And she needed hyperness to- well, you get the idea. It was a delicate eco system, people!

So does everyone in this school calls him JonJon now? Jonathan just smirked, he's already used with this nickname. People seem to remember him more with that rather than his obvious-no-so-long name, Jonathan. But since he is graduating, he knows he'll be missing people calling him JonJon. It'll be really something that he'll surely miss.

Jonathan approached Tiffany, she looked well and happy, as always. This is what she liked about her, she can just simply smile so easily. Waving his hand as well, Jonathan sat on the empty swing next to her. "How have you been?" first thing's first.

Rose nodded and beamed. 'You'd better not, or I'll come after you, I will!' she said threateningly. She would, she'd go all over the world to find her. Yep. 'I've missed you, too, no one else here understands me like you do... I tried to make friends... I was a loner.' she said, laughing. She had gotten used to it, but when the news that Ronnie was returning came to her, she had burst into tears of happiness. So embarrassing.

Ronnie laughed. "I swear, I won't!" she said. She frowned, feeling bad for having to leave. But at least she was back, she was so happy about that. She pulled her friend into another hug. "Well I'm here now. To stay. I will never ever leave you again, I promiseee." she said, squeezing her before pulling away and glancing at the swings. "Race ya!" she said, dashing down the ladder and to the swings, giggling.

Tiffanyheld on to the swing and swung her legs freely just like what kids normally did. There were some moments that she wanted to stop acting like a mature girl in front of her friends and others but then she still held this image with her. Only with Jonathan, she would let this childishness out. That what Tiffany liked about him, for being a reliable brother to her.

"Well...people and things around were coming quite smoothly as usual. Working hard with my studies and hanging out with my friends,"she replied."Good that you would just have one more 'hard' year to go with those school work,"she said, looking quite sad. "And you?"

Rose nodded and hugged her back, beaming. 'You won't... Or I'll come find you.' she giggled, smiling. 'And I believe you.' she nodded, before blinking at her running off. 'Hey, no fair, you got a head start!' she yelled, running after her and jumping off the top and beside a ladder. She loved running, it was the thing she was good at...

Ella noticed the small different in Chelle's face when asked if her best friend went to Hogwarts. It made the second year frown, feeling bad. "I'm sorry if I made you sad" She said apologetically. "...You said he was a muggle? That's nice. And he, he knows about all this Hogwarts stuff?" Her own muggle friends had stopped talking to her after finding out and she hoped Chelle's friend wasn't like that.

Ella nodded. "Yup, a year older." She said with a smile. Her smile lessened when Chelle said the only other person in her family was her mother. She wanted to ask why, know more about the situation, but she didn't know Chelle well enough yet. "I'm a muggleborn too, it's nice to meet another person from a nonmagical family." Because they understood what it was like, the shock you felt when you found out you were a witch or a wizard.

Ella was sweet. And kind. Chelle shook her head, trying to laugh. "Don't be, you didn't make me sad," she assured Ella. "Yes, he does. He knows everything. He writes to me, you know," she replied, her eyes shining. She remembered how her other friends had stopped talking to her and started calling her a freak. They never believed her. But Jake was not like them. He was different. He understood. And Chelle was glad for that.

She smiled at how visibly curiosu Ella became when she told her about her mother. And she was glad that Ella was a Muggleborn, too. That means she gets it. "Wow, you're the first Muggleborn I've met at Hogwarts, so far. Nice to not feel out of place," she said. Even though she knew that nobody could ever be out of place at Hogwarts. All the students were different from each other in many ways, but they were bound by the magic, and it united them somehow.

Relief. That's what Ella felt when Chelle told her that she hadn't made her sad. Good thing because it would be horrible to make someone you just met all depressed! And she was pleased to hear that the girl's friend knew everything about Hogwarts, she was happy for the girl. It was important to have people around who would understand all the magic business. Especially if you were a muggleborn. Ella didn't have any friends like that. The shining eyes thing didn't go unnoticed, either. The second year wondered if Chelle had a crush on her friend but decided not to ask. She didn't want to embarrass the girl or anything. "Owls can be nice. I owl my friend Logan a lot too. He went here last term but he doesn't go here anymore." Because things had gotten complicated for him. And that stunk for Ella.

"I'm the first muggleborn you've met?" Ella asked, surprised. "I've met a few myself though I've been here a tad longer than you so perhaps that's not unusual." Surely this girl would make many more muggleborn friends here soon. "But yeah, it is quite nice meeting someone that understands the whole being born into a muggle family thing." It was good to have another person to talk to about home and stuff. "And you'll find that people at Hogwarts are pretty awesome so I doubt you'll feel out of place again."

Chelle noticed how observant Ella was being, and that was kind of nice. It felt good to be fitting in. For the first time in ages, she felt like she was actually wanted around. It was too soon to decide, considering that they'd just met, but Chelle liked Ella just fine. "Oh? Doesn't go here anymore? I don't think anyone would not come back here at will," Chelle said. Because it sounded insane that anyone would not want to come back to Hogwarts. So she figured it must've been kind of complicated, but she didn't ask, as she didn't want to be nosy.

Chelle nodded as Ella said that there were many more Muggleborns at Hogwarts. "I figured as much. I haven't really met as many people anyway, so...," she replied, trailing off at the end. She was a bit of a loner, so it wasn't as if this place made her feel like that. But confessing that to Ella might made her think of Chelle as weird. Because a lot of people called her weird, back home. And it was not nice.

OBVIOUSLY. Lilly rolled her eyes. Kids. Good job they were cute. Like Blue. And those two boys who she'd seen around the castle, who seemed to be Blue's hyper, crazy friends. Noooooooow, down to buisness. "SO, how many people have you told about chocolate frogs since I last saw you?"

"Just asking," she shrugged. "And prepusteeerus? Do you mean preposterous, Blue?" NOW. The questions which defined whether she was weird. Because suddenly the little girl was acting all mature and superior. "They really aren't that nice without chocolate sauce and rainbow sprinkles. The bean's okay, I s'pose. Maybe because I had it with a strawberry flavoured one?"

Why was Blue looking at her all weird? In that strange, weird way? Like she was the crazy one. And she had sympathy for Lilly? Was it because of the snow-on-toast-stuff? Probably. Either way, it was freaking her out. A lot.

She beamed. Forgiven ... Where was that apology back? Blue seemed to have forgotten about it, being hyper and crazy and everything else. "SWINGS! YES!" Lilly forgot about being apologised to and the MARK on her arm and ran towards the swings, where there were two next to each other. She was gonna FLY! It would be so slippery!

"Has it still not come out? Or is it another tooth?" There was no way of knowing. "What are you going to spend your money on?" It would probably be wizarding money. If the tooth fairy knew where she was to come and give money. Heh. Probably sweets, like a lot of young kids. Lilly, personally, would save up until all her teeth came out and then buy heaps of clothes. But all of her's had already come out and, being a kid at the time, she had spent it all on sweets.

Kaitlyn had been wandering the grounds for ages trying to find someone to do, there never seemed to be anything to do when she needed something to do. It was stupid! It was quite a cold day and she wanted to warm up a bit, plus she was bored which was never a good thing.

The park seemed like a fun to be, so Kat went and sat down and began to swing slowly..weee..OH the FUN! She thought about the day so far, she had a good day. Made a couple of friends, and learnt a lot in lessons! Her first year didn't seem to be going as badly as she'd thought it would be.

*whistle*

Theodore had been AVOIDING this playground, ever since he flew off one of the swings and face-planted the mud. But he was so bored today, that he needed a bit of fun in his life. The snow was fading slightly, and turning into more of an icy layer on the ground. Sooooo... of course.... Theodore was doing the stupidest thing possible by running across it.

PLAYGROUND. PLAYGROUND.

When he entered, he allowed his feet to skiiiiiiiid along the ice, and he had MAD control. It surprised him. Theo was usually so uncoordinated.

But... HOW DID HE STOP?

When he finally approached the swings, Theo leaned forwards and ALL he could see, was a pair of feet ready to meet him in the face. And kerblam.

WHOEVER was on that swing just kicked him in the face. "Ow."

Kaitlyn swung back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. She wasn't bored, not yet..she closed her eyes and imagined her life in a few years time. Ugh. Not the best metal image ever.

She opened her and was almost instantly greeted by the sight of a boy running and smacking into her legs, hard. Oh dear, this was nooooot good!! Kat jumped off the swing promptly and flew down to the boy's side.

THEODORE! Oh god! Not again! His eyes were still open and he looked quite dazed. She was crouched by his side as she said, "When will we stop hurting each other?" She sighed.

Okay... Theodore was growing used to this. So he wasn't immediately blacked out. He seemed to have a lid on his body. He blinked and stared at the sky, and then a face hovered above him. IT WAS THAT GIRL... THAT GIRL THAT HE ALMOST KILLED AT THE STATUES.

"Hufflepuffs are gonna be the death of me." He muttered, then pulled himself to a sitting position. Yea, his head spun a bit, but he was okay.

"Right? You puffs need to watch where you are going."

IT WAS A HUFFLEPUFF THING.

GAH, HUFFLEPUFFS EVERYWHERE.

"Remember me?" Kaitlyn asked, raising an eyebrow. Well, Theodore seemed to have recovered now, so she stood up and took a step back.

He was speaking to her in such a...rude way. He may be a Slytherin, but Kat wouldn't stand for it! She stepped forward and prodded him in the chest. "Don't take it out the Hufflepuffs, we aren't all completely weird!" She argued. "And my name's Kaitlyn, remember?"

"Anyway, I didn't kill you..no where near in fact," she pointed out in a matter of fact way.

Wait. She's a Hufflepuff. Be nice, Kat.

"Are you sure you're alright?" She asked in a concerned voice.

"Yes, you're the Hulk, right?" O_______O DID HE JUST SAY THAT OUT LOUD? Theodore stared blankly at Kaitlyn for a second, then he tried an awkward smile. Yes, hopefully she would see the joke in his words.... He wasn't actually joking, though.

She was The Hulk.

WOOOOOOAH..... THE JABBING.
OH NO SHE DID NOT.

Theodore grabbed his chest dramatically after she poked him, and his mouth formed an 'O' shape. This girl had so much to learn. One does NOT simply touch Theodore. He hated it. Hated it more than CHEESE. And he hated cheese a lot.

"I happen to like Hufflepuffs." He was just simply annoyed at the AMOUNT of them in his life. Life needed a balance. Of Puffs, Snakes and Lions. Not Claws, though. "Also, please do not touch me ever again." Not being rude, but it was a Theodore rule.

Yes, Kaitlyn. He did remember her name, actually.

"I'm fine. I'm hard as nails, you know." But an apology would be lovely.

"Urmm, what?" she spluttered. o___O What had Theodore just called her? The Hulk..? "What's a...Hulk?" She asked uncertainly, maybe it was a muggle thing..she hoped it wasn't an insult though. She eyed him suspiciously, not daring to return his awkward smile.

OOOOH! That didn't seem to please him and she smiled sweetly, with a teasing and sarcastic manner. Then her face fell slightly and grew a tad darker, "you don't seem to like me much," she admitted. Then narrowed her eyes slightly. She shook her head to empty her thoughts, "oh, you won't have to worry about that," she assured him.

HOW DOES ONE NOT KNOW WHO THE HULK IS?

"Oh, he's a GIANT, green monster, who has... extreme anger... issues." Oh Merlin's fluffy belly-button. This was a bad idea. BAD, BAD. Theodore offered Kaitlyn a smile, trying to show just a shred of niceness in that comment. "Erm."

o______O "WHAT? I do like you...." Just saying those words made him shudder.

"I mean... I like you, kinda as a friend. I mean, if you're a Hufflepuff, you're kind of already my friend, does that make sense? Cos I hate Ravenclaws. So as long as you're not a Ravenclaw, we're good." AND HE WAS BABBLING.

AND NERVOUS.

o__O

*eye twitch*

How exactly was she supposed to reply to that? "Are you suggesting I'm a big green monster..or have an anger issue?" She asked, eyeing him curiously. She wasn't exactly happy right now, that had been quite near an insult. But she tried to give him a half-smile back.

"Obviously as a friend.." Kat stuttered..what else did he think she meant? "I am a Hufflepuff," she confirmed with a little nod..."Hey, what have you got against Ravenclaws?" GRR. Ravenclaws were amazing, so okay she's only met one, but Blue had left a great impression on her!